Project Life Week 36

I'm a dedicated 81/2 x 11 scrapper when it comes to PL. And to ease the process I've become a hybrid scrapper. All the layouts are designed on the computer, the main pages are printed with the journal blocks and the photos printed separately then pasted onto the layout. I could print the entire page out but the old time scrapper in me prefers actual photos on the page. Sometimes I add embellishments, more often than not my focus is on just getting the layouts completed and into our albums.

For this layout I used digital files from the Honey Edition. 

Project Life Catch Up

As usual, our summer months have been crazy busy which has left little time for actual scrapping. I've spent the past week and a half attempting to catch up on our PL spreads. I've made pretty good progress. The website OhLife has been a real help. Every night I receive a prompt to record the events and stories of the day. I'll admit I'm not always the best at staying on top of the daily prompts when life gets crazy but always record at least once a week. So the fact that I've at least 12 weeks worth of documenting to do really doesn't give me much stress. As Martha would say...that's a good thing. 

Week 32 & 33

We had a lot going on during these 2 weeks but I didn't have many photos. I'm pretty flexible when it comes to my PL documenting. Pictures don't always have to be perfect, in fact I find myself using my phone camera more often than not these days, and if I can combine a couple of weeks so much the better.  

Week 31

Caught the quarterly sale at Designer Digitals and picked up a number of Cathy Zielske templates. Love her clean and simple style and with a little know-how, the ability to customize items to fit my layouts. 

Valentine Treat Bags

A few quick treat bags made with glassine bags and some valentine doodads I've collected over the years. The brads were picked up at Walmart recently and on sale no less.

Penguin Lifesavers

I've made snowmen lifesavers for a number of years so it was time to change it up a bit. I created a penguin wrap, made about a dozen penguins and then lost the file, 'cause I'm smart that way. Thankfully I'd created enough to place at each place setting for our holiday dinner. I did end up changing it up a bit more by replacing some of the top hats with snow hats made from knit gloves, glued a pom pom on top and replaced the bow tie with a scarf. Much faster. Honestly, the top hats, though very cute, were a bit of a pain.

Bah Humbug

I had some tootsie pops remaining from Halloween so I decided to get crafty. I'd seen the posts on Pinterest showing spiders made from suckers. Way cool though not exactly merry and good cheer for this time of year. I put my brain to work, rummaged through my stash and came up with...the Bah Humbug. They were a bit of extra work but I think they'll be a hit with my group.

Giving Thanks

I like to have something festive at each place setting when I host the family for Thanksgiving. Last year I made these treat bags using glassine bags and stamps from Papertry Ink. Not exactly sure what I'm going to put together this year. I've seen lots of great ideas on Pinterest and my brain is still stewing ideas. It had better land on something quick and given the time frame, something easy.

Halloween Treat Bag

As usual I'm a bit behind in posting halloween crafts. Less activity on the craft front this year because the majority of our kids are beyond the trick or treat age. All in all this is not a bad thing since this time of year kicks off my busiest time.

I did manage to do a quick treat bag for my youngest niece. I fell in love with tissue garland earlier in the year and finally found an oline source that wasn't going to break the bank so I purchase garlands in lots of different colors. I used a yellow gift bag from my stash and a hot glue gun to attach the orange and black garland around the top. Some old paper from my scrap pile, spider web border punch, a LD ghost cut and I was good. I think the entire project took me about a half hour and the majority of that time was spent wrestling with the glue gun.