Seaside PML

I think this will be my last post on the Seaside collection, at least for a little while, I still have some paper left over and I know how I am going to use it, but I am feeling like moving on to another paper pack.  Anyway, I love how easy it is get a lot of photos all journaled and organized using the Picture My Life cards (PML).  

And because I had one page of PML cards and photos and three two page layouts I needed to make a one page layout that coordinated to keep the Seaside feel in my album.  I don't normally care, but I think that I have enough photos and stuff from our trip in November to fill a full album and if not I kind of want the layouts all together anyway.  So I made a quick little one page layout using the Seaside PML cards and paper.  I love how it turned out!

Seaside PML

Seaside paper

Aqua dots

Happy Scrapbooking!

Seaside again

On our family trip to Newport Beach, California, last November I may have taken way too many pictures, and liked/loved most of them.  So here is another layout using the Seaside paper and featuring my cute family.  Hopefully you are enjoying seeing the Seaside paper in different layouts, and hopefully it is helping to give you some ideas on how to use your own Seaside paper.  

As you can see in the pictures I am also working really hard and putting my layouts right into my album instead of letting them pile up like I have in the past.  Here is a list of the products used and links to my website to get them if you would like to:

Seaside paper pack

Seaside Picture My Life cards

Aqua Dots

Paper Fundamentals Whimsy collection

Sorbet stamp pad

I stamped the little fish using a stampset from an old Workshop on the Go that you can't get anymore.  Also I am loving how fun and easy it is to use the PML cards on layouts.  On this layout I didn't want it to look like PML cards so I cute out the title and the seahorse.

Happy Scrapbooking!

Picture My Life

Remember my post the other week about how fast and easy it was to get a bunch of my photos out of a box and into an album using Close to My Heart's Picture My Life line?  Well I am here to tell you that all of the current Picture My Life kits (ala carte and scrapbooking programs) are being retired at the end of August and as of right now they are on a while supplies last basis.

To get any of the Picture My Life kits today before they run out just click here.

Happy Scrapbooking!

PS I finished my layouts and am super excited to share them with you next week along with some BONUS cards I made too!

Picture My Life Overload

This past weekend I started going through my photos and realized that with the Picture My Life cards I had on hand I could get a ton of photos into one of my albums.  I ended up getting all of my 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 photos all into my Picture My Life album.

This is just a sampling of what I got done and put together.  I am loving the pocket scrapbooking because it is allowing me to get all these photos that did not fit in my regular layouts, or that aren't as good, but still story worthy have a home that is fun and colorful just like my traditional layouts.

Products used:

Lagoon Chevron D-ring album Z2090

Memory Protectors Variety Pack Z3026

Horizontal Memory Protectors 4113

Picture My Life Surf's Up Scrapbooking program Z1946

Picture My Life Skylark Scrapbooking Program 1947

Hopscotch Picture My Life- retired and unavailable

To get your Picture My Life cards and sheet protectors head on over to my website and let's get those pictures out of their boxes and into an album today.

Happy scrapbooking!

Hopscotch Meets Soccer

I know, I know, the Hopscotch paper is retired and you all want examples of layouts using the paper you can still get through my website. I promise to work on something with current papers soon and share next week.

Sorry for the bad pictures, it is an overcast day and I am using my iPod.  Anyway, I had a ton of pictures from when my oldest played soccer in the fall of 2012.  She had fun, but soccer is not her cup of tea, she just wants everyone to feel good and score goals no matter what team they are on.  I used a lot of retired Close to My Heart product: the patterned paper, the Picture My Life Hopscotch cards, and the colored brads.  

I love using the Picture My Life cards in a layout, they help with the journaling spots and the title (I can not be the only person who has a problem coming up with titles, please tell me I am not the only one!). Also the Extra Thick Twine is really fun to play with and adds a lot of dimension to layouts and cards. Don't hate me but I like it more than the bakers twine.

If you have a lot of pictures from one event or a lot of pictures you want to group together on one layout check out Close to My Heart's How to Books.  They have so many layouts that use a ton of photos. Another little tip: if you don't have the size of photo called for use more than one photo to fill the spot.  This layout caked for two 5x7s and I didn't have any. I cut two photos to 5x3.25 so that they would fit on the 5x7 photo mat and still have patterned paper all around the photos.

Thanks for stopping by and happy scrapbooking!

Vintage inspired

So the next challenge in Super Stashbusters was to use something that is vintage inspired. I do not have much that is vintage inspired, in fact I have nothing.  So another take on it was to do an older photo. So I dug through my old photos and found three that worked with the sketch.

I decided to use some of my Skylark Picture My Life cards for the background as well as the journaling and accents.  All the rest of the product I used is retired, sorry!

Speaking of retired/retiring here is a long list of retiring stamps.  These stamp retire on Saturday so get them while you can!

A1124 A Tree
A1139 Congrats Graduate
A1141 Be Still
A1154 Friendly Thoughts
A1156 Flower Confetti
B1418 Love Doily
B1423 Hoppy Easter
B1439 Dreamer
B1440 Fancy Fair
B1441 Buggy Love
B1444 Greatest Love
B1445 Happy Hive
B1450 Owls
C1571 You're the Best
C1573 Do Your Best
C1574 Believe in Yourself
C1577 Mother's Day
C1579 Coming Up Roses
C1583 Robot Family
D1547 Paper Doll
D1579 Windy Day
M1035 Newlyweds
M1036 Perfect Polka-Dot Day
M1037 Balloons
M1038 Shooting Star
M1039 Good Job Stencil
M1040 Parasol
M1041 Hi
M1042 Colored Egg

You can get these on the retiring section of my website.  You can also get the Skylark Picture my Life cards there as well.

What's New Wednesday

This week for What's New Wednesday I wanted to talk about the Picture My Life product line. It is one of my new favorite products lines that Close to My Heart has put out. I use it to help get me current and up on my scrapbooking. I also use it to put my pictures that are harder to scrapbook, either I don't have enough photos for a layout, or the photos aren't very good. I also love that I can use it to show our everyday life without having to scrapbook everything. I have the Skylark Picture My Life Kit (Z1947) that I use for those everyday pictures.

I also have the Surf's Up kit (Z1946) that I use for camping, and vacations.

These kits are great because they come with 44 – 4" × 6" Cards (2 each of 22 designs), 78 – 3" × 4" Cards (3 each of 26 designs), 1 – 12" × 12" Designed Cover Sheet, and 10 – 12" × 12" Memory Protectors™ (various designs). They basically come with everything you need to get your photos out of the boxes and into your albums and still give you a fun creative way to capture your memories. I also LOVE the price. Each kit is only $24.95, which is a huge value.

If you are interested in getting one of these kits, but you want to be able to see a picture of every single card that you will be getting just stop on over at a fellow consultant's blog. To see more than just the Avonlea kit you can scroll down on her page and on the left side she has a list of the kits and each name is a link to the page with all the pictures.

If you are ready to purchase a kit today just click here. Thanks and have a great day!