Goodies from 2Peas

So excited to use my 2 Peas goodies that came in the mail! Loving the bright pinks and yellows this summer! So not my usual but so fun and summery! Also super excited about the imperfect chevron paper on the top right! Anyone up for a scrapbook night soon?

All papers from twopeasinabucket.com

Project Life Update

Little late I know... well my intentions were good. I'll keep working on it. At least I'm staying relatively caught up! Still loving this project, its so much fun to work on and I can't wait until several months go by and I can flip through and get a snapshot of what we've been up to! It has been a little bittersweet with everything going on, but I will say, it has been helping focus on the positive things, which is good for me.

June 17 - 23: Two inserts this week (eek!) but it was my vacation week after all and the first official week of summer. So naturally, lots of pictures! And I had to include my summer manifesto too. Its on the back of the "Summer of 2012" page.

 

June 24 - 30: This week is just the regular two page spread. Had fun using some of my new stuff! Used lots of washi tape! Also made some of my own stickers again, the circle on the upper left and the heart on the lighting picture. Didn't have tons of photos this week, because I worked a ton! Decided to use the bottom row to add my photo-a-day instagram pictures (they aren't the best pics but I'm ok with that).

Project Life

Yikes! I can't believe I'm actually starting project life... so exciting! My friend Jenn finally talked me into it over Memorial Day weekend. Seems like a good time to start, the first half of the year was a little rocky, but that's over and I'm looking forward to the rest of 2012! I like how project life lets you "scrapbook the little things" which is hard to do with the regular 12x12 format. It will be so cool to see seven months of daily life all together in an album at the end of the year!

I finished the cover page today, cover pages are always a little intimidating, so it took me a little while to figure it out. I'm really happy with how it turned out. I was inspired by Jenn's and Elise Blaha's cover pages. For the rest of the book, I'm not planning for it be that detailed. Just get it in there. It will be a challenge from my usual slow mode of scrapbooking. 

I'm enjoying a lazy "saturday". Hoping to finish week 1 soon!

Oregon Coast Scrapbook - Done!

I finally finished my Oregon Coast trip scrapbook and then actually got around to taking some pictures! Woot! So glad it's all done. All the layouts fit perfectly in a blue post bound scrapbook I received over the Holidays. That worked out perfect. Here's the two pager that completed the book, there are also more layouts over on my gallery at scrapbook.com. (Gets bigger if you click on it).

Washi Tape

Having fun with my new washi tape and smash book!

Oregon Coast Layouts

... I know, I know, I'm a slow scrapbooker. But that's ok. It's fun to be able to pick and choose what I want to work on. And I usually have enough pictures to suit just about any mood. This weekend, I made a couple pages about our Oregon coast road trip last summer. I've been using a *Smash book for more up to date stuff and saving all those little tib bits that hang around but never end up in my scrapbooks because I've forgotten I saved it by the time I scrapbook it. 

Fun page about Roseanna's Cafe in Oceanside. It was Joe's birthday, and he told me he knew the first time he was there (before we met), that he wanted to bring his future wife back there someday. 

This page took for-ev-er. I think Jenn finished at least two while I worked on this one. Anyways, happy with how it turned out. Used a bunch of October Afternoon stuff! Yay!

Paper Projects

Today, I thought I'd share a few little projects I've made recently. This first one, was inspired by my aunt reminding me to use the little verses already prepared at the back of my morning revival book. This one was super easy, probably took 20 to 30 minutes including doing the dishes while it dried. I just cut out the verses for this week, making them all the same size. Took a thin piece of cardboard (backing of a product packaging), decopaged on a scap piece of paper on front, added photo corners and more scrap paper for the back, waited for it to dry and then attached the verses with a mini clothespin.

