Life in Details July Challenge

Project Life Share 2013

Hello there!
Yes I now it has been a long time since I have updated my blog.  I have been very busy with my 50 card challenge (more details on that in another post).
Today I welcome you to another Life in Details Challenge.  This months challenge is to use a 4x6 picture across 2 pockets.

Project Life 2013 Week 28

This page is the left side of Week 28 and docuements our road trip back home from Florida. Truthfully, I don't remember what state that bridge is in.  HA.  So much for documenting the details.  

I used Crate Paper's The Pier Collection as well as Basic Grey's Carte Postale to document the entire trip. Please don't laugh at me and my goofy face...I was delirious at that point of the trip!

My original idea was to use a few pictures of the trip in the Family Project Life Album and then create a handbook for the entire trip.  BUT I ended up documenting the entire trip in the PL album and didn't add any memorabilia.  I'm glad I changed my plan because otherwise the pictures would still be sitting in my computer.  

Please join us for this month's challenge!  I think you'll like what the rest of the design team has shared this month.  

I'm also linked up at The Mom Creative.

Thanks or stopping by!

Marisol

Project Life 2013 Week 21

Project Life 2013 Week 21

A camping house, hot weather, reading, and a birthday!

I love the randomness of this weeks left side.  I LOVE using alphabet stickers on my project but I didn't have the right letter stickers to create my daughter's quote and so I turned to my alphabet stamps! I  recently purchased  Lawn Fawn Claire's alphabet stamp set and used  it in the speech bubble to quote my daughter. I love all of Lawn Fawn's alphabet sets because the actual stamp is cut into a rectangle and all the letters line up perfectly with each other giving you the perfect amount of space in between each letter!  AND the newer sets include more than one stamp for the most popular letters in the alphabet.  This allows for creating an entire word with multiple letters and/or vowels.  I'm slowly purchasing all the sets.  I currently have 3.  They are the perfect size for pocket pages. I'm not sure why more companies haven't created similar alphabet stamps!

My son turned 9 this week and I devoted the right side of the spread to his party.  I didn't have any birthday related cards in any of my kits and so I turned to my stash! I used an OLD DCVW birthday paper pad to create the cards on this page.  I handed the pen over to him and let him fill in the prompts.  I love that he agreed and now I have his handwriting in the album.

IDEA: Turn to your stash!  Create your own journal cards when you don't have premade cards to match your story. Use alphabet stamps when you don't have the right letter stickers for your project.

Thanks for stopping by!

Marisol

Project Life Week 15

Project Life 2013- Week 15

A Sunday trip to the park, a week full of daycare activities and a birthday party completed our week.  

Week 15
This week includes an insert because it was my son's 2nd birthday.  His birthday was so much fun.  We played pin the banana on Curious George (even the grown-ups played...actually they had more fun than the kids) and had an Ice Cream Sundae buffet. Both activities were a HUGE hit!
I cut off part of Design F and added a flagged paperclip to help identify the insert. However, the clip keeps falling off!  Now I have to find another way to add a tab or something to help identify the insert. Any ideas?

The weather was so nice that we took a quick trip to a local park.  Nothing fancy about this page other than the fact that I adhered the LIVE flair badge on the outside of the protector. And now that I think about it that is not fancy either. HA. I added the title directly onto the white space of the picture of the tree. I often purposely take pictures with white space so that I can embellish or journal the area. I also embellished the pre-made 3x4 cards with stamps. 

First let me apologize for the horrible picture!  Not lots of journaling on this spread.  The top left pocket holds a picture of a quilt square my daughter and I made for the daycare quilt.  As you can see we used lots of scrapbooking goodies to create the quilt square.  I embellished a SC card with stamps and letter stickers.

A handmade 4x6 journaling card, a filler card and a confetti pocket complete this page.  I didn't add anything else because the pictures themselves are 'busy' and tell the story on their own.  

The back of the insert...such a horrible picture! Stupid glare!  I wanted to use the color orange and didn't have a premade journaling card in that color so I  created another handmade journaling card.  I used a really old stamp and slapped a label on top and called it done!

I let the pictures tell the story this week and used very little fluff.  I tend to do this when I have tons of pictures from an event such as a birthday.  I'm sure many other things happened this week and they went undocumented. I'm OK with that. This is my 3rd year documenting our life PL style and I no longer have the need to document every little detail every week.  

TIP:   Let your pictures do the talking.  When you have lots of 'busy' pictures tell the story on one or two journaling cards and let the pictures tell the rest of the story without any added embellishments or labels. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Marisol

Project Life Week 11

Happy Saturday!  

