New Year's Cruise Album

I've been busy, busy, busy making scrapbook pages on the Project Life App. I decided that since I was on some forced downtime, I might as well get some things done!  These pages are from our New Year's Cruise 2017 & I'm so happy to get these pages all finished!  ENJOY! 

Have a Great Day!

Studio Calico ~ Our Day in Cozumel

Hi Crafty Friends!  Today I'm sharing a page I made from our New Year's Cruise that we took this year.  We usually stay home over Christmas Break, but having one in college and one in high school now, it's really the only break they have together.  So we were off to have some family fun!

For my page, I used supplies from Studio Calico ~ the Birds & Bees March Documenter Kit, the Spring Break Card Pack and the Explore Stamp set.  I also added some Ali Edwards phrase stickers and some wood veneer hearts for the embellishments.

Have a Great Day!

Felicity Jane ~ My Beautiful Girl

Good Morning!  I'm a little late getting my post up today ~ it must be Monday.  Today I have a page to share using my Felicity Jane London Kit.  I think I have used every single piece of this kit ~ I love it!

I saw a beautiful page on the Felicity Jane Blog using this kit from Nancy Damiano and copied her basic layout with the pattern papers as my launching off point {full credit to Nancy for her amazing inspiration}.  

The title is a combination of products ~ the "MY" and "GIRL" are from the chipboard alphabet in the kit and the "beautiful" is from American Crafts Thickers {Foam Phrase Stickers - Wild}.  The rest of the items/papers on the page are all from the FJ London Kit.    I added my journaling on the computer and then cut them up to apply to them my page.

Have a Wonderful Monday!

Hip Kit Page ~ New Year's Getaway

Happy Friday my friends!  I hope you have some fun plans this weekend.  I'm excited to see my sweet girl this weekend and take my son to a college visit on Monday... OMW!  How did they grow up this fast???

Yesterday, I worked on a few pocket pages with a few different kits.  The supplies are mostly from the December Hip Kit with a few extra things from my stash.  I let the cards guide this page and decided to use some photos from our most recent vacation since that's how we rang in 2017.  

For the top left title card, the printed card, the chipboard alpha letters, 2017 flair, cheers circle & remember this are all from the December Hip Kits.  The rest of the script letter stickers are from Heidi Swapp. The other two printed 3x4 cards are also from the Hip Kit and the circles on the bottom two photos were cut with a circle punch from another coordinating card in the Hip Kit that I decided I wouldn't use.  I typed the titles on them and then punched them out & added some washi tape and the little black heart.  I really like how they turned out & that they coordinate with the rest of the page.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Hip Kit ~ Happy New Year!

It's FRIDAY!!!  WOOHOO ~ I'm so excited!  I'm going to a scrabook retreat later today until Sunday afternoon with my BFF!  We go twice a year and it's always a great time to get away.  Thankfully, it's only about 20 minutes from home, so I can still go to my son's Solo/Ensemble performance on Saturday as well.  It will be a busy weekend for sure!

For today's page, I picked some photos from the New Year's cruise we went on.  It was fun celebrating my birthday (NYE) and ringing in the new year on the cruise ship.  It was a great party for sure!

I used supplies from the December Hip Kit and my page idea is totally copied from a fabulous page by Flora Monika Farkas. Just like Flora, I used the gold puffy number stickers and gold mirror embellishments (streamers, dots, &, party) from the Hip Kit to resemble the countdown for New Year's Eve.  The "Farewell 2016", gold stars, "Celebrate" and "Hello 2017" are also from the Hip Kit.  The large "2017 bring on the new" label is from the Studio Calico January kit.

Check back on Monday as I review each of the Monthly Kit Club subscriptions I've received so far for Ali Edwards Story Kits, Studio Calico & Hip Kit Club.  

Have a wonderful weekend & enjoy whatever you have planned!  I know mine will be jam packed!

Surprise Story Kit ~ Surfer Dude!

Recently, I started subscribing to the monthly Ali Edwards Story Kits & Story Stamps.  I have been so happy with not only the amazing products, but also the class materials, and the support by the amazing community that are included.  I have been part of the crafting industry as a hobbiest, a design team member and an employee for many years and I have to say, I find Ali Edwards company to be the complete package!  It's about the storytelling and making our stories more than scrapbook pages ~ they are 100% meaningful.

My goal this year is that with each kit I subscribe to, I want to make at least 2 layouts with the products ~ Project Life pocket style, full 12x12, 6x8, etc... whatever I want with photos that fit the theme.  Since I'm going to use photos from lots of different events or times, I had to give myself permission to jump around to different projects and not scrapbook chronologically ~ that was hard for me since I'm pretty concrete sequential... but it's also a little bit freeing.

For the November 2016 Story Kit, the theme was Surprise.  In the class video, Ali stresses many ways we can be surprised... both good and bad.  But one thing that really stood out to me was this quote, "Let life surprise & delight you".  I selected these photos for my page today because Matt both surprised and delighted me.  On our recent New Year's vacation, Matt went on the Flowrider many times every day.  He improved each time and learned new tricks along the way.  I love that he is a little fearless, but also a little careful ~ it's a really nice balance.  I wish I was a little more fearless...

All of the supplies I used on this page, other than the colored cardstock, the stapler & the date stamp are from the Surpise Story Kit & the Surprise Story Stamp set.  I played with this page for a while trying to decide if I should use a few black/white photos rather than all color.  Ultimately, I decided to go with color photos because Matt just didn't stand out enough in the black/white.   I stamped the "AH YEAH" sentiment & the date stamp on the title card with Earl Gray Ink by Taylored Expressions and stapled some matching stars from the kit to the bottom corner.

Photo Tip: While on our trip, I totally forgot to take a picture of the Flowrider sign.  I felt like the page needed a different image, so I did a Google search of images and found exactly the one I wanted.  It was the perfect addition to the page.

I'll admit, I should be writing in my scrapbooks more often; however, I hate my handwriting and I usually get tongue-tied with my words.  Therefore, I almost always type my journaling... I just tell better stories when I can sit and type them out on the computer.  The phrase on the bottom right photo kind of cracks me up... perfect for the wipe out!

I realize I'm hoping around a lot with different projects, but that's because I've been working on TONS of different things over the last few months.  However, it's all to reach the same goal... document our family life with photos and stories.  Are you hoping to make your stories more meaningful... check out Ali Edwards Story Kits and classes.  They are absolutely amazing!!