#JuneTweetSketch at Birds of A Feather Kit Co

*blowing dust away*

It's summer time so that means I am dusting off the scrap desk and catching up on some scrapbooking! A fresh photo and sketch always get me going so I grabbed a photo that I snapped yesterday with my phone, along with several instax mini polaroid prints taken with my daughter's camera, and this fun sketch by Kristin:

and I came up with this:

 I used the mini polaroids in place of the envelopes, threw some flair around until I was happy and called it done! This is the only layout I've done...probably all of 2014? But definitely the fastest layout in years! Thanks for the inspiration Kristin :)

I did use an old Birds of A Feather Kit for this - the paper and a few embellies. But most of the embellishments are from my own stash of project life items.

December Daily Project Life 2013

This is my second go at a December Daily after swearing that I would never, EVER!, do another. This time I purchased a set including the album, Merry & Bright kit and pens off of HSN. I never could find the Merry & Bright kit locally so I am glad I splurged to buy online.

{I apologize about the size and darkness. I was in a hurry to post and move on, ha!}

The album:

 I actually started right after Thanksgiving so I didn't want to call it my December Daily. Christmas Memories!

 I stayed on top of the picture printing and journaling the first few days.

 And then I quickly trailed off... However, these Project Life cards made it SO EASY to get caught up!

 I was able to find photos for almost every day when I pulled everything off of my phone...

 But I did miss a few days, mainly because I was sick for 2 weeks, the worst being right before and after Christmas.

 I can't say the photos are what I dreamed of when I first started, but I am very thrilled now that the project is done.

 I did go back at the end and add sequins on every layout. Not sure if I would do it again, but it is a perfect representation of what my girls are into right now. Sparkle!

 Some pages are definitely more plain than others...

 And Christmas memories turned into Birthday memories for a spread...

 and then ended with New Years Eve memories :)

You can see that I did trim out page protectors. HUGE downside to this album is having a predetermined number of pages in the album. I ended up cutting out half of the pages pretty easily.

I'm hoping that this time next year, I won't be wrapping up just a December Daily album but an entire year of Project Life. I have tried this digitally several times and don't like it, but I do really enjoy the paper form and obviously had more success. ;) I have subscribed to Studio Calico's kit club for Project Life style cards and embellishments, as well as enrolled in a class for support. Can't wait to get started!!