Feeling Lucky?

I don't really believe in being lucky, it's more about being blessed. But since it's St. Patrick's Day this month, I decided to go with the "lucky" theme and make a banner to hang in our dining room. One of these days I may tire of banners, but for now I still love them!

This was a pretty quick & simple project that used a limited number of supplies.

Want to make your own banner?  Here's what I did.

1. Cut 10 triangle banners out of burlap. Then I sewed them together in groups of two so that the pieces had more stability.

2. Used the Cameo to cut out the clover pieces and the gold letters. The gold cardstock was very thick and the Cameo did not cut all the way through the letters. It did cut nice deep lines that I could see well and the cutting was finished off with scissors.

3. The clover pieces were glued to the burlap with Tacky Glue and the gold letters were attached with my Scotch ATG adhesive.

3. For a final touch, I sewed ric rac along the top of the banner pieces.

I don't do much decorating for St. Patrick's Day. Actually, all of my decor is in the photo: a banner and the subway art sign from eighteen25.

Hope you have a lucky (& blessed) day!

Project Life 2012: Week Eight

Another week of project life is now complete. Still loving it and still plugging along with taking photos and collecting things to include each week.

This week was filled with school projects (big book report projects, reading for AR goals and memorizing poems) plus fun with neighbors, family and friends.

My husband and I had a date night with friends where we tried and new restaurant and went to the symphony.  I grabbed a takeout menu on our way out of the restaurant to cut up and use in the album.

I've approached this without having any rules of how to organize things each week. I just print out my favorite photos and place wherever they fit. I do count out how many of each size of photo I will need. 

 
The past couple of weeks I've watched both Season One and Season Two of Downton Abby and have loved it. I had 4 different people recommend this to me and decided that I should give it a try.

The first season is available on Netflix instant streaming and the second season is available to watch on PBS.org until March 6th. 

The story, costumes and character development are fantastic. Highly recommend this show!

Project Life Layout Supplies Used This Week

InLinkz.com

You Make My Heart Sing

This morning I was scanning through photos on my computer and came across a photo I took of Hannah last week while she was posing for the camera. She is blowing me a kiss and I knew it needed to be used on a layout right away.

The coloring was a bit weird on the photo, so I played around in Photoshop with The Pioneer Woman's actions. The photo looks more processed than I usually like, but the style seemed to fit with the layout, so I went with it and added it on the page.

Last night I was thinking that I wanted to use my new Jenni Bowlin banner punch on a page and had the alternating triangle idea come to me right before I went to bed. Do you ever think of random scrapbook ideas at odd times too?  I went and sketched out the idea so that I wouldn't forget by morning.  I must say that I really like how it turned out!

The journaling highlights some of my favorite things about Hannah right now and I added the seven to represent her age.

Hope your week is going well!

Layout Supplies:

InLinkz.com

Best.Day.Ever.

Just wanted to stop in and let you know that the March Scrapbook Circle Kit, Best.Day.Ever., is now up on the site!

These photos are only peeks of what is in the kit, but a full list of kit product can be found here.

Plus there is a Scatter Sunshine add-on and a cardstock add-on that coordinate with the kit.

Hope you are enjoying your weekend!

Project Life: Week Seven

Welcome to another week of Project Life. This is still a project that I'm enjoying because it's giving me the perfect place to record and store photos that probably wouldn't be printed and put on layouts.

This week I decided to print most of the photos so that they would be smaller than the pockets so that more patterned paper would show. This allows more space for journaling and the pages are a bit more colorful because more patterned paper show through.

On this bottom section, I used a little chipboard banner and attached it on top of the page protector. It added a bit more dimension and layering to the photo.

On this page, I thought it would be fun to slip a few of the kids' valentines into the pockets. It will be fun to look back at these valentines and see what the popular themes were this year.

In addition to the valentines on this page, I added a photo of our Valentine's Day treat (heart shaped cookies that were later topped with ice cream) plus a photo on my current favorite snack (peanut butter pretzels and M&M's.)

This week I thought I'd try something new and use InLinkz to organize the supplies used on my pages. What do you think? Do you like photos more than text links? Maybe you don't even care about links. I'd love to know what you think.

Project Life Week Eight Supplies:
InLinkz

Things I've Made Thanks to Pinterest

I'm sure many of you love getting inspiration from Pinterest like I do. It's fun seeing ideas shared by friends and adding to a wish list of items that I want to make. Usually at night after the kids are in bed I like to take a quick look at what my friends have pinned that day.

I decided to start a "Things I've Made Thanks to Pinterest" board so that I can keep track of what I've have actually accomplished thanks to time searching on the addictive site.

Here are a few of my Pinterest favorites that I've made.

Last week, I made this Mediterranean Dip twice. I loved the combo of pesto, hummus and feta. I think more of this will be made again soon.

I made this Mozzarella, Tomato, Avocado Salad as a side dish for Thanksgiving dinner. Nothing was left in the bowl.

These Taco Cupcakes have been a hit at our house. My kids request these almost every time I ask for dinner suggestions. I like to top them with my fresh salsa and diced up avocado.

Homemade enchiladas are a comfort food to me and I love making them. This White Chicken Enchilada Recipe is simple and delicious.

Refried beans from a can are not on of my favorite foods, but homemade beans are a different story. These Crock Pot Refried Beans are easy and healthy because they aren't actually fried.

Have you noticed that almost everything I've made with Pinterest inspiration is food?  Not sure what that means, but I am happy that we've been trying out new recipes at our house.

My Pinterest inspiration isn't exclusively food related because I did use this idea of putting a gift card in a jar a few months ago to give a Target gift card to one of my daughter's friends. You can see how my homemade snow globe turned out here.

How about you? Are you on Pinterest? Do you make things base on inspiration you find there?