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I made a Creative Art Journal alongside Kelly Purkey.

I guess that's what happens when you sign up for a class run by Kelly Purkey called Creative Art Journal.

I should also mention that I was alongside some sweet and crafty ladies as well.

Peek at what we created:

The class was kick-ass for a number of reasons:

1 - I got to meet Kelly Purkey who really knows her stuff about crafting stuff.  Sweet gal.

2 - I got to geek out about scrap things with the ladies around me...shout out to Marianne,
     Shayne, Valerie, Ana Laura, and Kristin!!

3 - I got to make my first very own book with my own title, purpose, cut and placed pages, and
      'binding'.  I'm super proud of it. :) Shwiiiinng!

4 - I learned that making your own book is not that hard AT ALL!

5 - I got to emboss...for the very first time.  Yes, before this class I was an embossing virgin. 

6 - I learned that MisterHuey's mists make super fantastic paints!

I plan to use this book as a Summer2012 keepsake journal in edition to my beloved and continuing *Project Life* album.  Stay tuned for SummerJournal updates. ;)

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I couldn't have asked for a better Saturday afternoon.  Thanks again to Kelly and all the crafty ladies for being so sweet and loving paper as much as me.  Hope we meet again! ♥ ♥ ♥

xOxO,

|week 14|Hello Darling April| my *Project Life* album

Week 14 done and complete.  A lot went on this week.  April YAYcation began, my mom's birthday, prepping for Easter, some whole-page scrapbook layouts, and a bunch of new craft materials came in.

Here's how it translated in PL. 
Left side: some images from the week.  Right side: NO images from the week, but a pleasing-to-the-eye page waving 'Hello' to April and setting the spring tone of the weeks to come (I hope!).

Three most note-worthy events of week 14:
(1) #howfarwill_i_goApril2012 movement challenge beginning
(2) the start of Kelly Purkey's Sketchbook4 class and my work with it
(3) April YAYcation...*woot*woot* 

(click on the above numbers for the posts on those happenings)

Style note: the white, wavy cardboard the cute chandelier sticker is on is one of my FAVorite recent buys.  It adds dimension, and I'm going to be trying to come up with creative ways to use it in upcoming projects.  LOVE. THAT. PAPER.

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Right side:

The flowers, the outdoor lemonade picnic, and the white window images all came from a country cottage magazine. 

It was what I wanted to PL with this week. ? ? ?  It came pretty, no?  In fact, it was so pretty when I had just inserted them in, that this whole layout came from a pic I took of it.

I hope BiG THiNGS get done this month.
I hope more {movement} in the right direction takes place...

...I kinda feel like it already has,
and like today and tomorrow and
the weekend will only make more.

xOxO,

amanda*rose makes whole-page scrapbook layouts (who knew!)

Not me, that's for sure!
But when a certain Sketchbook4 class by a certain totally awesome scrapbookin' lady was made available to me, I jumped at the chance to sign up.  Three sketches and an Easter weekend later...
...you have my first ever three whole-page scrapbook layouts. Hip hip hooray.

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Layout 1: A First Impression

The above, my first one, acts as a meet-n-greet to the amazing scrappers of this gallery.
It kinda of tells where my heart's at.  Below is the sketch I made from Kelly Purkey's sketch.  It freaked me out that I was able to plan it and execute it. 

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Layout 2: I am. 

The second layout also featured myself, and I'm not that vain, I swear...just another introduction to the gallery, I guess. :P

I kept to Kelly Purkey's sketch 3 with the title in the upper left corner, and the three-panel base. I felt unsure while doing the wind-blown-scattering-of-flowers effect. I've seen it done well. Like, REALLY well. This was my first attempt. EEK! I could use some pointers.

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Layout 3: Inception

This was Kelly's sketch 2, but I did three before two, but anyway...sketch 2's theme was circles.
This layout is called 'Inception' because it's a project within a project within a project.
Haa haa!

I was working on a page in my Project Life album, when I loved it so much, I took a picture of it. I printed an edited picture of the page (which I wasn't crazy about) and used it in the bottom layer, as a shadow. I printed a better picture and layered it on top. Then, I photocopied the PL page and ripped up the pieces, making the old-school layering collage effect you see here.
Add some washi, embellish the top, randomly plop cute pink dot sticker, and finish with a bike paper clip...and WAH LAH!

I have 7 days left to my April YAYcation Off Of Teacher Work, and I already accomplished the first and fourth thing on the THiS LiST. 
Now, I'm to do more of the first and fourth thing, shake hands with my Macbook Pro, and jog a bit, lovers!

Thanks for letting me share.

Happy Monday!

...may this week go S--L--O--W.

xOxO,

|week 13|GOODBYE March| my *Project Life* album

...and with it, we say "Adios!" to Marzo, and "Hola!" to a lot of morado (purple en espanol).

The main objective of |week 13| was 'GET TO FRIDAY', so most of the left side spread is all about Friday.  The insert of the boops and of this list is to show what I focused on Monday-through-Thursday.

My oldest friend got married, and I actually felt pretty...didn't remember the last time I didn't feel like a dishevelled, rashy, germy teacher-thing.

The right side spread shows little fun moments throughout the week:

I love this:

I wasn't sure in the moment why I had snapped our sweet-n-sour sauces, but it couldn't be more clear to me now.  It fits so nicely in PL.  It captures perfectly the quick stop we made and how 'bad' I thought we were being.  I just totally adore it.

This was me being silly with the ComicBook app and a picture of my just-arrived washi tape next to my ziplocked already-accumulated collection.  I felt as if they were making an awkward first impression.  I'm. A. Craft. Dork.

The rest of the right side contains listed happenings of the seven days of |week 13|, two of my 3rd grade students making each other 'I Love You' notes because they became boyfriend&girlfriend on Thursday (it was ridiculous), craft supplies that arrived this week, and the 'Goodbye March' card insert.

Above is the first time my custom stamp has made its way into my PL album.  I love that it calls for a quick and concise jot of my current situations.  I love that they're so different from the end of February's answers.

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For more of my past Project Life spreads, go HERE.

For more on Project Life itself, go HERE.

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xOxO,

feeling wishy*WASHi

When you've been a blogger for a little over two years, you come across wonderful, beautiful things that were once unknown to you.  You then incorporate these wonderful, beautiful things into your everyday making you a little more awesome, and bloggy, I guess. :)

Such things include, but are not at all limited to:

~ SLR cameras
~ bokeh tricks (here)
~ etsy
~ chalkboard thought bubbles (here)
~ Saltwater sandals (here)

~ uhhhhh...huhh...huhh...WASHI TAPE...

Hi, beaaauuuuu-ti-ful new collection!...well, first collection EVER!

...I just so love them.  They're like little chicks...*chirp*chirp*chirp* Haa haa!

I had posted I wanted them for Christmas here, and I when nobody gifted me them, I gifted me them.

I heard you can also get your crafty*cute hands on some WASHi tape here.  Don't think about trying Michael's or A.C. Moore (at least MY Michael's or A.C. Moore) because fooey, I've be rejected by them fools about three times!

" 'scuse me, do you have any washi tape," I'd ask.  "Any HUH??!!" they'd respond.

Yeah.  No go.

Here's some I stuck on the back of my planner. ♥ ♥ ♥

"Free your mind and the ideas will follow."

One of the best images + cute subtle message I ever collaged with.

Happy Hump Day!

xOxO,