PROJECT LIFE WEEK 14

Just to share my Project Life Week 14.

I did a one page spread only for Week 13 and hence decided to only do a single page for Week 14 so as to "balance" out the album. That may change down the road, but it's okay as it's my project, not for anyone in particular else.

A simple colourful week, using big photos to tell the story as well as sticky labels and a label stamp to tell the story. And yes I included my overnight blitz of creating gifts with my silhouette.

Was also excited to get my limited edition floral washi tape in the mail. *happy dance* I also decided also to make use of my growing collection of washi tape to do up the background for the dates part of the page.

I also decided to do a week in review card again, using the days of the week stickers that come with the core kit.

The Stepping Stone Alphabet from Studio Calico is really just the right size for use on the 3'x4' inch cards.

Here's to hoping to have more posts up to share this week.

Project Life is a line of products by Becky Higgins, and can be used for documentation of daily life or anything else you may want. I am using it to remember the year and take more photos of  my everyday. For those who live in Asia, you can get your PL supplies from Scraplicious. Follow my PL journey here. You can check out more project life week pages all around the web, check out The Mom Creative. 

A 'SMILE ALWAYS' FREEBIE

Just a quick post today to tell everyone that I have a freebie up for everyone that can be used for Project Life (:

Click here or on the image to download the file that is sized for the small pockets of Project Life Design A pockets.

And its part of a new set that I have up in the etsy store as a downloadable set. You can click on the picture to get there.

Hope that you like the freebie! Have been slowing down on the freebie front, but will pick up pace again soon as I get used to the new speed of life.

PROJECT LIFE WEEK 12

Am caught up now going strong with Week 12, and yes, Week 9 will be out on this blog soon. *keep on reading downwards as I have something exciting going on there*

This week was a very colourful week as my photos were really colourful too, being in the city of Bangkok for most of the week, so I went a little colourful with my paper selection and I really like this week. In addition,I have an insert (something that I truly thought that I might never need), due to the number of photos that I took that I really want to document.

Here is the left side with the insert. I did photographed it this way as I thought it would be easier to read and see.

All sorts of fun stuff that I used here, including some of the products in my etsy store and my "hot-at-the-moment" doily punch. Funny how we take many many many more photos when we are overseas. But I think along the process I've learnt to cut down on the multiple photos that I take as I have no patience to look through all of them.

The American Craft thickers are finicky and so I sticked them down and ran the sewing machine through them for good measure, of course I like that look too. For some variety, I used yellow thread for the first time over the BKK words. Am still madly in love with the polka dot vellum and just want to continue to find new ways to use it.

And on to the right side,

Used a bunch of my favourite things, including the Dear Lizzy Camera stamp, Stepping Stone Alpha, Vintage Doily martha steward punch, Papertrey Ink Doily, my own printable journaling cards, manila shipping tag and labels, any many labels.

Spot the instgram stamp mark there. Yes I tried my own hand at designing my own after seeing Kelly Purkey show hers off. So this is my own interpretation for an instagram stamp. Given how much we use instagram in this day and age, I forsee myself using it more and not just on my Project Life pages.

I have some favourite pockets that I really liked from this week and want to just share some of them and some of the things that I did with them.

I am totally on board the chevron craze as you can tell and a doily one too (: And I loved using one of the camera flair button that I designed that can be found here, as a part of a set of six.
And the photo is a common sight that is seen in Bangkok all the time.

Added a bit of personalisation with a stamp on the top border of the 3x4 card, as well as punch outs from the Vintage Doily punches. The patterned papers came with the label printed on it, perfect for little bits of journaling.

More use of the yellow thread, love the effect even though I'm lazy to change out the thread from time to time.

Wanted to save this napkin that I bought at Chatuchak because of the pretty patterns on it. In order not to "damage" the napkin I put the descriptive label on the plastic pocket.

Used my Polaroid journaling cards, found here, in this pocket. Like how it gives a pop of colour to the pocket (:

Here's how the pages look in my album now.

Now for another little announcement, as I alluded to in my previous post(s) and as some of you have guessed, I plan on making some stamps in gorgeous red rubber with wooden handles, mainly for my own use but I'll be offering them in my store. They won't look like the ones I pictured previously but would look like this instead:

And to celebrate their entering the store, I will be offering them at a special pre-order price, until Good Friday on 6 April (Friday). Shipping is US$4 internationally for the first stamp (unless you stay in Singapore) and US$1 for each subsequent stamp. (Note that if you order than more than one stamp, I will refund the balance extra shipping that is charged.)

Here are what the designs will look like with the dimensions that they will be printed in. (ignore the watermark ''piecedpapers', the final designs will not have them).

Click here to view cart when finished

 

Dimensions: 0.5" by 1.5"

Price: US$15 US$12

Dimensions: 0.5" by 1.5"

Price: US$15 US$12

Dimensions: 0.5" by 1.5"

Price: US$15 US$12

Dimensions: 0.5" by 1.5"

Price: US$15 US$12

Dimensions: 1" by 1"

Price: US$15 US$12

Used here:

Those are the designs that I have for this first go around and I can't wait to use the ones that I haven't made a testing mold of yet, especially on my Project Life.

Project Life is a line of products by Becky Higgins, and can be used for documentation of daily life or anything else you may want. I am using it to remember the year and take more photos of  my everyday. For those who live in Asia, you can get your PL supplies from Scraplicious. Follow my PL journey here. You can check out more project life week pages all around the web, check out The Mom Creative. 

PROJECT LIFE WEEK 10

Being overseas really truly threw me off balance at least where Project Life was concerned. And even as I'm working on getting back on schedule, I'm going overseas again soon... However even with the little that I have done so far for Project Life, I really enjoy looking back on it and seeing the weeks that have passed.

