Studio Calico "Planetarium" (May 2013)

First impression of the kit: good. Several patterns I would have bought. Not excited for the resin stars or the clear sticker strips. Always love when we get labels.

Items (from my stash) that appeared in the add-on kits: green acrylic letters.

 

Since I figure that the resin starts would be the hardest items for me to use, I tried to make sure I used those early.

 I don't know, it seems kind of lacking but I don't know what else I want to put on there.

 Meh. I did use up another of the MH fabric frames, though.

 Added in a sheet from the DL 6x6 pad to tone down the pink and a few embellies from the same line.

I like the layouts, for the most part. Impressed with how many full/partial titles I got out of the wood veneer letters, and I still have half the container left.

100 projects total: 37/100

Studio Calico Spencer's kit (April 2013)

To be honest, when I first saw the sneaks and then the reveal, I wasn't real pleased with this kit. It kind of grew on me, though. No add-ons even tempted me this month.

 

 

 The blue thought bubble was too light, so I misted it darker.

 Misting also works on chipboard :)

 The orange tab pulls out to reveal journaling by Brandon about his Minecraft game.

 I was perusing the Studio Calico online gallery and saw that people were also using the Project Life kit cards on regular pages...not gonna lie, it was a d'oh! moment.

 Studio Calico digital stamp from their May kit. I really like that I can still get the stamp images and not buy a whole kit. Now I just need to learn how to use Photoshop so I can do them in different colors and such. This one was simple enough to do, though.

Sigh, still not sure about this one. Maybe I need to stitch around the LOVE negative space in some orange thread.

Overall, I liked playing with the kit more than I anticipated and like the pages I got done. I still have a fair amount of paper scraps left, the entire roll of washi, the entire package of cork cameras, almost the entire sheet of stickers...and I tried to use the stamp, but I don't know, the border just didn't work for me.

100 projects total: 21/100

project life, week 12

I skipped weeks 10 and 11, which are unfinished vacation weeks.

 

This week's paper pad: MME Quilting Bee.

 

Two empty spot for private journaling to add later.

Journaling cards area mix of Ali Edwards, Clementine, Studio Calico, Pebbles, and Seafoam.

Project life, week 7

This week's paper pad: Crate Paper Fourteen.

 with the front of the 6x12 BH insert (for Valentine's day)

 with the back of the 6x12 BH insert (for Valentine's day)

 left, missing a photo of Terri and my mom's night out dinner

right side

Journaling cards are a mix of Clementine, Pebbles, Cobalt and the one Studio Calico Feb kit card I kept before selling the kit.

project life, week 6

This week's paper pad: Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm



Journaling cards are a mix of Ali Edwards, Clementine, Seafoam, Studio Calico and Amber.

Project Life, week 4 and LOAD 2/9

Ahh, back to sunny and happy! This week's paper pad: Pebbles Seen and Noted.

 

 Using the Recollections page protector for the previous week worked out ok in that I ended up with another vertical pic of Rick I wanted to keep as a 4x6. It also gave me a place for his jury duty summons.

 

Also used: SC PL cards, a Seafoam card, and a Recollections/Pebbles journal card.

Project Life 2013, week 3 and LOAD 2/8

This week's paper pad: Pink Paislee Portfolio. I'm not real fond of this week. Kind of blah and pale, which fits the week. I had a vertical pic that I wanted to use as a 4x6, but didn't really have enough for the week to need an insert, so I dug through my crazy stash of page protectors and chose one from Recollections. I thought that I could maybe do a Simple Stories border cut in the middle, but the way the page protector is manufactured, part of the opening is closed off, so you have to trim any piece of paper you put in there much smaller than what you would think. So, just some cardstock with washi tape.

 

Seafoam and SC cards.

Project Life 2013 week 2, LOAD 2/7

This week's paper pad: Basic Grey Fiction, from the Fact/Fiction dual line available at Joanns.

