Project Life 2014 - Week 26

Loads of photos this week as it's the school holiday so it has spilt over to 3 pages..

Some interesting activities....

1) A visit to Haw Par Villa. This park is filled with statues of Chinese legends and history. The best known attraction in this park....10 courts of Hell! Check out this link to know more about this park which is probably the oldest in Singapore since it was build in 1937.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haw_Par_Villa

2) What about some fun photography? Alive Museum was fun! This 3D museum (originates from Korea) is filled with 3D paintings that creates illusions. Everything was well planned out. There is a sample photo and instructions for every painting and each one of them has a photo point. Can't go wrong even for a camera dummy :) In addition, the museum has WIFI access so you can instantly post the fun photos. Definitely tourist friendly on this.

3) Transformer movie! Every boy I know looks forward to a Transformer Movie. More so for Gabriel cause this time it has Dinobots. Yes he's still crazy over dinosaur. Check out the picture below where he's trying to stuff his Skylander into his Roboraptor. I had to run and pick up my camera to catch this moment!

I had fun with colors working on these 3 pages. Supplies for these 3 pages mainly from Studio Calico, Elle Studio, Freckled Fawn, Simple Stories and MAMBI.

Thanks for looking.

Project Life 2014 - Week 25

Catching up on Project Life and completed Week 25.

This week I went on the Helix Bridge for the first time. Not exactly a leisure walk as I was in heels and it was a super hot day. Anyway to make the best of situation, I manage to take some great pictures of our Iconic Marina Bay Sands and Art Science Museum.

Later in the week, Gabriel's cousin came to visit us and they had a great time in Gardens By The Bay.

Thanks for looking.

Project Life 2014 - Week 24

It's the 2nd week of school holiday and we flew over to Bali for a short break. As usual, I took lots of photos and was having a really hard time narrowing down the ones to be printed for my Project Life album.

So glad I managed to squeeze all into 3 protector sheets.

Seriously need to speed up and not lagged too far behind on my album. It's August already and I'm just completing mid June :(

Do feel free to comment and thanks for visiting!

Project Life 2014 - Week 23

Sharing another page which I have completed today.....

Just because I have a recent craze of writing on a black paper, I have decided to do this week's layout on a black cardstock. The result is amazing. Love the contrast and how all the colors stand out against the black background.

The Uniball Signo white pen is so awesome. I think writing with a white pen is so much more fun than the regular black and blue inks. Agree? And I even manage to draw some leaves on the title card with my white pen. How cool is that heh.

Conclusion....go pick up a black cardstock today and have some fun! Black doesn't have to be boring :)

Materials from: Elle Studio, Simple Stories, Freckled Fawn, Lawn Fawn, Studio Calico, 7gypies

Project Life 2014 - Week 22

Slow week...not much going on but hey that's the beauty of Project Life or pocket pages. You don't have to worry about empty pockets. Just fill them up with pretty cards.....and tata you are done!

Project Life 2014 - Week 21

Sharing page for Week 21. Quite an interesting week from letting Gabriel choose his own pair of shoes to trying out a movie in DBOX but of course the highlight of the week is my hubby's birthday!

If you have notice. I've been using puffy stickers and clear stickers on my pages.....Me and My Big Ideas and Simple Stories rock these awesome stickers :)

Project Life 2014 - Week 20

Sharing my page for week 20. I'm 6 weeks behind on my Project Life but hey scrapping is not suppose to be stressful right? It's a therapeutic hobby for me so I'm not gonna fret about the timeline.

On this page, majority of the cards are from Me and My Big Ideas. Their cards are awesome with yummy colors. It just makes the page looks so cheery and you instantly break into a smile looking at such pretty colors.

You can probably expect the rest of the my upcoming pages to be colorful as well! :)

Project Life 2014 - Week 19

Sharing another Design E layout for Week 19 using a single sheet of 12x12.

This layout is really flexible with a generous area for free play. I did not have to think or plan my layout way ahead so that I know the photo sizes to print. 

If you like to add on embellishment this is a great layout for it.

Project Life 2014 - Week 18

Hi ya, I'm a little behind my weekly spread and being down with fever, flu and cough is causing further delay.

Well today, I finally feeling better after a afternoon nap (Thank God for weekends!). So I'm sharing my week 18 page which I have completed last week.

This Design E layout has never been my favourite but I had a go at it and found it to be very versatile. The 6x6 pockets just gives much more flexibility and space for different photo sizes and embellishments. Each pocket just works like a mini layout which is rather cool.

Not sure if you have notice....I have used a single sheet of 12x12 pattern paper for this page. That means another advantage for this layout....you don't have to for dig for 3x4 or 4x6 cards to work this page. Further more it's so easy to cut 4 pcs of 6x6 versus all the different sizes on one single page.

So....for those who have this pocket but have yet to try it...go ahead and try it. Maybe you will begin to like it just like me :)

Project Life - Just to Share

Today, I would like to share some tips on my project life album.....

Tip #1

Use a variety of  protector sheet to suit your needs. The beauty of project life is comes with many different sizes of protector sheets. So on weeks that I do not have many photos, instead of cracking my head on how to fill up the pockets, I choose to use a 6x12 or a 8.5 x 11 protector sheet to document my moments.

   

 

Tip #2

If you feel that you don't have enough 4x6 cards to fill your page, don't fret about it. Just cut up your pattern papers. I'm sure as a scrapper we all have plenty of papers lying around :)

Alternatively, you can also use a single piece of 12x12 pattern paper and cut it up to the sizes of the pocket. The middle and right column of this photo below is cut up from a single piece of 12x12 sheet. Do take note that if you are like me who likes to embellish my pockets, then use a neutral color pattern paper.