Just realised that I have not done my February Project Life review, but given my schedule this month, it looks like it is possible that I would do both February and March together.

So I have not yet completed Week 9 but decided to jump ahead to Week 10 as the memories are fresher in my mind. And of course being overseas, I took more pictures than usual. But I will get back to Week 9.

One dilemma I faced was that I was doing a mini album for my Hong Kong trip too, so having to balanced out photos between the two seemed to be a need within my mind. In the end though I decided that it was no point stressing over and instead to just do what seemed natural and the best idea to me.

So here is my Week 10, though a bit simpler than other weeks, has lots of memories.

Pardon the slightly blurred photo, will retake it when I can

 A close up of the left side

I love that dear lizzy mason jar stamp (available at Scraplicious) and adore that it fits nicely into the size 2 shipping tags. I forsee lots of uses for this particular stamp. Also my papertry ink doily dies came in too, and I have started on a rampage of sorts to cut and use them.

As always labels are my most favourite thing to use on Project Life especially when I want big photos and a bit of journaling to remember them.

I have also been using my punches more. Pictured on the right in kraft is a tag that I created with the EK success Real Estate Sign punch and cutting off a third of the punched out image. Will definitely revisit doing this again.

Think that it was quite noteworthy that the this is the first time that I have received a fortune cookie. This is as fortune cookies, though found in Chinese restaurants, are really very much a Western invention. So though commonplace in the West for Chinese restaurants to have and serve after a meal it is a rarity of gigantic proportions in Asia. However at the China Club in Hong Kong, I guessed it was served as majority of its clientle are expats/caucasians. I think I was at the only Asian table in the resturant. That said it was great fun to play with it, though mine was "practical advice" rather than some prediction on the future.

Again you can see the real estate punch being used on my layouts (:

For more details of my Project Life process and the items that I use frequently while doing up my Project Life pages, head to the Scraplicious blog, where I share some of my favourite often reached for items while doing Project Life.

Project Life is a line of products by Becky Higgins, and can be used for documentation of daily life or anything else you may want. I am using it to remember the year and take more photos of  my everyday. For those who live in Asia, you can get your PL supplies from Scraplicious. Follow my PL journey here. You can check out more project life week pages all around the web, check out The Mom Creative. 

I am working on my Hong Kong album, which I think will be a work in progress for a while so stay tuned.

For those who are interested, I have restocked my etsy shop, so do pop by if you are interested in purchasing any items. I'm also working on some new items to be launched so I am hoping to get them out of the oven. Be sure to follow me on twitter to get the latest updates on that.

And once again Stephanie Howell is hosting a giveaway of some of my favourite printable journaling cards.

Head there for a chance to win one of three sets that she is giving away.

Other than that, that's all for now. Have a great day everyone!

GIVEAWAY GOING ON

I'm excited today as Stephanie Howell is featuring my little shop over at her blog, as she had loved the journaling cards that I have for sale in my little shop.

And she's giving away some of my printable journaling cards, the polaroid and hearts-a-flutter set

Do head over to Steph's blog if you would like a chance to win a set of the above printable journaling cards. Do remember also that you can follow me on Twitter to be updated with my latest shop additions and occasional chances to get some of my printables.

PROJECT LIFE WEEK 8

I'm back with Week 8 of Project Life. Hope that you have been keeping up well with Project Life (:

Had fewer photos this week so it seemed like a good time to play with the Design G page protectors of Project Life. I actually quite like the dynamic of having horizontal and vertical photos next to one another.

This week's spread took longer than I had imagined it would. I think I need to spread it more throughout the week instead. Due to a lack of photos, I decided to use my own printables in the spread. They can be found in my shop that you can get to from the sidebar or in my etsy shop. Used foam thickers in this week's layout and learnt that they were fragile and nearly ran into a few issues, but all's good. I also dug quite a bit into my stash to make it work!

Here's a few close ups

The right side

Liked this side a lot more for some reason (: Maybe its the food pictures and an adorable little boy (:
Lots of blues, greys and krafts. The badge "snapshots of life" can be found in my shop.

So that's it for Week 8, do leave me any questions you may have in the comments, and I'll get back to them as soon as I can.

Project Life is a line of products by Becky Higgins, and can be used for documentation of daily life or anything else you may want. I am using it to remember the year and take more photos of  my everyday. For those who live in Asia, you can get your PL supplies from Scraplicious. Follow my PL journey here. You can check out more project life week pages all around the web, check out The Mom Creative. 


Oh I also have a small shop update with my re-done arrow shapes

Happy Leap day everyone. Do stop by the shop if you like any of the items that you see.

PROJECT LIFE WEEK 6

It's Project Life Catch up time (:

Here's Week Six to share

I think I'm in love with the Jenni Bowlin doily punch. I can't help to use it to add visual interest (: Used some of my own printables in the Project Life layout too.

 One thing I've had to learn to do for sure is give up perfectionism within me and let go with Project Life. Personally I'm not a fan of the top left hand corner, but I have learnt that obsessing with it brings about nothing good and instead to do it and move on. I keep chanting in my head:  you are documenting life, not perfectionism.

I included a brochure in this page to highlight the area surrounding where I stay, as it was nice and glossy. This week I saw lots of cool decor and design elements. Love the quote from pinterest.

That's all for this week of Project Life. I hope that you have been inspired. Do check out the Project Life Asia Flickr group too for more inspiration.

Project Life is a line of products by Becky Higgins, and can be used for documentation of daily life or anything else you may want. I am using it to remember the year and take more photos of  my everyday. For those who live in Asia, you can get your PL supplies from Scraplicious. Follow my PL journey here. You can check out more project life week pages all around the web, check out The Mom Creative.