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  • A Congratulations Card thanks to Project Life Everyday Adventure

    Ok, my brain is on Project Life and pocket page scrapbooking because I’m so stinkin’ excited for having finished up my complete December Daily album for 2014.  Yes! You heard me right… I actually finished a scrapbook LESS THAN A MONTH after the photos were taken!! What?!  I know, how crazy is that. Smile

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    But it made me realize how super quick and easy getting your photos off of your computer and into a book can be.  Especially thanks to the accessory kits that Stampin’ Up has created to go along with the card kits.  Seriously, I can make my pages cute and not have to think very much because I just dump out all the supplies on my craft table and just pick from the pile for each page.

    But what if you have extra cards or you don’t feel making a scrapbook album?  How about a card!

    This card was inspired by the fabulous Erica Cerwin during one of the Artisan Blog Hops for Stampin’ Up!  (You can see her card and other great cards using Project Life journalling cards here.)

    Tips for making this card:

    • Pick a bold patterned 4×6 card (like this black and white patterned one from the Everyday Adventure card kit) and trim it down to a smaller size for your background paper.  This was cut down to 4”x5.25”.
    • Mat the card with a slightly larger cardstock piece (like this 4-1/8” x 5-3/8” piece of Basic Black) for a big impact.
    • Take a 3”x4” journaling card and don’t be afraid to turn it on it’s side or cut it down for your sentiment!  Then stamp away – like with this sentiment from the Bravo stamp set.
    • Add a simple accent with glue dots – like the Wooden Elements heart and then a bow out of the Gold Baker’s Twine and you are done!

    See more of my December Album over on my Facebook Page

    Or go check out all the options for Project Life cards and accessory kits (seriously, from now on I’m always getting the accessory kit when I buy a card kit!).  You can even get a special Project Life card kit for FREE as a choice during Sale-a-Bration with a $50 order. Smile  Sweet, right?!

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    Project Supplies Used for the Card:
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  • Project Life by Stampin’ Up & the Everyday Adventure kits

    Project Life by Stampin’ Up & the Everyday Adventure kits

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    This blog post is a looong time coming!  I actually recorded a video about the basics of Project Life, an intro into the differences between Project Life by Stampin’ Up (#plxsu), and about putting together your own project life layout.

    Then the video sat on my computer unedited for a long time.  Oops!  🙂 So, today I thought I would get it off of my computer and share them with you.

    About Project Life and How Project Life by Stampin’ Up is Different

    When Project Life by Stampin’ Up came out, I had customers, downline, and demonstrator friends who had all heard of Project Life or pocket page scrapbooking but didn’t really understand what it was all about.  So I found myself sharing all about it because I had become a fan not too long before it was announced Stampin’ Up was partnering with Becky Higgins to create exclusive Project Life card kits and accessories.  I thought it might be useful to share with others as well, so I did a little video about it as well sharing what PL is all about and how Stampin’ Up card kits are different than what you have gotten before.  (if you are reading this in email the video below won’t show up, so click here to view the blog post w/ videos)

    In a nutshell:

    • The Stampin’ Up cards (by Becky Higgins) have square corners instead of round
    • You get 1 card of each design instead of a bajillion multiples
    • The core kits give you 4×6, 3×4, AND 4×4 cards
    • The accessory packs are a combination of specialty cards, embellishments, stickers, and washi tape!

    Putting Together a Project Life Scrapbook Page

    The thing I really like about Project Life and all the pocket page albums, is that it makes scrapbooking really fast.  So, I like the idea that I’ll actually get some of my pictures off of the computer and into an album where I will ACTUALLY LOOK at them.  Plus maybe even have notes about the events. 🙂 I have way too many photos printed waiting to be scrapped and even more sitting on my computer.  My goal is to get the photos in albums and then I can take my time to make bigger, fancier layouts of the special moments and photos.

    See, I don’t know about you, but I tend to take a ton of pictures at any given event or time and then when I look at them, I have like 20 photos I want to keep and enjoy.  Unfortunately, that gets really hard to put in a scrapbook page nicely unless you have the time to edit them all to be much smaller pictures.  I figure this way I can print and save them and enjoy them.

