Project Life 2014 Album Flip Through - Part 3

Hello again and welcome to Part 3 (the final part) of my 2014 Project Life Album Share. 

I hope you have enjoyed seeing a flip through of my album, let me know if you would like to see my other albums in the comments and I'll crack on and get them finished :P

Click here for Part 1 and Part 2.

[This is a continuation of the Paris pages. I love adding splashes of gold to my pages, whether that's in the form of gold glitter or gold foil, I love it!]

[I also keep leaflets and business cards from places that we have been just so that I have different options to photos to put into my pockets]

[Alphabet stickers and washi tape are some of my favourite embellishments]

[I also like edging a photo with washi tape to make it fill the card a little more]

Some of my favourite cards/embellishments from my album:

Thanks for tuning in to my Album Flip Through and I really hope you have enjoyed it! 

Let me know in the comments if you would like to see my other albums!

Thanks

Hayley

Project Life 2014 Album Flip Through - Part 2

Hello there and thank you for joining me in Part 2 of my 2014 Project Life Album share. If you haven't seen Part 1 then you can click here.

Do you do Project Life? Let me know in the comments as I would love to swap ideas! :P

Hope you enjoy Part 2!

[I love using tiny word stickers, you might see them dotted about quite frequently on my spreads!]

[I like to keep events consistent. You may notice on my Paris spreads that I used to the same card collection (Sweet Edition by Becky Higgins) and tried to keep the embellishments fairly consistent too.]

[Keep little bits of ephemera, I kept all my metro tickets that we used in Paris and so popped some in my album]

[The bottom right photos here are some of my favs. It was a panoramic photo that I split in two and got printed on two speparate 6x4's. I think doing this looks really effective!]

Thanks for stopping by and stayed tuned for the final part (3) of my 2014 Project Life album on Wednesday!

See you there!

Project Life 2014 Album Flip Through - Part 1

Hello there! Today I wanted to share the first part of my 2014 project life album. I only started project life in September of 2015 but I decided I wanted to go back and scrap some of the big events that I had photos for in the project life style. My 2013 & 2015 albums are also documented in this way and for 2016 I am trying weekly spreads (it's going well so far!). 2013 & 2015 aren't quite finished but when they are I'll be sure to share those here too!

So without further ado, here is the first part of my 2014 Project Life Album. 

Let me know in the comments if you do Project Life and what approach you have taken. 

Enjoy!

[In this picture and the next you can see I've done a numbered series of photos. This is one of my favourite things to do as it guides your eye and makes you follow the story. It's also good for preserving the order]

[I'm quite lucky that my surname begins with a Q, it means I have an excuse to use up some of those pesky Q's that come in alphabet stickers!]

[On these two pages I tried to stick to a colour scheme. This was quite near the beginning of my Project Life-ing and I wasn't quite into my groove yet but I'm still pleases with the way they turned out]

[Not much embellishing on these pages, but sometimes you don't need to. The pictures are enough]

[I love using thickers as titles!]

Until next time... Stay tuned for Part 2!

The Craftz Boutique Closing Down Sale Haul

Hello there! Today I have a massive haul to share with you. The Craftz Boutique recently announced that they were closing down and everything on their site is discounted. They stock so many brands and so I had a scout around the site and my basket rapidly filled up. Believe it or not this is my slimmed down basket...oops! The up side is that I definitely stocked myself up for a long time and everything was on sale and heavily discounted so I got more for my money! 

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This is my whole haul! Because there's so much I will put the product names below each photo. Enjoy! 

I got myself a selection of coordinating 12x12 papers, Simple stories cut aparts and some sticker sheets to add to my collection as I always admire them but don't have many in my statsh. I also love the Simple Stories I Am collection but at this point I didn't have any of it so I got myself started! I just love the colours and of course the gold foil!

