Happiness is a direction...

 All five of these cards are Unity cards. As I mentioned before, I have a lot of Unity because of my sister's obsession. It's funny, because I discovered Unity first, and was a member of their kit club. Back then, Noelle wasn't a stamper yet-she just scrapped. I kept telling her that the kit club was the best deal in stamping, and that it would be a great way to build her collection. She finally heeded my advice, and the monster was born. *grin*

 You will probably need to click on these to see the silver embossing well, especially in the top photo. Yes, that's some Blue Awning from K&Co peeking out there in the background. My old SU! ep has gone over. It has bubbles in it now. I don't know if it's because of our swamp cooler, or if it will still be bad after the house has dried out.

 I love this image. It's so perfectly vintage without being TOO shabby chic/Victorian. It really is a gorgeous rose stamp. That trim is antique. I have been hoarding it for years, but really, what good is it doing crammed in a plastic bag in my stamp room?

 This one is Unity, 7 Gypsies, MM and MME Bohemia. They play well together, don't you think?

This one is Unity, MME, and the butterflies on the envelope are Gina K Designs. I use that butterfly all the time, probably more than any other butterfly stamp I have.

I hope it's not too boring when I do posts where everything comes from the same manufacturers. That's how I stamp, though. I get really focused on one company, and use just it for a few days. Right now, it's GKD. I have been stamping like a mad woman with my old STV kits. I even ordered the new one, and an old one that I missed. I have SO. MUCH. FUN. with those kits, I tell ya!

Project Life Week 8: Then

 This is the other side of that 12 x 12 page protector. I will probably throw another 12 x 12 in sometime, but I might try a more traditional style layout. I think it works the way I did it here, though, because the rest of the album looks like this, not like traditional layouts.

 The only embellishment here is a banner ended piece of cardstock behind two photos.

 The journaling card is from my BH Amber Edition set. At Week 8, that was still the only Project Life specific product I owned. That has changed. A lot. Those tags are K & Co. epoxy stickers. I added a Nestie die cut heart, some puffy angel wings, and some sequin hearts.

 Just pics here, and a bit of the edge of the Sassafrass Lass paper. I think they were the first to come out with the cool edges.

 Just another view.

 This is the bottom left hand side. I used more of that paper edge-from a different sheet of paper this time. I think this paper is from 2008. I think Sassafrass was ahead of its time. All the paper I have from then is way more in style now than it was when it came out. They were trend starters.

This is the bottom right hand side. Well, I will finally admit it in writing: I haven't done new PL pages in weeks. I'm not stressed about it, I have just lost my mojo a little. I've been working on a gift album for my mother and father in-law, and I guess I can't do two albums at once, or something. It has been a month since I made a layout, but I am almost finished with the gift album, so I'll catch up this month. 

The secret to having it all!!!

 This is another Unity stamp. My sister is a Unity fanatic, and I mean that in the truest sense of the word. *grin* She is always letting me know when there's a great Unity sale on, or giving me stamps because she bought duplicates. I love that, and her. Another thing I love is this quote stamp. I think Unity does a really nice job with quotes.

 Here's a perfect example of taking a sentiment and making it special. Lots of action here to keep it interesting. I added a silver glitter star, and a strip of silver glitter because I actually want to add silver glitter to everything I make, but I thought it made sense here. I guess this is for a baby boy, what with all the blue, orange, and touches of brown.

 Another quote stamp from Unity. This one is about friendship. There's more of that Green Galore. I like it with light blue quite a bit. I've also been getting friendly with my washi tape. That's A Muse Studio washi.

 This card started out with a K&Co. Anna Griffin Flora Collection tag. Then I just piled on the goodies until I was satisfied. I added a MAMBI rub-on, an epoxy stamp, and a tag. The stamp is from Waltzing Mouse. That's a real vintage button from my magical button jar. It makes me happy every time I look at it, so I think it has magical happiness powers. You really should get one.

This adorable image is from Crafty Secrets. It's either the childhood or summertime booklet. I have them both and love them to death. (Surprise, surprise.) That's A Muse Studio Blueberry cardstock. It's nice for cards because it's white on the inside.

Project Life Week 7: Now

 Hello, and welcome to Week 7: Now. On the right side of every layout, I do current events from that week. Here I used an Amber Edition 4x6 card. I added some vintage sequins, some typing, and a K&Co die cut.

  I think this is a 12x12 page protector. I just arranged it like it was a PL style page, instead of a full 12x12 layout. Here, I just stuck down a 4x6 of Troy.

 On the left is an Amber journaling card, then a 4x6 picture.

 I just made this little journaling block out of some scraps, and adhered it down to the background paper.

 I like to make these little collages. It's a great way to get some extra photos on your page.

