Back to Project Life.

No one likes a procrastinator right? Well I think I'm the biggest procrastinator of them all. Last year I boasted of keeping up to date with my Project Life pages but then real life got in the way and I just sort of let it slip. I gave myself deadlines to finish it up to the end of the year but these came and went and since January I've not looked at it.....once!

Well, this weekend I've put that right.

I feel so much better now for completing another week and hopefully it'll kick start me into getting it finished.

I turned to Basic Grey "Spice Market" papers to cut my own cards and an Echo Park Designer die called Thought Bubble and Hello . 

I also made use of some beautiful washi tape from MME  in teal and the stickers are mostly from Simple Stories Daily Grind.

Here I've used the negative from cutting the Hello on the title card.  I'd also completely forgotten I'd got Enamel Accents by Ranger which I used to create my own little dots on some of the cards.

I'm so happy I've got back into this project and I really hope I can keep going now to finish it off.

Jaine x

Gelli print mini

I had a fun afternoon printing pretty papers from my Gelli plate, using leaves from the garden as masks but at the end of it I had a stack of papers with no home to go to. This is turning out to be a common thing as I generally get carried away taking prints and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

By folding as simple accordion spine I could glue the pages into the folds until I ended up with a small journal.

An easy construction but now I've got a mini journal or Instagram album.

I added some pink duct tape around the spine to hold it all together and used some of the left over pieces of gelli print papers to die cut shapes. The sentiment on the front is from the Echo Park Capture Life kit.

 What will you make with your Gelli prints?



Jaine x

Sketch book project

 

At the end of May I'm lucky enough (or crazy enough, not sure which) to be going to Austria with my best friend on a week long hike of the Tyrolean mountains. Despite having to carry our stuff in our back packs (real hiking) there's just no way I'll be able to last the whole seven days without journaling it.

I decided the easiest and lightest way was just to purchase a small A6 size sketch book but it was just far too plain and crying out for a bit of a tart up.

An earlier Gelli Plate session had given me some great background fodder so I chose this piece which had an amazing retro feel to it. Just created with two Distress paint colours Peeled Paint and Salty Ocean and a Dina Wakley stencil from Ranger called Mod.

I had originally planned to do lots to this one but on seeing it peeled from the Gelli Plate I fell in love instantly and was reluctant to add anything at all to it.

So it became my starting point to cover my book. To add some detail and interest to my cover I used the Echo Park kit Capture Life which has some brilliant stickers and great papers to layer and also has it's own retro feel.

I think this and a couple of pens will be sufficient and should take up no space at all in my back pack even if I have to throw out something else like a pair of socks!

Jaine x

Layout for December

By the time you're reading this, Trish and I will be at the NEC in Birmingham at the CHA UK trade show looking at all the good things coming out this spring.

Anyway, I felt it was time to do a December layout before spring comes and everyone is totally fed up with all things Christmas.

I didn't want to go down the usual Christmassy route so opted to use a kit called Freedom by Jenny Bowlin for Echo Park as I love that red and black look.

For the stars I used a Balzer Designs stencil called Punchinella  and tried out some black embossing paste by Dreamweaver for the first time and was totally blown away by it. I've usually added black gesso to my paste before but I thought I'd try out one which was black to start with and it's gorgeous. It's thick so no leaking under the stencil and glossy so you have this gorgeous shine when it dries.

The only other things I used on the page were some white gesso, Broken China Distress paint and a few bits of shiny turquoise washi tape by MME.

Have a good weekend what ever you're doing.

Jaine x

Project life week 29

I'm starting to catch up with my Project Life pages from the summer and here's week 29.

Once again I've used the Echo Park Capture Life collection to make my journaling cards.

I also used some gorgeous washi tape from My Minds Eye which is so sparkly and shiny it's beautiful.

I used some of the stickers from the same Echo Park collection cutting them up and changing them to how I wanted them to look.

Just look at the sparkle on that tape.

Have a good weekend.

Jaine x

Summer in the City.

I love love love the colours in this months challenge, see them here.

When I was going through my stash to see what I had to match the colours I was pleasantly surprised to find this sheet of paper from Echo Park in my collection called Bokeh Blur. It's part of the Capture Life range and as soon as I saw it I had the perfect photo to create a layout with.

The stickers all come from the Finnley collection from Glitz and blended in wonderfully.

 There's plenty of time to enter the challenge which closes on the 12th October.

Jaine x

July layout.

Here's my layout for July using the same Echo Park kit called Capture Life.

I took one of the papers (the reverse of the hearts sheet) which had a very plain neutral finish and as I'd already decided I was going to place the two photo's on either side of the layout, I spread some texture paste through this Prima stencil called Flower mostly down the centre. I had intended that the paste would act as a resist to my ink spraying but I picked up some yellow off the stencil by accident (dirty crafting) and thought I'd go with it as it didn't look too bad.

When the paste was dry I took a paintbrush and painted on my spray inks in random patches for a watercolour effect.

There are also some random spots of Stickles as I'm adding them to everything I do at the moment.

Have a good week

Jaine x

More Project Life.

I thought today I'd show you a couple of my Project Life pages using the Echo Park Capture Life collection.  I'm loving this collection at the moment and the sheet of cards and stickers makes everything so simple and quick to do.

 The only extra's I've added in are a few words with a Dymo labeler and a couple of my own arrows cut from foam the rest is purely the kit.

Jaine x

Project Life week 22

I'm becoming quite obsessive about my Project Life and I'm able to say I'm only a couple of weeks behind at the moment.

Here's week 22;

Instead of using ready made cards I chose this time to use a sheet of cards to cut out by Echo Park called Capture Life.  This is a superb collection of full sheets plus these journaling card sheets. They can be bought individually too so at under £1 per sheet it's an affordable way to create a weeks layout.

I also used the die to cut the view finder which is also from Echo Park and matches the collection perfectly.

Jaine x