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.

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 2

****winner of my badges giveaway is posted below as well as a new journaling freebie****

Hi all, I'm finished with Week 2 (Jan 9 to Jan 15) and ready to share. The light was finally better and it was brighter earlier than usual, so I've better photos of the spread to share this week (:

For those wondering, I run my weeks Monday to Sunday, because my calendars all state a week's progression as such.

After I completed it, I realised that it was really pink, but figured out that it's fine since the Lunar New Year is approaching. It was a week full of events, mostly captured by my iPhone. I really need to whip out my regular camera more.

Another thing, which I believe is not going to go away soon, my Project Life is going to be full of food shots. Heh. What a way to remember the year, through food of all things.

Here's the Left side close up

A couple of important things also occured this week, which I included in my PL.

The truce between the Myanmar government and the Karen people is something close to my heart, as I had done my university Final Year Project on the refugees of the 60 year long war and had some deep interviews with people on the scene. I'm glad that this has come to pass, hopefully that it lasts and is not just a smokescreen.

One of the things I want to try to do is include a photo of me in some form at least once a month, mostly as I don't really take photos of myself. The card is a freebie that I have available in the shop for download. Love how it frames my instagram print out nicely, with space for journaling.

On to the right side

I went a bit crazy here with the stitching, but I just love the look and homespun feeling that it gives. I find the small squares easy to work with as bits of paper or tape can easily dress up a page.

I am fairly certain that you would see doilies turn up on my Project Life every once in a while. This one was left over from a layout that I was doing and will be sharing soon. I think this one doily got used by me on three different project/pages, so good on me for stretching my supplies. Additional dimension was added with the details button, part of my "Words" set available in the shop.

I think I will hardly ever fear that I will not have enough to fill in my spread in Project Life, though I highly doubt I will put inserts unless I go overseas. (In fact now as I am writing about week 2 I realised that there is another event that occured and didn't include, having wanted to do so when it happened. But I will not be hung up on missing it out). The two journaling cards are part of my "Heart" set in the shop.

I think I will hardly ever fear that I will not have enough to fill in my spread in Project Life, though I highly doubt I will put inserts unless I go overseas.

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. Follow my PL journey here. You can check out more project life week pages all around the web, check out The Mom Creative. For those who live in Asia, you can get your PL supplies from Scraplicious.

And there you have it, my Week 2 of Project Life and I love that I am all caught up. To the 49 weeks left to go!

Oh and the winner of my giveaway, according to random generator is:

Patricia

Patricia, please email me your address at piecedpapersATgmail.com and I will send them out when I can.

One last thing, I have another freebie printable journaling download for everyone.

Doily and label journaling cards with a graph background. The doilies are purposefully faint, though slightly stronger in real life, so you can journal on them if you wish.Go to my shop or click here and scroll to the bottom to find it. (I prefer keeping all links on a single page, so sorry for the bit of hassle)

PROJECT LIFE WEEK 1

Th buzz about project life has been off the charts from what I can tell from my twitter feed and the number of people who are doing it seems to keep growing. Hopefully this creates more buzz and momentum to keep on going. And if you are interested I have a journaling printable freebie here. Please scroll down to the bottom of that page to find it. 

So here it is Week 1, over two pages. I think I surprised myself by being able to fill in two whole pages. A large part though because I love to write, and write away I did as evidenced by my journaling spots

On the left and close up

Lots of handwritten journaling and some appropriate stitching, given I was writing about my sewing machine

Right and close up

 

 

I used some of the badges that I had created. I especially like the "Snapshots of life" one on a grid background.

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. Follow my PL journey here. You can check out more project life week pages all around the web, check out The Mom Creative. For those who live in Asia, you can get your PL supplies from Scraplicious.


And I have a freebie to share with everyone, who is interested that is. I was tinkering around with photoshop and created a journaling card with grid background. I used it in my Week 1 documentation as seen above.

A set of three cards with the phrases; In a nutshell, Remember this, This happened
If you are interested, click here or on the picture to download.

I also created this set with the cameras that I had on my badges, with the same grid background

The set has the different weekdays at the bottom as well as the phrases: captured; smile; today.
This printable set is available for purchase here, or in the store.

Thank you for your support and I hope that you have enjoyed what you see here! Let me know if you used the freebie and how you like it too.