Christmas Eve Layout 2015

 

This is my version of  project life.  I am so far behind on Christmas pages that I decided to try to make a simplified version of my normal layouts.   It worked and I completed at least one set of my Christmas photos.   I have 2015 through 2019.  Because there are so many "events and traditions" at Christmas, I actually dread getting started on them because it takes so long.  I do the same with vacation photos knowing that they will take forever.  I think that I will do a cover page and then finish them like these.  Simple and fairly fast to put together.  Yeah.  Now I just need time to do more of them.  Thanks for the challenge to get at least one done!

http://kcclayoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2020/09/lm-514-wonders-of-world-englanduk.html  throwback challenge

https://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/09/challenge-568-christmas.html Christmas

1st Day of School - Project Life Layout

Here's another layout that I was able to finish.  I modified the title to match my little bookworms which are Miss Kate's Cuttables files.  Love them.  They turned out so cute.  I'm loving that I've been able to get many of these older pictures taken care of and in albums.  I've been looking at them for way to long!  LOL.  Simple but effective.  If you look close, I have journaled on my photos.  I love that because then even if it's been a while since I developed them, some of the details of the events are saved.  I need to remember to do that all the time!  Love it when I do it especially when it's been a while since they were taken.  

http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.com/2016/09/tuesday-throwdown-tt310-school-spirit.html school

http://kcclayoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2016/09/lm-309-up.html "Up" a grade

http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com/2016/08/monthly-challenge-50-book-worm.html bookworm

http://cuttlebugmania.blogspot.com/2016/09/we-are-back.html AG

Howdy Shooting Layouts

Ok...so my daughter was given a great big stuffed dog from a former boyfriend.  One day she decided it would be fun to use him for target practice.  Her Dad was thrilled as this was a bad situation all the way around.  So out we went for a shooting party.  Her uncle came over and we all went out to shoot.  I thought it a great time to play with my camera and wasn't disappointed as I caught several shots of stuffing flying everywhere.   That's my kind of shooting.  I did, however, pick up a gun and shoot a couple times with them.  LOL.  Anyway, these are the layouts that I created for my photos.  I have been doing a lot of my project life style of scrapbooking mixed with a front page.  I find it fun to still create the fun first page and quickly document the additional photos this way.   The best of both worlds!  Aren't these little cowgirls cute?  I recently won 3 files from Precious Piecings and this is one I chose because I knew I had these pictures and she would be cute on them.    The guns, fence, and barbed wire are cuts that I got somewhere but have no idea where anymore.  Perfect for this layout too!   

http://biminimoose.blogspot.com/2015/05/optional-twist-this-day-in-history.html AG
http://clearitoutchallenge.blogspot.com/2015/05/its-challenge-time_26.html cowgirl
http://kcclayoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2015/05/lm-243-anything-goes-wtheme.html Family Life

Outdoor Fun Layout

We often go for long walks and I like to take lots of different scenery photos.  Remember when I said I make a bunch of files when I cut them, well these little birds from KaDoodle Bug Designs I made for some winter layouts but they look just as cute without the winter hats on a summer layout.  The little deer looks cute and outdoorsy and will also be cute on the Christmas layouts that I had in mind when I cut them. And if I have some left, how about a I deerly love you layout?  That's at least 3 uses for these little deer and can look completely different depending on the layout.   And since I'm always on the lookout for cute outdoorsy files, I found a cute little set at Too Cute by Jessica for $.15 on clearance AND on  sale.  Can't beat that.  The little squirrel, skunk, and hedgehog come from that set.  Aren't they cute!  

http://pdelinkyparty.blogspot.ca/2015/02/abc-anything-but-card.html no cards

http://scrappymoms-stamps.blogspot.com/2015/02/terrific-tuesday-challenge-birds-of.html bird

http://www.2creativechicks.com/2015/02/challenge-23-anything-goes-mid-posting_17.html

anything goes

http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/2015/02/dlart-february-linky-challenge.html linky

http://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/2015/02/challenge-3-title-challenge.html title

http://southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.com/2015/02/challenge-104-winged-things.html winged - bird

http://biminimoose.blogspot.com/2015/02/anything-goes-scrapbooking-challenge.html project life

Christmas Surprise Layout - Project Life My Way

Last year my 11 year old son did something so sweet for me.  He wrapped my gift in several boxes and then when I finally got to the last box, he sent me all over the house searching for clues, more wrapped boxes until finally I arrived at my gift that he picked out for me!  It was so sweet!  It was so thoughtful of him.  I don't know about you, but Christmas as a Mom is usually me buying and taking care of all of the Christmas stuff, including my own, so it was really nice to have him be so thoughtful and to do something special for me!  Love you bud!  Thanks for making my Christmas extra special!  (Yes, I am behind on my scrapbooking.  As a matter of fact, I did a layout from 5 years ago today!  Yikes!)    The little bird is a Kadoodle Bug Designs file and the stockings were a freebie from Miss Kate's Cuttables and the title is one I just created from my hundreds of fonts that I have.  Yes, I hoard those too!  LOL.

