Open Post| 2021 starting page with Lory

 

Hey friends! How are you?

2020 is almost came to an end and to be true for so many reasons we are all so happy and relieved that it comes to an end! It was a very hard year even if I think it has taught us to be careful about what really matters in our life! Don't you think?

I'm already thinking to the size of my 2021 PL and I tanto to try the idea to do a 4x8 album for each month telling a little story each day or something like this, random.  So at the end of the 2021 I'll have 12 Life crafted albums and this idea makes me feel so excited! 

So as each year I have preapred my starting page with my intentions, hopes, dreams, writing about my expectations and my goals to achieve! I have written to myself a sort of letter remembering what I have lived this past year and what I want to focus my attention. 

Ok let's start showing you what I have created!

First of all I wanted an envelope to gather together something from the 2020,  a sort of link with the past year. So inside the pocket I have inserted a jumbo 4x8 manila tag ( to be true I am obsessed with them) and some tags and journaling pieces from the Marigold 6x8 paper pad. 

To create the pocket cut a rectangle of a paper of your choice of 16 cm width and 14,5 cm length. On three sides fold at 2 cm on the right and the left and 1,5 cm on the bottom. Then with the double side tape stick the pocket to the inside cover of your Life Crafted album. I have chosen the Sea Glass album.

I added a sort of truck in with another paper and I created the opening of the pocket with a circle punch.Inside the pocket I have added stories, thoughts, pictures. To embellish the pocket some tickets from the amazing new products, a little phrase from the ephemera and a bow.

For the first page my idea was to create a background with the 20 and then to give attention to the 21 , the new year. I have created the 2020 background with the beautiful BIG Numbers stamps, using the white embossing powder and the heat gun. I love this so soft effect. To print the 2 and the 0 in the right way I drew a sort of grid and in each little box I stamped the number 2 or 0.  The result is an effect I see I don't see :)

At last but not the least I played with the other number font of the same stamp set, the stencil one that I love to crazy and a flower, some leaves, some little phrase and some different stamps from Citrus twist. The mix of different fonts and different sizes of what you write is a beautiful mix! The True Life stamps, Simple Words 3 stamps  ,  Conversations starter 1 stamps,

To finish some black ink drops, one picture and the sewing machine.

I hope to preserve memories and build the life I dream to live together who I love.

I wish you all a very happy new year, full of love, dreams come true, health, freedom and beautiful memories.

Love, Lory

Open Post| November everyday Stories with Lory

 

Hey friends! Happy Wednesday everyone! Hope you alla are safe and healthy!

Here we stay at home. home working, home schooling, home everything he he but I am happy because I'm enjoying the time with my family and positive vibes that this gives me. We are storytellers is it right? So we tell good and bad stories, what we live everyday makes us a growing person , a better person. 

This time i have told the story of my husband accident... it's true we have one life but if we live it in the best way we can one is enough and we don't have to give neither a minute of it for grande! I have learned this lately better than any other time in my whole life.

My husband has been miracled and I am happy to tell this story just because I can tell a happy end story! It has been a rise and spine kind of situation! A sort of second possibility and I want to take it and do good things ahead! I want to live my life in a different way than before! So my advise is tell your real stories, not just the good and the special occasions, every single day matters, even the worst day has something to tell us!

In this days you understand, you really understand how much family counts! 

I have used the amazing November kit Legendary and the beautiful digitals! Just a simple story using the TN digital papers and some of the journal cards you find in the kit, the 4x6 card with a picture in the same size. I have fold them at 10 cm to create a sort of little door to my journaling and photo. 

Learn something for the days that are not like you would and you will rise and spine for sure!

Have a wonderful week everyone!

Love, Lory

Open Post | October pocket pages spread with Lory

Hey there! How are you friends? It's a very strange period all over the world and I think that never like now creativity is our best and stronger weapon! Creativity keeps our mind healthy and same and this is so important! Especially during hard times! It's my way to download  stress, worries, and to drive down bad thoughts. Are you agree?

