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“Here we goooooooooo!!!” Said like Peter Pan, of course. Which is quite fitting since we are off to Disneyland! That’s right people. The kind of vacation where you are more exhausted when you get home. But you don’t complain because… it’s Disneyland. I will be eating my share of churros, pushing a sexy double stroller, and taking pictures of my kids standing by adults dressed in giant mouse costumes. Collin is already planning out the Splash Mountain pose for the pic. He wanted to be reading a book, or pouring a bowl of cereal… I’m scared.
Last night, I couldn’t sleep because I had taken a non-drowsy allergy pill and earlier I drank a Diet Coke. This must have been a toxic combination. I was still going strong to the wee hours of the morning. But I’m glad because now I have this little book and what do I have to show for our last Disneyland trip? Nothun. I haven’t done anything with my pictures. This trip I am prepared with 4 cameras. This isn’t a joke. : ) I don’t want to lug my slr around everyday so I have some smaller options. Clearly, I am determined to document our time togetha. I grabbed some of my favorite supplies for a travel art kit.
Starting with Kraft Cardstock I used my Cameo and cut quite a few pages with one or two words on each.
Then I added some elements to about 5 of the pages. So they are ready to go. I am mostly going to add Instax to the album and possibly some Instagrams.
I spray painted the coils with gold metal paint and used my Bind-It-All to put it together.
The only adhesive I packed is my Glossy Accents since it is tiny. And it’s my favorite adhesive for the wood accents. Can you tell I am obsessed with SC’s veneer pieces??!! Just slightly.
Also packed the least deadly scissors I own. The memory marker is perfect because I will use it for journaling & to stamp with my Dear Lizzy roller date stamp.
I painted my cloth bag with neon pink using a stencil. And I put together two journals for the girls. Because we have a 12 hour drive ahead of us…!
The striped paper is one of my favorite papers from my Neapolitan line and the little bow is too.
Everything fits perfect into my bag. I might even squeeze my Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher in there too.
Also, here is the Kid’s Art journal kit I put together last year for our Lake Powell trip. Which had a lot more down-time and worked out great!
Leaving in an hour… gotta go pack!
xo, Lizzy
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How did you guess that I am sitting here in my PJs munching on a bowl of froot loops?
Tomorrow I am heading into American Crafts to start on my fifth Dear Lizzy line. Lucky 5! Any requests? What would you like to see designed in your wildest craft dreams?
Just wanted to share this book I made, you might have already seen it on Ali‘s blog but here it is again…
For this project, I was inspired to create something really organic, focusing on text, simplicity, and raw texture. Mini-albums are my go-to when I’m in the mood to experiment something new or try something a little out of my comfort zone. I loved the quote Ali recently posted for her Project Life using the Silhouette & it really sparked an idea for these pages. I wanted to die-cut a little snipit of journaling onto each page to give it a crisp, modern look. It took a bit more time but I love the end result. My plan was then to back each diecut page with red so the words would really stand out, but after experimenting on a page or two I ended up not liking it and put that idea aside for another project. That’s one thing I love about creating, you can try ideas out and if they don’t look how you want it, save that idea for a future project! Once I carefully removed the backing, I realized I loved how I could see through to the next page and the edges of each letter. Instead of the red paper backing, I added a piece of my Dear Lizzy polka dot vellum in front of each page. I cut random circles from the vellum to continue with the feel of the diecut pages. Next, as I was adding the photos that I picked out, I printed a few in color to start. The color photos ended up being too busy, and although I usually work with color photos, changing them to black and white kept the focus on the text. I love the simplicity it added. I then cropped the photos ranging from 4″-5″ and added them above the diecut journaling. I didn’t necessarily match the photos exactly to the journaling but left a bit of surprise element to what each one would convey.
I die cut the journaling using my Silhouette and the Governor font onto the pink horizontal stripes from this crate paper.
Loving Studio Calico’s wood veneer flag pennant shapes and the felt bow clips!
It truly is one of my favorite albums to flip through…! Here are a few of the pages.
Next, I added a few simple embellishments which in a way can make each element pop. Keeping with the theme, I stuck with mostly wood veneer banners, sequins and button candy dots, & washi tape. I also added some pieces from my newest Dear Lizzy collection: ruffle paper, fringe ribbon, sequins & wood buttons.
