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29/06/2016

Week in the Life | Sunday

Today I'm finally sharing my Sunday pages from my Week in the Life album. Today started with Sleepy Hollow. I've recorded the whole season but haven't got around to watching any of it. I got to the Bones/Sleepy Hollow crossover episode and had to stop because I haven't watched any Bones either. Eventually I'll finish it.

More daily gratitude on the back of the divider. I usually only put one or two items in my gratitude journal, but this week I had 3 for each day and copied them from my notes sheet into my journal and onto each card. The right side has a conversation between Jon and I that I typed and printed onto that card. I added a phrase sticker and a small stamp from the stamp set.

I think every single gold foil card was my favourite gold foil card. They're easily my favourite part of my album. Over on the left I have a photo of Socks and the speaker I use to play music while I shower.

Another day, another coffee cup. Today I documented my bookshelf. It's near our front door and I walk past this particular bookshelf a hundred times day. It's kind of in the center of the house and holds all of my to-read books as well as some of Jon's books and my redundant CD collection.

A selfie, phrase stickers and an acrylic heart. The book I was reading, weather photo, and the "work" card I made using this months release of Kellie Stamps (see a better photo of it here).

Finishing up my day at work, and then home to play Dungeons and Dragons because my sister's boyfriend came down this weekend.

Plastic letter and stamped "Sunday's are for" and wrote about fighting dragons, and laughing, using our imagination. This project will always have a place in my heart, but I'm so glad this is complete. I keep flipping through this album because I just love it so much.

This final quote came from this #givesunday post by Ali Edwards. I love her handwriting and I'm so glad she did #givesunday and that I took advantage of all the free word art to use in my albums and hang around my house.

I'd like to take a minute to talk about #littlesummerjoy and how you can access ALL the content of the class.

Jen & Julie have decided to offer some really great paid content as well as the FREE content they're offering on their site. Create an account and sign up for the free portion of the class (here).

To access the PAID portion of the class, you can click HERE and sign up for the paid portion of the class.

The PAID portion includes a short video lesson, some printables and a technique to go along with the prompt released in the FREE portion of the class. If you sign up for the PAID portion before JUNE 30th 2016 you can save $5 using the coupon code SAVE5.

Thanks for coming by to see the final pages of my Week in the Life album. I hope you have a wonderful day, and I hope that you sign up for at least the free portion of #littlesummerjoy. It's going to be so much fun and I wouldn't want you to miss out on it!

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27/06/2016

Project Life | Week 20

Today I'm sharing week 20 of my Project Life. I'm always surprised how much of my stash I'm actually using now that I have minimal new product coming in every month.

Left side; I used mostly pieces from the Go Story Kit (the kit is no longer available, but you can get the digital stamp here).

Right side; this side covers our weekend trip to Calgary. Mostly food, and a photo of the succulents from Sunday when we got home.

I used a vellum pocket from a SUPER old Studio Calico kit to create a flip pocket for some tickets from our trip. I used some sentiments from the Go stamp set (digital linked above) and a diamond clip to hold everything in place.

It flips up to journaling about the trip. I love how it turned out. I just used some washitape to hold it all together. Simple. Done.

I'd like to take a minute to talk about #littlesummerjoy and how you can access ALL the content of the class.

Jen & Julie have decided to offer some really great paid content as well as the FREE content they're offering on their site. Create an account and sign up for the free portion of the class (here).

To access the PAID portion of the class, you can click HERE and sign up for the paid portion of the class.

The PAID portion includes a short video lesson, some printables and a technique to go along with the prompt released in the FREE portion of the class. If you sign up for the PAID portion before JUNE 30th 2016 you can save $5 using the coupon code SAVE5.

Thanks for coming by to see this spread. I hope you have a wonderful day, and I hope that you sign up for at least the free portion of #littlesummerjoy. It's going to be so much fun and I wouldn't want you to miss out on it!

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24/06/2016

Week in the Life | Saturday

Today I'm sharing my Saturday pages of Week in the Life. I'm in love with the teal colour of the gold foil card, and love how well in printed on the hello Saturday circle. Today started with The Originals.

