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 11

I'm back with Project Life Week 11 and its loaded with something new and exciting (at least to me). Here's a small hint of what's to come.

Any guesses?

Well I used it on my Project Life this week.... and yes I know that I have yet to share Week 9 but it is done and I am all caught up and happy about it. It really helps to be up-to-date quickly because I download my photos regularly.

So here is Week 11 in all its glory (:

I love that vellum cloud paper, so much so that I wanted to keep the vellum free from "items" on it. The water colour feel with the "see-through" quality of the vellum.

It's a bit of a different type of date card for me, very floral, but the experimenting of something new every week is what I like about Project Life. Also I typed on vellum for the first time.

The tag is one that I am experimenting with for my etsy shop, as a name card of sorts.

A shoutout to Missy who sent me the stamp as well as a lovely chevron one. This week also brought the introduction of the most fabulous cheesy/salsa dip.

And once in a while it is good to keep things simple with the journaling cards which I did for this side.

Sorry for the short descriptions, but if you have any questions, let me know in the comments and I'll try to answer them.

So any ideas on my little brewing project? I'm sure that you must have guessed and I will share in due course as I am trying to finalise a few things.

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 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.

CLOSE UPS and POLAROIDS

Hi everyone, just some close ups of Project Life Week 6 to share, which I am pleased to announce has been completed and laid in my album.

Will be back with the full pictures tomorrow due to the plague of my life, bad lighting where I stay. But till then, my close-ups.

And yes I have taken to decorating even the "filler" cards from the Clementine kit, with washi tape and stitching. I found that it works when you do want to journal something but don't have enough to fill up the whole card (and are OCD like me about not having your writing be able to expand beyond a certain size.

Well, like everyone else who has been doing Project Life, I too have been inspired by the many many oodles of inspiration put out there. Here are just some that I have been enjoying:

1. Lisa Truesdall aka gluestickgirl: It was through her PL sharing that I "realised" that it could be possible to personalise your own cards and stuff. And that she managed to most of it too. She also shares a series on twopeasinabucket.com for tips on Project Life

2. Kelly Purkey: Seeing how she has chosen to document her life with PL as a singl living in the city has been inspiring in more ways than one, especially how she is not afraid to blow up her photos to occupy multiple slots. Love the different take on PL

3. Michelle Wooderson: A Mish Mash of things is her blog title as well as how she approaches PL as well. Perfect for inspiring me to dig deeper into my stash.

4. Leena Loh: Another Singaporean doing PL (: It's nice to see familiar sights of where I stay and she has a white and bright colour scheme to her Project Life and also incoporates many little bits.

5. May Scholz aka SiameseStudio: A digital Project Lifer from Thailand. Her pages are fantastic with the digital elements that she uses, both from Jessica Sprague and outside of Project Life. Definitely an inspiration for those thinking of doing it digitally or wanting to incorporate digital elements.

Do pay a visit and hope that you would gain some inspiration from them. There are also a number of PLers in Asia on my list that I would be sharing soon too, for those of use in Asia who are attempting 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 have also been working on more digital designs over the weekend and am proud to share a new camera set of badges, as with many out there, I am a camera lover too.

It includes six different fun cameras. In clockwise direction, starting from the top right hand corner: Actionsampler, Polaroid camera, Diana, Holga, Blackbird fly and Rangefinder.

As with all the badges I have, they do not come with adhesive, but you can easily attach them with foam dots/squares or glossy accents/beacons. They are available at my etsy shop, which you can also get to from the links on the right side bar.

In addition to that, I have also polaroids printable journaling cards for sale.



The set includes two 4x6 cards, one vertical and one horizontal (this one can be used with PL page protectors B and D), as well as two 3x4 cards (which measure 2.88x3.88 to ensure easy slotability into the pockets). I think that the polariod frame is definitely useable and it's all for just $2.50. Also available in my etsy and I might put it up in the shop here too.

Have a good start of the week! I'll be catching up and trying to put myself back on schedule with Week 7 of Project Life.

OF VINYL AND WASHI TAPE

No Project Life spread yet for me :(  Have been too busy this week and hoping to catch up with it for the weekend.

Just wanted to share a mini project that I did with my silhouette SD.

I designed the placement of the words and then cut them out on Vinyl. This is good stuff, as it is thin, which doesn't add bulk to the notebook. The other good thing is that if this were cut out on paper or cardstock, it would be difficult to ensure that the placement of the words remain the same, as transfer paper is used.

