Project Life // Week 21

For week 21 I used the latest Studio Calico kit: Hello, Hello. This past month I also got their scrapbook add-on Hola, and their special stamp set Aloha. Also supplemented with the latest Freckled Fawn Ohdeerme kit and cards/embellishments from my stash.

Week 21 Spread

This spread was really fun, bright, and colorful. I didn't have as many pictures as I hoped, so I broke down my journaling into a couple of 3x4's and had a filler card. I tried to balance out all the color with more black and white photos, which I ended up liking.

Week 21 // Right side

Week 21 // Left side

My favorite card is probably the 4x6 card with me and Bren making silly faces. It is a really simple card, with very little embellishments, but for some reason I love it so much.

Week 21 // Progress

As you can see from my progress picture, it can get quite cluttered on my desk. I usually try to keep all the embellishments and stamps sets I want to use out, because if I don't see it, I don't use it. And of course I have a bunch of different adhesives for different things. How does your work space look when you're working on your project life?

Project Life // Week 22

I was able to do 3 weeks worth of spreads in 4 days, so you'll be able to see more up here soon! I was also running out of ink, so my project life was on hold until I could go pick some ink up from Costco for my printer. For those of you wondering, I print at home on my HP Officejet printer. To see more on my project life process you can see my past post here.

Week 22 Spread

For this spread, I used Studio Calico's Camelot kit and supplemented with my stash of PL cards and embellishments. Also used some some embellishments from Studio Calico's South of Market and Essentials line.

Week 22 // Right side

Week 22 // Left side

The 4x6 journal card had colors I wasn't really into so I changed it up a bit and covered it with washi tape and some word stickers. I find myself having to change up a lot of PL cards because they are either too "girly" or I just don't care for the colors. I'll write a tutorial on that soon. 

Week 22 // Detail

My favorite card (aside from the 4x6 family photo) is actually the week card! I had an idea in mind to layer on the sequins on the bottom and it actually worked out pretty well. By the way, look at Freckled Fawn's label washi tape! I mean, how genius is that. It came in the #ohdeerme kit I won (and it was a huge roll!).

Studio Calico Stamp sets

As you can see from my last post, I've been making a lot of cork embellishments lately. I got so many new, fun stamp sets that I thought it might be a great way to make embellishments (and also a fun thing to give to pen pals).

Have you made any special embellishments lately? What's your favorite kind?

Project Life // Week 23

Oh my, is it the middle of June already? I can't believe it, the year is halfway over! For some reason May was so crazy busy and I was exhausted half the time so I became super behind on crafting and pen pals. I'm still waiting for my big break where I can just get paid to craft and travel and eat (or win the lotto. Whichever comes first, I'm not picky ;) )

Anyways, I caught up on all my pen pals first, then started to catch up on my Project Life which I am a little (ok, a LOTTLE) behind. To make it easier for me, I started catching up with the most recent week first, Week 23!

Week 23 Spread

For this kit, I used a combination of things, but mostly had PL cards + embellishments from Studio Calico's Camelot kit, then supplemented with cards from my stash. I also used some embellishments from Freckled Fawn's ohdeerme kit, which I won a free kit from one of their instagram giveaways.

Week 23 // Right side

In order to make it easier for me to catch up, I tried to keep things fairly simple. I changed up my weekly card and decided that from week 21 and forward I'll be using something other than the printable I've been using for the first 20 weeks.

Week 23 // Left side

Week 23 // Details

I also used Studio Calico's Celebrate stamp set for the cork banner, cork stars, and some of the stamped sentiments. I was happy that my mini star punch from Michaels worked perfectly with the star stamps in the set.

Studio Calico: Celebrate stamp set

My favorite card in this spread is the 4x6 card of my husband and Bren with all the ampersands. I was inspired by @paintpaperstudio's instagram post of her ampersand project life sheet, and I think it was a great way to use those ampersands which sometimes I have trouble using.