Celebrating 11 Years - mini album

Hey hey, hope you're having a great weekend so far. I know I am. We just got home not to long ago from a quick 24 hr little getaway. We didn't go to far or do anything that was to special, but we still had fun.

 I got this super cute itty bitty instax album (it's the cutest thing ever) and I knew that I wanted to use it to document our 11 yr. anniversary. I picked out some papers and used the tag die from Studio Calico to use in it. My original plan was to use pictures from our actual anniversary (May 11), but we both ended up having to work so we just went to dinner. I took a few pictures then, but we decided to use our little getaway as part of celebrating too, so I'm using some pictures from that.

I tried doing some embossing on a couple of the pictures and even though the embossing powder got a little messy, I still like the way looks. Just need to practice it some more. I picked up a Rangers emboss IT pen and used that for the XOXO and a Kelly Purkey stamp on the bottom one.

 

Pretty sure I'm going to need one of these cute little albums in every color. This was a very simple and quick mini album and I can't wait to do another one!

Project Life - Week 13

Happy International Scrapbooking Day! Hopping on real quick to share week 13 this morning. This was the week that I also document a day in the life, so there's a few more pictures than usual.

To document a day in the life I used a baseball card size sleeve, Ali Edwards Day In The Life kit and her digital layered templates.

 I took a lot of pictures throughout the day, but in the end I just picked the ones that I really liked and the ones that really represent what a normal day looks like around here.

I'm still loving that time/date stamp from the kit. I'm sure I'll be using it all the time.
And that's a wrap on week 13, my first insert for the year and my first time documenting a day in the life. I'm off to hopefully get some more creative time in today. Hope you have a great weekend.

Project Life Week 11 & 12

Hello hello and TGIF!!! Boy who else is excited that the weekend is finally here? I know I am, but then again I'm always ready for the weekend. Wanted to share weeks 11 & 12 today to hopefully get kind of caught up on sharing project since next week starts Week In The life and that will take up all of my time . 

 For whatever reason week 11 had very few photos. Not sure if it was just a busy week or I just didn't feel like taking any photos. Either way that's how life goes sometimes. But that full 12x12 photo makes me happy so in the end I'm more than happy with how the spread turned out.

Another large photo to start off week 12 and I love it too. The weekend was pretty busy with taking some SR. picture for two of my nephews and fishing and riding our side by side. This spread screams Spring and fun and sunshine to me. Love it!!!! Tomorrow is National Scrapbooking day and I've got plans to hopefully get caught up on some more of my projects so that I can give my full attention to documenting a week in the life. What about you, any fun scrapbooking plans this weekend?

One Little Word March

 Hey, hey happy hump day! Wanted to share my March One Little Word album today. The prompt for the month was to create a vision board. I went back and forth on how I wanted to do this. I thought I would do like Ali and some of the others in the class and do an actually board, but in the end I decided on something simple that I could just slide right into my album. Who knows maybe once we are out of the trailer and have more room I'll go back and do a board to hang in my office. But for now this is what worked for me.

Added the saying right onto one of my photos. I love doing this to make a big impact. I added the 3x4 cards to remind me to use my word, be open to my word, believe in my word.

To trust in my word, focus on my word, and to make my word visible. I'm really loving this class and the idea behind it. Looking forward to using my word the rest of the year.

Project Life - Week 10

Moving right along with Project Life. Here's week 10.

Girl Scout cookies for breakfast for the WIN!

Threw this embellishment in as a reminder to myself. I love it. It is the simple things that makes days beautiful.

Project Life - Week 9

Hello, Monday. Now that I've completed my Week In The Life album I'm playing catch up with my Project Life album. I know I've said it before, but man I hate being behind on this project or any project really. But life gets busy and hello if you're not living life then what to do you document?!?! Anyway I wanted to share week 9 today.

The YOU GOT THIS card is a printable card from Ali Edwards. 

And thats a wrap for week nine. Hope you're having a great Monday.

Week In The Life 2015 (Saturday & Sunday)

 Hello, hello and happy Saturday! I actually finished my 2015 Week in the life album!!!!!! Before the next on starts on May 9th!!!!! Ya'll I really am excited that I got it done. And I really want to go back and finish my 2014 album too. It's a goal of my to get it done by the end of the years.

I didn't do anything amazing with the album as you can tell by the rest of the album and I'm totally ok with that. At this point all I cared about was getting the stories and memories and our routines down in this album. So if you want take a minute to finish looking at what our Saturday & Sunday looked like.

Wohooo!!! So glad that this project is complete and on the shelf. Now that I finished it and looking back on my uncompleted 2014 album I've figured out a few things for this project for 2016 and I'm really looking forward to documenting a week in our lives this year. Not to mention that the super cute kit that I ordered from Ali Edwards will make it that much easier to help me complete it a lot quicker or at least that's the reason I keep telling myself that's why I ordered it. :) Are you joining in this year?

Seattle

 Got home pretty late last night from a girls weekend trip to Seattle where we had sooooo much fun!! It was our first time to go Seattle so we tried to make sure we did we all the touristy things. We missed a few things that were on our list, but we've decided that we'll just have to go back sometime.;)  Of course we hit up Pike Place Market numerous times while there. They have THE prettiest and chap flowers there!! If I lived in Seattle I'd have fresh flowers all over my house every week.

I have so many pictures that still need to be gone through and I need to decide how I want to document this fab trip. Have you ever been? What did you most enjoy about it? What is the one thing you would do again? What is one thing you wish you would have done?