Like a Cat - Gina's Project Life Page

I am loving the bright colours of the Echo Park Like a Cat collection and the 3x4 and 4x6 journaling cards especially. They seem to be the highlight of most of my projects this month.

This week I am sharing a project life page made using the Echo Park I Love My Cat 3x4 Journaling Cards paper and the 4x6 Journaling Cards paper. Here is a picture ofwhat I started with. I am using the back of two of the 4x6 cards as I want to put photos on them.

I will show you pictures of how I decorated each card. For the first card I used the Echo Park I Love My Cat Kitty Love stamp set to stamp out the cats, mouse and the cat bed onto white cardstock. I then coloured them with my gel pens, fussy cut them and layered them on the left of the card. The meow on top of the cat on the right is also from the stamp set. I have also rounded the corners of all the cards.

On the next page, I stuck a picture of my cat and added some die cuts created using the Tim Holtz Pocket Frame die set. The two on the bottom left have been covered with the Dyan Reavely dylusions diary tape. On the right I stamped some paw prints from the stamp set and coloured them in using my gel pens.

The LOVE card has some more dies cuts from the Pocket Frame die set and the next card has a border I die cut onto one of the offcuts, and a picture of my cat. I have gone over the "love" with my red glitter pen on the second card.

I didn't do much on the yummy treats card, just added a tag from the Echo Park I Love My Cat Frames and Tags set which I raised on some chipboard. For the next card, I cut out the hexagon and stuck a picture of my cat under it and I fussy cut some of the cats from the Echo Park I Love My Cat Purrfect Day paper which I stuck on the bottom.

The next card has one of the cards from the Echo Park I Love My Cat 6x6 paper pad on the left and more of the fussy cut cats on the bottom. This one looks a bit odd right now as I have stuck a frame, with a picture of my cat, on the plastic which you will see when I show you  the picture of the complete page.

The last card has a little embellishment I made with the dylusions dyary tape, the I Love My Cat which is at the bottom of the scrapbook papers and a charm from the Docrafts Papermania Pocket full of Posies charm pack. I also die cut a doily on one of the 6x6 papers which I stuck on the right.

And here is the pictture of the complete page with the cards in it. I made a little banner on the top right with some of the offcuts and the WRMK Sew Easy Bakers Twine.

Hope everyone has a lovely week and let us enjoy our creativity with confidence!

Gina xx

Sarah's Take on Project-52 - Memory Keeping the Everyday

Hello Crafty Friends!

Did you see our new Project Life cards on the blog yesterday? They are such fun designs!

Today Guest Designer Sarah is sharing a couple of Project Life page spreads using these cards. I hope you find memory keeping inspiration!......

This year I decided to go all in with my pocket-page scrapping and do Project Life as it was intended - to document life! I find that in the past I’ve only scrapped the ‘big moments’ of life and not all the in-between bits. I also spend much longer than was intended on every pocket-page spread I do. But this year will be different! I’ve decided to document all 52 weeks of 2017 in a Project Life album. Some weeks might only have 1 page with a couple of photos, others might have 5 or 6 spreads! The point is I want to use up all the old pocket-page cards I have lying around and document what an ordinary life has to offer.  

So without further ado, my first project is a title page for 2017. I created this using the ‘All About Me’ collection from Project Life. It’s such a fun, bright collection and I thought it would be perfect to start the New Year with. 

I wanted the year ‘2017’ to be the focus of this page so I set myself another challenge - no photos! The result is a simple page that focuses on the New Year ahead - I even jotted down a few goals for the year. I also paper pieced the Prima doll Audrey onto the page. It’s my first time using the Prima Doll dies and I have to say I love them! No more fussy cutting for me! 

After creating my title page it was time to get down to it and create my first spread for week 1 of 2017. I used the gorgeous ‘Be Fearless’ collection from Project Life and had enough photos to do a double page spread. On the left I used the earth tone cards and on the right I decided to opt for some sparkle! 

 The first page documents a new baby girl that my friend gave birth to recently. Isn’t she precious?! I wanted to use a layout that allowed vertical photo placement, however this presented a problem - almost all of the 3x4” cards were also vertical and wouldn’t fit in the horizontal places! So I fixed this by cutting some cards up - like the ‘Oh Darling’ sentiment and the gridded background with the dandelion - and layering them over other cards. Not only did this solve the problem, but I love the depth of layers it gives!  

For the second page I kept the layers to a minimum because I think the gold foil and glitter pages speak for themselves. This page is a bit more mundane - it celebrates a nice dinner at home with my husband and a recent ATC I drew. But I love that something so ordinary can be remembered so beautifully! 

Thank you for joining me today

Sarah xx

New Product Showcase: Project Life and Mambi Themed Cards

Hello Crafty Friends!

You don't have to be a pocket page scrapper to love Project Life (and other brands) pocket page cards! The handy 4x6" and 3x4" cards are also great for making cards, mini books and even for slotting into your planners. And the fact that they are often double-side makes them twice as exciting.

Today we have unpacked some new Project Life themed cards.....

The planner themed 'All About Me' set. These are SO cool! I love love LOvE them.......

The 'Be Fearless' specialty cards (these feature some cards with gold foil or glitter).......

From 2017's Project-52 collection..... the 'Fresh'  4x4" cards.......

As well as a Value Kit - DIY Home by Jen Hadfield......

We are also trialing the Pocket Pages themed cards from Me & my Big Idea... Let us know what you think! We have the following packs currently in stock:

Today.....

And Journal Elements.....

Want a better look at the individual cards? Check out Sarah's video HERE!

One of my Crafty Resolutions this year is to catch up on my scrapbooking. So Pocket Page cards? Look out!!!

Are you a pocket card fan? We'd love to hear how you use your cards! Let us know in the comments below.

Wishing you a fun week ahead

Aunty Vera :)

One Collection, Three Designers...... Kaisercraft's Into the Wild continued...

Hello Crafty Friends!

Back in August, we had a special feature on the blog called One Collection, Two Designers.
For this post, I sent the same paper collection (Kaisercraft's Into the Wild) to my three (yes I said three.... I'll explain in a bit) Team Designers and asked them all to create something using that collection, focusing on the type of crafting they enjoy most.

Unfortunately Sarah wasn't able to participate as - poor Sarah, I feel so sorry for her - she was visiting Europe at the time (I know, what a sad and terrible life...lol).

SO - Sarah is back (well, she's been back for a while now but I've been blog-slack) and so today I get to add HER creation to the blog. But first.... a quick recap......

Amira created these fabulous 3-dimensional projects:

A Zoo Diorama.....

A Card in a Box.....

And a Surprise Box Card.......

Leanne made a set of jungle themed cards and tags.....

Sarah is our Project Life / Pocket Page Designer, and she had heaps of fun with the collection. I love that she took on a completely non-zoo theme...... the collection was perfect for her pocket style Man Page..... great outside the box thinking :)

Here is the page sitting nicely in a Project Life album....

A big thank you to my three lovely ladies.

One Collection...... Three Designers.... and three very different takes on the same set of papers. And that's what crafting's all about!!

Aunty Vera :)