The 100 Day Project 2019 Update #2

I’m going to focus and trying to accomplish my already started projects!

#100daysofcompleting

Short list of projects to complete:

• Quentin’s 2018 PL album - currently in March

• Arthur’s 2017 PL Album

• Arthur’s 2018 PL Album

• Family 2019 PL Album - haven’t even started, but do have the supplies

• WITL 2019 kit

• Various half-down cards laying around

I’ll probably also throw in some card that I’ll make from start to finish throughout the 100 days. And there’s usually a surprise project that crops up. So I’m not going to restrict myself too much. I just want to work on one of my projects each day. The daily time could be 5 minutes or 2 hours, but the idea is to do something toward one of my craft projects. I’m going to do weekly (or biweekly) posts on here with my progress. And I’m going to try to document daily on instagram (@TFrances19).

Update #2: April 15th - 28th

In the second two weeks, I finished:

• 2 pages of Quentin’s Project Life Album = 1 week

• 8 cards

• 3 planner spreads

• Complete organization and cataloging of current and retiring SU products

• Complete organization and cataloging of current and retiring ribbons

• 3 weeks of PL pictures printed

• April MP pictures printed

The 100 Day Project 2019 Update #1

I’m going to focus and trying to accomplish my already started projects!

#100daysofcompleting

Short list of projects to complete:

• Quentin’s 2018 PL album - currently in March

• Arthur’s 2017 PL Album

• Arthur’s 2018 PL Album

• Family 2019 PL Album - haven’t even started, but do have the supplies

• WITL 2019 kit

• Various half-down cards laying around

I’ll probably also throw in some card that I’ll make from start to finish throughout the 100 days. And there’s usually a surprise project that crops up. So I’m not going to restrict myself too much. I just want to work on one of my projects each day. The daily time could be 5 minutes or 2 hours, but the idea is to do something toward one of my craft projects. I’m going to do weekly (or biweekly) posts on here with my progress. And I’m going to try to document daily on instagram (@TFrances19).

Update #1: April 2nd - 14th (Days 1 - 13)

The first two weeks of this project were so incredibly productive! In total I finished:

• 35 pages of Quentin’s Project Life Album = 20 weeks!!!!

• March Memory Planner Pages

• One Planner Week

• One Regular Card

• Five Make n Takes at Stampin’ Up!’s OnStage

Hoping to keep up the momentum!

The 100 Day Project 2019!

After much deliberation, I’ve decided to participate in this year’s 100 Day Project. 100 days can seem very daunting, and I usually shy away from these large long-term goals. But… after hearing more and more people jumping in this year, I started to think maybe I should also. But what to do? I just got done with 30 Days of Birthday Cards, so 100 cards is out. I need to recharge my creative card marking juices. 100 days of blogging sounds a bit boring to me and there’s not way I’ll stick to it. And then Elise Joy of blogging, Get to Work Book, and Elise Gets Crafty podcast fame talked about her goal in her newsletter. Short story: she’s doing “100 days to get it made” focusing on finishing and making progress on a ton of projects laying around her house. That’s it! That’s what I need to do! I have a ton of projects in various states of completion that keep gets pushed to the side by fancy new projects. So I’m going to focus and trying to accomplish my already started projects!

#100daysofcompleting

Short list of projects to complete:

• Quentin’s 2018 PL album - currently in March

• Arthur’s 2017 PL Album

• Arthur’s 2018 PL Album

• Family 2019 PL Album - haven’t even started, but do have the supplies

• WITL 2019 kit

• Various half-down cards laying around

I’ll probably also throw in some card that I’ll make from start to finish throughout the 100 days. And there’s usually a surprise project that crops up. So I’m not going to restrict myself too much. I just want to work on one of my projects each day. The daily time could be 5 minutes or 2 hours, but the idea is to do something toward one of my craft projects. I’m going to do weekly (or biweekly) posts on here with my progress. And I’m going to try to document daily on instagram (@TFrances19).

Top Ten 2018 Crafts

I had too many great crafts to choose from this past year, but I eventually narrowed it down. In no particular order, here are my 10 favorite craft projects of 2018!