 

 

Also used: some of the leftover alpha stickers from the November CT kit, PL Seafoam kit, and I spy a SC PL card, as well.

 

Citrus Twist, November 2012/Layout of the Day/PL2013 week 5

Well, that was a mouthful! I hadn't really scrapbooked regular pages since the crop in November, and really the only other stuff I had done at the Ditch the Kids crop were my December PL pages, so I decided to jump right in with my Citrus Twist kits while completing a Layout a Day (LOAD) challenge. I didn't sign up for the actual challenge, since I didn't feel I needed a topic prompt to get me going.

 

This was my November Citrus Twist kit:

 

My first layout (Februrary 1): the little "if dreams were wishes" card made me think of how we always joke that we'd buy a house with a Teton view if we won the lottery. I found some great pics on Google and printed them as 5x7 and built my layout around that. I knew I wanted to use some of the blue paper, and the various shades of the cardstock played of the pics well. (That sunset pic is now my computer background.)

My second (February 2) layout used the green ledger paper as a background for our one Thanksgiving picture. The journaling card is actually the product backing from the Amy Tangerine 3D elements.

My third layout (February 3) was a relatively easy one. On 12-12-12 we wrote down our favorite 12 moments from 2012. I thought maybe I would use the December kit for that, but the library card paper seemed like a fun/easy way to journal it. Took a couple minutes on the typewriter. The title was my first non-practice/playing cut with my new Silhouette machine. The font is Lobster 1.4, downloaded for free from the internet.

My fourth layout (February 4) was very picture heavy. I knew I wanted to use the airplane cutout on a travel page, and we had recently been talking about the places we still wanted to visit, so the Wish List page was born. Again, pics are downloaded from Google. (For the record, on the left page they are Caribbean cruise, Mexico, Outer Banks NC, Germany, Niagara Falls, Chicaco. On the right side: Oregon Coast, Hawaii, Savannah GA, London, Williamsburg VA and Boston.) There are more, but those were the first 12 that came to mind.

Fifth layout (February 5) was inspired by several of the pieces of paper being from the Crate Paper "Acorn Avenue" line. We were inundated/attacked by acorns all fall. There were days when I walked Jacob to the bus when I wished I had an umbrella. The pic just shows acorns from the roof right about the door. The really was no thought process on here, just moving and layering pieces of papers of paper until I liked it. I even cut out one of the "Acorn Avenue" images from the cut off strip to use on the journal block.

And Project Life 2013 week 5:

 

I still had a decent amount of paper and stuff left, so I used it for my PL2013 week 5 spread (February 6), since it seemed to match the colors. There are also some Clementine, Turquoise and SC PL cards mixed in.

 

Thoughts on this kit: Overall, I liked it. Acorn Avenue wasn't on my to get list, and except for the blue geometric print, Studio Calico Yearbook wasn't, either. It was a fun kit to play with. I wasn't real fond of the washi this time, but managed to use it a few times, and the Prima inker (Fall Leaf) didn't get much use, but it will on other projects. I still have a decent amount of paper and embellies left over.

 

 

 

 

 

Project Life 2013, week 1

Another year of PL. I originally thought I would do a monthly grouping this year, but I realized that I liked the picking of a 6x6 pad each week, so I decided to continue that. Also, back in October I signed up, sight unseen, for the new Studio Calico PL kit, co-branded with Becky Higgins. I really love the cards, stamp set, and even the alphas and washi tape. I loved the style and most of the cards, but there are a few problems. First, the corner rounding was kind of wonky. That didn't really bother me too much. The bigger problem is that the cards are all different sizes. Some are small enough to be jiggly in the BH protectors. Some are a tight squeeze. Others are too big and have to be significantly trimmed to get them in the protectors. Hopefully they address that problem.

 

This week's paper pad is Dear Lizzy 5th and Frolic, a line I originally thought I wouldn't buy. It grew on my, and in the end I bought the 6x6 pad and a packet of embellishments.