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PROJECT LIFE INSPIRATION AT FROSTED DESIGNS WITH SIMPLE STORIES

Friday, June 13, 2014

Hi there everyone, today I have another Project Life Inspired project that I did for Frosted Designs.

Today I want to share with you a double page a made with pictures taken at Jonathan's newborn photoshoot. He was only 6 days old in these photos. The pictures I used on this page are some of my favourites from that day. I just love the blue blanket and the white and red hats really looked stunning with the blue.

Products Used

Simple Stories Homespun 12x12 Collection kit

Simple Stories Homespun Bits&Pieces

Simple Stories Homespun 6x12 Chipboard stickers

I used the Homespun collection from Simple Stories for this page. I loved the colours in the range and just love how the papers complement the pictures. Here are some pictures of the detail.

For all the pockets I used papers from the Homespun collection. I included stickers and chipboard elements on the cards as embellishments. I also used some photo-overlays to add some dimension to the photos and the one card I used Tim Holtz distress stains to decorate the white cardstock.

This is really an awesome range from Simple Stories and once again so versatile!

All of the products I used is available in the Frosted Designs store. Don't forget to head on over to the store and fill those shopping carts!!!!

Friday, March 21, 2014

Hi there ladies, I really hope everyone in the Northern hemisphere is having an awesome spring and are excited for the summer! Here in South Africa, we have really been having some crappy weather with LOTS of rain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But enough about the weather, today I am here to share another two single Project Life inspired pages with you, that was made for Frosted Designs! The pictures were take on the same day, but some were taken in the morning and the rest were taken in the afternoon, after Jonathan was bathed and changed.

Here is the first page, the right hand side.

Products Used

Simple Stories Vintage Bliss 12x12 Collection kit

Project Life Jade Core Kit

Buttons, bling and felt heart from my stash

These pictures were taken in the afternoon and early evening, after we bathed Jonathan and changed him into this blue and white outfit.

I included a Project Life card here which I embellished with a felt heart cut from my Cuttlebug, some staples, buttons and bling.

The journalling on this card reads:

"Thursday - our last day in hospital. After your bath that morning, mommy dressed you in the blue & white babygrow. Even though it was "newborn" size it still seemed too big for you. these were some of the first pictures mommy took of you being awake."

I used bits and pieces of the Vintage collection from Simple Stories to finish the page off with.

And now on to the second page!!!!!!!!!

Products Used

Echo Park Reflections Fall 12x12 Collection kit

UmWow Layered Banners Chipboard

Heidi Swapp stencil - Honeycomb

Kaisercraft Hidden Treasures collectables

Kaisercraft Rub-ons

Project Life Midnight Core Kit

This one is so far my favourite and I had tons of fun with this page!!!!!!!!!!

So, dear Mr Tim Holtz (huge fan over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) was in South Africa during March and I was lucky enough to be able to attend his class....... One of the awesome things he bought us and that we worked with was his brand new 1" distressing ink pads, and oh my word, they are stunning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So what did I do when I got home, you guessed it, used the mini distressing ink pads!!!!!!!!!!!

I covered cardstock with old book paper, and did some stencil work with Tim Holtz distress ink on it. Once this was done, I included some chipboard elements, a rub-on and some die-cuts I had lying around.

For this card, I cut a piece from the Echo Park Fall collections, added some die-cuts and stitching.

So that concludes my Project Life pages for this week! I hope you enjoyed them! But wait, I am not done...........................

We have some Project Life inspired products on sale this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL Project Life Type products are 30% off. This includes the Becky Higgins brand new Project Life Kit and Transparency Overlays as well as Simple Stories Homespun Collection and all the new lines from Elle's Studios! Project Life products can be found HERE!

Be sure to use code PL30 at checkout to receive the discount!

So head on over to the store and fill those shopping carts!!!!!!

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Hello everyone, I hope you are all having an awesome day so far!

Today I will be showcasing a layout I made using the Simple Stories Say Cheese collection. I really enjoyed this collection and had so much fun with it! The best part of this is that it has some of my favourite colours in - red, white and black. There is just something about those colours that look awesome together. And then you add the yellow and it just uplifts the whole layout! (I must confess, I never use to like yellow, but lately I love to bring in some yellow). The pictures are two selfies that I took of myself and Jonathan - they are not two of the greatest, but I just loved the expression on his face!

I really love the embellishment sheets that come with the simple stories ranges! They are so fun and easy to work with. I used the chipboard balloons and cut a piece from one of the papers to use as a die-cut.

I also included some washi-tape with some hand stitching.

The banner is also from the chipboard elements, as well as the sticker to the left of the photos.

I added some buttons and more hand stitching to the "pie-chart" that was also cut from the papers.

For my title I just used some black letters that I had in my stash.

On top of the "pie-chart" I included a little wooden heart to give it some dimension.

This was a quick and easy, with no fuss layout which I really enjoyed making and loved the way it turned out in the end!

All the products I used you can get from the Frosted Designs store, just click HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope you have an awesome day filled with tons of inspiration!

Say Cheese 12x12 Collection Kit

Heart Confetti

Cut & Paste Charm Decorative Tape

InLinkz.com

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Lately there is this huge excitement in the scrapbooking world about Project Life. I know Project Life has been available in the US for quite a while, but unfortunately here in South Africa, it is still relatively new. it is only recently that we have been able to get the products here.

I have been very lucky that Barb from Frosted Designs have decided to showcase Project Life Inspired projects to showcase some of the products we have in the store and to show you how you can use your Project Life products along with your other scrapbooking stash.

So first things first - What is Project Life? And what is it all about?

Several years ago Becky Higgins had a hard time keeping up with the memory-keeping that she wanted to do. So she solved the problem by developing a system that works, and now Project Life^® is available to everyone, everywhere. Project Life provides an ultra-simple solution that helps us get those pictures into albums without draining out time, energy and wallets. The idea is simple: photos + memorabilia + journaling together in an album - everything slips into pockets. No requirement to cut or glue or embellish a thing. And yet - the results are stunning! Project Life is back-to-basic scrapbooking at its finest.

What I wanted to do is to use the Project Life concepts but incorporate other scrapbooking collections as well as techniques that I use in scrapbooking everyday. Some of the collections that work awesome for Project Life is Simple Stories, Echo Park and even Kaisercraft! By ding come cutting, their papers fit right into Project Life pockets.

I decided to start with Project Life because of our little boy. He has just turned 16 months old and I have TONS of pictures (I took 11 402 during 2013.....................). I would really LOVE to be able to scrap them all, but I just do not have the time.............. So I decided on Project Life to showcase his first year day by day.

So here is my very first Project Life layout which is the first page of Jonathan's Project Life album. These are the two first pictures that were taken of Jonathan at his birth. I include his name, some journaling about how we decided on his name, along with the statistics of his birth on this page. I also used some stickers and decorative brads.

Products Used

Echo Park Bundle of Joy - Boy Journaling Card

Echo Park Bundle of Joy Alpha Stickers

Echo Park Bundle of Joy - Decorative Brads

Project Life Baby Boy Mini Kit

For my next page I used pictures of all the flowers and gifts we received with his birth. Along with the papers I also used some other scrapbooking techniques. These include washi tape flags with a pearl finish; hand stitching; I cut out one of the sayings from the Simple Stories papers and added that to a Project Life card.