PL December continues

I'm at page number six for my December PL. The Studio Calico "Blue Note" kit is almost gone, I only have 9 cards left. I won't share the 3rd and 4th page because they have lots of photos from the Saint Lucia event at my kid's pre-school and have lots of photos of their friends in them. But here are pages 5 and 6:

I'm still struggling to keep the pages light. December is so dark here in Sweden, especially right now when there is no snow. Making photo collages and turning fuzzy photos bland&white adds some white to the spread. 

For the first collage (with my husband and his friend) I used a free template from Paislee Press, that you can find here. The 4x4 template with the circle middle is made by Shanna Noel and can be found on her blog here. For the third collage with the arrow photos I just used PSE. I opened up an empty 4x6 file and used the ruler to line up the two photos. 

That gorgeous diamond paper on page number six is from Lifelovepaper. If you hury hurry hurry you can get yours too!

Merry Christmas friends! 
/Magdalena

PL December

It took me the longest time to be happy with this spread. I needed to add lots of white because the photos were so dark, like they are in December in Sweden. It took me three days od adding and subtracting to come up with this.

I used the SC Cuppa PL kit plus printables from SC and Paislee Press. The library card with my daughter's list for Santa is from Bananafish Studio.

/Magdalena

October project life

I'm so glad I jumped on this project! I absolutely love this easy way of documenting our everyday life. I found my style quickliy, as opposed to my scrapbooking style. The SC PL kits make it so easy to stay up-to-date. Here are my first three pages for October:

Something I've learned is to use lots of filler cards. At first I thought they were a waste of space, but then I realized they make the pages much more airy and pleasing to the eye. My PL has been especially inspired by two people. One is Catherine Davies who makes very beautiful but simple PL spreads. They're never over-worked. The other person is Kelly Noel, who has taught me how to do my journaling. There just aren't enough of the journaling cards in the SC PL kit for me. Kelly has a very creative way of adding journaling to the filler cards also. Love that!

And you know I had a to document the fact that The Walking Dead is back on!

/Magdalena

More PL

As I was doing my January PL page I was having a bit of a dejavu feeling. I finished the page, and continued on to February. As I was looking through my photos deciding what to print, the dejavu got stronger. And I thought "No, it's not dejavu. I HAVE printed these pictures before." So I go back and take my album out and yes. I had already done January and February. 

I like the new January page much better so I tried to rescue a few PL cards from the old page, but it didn't really go well. Now I feel so wasteful! Argh! Mad at myself for being senile.

So here they are. The re-made pages...

Materials: SC PL kits "Roundabout" and "Valley High", tags from Bananafish Studio, printables and digi stamps from Studio Calico, additional stamps from Ali Edwards Tecnique Tuesday and the SC "Inked" class

I wanted to the photo from my son's birthday party but it was so busy, it didn't fit in. So I uploaded it to Picmonkey and edited it to B&W except for the balloons. I love the effect!

/Magdalena

July PL

This month I filled two page protectors. I had much more photos than usual and was anxious that I'd run out of PL cards. Instead I hardly used any at all because I had so many photos. I stole ideas from Kelly Noel and Catherine Davis - thanks for the inspo ladies!

Materials: SC PL kit, Winona addon and the Moments cards

I loved the printables this month, so I used a lot of those. Those wonky mini alphas are my favorite ever. I want 10 packs of them! The triangle template from Catherine Davis was perfect for adding more photos to a smaller space. Here is a forum post where she shares how to merge the shapes. Overall I used more digital elements and also printed my journaling. I like how it turned out!

/Magdalena

Banana cheesecake and PL

We made an awesome banana cheesecake for my husband's birthday in June and I wanted to share the recipe.

Frozen banana cheesecake

Crumble 14 graham crackers and mix with 125 grams of melted butter. Cover the bottom of a pie dish with a detachable bottom with the crumbs and butter. Mash 4 bananas. Mix the bananas with 1 tbs lime juice, 400 grams of cream cheese, 1/2 cup of sourcream and 1 cup brown sugar. Mix well and pour into pie dish. Cover with plastic wrap and freeze for at least 4 hours. Take the cheesecake out of the freezer 30-60 minutes before serving. Cover with strawberries.

Here are my June Project Life pages:

/Magdalena

Project Life

I signed up for the Studio Calico Project Life kit in February, intending to use the products for scrapping. The April kit, Spencer's, was my first to recieve. I loved it so much! Then I read this brilliant forum post about making PL pages randomly, not caring about being caught up. Since then I've been waiting for the page protectors to show up in SC shop, and now here they are! I've decided to make one page per month, and then extra if we should do anything special. I will randomly start with March! Here you are:

Materials: SC PL kits Spencer's, Planetarium and Roundabout, Neverland scrapbook kit plus addons Lost Boys and Wendy, plus a few Dear Lizzy badges, all the stamping is with Versafine stamp pad in onyx black

As you may remember I recently revealed being part of the Stromsvigt DT. I am now anxiously awaiting the arrival of 4 new stamp sets to work with. I will have some pages up in the near future. The stamps are for sale as of NOW right here! Here are images of two of the new stamp sets. Don't you just love them?

/Magdalena