Pocket Page Challenge with Erica

Hey guys, Erica here, and today I am sharing the second pocket page layout I made with my Weekender kit!





I started with a simple title card - adding my week with the puffy alphas from the kit and a sub title with some tile alphas from a past kit. Then I added two of the flowers from the ephemera pack and sewed them on with happy yellow thread. I layered a photo on one journal card and cut out the sentiment from another to glue onto my photo.





It's usually not a proper Project Life spread from me if there's no movie of the week! This week was no exception and I have really taken to stitching down vellum to create pockets to hold my tickets. On my pocket I used some elements from the March Cutaparts sheet and then stamped with the add on stamps. I also printed the movie poster and layered it with some labels.





I added a third element of stitching on my layout by stitching down a die cut and paired it with a puffy heart. I have another photo with a simple die cut, and one card with a smaller photo that just needed a layer of paper and a tab.





On my last card I paired a few tabs and labels together with a brilliant sentiment stamp from the kit. I simply inked up half of the stamp each time to separate the phrases to nestle my TV show poster in between.





I hope this has given you a little inspiration for your own memory keeping with pockets. Thanks for joining me on the blog today!

Life Crafted with Sheree

Hi everyone!

It's Sheree here with you today to share a new Life Crafted spread featuring the super fun March 2020 "Weekender" Life Crafted Kit.

This photo makes me giggle every time I see it.  I looked up from my desk this particular day to see Madison looking at me from the couch with paper eyelashes stuck to her eyelids!  Of course I had to snap a quick photo and I'm so glad I did.  I love the quirky, funny things she does and I don't want to ever forget them...which is why I wanted to create this spread for my album!

 I printed the journaling on the digital version of this card from the kit, added a die cut label and some machine stitching across the top, then stamped the date at the bottom.

The pretty floral card at the bottom of this pocket page was actually the reverse side of the card in the previous spread in my album.  It just happened to be perfect for this spread!  The stitching you can see is actually coming through from the other side but I was happy with how it looked so all I had to do was add the cute puffy heart sticker.

For the full sized page I decided on the gorgeous floral paper for the background.  I love that it matched the floral card and my journaling card so perfectly!

I printed and cut the photo out leaving a white section underneath like a polaroid.  This is where I added the pretty die cut flower, die cut phrase and a puffy heart sticker.  A row of machine stitching helped to add more texture.  I also added a chipboard sticker at the top of the photo.

Under the photo I used a label from the cut-apart sheet and the alpha stickers from the kit to add "LOL" as part of the title.  I only had one "L" left to use in my pack so I trimmed down a letter "E" to use as my second "L".  I used the March 2020 This Is Life "Weekend Life" Stamp Set to stamp the phrase underneath, then added a little more stitching.

You can see my process in the video below...



I love how this spread turned out with the soft pretty colours and florals from the "Weekender" Kit!

I hope you've enjoyed seeing how I put it all together.  Thank you so much for stopping by the blog today!

Sheree x

Life Crafted with Erica

Hey guys! It's Erica here with another layout in my Life Crafted album using the Weekender kit!

Choosing which photos to use and which to leave out on a layout can be hard for me. I love including as many photos as I can, so I am absolutely thrilled with the 2x2 Pocket Pages to give me all the space I need!

On the left hand side of my spread I chose two of favourite photos to highlight and printed them larger. I added layers and texture with scraps of the 6x8 papers. I stamped directly on my photo with the adorable Weekend Life stamp set, and added the gold puffy alphas for my title.





On each photo I added the same elements to compliment each other- a chipboard tab, gold alphas and a phrase from the ephemera pack.





On the right hand side I filled half of my pockets with photos, alternating each pocket with a white piece of card to stamp on and embellish. I chose colours to compliment the bright and fun nature of my photos and the little shops stamp was perfect for Brunch!





I used a few elements from the March Cutaparts Sheet on one pocket. They are a fantastic source for bonus ephemera. I always print mine immediately and incorporate them into my diecut pack. 





To finish off my spread I sprinkled a few puffy hearts about and added a little bit of journaling to a label. Now it's all ready to pop into my Life Crafted album!





Thanks for joining me on the blog today! Happy crafting!

Memory Planning with Krystal

Hi everyone! Krystal here with another project using the gorgeous Weekender Life Crafted Kit. For this project, I'm working in my 2020 Creativity Journal, which is a place for me to document my creative journey using the memory planner format.

As usual, I started with my photos. I had six photos to document this week, so I spread them out on the pages based on the days they were shared publicly. 

Next I went through the remaining supplies in my kit. I chose a few items I knew I wanted to include and based my color scheme around them. Then I pulled other elements from the kit to coordinate with them.

