Project Life - Aug 24, 2013

Here are some of my latest Project Life layouts.

 

Nov - 2012 - (4x6) Recording a snowy day in Calgary and the 45th photo of my photo project. My grandfather made me that broach when I was a little girl. The tags were done on the Cameo using Print & Cut.



 

 

Nov 15, 2012 - (4x6) Taya brought me a gluten-free cupcake to help us get through a very rough day.

Nov 15, 2012 - (6x8) My sister-in-law, Grinda, passes away.

 

 

Nov 15, 2012 - (4x6) Commemorating Grinda.

 

Nov 17, 2012 - (4x6) Card and punchie animal from my Stampin' Up party.

 

Nov 17, 2012 - (4x6) 46th Photo for my photo project and ordering my CAMEO!

Nov 21, 2012 - (6x8) My mom was awarded the same medal as my dad! The background was cut using my Cameo.

Nov 26, 2012 - (4x6) Week in review. All done using Print & Cut on the Cameo. A little washi tape for embellishment.

Nov 29, 2012 - (4x6) More snow in Calgary and a photo of my published layout. Tags made using Print & Cut on the Cameo.

Nov 30, 2012 - (4x6) I started an 8x8 album to commemorate Grinda's life. I gave the album to my in-laws and they show it to everyone. It has to be the most cherished gift I've ever given anyone.

Dec 3, 2012 - (4x6) Christmas shopping time!

Dec 7, 2012 - (4x6) Got a new (old) typewriter for Project Life. Embellished with washi.

 Dec 11, 2012 - (3x4) This whole card was done with Print & Cut on the Cameo.

Dec 12, 2012 - (4x6) My sister's dog, Mocha, passed away. Journal card done using Print & Cut with the Cameo.

Dec 15, 2012 - (4x6) Beautiful card made with Stampin' Up products.

Dec 25, 2012 - (3x4) Me and my Cameo

Dec 25, 2012 - (4x6) Me and my family on Christmas morning. The background is an old Christmas card.

Dec 30, 2012 - (4x6) Silly sock reindeer I made for my parents many years ago. My mom thought she had lost it and was quite upset. Thankfully she found it!

Dec 31, 2012 - (4x6) Got run into on the last day of the year. Journal card was made using Print & Cut on the Cameo.

 Dec 31, 2012 - (4x6) 2012 was the worst year of my life and I felt the need to commemorate all the bad stuff in one place. I think I was hoping if I listed it all that 2013 would be a kinder year. So far, so good. The swirls are an acetate overlay.

New52 (Yes, I'm still alive!)

I know I haven't been here in a while but we've had a ton of stuff going on over the past couple months and now I'm just trying to catch up.

Here are the NINE New52's that I have missed posting. I will admit that a few are pretty lame but I've been too busy to think too hard about this. LOL!

Week 12 - Meeting Brooklyn my new grand-niece. I know I mentioned it before but here is the New52 post for it. This is me holding this mushy little bundle of joy.

 

 

 

Week 13 - Making Filler Cards for Project Life. I know I did another post on this but here it is again but with a new card. I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut the Fabulous and a Stampin Up stamp and punch for the butterfly

 



 

 

 

Week 14 - This one is not very exciting... nope, not at all!! But it was necessary and I did the job all by myself. I hung these towel racks from Ikea to hold my growing supply of punches. After finishing the job I realized I will need at least another two!!

 

 

 

 

Week 15 - There is no photo for this one but I got a new client for my bookkeeping business. Her name is Tawnee and she is a VERY inspiring woman. I look forward to working with her for a long time to come.


Week 16 - There is no photo for this one either. I booked our Alaska cruise! We are celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary next week and we needed to do SOMETHING special so we're going in September to Alaska. (That will be another New52 for me at the time!)


Week 17 - My kids had surprised me with tickets for Cirque Du Soleil's Amaluna on my birthday and we finally got to go this week!! I had never been to one before and what an incredible treat it was. Lots of fun with my kids too. Here's us just before we left.

 

 

 

Week 18 - Scraping the bottom of the barrel for this one as this week was SO busy trying to get our rental house ready for sale. But I did try a new restaurant with the kids - one of their favourites. Kinjo sushi restaurant. It was really good and very fast. Yummy!

