A look at my July PL pages

Happy Thursday friends.

I have been crafty this week.

Anyways I was able to get this fun page done.  I just realized by accident last night that I can use PhotoSheet and my Instagrams to print from my Selphy CP760.  Sadly I can only print 4x4 and 2x2 but I am honestly ok with that.  I made this page using mostly Elle's Studio July kit.  I worked in a calendar card, the blue Studio Calico '4' card and a special Persnickety Prints card that is red and white striped.  I used kraft, red, white, blue, mint and black and I really love it!

I am really iffy on this next one.  I really wanted to document a few photos that I had from our week.  I may go back and dig for another photo.  I had a few sweet friends send me some fun cards and I also used the blue chevron card from Elle's Studio Cameron line and all the rest were from my Studio Calico July Valley High PL kit.  I will likely go back and add some more embellishment to this also.

I have never played with Mister Huey's mists before till this layout.  I flipped some of the orange mist onto a few cards,  I am pretty excited about it.  Now I need more mists in my PL colors.  Cards here are Studio Calico Valley High PL kit, Becky Higgins Rad Dad and there are a few cut apart cards from Amy Tan's Ready Set Go line.  This is also my first time using a screenshot of a weather app.  I will be doing lots more of this.  

Now I will go back to waiting for my UPS driver to get here with a package of goodies from Studio Calico.  I am oddly in love with the colors of the Marks &Co kits this month.  I would have loved to actually have their scrapbook kit as well this month, but I am sticking to one kit at month at this point.  See you all soon with my July spreads!

Project 2012 done in a week!

So, first off, thanks for joining me on Monday Project Life days where I am sharing my project life pages.  And now this, 2012 in a week.  Talk about two much time on my hands.  Ok, so let me explain myself first.

1. I work a seasonal job at a children's art company on three months, off three month, on three month, off three months...you get it right?  Well, my on time happens to be the 'busy' time of the schools years just before mothers/fathers day and before Christmas so we work like crazy people copying/scanning and printing art throughout all 50 states in the USA and some countries.  The job is great, if you ONLY could see the art that I see...so yes, I have lots of free time.  
2. While off work, my children ages 6 and 7 years old this month actually, are both at school full day.  So I have the majority of my day to myself.  When I am not being MOM, a Cub Scout Cubmaster or den leader or watching old tv series on Netflix I need something else to do so I make stuffs.
3.  I just really really really love to scrapbook.  I have been scrapbooking for as long as I remember.  My oldest scrapbooks that I still have date back to 1996 but even before then I spent a lot of time making things.  I was an only child till I was 10 so I didn't have any siblings to beat up as a kid, so I would "sit on my bed and make shit" as my mother would say. 

This basicially sums up my reason for documenting ALL of 2012 in a week.  Like seriously.  Let me tell you a few things about my week.  I spent $$$ of photos from Persnickety Prints and they all arrived at once.  So other than pulling a few hard copies that were given to me ahead of time, I was set with that one delivery.

Most of my SC cards that were never used in 2013 current months were used in my 2012 album, so this means that I had handfuls of cordinating cards and embellies.  Plus, I had been hoarding 12x12 pp so I had everything I needed at my fingertips.  

Then lastly I bought a great priced album and used the same design plastics through my entire album.  So all I needed to do was work on it.  I spent two whole Sundays putting it together and a few hours throughout the rest of my week to finalize spreads and add anything extra.

Anything extra at this point would just be photos found here or there from that year that I would likely just throw together on a 12x12.

So here we go.

So, I ordered nearly 200 3x4 Instagram Polaroids and none of them were in order of when they were taken so this took a few hours to sort through them.  This was my last group to sort through.  I was tired of sorting, just chilling bed watching Gossip Girl reruns...I love Chuck Bass.

This I am pretty positive I posted already.  Just me in progress.

The rest is just a handful of pages from the summer/fall months.

 I actually wanna run some sequins along some of this paper with a sewing machine, but have not been able to do that yet.  I am pretty positive that this is The Paper Studio pp.  I love it so much I have like 20 sheets of it.  I use it way often.

This is actually the back of my cover page.  All out of order.

This is my son Keaton, with the short dark hair and his half brother.  I loved this picture.  I journalled on the 4x6 card and then put some more journalling on that 3x4 card with the tab and star on it.  My only thing I want to do with this is run it through the sewing machine, BUT mine broke.  I need a new one.

