It nearly killed me not to share the layout I made for Simple Scrapper's Everyday Storyteller eBook back in May here on the blog- I just loved it so much after I it came together! I'm totally justifying now, but since it's been more than 6 months since the book was published and since there's also a whole article that I wrote (along with step-by-step photos of the process) that I'm not posting here, there's no harm in sharing the page itself, right?

I'm so hoping that you agree with all of that, because, well...here it is!

Now that I look at this page again, it reminds me of why I'm so excited for 2013's stashbusting adventure. When I made this page there were no rules, no set supplies, no particular parameters on the assignment. I just picked a set of papers that I'd been wanting to work with (this particular page uses Crate Paper's Paper Heart collection, and I think I bought an extra half dozen sheets of that woodgrain...), chose a photo, and did exactly as I pleased with it. I'm really looking forward to doing so much more of that next year!

Another thing this page reminds me of? That there are only three more months until it's cherry blossom season here again!

putting christmas scraps to work {lily bee}

Good morning, and a very merry Christmas day to everyone! We've got a day of family fun planned here, so I'm just going to quickly drop off a couple of seasonal projects that have been posted to the Lily Bee blog in the last couple of weeks.

After scrapping several Christmas layouts, I found myself with lots of scraps left over from the Lily Bee Christmas Cheer collection. Instead of filing them away or just tossing them, I put them to work on a few projects, starting with this pair of Christmas ornaments. You can find instructions for making both here on the Lily Bee blog- the onion ornaments are especially quick and easy to make!

My second project (and my favorite of the two- I've fallen in love with making tags lately!) is a set of Christmas tags, also made using Lily Bee Christmas Cheer scraps and a few small embellishments such as a gold doily and a few wood veneer snowflakes.

I hope that you all have a wonderful holiday season. In the words of Tiny Tim, "And God bless us, everyone!"

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project life 2012 | week 46 {pretty little studio}

I admit that I might have let this particular week in my Project Life album get away from me. There was so much going on during this week that I opted to do inserts (yes, two) instead of using smaller photos or even the more sane option of just one insert. But oh, no, I had to go and include two, and by the end of scrapping this week I was so ready to be done with it!

We always have one week in November that looks a lot more like Christmas than fall thanks to both the botanical gardens' Galaxy of Lights and the tree lighting at Bridge Street, both of which happen before Thanksgiving. With such a Christmas-y vibe to the pictures, I decided to use Christmas themed supplies for this spread (I did the same thing with this week in 2011, too) and since Pretty Little Studio's Christmas At Home collection was already on my desk while I worked on other projects, I decided to run with it.

This was definitely one busy week- the Galaxy of Lights, working on the floor, working in the yard, the world's most insane trip to IKEA ever (I had to drive to Ohio and back for work in the same day and decided to stop off at IKEA to pick up a kitchen island since it was on the way), the tree lighting at Bridge Street, and Darren's birthday. Phew!

I picked a photo representing each of these for my main pages...

And then got crazy with the inserts to go into detail on each. Note to self: next time just print smaller photos and do one page!

There was flooring work...

...and a closer look at the Galaxy of Lights...

...and more Bridge Street...

...and more of D's birthday.

I learned that while I do enjoy making my normal Project Life pages, I really don't enjoy making this many inserts each week. I've only done it once before (for my birthday week), and I'd forgotten how much extra time the inserts add!

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Supplies (click on images for product links):

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