Project Life: Weeks 4 and 5

Welcome back! Time for another installment of "Julie's Project Life".

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Week 4:

I didn't have many pictures for this week so I did a one page layout.

Super simple title card that looks more difficult than it is. It's just a 4X6 card from Project Life's "Kraft" edition. I added a 3X4 card horizontally to put the camera sticker on. I just sewed around it. Then I put a leftover scrap of blue striped paper to put the week stickers on. The "5" is actually a blue sticker that I colored black. Added the date stamps and that's it.

I wanted to show you how easy it is to customize your cards for whatever your purpose. This striped paper is actually the back of the card I made for Reed's birthday party spread. HERE  I thought it would have been fine to use if only the stripe was red instead of orange. So I got out my red washi tape and cut it in half and covered the orange stripes. Easy.

Week 5:

For this week I used only the "Kraft" edition again. 

This title card was actually a mistake. I had forgotten to leave a pocket open for a title so I just added some letter stickers and elements on top of this picture.

I turned a 3x4 card horizontal and tucked it under a picture and then sewed it down.

For this card I made a banner (Check out how I did that HERE) and just anchored it with a bit of teal washi tape.

The bottom 2 pockets are both picture collages I created so I could fit more pictures from my nephew's birthday party. I used this little knight that my SIL had in the take home treats. It was actually attached to a toothpick and so I just twisted it to get it to come off of it.

There you go! Weeks 4 & 5 are in the books, literally. :)

Project Life : Reed's Party

As I posted HERE, we celebrated my son's birthday about a week and a half ago. Here are the pages I made for the Project Life version of it. :)

Left side:

I tried to use the typewriter to type on this picture. It turned out OK. Not as dark as i was hoping though.

Right side:

I got the birthday printable HERE

Insert:

That's all for now! Have a good one :)

Linking up: Snap Creativity

Reed is Dino-Mite!

First and foremost, I can't even believe that my baby is 2 years old already. (Don't even get me started on my 6 year old) 

For Reed's party we decided to do a dinosaur theme because he really likes to play with the ones we have at home. Let's be honest, it's super cute when he roars too. :)

So I got to browsing Pinterest and found THEE CUTEST dinosaur tail I have ever seen. Then I found a super cute shirt I could do with Chase.  Now I'm not going to do a tutorial on these because there's no reason to. Here's the link for the Dinosaur Tail and Dinosaur Spiked Sweatshirt.

Now, I am the first to admit that sewing is not my strong point. I actually sew more on paper than I do on fabric. :) The hoodie was SUPER easy and the tail wasn't too bad. 

Here's how they turned out:

So cute right?!

I found these dinosaur hats at Dollar Tree of all places, and a lot of other little things for the treat bags and such.

I had these chalkboard labels from a couple years ago. I added them to cardstock and  wrote Herbivores and Carnivores next to the food.

We had Dino eggs (Grapes) and Dinosaur tails (Carrots and celery sticks) along with Dinosaur chicken nuggets. We also got a 3 foot sub.

I also had the boys' dinosaur toys and books around the tables for decoration. 

Here's a video of the night:

Thanks for stopping by!

Project Life Weeks 1 and 2

It's that time again!  I wanted to just point out a couple things that I have decided to do different this year with my Project Life layouts. First, I'm going to try really hard to make a title card for every week. I started doing this last year but got bored with it so I would only do this once in a while. It's so much easier to keep track of when you have a title card for each week. Second, I'm going to try and use a corner rounder for every insert. For those of you that are die-hard Project Lifers, you know that the Becky Higgins Project Life cards/kits all have rounded corners and I thought I'd give it a try.

Week 1:

2 things about Week 1. I literally took only a couple pictures from January 1st - 4th. So I decided to have my first week be January 1st through the 11th. Even with all those days together I still had very few pictures, so I did a 1 page layout. 

Here's the title card. I found this "Hello January" picture on Pinterest HERE.

On this card I used a tag from my son's shirt to use as an accent.

I made this little collage using some accents from Heidi Swapp.

Week 2:

For this week's title card I made a 3X4 card because that's what I had room for. 

This little heart is from a collection from DCWV.  Not only does it have an adhesive back, but it also has a fabric texture to it. 

This camera is from the same collection. LOVE them!

So that's all for now. I have week 3 done, look for that later this week!

Project Life Weeks 46-49

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 

Now that it is 2014, let's get 2013 wrapped up!

Hold tight, there's going to be a lot of pictures. I give you our month of November. :)

Week 46: 

(Left side)

The start of this week was about an award my oldest son got from school, my very naughty youngest son and the celebration of the beginning of fall. I used a lot of ChicTags products again. The top right card is from a paper pad from Pebbles.

(Right side)

Here's one of those layouts that I just had a bunch of random pictures and I couldn't really get it together. You just have to let it go and move on.

Week 47:

(Left side)

This week we had an after school activity called Family Power night, where we read a book together and made a craft to go with it. A bunch of random pictures of the boys being silly made there way on this layout and a sweet picture of Chase with his best buddy walking into school.