http://biminimoose.blogspot.com/2015/02/pl-pocket-scrapbooking-ch-anything-goes.html anything goes - my favorite scrapbooking embelishment is SVG files.  I rarely do a page without some type of svg cut on it.  Love them!

http://clearitoutchallenge.blogspot.com/2015/02/challenge-time.html anything goes and stash - paper is several years old

Santa I Believe Layout 2013

And here's the beginning of my project life style Christmas pictures.  I don't know about you, but I have a ton of pictures of my family opening their gifts.  Since I decided to do Project Life my way, I figured this was the perfect way to incorporate it into a ton of pictures so that I'm not still scrapbooking these in 4 years!  On average I usually have a couple of years of Christmas pictures to do and so I was determined to get these babies done as I have 2014's to do already too!  I love it.  I was able to spend more time on some of the other pages and not so much on the project life ones but they all look great together.  So glad that I was able to get these done.  I won't bore you with all of them but here's the first set.  All in all, I completed 8 pages worth of Christmas photos done.  Yeah.

http://biminimoose.blogspot.com/2015/01/pocket-scrapbooking-ch-anything-goes.html anything goes

Santa I Believe Layout 2

Here's another project life layout my way.  I'm really liking the flexibility that this new way of scrapbooking is giving me.  I have tons of Christmas photos always and so this makes a faster way to get them in pages because I am always behind on them.  LOL.  So here's another layout created Project life my way!

http://biminimoose.blogspot.ca/2015/01/pocket-scrapbooking-ch-anything-goes.html anything goes
http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-pink-elephant-challenge-tpe283.html anything goes
http://kcclayoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2015/01/lmcb-226-anything-goes-with-lifes.html life's moment
http://www.2creativechicks.com/2015/01/challenges-challenge-22-anything-goes_23.html anything goes

New Car Layout - Project Life My Way

Here's another Project Life My Way layout.  I bought this car two years ago and a couple months after I bought it, a lady backed into me and smashed my door.  I was so sad...thankfully the autobody shop did a wonderful job and my car looks great again.  To make it even better, my husband scheduled it a visit to a detail shop where they tinted my windows and added a spoiler!  Love it and my sweet hubby for making a bad situation better.

http://frosteddesigns.blogspot.com/2015/01/friday-challenge-new.html New Car
http://redcarpetstudiochallenge.blogspot.com/2015/01/rcs-86-two-faces-of-january.html 2 stoplights

Summer Boating Layout - Project Life My Way

Here's another project life layout that I created based on my own pages and cut files that I made in Make-the-Cut.  Love how these can come together so quickly.  Yeah.  I'm so behind..... This will help me catch up!

http://biminimoose.blogspot.com/2015/01/pocket-scrapbooking-ch-anything-goes_6.html anything goes

You Rock Layout - Project Life My Way

I haven't scrapbooked very  much over the last year, quite simply, because I ran out of time.  Making all my own embellishments and assembling them became so time consuming that I just hadn't done much.  So in trying to "catch up" I went to a scrapbook retreat which was SO much fun.  While I was there, many of the ladies were doing Project Life.  Now I have heard of it but I still scrap 8.5 x 11 and so the sizes just didn't work for me.  I did buy a bunch of page protectors in 8.5 x 11 and was going to use the same concept, but they were SO expensive and I have a couple boxes of regular page protectors.  Well, I finally had a brainstorm.  I decided to create my own project life pages in Make-the-Cut to fit MY needs in scrapbooking.  Wow.  It was really easy, it's geared exactly for the sizes that I use, and I can use the inexpensive page protectors that I already have.  I have 25 pages of "options" that I can use or modify to create my own project life layouts.  I just have to select the "pages" that will work with my photos, pick my papers, cut, and assemble.  It is so much faster.  Here's another example of my version of Project Life.  I did make my own embellishments but it's still faster than doing it the other way.  I still want to use the other way for a lot of pages, but this will be nice for "big events" that have TONS of pictures or just those odd pictures that seem to get pushed aside.  It works great.  Now I have more options in how I create and can save some time when needed.   I love options.....

I even found a pocket scrapbook challenge to enter it into!  Gotta love that!

http://biminimoose.blogspot.com/2015/01/pocket-scrapbooking-ch-anything-goes_6.html anything goes pocket style