Another daily gratitude on the back of the half divider. I used some of the new Kellie Stamps (available here) on photos today. Like the top 4x6 photo. I was reading and drinking coffee, that stamp was perfect. More phrase stickers and Jon painting.

Gracie is ready for me to be done with this project at this point, and her face says it all in that photo. I love the combination of the gold and the teal on the day card.

Coffee cup photo. A picture of my desk, and a picture of the dragon Jon painted for me (in 6 hours, no big deal). I plan to blog some photos when the whole group of angry dwarves is finished.

I used another digital Kellie Stamp from this set. In Photoshop I just cropped my photo smaller and painted the background white, added the digital stamp changed the colour and added some journaling. I printed the whole thing together as a 4x6 photo. You can see a better picture of that photo (here) I made a blog post.

Today I took more photos at work. I added the weather over a photo of my slowly growing peonies and another phrase sticker. I used this stamp set to stamp she said and he said on labels and documented a conversation.

Final pages. I love the messy circles (digital available here). I also loved the plastic letters and stamping on my last large photo every day.

Just one more day left to share. Have a wonderful weekend!

22/06/2016

Week in the Life | Friday

I can't believe June is basically half over at this point. It feels like it was just starting yesterday. This year is literally flying by and it's almost impossible to believe.

Today I'm sharing Friday of my Week in the Life album. I still love the circles on the center of the opening photo, the half divider, the wood veneer numbers, the phrase stickers, rubber banners and gold foil. I love the indirect repetition of elements throughout that seems to bring everything together.

Another day of gratitude on the back of the divider, another unsealed pocket with a wood veneer number. I need to remember to fuse all of them shut and make a label for the back of the album.

Another temperature photo with the day of the week phrase sticker and another gold foil daily card.

Another coffee cup photo (which I actually love since I used a different cup every day of the week). More phrase stickers and journaling on photos. Jon's been assembling and painting the beginnings of a dwarf army this week (for me so we can play Warhammer: Age of Sigmar together. Super nerdy).

Another feet photo, another weather photo (no phrase sticker this time). The top right card says "am" and "pm" in the corner of each box and I used an older set of Kellie Stamps to stamp "rain" and "more rain" because all it did today was rain on and off.

I love close up photos of the pages of a book. Here I cut it in half to fit the 3x4 pockets and along the shadow on the right I wrote "I love reading" over and over. I love that most of the words on the page are out of focus but you could read it still if you wanted. On the right I stamped "Fridays are for" and journaled a bit about the day next to the plastic letter.

Thanks for coming by to see these pages. Have a wonderful day!

20/06/2016

Project Life | Week 19

Today I'm sharing week 19 of Project Life. This week I kept things super simple, lots of photos, short stories.


Left side; I added some labels to photos I wanted to journal on. I like including snapchats because they have words right on the photos already.

Right side; more snapchats and photos. I love that U R PERFECT card. It went beautifully with the silly snapchat faces.

This week was super simple and took very little time. I love that it's mostly photos and little stories. Thanks for coming by to see this spread. I hope you have a wonderful day!

17/06/2016

Week in the Life | Thursday

Today I'm sharing Thursday of my Week in the Life album. Today I started the day off watching The Originals.

Gratitude, everyday details, Gracie, phrase stickers and wood veneer number. Simple and done.

Another temperature photo, more phrase stickers, more simple daily details that are often overlooked. Like how I left the chicken on the counter yesterday, how the garden hose sprays the air conditioner because we need to replace the hose. The flowers are finally blooming.

Simple details, breakfast, watching Jon assemble models, gold foil card, phrase stickers.

Another day, another coffee cup. More daily details, his and hers coffee. His black, hers a mocha. More phrase stickers, more journaling on photos.

More little details, banners, phrase stickers, journaling on photos. A few details from Jon, working on creative projects, messy desk, photoshop and podcasts.

Rain, simple journaling, phrase stickers, foot selfies, little details, short stories. Partial pages (the two 3x4s on the right).

I love how the white letters look on the large 6x8 photos. Again, apologies for the glares, I swear they look great in person.

Thanks for coming to see my Thursday pages. Have a great weekend.

