PROJECT LIFE WEEK 13

Hi everyone,

Just a quick update for Project Life today. It was a busy, but routine week here that I had, so the whole week is on just one page for this week.

And that is fine with me. It's better than stressing over trying to fill in the pockets got the sake of doing it (:

I recently went into a sequin craze, scattering it like confetti, a trend that has been hot in certain circles recent. I call it my shiny confetti.

Also, I snipped one of my camera cards into half to use it as a 'tag' of sorts. Also I'm continuing to use yellow thread to add stitching. Also noteworthy- airmail coloured washi. If you are looking for it Scraplicious, my LSS in Singapore, just brought in a whole new assortment of masking tapes, including this one, so head down there if you are interested.

It was also Earth Hour on Week 13 and I was witness to it in the busiest section of town and it was cool to see how all the lights dimmed for the hour.

Do you spot the camera flair with the wooden background? It's coming soonish to my etsy.

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. 


On the topic of my etsy store, I have a new listing.

A fun mixture of doilies, paper bags, shipping tags, twine, sequins and exclusive vintage flowers flair.

Here's a close up look:

Go to the store or click here to see more details about the set called "Sweet Treats".

Hope you are having a good week! Mine has been swamped, but I hope to check back in soon.

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. 

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.

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.

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.