*Scroll down to find the April 12 Project Life Celebratory Blog Hop post.*  

Today I'm participating in another Project Life Blog Hop hosted by  Michelle Bostinelos . Be sure to drop by her blog...it's fabulous!  

I barely picked up the camera during Week 11. We lost a dear family friend and most of the week was spent in mourning.  I am so grateful for the little moments I was able to capture and document.

Project Life 2013 Week 

I used the Citrus Twist March PL Kit

The kit was so full of color and complemented the photos of my boys playing together.

Week 11 Left Side

Most weeks my spreads are picture heavy leaving little room for embellished cards. But not this week!  I had fun getting creative with a few of the pockets.

In this pocket I adhered a 3x4 (custom made by Citrus Twist) card on a 4x6 card.  I embellished the 3x4 card with thickers, sequins, an opaque gem, an arrow sticker and a heart sticker. I even hand stitched around the arrow. It was easy and then I got ambitious and tried hand stitching on a layout...not so easy! Anyway I digress.  The camera was cut out from the Darling Dear collection by Studio Calico and attached to the 'Don't Forget' label from Pink Paislee.  I then arranged the stamps from the kit onto my block and stamped it repeatedly.  It says happy, playing,dreaming, learning, sharing, laughing.

I wanted to use a speech bubble to document something my daughter said.  I didn't have a 3x4 card that suited my need so I cut the speech bubble out from a 3x4 card and layered it over another 3x4 card. I then used an arrow stamp to create lines for the journaling.  Viola! Custom made journaling card!  After listening to 'We are never getting back together' by Taylor Swift my daughter said 'That is so sad because if you love someone you should be with them.'  She really does say the cutest things!

The right side of my spread is dedicated to our dear friend, Antonio, who lost his 4 year battle with cancer.  I used a WRMK page protector because I wanted to include the funeral book in it's entirety.  The pocket on the right is 6x12.  The booklet is not adhered to the cardstock I added but rather held in place with a Tim Holtz mini paperclip.  This way I can take out the booklet and read its content.  I included a picture of Antonio and his wife as well as a picture of the new Pope.  Antonio was a very religious person and we all thought it was beautiful that a new Pope was chosen on the day of his burial.  

The 2013 Project Life April Blog Hop

**UPDATE: I'm sharing this post over at The Mom Creative. She shared a post about setting up a baby album using PL products.  I thought I would share my youngest sons album too.

Welcome to the April 12 Project Life Celebratory Blog Hop! 

Today's blog is being hosted by the lovely Margie over at Nihao, Cupcake!

We are 1/4 of the way through 2013 and want to celebrate the progress we have made on our albums. Please join us in celebrating!  

Baby Album-Project Life Style

While taking photos of my current week I remembered that my youngest is turning two!  Like most moms in my situation my first thought was 'AWWW he is growing so fast!" and like most scrapping moms in my situation my second thought was 'I haven't even finished his baby album!'  

This is the intro page to the album.  He was just two days old! It is so hard to believe that at one point those socks fit his feet.

Before Becky Higgins, the creator of Project Life came out with the Baby Editions  of Project Life I was using the Turquoise Edition core kit and my paper and stamp stash to create his baby album.  Prompts from a traditional store bought baby book guided me as I created the album.  I decided early on that I wanted to include traditional 12x12 layouts, memorabilia, and different sized pages in addition to Design A pocket pages.  

Baby's First Picture

The picture of me in the right hand corner was taken 2 days before he was born! I used lots of letter stickers on this page.  I LOVE using letter stickers in my albums!

Baby Shower

I included the origami ducks that my co-worker created for the shower, as well as tags from some of the clothes and blankets received at the shower. I used a bifold card to tell the story of my work and family showers.

All about Mom and Dad.  

(I covered up our personal info.)  I included recent pictures of us as well as pictures from our dating years. The blank spot with the orange sticky is meant for a picture of the kids prior to the baby's birth.  Note to self...print that picture! HA.

Welcome Baby

I included our hospital bracelets (info is blurred) as well as the tag from his hospital crib.  On the right is the first 12x12 layout.

Meeting your siblings

I was inspired by this layout over at Twopeasinabucket.com and decided  to create a similar page for every month of the year. 

I used a stamp set to create the dates on the calendar and sticker elements  from a paper collection by Echo Park.  

My initial plan was to create weekly spreads just like my 2011 Family PL album.  I was plugging along on both albums until I returned to work in September.  

