Something Goulish This Way Comes!

Hi friends!

Today I have a sweet set of Halloween cards to share with you.

I've put these cards together with the gorgeous new Ghouls Like You collection from Traci Reed Designs.

There are so many awesome journalling cards in this collection and I chose one for each of my cards to be the jumping off point.  

The journalling cards come as 3x4, so I resized them to be 2 inches wide (a better size for cards), and then printed them off.  One of my favourite bonuses of hybrid scrapbooking is that you can resize elements to suit your project.

To save matting the cards I just trimmed them leaving a white border on each side.

I hand stitched a border in a peach embroidery thread and used a few of the stickers in the collection to layer around my resized journalling card.  Then I added some orange sequins from my stash to the flower centres.

The jumping off point for my second card was another journalling card that I resized to 2 inches wide.  How adorable are these ghosties!?  I mean... Hey Boo! <3

Traci's collections always come with coordinating patterned papers in solid colours and I printed off a medium pink one, ran it through a scalloped edge punch, and then tucked it behind the black patterned paper to help it pop.

This time I added some sequins to a spiders' web sticker to make it look like it's glistening in the moonlight in the dead of night...

I have to say this is the cutest Halloween collection I've seen, and I love how it has so many pops of pink in it, but has enough traditional black and orange that it can totally be used for boy projects too.

Be sure to check it out over at Traci's shop at Sweet Shoppe Designs!

Thanks for stopping by today,

Project Life 2018 | Week 19

I get really excited about getting some weeks in my project life album, and this week was one of them.  Most likely because we were all together as a family with both kids' partners as well, and it was a super fun weekend together.

My supplies this week are from the Studio Calico Golden Hour Documenter kit, and I've kept things fairly simple in my effort to catch up a few spreads (I'm currently 10 weeks behind eep!)

For my title card I recoloured a Studio Calico digital label from my stash so that it matched the orange on the card and in the chipboard.  Then I used one of my go-to methods to record the week number and dates, by choosing a larger font for the week number and a smaller neutral font for the dates, and I did that in Photoshop Elements before I printed it out on my printer.  Since the card is already pretty punchy with bold colours, the only thing I needed to add was the chippy piece.

All of my journalling this week is on the right side of the spread.  I used a journalling card from the kit, and also put together my own card by cutting down a red filler card from the kit to use as a matt to regular white cardstock on top of a mustard coloured card.

This spread is a sweet and simple one, and I'm definitely glad to have it in my album.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Week 17 // Project Life 2018

Hi guys!

I have another Project Life spread to share with you today.  I'm still jumping over the place a bit with my weeks, and today I have week 17.

I decided to combine two half-used Studio Calico Documenter kits to work on this spread, the Bookmarked kit and the Candyland kit.  I love how easily they worked together on the one project.

I also have an insert this week, and used an Ali Edwards 3x8 pocket page.  I cut and then sealed it at the 4in vertical with my Fuse tool so that I could create 2 3x4 pockets.  You could also get the same result by cutting the two right side pockets off a regular 4 x 3in x 4in pocket page.

The insert is hard to see, but this is the full spread on the first side.

And this is the full spread on the left side.

I love hybrid title cards so much.  I've picked a cute scripty font for the week number, and a matching font for the dates of the week.  I recoloured the week number to a dark olive green to match the card behind it.  After I printed it out I stitched a border in embroidery thread for some beautiful texture, and added a puffy sticker.

So you'll notice I have a lot of natural colours coming through in my photos this week again with worn grass in one and the cement floor in another.  I've pulled these colours in with some textural elements like lace and some embroidery thread.  I added a few French knots to the centre of the flower in this filler card, and then I pulled out some lace from my stash that I dyed with a tea bath ages ago, and layered it behind a torn strip from one of the gold foil kit cards.

So grateful to get photos like these from our kids to include in our album.  How elegant to they look!?

This weekend was a getaway for us to the Gold Coast.  It was super fun and we spent time doing things like staying at the casino, eating at our favourite restaurants and shopping. I even dragged G out to the front of the casino to get that awesome photo of the tree-lined entrance.

 One little photo with Borobi, the Commonwealth Games mascot, and that finishes up this spread!

Thanks for stopping by today.