PROJECT LIFE TO GET YOUR PHOTOS OFF YOUR PHONE/IPAD EASILY

HEY BLOGGIES,

HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT PROJECT LIFE?  It is an easy way to get your photos out of storage and into a book to share or reminisce.

Here is some info:

If you have a box full of photo prints, or lots of photos in digital format never getting printed Project Life is a great way to do something about that!! The best part is, Project Life is available in digital format too.  So if you find yourself thinking about how you wish you had thought of this idea at the beginning of the summer before the "I'm bored" started, you CAN get started today! 

I am starting a PROJECT LIFE CLUB where we will get together to do our scrapbooks.  Let me know if you are interested in joining with us once a month.

Introducing Project Life by Stampin' Up!

Starting May 1, a selection of products will be available for purchase (below), with even more items in the NEW ANNUAL catalog on June 2.

I hope you are as excited about this as I am!!  Let's do some project life together!!

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I'M BACK - DID YOU MISS ME??

HI Y'ALL, I am back from a mini vacation to go get some grandkids lovin'.  My daughter and family live in Utah and I don't get to see them enough.  So every chance I get, I JUMP ON IT.  It was so fun to spend time with them.  They are growing waaaay too fast.  9 and 11.

We even got some crafting time in at the end.  and GUESS WHAT??  My 11 yr old granddaughter taught me how to make jewelry!!  She is so talented and amazing.  I made some cute necklaces and some earrings (well, my daughter made the earrings for me - it was a bit harder and I wanted to watch how she twisted the wire).  Another thing to add to my list of FUN THINGS TO DO.  I can't wait to get to the store and get some more stones and beads and make MORE JEWELRY.  I will show you a few photos next time, ok?

This posting I wanted to share a scrapbooking workshop I held just a day or so before I left on my grands vacation. ha, get it? grands vs grand?  I know, kind of lame...

We made 6 x 6 flip and fold albums with the designer paper of their choice.  It was so fun to see their books come together and then they started having ideas about decorating them, etc.

Here they are working so diligently on their albums.  Each of their albums showed their own personality and special touch.  It was awesome.

 For the front of the album, we used my BIG SHOT and designer paper that matches their album to create a FUN FLOWER.  After cutting it out with the FUN FLOWER DIE, we crinkled and crumbled all the pieces up.  (Very hard for some of them!)  Then carefully unfolded them and using my mat pack and the "pokey tool" we put a hole in the middle of all layers to attach them together with a BRAD.

Here is one flower attached to the front of an album.  Cute, huh?

 My FAVORITE NEW DESIGNER PAPER is MOCHA MORNING.  It is very elegant and several sheets have velvety embossing.  LOVE IT.

One little SMARTIE ( I won't mention any names GRIN) figured out how to make all the pages inside to be the same pattern.  then as you open them up, they are again in matching different patterns.  I WAS VERY IMPRESSED!!

They PROMISED to show them to me once all the photos are attached.  I can't wait to see how cute they are all filled with memories.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A FLIP AND FOLD ALBUM with some yummy designer paper and card stock?  Email me and I can get a kit ready for you and mail it out.

Here is one of the albums nearly completed.  It is an album for a little one "LITTLE WONDER" is the stamp on the front.  Isn't it darling??!!  GREAT JOB EVERYONE.

PAPER BAG ALBUM

I made a paperbag scrapbook album from those tall thin paper bags that the grocery store gives out for wine bottles.  I put them all together every other one facing to the right with the opening.  Then I sewed them together with a small zigzag stitch down the middle.  After I then folded them, I used my crop-a-dile to make two holes and threaded my ribbon through and tied a bow.

Then I used a SU scrapping kit to decorate the pages.
 I would love to know what you think of this cute little book.  I used some of those craft letters made from foam to put MY .....BOOK.  I will provide more letters to the one who wins this at my next workshop so they can complete the title as to what kind of book they want this to be.

This is the front cover with the foam letters.

This is the back cover with the same DSP as the front cover. 

Here are two facing pages using the paper and card stock from the scrap kit. 

Two more pages and a die cut fabric flower. 

You can see one of the pockets for memorabilia in this photo. 

More fun paper and cardstock that coordinates. 

I decorated the right page a little differently with the die cuts from the kit.  This is a pocket page. 

So the colors in the scrapkit are red, garden green, more mustard and bliss blue.

There are several pages of borders, die cuts and decos all ready to stick on your pages included in each scrap kit. If you don't have a Stampin Up Demo, I would love to be yours and help you with your papercrafting such as scrapbooking, card making, etc.

Hope you enjoyed seeing this paperbag scrapbook.  I also have worked on 6 x 6 scrapbook pages
for my workshop this weekend.  I used ink and stamps as well as the sticky die cuts included.  I will post that next.

Inky fingers y'all.  And happy crafting.

ANOTHER PAGE IN MY CREATED SCRAPBOOK

SO, REMEMBER MY SCRAPBOOK I CREATED HERE:

IT IS A FLIP AND FOLD ALBUM THAT I CREATED WITH BOTH CARD STOCK AND DESIGNER PAPER FROM STAMPIN UP.  I USED RIBBON AS THE CLOSURE AND MADE THAT CUTE FLOWER ON THE FRONT.  IT SAYS "GO IN THE DIRECTION OF YOUR DREAMS".  LOVE THAT QUOTE

IT IS A MY GRANDCHILDREN'S SCRAPBOOK WHERE I HAVE A 2 PAGE LAYOUT FOR EACH ONE OF MY 5 GRANDCHILDREN.  HERE IS THE PAGE FOR PENELOPE, OUR YOUNGEST GRANDCHILD:

HER BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT IS ON THE RIGHT.  SO CUTE.

