Guest Designer for Cocoa Daisy May 2018 Kits

Hello my memory keeping friends!  Thank you for joining me for another fun memory keeping project.  For this project I am jumping into the May 2018 pocket page kit called Bicycles.  This kit has the same 6x6 patterned papers has the 12x12 kit but it included a ton of exclusive 3x4 cards and 4x6 cards to use in your pocket page albums. 

I am documenting the week of Mothers Day.  My almost 6 month old enjoyed her first solid foods which was butternut squash.  She loved it and also made a mess.  My two doxies are getting use to having a baby around and I enjoyed taking her to work with me this week as well.  And on the weekend I enjoyed my first Mothers Day and spent time with the family.  I have been able to keep up with a PL album with my limited scrapbooking time for the last 6 months. 

I fell in love with the red floral patterned paper from the 12x12 kit, so when I saw it again in this kit I simply had to use it on both spread so they are cohesive together.  I used all the embellishments included in this kit from the stamps, exclusive die cuts, washi tape, stickers and cards.  

I love working with kits because all the products work together and your layouts can come together quickly.  I have a short process video for this double page layout for your viewing pleasure on my YouTube channel.

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December Daily 2016: Complete Album

December Daily is a wonderful holiday project.  This is the second year in a row that I have completed this mini album.  The projects encourages you to document a story or memory per day during the holiday season.  The story does not need to be holiday related.  Many are for me, but I also document day to day stuff like morning routines, nights we did not cook dinner, stories from dog walks and work days.  It amazing to look back on these pages and remember where we were at in life and what we were up too.

I kept with a red, black and kraft color theme throughout my entire mini album.  I loved these colors together.

This year's holiday season started off slow, so I want to document what was around my house that was either new or decorations and the following day I documented my weekday routine.  The start of my LuLaRoe business was occurring simultaneously.

Part of December Daily for me is to document the good joyful times as well as the sad troublesome times as well.  My story on the 5th, is getting laid off from my job.  I kept the story in order to look back on it next year and remember how far I've come.

Our holiday photo shoot was late, but I still managed to get cards made and delivered in time for Christmas.

My sister visited for 10 days and it was an amazing time.  We took tons of photos to celebrate the holiday as well has hundreds of photos for my LuLaRoe business.  We loved using the self timer on my camera to get group photos.

My rescue dog, Kobe, clicked completely this holiday season and follows me around like a duckling.  Love that feeling having him in our family.

Enjoyed the best lunch with my girlfriend from Vegas, who happens to be a food blogger and ate to much food at BURGER STOP in Coconut Creek.

Christmas is always spent with family and had way to many pictures to include.  I take my DD to the end of the month, so i document all the way til New Years Eve.

It is a great project and I hope everyone has the strength to complete it til the end.  Happy documenting ladies!

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Project Life: New York Pages

OMG, is it possible to love your own layouts too much?  I cannot get over how well this four layouts in my Project Life album turned out.  I recently had a long weekend away to NYC to see my sister, brothers, and friends and I have be scrapping 12x12 layouts with them, but for a majority of the pictures I wanted to keep in my pocket pages.  So that is exactly what I did.  Now don't get me wrong, I took hundreds of photos but I printed these.  I bet I could have made a mini album with the amount of pictures I took.  So a majority of supplies used were from my Studio Calico Project Life Subscription kits and embellishments from my stash.  So with the page above I started with my plane tickets to and from NY as my title card.  I also managed to get a 6x8 sticker sheet of NYC themed embellishments to jazz up some of my cards.  The sequins used are from my stash.  I used the Moldiv app on my phone to add the white texts on two of the photos.  It also allows me to join two pictures as a 3x4 and print on a 4x6 photo paper.  So that is a go to app.  The stickers used on the 4x6 photos are from my stash as well.  These pictures were all taken on Friday, my first day there. 

I was happy with the layout because I split my day between two events.  A daytime BBQ with my brothers and four nephews and a nighttime preseason football game with my mom and sister.  It worked out perfectly to split the pocket page down the middle to capture these two events.  The title card is from SC and then the family pics below.  I used Kelly Purkey stamps with Staz-on black ink on the bottom photos and then Ali Edwards stamps on the football photos.  The bright red and blue card I made using the actual parking pass to the game, it already had the date, time and opponent on it, and the red PL card is the packaging to an old Studio Calico kit.  That card worked out perfectly.  Love it because it is all the NY Giants team colors.  Yay!  I will always have a fondness for the NY Giants since I am from there and it was the first football team I followed growing up.  These pictures were all taken on Saturday, my second day there.  

