Project Life: Easter Style

This week was a fun one for Project Life. Though I used the usual "Design A" for the weeks layout, I also added a few additional sizes. I added a 5 x 7 for Paulina & Natalya's Easter shot. And then I used a 12 X 12 collage from Simple as that Blog. I printed it out as an 8 x 8. I love Rebecca's collages! She has a great instagram one also. For my title card I used the Kraft Edition. The journaling cards are in rainbow order. For those I used almost every kit I have downloaded and even created one : ) On Monday's picture I added a tag. This tag must be from well over 8 years old. That is yet another thng I love about Project Life...using up all those little doo-dads you have hanging around collecting dust. This week I also received an early birthday present from my hubby...my new Canon Rebel T3i!! I am in love with this baby even though I still have a ton to learn!
This is another short post due to the fact I have about an hour or so to get ready before I pick up my girls and head to Philly for the Phillies baseball game!! Yay! It is 80 degrees out, which is very unusual for April. But hey, I'll take it...along with some crab fries & an ice cold beer : )
Have an awesome week!
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My cutie pies in 5 x 7 style!

     

These are the photo collages. I love how I was able to squeeze in so many pictures!

Meow....

OK, so I am always doing posts on Project Life...mainly because it is my priority. But I thought I'd do a little post about the lovely fluffiness I am blessed with on a daily basis. So those of you who are not feline lovers, you can just bypass this post : (
Our cats are part of our family. We all contribute to taking care of them. The girls feed them in the am, and brush them out occasionally. I feed them in the pm & take them for their vet check ups. My husband has litter box duty...thank God! Bryan and I love them to jump on our beds while we watch our evening programs. Our two newest ones, Sonic & Marmalade (aka Duke) are finally getting use to being around us...after a year! Our grandpa kitty, Archie is so old he has no whiskers! But is the sweetest cat I have ever had! I love to snuggle with them & hear their purr machines kick in!
So ode to the kitties in everyone's life!

  This is Sonic...he use to be a maniac & pee all over...but thank heavens he grew out of that!

Below is Archie...grandpa kitty

Sonic once again with his beautiful green eyes!

Below is Marmalade...he is the fluffiest kitty ever!

Project Life: March 24-30

I'm still loving my Kraft & Midnight Editions that I downloaded from AC Digitals! I used primarily yellow and turquoise this week. I also added a Heidi Swapp banner with pop ups that I ordered from the lovely Kathryn at whimseygirl.blogspot.com. Check her out, she is fabulous & a real sweetheart! I used a title card from The Midnight Edition & just mixed and matched the journal cards for the rest of the week. Simple but effective.
On the personal side: Sunday was the end of Paulina's play! Everyone in the family came to see her. Bryan even changed the reader board at Domino's to congratulate Paulina's performance. The family came over to the house after and we all ate and drank and had a wonderful time! Bryan & I had an awesome date night on Wednesday. We went to see the very talented Joan Osbourne. We had a table right up front....and I mean right up front! My feet were literally on the stage : ) She puts on an awesome show! The girls are now obsessed with The Voice! They can not wait for each new episode & Paulina is already plotting her performance when she turns 15! Lol! Look out world, there is no stopping that child now! Hope everyone has a wonderful week!
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Project Life: March 17~23

Kraft is in the house! I was super excited to hear AC Digitals is bringing a new edition every Monday. SO when Kraft made their debut, I immediately downloaded it. Now I only download the journal cards and title cards. Everything else to me is not necessary, I feel I can use all those cards for my needs. And the best part of these new releases...there are 50 journal cards!! Yes, 50!! So for people like me who get easily bored with the monotony of the same 25 cards will be in for a treat! I also downloaded the Midnight journal cards this week. Though this is not one of my favs, I felt I could use yellow and black with most of the editions. OK, so on with the week: The highlight being my daughter's play and her having a major role and just being a 5th grader is on the top of the list. I am just so proud and in awe of this spectacular child. When she is on stage, singing her heart out, it seriously brings tears to my eyes....words can't even explain what my heart feels. So anywho, she was an epic Scuttle in The Little Mermaid Jr! Then the second highlight was my adorable iPhone case I ordered from the highly talented Kiki VanNess. She has a shop on Etsy AND a Facebook page. You pick out your "theme" and/or "colors" and let her know your likes and dislikes and she will make it up for you...custom! Love this! How great of a present for someone (or yourself). So check her out!  short & sweet this week.
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Project Life: March 10-16

