Messy Box 2: Electric Boogaloo

SPRING...

I used the striped paper for journaling on top and the SPRING card from the 2nd Box. The WOW chipboard letters look super on my saguaro pic. They're from the 1st Box.

But my favorite was this 3x4 card. I cut out the head from our take home papers from urgent care. Recycling awesomeness.

Kelly Purkey inspired me to stamp on my pic. I used Staz On for the first time. It is no joke. I like how it turned out and will definitely be doing it more.

I also tried to use up an entire sheet of tiny puffy heart stickers but only got halfway. When Corey saw it he said those hearts are what Stellaluna pictures all the time, and then we laughed.

I like how both kits still fit together and I can't wait to get the next one!

long weekends

We got a lot of yard work done on our long weekend. It's looking good back there. Final project is a mini grass patch for the spoiled mini pack!

P.S. Cha Cha Chia Chihuahua is by Mike Holzer.

Project Life May 2013 continued

I really like how this week turned out. It includes Corey meeting Grumpy Cat, a pack walk, buying flowers for 2 of my favorite people, 2 students watering our class garden, Mad Men, Star Trek Into Darkness, a funny hat bike ride, and The Preakness Stakes.

A closer look...The Born in the USA thing came from the packaging Corey's flowers came in. I also wanted to note that Corey meets celebrities constantly at his job and rarely takes pictures of them for himself, but he couldn't resist when Grumpy Cat came to the station.

Another post card saved from advertising days used for finishing season 2 of Mad Men, mounted on a junk mail card:

Vellum and patterned paper:

Star Trek pic printed off the internet, and Liberty Market sign pic taken by me:

The sign pic goes with a bike ride my friend Stephanie organized with her bf. I added a sticker to the pics on the left and used part of their invitation for a caption on the pic on the right:

Here's the whole page, mostly about the bike ride but I fit the Preakness from the previous day in too:

Again I used the invitation as my background here. Saved me from journaling the who, what, when, where...

Coincidentally the canal we rode along was constructed exactly 100 years before. It says, "WATER FROM THE SALT RIVER RUNS THROUGH THE CITY":

This pic from the Preakness is from the newspaper. I just added journaling and a sticker:

Again, you can be creative with the materials you find around you to scrapbook with. The only traditional supplies I used were 3 stickers, 4 scraps of patterned paper, a post-it note, and a vellum die cut.

2013: A Year in Pictures

January: Lots of Fresh Grapefruit Juice and Vodka Greyhounds Thanks to our Tree and Electric Juicer

February: Pack Walk With Our Big Friends

March: Dinner With Sara and Angi at Gertrude's is Just What I Need

April: We Say Goodbye to Our Friend Strega Nona

Joe Makes Us a Game of Thrones Dinner

and We See Oblivion with Jake

May: Funny Hat Bike Ride with Stephanie et al.

and Corey Meets Grumpy Cat

June: A Day at Rosie's Dog Beach

July: Kathleen and Mark Get Married

and We Go to a Diamondbacks Game to Celebrate Our First Date Anniversary

August: Corey Fixes the Sliding Glass Door

September: We Eat at Venezia's Like We're in Breaking Bad

October: Stephanie and I See The Avett Brothers Again

and We Take the Dogs on a Halloween Pack Walk After the Trick-or-Treat Parade

November: Corey Surprises Me by Reserving the Cotton Club for My Birthday Party

December: Corey Turns Our House Into a Winter Wonderland

and Greg Takes Tito and I on a Volcano Tour

Love and Happiness to All in 2014!

guess we're ready for Halloween

Corey surprised me the other day. He bought this costume, dressed up Stellaluna, took a picture, and texted it to me while I was at school. Cuteness overload!

I bought an app.

Last Friday I bought my very first app, A Beautiful Mess, and it's the best 99 cents I ever spent! Combined with the joys of Instagram I have spent a record amount of time on my phone this week.

I can't wait to get these pictures into my Project Life album!

Project Life March continued

This is my other favorite week (visually) from March:

It documents the girls ganging up on a cricket, a text from my nephew, watching Napoleon Dynamite, the first day of spring, and spring in our backyard.

Recently I started printing the pictures family and friends text me to include in this Project. This way I can include the people who live far away that are still a part of my life. This picture is of a card and Weekly Reader about Ireland I sent my nephew for St. Patrick's Day, which he texted as a thank you. Love that kid!

Napoleon Dynamite was on t.v. and we got sucked in. I saved this Napoleon Dynamite chapstick packaging when I got it a very long time ago, and my paper hoarding tendencies paid off. The journaling is on the back (see below).

My Favorite Season is from a Smash pad. I popped out the other seasons, put some patterned paper behind it, wrote some journaling, and stamped the date.

On the left you see Caprica Six guarding our backyard. I added the 24/7 sticker since we joke that she is always on duty. She takes her job very seriously.

On the right is a picture I took of an orange tree blossom. I love the smell of our citrus trees blooming. The quote I used came pre-printed on vellum. One of the nice things about this Project is that you don't have to figure out how to adhere your vellum without it showing. This time I just trimmed the quote and slid it in over my picture, no adhesive required!

Maybe I should post more of my pages because now I see I've made a mistake here: it's March not April. Off to fix it...

I'm back. Another beautiful Arizona sunset! I added a Home sticker and Thickers for the title.

The rest of the week documents my book club meeting to discuss Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, finishing Dragons of Winter Night, a family pack walk, playing Hangman with my class, a factoid about the moon, Survivor, a phone call from my sister, and getting the dogs nails trimmed.

I used a magazine ad and stamped it. Free and saved from the landfill!

The distance to the moon was mentioned in The Secret Life of Bees which I was reading that week so I wanted to include it. Luckily I went to the internet to double check the distance before I included it because it was wrong in the book. Actually I went to many websites that gave various distances so I finally settled on the one that had a range of distances since the moon gets closer and farther. That one made the most sense to me so that's what I went with. Hopefully it's right!

I used some scraps of patterned paper, letter stickers, and a sticker (couldn't believe I had a sticker with the moon on hand!). The patterned paper had a star already punched out of it so I highlighted it by rubbing some white stamp ink along the edges.

Finally we have an unfortunate victim of Survivor which I printed off the internet, and the back of the Napoleon Dynamite chapstick packaging (it's as cute as the front) where I added some paper flags for journaling. Free and saved from the landfill!

red

We're back from our trip to California. The dogs loved the ocean, but we learned Stellaluna prefers a private beach to public. Happy birthday to my best friend and life partner.

P.S. Sylvia Needs A Couple Of Eggs is by Robin Faye Gates.