Hello March!
Today the Gossamer Blue March kits are on sale and you can check them all out here!! Another great month of beautiful kits filled with some super cool products. I'm loving the Life Pages kit...the card designs are some of the best. I created this pocket pages spread documenting our Valentine's Day weekend.
Don't forget to check out the blog and gallery for some seriously good inspiration!
Hey friends and welcome to the February Gossamer Blue Blog Hop!
I made a video to show you how I used the February Life Pages kit to document my month of January.
Thank you so much for stopping by and on with the blog hop...
Andrea Gray
Chantal Philippe
Eunyoung Lee
Diane Payne
France Wisniewski
Heather Leopard
Jill Keller
Kellie Winnell
Kelly Xenos < YOU ARE HERE!
Michelle Wedertz
Patricia Roebuck
Rebecca Luminarias
Sandra Dietrich
Sian Fair
Happy February friends!
Today I want to share with you week 1 of my 2016 Project Life album using the February Gossamer Blue kits. Check them all out here.
This year I switched to a 9"x12" album and so far I'm loving it. I know that has a lot to do with the cards in this month's Life Pages kit though. Every single one was just my style.
Here is a closer look at the left side. Aren't the cards AMAZING? I love all the designs.
And the stamps. Oh I'm so happy to see custom Gossamer Blue stamps back in the kits. The above ampersand that says "warm + cozy" is crazy good and the little "love you" below is a favorite! Perfect for any type of scrapbooking.
And a closer look at the right. Check out that "Photo Notes" stamp on the bottom journaling card. I'm sure that will get a ton of use.
Hey friends and welcome to the January Gossamer Blue Blog Hop!
I posted this layout on Instagram earlier this week and I wanted to show you an up close photo of the embellishment area. I hope this layout inspires you to use a big photo (mine is 8.5"x11") as your background OR use someone else's photo in your layout. My brother's girlfriend took this while they were at the Oregon coast for Christmas and she snapped this while my brother was talking on the phone with our mom Christmas day. It's part of our holiday story and the photo is too beautiful to NOT include in my album.
Here is a closer look. I painted the wood veneer memory piece white so it would pop a little more on the page.
I also made a video this week showing the last 5 weeks of my Project Life album. I used only items from the January kits. And I apologize for it being a little long! :)
Thank you so much for stopping by and on with the blog hop...
Alex Hunter
Anabelle O'Malley
Andrea Gray
Brenda Weaver
Chantal Philippe
Diane Payne
Emily Spahn
Eyoung Lee
France Wisniewski
Heather Leopard
Jill Keller
Joy Taylor
Kasia "Antilight" Petrus
Kathleen Graumüller
Kellie Winnell
Kelly Xenos < YOU ARE HERE!
Michelle Wedertz
Olatz Garaiyurrebaso
Sandra Dietrich
Sian Fair
Happy scrapbook Sunday, friends! I spent most of last night watching snow fall out my window and working on my Project Life album. It felt great to dive back in. Most of December was spent focusing on my December Memories album so my pocket pages were severely neglected. Oh well, it happens, right? After last night I have just a few more spreads to finish up and the album will be complete. I am really looking forward to moving on to my 2016 album which will be 9"x12" instead of 12"x12". I hope to have a post up later this week sharing my plan.
Below are the last five weeks of the year except for New Year's Eve. Everything I used is from the Gossamer Blue January kits. The kits were great this month!
Here starts the first week of December. Since I have an entire album dedicated to December stories I am only creating a one page spread for each week. This really helped me get through all these pages so quickly. I highly recommend doing half of what you would normally do if you are behind in your album. For example - if you normally do 2 page spreads, do a 1 page spread...if you normally do a 1 page spread, include 2 weeks on one page. Go easy on yourself and allow yourself to go with the flow.
For this week I added a 6"x12" insert to document a football game we went to.
Here is a look at the back of that insert...
And that coffee card from Seven Paper. Ahhhh....SOOOO GOOD! It's in the Bit's & Pieces kit which is probably my favorite this month.
Hey friends and welcome to the December Gossamer Blue Blog Hop!
Today I want to share with you a simple pocket pages layout I made with patterned papers from the December Main Kit. This is week 46 and I only had FOUR photos to work with. First thoughts were - how am I even going to create an entire spread with FOUR photos?? But these photos all had a story that I wanted to document and I had to make it work. So I printed my photos to fit the four center pockets and used the larger pockets for my journaling. I could have put the photos in the larger pockets but I wanted to use patterned paper to add something extra to the layout. I used plain white cardstock and my sewing machine to create a 4"x4" card and then attached a banner to each card with my Tiny Attacher to make it look cohesive. In the end I love how it turned out!
