Life is a journey...

 I hope you are all having a lovely summer!! My sister is coming today, and bringing my youngest home with her, so I am very excited. Wilson has been at his grandparent's house since the 8th due to my heavy work schedule. This is another Unity card. I used that cute little fairy tale house again.

 I used a Crafty Secrets cutout here. I can't remember what they are called, but they come on a large, folded, double-sided sheet. There's so much to play with, I always keep them on hand. Those are vintage buttons. I'd like a piece of that cake, but I guess I'll just eat my oatmeal instead.

 Another view of that house. The flowers are MM. I think that card base is SU! Pumpkin. I got the sequins at a thrift store, they are vintage.

 This is a Unity quote stamp. It says, "We are the music makers..." and then some other stuff. I love the little Unity butterfly stamp I used on the envelope.

This is an odd card, but my favorite of the ones in this post. I say odd because of the mixture of things I added. The gold embossed circle is an Artistic Outpost stamp and it reads, "The thoughts of the day become the dreams of the night." There's also a SU! fruit tree stamped image, a PTI Love Lives Here die cut, and some other random stuff I found on my desk. That metal thing that says summer has to be 10 years old.

Check back tomorrow for a Project Life update. I'll be sharing Week 6 here on the blog, but I'm actually caught up to Week 23. I have lots of fun, new stuff I've been using, and I'm looking forward to sharing that, and telling you all about my kit clubs.

Project Life Week 5: Now

 Week 5 Now side. We are moving into February. My pages are getting a little better. I'm learning to embellish each insert, and trying to stay with just a few colors. I was still having a hard time remembering to take pictures. I only got two this week. I think I pulled the ankle one off Facebook, and I probably took the typewriter pic the day I did the LO. I still wasn't thinking like a scrapbooker yet.

 Here I did some stamping and added one of my silver glitter butterflies. I use these all the time on my cards. The stamped circle is from Stampin' Up!'s Looks Like Spring. I loved that set so much, but I could never use it well. The little flower punch matches that set.

 A little sewing, a little typing. These are two things I do on almost every insert, and certainly on every lay out. That's a PTI stamped die cut at the top. It is surprisingly difficult to stamp that little booger well. The arrow thing I bought at ARC. I don't know what they were for, but they are old, and I got a bunch of them.

 Ugh. Doesn't that ankle look horrible? Don't worry, he's up and at 'em these days. Here I just embellished a Becky Higgins grid card. Added sewing and typing, of course!

 This was on the case of the first typewriter I ever bought. it's a 4 x 6 notecard, so I just cut it in half and inserted it into two slots. This was the most I have paid for a typewriter, yet I don't regret it one bit. I love this typewriter!

 I stamped this card with an SU! background stamp, Crosshatch, I think?

There she is. My first typewriter. *LOVE*

I love you because...

 Isn't this Unity stamp sweet? I mixed it with some MM {note}worthy and a little Heidi Grace.

 More Unity stamps, isn't this cute? I put blue rhinestones in his eyes.

 Here I mixed a Unity apron stamp with a little Crafty Secrets. I love that apron stamp.

 More Unity. A cute little fairy tale house stamp. If I was good at coloring, I might color it.

No stamps at all here, just  a few scraps gathered from the flotsam and jetsam whirling around on my desk.

Project Life Week 5: Then

 The left side of Week 5. I don't have a lot of commentary for this spread. It's pretty self explanatory. Plus, I'm coming off a 48 hour shift, so I'm tired. I'm also lonely. Troy is in Kansas teaching a two week workshop, and Wilson is at his parents' so I can work.

 Three different alphas: foam, felt & cork. I don't think I would put three different alphas on a card these days, but I was just learning and using what I had. I do go through a lot of alphas with my Project Life album.

 So, I'm glad for the hours, but I truly hate how spread out we are. Troy in Kansas, Ross in NOLA, Sky in Gunnison, Wilson in Kiowa, and me in Pueblo. It just feels wrong, wrong, wrong.

 The day these pictures were taken, I wasn't even thinking about my future family, and that I would be so miserable to be away from them. I have been so blessed these past 25 years.

