Amanda Rose blog

PL 2013 |week 18|

This is my |week 18|, ya'll.  

It is made up of a two page spread, with a 6x12 insert in the middle, my brochure-like April 'Day in the Life' and a scrapbook layout of Jimmy on one side and my end-of-April currentlies on the other.

Most of the beginning is all from our dad-and-daughters trip to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

I don't remember many April showers...just April coldness. :/

That Bonsai Museum really hit me. The whole entire day trip made me think of him, but the bonsai museum...[deep sigh].

me + sister + dad + flowers = bbg day

I was waiting for the right time to use this Studio Calico insert from the March PL kit.  
This spread was it.

After the Brooklyn Botantic Garden photos, I inserted the brochure, and behind it is my 'Day in the Life'.

Front is the main photo and recordings...

Back is photo page 1 of 3...

...then open it up (all brochure-like)...

...and the inside a photo pages 2 and 3.

After my 'Day in the Life' came the Jimmy Fallon layout.

...and on the back of that is an 'Adios, April' currentlies layout:

Then, the whole right side to finish of |week 18| --

My MAKE {olw} intention for May...

...and two shots of me *attempting to* meditte for the firt time in my life.
(A more detailed accountof how it's going coming soon to this blog near you.)

My 'Week in Review' was done again like the W-in-R in |week 15| -- I took a 12:4 portion of one of my reent photos and floated the 'week in review' over that.  Then, I pulled colors with some colors of the photos around it.

That's all for for this spread.
Thanks, as always, for viewing.

( I was so excited to adhere that 'MAY' tab to my album this past weekend. )

Only 34 more work days left until Summer.

Let's do it! 

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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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our JIMMY FALLON Friday

'Twas a fun night last night with my sister + Jimmy.  If you watch the full episode, you can see us in the audience twice: once when the camera gets a shot of the front of the audience (we were front row, dead center, both in black) and then again from the back (my hands are up in the air forming a heart to let Jimmy know I love him).

We rated the show a 4, but Jimmy was a 10.  We friggin' love him.  Sister and I both decided that the next time we know Mya Rudolph is coming, that's when we'll crash the show.  Haa haa!

Great time. Lots of laughs, and pastrami with dad afterward. 

Happy Saturday!

Two Years Old!

My two baby kitty boops were born two years ago, today.  I made this layout this week with that in mind.  The two pictures used for the layout were taken on 6-11-10 (the day we found Alejandro) and 6-12-10 (the day I scooped up Carmen).

MATERIALS
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A whole bunch of the Studio Calico CITY OF LIGHTS kit was used for this layout: the paper, butterfly stickers, wooden frame...The white foam letters are Amy Tangerine.  The accent papers are from a Dear Lizzy 6x6 pack. The "meant" was made from Penny Black alphas in 'ROBUST'. I also used alpha stamp from HEROARTS and HEROARTS shadow ink. 

I'm so grateful for my babies each and every day.  I'm such a doting cat-momma.  They are the two best boops, so funny, so human, so cuddly and loving.  I wake up, and they're the first faces I see, and they're the first faces I smooch when I come home from work in the afternoon.

Happy 2nd Birthday to my little meatball baby boops!
We were meant to be mommy and babies forever and ever.
♥ ♥ ♥

Have a happy Monday, everyone!

xOxO,

{polka dot} dress for a bridal shower today

Yes, it's another whole page layout. 

I went with a layout surrounding my awesome shopping find from the other day (uhhh...cute pattern, fit like a glove, $30!).

I used a bunch of Studio Calico's CITY OF LIGHTS kit, some Amy Tangerine paper and stamps and thickers... 
...at first I had the four Instax on top, but thought to use a larger photo taken of the dress as the focal point. The four Instax became complimentary little this-way and that-way embellishments with captions.

P.S. -- The pictures make the colors look all washed out and yuck. Poo!

To get a spot on the 'yellow hanger', you have to be one kick-ass piece of clothing. ;)

I still don't know which shoes to wear with it.  Keep an eye out a little later for an instagram shoe-modelling session of the dress with each one.   

For now, that's all folks.  I can't believe the last day of April YAYcation is today.  It makes me so disheartened, but I'm going to try not to think about it and let it ruin my time at the shower.

Maybe I'll booze it up so I'll forget.

Happy Sunday, munchkins!

xOxO,
Amanda 

AVO TOAST & Coffee

Layout made from sketch #4 of this class.

Used:
   + paper, stencils, letter stickers, buttons, little 'L♥VE' tag - from Studio Calico's April 
     kit CITY OF LIGHTS 

   + SMASH Books provided the two mid-papers with the frayed spiral edge still
     attached & the little punched saying-circles "Yes" and "Happy Thoughts" and "Think
     Think Think"

   + iPhone photos taken of avocado toast and morning coffee ;)

So what's the story?  Nothing complicated.  Avocado toast and coffee has been my morning breakfast and late morning snack for about six weeks now.  I mentioned about my comsuming it HERE, and it really has been simple and satisfying and just plain ol' yummy.  Even my sister, who HATES breakfast food, has jumped on the avo toast wagon and proclaimed "Breakfast meant nothing to me until avocado toast came along." 

The picture below is a shout out...

...to this lady for posting an instagram of HER [avo toast and coffee] for my eyes to see and making it look so friggin' divine. 

...divine enough for me to say 'I gotsta get me some o'dat!'

The rest is history.

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,