I have finally received my new Life Crafted albums and I couldn't wait to use the new page protectors! I am a fan of insta images and it was a lot I wanted to use one of it.  Why do I love pocket pages, Life crated album so deeply! Because this kind of creativity, storytelling has stole my heart! It's a way to feel better and to put outside what I have inside me. I often love to write, to tell something about me, my current feelings, my current mood. Small vittoriese are the best! They are the greatest one step at a time! Slowly but constantly!

So I told this little but so meaningful stories and I repeat to myself "don't  give up"!

To tell my story I have used the lovely October kit Flourish together the September kit The best part. I created my own embellishments with the fabulous READY FOR THIS stamps and stitching each comic strip to the background paper. I have added a phrase that reminds me to not give up, to embrace imperfection, to grow and bloom! 

Love the final result. Then I added a piece of paper from the july scrapbook add on kit. That phrase was perfect for this story.  In the end just added my computer journaling in a 3x4 journaling card and than a quote card perfect to me! Less Rush more Life! So meaningful!

What do you think? With the amazing Citrus Twist stamps you can create gorgeous embellishments! I can't finish to tell my stories without the use of a stamp! Love them all to pieces!

Thank you so much for watching and can 't wait to see how you use these so adorable page protectors. Hope to inspire you.

Have a great day.

Love, Lory

Open Post by Loredana Bucaria

Hey there guys! Happy Monday! Here in Italy the week starts with Monday and when I have a creative monda my week starts in a very good way!

Today I am happy to share with you the beginning of my July album and I feel so excited to tell my stories ... I don't know why but when I tell my everyday stories filling my albums and reading them back I feel so so so happy.

I have a lot of fun playing with digitals, editing my photos, thinking about the composition and how I want to insert just that kind of embellishment or card. It makes me feel relaxed and happy.

For this spread Life Crafted spread I have chosen two of the THE BEST PARTS TRAVELER'S NOTEBOOK BASICS DIGITAL PAPERS - SEPTEMBER 2020.  I had an idea about the TN page with flowers, I cut on three sides the white window inserting behind the wood paper from the September The best part Life Crafted kit and a phrase from the 

PRINTABLE - THE BEST PARTS CUTAPART ELEMENTS - SEPTEMBER 2020. I cut the phrase in more little words and then sticked all pieces at the paper just adding a little heart.

Take a look at the following pictures.

To open the window I created just a little label sewed to it.  

On the right I have just written my story on the digital file and I have added some subtitles with different kinds of Citrus Twist stamps,  and a little more journaling adding some ephemera and a tag. I played a lot with stamps. I have used the 

SEPTEMBER 2020 LIFE CRAFTED TRAVELERS NOTEBOOK STAMP , 

4" X 6" ALL THE FEELS STAMP , 

MAY 2020 LIFE CRAFTED TRAVELERS NOTEBOOK STAMP, SINGLE

I am completely and deeply in love with tiny details! I can't consider a story completely told without the use of my stamps :)

The second spread is about a big 4x8 inches photo and some 3x4 photo and card. Love this combination. Here I have used a mix of different old kits and the September kit. Also here I had fun adding details here and there :) Hope you like these ideas and will be inspired to create yours telling your stories. 

Did you join our waiting list? These kits are gorgeous! I love them to pieces!

Have a wonderful Monday everyone!

"Christmas Spectacular" with Erica

Hey guys, it's Erica! Today I am back on the blog to share a day in my 2019 December Daily album using the January Life Crafted Kit. For this project I really wanted to utilize ephemera from the event and since the show was circus themed it fit perfectly with this month's kit!





I started off by creating a pocket using a piece of the program I brought back from the show. I stitched it down with gold thread onto one of the papers from the kit. This is a great way for me to house multiple photos and make an interactive element in my spread. I slipped in two 3x4 cards and my favourite 4x6 card from the kit. I added puffy stickers and used the large 'fierce' ephemera piece as my title.