In Good Hands. Visitors.

I used the number stickers in the core kit on each picture to identify the name of the person in the picture on a journaling card.

Every month I include his length and weight as well as a picture of him at the Doctor's office.

By the time June rolled around I was starting to use a lot more of my supplies to make my own 3x4 cards.  I cut up the index print that came with my photo order and added them to the calendar!

He wore this onesie a lot!  I love that I was able to include another piece of memorabilia that he actually wore.  I just slipped the onesie into the page protector.  I didn't want to attach it with anything because I wanted the option of removing it from the page protector.

I already created the monthly title cards and the calendars for the rest of the year.  Many pictures are already printed and in the album.  I have also included many notes and my 2011 album will help me fill in any gaps.

Although the album is incomplete and my baby is now two I love this album and the progress I have made on it.  Completing the album is on my summer to do list.

Thanks for stopping by!
Marisol

Next in the blog hop is Brooke . Be sure to stop by all the blogs participating in today's hop!

Margie      http://xnomads.typepad.com
Maya        http://mayadahan.blogspot.com
Michelle    http://www.table-for-five.com/
Kristy      http://kmstewart.blogspot.com
Michelle R  http://MichelleRoger.wordpress.com
Emily        http://mrscraftyadams.blogspot.com
Barbara    www.maynardpl.blogspot.co.uk
Esau         http://www.twochicsandacricut.blogspot.com/
Michelle B   www.michellebostinelos.com/blog
Tina         http://tinasscrapcorner.blogspot.com/
Nicole       http://nicolemann.blogspot.ca
Marisol      www.mariclaudibenitez.blogspot.com <------ That's me!
Brooke       www.graceandlight.typepad.com
Scruptious   http://eversoscrumptiously.wordpress.com/
Rechelle     http://Levanfamily365.blogspot.com
Kelli        http://whimsikel.blogspot.com
Sonia        http://www.craftshandson.blogspot.com
Shay         http://sbookinshay29.blogspot.com
Rebekah   http://istampscrapcraft.wordpress.com/

PL 2013 January

When planning for this year's album I initially thought I would take the monthly approach again Like in 2012. And that is what I did for January.  It wasn't easy planning where the pics would go and so I decided to go back to the weekly approach like in 2011.  

  

January Left side

I also decided to pre-plan which page protectors to use in my album. I set up a variety of pocket pages in my album and will print my pictures accordingly.  I'll share a pic in a different post.  In 2011 I  found that I always printed my pictures to fill in Design A and I was visually bored but whenever I had an insert for the month I was visually interested again.  This left side uses Design F . Lots of Studio Calico January Project Life Kit and some Citrus Twist Kits.

January Insert 

This insert is Design G .

Back side of January Insert

One of the things I love about Project Life is that adding memorabilia to the pockets is so easy!  In this insert  I added the tag from the purse my hubby bought me for our anniversary. Adding movie tickets, business cards or your kids artwork is super easy!

Last page for January using Design A

In the third 3x4 pocket I inserted a paper bag and wrote the journaling on a shipping tag.  Also inside the paper bag is the Civil Air Patrol Pledge.  The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is an auxiliary to the Air Force and my son is now a cadet!  I cut out the CAP emblem from the paperwork we received and adhered it to the the front of the bag.  In the top right pocket I created a month in review card where I listed some of the events that happened this month.

The second 3x4 pocket is quote by my four year old daughter.  This is how the conversation went: 

Claudia: Mom can I wear a dress?

Mom: Why do you always want to wear dresses?

Claudia: Because dresses are prettier than clothes and dresses make me look like a princess. And princesses wear dresses everyday!

That is so her!

January Insert #2 

Our 19th Wedding Anniversary was in Jan and my hubby gave me the most perfect card and a gorgeous purse.  I trimmed the card by about a 1/2 of an inch to fit it inside of the 8x8 page protector.  I trimmed a journaling card from Pebbles that I received in my Citrus Twist kit.  The beautiful hand made canvas heart is also from Citrus Twist.  I used stamps from the kit and journaled on a shipping tag which is in the little bag. The base for the page is a two sided patterned paper and I kept the back side as is.  

I only keep a few special cards throughout the year because otherwise the cards would add lots of bulk to the album.  Some Project Lifers (yes that is what we call ourselves) use these envelopes to store memorabilia          

I prefer to add most memorabilia right in the weekly spread.  

I'll be back to share my Project Life set up! 

After looking at this post I can see that you can't see the details very well. I'll figure something out for the next post.

Thanks for stopping by.