For this one, I printed two pics on one 4x6 sheet. This was a very low embellishment week. Sometimes, they just come out like this. I'm not very impressed with the job I did here, but I never go back and fix LO's. I have plenty of new things that need scrapping, so I don't re-do stuff.

I have been stamping up a storm lately, and having such fun! I'll be back tomorrow with a few cards to share.

Thanks to You

 I can't remember who made this pretty stamp, but I've had it for quite some time, and I love it. I painted it with shimmer paint. I like painting, even though I'm not very good at it. I'd like to take a lesson someday and  maybe get a little better. I just went and checked, and it's a PSX stamp. I thought it was, and I should have trusted my judgement. The background stamp is SU!'s Crosshatch. I sold it in my Etsy shop. I really liked it, but I'm getting rid of all my wood mounted stamps.

 The "Thanks to YOU" stamp is from Waltzing Mouse. Have you checked out this most charming stamp company? As I have said before, I love every. single. stamp. from WM. I added some of those epoxy stamp stickers I like so much. I like them so much, in fact, that they languished in a drawer for five or six years before I used one. This is a very typical modus operandi for me.

 This card is all a muse studio, except the quatrefoil background stamp, which is Hero Arts. I embossed it in some very old SU! Light Pink embossing powder. It's so pretty because it has little bits of white and lighter pink in it. It's a little embarrassing how much I love embossing powder, but love it I do.

 This is a Unity stamp. Why I colored the cat  green, I don't know, but there you have it. It frequently takes me a few tries to really do something nice with a new stamp set. Clearly I'm not there yet with this one. *Grin* I'll try again.

This is another Unity stamp set. It's so cute, isn't it? The card base is Green Galore. I don't know if SU! still has that color, but I've got some left. It's such a great color to use in the summer. It's odd, because I generally don't like brights at all, but this is a color I've always enjoyed working with.

I got a bunch of new WPlus9 stuff today, and I am smitten!! I played with it for quite a while today, when I should have been cleaning. One of these days I'll take pictures and show you.

Project Life Week 7: Then

 This layout features a lot of stamping, but not a lot of 3D embellishments. My pages are generally a little lumpier these days, but it's fun to do it this way, and you can fit more pages in an album if they are flatter. Remember, if you click on the pictures, you can see them a little larger.

 By Week 7, I was really cognizant of all the very cool Project Life geared stamp sets out there, but I still didn't have any. So when I made this page, I used a lot of stamps from my stash, and it was really fun. I like that paperclip peeking out from the other side of the card.

 Most of the hearts are from an A Muse Studio heart set. It's nice because it has lots of different sizes, shapes, and styles of heart stamps. The arrow and doily stickers are from my original Becky Higgins Amber Edition. They don't come with the newer sets, but now the cards are so. much. cooler.

 That's a K&Co tag, but I don't remember who made the frame stamp. I'm thinking that both of these cards are the backs of the cards from the page before. I do that quite a lot if it works out.

 Those are a|s hearts, but I'm not sure about the "love" stamp. On the right, I typed directly onto the photograph. It's fun to do, but don't try it if mistakes freak you out. Imperfection doesn't bother me, so I do it all the time.

 The "special" stamp came from the same set as the "love" stamp, I'm thinking Inkadinkado. A lot of the time, I'll cut a few coordinating solid cards to match the patterned cards I'm using in a layout. It looks a little less busy.

I just stamped right on a shipping tag from Office Max, and stapled the ends down for coolness.

We got a tiny bit of rain today. I was better than nothing, but I'm hoping for more. We haven't had more than a couple of tenths of rain in the year we've lived here. It's pretty bad.

Best Wishes

 This set of cards is a continuation from the last set of cards I posted. I had this stuff out on my desk, so it's what I used for a few days. That Victorian flower basket is from an old SU! set called Memory of the Heart. The sentiment is Waltzing Mouse. There's also Crafty Secrets, Prima, Maya Road and MAMBI.

 On this one, I added a K&Co Naked Tag, plus diecuts from A Muse Studio.

 This one has all the same supplies with the addition of a Melissa Francis resin cameo. I love those things, but they are a little expensive for use on a card, so I don't buy them very often.

 This one features a K&Co Anna Griffin Flora Collection tag. The little epoxy stamps are by The Paper Studio. I have a ton of those, even after I stuck them on dang near everything.

Ah, PSX. I am selling ALL of my wood mounted stamps in my Etsy shop. I am tired of storing them, and I much prefer unmounted stamps. These PSX botanic stamps are gorgeous, though, and fun to color, so I have been using them off and on before they sell. I know I can replace any of them with equally beautiful unmounted stamps. Flourishes makes the prettiest floral stamps on the market, in my opinion, so I know right where to go if I decide I need a detailed flower stamp.

It's only 98 here today, which feels refreshing compared to yesterday. We are supposed to get some rain today or tomorrow. I hope we do, we're in a bad way here.