Lastly, I worked on the cover. I usually do this first but I got excited with the inside pages and wound up designing it last. I cut the title “SHE” through a piece of kraft cardstock and then through chipboard. I sewed on the kraft paper then attached it to the chipboard so it wouldn’t show through on the inside cover. I sewed pieces of the diecut letters from the inside pages and left the thread slack longer. I also added a few splashes of mist and a punched heart. I was sad when the idea I had to bind the pages didn’t work out like I envisioned so I used book rings to keep it all together instead. For the inside cover, I added a vellum envelope with washi tape and included some letter confetti and one of my Dear Lizzy tags with a little note.
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Today I usually collage some of my favorite Instagram photos from the previous week of our days but this time I took a different approach. I guess you could call this my first official Project Life page. I’ve been busy on other things so I took some baby steps to start project life… baby steps. I’m so glad I did because I love it! Although, I used some random page protector I’ve had on my desk for a few weeks begging me to fill with memories, the grid printed cards are an official Project Life product and are perfect to journal and layer on.
For those of you who haven’t heard of Project Life: It’s a product and system created by Becky Higgins and a way to document your memories in a simpler fashion than scrapbooking. It’s awesome because it seems like scrapbooking went full circle and back to the basics with Project Life. Simply pair your photos and journaling with pre-designed title cards and journaling cards. Your photos, these cards, and even your memorabilia slip into the Photo Pocket Pages and that’s it. The result is a stylish masterpiece that represents your life or whatever occasion you choose to record. I said baby steps because Becky was sweet enough to send me her products last summer and I’m just now getting started. I’m all about making my memory keeping processes faster and easier so I will hopefully keep adding to my Project Life album each week.
Since apparently I cannot get enough of vellum, I used my vintage pink typewriter to type journaling onto three pieces of 3″x3″ white vellum then added a kraft heart sticker to the bottom center edge. I attached the photo and vellum to the outside of the pocket with my Tim Holtz tiny attacher. I’ve always enjoyed layering elements of my pages on the outside of my page protectors and this was no different. I added the tickets and clothespin, clothing tag, brad with ribbon and wood veneer camera on the outside of the protector. I don’t know why… I’m just weird like that and love having some texture showing when I can.
Hope you’ve all had a lovely weekend!! xo, Lizzy
Click on the image below to view product used.
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PS Don’t forget tomorrow, Monday, is my Photo Challenge 03 to take twelve photos on March12th. Then post them on your blog or facebook Tuesday and meet back here for a linky party. Read more about it here. : )
I shared part 2 of the book earlier today because I had to work on something else or is it my crafting ADD again, who knows… but here’s part 1 of the mini.
Highlights: Wrapped twine around 1/2 of the metal book rings with modge podge.
Filled the kraft bag with journaling from each member of the family’s point of view.
Printed a few pictures right onto the cloud vellum. I printed on my Canon MP495 printer. It’s not the greatest printer I’ve owned but my amazing Epson 1900 wide format printer died and this is one that Collin picked up at Walmart a late night when I needed to finish some projects. It gets the job done. When I print on vellum I set it to a standard print setting. I also use photos that don’t have any background, (similar to my December Daily album.) **I will share a tutorial for this asap with the how I print it and how to eliminate the backgrounds. I used a white cardstock with a cluster of embellishments for the page behind the vellum so the picture could appear more clear. The polaroid with the saying, “The sun stretched out and touched our cheeks” is from this polaroid paper.
The title of the book I wrote about in Part 2 but it’s from one of my favorite songs and I used Studio Calico stamps, that I’m kind of obsessed with.
The beginning of my album has a couple random layered pages including the kraft bag, envie and a painted acrylic page but the rest of the album is the same. A mix of chevron paper, white cardstock and cloud vellum.
Love all the layers and the ruffle paper poking out from the edge.
I kept all my supplies pretty simple and added drops of Mister Huey here and there as well as the summer stamp from the Dear Lizzy Jar stamp & enjoyed using the Dear Lizzy Neapolitan rubons. Above I used the October Afternoon flags.
View Part 2 of the album here.
