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Week 11 Project Life

Ok, first of all...is anyone else having trouble with TypePad lately. It keeps logging me out in the middle of whatever I'm doing and it's driving me bonkers! It's been a couple weeks like this. I'm getting really tempted to switch platforms if this doesn't stop!

I'm still working my way towards getting caught up on Project Life. I'm working forward and background at the same time, so here's week 11!

I love printing a collage of photo's onto one 4x6 sheet. It's a quick and clean way to fit a bunch of photo's onto one layout!

This week I had some relevant articles I could use from the school newsletters. I love the everyday life this adds. I blurred out names and stuff, so if you are trying to read the articles they aren't really written in greek!

And here are just some closer looks:

For this week's layout I used the Primrose kit from Noel Mignon, as well as some Lily Bee alphabet stickers. I couldn't do this project without these awesome ABC stickers!

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Project Life...Week 12

I am slowly but surely working my way through getting caught up on Project Life. For week 12 I used the Lily Bee Handmade collection and it looks so pretty!! 

When I originially stared PL, I imagined I'd have more pictures each week, but I'm finding that I'm not really good at taking them daily! But, I really love that there are more words than pictures. That's what I wanted to capture anyway. The pictures that I do have are all from my iPhone. It honestly makes PL easier because they are already edited in Instagram so I just have to print...no more editing!! Yay!

 

 

 

 

 

Love the journaling cards in the new Lily Bee collection and the bag of bits. Perfect additions to the PL pages. 

 

I also included some of the kids spelling test and reading reports in this weeks which I love having in there!

 

 

 

 

 Supplies Used:

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Sketch class winner...

Congratulations to Ellie A for winning a seat in my 28 Days of Sketches class at BPC that starts on Thursday. I just sent you an email!!

Congrats!

28 Days of Sketches Giveaway...

My sketches class at Big Picture Classes is back!! Did you miss it the first time around? Would you like a chance to win a free seat in this class?

Here's a little bit more about my class 28 Days of Sketches!

In this fun workshop, Lisa Day (that's me!) will provide you with 28 daily sketches accompanied by exclusive layouts, colorful instructions and useful tips to help you create beautiful pages quickly.

Sketches are a fabulous starting point for creating your layouts. They provide the foundation, while still giving you creative control. Sketches leave you free to focus on the fun stuff like products, color, techniques and stories.

In this class, you will learn how to:

• Follow a sketch exactly or easily modify it to fit what works for you. 
• Turn a single page sketch into a double page layout. 
• Use the same sketch again and again to create unique pages. 
• Modify sketches to work for different size layouts. 
• Unleash your creative ability. 
• Tell your stories. 
• Use up some of your stash. 
• Have fun and create beautiful pages! 

Lisa (me again!) is a veteran BPC teacher. She's been published many times and currently designs for Lily Bee Design and Noel Mignon. Her philosophy on scrapbooking (and life!) is to just have fun and be yourself! By the end of this class, you will have 28 sketches you can use over and over again, an album full of completed layouts and the joy of having learned how to quickly create more pages!

If you'd like to be entered for a chance to win a seat in this class, just leave me a comment here by Monday, March 26 at 6pm and I will randomly draw a name. (If you are reading this on FB please be sure to click over to my blog to comment!)

New Lily Bee Design Team...

Did you see the announcement yesterday for the new Lily Bee Design Team? It's way beyond awesome!! I am honored to be apart of this team again this year...can't believe it's going to be my third term already!

If you have a couple free minutes you have to check out these amazing girls!

Linda Barber

Danielle Flanders

Sasha Farina

Melissa Mann

Summer Fullerton

Melissa Stinson

Anna-Maria Wolniak

Patricia Roebuck

Ursula Schneider

Michiyo Nobeno

Kim Stewart

Maisa Mendonca

Lisa Dickinson

Cindy Liebel

Julia Stainton

And speaking of Lily Bee, here is a layout featuring Double Dutch that I forgot to share here!

Lily Bee Supplies Used:

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March Take Twelve Layout...

