Digital Project Life-Week 17

Here's my offering for Week 17 in my Digital Project Life journey. The girls have been pretty helpful with feedback on what they think looks good and we all are happy with the final result of this week's effort. *Ü*

I have no idea how the gals of Bella Gypsy come up with so many amazing kits week after week, but they sure do. I picked the Hello Summer bundle that is being offered this week at Scrap Orchard because the colors are bright for summer, but also unique as well. Fun to work with for sure. 

Supplies:

Templates: Lifetime Templates Set 2 by Julie Billingsley (Sweet Shoppe Designs)

Title Cards Weeks 2 and Layered Summer Cards by Cindy Schneider (Sweet Shoppe Designs)

Kit: Hello Summer Bundle by Bella Gypsy (Scrap Orchard)

Font: Caviar Dreams

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A New Crocheted Friend-Danni Rae

I'm so happy to share that I just finished crocheting a cute doll. Happy because my elbow didn't hurt at all while I was crocheting or even after I'd quit for the day. Yay! I'm hoping my patience paid off and that I can continue to crochet without discomfort.

This is Danni Rae:

 She can walk around in her flip flops or...

 Put on her tube and flippers.

 Sweet face, don't you think?

Many thanks to my assistant who loves having Danni wear the tube and flippers and making her "swim." She figured out the easiest and quickest way to get that tube on. Thanks, Jessica!

Danni is one of 4 dolls in the pattern booklet called Crochet Your Own Dolls and Accessories. I picked it up at Joann's earlier this year.

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Hope your weekend has started off swimmingly.

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Summer Fun Digital Layout

While today it is only in the 50s and overcast, on Monday we hit a near record high in the 90s. The girls cooled off in fine fashion and I remembered to snap pictures. Had some time this afternoon to create a non Project Life layout. 

Yay!

I like the happy colors.

I believe you can click to enlarge the image.

Template: Layered Templates Set 141 by Cindy Schneider (Sweet Shoppe Designs)

Summer Splash by MaryFran (NitwitCollections)

Font-Caviar Dreams

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Hope you are having a great day. 

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On the Sunny Side Cards

On Friday we got together with our friends for our first summer playdate. While the kids played together, Becky and I had our own crafty playdate. I was able to create three cards, all using My Mind's Eye paper from the On the Sunny Side collection. I found it at Archiver's. The colors make me smile. I also used the April and May Stamps of the Month from Close To My Heart.

This card uses the April Stamp of the month and the Hello stamp from Hello Blooms. Holiday Red and Sunflower worked well with the collection. 

The stars are from the May Stamp of the Month and have been inked in Holiday Red, Sunflower and Twilight. The red paper is American Crafts brand. The blue is Twilight cardstock with the stars stamped in Twilight as well. On the white circle, I inked the stamp in Sunflower, stamped off on a scrap paper then stamped on the white cardstock. I like that it breaks up the starkness of the white a little.

I used my corner rounder again on 1 1/2 inch squares of paper. The butterflies are from Michaels.

The cards were inspired by cards found on Pinterest. 

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Digital Project Life-Week 16

Yay! Week 16 started and finished today. *Ü* Feels a little like I might be getting into a bit of a groove. Just as an FYI, the template I used is designed to showcase photos taken over the course of one day and it has spots for typing the different times of the day to go along with the photos. I chose to hide those parts of template. The beauty of templates in action.

Supplies:
Templates: Layout-Timetable Templates by Scrapping with Liz (Scrap Orchard)
                 Title Card- Title Cards Weeks 1 by Cindy Schneider (Sweet Shoppe Designs)
Kit: Create Your Own Sunshine by Bella Gypsy (Scrap Orchard)
Font: Caviar Dreams

Thanks so much for stopping by. Hope you had a lovely weekend.

Birthday Cards

My oldest brother and twin brothers celebrate their birthdays this weekend. That's 3 birthday boys in two days. I was actually on the ball this year and got cards made and sent off in time! I also noticed that my last several posts have been layouts. You might be ready to see some cards. *Ü* The designs are not mine, of course, but the thoughts of my brothers while I was creating them certainly are!

 Dutch Blue Cardstock, ink, Birthday stamp set (CTMH), Green Tea Stack (DCWV) Gems, (Recollections brand, Michaels)

Kraft cardstock, woodgrain embossing folder (Paper Studio, Hobby Lobby), Green Tea Stack (brown strip and circles) {DCWV}, Gems (Recollections brand, Michaels), Happy Birthday stamp, Cocoa ink (CTMH)

I am a little annoyed with myself. I am pretty sure I saw these first two cards on Pinterest, but I didn't pin them. I just scrolled through while looking for ideas that appealed to me. Now, of course, I can't find those pins. Sorry. But I am not claiming these ideas were mine. You all know me better than that, right? 

This next card was originally created by my friend Barb, here. I just adore how Barb creates her cards. There is so much attention to detail. Plus she shares a lot of little tidbits about the techniques she uses. Anyway, I decided to mimic the card linked above.

I did vary it a bit by changing up the focal piece cut (Framelits by Sizzix, purchased at Archiver's, although sold other places as well). I colored the Meljen's cupcake image with pencils and odorless mineral spirits. (I leave the Copic coloring to the professionals, like Barb *Ü*) I added the gems (from Recollections brand at Michaels). I know I've said that a lot. There is a bigger box of these gems that they sell that have several sizes of gems in the box. That's where these tiny gems are coming from. I used a bit of a glittery pen as well at more of that Green Tea Stack (guess it's my go-to paper for guy cards). I had the same Martha Stewart border/embossing punch that Barb used. All in all, I'm pleased at the final result (although I continue to be iffy about the paper used for the strip across the card...those brown edges look strange to me, but I couldn't find anything else that would even remotely work in my opinion...It is what it is.

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Digital Project Life-Week 15

I don't have to add a bunch of "stuff" to make the layout nice. I don't have to add a bunch of "stuff" to make the layout nice. I don't have to add a bunch of "stuff" to make the layout nice. I'm saying this to remind myself that it is the completion of the layout that is important. And so we have Week 15 completed(without a lot of extra stuff)!

Supplies:

Template: Remember That Templates 2 by Scrapping With Liz (Scrap Orchard)

Kit: No Bummer Summer by Bella Gypsy (Scrap Orchard)

Fonts: Caviar Dreams, Rochester

Enjoy and thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you are enjoying your weekend.