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This weekend I put together this mini album of our trip to the beach last summer. It was torturous to dream of the ocean, sunshine and warmth while it was snowing outside. Counting down the days until our trip this year!
I pretty much designed this using Dear Lizzy products. The cover is a line from one of my favorite songs and my sister in law, Emily, made a cute stencil style sign in her home with the same lines. I couldn’t get the song out of my head while I was creating. It started after I printed the first picture on vellum of my daughter and niece running to the ocean, so it had to become the title page. The awesome stamp set is from Studio Calico.
Here’s part 2 of the Come With Me mini album… I will post part 1 next.
Cut up the Skedaddle banner paper for the banner on the cover and used Studio Calico alphabet stamps, as well as Dear Lizzy chevron paper from the 6×6 paper pack, it’s nice because the pattern is smaller scale. The metal book rings are wrapped with divine twine and modge podge, since I love using book rings but wanted to do something different.
The jar stamp was so fun to fill with sand, glitter and sequins. I will share how I did that on another post. I also used the summer stamp, Mister Huey and layered all sort of Dear Lizzy goodies, including the chipboard banner that I handwrote on.
The photo below is printed on the cloud vellum and I love how the white paper behind helps the photo stand out but shows a bit of the cluster of embellies.
Lola absolutely loved the ocean! Can you tell from the cheesy gummy grin. We held her near where the water comes in and she would laugh and jump with those chubby legs. She was such a starved child.
I cut up the polaroid paper above and had fun printing out tiny pictures for that. (Pictures are 1 1/4″). Love the Ruffle Paper poking out from the last page. The chipboard clouds are from Studio Calico and I stamped on them with the summer stamp in the jar set before attaching them. Can you tell I was done with the book when I got to the last page? haha… Craft ADD (attention deficit disorder) at its finest. (Swimsuit: Lime Ricki)
Happy Monday!
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Since we are bffs I thought you should be the first to know that lots of the Dear Lizzy collection has been restocked… The date stamp, jar stamp, ruffle paper and the polaroid paper-which is my favorite! I used the Phrase Garland above which is as new product and was tricky in the design and manufacturing process but it turned out great!
More pages and projects that I spotted and hearted using Neapolitan. These were a few that caught my eye over at Studio Calico.
I love how Tina used the ruffle paper and polaroid paper here:
Lisa die cut the polaroid paper added some ruffle paper behind it and added some messy stamping with the Roler Stamp to the side.
Stephanie layered lots of goodies including the Fringe Trim, Epoxy Shapes and Jar Paper. Love!
I made a few projects yesterday that I’ll share soon! Thank you so much for all your sweet comments from my post earlier today about my Dad…! xo, Lizzy
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Spotted these Dear Lizzy projects on Two Peas tonight and since many of you have received your Dear Lizzy happy mail I had to share some inspiration. The confetti stripes really caught my eye as well as all the layering and stitching. View the full layouts here and here. Designed and photographed by Amy Heller.
This Dear Lizzy collection has three patterns of vellum a pink polka dot, a dreamy cloud pattern and a floral design. During the design process we sit down with a wide variety of designs for patterned paper. First, we choose which of the patterns we could see as a specialty paper, in this case, vellum. It’s always a hard choice because there are so many pretty patterns but we thought the cloud paper would be great since we’d printed cloud patterned paper in the past and vellum would be a fun change. I’m in love with the watercolor texture and the color fades to a lighter shade towards the bottom to really give it the summer haze feel we were going for.
The polka dot and floral patterns are so versatile and easy to use. The floral pattern also has a pretty watercolor and lined paper texture. The polkas are simple and perfect. (As seen in first 2 photos above.)
PATTERNED VELLUM:
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This next layout is by Michi also spotted at Two Peas. She used the cloud vellum with the yellow dot paper behind giving it a rad effect. I also loved how she cut up the polaroid paper and the layered sewn hearts. Proof it’s not just for girly pages… yessssss!