Tip #3

I'm not sure about you but I don't like to see duplicate cards in my album. So that leaves me with the other options - to subscribe to a kit (I love receiving exclusive stuffs that comes with the kits) or buy pattern papers which already have 3x4 or 4x6 cards printed on a single piece of 12x12 paper. 

Some may ask which kit should I subscribe to? Well it really depends on your style and what you need. Some kits out there like freckled fawn (ohdeerme kit) is solely on embellishments. 

Exclusive stamps from my kits which I absolutely love

You can check out the following. Note that the companies below are not posted in order of popularity or preference and I know that there are alot more website out there who are also offering subscription kits.

Elle Studio

OHDEERME KIT

Studio Calico

Scraptastic Club

Paper Camellia

Citrus Twist

Gassamer Blue 

Cocoa Daisy

 

Tip #4

If you have a silhouette cameo, you can save money by printing your own tags, labels, arrow, tabs etc.

Your pages doesn't need to be filled with "branded" stuffs to look nice and pretty. DIY is just as good! :)

  

 

Tip #5

Never restrict your creativeness even when you only have time to update your project life/pocket page albums. Don't let your other materials become a white elephant. In this 8.5x11 page below, I had lots of fun with glimmer mist, distress stains and stamps :)

Oh nearly forgot, many will ask what is the best pen to use for journaling. For me, Zig Photo Signature is my #1 choice. It writes well on photos, cardstock, washi tapes etc. I know many use Sharpie pens as well but I still prefer my Ziggy :)

Ok. That's all for today. Hope I have inspire some of you out there. It's 11.58pm here in Singapore; 2 more mins and I will have to greet everyone Good Morning! Signing off now. Ta Ta :)

Project Life 2014 - Week 17

Important week as Gabriel learnt to use a chopstick all by himself within 4 days. Yay! Clap clap clap for his great effort.
If you notice my title card......yes that's how much I love my camera and snapshot stamps..... so much that I used it to stamp repeatedly on my title card :)

Project Life 2014 - Week 16

This is a BIG week for our little one who turns 7 this year! Took 2 pages to cover the major fun moments.

On his birthday, we did a little presents hunt around the house before heading out to Adventure Cove to spend a fun day of water play.

Love how I expanded the area and print out a bigger photo with his daddy. Did you notice that the bottom 2 cards of this expanded photos are the same paper but with a black background? I wanted to give the photos some contrast but at the same time remain as part of his birthday highlight :)

Best part, I managed to squeeze all his clue cards for the present hunt into one of the 4x6 pockets!

Project Life 2014 - Week 15

Project Life is about pocket pages but I'm glad that when there are days when you feel like doing a layout, there are still different sizes of page protectors out there that allows you to do a 8.5x11 or a 12x12.
Below is a layout base on 8.5x11. I love the latest clear sticker from Simple Stories which I have used on this page :)

Project Life 2014 - Week 13 & 14

These 2 weeks are rather uneventful....thus I have combined both weeks into a single 12x12 page.
Love that I get the chance to play with some mediums on my Project Life pages.

This week I have added an extra featured page in my project life album to give myself a pat on the shoulder that my pieces have been published in an online magazine. Life.Paper.Scrapbook March issue.
I created my own background on a white 8.5x11 cardstock using all these mediums in my favourite colors.

And THIS is the end result!

Project Life 2014 - Week 12

Gabriel is on one week holiday this week. Brought him to quite a few places over the weekend and ended up a 12x12 wasn't enough to complete my week!
So as you can see below, I have added a 6x12 page to complete the week.
Don't you just love pocket pages. So versatile and it makes our documented journey so much more interesting :)

Project Life 2014 - Week 11

Yay! I so updated on my project life! This week the most exciting thing that happen.....IT RAINED!!! I can't remember when was the last time when I felt so happy when I see rain :)

Other than the rain, it was a pretty quiet or should I say a boring week. Not much photos for Project Life.

Hence, I have used a 6x12 protector to document this week.

Supplies on this layout from:
October Afternoon, Freckled Fawn, Lawn Fawn, Elle Studio, Teresa Collins and Kaisercraft

**Did you notice I used my Zig pen to simulate rain drops?? *wink wink*

Project Life 2014 - Week 10

This week was a hot and hazy week. Some days, the haze so quite bad, we could smell the "burnt" scent in the air. Thus most of our activities were carried out indoors.

It doesn't help that the rain hasn't come down on us for the last few months and some of the bushes actually caught fire.

**Good thing that the duo came up with the idea of indoor picnic :)

I have used mostly tags and labels printed from my silhouette software in this layout and stamps are from Kaisercraft.

Project Life 2014 - Week 9

Hi ya all....back to share Project Life Week 9!!

Yellow is the color of the week. Not bad ay....I don't usually use yellow but hey I'm starting to like this color. Thought that it looks great with pink. Definitely gonna use more yellow!

Tata for now....See you next week!

Project Life 2014 - Week 8

Catching up on Project Life - week 8. This week I had lots of fun DIYing supplies for scrapbooking. I'm showing them off in the centre row of this PL page.

Supplies on this page from American Crafts, Elle Studio, Freckled Fawn and Becky Higgins.

Project Life 2014 - Week 7

Hi all, welcome back! Here's my creativity for week 7. So glad that I can keep this up :)

Lots of love and pink in this week's page cause there's a special love day.....it's Valentine's Day!