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Project Life 2014 W40-42

Trying to post the rest of my 2014 PL spreads... Just a few weeks left.

Week 40

Family Album: Lots of playground pictures. Notice that Arthur is still wearing shorts in October. I love how the warm weathers sticks around until late fall. I went very simple and unadorned this week as the pictures were so busy. Clean and simple.

 
 

My monthly wrap posts were stuck in this week's spread. I really have enjoyed doing these highlighting my monthly goals, books read, and photo a day. However, I will be going monthly for 2015. These specific spreads will disappear, but I hope to keep the content in my monthly spreads.

 
 

Supplies:

  • PL Honey
  • PL Sunshine
  • Lots of random embellishments

Week 41

Family Album: Pumpkin patch week! I got so many great pictures there that I had to include them all. My absolute favorite is the pic bottom right of the left hand page. I did not pose him like that at all, he just sat there and put a hand on the pumpkin. So cute! I made sure to add some pumpkin/orange themed journaling cards.

 
 

Supplies:

  • PL Honey

Week 42

Family Album: Another spread filled with pictures and few embellishments.

 
 

I also included the special four pages I compiled for Arthur's birthday party pictures. Lots of great fun. Plus, I added his 12 month photos into the album.

 
 
 
 

Supplies:

  • PL Turquoise
tags: Honey, Sunshine, Turquoise
categories: Project Life
Saturday 01.17.15
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 

Archives: Project Life 2014 -- Weeks 5 and 6

Originally published on February 15th, 2014Week 5

Family Album: This week wanted to really bring out the fun bright colors from the photographs.  Thankfully I had purchased a third of a Honey kit from an Etsy seller.  They were the perfect colors to play with.  After I looked at the pictures to choose from, I decided to do an entire page (well almost an entire page) dedicated to telling a story about Arthur and his new favorite toy.  I love the idea of doing this type of theme pages more often.

 
 

Supplies:

  • PL Honey Kit
  • PL Sunshine Kit
  • Studio Calico Alphabet stickers

Arthur's Album: For his album, I stuck with the yellows and grays with some fun inserts.  I love the right side with the corresponding pictures splitting the page.  It gives a nice mirror effect.

 
 

Supplies:

  • PL Baby Neutral Kit

Week 6

Family Album: Week six was all about pink and turquoise.  I had the repeating camera insert already in place from last week (other side of the flowered journaling card).  it was so cute, I had to use it and ended up designing the entire spread to correspond.  The left side was highlighting some pictures from our usual routine (baby playing with Sophie, Shoreline walk, crafting time).  I even used a journal card to highlight my week in crafting.  Nice to see a spread not completely focused on Arthur even though he is just so adorable.  The right side is dedicated to pictures and journaling of the mom's group Valentine's Party.  I even remembered to snap a few photos of the event.  (It was gray and gloomy out, so the pics are pretty dark.  And this is after lightening them up on the computer.)  I forgot to add in the February calendar card at the beginning of the month.  The party turned out to be the perfect occasion to use it as a Who, What, Where, When, and Why type journaling card.  I then used a red design card from the Holiday mini kit to list all the attendees for the party.  It's a nice way to remember who was there since I didn't get pictures of everyone.  Overall, I absolutely love this layout!

 
 

Supplies:

  • PL Honey Kit
  • PL Seasons Mini Kit
  • Random embellishments from Studio Calico

Arthur's Album:  Arthur's weekly spread included more pictures of him and some highlighting of our party.  I stuck with the usual color scheme, but changed up the design with the 4x6 journaling card and alternating 3x4 inserts and photos.

 
 

Supplies:

  • PL Baby Neutral Kit
tags: Baby Neutral, Honey, Seasons, Sunshine
categories: Project Life
Saturday 05.03.14
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 

Archives: Project Life 2014 -- Week 4

Originally published on February 1st, 2014

Family Album: I played around with some embellishments this week.  As per usual, I have the weekly highlights inserts and the weekly date insert. I added some alphabet stickers to two of the pictures for added descriptions.  I really love the font of "Sophie."  To help doctor up the printed inserts, I added some candy dots and stamps.  A few weeks ago, I bought some partial kits (Honey and Kraft) from an Etsy seller.  I can't justify buying an entire kit as I already have three separate kits.  But, I can get a few partials to add some extra fun to the spreads.  I really really love the bright colors from the Honey kit.

As to this week's photos, it was another Arthur heavy week.  I managed to catch a few adorable smiles and some action shots.  My favorite picture is my artsy shadow picture.  Randomly the light from the windows created some beautiful shadows.

 
 

As it is the end of January, I filled out my monthly wrap-up insert.  I loved embellishing the monthly title card with fun stickers (glittery stars).  I picked my favorite 8 photo a day pictures to include.  I added the each day's theme written on washi tape.  Love the look!

 

Supplies:

  • PL Sunshine kit
  • PL Honey kit (partial)
  • PL Day stickers
  • Embellishments from Studio Calico kits
  • Random stamps
  • Random stickers
  • Washi tape

Arthur's Album: This week's spread is very simple and photo heavy.  I made sure to include our weekly highlight inserts and a little journaling about some photos.  I really loved the photos from this week.

 
 

Supplies:

  • PL Baby kit
tags: Baby Neutral, Honey, Sunshine
categories: Project Life
Friday 05.02.14
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 

Archives: Cards #29

Originally published on January 19th, 2014 Before getting to the actual crafting, I wasn't able to get my SU order for December before leaving for Indiana.  I completely forget what I even ordered.  I was able to collect it at January stamp club.  Oh yeah, and December was my hostess month.  Lots and lots of goodies.

At stamp club, we made some cute cards.  It was also the start of our new 6 month round.  We drew hostess months and I got February.  Just in time for Sale-a-bration.  Now what should I order?

On the PL front, I finally got everything organized to put together the weekly spreads for the holidays.  I also got some great ideas from my Studio Calico class I joined for January.  Can't wait to put some of them into my spreads.  And I decided to do a monthly wrap-up page with my books read, life goals and progress, and photo a day pics.  I didn't want to have to include every photo a day pic, so I thought to combine some of my features into a monthly wrap up page.  Each month has one side (two months per page protector) using design F.  I have room for eight photo a day choice pics.  I went through and picked title, books read, and life goals inserts for each month.  I tried to play with some color schemes.  I plan on adding embellishments as I do the months.  In the meantime, here's a sneak peek of January's page:

 

Shopping Scores: Lots of new things!  I picked up some Project Life supplies online: G and H page protectors (for inserts), Seasons Mini Kit (had Holiday, wanted general seasons), a WRMK 3x4 and 4x6 kit (Tangerine), and some random cards from a fellow PLer (from Honey and Kraft kits).  And then I went to Michael's for snail and ended up buying a corner rounder punch (mine is horrid!) and a 2in circle punch.

tags: Banner Greetings, Fresh Prints DSP, Honey, Kaleidoscope DSP, Kraft, Morning Meadow, Simply Sketched, Sunshine, Tag It, WRMK Tangerine
categories: Project Life
Thursday 05.01.14
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 

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