1. Brusho Butterfly — My first big try at Brusho. Love it!

2. A Bevy of Birthday Blooms

3. Week in the Life Album 2018 — Always love this project!

4. 3D Christmas Tree

5. Kaleidoscope of Butterflies - Using a ton of random scraps!

6. Teddy Bear Greetings - Clean and simple baby card

7. Coffee Cups!

8. Poinsettias and Plaid

9. Floral Cup of Happiness

10. Hand Delivered Bouquet

Retreat Weekend Tags

Every time I host a weekend retreat, I always make cute little goody bags filled with treats. And those goody bags must have some kind of tags. I've been packing my craft area and didn't want to buy anything new, so I went digging in the leftover supplies and came up with these:

I pulled out a bunch of leftover Project Life cards to use bases. From there, I coordinated some cardstock from my Stampin' Up! stash to use as punched name tags. I added a die cut butterfly for texture. And you don't see it on the picture below, but I added some pearls, candy dots, and rhinestones to the butterflies to give the tags a bit of bling. 

I attached each name tag to the goody bags using bits of leftover ribbon. I think I did very well in using random supplies to create very cute retreat tags. 

30 Days of Lists: Days 22-30

I've really enjoyed participating in 30 Days of Lists on and off for the past few years. For 2018, the creators offered a season pass getting me all three months of lists (March, September, and December) for a bit of a discount. I jumped at the chance and sign-up. For March's lists, I decided to use the 6x8 PL page protectors, the Dear Lizzy Polka Dot Party mini kit, and various stickers and embellishments. My plan is to use the same 6x8 album (a Snap Simple Stories album) to house all three months of 30 Days of Lists, my Week in the Life pages (documenting this week), and possibly December Daily. Check out my days #1-10 here, days #11-21 here. Now are my Days #22-30:

Week in the Life 2018

For this year's WITL, I documented my birthday week: March 5th - 11th. I bought another Simple Stories album to coordinate with last year's album (last year's was yellow, this year's is light blue). They are the perfect size (6x8) and the perfect price (around $10). For the insides, I tried to pull a lot from my stash. But I did buy Echo Park's Creative Agenda by Kaitlin Sheaffer scrapbook kit. I ending up using almost all of the stickers and at least half of the paper for this album. I'm still debating about adding a title page, but at least I have the meat of the project finished.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

I decided to put my March 30 Days of Lists pages in the same album.

30 Days of Lists: Days 11-21

I've really enjoyed participating in 30 Days of Lists on and off for the past few years. For 2018, the creators offered a season pass getting me all three months of lists (March, September, and December) for a bit of a discount. I jumped at the chance and sign-up. For March's lists, I decided to use the 6x8 PL page protectors, the Dear Lizzy Polka Dot Party mini kit, and various stickers and embellishments. My plan is to use the same 6x8 album (a Snap Simple Stories album) to house all three months of 30 Days of Lists, my Week in the Life pages (documenting this week), and possibly December Daily. Check out my days #1-10 here. Now are my Days #11-21:

30 Days of Lists: Days 1-10

I've really enjoyed participating in 30 Days of Lists on and off for the past few years. For 2018, the creators offered a season pass getting me all three months of lists (March, September, and December) for a bit of a discount. I jumped at the chance and sign-up. For March's lists, I decided to use the 6x8 PL page protectors, the Dear Lizzy Polka Dot Party mini kit, and various stickers and embellishments. My plan is to use the same 6x8 album (a Snap Simple Stories album) to house all three months of 30 Days of Lists, my Week in the Life pages (documenting this week), and possibly December Daily. Here are Days #1-10:

Mermaid Tags

I always make something handmade for the moms' retreat that I plan. For this past retreat (Feb. 22-25), I had little goody bags filled with a cute journal and pen, favorite candy, reusable grocery bag, and fancy decorated cookie. Of course, I had to add some handmade element to the goody bags. So I pulled out my relatively new Magical Day stamp set and picked the mermaid stamp to work with. I stamped 9 mermaids and seahorses and got to coloring with a mix of the old Stampin' Up! Blendabilities and the new Stampin' Up! Blends. I tried to mix up the combinations to create 9 different mermaids. I love coloring and this stamp set is the perfect one to color!

After coloring and die cutting, I added the mermaids and seahorses to pretty purple marble paper tags. Finally I added a simple name banner and a few rhinestones to eat tag. These cute handmade tags were the perfect addition the goody bags.