 The hearts are K&Co adhesive borders. I use them on almost every THEN layout.

Depending on my work schedule, I may be back tomorrow with some cards. I adore working on PL, but card making is still my first love.

Goodbye Sassafrass...

 This is the last bit of Sassafrass that I have. I don't believe there's another sheet in my stash of, what, a thousand sheets of paper? I think Sassafrass lends itself well to this sort of schizophrenic layering collage montage thingy I have going here. That blue tape is fabric. I think it came in a Bad Girls kit about five years ago. I have no idea who made it, but I like it quite a bit. I have been using it to repair the top holes of my BH Project Life page protectors, many of which have torn. Disappointing. But the fix looks cute, and is very strong. I don't think they will tear again.

 This was the very first thing I made with my very first Cocoa Daisy kit.  I loved this card they enclosed, and decided to add it to a card. The ribbon and the bokeh paper were also in a CD kit. All the chipboard is very old Heidi Grace; it's all gone now, too! I love throwing empty packages away, don't you? If you have ever thought about subscribing to or just buying a kit every now and then, check out Cocoa Daisy. I have nothing but nice things to say about them.

 My mother's Day cards this year all started with some K&Co Blue Awning tags, so they are all this yummy blue and green combo. I used my vintage typewriter for the sentiments.

 More Blue Awning. I think that green trim is Prima.

The ever popular blue velvet flower from Maya Road. Do we love everything they make? Yes, we do.

I work a 24 hour shift tomorrow, so I won't be posting then, but you can look for Week 5 of my Project Life album on Monday.

Project Life Week 4: Now

 Here we are with Week 4 in my Project Life album! Yippee!! Things were still really basic in Week 4. The only PL stuff I had was the Amber Edition Core Kit, My Amber album, and a package of page protectors. I have a lot more to play with these days, and I think I love making my pages more and more every week.

 These are some very old foam Thickers, like five years old. There is no stick at all left on these babies. They just rattle around in the bottom of the bag. No worries, though, I just sew these bad boys down. The number four is resting on top of a PTI die cut. I use my card making supplies on every layout.

 An Amber Edition card and some patterned paper I don't know about. I stapled that card on. I love my staplers! As you can see, you don't have to have a lot of supplies to have a lot of fun with PL. Most papercrafters already own a lot of things they can use to pretty up their pages, like the leaf border stamp I used above. Who doesn't have a few stamps?

 I just cut my own 4 x 6 card out of kraft-it goes with everything. Cardstock, typewriter, picture, adhesive. If you don't have a typewriter, just write out your journaling. I try to write in my album now and then. Not every week, but often enough to put my mark on it!

 Not a fun thing to keep- a funeral program. I just slipped it into a pocket.

 Project Life has turned me into the kind of person who takes pictures of her food. Embarrassing, but true.

I create picture collages in Picasa all the time. It's a fun way to make sure you get all the pictures possible on a page. Please stop by soon for more Project Life, specifically, Week 5!

I want to always remember...

 Don't you just LOVE this vintage typewriter? This is from a set of Theresa Collins stamps. I can't be certain, but I think that's a bit of Sassafrass paper. That was good stuff.

 The polka dot base is from A Muse Studio-I love that cardstock, it's just darling. This is Buttercup yellow; it's fabulous and goes with everything. That's a matching Buttercup button, too.

 K&Co. chipboard butterfly on top. I wonder how many packages of those I have used over the years?

 This paper is unmistakably Sassafrass. I remember when I first saw it, back in 2008, I was horrified. It was messy and nonsensical. Now I love it-it's messy and nonsensical! It's all gone now, though.

Sassafrass may have been the first ones to do a die cut border, that's what this is. I think I have a few more cards to share using Sassafrass, and then it's all gone, every little snippet. I do still have lots of Daisy D's, though. Maybe I'll drag that out soon. I'll probably wait until fall, Daisy D's is so heavy, rich and dark, it's not really a June paper.

In other news, we got rain early this morning! This is a big deal for us!! A very big deal!!!