To understand more about what I'm talking about you can click here where there is a much better explanation (:

Here's a close up look to what it looks like

There's a "frosted" plastic cover on top which explains why it looks a bit blur. (:

These were made for friends, but I will be putting some up in my etsy store if anyone is interested.
So as everyone knows, CHA Winter 2012 was the CHA of Washi tape or paper tape. Having a sizeable collection, storage is an issue. And the phrase out of sight out of mind is very applicable. So I sought a solution.

While in my search, etsy had some gorgeous ones, but it was out of my price range, especially factoring in shipping from the US. Enter a great place to find things that you never thought that you would need here in Singapore - Daiso. And the absolute best part is that it is just $2.

This is originally a dish/plate holder - imagine dishes slotted in between every two 'poles'. Once I saw it, thinking that it was indeed similar to what I had spotted on etsy, albeit shorter, I knew that it would work.

On average each 'pole' can take four tapes, depending on the thickness. As the rolls from Amercian Crafts and Hambly seem to be smaller in diameter, this made it fit perfectly with my bigger size MT ones. And you can classify them to dots, stripes, themed or mix them all up (:

 So now it will sit on my desk as a gentle reminder to be used, and yet not rolling about the place in a container. And it is easy to move around if needed too. And you can personalise it by painting the wood or decorating it with Washi tape (:

For anyone who is curious on how you can use these pretty tapes, you can check out this post on the Scraplicious blog. It is especially convenient for those of us who are doing Project Life.

For those in Singapore and Asia, Scraplicious is still having a promotion to giveaway a $10 gift voucher on FaceBook and Twitter so do check it out. And remember to go down to your nearest Daiso to find yours.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

Yes I have a valentine for everyone. A heart themed Valentine's printable for everyone. Click on the picture or here if you would like it.

In conjunction as mentioned yesterday, I have new printable available in the shop that you can get to by clicking on the icon on the right.

Bad light this morning again :( but I'll get a proper photo up soon. But it is better in real life (:

Also Scraplicious is running a Valentine's Day contest.

For more details, click on the image which will give you more details of how to participate.
Hope you spend the day remembering the ones you love and those that love you back immensely.

MORE BADGES SPOTTED

I'm excited that my badges have been put to good use by people who have purchased them. Here is another PL spread by Ellie. Go to her blog, by clicking on her name and see how she has used the badges (:

I also have a confession to make. I was supposed to have twelve photos for 12 Feb to share, but the hecticness of the day made me forget to take photos. Argh...

With Valentine's day is coming up and I have a new release of journaling cards that are love themed, yet very very suitable for everyday PL stuff, as Project Life is also about documenting the different loves in life that you have right?

I also will have printable freebies up tomorrow so do remember to check it out. Sorry for the short update today, but tomorrow will be more exciting, fingers crossed (:

Hope that you will have a good start of the rest of the week!

PROJECT LIFE WEEK 5

Week 5 is now lock and loaded and ready to go (:

It was an eventful week being the second week of Chinese New Year, though I didn't take that many photos

For this week's spread, I decided to go with a "whiter" design, especially with the new set of chevron cards that I designed. I'm pleased with the more graphic look, but I also like the fact that from one week to the next, it can look so different (:

It's an orangey, yellow, grey themed. I also put the Jenni Bowlin doily punch to work. (It's the grey punch outs)

Particularly love the doilies stitched at the bottom of the date tag. I also ran the "Amy Tan" letters I put for the dates for some stitching.

Also received my Studio Calico Kit from ScrappinStudio, and used the alpha stamps that were in the Stepping Stone Add-on. The "click" button was made by me, custom designed.

Lots of stitching too. Not just physically, but even with the cards as you can see the yellow faux stitching on the journaling cards.

And there you have it, Week 5 of my Project Life Album for 2012.

The journaling cards with chevrons that I designed are still available free for my blog followers. Go to the previous post or click here for more information.

For those in Asia and doing Project Life, do take some time to check out this flickr group for PLers in Asia to share their pages and encourage one another. http://www.flickr.com/groups/scraplicious

Also check out the Scraplicious blog for even more Project Life inspiration on Scraplicious Project Life Wednesdays. There's a tutorial on how to use Picasa to make a collage with your photos.

Thanks for looking and hope you have been inspired somewhat (:

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. 

NO PL BUT A GIVEAWAY INSTEAD

I was supposed to have Project Life Week 5 ready to share, but that will have to wait till tmr as I am only halfway through it.

