Life.Paper.Scrapbook | December Colour challenge...

Hello Friends.  This is my last challenge with Life.Paper.Scrapbook.  It has been a pleasure to create with this amazing and talented team of beautiful scrappers!! They have been a source of inspiration, encouragement and simply wonderful friendship.  I am so glad to have gotten to know them.  :)

This month's colour challenge is stunning!  Check out the inspiration...

I've created another card this month to coordinate with our colour challenge.  With December being ridiculously busy (!!!!), I just wanted to simplify things.  *grin*

I created this card not long after I attended Heidi Swapp's MakePrettyStuffDownUnder tour!  Can you see her inspiration/influence? LOL!  I certainly broke out my new colorshine mist. 

This month's sponsor is Big Picture Classes, and the class is Project Real Life.

Project Real Life with Becky Higgins

Cultivate a good life and record it, with Becky Higgins

http://www.bigpictureclasses.com/project-real-life-2014.php

1/9/2014 $99

12 Weeks

About the Class

Becky's motto, "Cultivate a good life and record it," is at the heart of everything she does with her blog, her Project Life products, and her everyday life.

In this 12-week interactive workshop, she'll share the 12 foundational principles she follows in her real life as a mother, memory keeper, blogger, homemaker, author, instructor, and successful business owner. Becky's main goal is to inspire you to see the everyday beauty in your world and celebrate ordinary moments, but she'll also show you how to preserve the real-life pictures you take using her signature Project Life system.

After the overwhelming response to this workshop during its first run in 2012, Becky is thrilled to invite a new crop of memory keepers to plan, create, and remember…together. There are special offers below for the first 500 to sign up, and an exclusive set of Project Life Themed Cards ("Life Lists" theme) available for purchase in February ONLY to Project Real Life students.

 

Learn more and register here.

So there you have it.  And you have to be in it to win it, so link up your project on the right over at LPS. Please make sure you link to the correct challenge, there is both a sketch and colour challenge to link up to. If you are linking to a blog, please link to the actual post the layout is featured in, not just the general address, and make sure you link back to Life.Paper.Scrapbook.

Here are the details:

- You can submit ANY kind of project that you can use the colour challenge for: layouts, cards, PL, off the page projects.

- You can use the sketch and colour challenges together, just make sure you link it up to each so you have a chance to win in both.

- December Colour Challenge runs until 11.59pm 10 January (don't forget we're in Australia).

- The winner of the prize will be randomly drawn.

Thanks for visiting today..x
 

The Scrapbook Store | Simple Stories...

Hello Friends.  Another big week here in our home and I am struggling to find the time to  upload projects and spend a little "me" time on the www.  :) Having said that however, I do have a little share for you today.  In my April DT kit from The Scrapbook Store, I have been playing with the delightful Simple Stories - Urban Traveller collection.

 

I've also decided to be brave and jump into the world of Project Life. So.. dom, dom, dom.....

Here's my first PL spread that I have available to share.

 

"Project Life - Week 4" 

products used: page protectors  - WRMK; pp - Simple Stories (Urban Traveller); Alpha - Simple Stories (Urban Traveller), American Crafts Thickers; other - Simple Stories (Urban Traveller) decorative brads & Sn@p pockets; kaisercraft rhinestones, staples; tools - cloud punch, circle punch, home printer.

Looking up close you will notice that we didn't actually travel anywhere and if we did it wasn't big enough to mention in my notes!  *grin*  But I still couldn't resist using this collection to document our week 4.

 

page 1.

page 2.

 

 

Simple Stories clearly had PL in mind when they created some patterned papers in this line.  Some of them can be cut down to the 4in x 6in size specifically and even though the title block and "adventure" blocks would look better vertical I don't have a problem with them being horizontal in my album.  Both pieces of paper help me tell the story.

 

This week we had a strange and devastating weather forecast.  It was "quite a ride".  The week started off with a ridiculous heat wave and ended in flood waters rising in our area once again.  The "Take Note" square/block with the sunburst on it was a great way to share that information in my spread.

 

 

Another fun feature is the Sn@p pockets.  I found I had quite a bit of journaling to share for this week including Tahlia's first High School uniform, the floods and my sister-in-law's birthday.  The little pocket was idea for holding all the information for me.  It was already the perfect width (4in) for the WRMK plastic page protector but it was too long.  I simply scored a line and folded the top half over instead of trimming it. 

 

 

I've secured it using one of the more generic decorative brads (non travel themed).  It's still very pretty though.  And do you see that little rain cloud with the rhinestones?  Yeah, well... I scrap lifted that idea from the amazing Kim Jeffress!  LOL!  Too cute right?!

 

The rest of the spread has been filled with the details of that week.  I'm really glad I've started this.  I've known I've wanted to do it for a long time.  This is week 4 and yes I have completed weeks 1-3 leading up to this spread.  The kids at the moment, are continually flicking through the few pages I have completed or they are looking over my shoulder as I create.  I like the idea of how interactive this project will become.   Thanks for visiting  and don't forget if you like this Simple Stories collection, visit The Scrapbook Store to purchase your supplies..x

 

 

The Scrapbook Store | Simple Stories #2...

Hello Everyone!  I just wanted to share another layout created from the Simple Stories - Urban Traveller collection, that came in my DT kit for The Scrapbook Store. 

 "Taylor Swift"

 

products used: pp - Simple Stories (Urban Traveller); alpha - Simple Stories (Urban Traveller); other - Simple Stories (Urban Traveller) decorative brads & stickers; Jenni Bowlin pennant flag sticker & yellow paint; ink; tools - The Crafter's Workshop template, textured paste, machine stitching, black pen (sharpie), Fancy That Dies - doily, Dear Lizzy date stamp.

 

This layout isn't really about travel but I love the colours in it so much that I thought I'd show you how versatile the papers and elements are...

 



 

 

The colours are bright and fun without being overwhelmingly so.  Perfect for a rock/pop concert themed layout! *grin* I still used the globe sticker and map patterned papers to remind me that this was a world tour concert.  Plus the t-shirt Tahlia is wearing, names all the cities on the tour.  Very International!  hee hee..

 



 

 

Don't forget to visit The Scrapbook Store if you would like to purchase this gorgeous collection.  Thanks so much for visiting..x

 

The Scrapbook Store | Simple Stories ...

Hello Friends!! Sorry for my absence of late.  I have been spending time with my family over the Easter School holidays.  :)  Hopefully I will be back on track soon with my creativity!!  *grin*

Today however, I have a scrappy share for the The Scrapbook Store.  In this month's kit, I have the gorgeous Simple Stories - Urban Traveler collection to work with.   

 "Canberra"

 

products used: pp - Simple Stories Urban Traveler; alpha - Simple Stories Urban Traveler; other - Simple Stories Urban Traveler sn@p pockets, decorative brads; October Afternoon sprinklers mist (twilight); tools - machine stitching, black pen (sharpie).

 

This photo is from our big camping trip holiday in 2011.  Liam had an amazing time in Canberra.  It was his favourite stop on our holiday.  Most probably because of the War Memorial.  He was really fascinated with the place.  I have used one of the Simple Stories Sn@p pockets to house a quote he gave me not long after we got home...  I simply created a tag from the ledger patterned paper to fit into the pocket and then typed his message directly onto the paper.

I also love the map patterned paper (orange stripes/map) from this collection and even though it is a map of Europe, I still like the message of traveling it relays.  The stickers on the alpha sheet (cardstock stickers - Expressions) are also a fun accessory to add interest to the page.

If you would like to get your hands on your own Simple Stories Urban Traveler collection, visit The Scrapbook Store to stock up.  :)  Thanks for visiting..x