Summer Pocket Pages by Craft Warehouse Design Team Member Michelle Wear

Hello everyone! Today, I'm showing you how I used some cards from the Teresa Collins We R Memory Keepers kit. I've been searching for a quick and easy way to document our Summer Bucket List and this kit, along with some basic lined and grid cards worked perfectly! I started out by laying out all my goods. Teresa Collins We R Memory Keepers kit, a few cards from Becky Higgins Coral, washi tape, sequins, and some slick writers.
One of the first things I did, was make a shaker packet. I wanted to include some transparency within my layout, so I took two of the transparencies included in the Teresa Collins kit and washi taped them together filled with sequins to make a little shaker packet. Super easy and quick! Another easy way to change up a kits look without doing too much extra work is to do a little cut and paste with the cards. I started with these three cards. Did a little cut and paste. And, now I have quite a different look for my 4x6 card. Perfect place for journaling and a photo. Here's another card I altered slightly. I wanted the green under the "LOVE" so it was not transparent this time around. I cut the green card and then just taped to the back. Super simple! But brings a pop of color. Here's a closer look. And here's a look at the "finished" spreads, pre-photos. I used the sequins to make "bullet points" for each bucket list item. And here it is after I added a few photos to it. I grabbed 6 images of things we have already completed on our bucket list, put them all on a 4x6 so each image was a 2x2. I think it looks great as is, or I can add a few more images later in the summer if I want to. And some close ups.

Craft Warehouse Project Life Design Team Member Michelle Wear

Welcome our last Craft Warehouse Project Life Designer Spotlight for this 2013-2014 term! It has been a year filled with so much inspiration! Michelle Wear is nothing less! Her passion for Becky Higgins Project Life shows! She loves how much pride she has in being the memory keeper in her family! All her hard work will forever be appreciated!!!



 
How long have you been crafting?
 
The first time I remember scrapbooking was probably around 2002. My now husband and I travelled around the county and he would always stop at the then pretty rare scrapbooking store. But then kids happened, life got busy. But then Becky Higgins introduced the world to Project Life (it was then called project 365) and I knew it was perfect for me. And I have been doing it ever since. There are times I go a little more crazy and time consuming, but sometimes I keep it true to the simplicity of the project.

 What inspires you to be creative?
 
I am our family historian. So telling our story is really my inspiration. That's all the good stuff, boring stuff, hopes and dreams. Kid stuff, parenting stuff, marriage stuff, growing stuff.

The inspiration for my actual layouts usually comes from the products I have to use. If I have something new I want to use or a new technique I want to try, that is my inspiration for the entire spread. And that's another reason why I love the project life system so much. Week by week I can have different looks and feels.

 What Craft Warehouse products do you love to use?

My favorite Project Life products right now are: Project Life Pocket Pages Design A, Project Life Variety Pack Protectors, Project Life - Midnight and Honey Core Kits,  Wood Veneers,  Washi Tape, and We R Memory Keepers Albums

What do you love about Project Life?

I am so in love with the process and the end result of what I get to go back and look at.  The every day stories of my family.  I've roped several of my friends and many random Facebook acquaintances into project life and I know that they love it just as much as I do.  I have three kids (8, 4, and 3) and the days go by far to quickly and things are far to easily forgotten to not keep some sort of record.  I honestly think Project life is one of the easiest and best ways of doing this!  I realize I sound like an infomercial, but I seriously love it that much! :)

Visit our blog tomorrow with a Pocket Page Tutorial from Michelle! You are going to love how easy it will be to document your summer! In the meantime visit her blog, Table for Five, and follow her Facebook page, Instagram, and Twitter!

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Azure Core Kit and Market Street by Craft Warehouse Project Life Design Team Member Meihsia Liu

Hi, friends, Meihsia Liu here today to share my Project Life spread and the process of how I created these pages. I love the concept of Project Life since it is so easy and flexible to work with. Usually I create Project Life weekly but when I am too busy, I only create when there is a special event in the family.