    Here is the first layout I created using the Everyday Adventure Project Life card kit and accessory pack:

    I walk through actually putting it together in the following video:

    Wanna See ALL the Everyday Adventure Cards?

    The one problem I have with many of the Project Life kits, no matter who the manufacturer is that it is hard to tell what you are going to get in the card kits.  You see a few samples and so you can get the general color scheme, but you take a leap of faith you will like the different designs.  So I thought I would take a picture and share ALL of the designs for the Everyday Adventure Project Life Card Kit so you could see for yourself. 🙂   Just click any picture to see the zoomed in image of the cards.

    Everyday Adventures 4×6 Cards (front side)

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    Everyday Adventures 4×4 Cards (front side)

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    Everyday Adventures 4×4 Cards (back side)

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    Everyday Adventures 3×4 Cards (front side) – group 1

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    Everyday Adventures 3×4 Cards (back side) – group 1

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    Everyday Adventures 3×4 Cards (front side) – group 2

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    Everyday Adventures 3×4 Cards (back side) – group 2

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    Everyday Adventures Accessory Pack

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    Whew!  That was a lot of cards!

    If you are interested in picking up your own packs, you can find them here:

    If you have any questions or would like to see more videos on creating with Project Life, let me know!  I’d be happy to share. 🙂

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  • Trying out Project Life By Stampin’ Up – My First Layout

    I know by now it is old news that Becky Higgins (creator of Project Life) has partnered with Stampin’ Up to create exclusive lines of Project Life cards, accessories, and even a corner punch.  I had been just starting to get into Project Life when this announcement came out and I was stoked!  Especially because I would now be able to have cards that coordinated both in patterns and colors with stuff I already had in my stash! So, here is the first layout I put together using my new goodies: Everything in this layout is from the Everyday Adventure kit and accessory pack.  Can I just say I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the idea of an accessory kit!  Maybe someone else does it out there, but I haven’t seen it with the Becky Higgins kits and We R Memory Keepers card sets.  Why do I love them?  They give me a little bit of lots of awesome bits to embellish up my cards and I don’t have to think about what I have that would match.  See? image

    Everyday Adventure Accessory Pack

    (Do you notice a theme?  I love kits and don’t like having to think about which things match. Smile  Seriously, I love scrapbooking kits that come with paper, embellishments, and die cuts because I know I have a little bit of everything to put my layouts together!) So anyway, for the most part, I just used the cards from the Everyday Adventure card kit and then I may add on or two little accents to a handful of them.  Like in the close up below, you see that card in the upper right?  It looked exactly like that (minus my journaling of course) and I just added a bit of the blue washi tape along the top as a bit of trim. And then, of course, the green arrow and black letters that spell “maple classroom” are stickers from the accessory pack. Oh and that bit of orange at the bottom of the green card?  That is a little acetate (think window sheet) colored piece from the accessory pack.  The doodling look on that card?  Totally printed on, thank goodness! Smile And as my last trick, I used some of that same blue washi tape again to layer a 3×4 PLxSU card  (I’m just going to use the PLxSU to make it less typing when I’m trying to say Project Life by Stampin’ Up… sound ok?  Ok, cool!)  Anyway, I layered a 3×4 PLxSU card on top of a 4×6” PLxSU card and stuck with Washi Tape for a fun layered look.  And if you can’t read it, the quote says “Everyday is a new Adventure” which I thought was PERFECT for this layout because it was about Nicholas being a in a new class at school.  His new adventure. Stampin’ Up! Supplies Used

    And let me say, I’ve been using these cards for MORE than scrapbooking as well.  I made some cards and other fun non-scrapbooking/non-card projects using them for the display boards for convention… so I can’t share them until July, but I’m SO EXCITED to be able to share them then!

    –>>  Plus, stop by the Stylin Stampin Inkspiration blog for even more great ideas for the PLxSU kits (there are 5 different ones available!)  See all the great ideas here

    I hope this gave you some ideas and you can give it a shot yourself!

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