Most of the 3x4 cards are either Studio Calico or Elle's Studio.  I also used some more of the woodland pp and a few sheets of Dear Lizzy pp and some Atlantic pp from Studio Calico.  My embellishments are an assortment of Smash, SC, Elle's Studio, K&Company, MME and other lables like Chic Tags and ticket stubs, etc.

I want to just encourage everyone to know that with just a few days and ALL your supplies organized in front of you, that you can complete a whole year right now.  I kept this simple, same plastics, majority of this was all 3x4 Instagram Polaroids from Persnickety Prints.  There were multiple other layouts with random photos too, but those came after the basic bones of the album were assembled.  

Anyways, thanks for looking.  

March Project Life 2013

Here are a few of my March layouts.  I didn't include them all because there were a lot of photos that were of kids that were not my own.  Most of the supplies used here were Seafoam cards and 12x12 papers, Amy Tan die cuts and a few Studio Calico and Clementine cards.

Sadly that is all the fun I have to show you for March BUT I do have some fun from my 

2012 album I started working on yesterday.  I am really excited about this album.  The style is much more free and airy, if that is even a work, than my 2013 album.  I am really excited to show it off once it is totally completed!

More of this later this month or week when I am finished.  Whichever comes first.  I am just waiting on a few things in the mail.

3x4 Instagram Polaroids by Persnickety Prints

YES, I have already been asked about the 3x4 Instagram Polaroids.

My awesome friend Lauren, who is a fellow PLifer and a photographer in the Northern Indiana area, has me HOOKED on Persnickety Prints.  If you are interested in some amazing photos of your family, check her out here.  Look at this!  She is awesome!

Anyways, here are the steps I take to use my Instagrams and turn them into Polaroids not Photoshop involved.

Follow this link here to the Instagram Printing page.  They do more than just the 3x4 Polaroids, you can get them in 3x3s and other square sizes.

If you scroll down a bit, you have a section that looks like this

I always choose option 2 on the list, Instaport.

I choose option 1 Connect your account, which takes me to an Instagram log in box.  Log in.  :)

Upon log in, I have this screen, that is me o_hootie if you want to follow me on Instagram.  I choose the download .zip file box and start the export that takes only seconds.  

Next screen has the orange donate & download button but I just go with the free option and download only.  And it downloads to my downloads folder right away.  Mission Instaport complete.  

Next, log in to Persnickety Prints here.

Obviously, Upload and Order link in the dark purple.  It is cut off in this photo but two buttons to the right on the light blue Slideshow button is the Add Photos button.  Just follow along uploading your Instagram feed from your downloads file that you just downloaded via Instaport.

Once you have added your photos select the photos, they will have an orange boarder around them and then click the orange button that says Order Prints that is to the top right below where you logged in at.

You have a small red box pop up that gives you the option to SHIP or PICK UP... I obviously ship since I am not in Utah... and then hit continue.

Another red box pops up with a small selection on sizes to order, these are NOT it.

Below the Add to cart button and above my finger, ignore the chipped nail polish, is a blue link that says Order with More Options.  After clicking on that link you come to the next screen.

On this more options screen you have your photos, click the photos you want to use and make sure it has the blue border around it and the under step 2 and size you are going to use the drop down arrow to click on Persnickety Prints Ploaroid (3x3 Print on 3x4).  I use the Matte Cardstock and LOVE it!  It is super easy to journal on.

Simply add it to your cart and you are ready to go!  I suggest that you order them all at once because it is a lot of steps.  They also sent me a 3x4 coupon card this month that was super cute for free shipping next month, that I am including in my PL album.

I hope this helped those of you that were asking how I did this.  No PS needed!  Enjoy!  

Project Life : January 2013

I feel like I do not take enough photos to work on my Project Life weekly.  Plus with this being my first year doing a PL album, I wanted to not stress myself out by trying to play catch up all year long.  I produced 9 single page front and back pages this month.  I did not include all of them, since I had a few that included photos of my son's Cub Scout pack.

So I present to you my monthly, chronological ordered PL layouts for the month of January 2013.