On the right side of my spread I used the 3x8 bookmark from the kit. I attached a small photo and layered a few of the ticket die cuts, and embraced the circus theme with the tent ephemera! I loved the number puffy stickers and I'd usually be tempted to create a list with them, but since this happened to the 13th I decided to go ahead and use two of them for my day.





In my pocket on the left hand side, I used both the front and backs of all of my cards to decorate and attach photos. On two of them I printed instax photos and pulled mini paperclips from my stash to decorate. I still glued all the photos down, but the clips add a cute vintage element. I also added this acrobat card that I've been hoarding for just something like this!





To decorate the backs of my cards, I used the Fierce & Fabulous stamp and the Traveler's Notebook stamp to create labels. I used a blue ink that I thought was close to the kit, and created my own sentiment by combining words from both stamps. I simply masked off the word I didn't want with a bit of washi tape and then removed it after I had inked up my stamp.





I added a few more ephemera pieces and puffy stickers to finish off my cards, slipped them back into my pocket and the whole thing came together!





Thanks so much for stopping by today. See you next time!

Create your own patterned paper with stamps!

Hi Guys! Diane here to show you how to create your own totally customisable pattern paper using the Simple Words Version 2 stamp set! Okay, technically you can use any stamp set, but this one is perfect!

The first step is to remove the backing sheet from your stamp set but leave all the stamps attached! Then add some double sided tape to the front of the stamp set sheet and stick it to a very large block. If you don't have a stamp block large enough, try using something else large and flat, but it needs to be clear!

Ink up the entire set and stamp it onto your paper. You can use plain paper like I did, or tey adding the stamping over top of an existing patterned paper. Choose a colour to coordinate with your photos. You could make cards for your pocket pages or even a full 12x12 sheet! Endless options.

To add a little colour, I used two different blue highlighters to highlight different phrases in the pattern. Try to spread any colour you add around the page but feel free to make it as random as you like! And that's it. Simple right?!

Once the pattern paper was created, I really simple put the page together but adding some patterned paper from the Life Crafted kit to mat my photos, cut a few labels from the cut apart sheet, added a title and a cork sticker and then popped some journalling into the blank space on my photo. The whole thing took 25 minutes from start to finish!

Here's a look at the process this spread took ...

Thanks for stopping by today and I'd love to see any page you create using this technique so don't forget to tag me and share in the Facebook Fan page!

Documenting the Everyday with Nathalie

Hi there!
Nathalie with you today to give you some inspiration when it comes to documenting your every day life.   I think, some of my favorite memories to document are those of simple gestures or moments that happen in our day, and what better way to do it than with the patterns and colors of the Pleasant Valley kits. 

I decided to create a soft girly page with no flowers  -that was a major challenge for me!-   So, i pulled a folding star die from my stash and cut a few stars from  papers from the Pleasant Valley kit,  the choice of papers was made so that pink was the main color of the page.

The negative pieces from the star die cuts were used to create the stitching pattern on the background on the page.   A bit of foam adhesive holds the folded stars in place.

The picture was backed with a paper that contrasted the pink of the stars, and then nestled in the center of the layout.   One large cluster of ephemera and stickers from both the main and embellishment kits was added to the picture.

Repetition is the key to create a visual triangle on this page. In this case, stickers, hearts, labels, stamps and enamel dots.   Love the colors of the Pleasant Valley kits!!!.

I used a combination of the 1Canoe2 chipboard word stickers and the small puffy Pink Paislee alphas from the Pleasant Valley kits to create the title on the page. 

I really love how this turned out, and how easy it was to put together.   I hope this has inspired you to document your everyday moments using the beautiful PLeasant Valley kits, I cannot wait to see what you create!

Before i go, let me wish you a Blessed Christmas, let the peace of the season remain with you through the New Year!

XO