The event of the Project Life spread I am sharing today is based on my daughter's graduation ceremony and party. The kit I used is Becky Higgins Azure edition and both of my page protectors are Design A. I also have some beautiful journaling cards and foil accents from My Mind's Eye to embellish this project.



Usually I print out my photos in 2.75" X 2.75" with .125" border even they are used on 4" X 6" or 6" X 4" journaling card. Another option of the photo size is 3.75" X 5.75" or 5.75" X 3.75" with .125" border. I found this is the easiest way to process all my photos since the 3" square photos (2.75" X 2.75" with border .125") can fit in any sized journaling cards.



The embellishments in the My Mind's Eye Market Street kits are so cute and fun to use. I love to incorporate washi tapes, flair buttons or badges, and die cut sentiments on my spreads. Pasting the foam tape on the edges of the badge when there is a pin will make the badge easier to secure on the card. You can always cut out the sentiments on the journaling cards and paste them on the other cards in the same kit to decorate the photos.



The sentiments here are cut out from the other journaling cards in the same kit.



Here is the LEFT PAGE.



Here is the RIGHT PAGE.



And here is the whole spread.



Project Life is a very easy and fun system for everyone who loves to document life and tell stories even with limited time. Hope you enjoyed the process of my project, and got inspired to create and document your life stories.

Craft Warehouse Project Life Design Team Member Meihsia Liu

This month's Craft Warehouse Project Life Designer Spotlight is Meihsia Liu! What stood out the most was Meihsia's reason why she does pocket page scrapbooking, "I have tried different methods of scrapbooking to document my life and I found that Project Life is the easiest and most fun way for me. I have two kids with lots of school and after school activities. I want to keep documenting of our family camping, kids tennis tournaments, or even just normal daily life. With Project Life system, I simply take photos with my phone, print out the photos using a home printer, do the journaling on the cards, then put them together, that's it. It really works for busy moms." That's what it is all about!!! Capturing the everyday and getting those pictures printed and put into an album! Here is a little more about Meihsia...

How long have you been crafting?

I've always wanted to find some hobby that's fun and easy to do. Two years ago, I saw an electronic cutting machine on shopping channel and I was impressed. Of course I had to buy it. Since then, I started paper crafting with card making and then I make scrapbooks, mixed media projects and Project Life.

What inspires you to be creative?

People. My family, friends and all the people in my life especially my children are great inspiration to me. I am also inspired by the people, places and everything I see during each of my vacation trips.
   

What Craft Warehouse products do you love to use?

I love to use all beautiful Project Life Core Kits, stickers and embellishments for different events and people on my Project Life.




How can you encourage others reading this column?

I would suggest all our readers to start documenting life and memories by using a fun and easy system like Project Life. Keep taking photos, collecting every small thing you like and recording the moments that are important to you. It is much easier than you think. I also encourage you to share your projects with other Project Lifer and have fun!

Make sure to join us tomorrow where Meihsia will be showing us a beautiful pocket page spread using new Market Street collection from My Mind's Eye! In the meantime, visit her on her blog to get inspired!

Strawberry Project Life Pages by Craft Warehouse Design Team Member Cathy Vongnaraj

Hey everyone! Cathy here and I just wanted to show you a quick and easy layout using a few embellishments that are a little more easy on the eyes! I really only used a few items, all in which can be found at your local Craft Warehouse! Sequins, enamel dots, skinny washi, wood chip alphas and of course, Becky Higgins Project Life Strawberry edition!  I start my pages with photos that are sized 3x4 and 3x3 inches. The very first thing I do is select all the cards of my pages (eight 3x4 and four 4x6). I then create the "week #" card. With just a few sequins, you can make a not-so-interesting card look way more interesting. All without overbearing the card. A simply spelling out of the week number is a simple way to illustrate it.
I did something funky here. I am a fan of altering cards and layering them. I punch a 3 inch circle out of the journal card and layered the photos and title over it. Sequins and enamel dots are so inexpensive! I like to do the "sneeze" effect - where it looks like I just sprinkled a bunch of random bits in the corner in a splash affect. Here are my finished pages:
Left Side: Design F Right Side: Design A
  Thank you so much for reading!