Hunting Layout | 2/24

Today I'm sharing one of many hunting spreads I want to make this year. I really wish I could design products, and then I wouldn't have such a hard time finding supplies to use for these spreads. My go to is any paper with a woodgrain pattern.

For this spread I cut a frame from some black paper and adhered it to a simple woodgrain background, added photos, and some leaves and a date stamp.

I cut these leaves from a piece of paper from the Basic Grey Barista line. I picked up a couple sheets and spent the afternoon cutting out the leaves. They work as a better embellishment than background paper.

Thanks for coming by to see this spread. I know hunting offends some people, but we hunt for meat and use as much of the animal as we can/have use for. The photos used in this spread were taken by one of the hunters' wives.

Have a great weekend!

TLP | Love This Guy & His Cat Layout

Good morning! I'm so excited to be sharing with you all today that I've joined The Teal Lime Press creative team. I'm so excited about the opportunity to join Kristine's team and be able to share with all of you some ways that I've used her products. Her newest release was Companion (available here). I made a pocket page spread that I shared on Instagram (Week 3, I'll be sharing in mid February). I also made this traditional layout.

I love this layout. I cropped the digital papers to 4x6 sections so I could print them on my home printer, and since I knew I didn't need much of the paper, the 4x6 size pieces were perfect for my needs. I also used my silhouette to print and cut some of the embellishments from the scrapbook kit. The "love" stamp is from Kellie Stamps, but is no longer available.

Here's the layout. Everything I used on this spread was from the Companion line (except the love stamp). I love how this turned out. I was originally going to use this photo in a pocket page spread using the pocket cards, but decided to just use the pocket cards for a week spread, and so I made a layout about just this photo. I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut "this guy" from the white cardstock and taped the papers to the back.

I see more projects with this kit in my future. It's perfect for documenting the men in your life, and the possibilities are endless. Thanks so much for coming by to see this spread. Pop over to the Teal Lime Press Shop and pick up this kit!

I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Project Life | Week 48

Today I'm sharing the last of my 2015 Project Life pages. This year was full of so many memories and I look forward to flipping through the pages later and seeing all the things we accomplished this year.

Here's the left side. It sort of snowed (2-3 inches overnight) so I felt it was okay to break out my Christmas mugs. We've decided we're going to start doing some Dungeons and Dragons with my sister and her boyfriend, and so Jon ordered some models for all of us, one of my characters is a bear, and I'm actually excited about doing Dungeons and Dragons, even though I complain about how nerdy it is all the time.

Here's the right side. I love my niece and nephew. They're so cute. I love being fortunate enough to see them every week (usually). This week Tori helped make a Christmas light garland (which she wore as a beard). I finally read the physical Big Magic book, and of course I attacked it with post it notes. I'll read it again and highlight those parts later on.

To finish off my album I used some cards from the Inspire value kit. My front page had water colour-y elements so I went with water colours on the back page as well. It's simple and I'm totally okay with that.

I hope you all have a wonderful day! I'll be sharing the beginning of my 2015 album next week. I'm writing this in December, so hopefully I've figured out what I'm doing for the year of 2016 by the time this post goes live.

-Alexandria

Project Life | Week 47

Today I'm sharing week 47. This week we began some serious Christmas prep, and I've been fighting the urge to wait until December to put up the tree.

 Here's the left side. Some fails, some reading, some super awesome advent Calendars for my boyfriend, and my sisters boyfriend. I love the "okay let's try that again" card. We tried painting some jars for a coworker, but the paint wasn't thick enough and peeled off when we tried to remove the stickers (which were also a little too sticky).

Here's the right side. It's the end of November, and the grass is still very green. I pulled out the tiered star because a coworker was going to help me put things into it, but then I browsed Pinterest and found some ideas that I could make work.

Thanks for coming by to see this spread. One more week from 2015 and then you can see what I've been up to this year!

-Alexandria

Project Life | My Plans for 2016

Good morning, or afternoon, or possibly evening. Today I want to share a quick post about my plans for Project Life this year. I can't believe that January is already half over, and I've barely documented anything from this year, but I want to focus on the Stories. This months Story Kit theme from Ali Edwards (here) came at the absolute perfect time.

This year I want my focus to be on the stories of our everyday. The funny things we say to each other, things I see happening around us, things we do, no matter how mundane they may seem to me at any given moment.

Despite it being 2 weeks into January, I haven't started documenting anything. I have little notes here and there, and with Jon seriously injuring his back earlier this week, things have been a little all over the place for a few days. I somehow managed to (I think) settle on a title page finally, but I'll probably change it again.

This year I want to go with a little more simple style. I'm cancelling my Studio Calico subscription, and moving into using my stash, and finding digital products that I feel suit my style better, but I'm still on the path to figuring out what my style is.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
-Alexandria