Project Life Week 31!

Today I'm showing you Week 31 for my "Schultz Family 2015" Project Life Album. 

The highlight for this week was visiting the Japanese Himenji garden in Adelaide. Rachael was doing a school project on Zen gardens. We all thoroughly enjoyed it and now have a new appreciation of this kind of garden! 

This week I've used more goodies from my June Messy Box from A Beautiful Mess, as well as other bits and pieces from my stash and 2 more cards made by the talented Natalie Elphinstone aka one scrappy doctor.

Here is a close up of the LHS.

The "She" card was made by Natalie and I won it in an instagram giveaway.

Here is a close up of the RHS.

This card was made using lots of items from my Messy Box. The photo is of my new Windsor & Newton water colours.

I  made a sequin shaker pocket using my Fuse. I've used the Fuse tool a lot to alter my pocket pages - I never have enough of the right variety. 

These "Messy Box" cork embellishments are so cool!

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 29!

Today I'm showing you Week 29 for my "Schultz Family 2015" Project Life Album. This was the final week of our mid year school holidays and I had lots of photos! 

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

Here is a close up of the LHS. I dont use many 3'x3" cards on my pages so I stuck 2 together with a strip of washi to make a 3"x4" card - a great way to use up what you have! My girls loved their trip to "Bounce". It is a great place to use up school holiday energy during the winter. Only downside is that you have to book and pay at least 2 weeks ahead and it is a 75 min drive away.

Here is a close up of the RHS. Ice skating was another fun holiday activity. I even had a go :)

Dont you hate it when you run out of particular letter alphas! I always seem to use "S" first. But there is nothing wring with mixing and matching !! 

I tried this for the first time - splitting a 6x4 card across 2 pockets. It worked out better than I thought :)

I've loved using this Messy Box for my Project Life and have more to show you soon! I print all my photos on my Epson XP-600. 

Thanks so much for stopping by

Crafty Hugs xx
Karyn

Project Life Week 28!

Today I'm showing you Week 28 for my "Schultz Family 2015" Project Life Album. I'm on mission "PL catch up" at the moment - I hope I can keep it up for the rest of the year! 

This week I've continued to use goodies from my June Messy Box from A Beautiful Mess, as well as a few other bits and pieces from my craft desk.

Here is a close up of the LHS. The photos for this week were mainly from a weekend away during the school holidays - we stayed in the city! We love the cafe eating, shopping and we saw Totem by Cirque du Soleil!

This "wonderful moments" card was made by the talented Natalie Elphinstone aka one scrappy doctor isn't it gorgeous!

I love the round cork embellishments in the ABM kit - and how cool is this one!

Here is a close up of the RHS. Lots of photos here.

The today card and the city-scape card are also made by Natalie - with a couple of add-ons by me :)

I love the colours of the cards in the ABM kit - so fun!

I've loved using this Messy Box for my Project Life and have more to show you soon! I print all my photos on my Epson XP-600. 

Thanks so much for stopping by

Crafty Hugs xx
Karyn

Project Life Week 27!

Today I'm showing you Week 27 for my "Schultz Family 2015" Project Life Album. Lately I've really been struggling to keep up with my project life but I am determined to catch up. I find it takes me hours to collate all my photos (from at least 3 different cameras) then decide which ones to print and what size. Then it can be overwhelming to decide on papers and embellishments. 

This week I've used lots of goodies from my June Messy Box from A Beautiful Mess, as well as a few other bits and pieces from my craft desk.

Here is a close up of the LHS. These were photos of the first week of mid year school holidays when Rachael and I enjoyed playing UNO attack, tim-tam slams and going out for coffee/hot chocolate!

There were some fun alphas in the ABM kit that coordinated perfectly with my photo!

I seem to have lots of partially used sticker sheets so I'm trying to use them up by layering them on my cards.

Here is a close up of the RHS. I've made a shaker pocket using my Fuse and sequins from the ABM kit - too cute!

Our local school had a Krispy Kreme fundraiser - we have only had them once before, they are just delicious!

I've loved using this Messy Box for my Project Life and have more to show you soon! I print all my photos on my Epson XP-600. 

Thanks so much for stopping by

Crafty Hugs xx
Karyn

Project Life Week 26!

Today I'm showing you Week 26 for my "Schultz Family 2015" Project Life Album. Again this week I've used lots of goodies from my July Messy Box from A Beautiful Mess, as well as a few other bits and pieces from my craft desk. I really love using kits - they remove some of the decision making process by limiting the supplies available. Sometimes I get overwhelmed by all the crafty goodies I have and then cant even start!

Here is a close up of the LHS. I didn't have many photos this week so I used lots of filler cards!

Layering is a great way to add interest to a card as well as use up your craft supplies - when you run out it is a great excuse to buy more of the latest goodies (but who needs an excuse!). 

I couldnt believe the size of this mug of hot chocolate - there was plenty for all of us!!  

I had this bird overlay laying around unused - was perfect on this card! I've also added other small alphas to go with the large one.

The banana waffle was almost as big as the hot chocolate - we will definitely be going back there for breakfast!

Here is a close up of the RHS. On this page I've added more pink/peach coloured cards from my stash. I can now appreciate why some people store their cards colour coordinated! I tend to keep things stored in their kits.

This card is all from the Messy Box (except for the gold triangles). I stamped the background using a dots stamp!

I always collect memorabilia so wanted to include these movie tickets on a card.

I've loved using this Messy Box for my Project Life and cant wait to open the next one!
I print all my photos on my Epson XP-600. 

Thanks so much for stopping by

Crafty Hugs xx
Karyn

Project Life Week 25!

Today I'm showing you Week 25 for my "Schultz Family 2015" Project Life Album. This week I've used lots of goodies from my Messy Box from A Beautiful Mess. I took out a 6 month subscription for these kits and to tell the truth, 5 months in and I was yet to use any :( So I started with the most recent kit (for July, that just arrived last week), as well as a stamp set, roller stamp, and washi from previous boxes, and a few other bits and pieces on my craft desk, and away I went!

Here is a close up of the LHS. I didn't have many photos this week so I used lots of filler cards!

There was cute stamp set, washi and a roller stamp in some of the earlier Messy Box's which I've used on these cards. I've added a strip of patterned paper to the bottom of the gold heart card to fit in the pocket.  

I made a weekly card using MS Word on my PC and added some silver stars from the July box. 

There is a set of large gold alphas in the current box which I added to a few of my cards, as well as a stamp. 

Here is a close up of the RHS.

I used my "Fuse" to add some 2x2 pockets to my page. I love using the Fuse - just make sure it warms up properly first (10-15 mins). On the two smaller cards I've used a camera, Hello There, and background dots stamps from a previous box - it is a very useful set! 

I used my Fuse again here to make a pocket for some sequins! 

I've loved using this Messy Box for my Project Life and have more to show you next time!
I print all my photos on my Epson XP-600. 

Thanks so much for stopping by

Crafty Hugs xx
Karyn