Scrap Shotz May Kit Projects Reveal

Hello Everyone!!

Sorry for taking so long to post my kit projects, I've been running behind so I appreciate your patience and understanding :) .

The May kit features the fun and colourful "Rise and Shine" line by Amy Tan. So many great patterns in this, it was lots of fun to create with it and here are my creations :)  :

Yes "smitten" is a Thicker word not individual alphas, makes it sooo much easier to use for a title!

This layout showcases the varied "embellishments" in the kit, chipboard, die cut plastic arrows, remarks alphas, clear stickers and nailhead.

This is my favorite layout of this month's kit, I used the MFT circle stitched dies to cut the circles and then backed them with the kit patterned paper, a few chipboard hearts and kit nailheads finisched this off!

This great kit patterned paper shows off these everyday photos, add a few pieces of kit chipboard and nailheads and a lovely and fast to finish layout is done!

This is our kit sketch layout for May and I pretty much kept exactly to the sketch as I loved it in its original form!! I cut those circles out of kit patterned paper.

The kit included a lovely foil patterned paper and I chose to fussy cut the envelopes from the paper and use them to create these notecards which are also stamped with the kit "hello" stamp.

 

This card was so easy to create using the kit alphas and stickers, the flower was accented with a kit nailhead...done in 5 minutes :) .

I am a huge fan of woodgrain paper so of course I was looking forward to using this! 

The photo frame is a sticker frame which I placed on white cardstock and then cut around the corners to fit my photo within. The embellishments are stickers, chipboard, nailheads and patterned paper. 

I love this patterned paper that has been embellished with the kit nailheads, I fussy cut portions of it for a layout you've seen earlier. The sentiment is an Elizabeth Crafts peel off words...I use them so much, they are a super go to, no fail card sentiment!

Thanks for stopping in to see my kit projects. You are more than welcome to come on over to the Scrap Shotz forum and chat or play along with our DT Challenges!!

**New** SOUS PROJECT LIFE CHALLENGE!

Hello and thanks for stopping by for the latest Stuck On U Sketches Project Life Challenge!

I don't think I can say it enough times, this challenge is helping me keep on track with Project Life and feel like each week isn't the "same-old, same-old".

So, here is Week 17 incorporating this challenge:

{supplies: PL Midnight Core Kit, Thickers, Prima Gems, butterflies Jenni Bowlin Studio}

One of my favorite things about this spread is the yellow arrow I created out of cardstock to point out my little guy among the group of kids in the photo.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to play along with this or any other June SOUS challenge for a chance to win a prize from our fabulous June sponsor

*NEW SOUS* Project Life Challenge

Happy Belated {inter} National Scrapbook Day!

Welcome to the latest Project Life challenge from Stuck On U Sketches. 

 We have a new sponsor for May so welcome and thank you to

Play in ANY May challenge here to be entered to win

a $15 store voucher to Paper Bakery Kits! 

Thank you Paper Bakery for your generosity!

Now on to our Project Life challenge:

and here is my week 15 layout:

{supplies: Project Life Seafoam core kit; wood veneer unknown; washi tape Teresa Collins & unknown from stash}

It is tough to see from the photo but the journal card and the lower left filler card are both grid cards from Project Life core kits. I was in need of another filler card and made my own "grid" with washi tape for the top right 4x6 card. I like the soft blues and gray with the brighter colours in the photos.

It's fun pulling out some not often used items from my stash like the wood veneer bicycle and the washi tape. I also accented a few spaces on my homemade grid card with Elizabeth Craft Designs glitter dots and finished off the "title" card with Thickers and a Dear Lizzy roller stamp.

Oh how I long for some better weather to inspire me to take more photos for my PL, if you're feeling like me and also feeling like you have the "same old" kind of photos each week, don't get discouraged and give up. Just choose a few photos that speak to you and fill the rest of the pockets with journaling from yourself or even other family members

If that still doesn't inspire you to keep going with your PL, embrace this SOUS PL challenge and go back to our previous PL challenges if you haven't done them and incorporate them in your spread as your filler cards. You'll be happy you stuck with it by the end of the year, I promise!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Scrap Shotz April Kit Reveal!!

Hello...I am a little behind on my posting so this reveal happened a couple of weeks ago now. The April Scrap Shotz kit featured the super popular "Plus One" line by Amy Tan for American Crafts.

The kit is sold out so if you want to ensure you get your hands on a monthly kit sign up as a kit subscriber!
On to my projects for this month, this is a fun line to work with, lots of great colours and patterns.

This black and white paper is a great neutral for the happy cardstock colours in this kit.

Those honeycomb die cuts are a fabulous Tim Holtz Frameworks die. The today clip is magnetic and since I did not adhere it to the cardstock I can take it off and use it on my fridge ;))

The house pattern and top grey strip are pre-printed on this paper, I added the "love" and "...happy place" journal cards and accented with another Frameworks die including using a couple of the inside pieces.

This was a fun layout, I used rub-ons, journal cards, flowers and a chalkboard label from the kit in addition to the kit patterned paper. I finished it off with a wee bit of hand stitching, mist and a sweep of gelatos on the corners.

A couple of different patterns on this accented by a pop of yellow and those great SC stars from the kit. It's hard to see that I added a camera rub-on on the chalkboard label and accented with one of the kit gems.

This is my favorite layout from this month, just punched a bunch of circles with a 1 3/4" and 2" punch and scattered around the black card stock. I used the white pen included in the kit to pen stitch around some of the circles and embellished some circles with the kit embellies and the add on fabric brads.

Some quick and easy cards finished off my projects for the month.

