DIY Project Life Sleeve

In my last project life spread, I made a little sleeve to hold some memorabilia I had from our mini family trip. There are some things that I don’t want to dedicate a pocket to (for example, I would rather show a photo than a hotel room key), so this little sleeve is a great alternative, and easy to do!

For this DIY, all you need are 2 project life cards, washi tape, and an optional circle punch. These two project life cards are from the Kiwi Core kit, and the washi tape is My Minds Eye, which you can get here!

I like to take the circle punch and punch out a semi-circle on the edge of one project life card, this is just to make it easier for me to take things out of the pocket once its finished.

Then you line up the two cards together, and tape the other 3 edges with washi tape! And that’s it!

Hope this little DIY helps you add some special souvenirs to your project life!

Project Life // Week 17

Still trying to catch up, so I kept week 17 pretty simple. This week I used project life cards from the exclusive Kiwi Core kit that was only found at Joann's. Lucky for me, I was able to swap some of my Jade core kit for some of a Kiwi core kit through Instagram - which, btw, is a great way to get a variety of kits without breaking a budget ;). Plus, each core kit comes with so many multiples that you can easily split the kit into 1/3rds to swap while still having a good amount of the kit for yourself.

Week 17 Spread

Week 17 // Right side

Week 17 // Left side

Week 17 // Details

I love these new Mambi stickers I picked up from Michaels this past week. They're clear so you can see the color behind them. My favorite card from this week is the Easter 4x6 card. I fussy cut a camera from a 3x4 card from the Kiwi core kit and used it as an embellishment. I also used a bit of foam adhesives to layer some photos and embellishments this week. And of course sequins, sequins, sequins. I re-stocked my gold sequins from Studio Calico and picked up some blues. We'll see when I get tired of using sequins as embellishments, but it doesn't seem like anytime soon, haha.

DIY sleeve

A new thing I did in this spread was to include some small bits and pieces from our mini-trip, but in a DIY sleeve using project life cards and washi tape. I also made it kind of hidden by layering an instax photo on top of it. A tutorial will be coming up soon, so keep an eye out for that! :)

Project Life // Week 16

For week 16 I used my newly purchased Jade core kit, which I love almost as much as my Midnight core kit.  In attempt to clean out my stash again, I used a variety of embellishments from past kits as well as my usual sequins + chipboard + wood veneers.

Week 16 Spread

Week 16 // Right side

Week 16 // Left side

I think I still have trouble incorporating washi tape, which is a shame because I feel like my washi tape collection grew by x3 since the beginning of this year, LOL. This spread actually came together pretty quickly, kept a good amount of cards pretty simple and even used a filler card for this week from the Jade core kit since I loved it so much.

Week 16 // Details

 My absolute favorite card is the one of my friend's baby Livy, shes just so cute. I used the cork letters to spell out "XO" and gold sequins in a diagonal to lead up to the chipboard heart. "XO", by the way, is a great way to use up the letter X when you have all these left over alphas that you can't make words from.

Project Life // Week 15

So, I am now 3 weeks behind, lol.

For Week 15's project life cards I mostly used the latest Studio Calico kit which was Blue Grass Farm, then I supplemented with 4x6 cards from my stash. With each kit I try to use it for at least 2 straight spreads and then I add the left over cards to my stash. With this kit, I was also trying to use up some of the embellishments I had leftover from other kits. For example, I had a asterisk sticker sheet with just a couple of stickers left. I also played around with making my own cork embellishments with older studio calico stamps and just cutting them out.

Week 15 Spread

One new favorite embellishment of mine are these gold alphas I got from Michaels. I used them to create the word "Lovelies" on the 4x6 card.

Week 15 // Right side

Week 15 // Left side

I kept week 15 fairly simple and stuck to my usual embellishment style with sequins, wood veneers, and chipboard pieces so I could catch up since I am a bit behind. I think sometimes when I'm trying to catch up, it can be a bit challenging to be creative.

Week 15 // favorites

My favorite part is probably the Bath Time 4x6 card. I did some journaling on washi tape to make it stand out and I used a camera paperclip I got from one of my pen friends, @sarazorel.

National Scrapbook Day 2014

Happy National Scrapbook Day!

In honor of NSD, I actually put a 12x12 layout together! I don't remember the last time I scrapbooked in this format, so this was a great reason for me to play around with something a little different.

I used a photo I loved from our most recent family trip of me and Brennan walking on the beach at Pismo. As some of you may know, I took a 2 week leave from work to spend time with my family and my baby before he turns the big 1 in the end of May.

I used a mix of papers, gold sequins, and washi tape to create this layout. I kept it simple and finished this LO in under an hour! I used Studio Calico's prompts from NSD from their blog including their NSD Challenge 01 (to use blue, pink, aqua, with a touch of gold), and their NSD Challenge 05 using one of their sketches.

This was a fun challenge! Makes me feel like I might do more 12x12 layouts in the future. ;)