These next two layouts were all from Sunday, the day I conquered NYC by Subway with my mom and sister.  We literally spent the entire day, 9 am to 9 pm in the city doing a little bit of everything.  The two project life cards are from SC once again and I used the NYC themed stickers for embellishments on each of them with some journaling.  The white tiny word stickers are also from a SC kit.  On this day we started off walking Highline near Chelsea piers and going all the way downtown to view the 9/11 memorial and the new World Trade Center building.  The new building stands beautifully tall and appears to be made of mirror windows all the way up.  Its modern and impressive at the same time. The memorial is an amazing site to see.  There are two large scale infinite fountains made in remembrance of that tragic day. The perimeter of both are inscribed with the names of all our nations loved ones that we lost.  Its peaceful there.  Its respectful there.  No one is speaking loud, everyone is behaving, there is no commotion.  Its like to enter a quite zone, which i appreciated.  There are rules on how to conduct ones self and everyone follow them.  My mom and I got a little teary eyed as one does when you think back to that day.  Everyone does at some degree I imagine.  

Our day proceeded with a matinee broadway play of Matilda.  I remember reading this story has a child.  It was a musical and it was done very well.  I kept our tickets for my title card again and used my mini attacher to fan them onto the PL card from SC.  The two embellishment stickers are still from the 6x8 themed sticker sheet.  I have recently loved taking feet/shoe pictures and here we are are over the subway grates.  My journaling card is from SC again and the other filler card is the actual business card of the french pastry store we purchased fancy macaroons at and the gold Ferrara sticker is from an Italian bakery we purchased eclairs, canal and napoleons from.  We went to SoHo for these two "must have" stops on our day.  I have such a sweet tooth, that plate of pastries did not last long.  Time square pictures are a must as well as the "Selfie" stick I purchased in the city too.  I left NY the following day but not after some shopping with my mom.  Surprisingly, I did not take one picture of our shopping extravaganza.  It was the perfect amount of time to spend with my family before the bickering commenced.  I love these layouts.  Thank you once again for stopping by and I've linked my process video below.

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Project Life: A Day in the Life

Recently, I was cruising around my favorite blogs and fellow scrapbookers for inspiration.  I came across Ali Edwards who invited everyone to participate in her "A Day in the Life" prompt.  She emphasizes the importance in documenting the everyday things, the simple routines in your life that would otherwise go undocumented.  I fell in love with this idea.  My everyday routines seem to go unnoticed in my albums.  I am usually only taking photos during events and special occasions.  It made me think and look at my life and see if I ever do document my job, my dog walks, my commutes to work, the cooking or the getting ready for work.  I had not one picture to show any of these moments that make up my life.  So I was thrilled to participate.  
The day chosen was a typical work weekday.  And my story went a little like this... 

A day in my life begins around 7-7:20 am when my alarm goes off.  I share my walk-in closet with my boyfriend (now fiance), and I obviously take more of the available room.  My M-F job requires me to wear scrubs, so I never need brain power to get ready in the morning.  My scrubs are all solid colors and hung in the center.  Thankfully we have a double sink set up in our bathroom so my area is filled with all my own toiletries and makeup. I have an auto immune condition that affects my skin due to diet and I'm happy when i have clear days and my skin is normal.  I walk my mini doxie, Zoe around the neighborhood and at this point, Miguel (my fiance) is also up and laying out his clothes.  Zoe loves Miguel's scent so much, that she makes it a daily habit to lay on his freshly laid out clothes.  I had to capture that moment.  

Into the kitchen to make a pot of coffee and prep my 'to-go' Miami Dolphin Tervis for my morning commute.  I pack my breakfast and lunch everyday and I carry my work tote, my lunch box and my purse to work everyday.  I am always baffled by how much I travel with day to day.  My trusty Civic, aka White Chocolate, gets parked in the shade everyday at my office.  I was recently in a car accident and my car is all repaired and running great.  The day before I documented my day, my parents rescued a dog.  He is a Havanese and they named him Oliver.  He is special and perfect for my retired parents.  

I work with patients day to day.  I spent time with them during treatment and then all the paperwork that follows.  I love the cloud formations on my commute home.  I always look at clouds but have never snapped a picture, so here I am documenting the small things.  Selfies with my Zoe at the dinner table, I am horrible and I am that dog mom that gives her dog the ends of dinner.  Don't judge me (lol).  I walk Zoe after we all eat dinner again and a selfie to capture the setting sun in our faces.  Miguel is fantastic when it comes to snuggling with Zoe.  This is why she loves him so much.  I usually spend my evening in my craft room art journaling, scrapbooking, filming for YouTube or blogging.  This was a fun prompt to follow and I encourage everyone to give it a try.  Ali Edwards also does "A week in the life" too and offers kits to order as well.

I made a process video for my pages as well.  Please take a look...

  

Evi

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