Thanks for stopping by and on with the blog hop...
Alex Hunter
Anabelle O'Malley
Brenda Smith
Brenda Weaver
Caylee Grey
Emily Spahn
Eunyoung Lee
Felicitas Mayer
France Wisniewski
Heather Leopard
Jill Keller
Kathleen Graumüller
Kellie Winnell
Kelly Xenos < YOU ARE HERE!
Michelle Wedertz
Sandra Dietrich
Sian Fair
Stephanie Buice
Hello December! Gossamer Blue kits are on sale today and as always - they are awesome. I can't tell you how easy it has been to create Project Life spreads using the life pages kit.
This is week 45 and it was also Mr. X's 40th birthday! I documented dinner with his family on the left and other randomness on the right. Everything on these pages is from the main life pages kit except for the gold glitter star and heart. Those are from the main add-on kit which is pretty amazing!
Yep! I saved the sparkler candles I used on his cake. The coloring on all the photos below is a little off because it was night and the lighting in our house is not the best for night photographs. I tried to change the bottom ones to black and white but I can never really get the black and white look I want. So I figured the black and white cards would balance everything out.
The card on the left said something else behind the sticker but I LOVED the sticker so I just placed it on the card. The kit comes with some cute little alpha number stickers and I used up all the 4 0's! There is also a roller stamp from Seven Paper that is super cool.
And here is a look at the right side. Spreads like this are one of the reasons why I adore this type of scrapbooking. Little stories and photos from the week that may have never been captured if I didn't do Project Life. Ahhh, love love love. Don't forget to check out the Gossamer Blue blog for more inspiration!
Hey everyone and welcome to the November Gossamer Blue Blog Hop!
Today I want to share with you a couple pocket pages I put together for our Palm Springs vacation in October. I was planning on creating a mini book or something separate for my photos instead of including them in my Project Life album, but once I saw the November kits it was a done deal. The Thickers spelling out PALM SPRINGS are from the main scrapbooking kit (LOVE) and all the cards are from the main life pages kit.
The colors of the cards this month were so perfect. I love the black and white. And there was also a lot of blue, yellow, orange and red which was great to see.
I created a flip up card with the LET'S EAT card and the thin blue washi tape that came in the main scrapbooking kit. This is one of the inserts I did for my food photos and I included a business card from my favorite place.
Flipping up the card I wrote about all the places we ate at. At the top of the card I stamped 'this is my happy place' which is from the life pages kit.
Thanks for stopping by and on with the blog hop...
Amy Challis
Andrea Gray
Diane Payne
Emily Spahn
Eunyoung Lee
France Wisniewski
Jill Keller
Kasia Przybyt
Kellie Winnell
Kelly Xenos < YOU ARE HERE!
Michelle Wedertz
Olatz Garaiyurrebaso
Sandra Dietrich
Stephanie Buice
I have officially fallen in love with the FUSE tool from We R Memory Keepers. It is so much fun and totally genius! Last weekend I made this monthly divider for my Project Life album using the Gossamer Blue Life Pages Themed Kit, which was full of October goodness, and the Fuse tool. I really don't document too many Halloween festivities in my album so I wasn't sure what I was going to do with this kit. Than it hit me to make a monthly divider.
The kit came with some amazing papers and an ephemera pack from Crate Paper's After Dark collection. I came up with the idea of creating little pockets to hold everything using the Fuse tool. I also used a Design E page protector from Becky Higgins which is 12"x12" but I trimmed it down to about 6"x12".
I started pulling together all the elements I wanted to use and laid everything out on top of the page protector. I then simply started at the bottom and added one element and ran the Fuse tool across the plastic to create a pocket.
And here is a look at the back. I doubled up the papers so they wouldn't all be white on the back. This was a blast to create and I can't wait to make another one!
HAPPY SCRAPBOOK SUNDAY! Today I want to share with you my week 36 that I made using the October Gossamer Blue kits.
This week was a busy one and I ended up documenting one event on the left and one event on the right. I wasn't sure how the colors from the kit were going to coordinate with my photos but in the end I really like how it turned out.
I travelled to Arizona at the beginning of the week to film a class for Scrapbook.com (EEK!) and included some business cards and my airline ticket from the trip. I could probably do another insert telling more of this story but for now this will do. One of my favorite things from the Life Pages kit were the rub-on transfers from Dear Lizzy. I haven't used rub-ons in SO long and these ones were pretty cool!