AND HERE IS OUR OLDEST GRAND DAUGHTER, MIRANDA.  THESE ARE HER GRADUATION PHOTOS.  SHE IS GRADUATING FROM HIGH SCHOOL THIS NEXT WEEKEND.  WE ARE SO PROUD OF HER AND ALL HER ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

THE BLANK ON THE RIGHT PAGE IS TO PUT HER GRADUATION ANNOUNCEMENT, ONCE I FIND WHERE MY HUBBY PUT IT.  HE THINKS HE MIGHT HAVE THROWN IT AWAY!!  WHAT??!!  I HOPE NOT.  :<(

THIS UPCLOSE OF THE LEFT PAGE IS TO SHOW YOU RANS WITH HER SAXAPHONE WHICH SHE PLAYED IN THE MARCHING BAND.  ALSO THE TAG SAYS "GOOD NEWS" BECAUSE IT IS GREAT NEWS THAT SHE IS GRADUATING.  BUT SAD NEWS THAT SHE WILL BE LEAVING FOR COLLEGE IN THE FALL. 

LUCKILY SHE IS STAYING IN TEXAS SO WE WILL STILL GET TO SEE HER OCCASIONALLY.  YIPPEE

MORE PAGES IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS.  WAITING ON A FEW RECENT PHOTOS TO ARRIVE SO I CAN COMPLETE IT.

HAPPY HOLIDAY WEEKEND AND THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED TO KEEP US SAFE.  WE LOVE YOU. 

INKY FINGERS Y'ALL!

WHERE HAVE I BEEN??!! I'VE BEEN ZENTANGLIN'

Sorry you have not heard from me in a little bit.  You see, I have two paying jobs (not mentioning the millions of jobs we do that we DON'T get paid for!) ha.  I work as a Hallmark Retail Merchandiser for stores in my area - mostly grocery stores.  So when you are grocery shopping and decide to purchase a card because you need it ASAP, think of me...I put them there and take care of the ordering, displays, etc.

My OTHER paying job is ALSO CARDS - Stampin' Up Demonstrator.  I LOVE BOTH MY JOBS - creative, colorful and they are both pretty much my own hours.

So, besides my two paying jobs, I was feeling a bit stressed with personal life and needed another outlet that would be helpful to de-stress but not require too much thinking.  Enter ZENTANGLE.  Have you heard of it?  Google it and you will be hooked!  I am.  It is basically doodling like we used to do in elementary school, only now they call it ART.  ha

Here is my first official Zentangle.  It is very soothing and I love how smoothly the pen goes along the cardstock.

What do you think?  Zentangles have different names for different kinds of tangles.  The large main ones in this Zentangle are called Muchas.  It looks like several different shepherd's hooks, but if you follow the lines, it is just one line that goes back on itself over and over again.  I shaded with pencil and then I framed it with some DSP  from Stampin' Up! Christmas paper and then with black.  The pen is a special fine tipped marker for artists, but you can probably use any fine tipped marker you want.  Mine was Sakura brand as they suggest for Zentangles.

Here is another photo with better lighting so you can see how nice the black and white plays against each other.  This is being framed for my Grand daughter, Kayleigh, who is the family artist-in-residence.  But it would make a wonderful card front, wouldn't it? 

Wouldn't you LOVE to get a card with an original piece of artwork on the front??

If any of you are also doing Zentangles, Please share with me.  I would LOVE to see what you have been doing.  And Google Mucha Zentangle to see the description of this kind of tangle.

Are you still scrapbooking this month?  Only a few days of the month left so get a couple pages completed so you feel like you accomplished something, ok?  Hopefully this National Scrapbooking Month is just the PUSH we need to get some of our pages completed.  I love when there is someone helping me along, don't you?

Happy scrappinig, tangling and cardmaking.  Inky finger y'all!!



PLANNING MAKES IT HAPPEN...

Have you ever taken a cooking class even if you know how to cook?  How about a sewing class even though you know how to sew?  I enjoy taking classes in areas I like to do things because it gets me to do the things I like!! 

For instance, I just took a sewing class to get myself back into sewing again.  It has been a long time since I dusted off my machine and made anything. Because of the class I made some awesome curtains for our bedroom.  And now I am working on a graduation quilt for my oldest granddaughter.  I like when there is a class or meeting that helps me get into an area that I enjoy.

That is how I feel about National Scrapbooking Month.  I have so much to scrapbook that I just haven't done anything in a loooong time.  But I set a goal of doing scrapbooking once a week for this whole month of May so I can get back into it again.  I am having a good time too!!

I first blurffed (my name for blog surfing) some scrapbooking ideas before I did my first week of scrapping.  And I found several very interesting scrapbooks to make - unusual ones.  I like unique and different...

One was a mini scrapbook made from one sheet of  12 x 12 paper.  I believe it is called the Meander Book or Meander mini album.  Beate on Splitcoast Stampers has a great tutorial on it. Here is the address for her tutorial:  http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/meander_book/    It was so fun to fold and cut slits here and there, then fold it up and presto, a mini album with pockets for tabs to pull out.  Can't picture it in your mind??  Voila - here is a photo of mine I created:

Sorry for the  poor quality photo.  I am thinking I need a Photo class next, huh?   This is a very very mini album the size for those school wallet photos per page.  I made the cover from 3 x 3 coasters and covered them with dsp.  The little tabs are just pieces of dsp with a stick on deco on the top as the pull tab.
Isn't it darling?  So little yet holds so much.  I am going to give this to one of the grandkids for their school photos of all their friends for this year.

Come back tomorrow for another new album in honor of scrapbooking month - FLIP AND FOLD ALBUM. 
Happy scrapping and inky fingers y'all!