15/06/2016

Kellie Stamps | June Release

This month Kellie released one digital set, two physical sets and a set of stickers. The physical sets are available now for pre-order and the digital set can be purchased and received within 24 hours. If you pre-order the planner set you'll receive a free pencil.

Here I used the digital set OBSESSED and added happiness in a cup straight onto my photo and printed it out. This photo was included in my Week in the Life album (see it here).

 Here I used the OBSESSED digital set again and added them to the white half of a photo along with some journaling. I love how it looks with the words slightly overlapping the stamp. This was also included in my Week in the Life album.
Kellie also has a planner stamp called JOT IT DOWN available for pre-order. Here I used the "work" stamp to add a little bit extra to this card to add to my Week in the Life album. The pages I used it on won't be posted for a week or so, so below is a picture of it in the album.

Here's a peek at my Sunday pages from my Week in the Life album. I used the work card on the bottom right to document being at work.

 I also used the new JOT IT DOWN physical set that can be preordered (here) in my planner. I use a Get To Work Book (available here) and I love it. I shared this sneak on Instagram a few weeks ago.

I love the simple black white and grey colours of the Get to Work Book and generally write in black and stamp with black ink. It looks a little messy, but also a little clean. I love the simple colours and sometimes my life is this messy.

Sometimes I don't finish my action items because it was raining on and off all week and I just ran out of time. Maybe I'll bump them to next week, or maybe I'll just see how it goes. Sometimes my to do list is shifted around or repeated for the whole week. Sometimes I just let things go.

Thank you for coming by to see my simple projects using these stamps. I have some other projects to share as well, but the first half of the month was busy and I haven't had a chance to add finishing touches to share them. Have a wonderful day!

13/06/2016

Project Life | Week 18

A little late with this post, but today I'm sharing Week 18. I love the pink and orange combination on this layout (though I could have gone with blue and green and pulled from the photos). I'm not that person who's super into colour matching, or editing my photos so they look "perfect". I just roll with them.

 Left side; I used an old Kellie Stamp to stamp Week on my title card. I used some pieces from the Week in the Life Kit and past Story Kits (join the waiting list here) and some pieces from old Studio Calico kits to complete this spread. Since cutting my subscriptions down to just the Story Kits I've actually been making use of my stash.

Right side; I love those two cards with Ali Edwards' handwriting on them, and I love the faces the kids are making in the 3x4 photos. They're obsessed with the silly snapchat faces and insist on doing at least several every week.

I've been keeping my spreads pretty simple and doing them in 4 week chunks. I like the idea of documenting weekly, but in about a month at a time. It gives me more enjoyment for the project because it feels less like something I need to do every week, and more like something I can carve out time to work on and actually enjoy.

Thanks for coming by to see this spread. I'll be back on Wednesday with my projects for Kellie Stamps June release.

10/06/2016

Week in the Life | Wednesday

Today I'm sharing Wednesday of my Week in the Life album. My type A personality loves that I was able to colour match the daily messy circles to the gold foil cards as opposed to the chipboard circles that were in similar colours but didn't match the foil cards.

Another gratitude card, another rubber banner, and phrase stickers. I love the simplicity of my album this year. I love that everything managed to fit in the rings without making the album overflow and the pages curl a little like last year. It also helps that the rings were larger than last year.

I love taking "from where I stand" photos (or foot selfies) I had quite a few throughout my album. Today's is in the garden. I also have a lot of photos of #gracietheungraceful but she's cute so it's okay. And another foil card.

Another day another coffee cup. The top right photo talks about how we don't keep the big can of coffee on the counter, but instead use it to fill a smaller can and keep it on the counter. On the bottom photo I journaled around the outside of the bowl. I love hot it looks. I'm always looking for creative ways to journal on my photos and throughout this album I've tried different ones. Like journaling around the edge of an object.

I documented my gratidue journal, the creating of a coffee cup album and some texts I exchanged with my sister.

Another temperature photo with a daily phrase sticker and more journaling on photos.

Labels, phrase stickers, "Wednesdays are for" stamp and white letter. I also made a point to include on large photo of each of our cats.

Thanks for coming by to see my album. Have a wonderful day!