I have to say, I kinda loved this week (with the except with the exception of Natalya being sick) it was a pretty awesome week
This week's Project Life I used mostly Cathy Z's new journal cards. I love her simple lines and her color scheme was exactly what I wanted for this week. Currently, my album literally has a different color scheme and theme every single week- that's okay! I don't mind changing it up and the last two years I did Project Life I used one single core kit.  So that's why this year I thought I would change it up.
I did do something a little cool and different this week. If you've noticed I always use a day sticker on my journaling cards.. just visually, it's what I'm used to. I like reading the journal card that has "mon" on it knowing that it represents Monday's picture. But on Thursday I did not have a day of the week sticker to match that card and I wanted to match that orangey red colored heart. I've run into this problem multiple times. So this time I used a journal card from the love collection: I put into my Photoshop Elements. Grabbed any random day sticker and went into edit: fill layer: color.I then got my little ink dropper and clicked it on the heart  and then hit it on my day sticker. And voila...the exact color of the heart and I did the same thing when I wrote out the  word today. This realization opened up so many doors for me, it was a lightbulb moment!! I now realize I can use any day sticker I have digitally and change it to whatever color I want to match my current week. FYI: I noticed the new core kids do not have day stickers that's when I was getting a little panicky...this just solved that problem : ) 
Quick recap of my crazy week. My littlest was home sick the entire week with a high fever. My oldest came home from college for spring break. It was 60 on Sunday and snowed 2 inches on Saturday..gotta love March and it's unpredictability! That darn groundhog is clueless!!

 I also used this as a 6 X 12 insert. I'm still deciding on the picture for the back. I got this off of Etsy, 

from Design Editor Shop here.

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Project Life: Week 10

This week I created all the journaling cards myself using Amy Tan's digital elements pack. I got them on AC Digitals website. Except for Thursday, that was a Clementine journal card. And also Friday & Saturday were Miss Tiina elements. I stayed within the  orange, yellow, green, blue color scheme. Not my favorite week creatively, but its recorded and printed out, so that is a feat in itself : )
I did use a cute saying my husband found on a website for t-shirts, it reads:

always be yourself

unless you can be a unicorn

then always be a unicorn

We both thought this to be hilarious! Our "off" sense of humor. We thought it'd fit our daughter Paulina to a "T". I also went to Dick Blick Art Supply store...omg, how I adore this store. I could seriously spend all day in here. I did buy toned grey & tan paper. Something I have never used before for my sketching. I also used pastel pencils for the first time, and I loved them...which I should have known, because pastels are one of my favorite mediums to create with. So at the end of the blog post, I included 2 of my drawings. Hope you all have a glorious week : )

And here a few of my eye sketches

 on toned gray paper. 

Project Life: Feb 24th~March 2

This month was straight up Olive Edition. I was feeling a bit under the weather all week and was not that creative. I did use a few Thickers for writing out the week. I did crop down some of the Olive paper and use it in strips (like on Monday) for a journaling card. But other than that it was a normal week. On the personal side I did get my ears candled...strange but cool. The jury is still out as to wether I like this or not. I seemed to have a bit of an ear ache afterwards, and now I am full on sick : ( Probably coincidence, but I still feel like poop. My little one Natalya saved up all her allowance and any other extra money she received and  finally got her Kindle Fire HD. She was over the moon about this! It was nice to see her work so hard towards something : ) Had a wonderful day out with some old friends in the city. I forget how cool Philly is sometimes. I also had an evening out with some friends from the girls school. So I guess all in all it wasn't a bad week after all.
This is a short but sweet post. Have a great week everyone!!

 Here is the left side

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Entire layout

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