You can check out what the entire design team created at the Scrap Shotz gallery.

Thanks for looking!

SOUS Project Life Challenge-2014 Title Page

Hello and welcome to the latest Stuck On U Sketches Project Life challenge. A quick reminder that we have a great prize up for grabs from our January Sponsor...

submit your project to this challenge or any of the January challenges for a chance to win all this:

Now on to this week's SOUS challenge...Embossing.

This challenge worked just perfectly for the title page for the 2014 edition of my PL. Is a title page necessary? Absolutely not, but I loved the idea when I saw one done by a couple of years ago so I've included one for my last couple of years of PL.

I kept the page simple using a Design C Becky Higgins page protector with all 4x6 pockets. The embossed element is in the lower left pocket, the cardstock a 3x4 precut card that coordinates with the Midnight Edition. I embossed it with a Cuttlebug embossing folder then layered a flair badge and die cut from an old Studio Calico kit.

The top 2 & bottom right filler cards are from the PL Midnight Core Kit. The days stickers on the top left card are from the PL Clementine core kit. The year are gold Thickers and the frame on the bottom right card is a polaroid frame by Kaisercraft. The "the adventure begins" card is from a piece of Glitz Design paper in my stash.

You can do this project with items you have in your stash, Project Life core kit, or any of the pocket scrapbooking products offered by a variety of manufacturers. I can't stress enough that you do what works for YOU!
I am planning to use the Midnight core kit predominantly this year but we'll see where the SOUS challenges take me!

I'm happy to answer any questions you may have so feel free to comment!

Thanks for stopping by!

Stuck On You Sketches Project Life Challenge

Hello and welcome to the first SOUS Project Life challenge of the New Year along with some exciting SOUS news!!

Whether you are taking on Project Life for the first time or 5th time a challenge is a fun way to stay motivated and inspired to complete a spread. One thing I firmly believe about this project is that you do what works for YOU. Maybe that's a 2 page spread per week, documenting monthly only or a quarterly wrap up of happenings in your life. There are no rules!

Before I get to this week's Project Life challenge let's talk about the exciting SOUS news...

beginning this month we'll be offering blog candy from some fabulous sponsors and our first sponsor this year is...

Scrap Shotz is a fabulous monthly kit club and online store with a great online community as well.

Here's the fabulous prize up for grabs...

and those PL cards aren't just for Project Life, I've made cards with them and used them on traditional scrapbook layouts as well! 

All you need to do is join ANY blog challenge of the month, Project Life, sketch or die cut and link us up to your project at the SOUS blog.

Now on to this week's challenge, Vellum! For this challenge I punched a 3"x 4" card from a piece of blue vellum with my WRMK punch. I then took the outside edges of the punched vellum and scored them with my scoreboard to add some texture. I rounded the corners and created a frame with the vellum on the lower left photo. I added snowflakes to reinforce the snow theme and finished off with a PL journal card and filler cards from the Clementine core kit.

I also used vellum in a different way on this page:

Here I've added punched stars from vellum to the title card and overlayed the bottom left filler card, which was a scrap of paper that didn't really work with the colour scheme, to make it work with the rest of the spread.

Vellum is so versatile so I hope you'll show us your take on this challenge at SOUS and be in the running to win this month's fabulous blog candy!

Thanks for stopping by.

Stuck On You Sketches-December 2-Project Life

Hello and welcome to my very first SOUS Project Life Design Team post!
Welcome to week 43 and the scallop circle challenge:

{PL Clementine & Midnight core kit; Ruby RockIt patterned paper; Prima wood buttons}

I designed the bottom left filler card with the scallop circle layed over top of a punched circle and doily cut to fit the 4x6 grid paper. I finished it off with a circle and heart wood button.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!

Project Life>>Week 28 & 29

Getting close to being completely caught up on this project!

Week 28

I used this page protector style Design F for the first time on week 27, lots of space for 3x4's and as I had a few 4x6 items, I cut them down to span 2 pockets. Love how it turned out!

Week 29

As this week ended up falling on the right side of 2 pages, I added a 6x12 AC insert to hold the title card, more photos, journaling and a portion of the boys' tournament schedule and the map I used to navigate to Whitecourt.

Here is the week with the insert opened up:

I have the next few weeks printed out and I am so excited to use some of my brand spanking new PL products!!

Thanks for looking!

Project Life>>Catching Up

It's been quite awhile since my last post. I've been enjoying the summer with my family :)

We wrapped up the baseball season a couple of weeks ago with my boys' team winning the provincial championship for their division. One of the boy's attended a "Mobile App Developing" camp at SAIT last week and we just wrapped up a weekend sleepover at our home with a cousin.

So it's time to "catch up" on Project Life, sort of ;)) (I have a couple of weeks to finish and another couple of weeks to print to completely catch up).

Week 19

Week 20

Week 21

Week 22

Week 23

Week 24

Week 25

Week 26

Week 27

That's all my completed PL weeks so far. If you have any questions regarding supplies used leave a comment and I will answer your question!

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!

Project Life>>Week 18

Another week in the life of our family. A baseball tournament for the boys but only one night away. Mom's yearly scrapbooking dat at the Scrap Shotz National Scrapbooking Crop, the top right photo is a card I created to show off the new Die-Versions die "Celebrate" for Scrap Shotz.

My little girl baked a whole bunch of cookies so the boys were happy having a sweet treat for the next few days. The stars on the yellow cardstock are a stamp from a Studio Calico kit, stamped in Wild Honey Distress Ink, a great way to fill in a plain space.

Week 19+ to follow soon!