Before I glued anything down to the page, I decided to add some stamping. I used the Weekender stamp set, the This Is Life "Weekend Life" stamp set, and the Traveler's Notebook stamp set, and created clusters of stamping around the page using inks from my stash that coordinated with my color scheme. I really love how all of the stamping turned out!

Once the stamping was in place, I could start making some final decisions about my embellishments. I decided to mimic the stamp clusters by also creating clusters of embellishments around my photos and in other parts of the page. I layered multiple die cuts and used my circle punch to add bits of the patterned papers from the kit as well. 

I also added a few pieces of chipboard and some of the beautiful puffy hearts for dimension and texture. Because I'm keeping these pages in a three-ring binder, I don't have to worry too much about how thick the finished pages end up being. 

As always, I tried to work in elements of three, or other odd numbers. So I included three pieces of the dark teal floral paper and three pieces of the yellow tonal paper as well. I find that things always look more balanced to my eye when I use odd numbered clusters. 

I mixed in pieces from both the die cut ephemera pack that came in the kit and the digital cut-apart sheet you get as a subscriber. I love that this sheet gives us even more options. It all coordinates so well! 

Of course, to give the whole page a finished feel, I added some hand-drawn doodles around the clusters I had created. I love the little bit of whimsy this adds to my spreads! 

You can see how the whole page came together in the process video below: 

I hope you found some inspiration for using your kit. Thanks so much for stopping by! Until next time!

Pocket Life Challenge with Amy Jo Vanden Brink

Wow!  Time to get those photos in the pockets everyone!  One of the best ways to do that is to get your photos printed!  I like to work ahead and print on a weekly basis so that I never get behind, then when a new kit arrives on my doorstep I can fill in the gaps with my favourite pieces.

Challenge: Get photos ready in advance of the new kit arriving!

If you already have photos ready, good for you.  I'm going to show you one of my Pocket Page spreads that was ready and awaiting photos when my March kit landed (so the photos are from February, I don't usually find there is much problem in matching up the photos from one month to the kit from another.  Especially when the theme is so easy like this Weekender kit!)

I had a variety of photos ready to go here, and when I'm working like this, the thing that makes it easy for me is to pull one or two colors from the new kit out.  Here you can see I grabbed the yellow and the pink (so easy as they are my top two colors!) and then some small pieces to support those colors (tags, chipboard arrow).

If you struggle to find enough cards or pieces in the right color scheme, you can always fill up a blank white 3x4 card with one of the larger tag pieces, or as in the bottom right corner on the next page, you can cut down some of the 6x8 papers to make smaller cards.  Adding the large circle makes it look like it was a card that was designed to look like this, but it was two separate pieces.

The next step for me is to find small sayings or sentiments that can further tell my stories, or even just a small embellishment to make the page feel finished.

Thanks for joining me today!  I hope this gets you putting photos in the pockets of your own albums!

Sunday Sketch with Sheree

Hi everyone!

I’m so happy to be here on the blog today to share the Sunday Sketch with you!  I love working with sketches and this has to be one of my favourites yet!  Let’s take a look…

Here’s what I came up with using the gorgeous March “Weekender” Life Crafted Kit…

Since I really liked the sketch I pretty much stuck to the basic design.  I decided on two inch square photos and matted each of them with the pretty teal paper from the kit.  I also chose white cardstock for the background so the colourful papers and embellishments would really pop.

Across the top of the page I positioned the first photo and added some messy machine stitching to the top left corner and a chipboard circle embellishment to the top right.   Next to this I have a strip of the yellow paper from the kit with a stamped sentiment from the new March2020 Life Crafted Traveler’s Notebook Stamp Set and a puffy heart sticker.  There is also ticket and phrase die cut embellishments grouped together which I also added some stitching to.

Across the middle of the layout I layered lots of the puffy heart stickers together in their own little cluster just like in the sketch…so fun!  The photo to the right has a line of stitching across the top for a little texture.

At the bottom section of the page is the third photo.  I added a die cut tab with another stamped sentiment from the same stamp set that I used earlier.  To the right I used the “Comments” die cut for the title and I absolutely love these letter stickers in the kit this month!  Underneath is one of the labels from the cut apart sheet.  I added more stitching and made my own little date tag from white cardstock, added some twine which was stapled into place and another puffy heart sticker was the final touch.

You can see my process in the video below...

 

I had so much fun working with this sketch and I hope I’ve inspired you to have a go at it too!

Thank you for joining me on the blog today!  I look forward to sharing more “Weekender” Kit projects with you soon.

Enjoy your Sunday!

Sheree x