Hello Magic! Hello Simplicity!

Hello on Monday Everyone!

It's Mira Jurecka here to share the first day of January 2016 documented in my Pocket Album. I don't know about You, but for me that day was magical! We didn't have snow at the end of 2015 (this is winter and snow is must have here!) but on the first day of New Year we got A LOT of it! Like TONS! Everyone, absolutely everyone went for a walk on that day :) Including the three of us. It was actually the day, when our daughter saw the snow for the very first time in her life :) And during that walk I couldn't stop talking how lovey the aura is!

Today with this pocket page I would also like to share a very simple idea how You can work with the last bits and pieces from Your monthly kit. Each month if You effectively work with the kit You probably end up having a few stickers and embellishments that You don't know what to do with.
You might think: it's not enough for a layout or mini album, not even enough for a PL spread! This can be true, but not for everyone! :D
You can always use what's left to create very very very simple page and be happy about the results! Look what I did here:

As You see my work is really simple - only pictures and a couple of embellishments!
I filled every single pocket with one picture, printed a few words of journaling on the white card and used only a few embellishments to finish the page. It was made in 15 minutes, and You know what? I really like it's simplicity!

Once again let's see what's in here!

A few words created using Seven Paper Alphabet coming from February PL Kit, one stamp from the same kit (hello), "loving this" paper cut from the freebie sheet that You get with Your PL kit each and every month. And exactly two puffy stickers from February Sprinkles Kit. Additionally I have few tiny digital elements that I printed with my journaling. That's it!
Do I need more? What do You think?

You obviously don't need to kill each and every kit that You get using absolutely everything - if it works for You - fine. But if You have that need - remember that You can always create something beautiful - no matter how many elements You will add to Your page! And sometimes less is more :)

I hope You enjoyed my post today! Thank You for stopping by!
Be sure to leave a comment if You like it :)
And Have a fantastic week Guys!
Happy Monday!

Pocket Life with April

Happy Friday!  April here to share a few of my 2015 pocket life spreads using the February PL and PL Embellishment kits plus a couple of alphas from my stash.

I apologize that my spreads don't have a weekly marker (yet).  At the time that I took photos of these spreads, I hadn't worked on them.  But since taking these photos, I did finish them, so my future spreads will be a little easier to identify.

Here's the first of three spreads for week 2:

Pages two and three of week 2:

And a closer look at each of these pages.  These pages includes the pictures that I took at CHA.

And here's my week 3:

A closer look of each side:

And here are your sketches:

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great weekend!

Pocket Life with Pamela

Can you believe it's already February?  I'm back with my pocket life pages using the the February PL Unforgettable kit along with the romantic Love Is All We Need PL embellishment kit.

Let's take a look at my week 6 spread for 2015 shall we? I've made some thought on my pocket life pages this year and I will be recording my stories in a mixture of pocket life and scrapbook pages. The scrapbook page is usually an "addition" to one of the photos during that week.

So here is my full spread for week 6.

Here is my traditional pocket life page on the left side. Since I don't take enough photos during the week, 1 page was good enough for me.

See that fun star background? Scroll down to download the cut file! I layered the colour cardstock underneath for a colourful background before adhering a gold label on top.

Here is the right side for a traditional scrapbook page. I expanded on my "starbucks collection" story and took a few shots of my favourite cards.

I began by cutting up the coloured cardstock in tiny squares. The gold squares? I cut down the gold heart stickers from the PL main kit :) I laid them out on a piece of 12x12 paper and stitched them in place.

Here is a close up of the stitching, the photos and the journaling. The word snippet stickers were just perfect for this!

Here is your PL sketch and a background cut file for you to use!

 

Using your February 2015 Pocket Life Kit with Janine

Hallo everyone, I hope you're all fine!

The end of January/the beginning of February has been quite hard for us, especially for my little boy. He's been sick for almost three weeks, with so much fever and he felt really bad. When I saw the card that says 'Be. Breathe. Do' I had to think of my son. That's what I told him, when he was so sick and when he was scared that he wouldn't be better ever. I told him to just be and accept it for now. That he is not well, but that he will be better and will be able to smile again. And I am so so glad and happy that he is feeling better now! That was so hard to see.

So I decided to capture this (I took the photo when he was feeling much better tho, because I didn't want to bother him too much, of course) and to let him know that it is going to be better. Just be and believe in it.

As I wanted the layout to be bright, sunny and positive and I also am in love with the color yellow right now, I just went with the flow. I knew I wanted to create a double pager and so I decided to make each page a 6x8 inch size.

 

I printed the photo slightly smaller than 6x8, because I wanted to frame it and added the journaling beforehand. Before I printed it though I went through this month's PL kit and saw the 'Premium Quality 2015' saying.

It sounds weird at first to incorporate this stamp into a layout that captures my son's bad health at the beginning of the year. But I wanted the meaning of the layout to be positive, I wrote in my journaling that I am sure the year will be much better from now on. So I thought the stamp would fit though.

But I wanted to have the stamp itself a tiny bit smaller, because the layout's size is only about 6x8 inch and I didn't want to cover up too much of the photo. So instead of stamping it on the picture, I scanned the words in and turned the saying into a digital stamp that I added on the photo before I printed it. I also wanted to use those adorable kraft triangles, but they were a bit to dark for what I had in mind. So I covered two of them with one of the papers from the paper pad in the kit and cut it out. I then adhered one triangle on the bottom of the photo.

I also added one wooden heart, some more patterned paper under the left side of the photo and matted everything on black cardstock from my stash. As I already knew there would be a lot going on on the other page of the double layout, I just added one more heart I punched from the yellow cardstock and stitched over it. So the left page was finished quite quickly.

For the second page I knew I wanted to use that beautfiul PL card as well as some different mediums, to create different surfaces and textures that kind of resemble life. Life is complicated, changes a lot. It is not always happy, sometimes it is rough. But eventually you are going to smile again. Normally after each deep follows a high. I hope you can understand what I mean, sometimes it is hard to tell what I mean when I can't use my mother language. :)

Anyway, here is a closer look at the second page:

I cut a white cardstock from my stash slightly smaller than 6x8 inches, adhered the PL card with thin foam tape on it and stitched around it. After that I wanted to give the background a bit more interest and dimension, so I decided to use a triangle embossing folder from my stash and embossed some triangles on the background. That took some time, I did it by hand, because I didn't want to have the whole background covered in triangles.

To add another texture and surface I decided then to stamp two sayings from the February 'Colorful Life' stamp set with Versamark embossing ink on yellow cardstock that came with the kit and embossed it with white embossing powder from my stash. I cut one of the sayings into a little banner and the other one into a cloud. As well as another cloud cut out of the white cardstock that I used for my background.

When I saw the watercolor paper words in the kit, I knew I wanted to use the smile one also for this layout. So I colored it with two different Gelatos from my stash to add another surface and texture on the layout.

Finally I adhered everything, added some more wooden hearts, the other triangle that I covered with patterned paper and adhered some more patterned paper under the white cardstock before I adhered it on another piece of black cardstock from my stash.

I love this layout, I love that it is bright and colorful and I love the meaning behind it. And I am so relieved that my son's feeling better now. :)

Thanks for taking the time to stop by and have a wonderful day everyone!