 

 

Week 19 - Went to my regular monthly Stampin' Up card night and learned how to do double embossing. It was confusing as I don't have a Big Shot and never use embossing folders so I didn't really "get" it but I LOVED the result!

 

 

 

 

Week 20- My Mother's Day was quiet but fun. My son, Corey, and his boyfriend were over for a simple hotdog dinner. LOL! Cor brought a new game with him named Quelf and we had an absolute gas playing it. It's similar to Cranium but very, very strange. The photo below is of my game piece - Super Ninja Monkey. I know she was a girl because of her pink bow.

 

 

I have to add one more for Week 20 as it was very special. Corey gave me flowers and chocolates for Mother's Day. That really made me smile as it was a real first!

Project Life (continued) - Mar 31, 2013

Okay, we continue from the last post...

These next three 3x4 filler cards are made with punches and/or stamps from Stampin' Up. The first one I also used the Print & Cut feature on the Silhouette Cameo for the grey square and the printing.

 

 

 

 

The next two are 4x6 Journal Cards. The flowers were cut on the Cameo using Bo Bunny paper. The leaves were also cut on the Cameo using Bazzill.

 

 

 

Project Life - Mar 31, 2013

Post number three today!!

This one is on a different topic though. Thankfully!

I have been pouring over Pinterest and getting lots of great ideas for 3x4 filler cards and journal cards for my Project Life. You just NEED fillers sometimes!!

Anyway, here are a bunch I've been working on. These first two are copied almost directly as I saw them on Pinterest. I just loved them.

 

 

 

 

These next fillers are from my own head. The were cut using the Silhouette Cameo and the bottom one has purchased paper flowers added to it.

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

This next one was also done on the Cameo but I used the Print & Cut function as I thought the yellow flowers were just too small to cut well. I added a bit of orange Stickles as well and then matted on yellow.

 

 

 (I have to move on to a new post as I've used up my space....)

New52 & meeting my new grand-niece! - Mar 18, 2013

I have a new New52 to share but first I just HAVE to show you a photo of the cutest little thing - my new grand-niece. Isn't she precious!?

 

 

Okay. Enough of that cuteness!

 

Here is my New52 for this week. It's still VERY wintery here in Calgary so I didn't venture farther than my scraproom for this one. LOL!

 

Week 11 - Cutting several different papers at once in the Cameo.

 

This is the view on my screen in the Studio software for my Silhouette Cameo. The marked squares are 4"x4".

 

 



 

 Here is the cardstock secured onto my cutting mat. I used scraps only!

 

 

 

And here it is after cutting it all out. The only problem I had was the dark blue cardstock was a textured (all the rest were regular cardstock) so it didn't cut all the way through. So, next time I'll be sure that ALL the cardstock is exactly the same weight.

 

 

Project Life - Feb 5, 2013

I have been plugging away at my Project Life again. Here are few photos to let you see what I've been up to.

The top two slots are just simple journal cards I made with washi tape and labels. The bottom was cut on the Cameo from a purchased file.

This is a screen shot of some journal cards and labels I made up in the Silhouette software. It was quite simple!

 

Here is one of the journal cards now stamped "Wednesday" and matted on blue cardstock.

And this one is my favourite so far! I added a strip of scrap patterned paper, a bracket (cut on the Cameo), washi tape and two flowers with brads.

Thanks for looking!

 

Project Life - Feb 2, 2013

I've managed to get another couple pages done in my 6x8 Sn@p book Project Life. I may even catch up one day!

For the top two slots I cut the arrow and the "seriously" on the Cameo.

The bottom slot is of the Canadian Scrapbooker's annual Scrapbook Carnival. I try to go every year and manage (somehow) to support almost all of the exhibitors!!

The top right slot is a journal card I used the Print & Cut option on the Cameo. The typing was done using the computer and then the card and the "Laugh" was cut after.

The bottom slot's title was cut on the Cameo using a cool font called Bewitched. I love it.

 

Here is a screen shot from the Cameo software of what I've been working on today. I made all these myself (except the small labels). I can change anything on them including the colours, titles and fonts. I can also keep the lines, make grid lines instead or take the lines out entirely.

But the biggest plus is I can type right on the card BEFORE printing them and then the formatting is perfect. I love this machine.