New this Week from The Digichick!

Hi all!  How is your winter going?  We're headed into a weekend of unseasonably warm weather, so I'm happy.  I'm also SO happy to show you what I've been playing with from The Digichick this last week.

Kimeric Kreations has released this stunning, jewel-toned collection called Completely Quirky.  The collection includes a full kit, a bonus paper pack, an alpha pack, a word art pack and a journal card pack:

I was so happy to be able to grab this collection since I thought it would go perfectly with these photos from New Year's Eve:

The template I used is also by Kimeric Kreations.  You can get it FREE for the month of January by liking her Facebook page!  Remember, too, that all parts of the collection are available separately if you so choose.

If you were with me a couple of years ago you'll remember I participated in P365, where you take one photo a day for a whole year, and in the case of scrapbookers, you create layouts to document your daily life.  With a new year upon us, Laura of Wishing Well Creations has released two new bundles of goodies you can use to create this year's projects:

This year's Everyday Life bundles were designed to coordinate with WWC's Family Funhouse bundle:

All the parts of the bundles are also available individually, but get this:  if you purchase Everday Life 2013 Volume 1 or Volume 2, you'll receive in your download a 50% off coupon for any other Everyday Life product in the Wishing Well Creations shop, even last year's goods!  I used a little bit of Volume 1 and Volume 2 and one of last year's templates to do this layout of my sweet little nieces:

How fun is that chalkboard effect?  It's really popular right now in the crafty world.  Also, a little comment here:  I really ran out of steam about halfway through the year I was doing P365 (in 2010) and decided it just wasn't for me.  But, I came across THIS blog post at My Scrapbook Art, and since they give you prompts each day of what to photograph, I thought I might give it a try, and this collection has everything I  would need to scrap those photos.  So far, I've missed about half the days, but I didn't see any hint of sanctions if you do, lol, so we'll see how it goes.  Come back soon and see me to find out if I'm sticking with it!

And Now, For Something a Little Different...

So many of us are inspired at the beginning of a new year to join one of the many memory-keeping projects that can be found...Project Life, the P365 / P52 / P12 projects, A-Week-In-The-Life, One-Little-Word, what have you (feel free to Google any of these if you have no idea what I'm talking about, lol). If you were with me a couple of years ago, you may remember I did Project 365 in 2010, taking one photo a day for an entire year, and in my case, scrapping weekly layouts.

To that end, Laura of Wishing Well Creations has developed a huge collection of digital tools to help you scrap your year-long memories, no matter how you're doing it. I don't think I'm going to do any of these projects this year, but...I remembered I never made a title page for my 2010 project! Laura to the rescue, with these freebies that can be had on her blog, her Facebook Fan page, or as a free gift when you sign up for Wishing Well Creations' newsletter:

The blog freebie:


The Facebook/newsletter freebie:


And here's the title page I made, pulling a few photos from the inner pages of my P365 album, and recoloring one of the papers:



But wait, there's more! (I love saying that, lol) Wishing Well Creations also has for sale in the shop at The Digichick these two bundles of papers, templates, date bits, and journal cards:



Grab a template, pop in some photos, a few journaling cards, and some papers, and you have captured a memory! You can get the bundles at a great value, or look around in the shop to pick up individual components as you need them. Get Volume 1 HERE and Volume 2 HERE.

I found the bundles useful for scrapping regular layouts, too! Take a look at this multi-photo layout of some photos from last summer:

The alpha and accent elements are from WWC's bundle Brady's Room, which shares the same color palette as the Everyday Life bundles.

Here's looking forward to saving those memories we will make this year, big and small!

P365 Finale!

Well, the time has come to show you folks my last two weeks of my Project 365 layouts. I'm glad I saw this project through to the end, although as I've said before, it was getting a little tough there. I'm going to take a break for 2011...I may do a monthly highlight page (sort of a P12, if you will), but I know certain people who inhabit my world will be happy to know that I'm not going to be jumping in front of them with a camera at any given moment (you know who you are!).

So, here are week 51:


And week 52, which has 8 photos since there are actually 52 weeks and one day in a 365-day year, and as you know, I organized my pages by weeks:


You may recognize genia Beana Scraps' gorgeous kit Basically Elegant that I showed you last time, but I also used Val's kit 365 Things, which was specifically designed for P365 layouts, calendars, and brag books:


Most of my digi layouts just live in cyberspace, but I'm going to have this entire year of pages printed out, so if you're ever over my house, feel free to take a look!