 

My main Becky Higgins core kit this year is Seafoam Edition.  I have bits of Studio Calico cards, washi tape, flair and cardstock stickers by Echo Park's Everyday Eclectic line.  BH design A

Besides Seafoam, I have MAMBI cards here, not sure what pack.  BH design A

I threw a touch of Olive Edition in this with my above mentioned as well as some Amy Tan Remakes stickers that I found for $2.00 at Big Lots.  BH design B

Seafoam, Cobalt, Turquoise and Simple Stories cards.  This is by far one of my favorite.  The 100th day of school is a big deal in first grade.  100 wiggly eyes.  I want to mention my love for Persnickety Prints here.  I didn't start ordering prints from them other than my 3x4 Instagram polaroids till March, so I want to show you this layout.  The bottom two photos are from CVS, 99% of my photos are taken on my Samsung Galaxy and just uploaded online to wherever.  All three photos were taken the same day, but the quality and color of the Instagram photo is MUCH better. And yes, there was a filter, but still that is on CARDSTOCK.  All of my January and Febuary photos are getting reprinted as long as I can still find the photo on Facebook, since I deleted it from my phone.  BH design D

Okay, carrying on, :) 

Yes, my cat lives in my 31 Large Utility Tote.  If you need one for your cat I am pretty positive you can find ten 31 consultants in your neighborhood.  What a huge company with amazing bags!  Here I have mixed tons of products, SC, Blush and Seafoam editions.  BH design D

And my new found love here!  Becky Higgins design F pages.  It took me FOUR months to decide what in the world I was going to do with the pack of a 10 3x4 pockets.  And then two weeks ago it hit me.  A monthly recap of the Instagram Polaroids that I didn't use.  I keep it super simple.  Just a few 3x4 filler cards, here I used Studio Calico.

And a close up!

So, I use a few different pens.  I have been using ZIG Memory System Millennium pens for over 5 years.  I prefer the 05 ones.  My new favorite pens are the fine Sharpie Pens.  They still tend to bleed through but I love the way they write.  And Sharpie makes ever color under the sun.  

I use the Studio G tape runners.  I bought a ton of them for $1 each last week and I use Glue Dots for my flair.

NEW Blog, NEW Hobby, NEW Happy Mail

I have spent years blogging about my personal life and my kids so I am taking on a new hobby, blogging about crafting.  I have been a scrapbooker for the better part of the past 20 years.  I was the girly girl that would sit in my room and make things for as long as I can remember.  I never owned a game system, didn't run around with many friends and I was in my 20s before my parents had internet that wasn't dial-up.  So, I crafted, a lot.  And, I loved it.

Yesterday was NSD, so I figured, I am on a roll this year on my first ever Project Life album.  I am currently just working monthly and staying up to date with my months, so my current goal is going back to start a PL album with my 2012 Instagram photos.  I am a HUGE fan of Persnickety Prints, their 3x4 Instagram polaroids are awesome.

Anyways, I wanted to post a few pictures from this past week.  I have been stocking up on PL goodies.  A lot of my embellishments that I currently had on hand were pretty bulky, so I had been hanging out at The Scrap Yard on Facebook, buying leftover goodies from other ladies for awesome cheap prices.  Look at my Happy Mail from this week!

This is happy mail.  Ya know, the fun stuff that you rush in from work and race to the mail box to get to.  The stuff that is not your dreaded electric bill, or the doctor's bill.  Ya, this is awesome.  Lots of Scrap Yard goodies here and a super batch of prints from Persnickety Prints.  Love them!

Like, I mentioned about yesterday, NSD, I worked on April's PL pages.  I have one single last page to work on for April 29th, which was the day the carnival was in town.  I took loads of pictures that I have yet to order.  Putting that on my to do list.  Anyways, a look at the madness.

Evidence my youngest, Isaiah was there.  Isaiah will be six in June.  He is an awesome kid.  Full of energy, incredibly brilliant with patterns, puzzles and shapes.  And he is the only child I have ever seen with 6 pack.  That is what happens though when you have ADHD and Autism.  

My oldest is Keaton.  He is pretty rockin too.  He loves to preform.  Singing, dancing and playing instruments.  He loves every sport he has since played; soccer, flag football and basketball.  And he is graduating from being a Tiger Scout to a Wolf Scout in a little over a week.  He is adorable in his uniform, me too, I am the den leader and the cubmaster of our pack.  

And my most favorite news of the weekend...I am finally ACTIVE on my Studio Calico dashboard to receive my first ever Project Life kit.  GAH!  But in the next week or so, I have some amazing SC happy mail coming, the SC Halley's Comet Project Life add on.  THIS.

AHH!  Well, I guess that is my recap from this week and my NSD crafting mess.  Tomorrow in the good ole sunlight, I shall start photographing my PL pages.  

Tomorrow is Monday, enjoy it!