Sister Love - With Paper House Productions and PageMaps!

This month Paper House Productions is teaming with PageMaps to provide inspiration for their awesome monthly sketches. 

Each month PageMaps have 10 different sketches including two 8.5"x11", a 12"x12" double page layout and seven 12"x12" layouts. Sketches are perfect for providing inspiration and direction for your projects. 

I was lucky enough to be working on this 8.5"x11" sketch.

I loved the idea of using strips of papers on this page and I've used a new paper pad called "Handmade" - one of my favourite new products. I added it to a watercoloured background using yellow, orange and red colours.

I've added some Summer Fun Snapshot stickers in place of the 2 small photos in the sketch. I've used some alphas from the New York city paper crafting kit and a "love" puffy sticker from the Believe puffy stickers pack.

I always like to include some handwritten journalling if possible.

I've added some cork accents from the owls corkd sticker pack - these owls are so cute!

I usually only scrap 12x12 pages, so I've mounted this page on another 12"x12" page to include in my album.

I've loved working with this PageMaps sketch - why dont you give one a go!
All my photos are printed on an Epson XP-600. 

Thanks so much for stopping by

Crafty Hugs xx
Karyn

Project Life Week 37!

Today I'm showing you Week 37 for my "Schultz Family 2015" Project Life Album.

This week I've used more goodies from my March Messy Box from A Beautiful Mess, as well as other bits and pieces from my stash.  

Here is a close up of the LHS. This was a very quiet week for us, Jessica and John both had Influenza B for the whole week - actually Jessica was away from school for 10 days! The first 2 photos of Jessica and John enjoying a chocolate fondue were actually from Week 36 - but I didnt have enough room for them there :)

Rachael and I have started walking, 3 to 4 km on weekends and I walk 3 km most weekday mornings - go us!! 

I love these velum hearts in the Messy Box - they are best attached using a brad (I have heaps of these that I never use!!) or a staple. 

Here is a close up of the RHS. 

A rainy day in between sunny days!

All of my photos have been printed on my Epson XP-600. 

Thanks so much for stopping by

Crafty Hugs xx
Karyn

Project Life Week 36!

Today I'm showing you Week 36 for my "Schultz Family 2015" Project Life Album.

This week I've used goodies from the March (I think) Messy Box from A Beautiful Mess, as well as other bits and pieces from my stash. 

Here is a close up of the LHS. I've kept my page relatively simple and added lots of fun Evalicious wood veneer.

I managed to capture this beautiful sunrise. Usually we are too busy getting ready in the morning and dont notice what is happening outside! In the other photo Rachael is going through her Marvelous Creations showbag - YUMM!

Jessica loves having picnics inside (and outside) with her toys!!

Here is a close up of the RHS. This week was busy, we had an exhibition at Rachael's school, Jessica's school concert, the Adelaide show, Jessica's gymnastics comps and fathers day!!!

Jessica and her team won lots of ribbons at the gymnastics comps!!

All of my photos have been printed on my Epson XP-600. 

Thanks so much for stopping by

Crafty Hugs xx
Karyn

Project Life Week 35!

Today I'm showing you Week 35 for my "Schultz Family 2015" Project Life Album.

This week I've used goodies from my September Messy Box from A Beautiful Mess, as well as other bits and pieces from my stash.  

Here is a close up of the LHS. John was away for the week in Singapore so it was just me and the girls - and it was busy!! Being so busy made me very tired - so my bed was my haven in the evening :)

This card from the September ABM Messy box was perfect for this page.

We love Vegemite on toast for breakfast - It's the Aussie way!!

Rachael loves watches at the moment - so John bought her back one for every day of the week :)

Here is a close up of the RHS. I've used my Fuse to customise the pockets on this page. I had some Becky Higgins Design E (6"x6") pockets that I made into a variety of 3"x3" and 3"x4" - I did this to use up the 3"x3" cards in the ABM kits. This works well when you have lots of photos to display.

I kept the embellishment simple and included photos of my everyday!!

I love wood veneer and this cup one from Evalicious is adorable!

All of my photos have been printed on my Epson XP-600. 

Thanks so much for stopping by

Crafty Hugs xx
Karyn

But First Coffee - With Paper House Productions!

Today I'd like to share with you a scrapbook page I made using lots of goodies from Paper House Productions. 

Coffee is one of my guilty pleasures so I had to feature it on a scrapbook page. I've seen this title/quote used before, in various places - how cool is it :)

PHP now have lots of new "Paper crafting kits" and I've used the New York city paper crafting kit for this project. I'm in love with these kits, they make scrapbooking so much quicker with a range of coordinating papers, stickers (including alphas) and ColorWays puffy stickers. I find my rather large craft supply overwhelming at times and these packs limit selection and helps me to scrap more efficiently.

I love ColorWays puffy stickers and the  Enjoy pack from the NYC kit suited my project perfectly. I had a mug stain stamp in my stash that was fun to use on my page. I've also seen this style of photo used on other peoples projects - of course I had to try it myself!

I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut out my title - I selected a large font size and width so it would be a feature on my page. I then laid my white paper over some patterned paper from the NYC kit. 

There are some fun stickers and alphas also in the kit - this NYC cup is one of them.

The hearts and chevron puffy stickers are perfect accents for my page.

I've loved using these new products - You must try some of the kits yourself! 
All photos have been printed on my Epson XP-600. 

Thanks so much for stopping by

Crafty Hugs xx
Karyn

Project Life Week 34!

Today I'm showing you Week 34 for my "Schultz Family 2015" Project Life Album. 

One of the highlights for this week was Book Week! One day I went on a school excursion do a local science display and the other day Jessica dressed up as "Jessica the Jazz fairy" for the book week parade!

Here is a close up of the LHS. I've used lots of random cards from my stash - and kept embellishment to a minimum.

Here is a close up of the LHS. The "Be your own kind of beautiful" card was part of the D-Lish Scraps September cybercrop Challenge #2 which was to be inspired by an image and/or this quote. I found the quote on Pintrest and printed it out on a card.

Watercolouring my background cards is still a favourite technique of mine!

All of my photos have been printed on my Epson XP-600. 

Thanks so much for stopping by

Crafty Hugs xx
Karyn

Project Life Week 33!

Today I'm showing you Week 33 for my "Schultz Family 2015" Project Life Album. 

The highlight for this week was Rachael's 14th birthday!!

Here is a close up of the LHS. I've used a heap of random cards and embellishments from my stash - a great way to use it all up.

I've always been a fan of wood veneer - and this one was perfect for this week!

Although pre-printed cards are cute they can always do with more embellishments!

Here is a close up of the RHS.

We gave Rachael an Instax camera for her birthday - I can see myself using that!!

Washi and wood veneer were the perfect finishing touches for this card!

All of my photos have been printed on my Epson XP-600. 

Thanks so much for stopping by

Crafty Hugs xx
Karyn