Some P365 goodness

The year 2010 is quickly drawing to a close, and so is my Project 365. Today I'm giving you weeks 47 through 50, and if you do the math, that means there's only two weeks left! So, without further ado:

I continued my love affair with genia Beana's Shabby Fall for weeks 47 and 48:


And for weeks 49 and 50 I used an absolutely gorgeous collab kit from the designers at ScrapMatters called Magical Winterland. The templates for all the pages here today are from Trixie Scraps:


As you may have noticed, I am still missing a few photos here and there. A challenge at ScrapMatters encouraged us P365 slackers to embrace our shortcomings, hence the "photo not found" joke in week 47! You may also have noticed that my blog looks a little different. The online server that hosted my background image crashed and the image was lost. So I'm trying to decide whether to restore it or to give my blog a fresh new face for the new year. :)

50 weeks down, 2 to go!!!!!!

Six Weeks of P365!

Well, it certainly has been a while, and I'll bet you were all in despair of ever seeing another P365 page from me! I have just not been in the mood to work on these pages lately, but yesterday I got the notion into my head to get going and I scrapped and scrapped until I'm all caught up! I had several more lapses in photography these past few weeks so I have a couple of pages that are a little skimpy photo-wise, but it's not as bad as I thought (I thought I had skipped a lot more days than I had). So without further ado, here are weeks 41 through 46 of my Project 365!

Week 41:
(weeks 41 and 42 were created using Odds n Ends by Ohana Designs)

Week 42:

Week 43:
(weeks 43 and 44 were done with the kit Cloud Nine-by Day from Scraps by Mara)

Week 44:

Week 45:
(weeks 45 and 46 were made with the kit Shabby Fall by genia Beana Scraps)

Week 46:

46 weeks down, 6 weeks to go! Can you believe it!?

P365 weeks 39 and 40

Well, folks, it had to happen sooner or later. Whether it was because of apathy, a serious lack of imagination, or just forgetfulness, I did NOT take a photo every day the week of Sept. 24! Usually, if nothing noteworthy is happening in my day (which happens more often than not, I really DO have a boring life, lol!), I find something that captures my interest enough for a photo. Not during week 39, though! So, that week's page looks a little skimpy, but as you can see, I jumped right back into the saddle for week 40, and I hope to keep going strong for the rest of the year!

Week 39:

Week 40:
I used a template by Simply You, Simply Me and the kit Sunny Meadow by Laitha Designs, both available at GoDigitalScrapbooking.

Also, here's that sneak peek I told you about yesterday. It's the newest kit from Scraps by Mara, and it will revealed on October 15, so stay tuned!

P365

Another cold, rainy day here in Michigan, and I decided to spend part of my day off getting caught up on my P365 pages. I used genia Beana Scraps' newest kit Late September for these pages:


Very appropriate, wouldn't you say? So, here are weeks 37 and 38:


38 weeks down, 14 weeks to go!

Oh, I almost forgot! I'll be showing you some new kits at the end of the week: a gorgeous ES Color Play kit from Dylabel Designs, and this amazing collection from Scraps by Mara:


See you soon!

3 Weeks of P365!

Whew, I knew I was behind on my P365 pages but I didn't realize how far behind! Luckily, life, which has been very hectic these last few weeks, has settled down and I had a chance to sit down yesterday and get all caught up. So, without further ado, here are weeks 34, 35, and 36. All were done with kits from Dylabel Designs, whose store at Elemental Scraps can be found HERE:
Week 34

Week 35

Week 36

36 weeks down, 16 to go!

Blossoming and P365! (x 2!)

I've got a lot to show you today. First off, here's a brand new kit from Dylabel Designs that releases today at Elemental Scraps. It's called Blossoming, and it's full of cool, serene papers and elements:


Here's a page I did, once again rehabilitating an old photo from the 1970's:


And....., I finally got caught up on my P365 pages! Here is week 32, which is the partner, of course, to week 31:


And here's week 33, which just ended. I decided to use Blossoming for this and next weeks' pages:


33 weeks down, 19 to go!

P365 Week 31

Hi all! Finally, here's my latest Project 365 page. I used genia Beana's kit Sun Shiny Day, which you've seen before, but is now available at Scrap Matters as well as Elemental Scraps:


I felt like using bright, fun colors this time around:


31 weeks down, 21 to go!

P365 Week 30

Here is my page for Week 30 of Project 365. Look, there's actually two photos of John and I! These two homebodies went out not once, but twice this week! Whoo hoo!


30 weeks down, 22 to go!

It's been a little quiet in my scrapping world lately, but there's lots of amazing stuff brewing for the month of August for Val of genia Beana Scraps and her CT...stayed tuned!