Say Cheese, Christmas Layout

Another Christmas layout using the Pear and Partridge kit from Close to my Heart. I am also using the Close to my Heart idea book and catalog for layout ideas. There are some wonderful layouts in the book. I'm just changing up the papers to fit my Christmas layouts.

Here's a look at the layout with pictures.

I'm not sure where she learned this or why she started doing this, but whenever she's having her picture taken she says cheese with a huge smile and eyes mostly closed. Sometimes it only takes the camera flash to get this from her. Even when it's not pointed at her. LOL.

The title Say Cheese was cut using the Cricut cartridge Opposites Attract. The oval type shape was cut from the Artiste cartridge and then cut in half to fit at the bottom of the page.

The journaling spot was also cut with the Artiste cartridge.

I still have some papers left so I'll be making some more layouts to share. Come back soon.

Project Life Monday - wk 1

Hello scrappy friends. I have my first week of Project Life completed and would love to share with you. I'm really enjoying this album so far. I'm still watching YouTube videos for ideas and I'm still having a hard time remembering to take all of the pictures I want, but I'm finding ways to make it work.

So far it looks like I will be using a two page spread for each week. I'm sure there will be weeks in my life that are less than exciting, but hopefully those will be few. Here is my first week's spread:

This week includes January 1st, which was when we took the Christmas tree down and out of the house. A couple pictures of our dinners and a picture of me throwing out the last of the Christmas cookies because my goal for January is to lose 5 lbs. before January 27th (vacation).

The title, Week one, was cut using the Cricut cartridge Opposites Attract. This week also included my first birthday dinner. It was a couple days early so that our older son and his family could join us. We went to my favorite restaurant, Texas Roadhouse. I had a chicken caesar salad and lots of my favorite sweet rolls with cinnamon butter.

The oval cut that says cookies and the chocolate chip cookie were cut using using the Cricut cartridge From my Kitchen.

On Sunday, January 6th I made tacos and they were very YUMMY! I cut the title from Opposites Attract.

Well, that's my first week of the year. I'm already started on my second week, but it's not completely done yet. My weeks will be going from Monday thru Sunday so that the weekend days will be together. I will have my 2nd week done and posted for you next Monday. Until then come on back and check out some Christmas layouts.

Project Life Cover Page

Happy New Year! I guess I'm a little behind, it's already January 10th! Where does the time go? I know I've been busy. How about you? I thought for sure after Christmas everything would settle back down, but then there was New Years and then my birthday.

We don't do much for New Year's but we did drive to our son and daughter in laws house about an hour away and then went to dinner with them and our grand-daughter. It was the perfect way for us to say goodbye to 2012 and hello to 2013 (even though we were home and in bed before midnight).

My goal for 2013 is to do a Project Life album. I tried last year, but I didn't really GET the concept and I didn't stick with it. I thought it was just about taking a picture a day. This year I know it's about documenting our daily lives. (At least that's what it's going to be for me) So far I've done pretty good. I've taken a picture every day, but this time all of the pictures mean something to me. If I take a picture of a random flower this year it will be because it's my favorite color or kind of flower instead of taking a picture of a flower just because I need to take a picture for the day.

So far I've gotten my front page completed and most of my week one. I'm still adding some things to week one so I'll post a picture of that when it's complete. For my front/title page I used pictures from Christmas because we took a picture of all of us together and another picture of my older son and his family. Our younger son is still single so he got his own picture. LOL.

I'm using the Project Life kit that I already had from last year and throwing in other things here and there. The title cards and the cardstock are each from the Project Life Cobalt kit.

The font on the left side that says Hello 2013 is from the Cricut Cartridge Opposites Attract, cut at 1.5". The other words on the title cards that are cut from cardstock were cut using the Boys will be Boys Cricut Cartridge and cut at 1.25". I added a little bit of green ribbon on each of the title cards to cover up the white space that is for the date. I think I will go back and add a pull out journaling card behind the bottom title card. I might add any resolutions the family has or stuff like that.

As soon as I get week one completed I'll come back and post pictures. Today I'm off to get my hair done though...

Thanks Mom

This is a card I made as a special request from my sister to give to my Mom. Hope she likes it.