Thankful | Elle's Studio Family Fun | Tarrah McLean

Hi Sassy Scrappers!

It's Tarrah McLean here and today I am sharing a new layout that I have created using the gorgeous Family Fun collection by Elle's Studio..

This photo of myself and my Mum is one of my all time favourite photos of the 2 of us.....its just a selfie we took together when we were holidaying in London earlier this year.....it was a gorgeous day and we were near Tower Bridge and down by the Thames river.

I have been trying to make a conscious effort to add journaling to my layouts lately, I really the look of journal strips so I type up my journaling on my computer using a typewrite font and then print it out and cut it up into strips. For this layout, I machine stitched underneath each strip to help highlight the journaling and to secure it a little more.

I just love all the colours included in the Family Fun collection.....they co-ordinate perfectly together so it makes creating any project super easy! This week I kept my layout fairly simple but it still tells a story and documented a special day and time with my Mum!

Thank you so much for stopping by the Sassy blog today! Be sure to check out the Sassy store to find this collection to purchase and check out all the other amazing goodies in store to buy!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

    

    

  

Laura | Memory Planner Journaling..

Hello Sassy Friends! Today we are super excited to show you Laura Vorlicek's first project video ..it's the first of a series of planning videos Laura will be doing using her Heidi Swapp ‪#‎memoryplanner‬ .. So head over and take a look .. Here is the link ..

Thanks for watching.

Project Life December Daily..

Project Life and December  Daily, mean very similar things to me. It's an opportunity to document the everyday events in our lives as well as those more momentous occasions. Today I want to share with you a PL2015 + DD spread that has only one photo. Yes.  That's right.  Just one photo.  And it's still only the regular 3x4" size too! This week's spread is focusing in on the stories. To be really honest with you, I needed to step away from the demands of snapping a daily photo for the singular purpose of filling up my December pocket pages. And while I have still taken those said photos, my priority in the last week has been to my family and living the moment during this wonderful season. If you have a schedule that is anything similar to mine, carving out some crafting therapy can often be the hardest challenge of all. And even though I haven't printed out any of my photos for the last week, I have documented the stories. One such story is how my youngest lost his first top tooth, but then couldn't put it under his pillow for the tooth fairy because he dropped it down the bathroom plug hole while cleaning it.  He was very upset over this development and with no way to recover the tooth, I asked him to write the tooth fairy a note, explaining what had happened.   To help his letters standout on a Becky Higgins core PL card, I traced over his letters with a sharpie. This way I can stay true to his handwriting sample.      Our Elf on the Shelf is a regular visitor at Christmastime. This year Elfvis has been adventuring rather than playing hide and seek with my younger boys. I wanted to share a few of his adventures in my PL stories.  Using a journaling Brag Cards from Fancy Pants Designs | Happy Place I've recorded some of his crazy antics.      I've teamed up the brag cards with the cut apart patterned paper from October Afternoon. Last month I put together a series of filler cards from October Afternoon | Under the Tree, and this week I've finally added some of them to my pocket pages.      Thanks for visiting here today.  Have a wonderful and safe Christmas - Leanne..x     Sassy Supplies:    

 

Project Life | Week 28...

Hello Friends!  Have you seen the new Sassy Scrapper Project Life August kit? Today I have the pleasure of sharing with you my Project Life | Week 28.   Can you believe we are past.. (I'll let that sink in..) halfway through the year! My PL album is certainly filling out nicely!  I hope yours is too.  

 

This week carried over from a crazy week before.  It was still the school holidays and we still needed to celebrate my baby's fifth birthday.  A few photo collages helped share the stories in that respect.

  The Teresa Collins patterned paper and the Kaisercraft Captured Moments PL cards in the kit compliment each other beautifully.  

It was just a matter of adding the right number of layers between the PL cards and patterned paper, before I was happy to leave them be.  And most of the time with this spread, simplicity won out.

 

To add a little extra dimension with the stickers, I trimmed them directly from their sheet, leaving a small border around the actual sticker shape.

 

 

On page two, I fell in love with the cork stars!  We first visited our local and brand new superstore, Costco, at night.  I thought using stars in the blank space of the photo helped emphasise that part of the story.

 

 

I've also used the cork star next to the photo of my son, showing me how old he is, with his fingers.  The five points of the star relate to his five fingers.  *grin*

 

As a journaling feature this week, I thought I would ask my five year old what his favourite things are right now.  I labelled his cute answers in paper strips directly to a PL card.

 



 

The BINGO card patterned paper was a fun element, layered with stickers and trimmed patterned paper to create a filler card.

 

 

It is always fun to look back on interesting or unique journaling. If you journal in full paragraphs throughout most of your spreads, perhaps including a fun Q&A session could spice things up a bit.

 

Thanks for visiting..x

   

Project Life | Week Twenty...

Hello Sassy Friends!  Welcome to Project Life Week Twenty | May 12 - 18.  This week I am sharing another spread created with the Sassy Scrapper's June PL Kit.      

Okay Friends.  I have something to confess.  I don't plan ahead when it comes to matching kit colours with my project life photos.  I kind of just take the snapshot and then worry about the cohesive-ness of my spread later.  That's why I get so excited when I work with my Sassy PL Kits.  They are really so versatile with the colours and textures, my spreads just always seem to come together, effortlessly.

This simple, ombre strip of patterned paper from the Kit, was a perfect example of photo/story & paper embellishment coming together unexpectedly.  The sunset image not only has similar colours as the paper, but the cloud ripples reminded me of the ombre itself.

As my first pocket page contained vibrant colours, I have teamed it next to a relatively simple filler card.  The decorative wood pieces help embellish and give dimension to the card without it feeling completely flat.

A big event at our house during Week 20, was NAPLAN.  The middle row of my Design A pockets, on page one, has been completely dedicated to sharing that story.  Whereas the bottom row on page one, now mirrors the top row on page two.

However, on the photo above, I wanted to add some text, created with Photoshop, directly to my 4x6 print.

I have discovered, that in my PL process, there is just something so magical, when I add text to my pages.  The photos & stories combined, come to life.  The Becky Higgins PL cards are always a treasure trove for me to work with.  Sometimes I will use the planned journaling side of the card, but other times I will type directly onto the pretty patterned paper.

 



    Some of the PL filler cards this week, even prompted me into remembering some of our more mundane happenings.  Treasure Maps have always been created by my boys, but I don't always remember to take a photo of the finished product.. (usually a few pencil marks on a plain piece of printer paper that also includes an 'X' to 'mark the spot').   I love how having a kit to work with, can allow you to think outside the box when it comes to creating your page.   Thanks for visiting today..x