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Later this week or next week sometime we will have a Dear Lizzy linky party where you will have the opportunity to post a link on my blog to a project you’ve made using Dear Lizzy goodness. I will keep you posted. Can’t wait to see what you create!
xo, Lizzy
Lately I’m soaking up every second with the kiddos because I am leaving for almost a week later this month and again in March. Even though the kids will be in amazing care I always struggle with being away. You’d think I’d jump into a heel-click and then shout, “freeeeeeeedom” as I enter the airport but I’m usually wiping or holding back tears. They have the time of their lives when I’m gone with lots of fun adventures and I return home refreshed and missing them so it’s happy in the end. Or at least that is what I am trying to convince myself…
Closer: Each year I feel like I grow a tiny bit closer to becoming the wife, momma, sister, friend that I want to be…
I made this layout challenging myself not to use the typical elements I gravitate towards: butterflies, circles, hearts. Instead I used: triangles, stars & zigzag stitching and stamps. I did sneak a couple circles in there. Speaking of sneaking I added something small from my new line! Can you guess what it is? I’ll show you sneaks and small reveal next Monday.
Last night I had this layout on my desk and Collin looked at it… “Honey, that’s sad. Why would you say that?”
I was so confused then I looked over and the “C” for the title detached leaving the new title LOSER. haha I was dying laughing.
The star background is the negative stars from the Studio Calico sticker sheet. The tiny stars are handcut and I added some pearls and rhinestones.
The zigzag stamp is from this set: Hello, There (peachy keen line) I love it. Stamped it on the envelopes for my Christmas cards too.
One of my favorite parts of this layout is the date stamp in the top right corner.
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This year… this year is going to be a changing one for our family. I’m kinda scared but excited to see where 2012 takes us. The past year there were times when I wanted to drop-kick 2011 down the street; but there were also times when I could’ve grabbed 2011 and kissed it. We’ve definitely learned a lot and our family has grown closer because of it. Which is what I hope to say about each and every year.
I wanted to start off this year with something to document a little about each of our stages in life. I spotted this perfect downloadable kit at Emily’s blog & Modern Parents Messy Kids site and it was just what I needed. It comes with a questionnaire for adults, kids, tags and letterhead titled Dear Me. (For writing a letter to yourself today and reading it at the end of the year.) I used my Bind-It-All to bind it all haha. And my trusty Crop-A-Dile to make the holes, since the Bind It All makes more than 3 holes.
We took an Instax of everyone and I kept the album really simple. Under each photo I stitched layered tape, paper, glitter letter and sequins.
This page I added our family goals, the ones we will work on together this year.
The letter to myself that I will open up at the end of the year. I sewed the title to the edge of the envelope with a couple sequins.
I love this boy. He is always a good sport when I ask him to do stuff like this. Of course he didn’t take it seriously, but I didn’t expect anything different.
The photos aren’t amazing but that’s what I love about Instax and also what I enjoyed about this project. It was quick. We filled out the questionnaires while we ate lunch after church on Sunday and then binded it together. Just a simple keepsake for the start of a new year that I wanted to share with you.
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It’s all about the confetti cover this year. First, I painted it white then added punched circles, star and circle stickers, painted on the end of my pencil eraser and stamped then a little glue and glitter. I also added a glittered chipboard frame, wood button, tapes and doily. The glitter is actually Zing embossing powder but the color is perfect. I used Glossy Accents swirled into circles, sprinkled on glitter then blew the excess glitter off. Leaving the glammed up glitter dots.
Pages about the dance recital. It was epic. For reals. I watch the replay of the performances and laugh hysterically in an I’m-so-proud-of-you! And you-are-the-cutest-thing-I’ve-ever-seen way!
A page about the ornament kids’ craft and not only waiting for me so she can start crafting but this season is all about patience. Waiting for presents. Waiting to celebrate more, hear more & learn more about our Savior’s birth. Waiting for Santa. Waiting for snow. Waiting and waiting each day as we’re closer to Christmas.
Merrymaking is the only thing on this girl’s agenda! That and squeezing bottles of paint straight onto my desk.
Clearly, I am still having fun printing my photos & journaling on patterned paper. Me likey.
You will also see a trend of envelopes in this book. I love the interactive element. The little surprises, secret notes and trinkets that someday we will look through together and enjoy all the treasures we find. (Evalicious button and label, and felt tab below.) The silver doily was a bit flashy but when I added the wood button, vellum, feather and vintage tickets I liked it better… that’s what you call juxtaposition baby! (I like to use the “j” word around Collin so he thinks I’m smart.)
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