I'm loving this crazy weather. It's like 40 degrees warmer here than normal. It's in the 80's!! I've already got a farmers tan going on...not cool! I saw that the weather is sort of flip flopped all over the place right now! What's it like where you are?

Today I just want to share my March Take Twelve layout. I focused on the color green! Speaking of green...the pictures show how not so green the yard was on the 12th. Today, the grass is getting really green and the trees are all budding. Such a difference a week makes. I'm really hoping it doesn't frost again though...but it's Michigan so I'm sure it will!

I used the Noel Mignon Homespun kit for my layout!!

 

March Take Twelve Challenge...

So how's everyone doing on the Take 12 Challenge? I'm still totally loving this challenge!! For March I focused on the color Green. I love that I can do something different each month to keep this project fun!

Here's how the color GREEN represented my day yesterday:

1. Lots of green on the radar...rain, rain rain. 
2. Love my green coffee much and green coffee bag. 
3. Spinach...love spinach. 
4. Oops, ended up with green paint all over my hand working on a project. 
5. Added a splash of green to my layout yesterday. 
6. My view of the green(ish) outdoors while I was working out. 
7. More green on the radar, with a bunch of thunderstorms that brought some excitement in the form of tornado watches. 
8. My green car is in much need of a washing. 
9. My radio in the car is even sporting some green for the month. 
10. Dreaming of cutting down these ugly trees and putting in a garden this spring and growing lots of new green things. 
11. My husband painting our daughters toes green. 
12. My nails painted green for the month!

This month's Take Twelve sponsor is Persnickety Prints! Link your Take Twelve efforts on this post (not here, on the Ella blog...click on the link) before Sunday night at midnight ET and you'll be eligible to receive a $50 gift certificate. $50! To Persnickety Prints! If you aren't familiar with the services Persnickety Prints offers, you're in for a treat. Their know-how, printing methods, value, and reputation for customer service are stellar. May the luck of the Irish be with you.... and see you back here in a week for the March Take Twelve roundup!

If you aren't doing the Take 12 Challenge, but want to play along with the color green I issued a challenge on the Noel Mignon blog today! 

New Sketch Challenge...

There's a new sketch up on the Lily Bee blog this week. I provided the sketch this week and here's my layout based on the sketch.

You can take the sketch and create your own layout using Lily Bee products and enter it for a random chance to win some yummy Lily Bee goodies!! Click on over here to read more about it.

This layout is created with the beautiful new Victoria Park collection from Lily Bee Designs. 

Happy Wednesday!!

Lily Bee lovin...

Still playing catch up this week. Here's so projects I've created recently for Lily Bee!!

This card is created using the beautiful new Handmade collection. We made this to send to my Grandma to tell her we miss them and they need to hurry their butts back to Michigan! (If you are reading this Grandma, act surprised when you get it!!)

I love this page!! It turned out just like I had planned in my head!! This one uses mostly Head Over Heels. 

Happy Friday!!

Project Life...oh my...

So, I'm behind on Project Life (not surprising!). I've been really good about making sure I am keeping track of things but I've been really bad about actually doing the layouts. I created my first layout using the Noel Mignon Homespun kit (sorry, it's sold out) this weekend and I am totally hooked now. I mixed in a few extra journaling cards and alphas, but the rest is from the kit.

It took me forever to actually start writing on this page and committing to what I wanted to do, but once I got started it really just took off from there. I am totally addicted to doing this now. I get why so many people are doing this. It's a ton of fun and when I was done with the page I loved that I had so much to say about our week. I had very few pictures, but a lot of memories to share and that is what was awesome!

I'm hoping to get more caught up soon...

Here's my first page!

I had to edit the "this week" card from Elle's. It originallly had the week starting on Sunday, but I'm working on my PL album with the week starting on Monday. I just can't bring myself to have the week start on Sunday. To me it ends on Sunday and starts on Monday. I just cut the Sun part off and added it to the bottom. 

We have a weird sense of humor in our house so I had a little bit of fun with the journaling card in the bottom row. The one where my daughter is exercising... Makes me laugh!

Please someone, tell me I'm not the only one that is behind on this????