Today's verses are Romans 8:16 - The Spirit Himself witnesses with our spirit that we are children of God.
and 1 Corinthians 6:17 - But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

Last weekend, I was supposed to be cleaning up my craft area when I came across these beads and decided they would make excellent tassels for bookmarks and so ended up making bookmarks instead! I also used some of my "free bling" from my roadside chandelier find on the tassels. The hardest part was figured out how to thread the embroidery thread through. Ended up stiffening the ends of the thread with tacky glue which worked like a charm. I did sand the thin cardboard before gluing on the paper and then sanded the edges all the way around and applied a few generous coats of mod podge and they turned out great!


Last, is a scrapbook layout I made last night. I finally figured out a cheap and fairly easy way to print out the retro pictures from my phone's camera. These are all from our recent cross country ski trips!

And last a point from the meeting last night, "We must redeem the time to enjoy Christ as the supreme preciousness of God so that we can be constituted with Him to be men of preciousness as His personal treasure, in this way He builds Himself into us to make us His spiritual house and His holy and royal priesthood for the accomplishment of His heart's desire!"

Some Scrapbooking Layouts

Thought I would share some recent scrapbook pages using my new favorite paper, Sassafrass Lass, which somewhat ironically is going out of business. Rumor has it, they don't enjoy producing things, but they may be designing products for other companies? ... I sure hope so, they have some talented folks.

*** "Cover page" for our recent road trip to Oregon ***

*** A page with some mini-pics from last fall ***

*** Some gardening pictures from last fall ***

*** Another page about our Oregon Coast trip ***

Back to work the next two days, then taking off for a quick trip to Cali to visit a friend. I'm going solo, Joe and Mal are staying behind to guard the fort. Side Note: Mal is becoming quite the little hunter, has been bringing in more "presents".

Joe and I are trying "No Fast Food November". We got started a little late, but better late than never. We're interested to see what it does to the food bill... I do get one exemption to go to In-and-Out while I'm in California though. We usually do one freebie to Dicks Hamburgers or something like that if we know we will be in Seattle.

I love Mondays!

I love Mondays, they're my Saturday! Its raining outside, so yard work is waiting until tomorrow! I love rainy days like this with some Frank in the background, sleeping kitties, a couple candles, a nice cup of tea and lots of creative energy. For all you *regular* readers out there, sorry for the lack of posts recently. Its been super busy around here, we went to Joe's bike race in Ephrata, had my in-laws and my best friend from Seattle over last weekend, I just finished up a five day stretch (of work), we picked up a new reel mower, and have been doing lots of little repairs and tons of cleaning. When Jenn was over she helped me clean, organize and rearrange my "office", I love it now and its still clean 10 days later!! When I saw the before and after pictures of Amy's scrapbook room, I was inspired to finish cleaning up and take some pics!

I recently picked up some pinking sheers, so today I finally made a banner with some scrap fabric I had, thats been on my "want-to-do" list for a looong time. When Jenn was over we moved the table in front of the window, stacked the storage boxes and moved the old sewing table in for some more storage. I hung up my "clothes-pin frame" in here too.

Value Village tray with a new coat of green paint, dollar store basket, little blue egg holder and canning jars, keeping all my "junk" contained :) All my string is kept in enclosed storage so Mal can't eat it. 


Picture with my sewing machine out, this used to be my Grandma Lolita's. I love it, it's a little beat up but it gets the job done. When you're done, it just folds back up inside the table - really handy! I use all the suitcases to keep my material in. The old Samsonite in the back was my dad's when he was a kid, he got me the suitcase boxes recently. ... and in case you're starting to think I'm an expert sewer, errr, seamtress, don't worry I'm not. The skirt on the bottom is to cover up the computer server, cable box and all those associated wires. 

Scrapbooking

Jenn and Ellen came over today after the meeting for a little scrapbooking party! It was lots of fun - watched a chick flick, arts and crafts... and some cheesecake. Nice to have the girls over :) Jenn has a Slice and Ellen has a Cricut - they are both very cool and easy to use, makes nice embellishments for your pages (and save alot of time handcutting things).
Recently I've found two websites that are really cool. It's basically Steep&Cheap for scrapbookers - has one deal each day.
www.peachycheap.com
www.cropchocolate.com
Check 'em out if you like that kind of stuff!