[Echo Park Everyday Eclectic Collection Papers - Large Hexagon, Kraft/Wood, Kraft Doily, Kraft Clouds, Journaling Cards, Hot Air Balloons, Hexagons, Herringbone, Half Circle, Chevron Woodgrain, Doily Multi, Cameras, 12"x12" Element Stickers]

[Simple Stories - I Am collection - 4x6 Horizontal Journaling Card Elements Foil Paper, 3x4 Journaling Card Elements Foil Paper, 4x4 Elements Paper, 2x2 & 4x6 Elements Paper, Fundamentals Cardstock Stickers, Expressions Cardstock Stickers]

[Fancy Pants - Timbergrove - Sticker Fundamentals, Websters Pages - New Beginnings - Alpha Stickers]

[AC Dear Lizzy - Bliss Glitter Chipboard Thickers (Clover), American Crafts Lullaby Glitter Chipboard Thickers - White, Teresa Collins - Life Emporium 6"x12" Alpha Stickers, Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type Letters Yellow & Turquoise, My Minds Eye Lime Twist - Happy Go Lucky Together Alphabet, My Minds Eye Lost & Found Record It Alpha & Word Stickers (Heirloom & Antique)]

[Kaisercraft - Mini Alpha Stickers - White & Black, Latte, Forest Green, Cream, Chocolate & White, Cherry Red, White & Chocolate, Tiny Alpha Stickers - Chocolate, Mint Choc, Cream, Rum & Raisin, Toffee Apple, Wheatgrass, Black, Cotton Candy]

[Becky Higgins Project Life Themed Cards - Dogs, Project Life Chipboard Stickers - Sweet & Southern Weddings, My Minds Eye Fancy That I Do Photo Overlays, My Minds Eye Fancy That Foam Stickers, Simple Stories Sn@p! 4"x4" Photo Flips, Simple Stories Sn@p! 3"x4" Photo Flips]

[Pink Paislee - Cedar Lane - Silver & Gold Phrase Thickers, 6x6 Paper Pad, Glittered Arrows x 2, Jumble Stickers x 2, Washi Tape Booklet]

I have loved this collection for a long time and when I saw it at these fabulous prices on the Craftz Boutique website I had to have it! 

Here's a close up of those lovely Cedar Lane Jumble Stickers. Tiny word stickers are a must in my project life and scrapbooking, if I could put them on every layout or card then I would! I love the phrases on this set too, hence why I bought 2 packs :P

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed this scrapbooking haul! :)

Let me know in the comments if you have any of these items and show me how you've used them!

Hayley

Paperchase A5 Planner

Hello there! Today I want to share one of my planners with you. I picked this gorgeous planner up in the Paperchase Christmas sale for only £7.50. I was looking for an A5 2016 planner, saw this one at a bargain price and knew I had to have it. I love the colour, I love the design and I love the size. I also, strangely, find really strong magnets an attractive feature and the closure on this is just that. Perfect!

The reason this was in the sale is because it came with an 18 month diary and calendar that started in June 2015 but that didn't bother me, if anything it was actually quite useful. I bought this planner to help me keep track of my Project Life. I decided that in 2016 I wanted to try weekly Project Life but I didn't want the hassle of ordering photos every week so I wanted a planner to make notes about what photos I had for each week and a bit of a description of what happened each day so that when it came to journalling I didn't forget what had happened or fun details that I wanted to document.

Its working out well so far, I've done up to the end of week 10 and have just ordered my first set of 200 prints.

This is the interior of the planner. I keep a few stickers in there and some journalling cards incase I need them then I have them to hand. 

The planner comes with a dashboard (which I can use as a template when I get chance to make my own) and a full set of dividers (pictured below). There's also a large notepad at the back which I'm finding really useful to use as a to do list. 

Hope you enjoyed taking a look inside one of my planners, hoping to share my Crafty Plans planner with you soon too!

Thanks for reading, 

Hayley :) x

I've Started Project Life!

So, I finally took the plunge and decided to start Project Life! 

I've been gathering supplies over the past couple of weeks but I thought I'd show you what I started out with. 

• American Crafts 12x12 D-Ring Album - Camera Print
• Project Life Jade Core Kit (616 cards)
• Project Life Jade collection 6x4 textured cards (60 pcs)
• Project Life Jade collection 3x4 textured cards (60 pcs)
• Project Life Page Protectors - Big variety pack 2 (60 pcs - 40x Design A, 20x Design D)

So that was my first Project Life "haul". I got what I considered to be the basics, page protectors, cards and an album, so that I could get started and add embellishments later.

The way I'm working it for now is i'm scrapping big events from the past 3-4 years. I'm still undecided whether to attempt weekly pages in 2016, but I can decide that a little closer to the time :P

Do any of you do project life? I'd love to see your pages and albums, leave me some links in the comments!