When I came back from Arizona I went with my girlfriend to a pre-season Chicago Bears game and I told that story on the right side. Love those So Awesome and Enjoy cards! We went to China town after the game and I just had to grab a business card. :)
Happy Scrapbook Sunday my friends. Today I want to share with you week 35 of my Project Life album. I'm starting week 36 (the beginning of September) this weekend and wanted to finish August with my September Gossamer Blue kits.
Last month at this time I was working on my album non-stop for class content for Scrapbook.com. It was a little crazy and I thought I could possibly burn out on Project Life. I then had a couple weeks off from scrapbooking to focus on other stuff like sleep, getting our home ready to sell and mentally preparing for football season. Last weekend I sat down to put together this spread and it felt so, so good...like coming home after being away for a long time. I've said it before...I never get tired of doing this.
Stories and photos of our every day life...
And working with products you love makes it that much easier to put everything together. Sometimes I do get stuck when I'm not excited about the journaling cards or the embellishments I'm working with. But not this month.
I think it's important to find stuff that works for you and your style. Like those wood veneer hearts from Pinkfresh Studio. I will always be excited about wood veneer.
Hey everyone and welcome to the September Gossamer Blue Blog Hop!
Today I want to share with you a couple Project Life / pocket pages spreads I made with the September kits. This is week 25 from back in June that I've been waiting to complete for awhile now. These kits worked perfectly with the photos and stories I had to tell.
The journaling cards in this month's life pages kit were totally my style. Love them all! Combined with embellishments from my favorite kit, life pages add-on #3, everything looked so good together and I was super happy with the way this page came out.
The stamp sets in the main scrapbooking kit and the life pages kit were some of the best I've had on my desk in a long time. I used them on all of the journaling cards above and I know they will get a ton of use in future projects.
The next spread is documenting Father's Day at my dad's house during week 25. I only had a few photos to work with and a very specific page protector that was used in the previous week's spread. I ended up using more cards from the life pages kit and the life pages add-on #3.
For each of the journaling cards I used my sewing machine to sew two cards together.
I thought this was a good way to create a smaller journaling area within a larger pocket and I think it balanced out the entire spread.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you love the September kits as much as I do!!
And on with the blog hop...
Alex Hunter
Andrea Gray
Anabelle O'Malley
Brenda Smith
Brenda Weaver
Caylee Grey
Chantal Philippe
Diane Payne
Emily Spahn
Eunyoung Lee
Jill Cornell
Jill Keller
Joy Taylor
Kathleen Graumüller
Katie Ehmann
Kellie Winnell
Kelly Xenos (you are here!)
Michelle Wedertz
Michelle Wooderson
Olatz Garaiyurrebaso
Patricia Roebuck
Rebecca Luminarias
Sandra Dietrich
Sian Fair
It's SCRAPBOOK SUNDAY and FOOTBALL SUNDAY!! Could be the best day ever if the Chicago Bears crush the Green Bay Packers but we will see.
Today I want to share with you week 26 in my Project Life album. It's funny because this is from June and I'm almost up to date with my album (working on the last 2 weeks) but I have not posted all of them here on my blog. And what I have posted is all out of order which kinda drives me CRAZY.
What I love about this week is how simple it was to put together. I used the design R page protector because my photos this week were mostly vertical and I wanted to use that June card from Studio Calico in the center. It was originally 4"x6" but I cut it to 4"x4".
I then used only 3 elements on the rest of the spread. The journaling piece is from Evalicious, the black and gold statement sticker is from Studio Calico and the cork star is from Pink Paislee. All of these items were in the July Gossamer Blue Life Pages kit and the Life Pages Add-On #3 kit.
So if you are trying to do a quick and easy Project Life / pocket pages spread, try using the same 2 or 3 items repeatedly over the entire page. And have fun!
Hey everyone and welcome to the August Gossamer Blue Blog Hop!
This month I put together a short video of a couple Project Life spreads I created with this month's kits. You can also scroll below for photos of these pages. And you can scroll all the way to the bottom for the blog hop list (next up is the lovely Laura Rahel Crosby).
For the following spreads I used the life pages main kit, the scrapbooking main kit and the life pages add-on #3.
Here is week 28...
And here's a look at week 29...
And on with the blog hop...
Alex Hunter
Anabelle O'Malley
Andrea Gray
Brenda Smith
Diane Payne
Emily Spahn
Erin Taylor
Eyoung Lee
Felicitas Mayer
France Wisniewski
Heather Leopard
Jill Cornell
Jill Keller
Kasia Przybyt
Kathleen Graumuller
Kellie Winnell
Kelly Xenos (you are here!)
Laura Rahel Crosby
Michelle Wedertz
Michiko Kato
Olatz Garaiyurrebaso
Patricia Roebuck
Rebecca Luminarias
Sian Fair
Yana Smakula
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