(Right side)

At the end of this week, Chase's school hosted a night out at the Lincoln Children's Museum. The boys had so much fun playing with the other kids!

The only insert I used was this one I found HERE

Week 48:

(Left side)

The left side was all about my boys' room makeover that I posted about HERE

(Right side)

Here's another random one that I don't feel like it came together very good. There is only bits of journaling and I left the main journaling card blank because I didn't know what to write.

Week 49:

(Left side)

This side is mainly about my nephew Keegan's birthday party. Keegan is kind of a big deal. He was born at 25 weeks gestation and has been through a lot in his 1 year on earth. We were told many times that he would never make it to his first birthday. The picture of the right is of my husband who got to meet some Husker football players that came to visit the hospital he works at.

For this title card I used a card from the Kraft edition of Project Life. Amazon had a couple of kits on sale for $18 so I grabbed the Kraft one.

(Right side)

This side was about a puppy party that Chase had at school to celebrate selling more than 10 orders of cookie dough for a fundraiser. I used the invitation to make the title card and his puppy coloring sheet that all the kids colored for the party.  I also added a couple pictures from Thanksgiving.

I used a card from the "Fall" kit of Project Life to make an "I'm Thankful For".  I had Ben and Chase write their own so I have a little of their handwriting on my pages.

So that's all of our November weeks. Hopefully I will post the rest of our December pages soon so that I'm all caught up for the year!

Never Grow Up

It took me 2 hours to make, but it was sooooo worth it. 

If you have been following me since the beginning, (Bless you) you saw the video I did for Reed's 1st birthday HERE 

It's now Chase's turn. :) 

Project Life weeks 27-30

I have actually been pretty up-to-date with my Project Life. I just haven't had a chance to post pics since my boys have been so busy getting big and stuff.  :/  Check out Chase's 6 year shoot HERE and Reed's 18 month shoot HERE

I love looking back at the begin of my album to see how my style has changed in just this short of a time.

Here is week 27:

(left side)

Another t-ball game, bath night and then Kindergarten physical day.

(right side)

Chase's birthday!

We spent the morning playing in the sprinkler and then birthday dinner at Applebee's.

We had fun stuff to do all weekend so it felt like we were celebrating everyday!

Week 28:

(Left side)

We headed out to the Lincoln Children's Zoo for a company picnic.

 I added the zoo map to an 8X10 piece of black cardstock and used an 8X10 insert to add that between the pages.

(Right side)

Just added a little banner to a piece of graph paper to write my journaling on.

LOVE this color combo. (Teal and Yellow)  I just added a yellow strip of paper to the white space of the picture of the penguin and then put a circle sticker on to tie it together.

Chase's birthday party:

(Left side)

I just used his invite that I made as the title for the page.

I made a half page again to add some more pics and his Thank You card on the bottom right.

Week 29:

(Left side)

Last t-ball game. 

This was the first time I used one of my Instagram pics on my PL. (Top photo)

It's so easy to print off using Walgreens' photo app. They print it as a 4X4 so it fits right in the 4X6 pocket with room for decorating.

(right side):

My cousin's baby show was this week. 

So much fun. Can't wait for the little guy to come. :)

Alrighty on to the boys' photo shoots. 

I decided to do a spread for each boy.

Chase's spread:

(left side)

I asked Chase these questions and except for a couple, these were his exact answers. :)

OK. I try to give Chase a blank card once in a while to have him draw whatever he wants to add to my pages. So this time I gave him a card and asked him to draw a picture of himself. 

He came running in to ask me which way a little "b" faces. I showed him and he ran out. Then he was so excited to come show me this drawing. He told me it was him and Daddy playing T-ball with the tee and grass under it. It says T-ball Chase. Not going to lie I was kind of disappointed that he drew on the wrong side, but he showed me that on the other side he messed up and wanted to draw it again. :)

(right side)

 I almost always print off way too many photos to fit in the pockets or I have too many of the wrong orientation to fit, and this was no exception. So for one of the pics I cut it down small and used it on a 4X6 card to make a title card.

P.S I cut the measuring paper at a certain part for a reason. The teal colored one I cut by the 18 because Chase's birthday is the 18th. Then the brown one I cut next to a 6 because, you guessed it, he turned 6 this year. 

Reed's spread:

(left side)

I used this journaling card to jot down some factoids about Reed right now.

Yes, I know. I spelled balloons wrong. Ugh!

(right side)

Last but not least is a spread I did for week 30:

We went as a family to the pool in our neighborhood. 

I VERY HIGHLY recommend getting a waterproof camera for pool days. I got ours at Walmart. You can find it HERE  Now for some reason the website says it's $5.95. In store we paid around $10 for it. Either way, it's definitely worth it! 

So fun!

So there you go. Project Life: up-to-date

I actually have 2 areas in the living room that are 100% DONE. Thinking I might have to do a sneak peek sometime this week.....stay tuned. :)