In Week 5, I have used some new journaling cards that I designed, inspired by the chevron trend that is everywhere, not just in scrapbooking but in fashion too. My favourite one is the grey chevrons with yellow stitching, which is not obvious in the photo, in real life in fabulous, I promise

If you would like it in printable form, for this week only, I will be offering it for free to my blog followers, to just say thank you for enjoying what I post enough to stick around. Just FOLLOW me on the blog (at the side bar) as a blog follower AND leave a comment WITH your email address in the comments section (if you do not do this I will be unable to send the file to you) and I'll drop you an email containing the files. If you prefer not to leave your email below, you can email me at piecedpapersATgmail.com and I'll be happy to do the same. The freebie giveaway will end on 13 February.

In other news, I'm excited to see my badges being used by Patrica, http://roebuck-adventures.blogspot.com/ in her awesome PL spread, the "Love This" badge on the right side .

To see those and more of the items that I have available, check out the shop from the side bar.

Hope you like what you see and let me know if you would like to have the chevron sets that I have come up with.

A JANUARY OVERVIEW

Just a quick summary of Project Life so far for January, as well as things that I have learnt and taken stock of this far. Glad that I'm still on track! If you would like more details on any of the spreads, click on it and it will lead you to the relevant blogpost.

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Things I have discovered about my Project Life process:

1.  I have more going on each week than I realised. I never thought that I would be able to fill two pages for every week, but so far that has been the case (:
2. Style A page protectors is still my preference, but I want to challenge myself creatively to try other types of styles too!
3. I am label-obsessed and love to use it in my PL pages. Label-hoarding here I come.
4. Sewing completes the pages, as it does everything else.
5. Washi tape is the perfect accent to complete a journaling card that feels bare.
6. I need to pull out my typewriter a lot more because I do like how it looks. Need to get over the laziness
7. I want to include a quote or saying in the week that has impressed upon me.

Hope that you have discovered things about your own process that will keep your documentation process going on strong for 2012.

I also have a printable freebie up to "commemorate" being on track for January.

Click on the image to download the freebie printable or click (here).

If you haven't yet seen my other freebies, here they are:

Click on the respective images to download the free journaling cards or click for (top) or (bottom).

By the way if you are doing Project Life and especially if you are currently based in Asia, do check out:

Every Wednesday, Scraplicious will be sharing Project Life tips and ideas to inspire all of us who are embarking on the Project Life journey in Asia. So do visit www.scraplicious.com/blog, especially every Wednesday.

In addition, there is a flickr group for Project Lifers from Asia. So if you are a Project Lifer who is doing it out of Asia, do join the group,www.flickr.com/groups/scraplicious, and share your pages and ideas of Project Life to inspire others.

Scraplicious is also using twitter to make announcements of the latest promotions, latest arrivals and even especially for twitter followers discounts. Follow them now and stand a chance to win a S$10 Scraplicious Gift Voucher that can be used in store or for online purchases.

So much goodness and excitement from Project Life and more to come. Hello February!!!

PROJECT LIFE WEEK 4

Hi everyone, it's nearing the end of the 15 days of the Lunar New Year and during this time there has been loads of feasting and visiting of relatives.

Well Week 4 was the start of it, so much of it was included in the album, as was more food pictures as I caught up with old acquaintances. Here it is:

I continued in my experimentation of different page protectors, with Design F being the new "victim". Design F is good for lots of photos which was perfect for this week, where I had the most number of photos yet. For now I still prefer the Design A protectors, though I do like how the Design F ones challenged me creatively.

As there were many photos this week, I chose to use labels to do the journaling on the photos. After this, I have a huge huge huge obsession with labels, with my current favourites being October Afternoon and Jenni Bowlin at the moment. I have yet to find more, though the new Martha Stewart ones for Staples are too die for. But until a kind soul decides to send me some, I'll have to drool over the internet.

I pulled out my old Studio Calico Wooden Veneer butterflies that I have been hoarding but relax for now as they have been re released with the CHA Winter 2012, though a little different in shape. I used my Tim Holtz tiny attacher and fixed in to my page.

My typewriter also made an appearance as I ran some labels through it. Love the look.

On the top left, you see something we term as "steamboat" where food of all varieties is thrown into a boiling pot of chicken stock and cooked, before everyone hauls them out to eat. As I had a blank space this week, I took a quote, re typed it up and printed it out. (idea from elise blaha).

For those who are wondering the journaling card above is a free printable that I have in my shop for free download. Do check the other Project Life related goodies that I have there too.

I used the same butterfly, but used my sewing machine to stitch through the wooden veneer. Love how that looks.

With another blank slot, I created my own embellished grid card, using much from the Girl's Paperie line, with the indication of a month stitched on. The 'celebrate' embellishment seemed appropriate as it is a festive season.

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.