Project Life Layout

Not for the actual Project Life album, but rather about it. I have resisted the trend for many years, completed my first PL album in 2014 and still love it.

Last Friday there was another challenge evening in my favourite forum with snippets of the design team members' works with the current kits as inspiration. I liked the structure paste circles, punched out pieces with paper behind them and the general mixed media touch and used these as the inspiration for the layout:

The supplies used are mostly from the current kit as well, except for the cameras, enamel dots and journaling card (from my stash) and the some die cuts and the cork arrow from last month's kit.

Mainly white...

... was the subject of a challenge in my favourite forum. Here's my layout for this challenge:

Title and journaling: Oh Pieps... how can you be so cute?

A friend of mine said she looks grumpy and not cute. Pff.... he only ever "sees" her at night, and that's because he is snoring and she may interprete this as purring.

Project Life 2015

Although the 2014 album is not fully finished yet (December pages are missing journaling and embellishments) I have started on the 2015 album. Here are the 2014 and 2015 albums:

I used to have American Crafts albums with plain colours for my layouts and the houndstooth one was the first patterned one I got. The initial intention was plain for layouts, patterned for Project Life, but with the large variety of nice patterned fabric-covered albums available I may change my opinion on that. Anyway, the PL 2015 album has this pretty woodgrain pattern.

Here's the title page:

Happy New Year and a few final 2014 layouts

Happy New Year everybody - I know I'm late, but life happened and I didn't spend much time online...

Here are two of my final layouts from 2014:

I simply love Mykonos - along with Santorin I think it fits the idea of a postcard of Greece perfectly.

A friend brought some home-made apple-cinnamon liqueur the other day and I tried to make some, too - mainly as Christmas presents. In German a boozehound would be a throsh, hence the bird image.

By the way - cork embellishments used to be something I never thought about putting on my layouts until there were some in the monthly kit I get. Actually the stars used in this layout, only that these are from my second package already. I really like cork embellishments at the moment and have noticed that one of the great things about kits is that you end up with items you would never have used otherwise.

Sewing samples

My sister likes sewing - for her kids, as presents for friends and family and sometimes upon request. I have made her a mini book to put photos of her handmade items - some people may prefer to see a proper photo to just swiping though a collection of photos on a phone... hopefully.

I chose papers from the Dear Lizzy Polka Dot Party collection, as she often uses dark blue fabric and a blue/green striped one similar to the one on the title label.

The final Christmas countdown

I have enjoyed making Christmas cards this year, but to be honest I don't mind not having to make any for a few months...

And a few gift tags:

And here's another birthday card:

Polaroid style birthday cards and some more for Christmas

I love Polaroid dies and have recently used them a lot on cards. IrRESISTible inks are another recent discovery I cannot get enough of, so here we go:

It also means I can make more room in my box of DIY embellishments (see earlier post), and they can be used without a frame as well:

 

De-stashing is also more than necessary for my Christmas stuff, so more Christmas cards:

Off to the craft room now - I would like to finish something else for Christmas. Please stay tuned...

Christmas cards again

This time for personal use and made at home rather than in the office:

I love this forest die. Actually I just wanted to buy glue last Saturday, but the die somehow ended up in the shopping basked as well. If I remember well a snowflake punch was also involved.

Corsica

The other day I found a photo CD, which included some photos from a cycling tour in Corsica ending at the Pointe de la Parata with its Genoese tower. (For further info see Wikipedia.) Allegedly the Genoese towers inspired Tolkien to create the beacons of Gondor, but this may be a myth... and I digress.

Two of the found photos made there way onto this layout:

Some more cards for a good cause

We did it - a total of 168 Christmas cards! These are the ones we made with a bunch of colleagues over a few lunch breaks:

There was a bit of paper left over, and one evening and ten cards later we have used it all up, except for some tiny stripes:

More than half of the cards are sold already, the remaining ones will hopefully all be gone by Saturday.