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Hiya sistahs!  So did I convince you to start Project Life yet?  I am having a blast with it.. so along with stamping, mixed meda’ing, art journaling and lifebooking.. I have taken on this project.  I am IN LOVE.  I am appreciating every moment and capturing the most inane ones too .LOL.  I am also learning to accept the fact that I look HORRIBLE in the pictures..LOL.. but I am ok with that.  I need to be in this album.  I need to create this memory for my kids and their kids.  I NEED them to see that I was boring at times and fun at other times.. sometimes I may shove in a receipt so that they know where their inheritance went..LOL.  I was SOOOO overwhelmed in the beginning of this project.. just the ideas the what ifs etc.. but once I sat down and was surrounded by pictures and product, I was so happy and everything fell into place.  My book doesn’t need to look like anyone elses.  If I don’t want to embellish, I wont.. the most important thing I need to do is JOURNAL and take some pics.. THAT’s it.  My Iphone 4S is my new best friend (the camera).. some pictures arent PHENOM, but I am ok with that.  The mood is captured.  Sometimes it may even be a BAD mood..LOL. My kids and hubby are also involved in this.. I sometimes hear “shouldn’t you take a picture of that?”, or “how good would that look in PROJECT LIFE?   Denabella and Helenabella were talking about it all year and I must admit I was JEALOUS.  Jealous that they had so much to talk about..but now I can partake in it!  They are teaching me new things every day.. I am learning about a whole new product line.. I am creating FOR this product line.. and I am using what I have in creative ways.  I will teach you how to do that too.  I hope you take this journey with me.. your kids will THANK da bella oh and you too!

I would love it if you sent in your layouts to post on Tuesdays…. I look at other people’s layouts and I just get inspired.. you will hear me say.. OOOHHH look what they stamped, stuck, glued, colored,pinned etc.  This will be a great place for that inspiration.  And because I love getting to know people, I would love to see a little piece of you

If you are ever looking for me on a Sunday afternoon… you can find me at my table, in heaven…

One of my challenges every week is to be able to find a place for my stamps.. they are so much a part of me, that they DESERVE a place in Project Life, no?  It taught me a whole NEW way of looking at stampies.. it’s amazing!  I challenge YOU to use stamps in your layout.. you will see different elements that you have never seen before.. or different uses for them… I PROMISE.

Ok let’s go!

Here is my layout from last week

My first page.. you will see on the top right, I used our stamp JOT IT DOWN memory block and P.S.  my kids ARE goofs..LOL

In this close up, I wanted to fill up some of my card with prettyness so I used my FLUFFY FLOWER HEAD on the right..Love that touch

Here is a small teeny picture of the store in the middle of a class.  I actually punched out the circle (you will see on bottom left picture) and found the negative on my table and used it here..SEE?  you use your scraps!  I then used one of the prompts from our new LIFEBOOK stamp series (that is Angela’s handwriting in a stamp.. )… you will see that in the next month.. these stamps will FORCE you to journal..:)  I also think it is important to use your handwriting in PL.. it is YOUR imprint..  Stay Tooned for our new Lifebook stamps by Angela Urbano and moi…

Here is my SECOND layout (I had 3 for this week).  I used a large shipping tag on the top left.. I also grab a 6*6 paper collection pad and that is what I use for my layouts that week and coordinate

I stamped COMPLETELY RANDOM journaling block on paper, cut it out and mounted it on a journaling card.. as Jayden would say “easy peasy LEMON SQUEEZY”.. so you can use it partially, or full on .  Love this stamp

Here is a picture of Tyler on Saturday on his way home from hockey..LOL.  I also used COMPLETELY RANDOM JOURNALING BLOCK  I stamped it on paper and cut out the top to stick it under the picture.  You will see this stamp in another place too… please hold. LOL

Here’s my third layout.. (bored yet?)

Used a new app called INSTABOOTH for photobooth pics.. We had so much fun but looked SOOO bad..LOL

Here is Denabella’s spread

and here is Sheryl’s layout

Tell me this isn’t fun..LOL. Ok so don’t tell me unless you do think it’s fun..LOL

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just sayin’

Happy Happy Happy NEW YEAR sistahs

me loves you

Em

know what I’m talking about?  hehehe  it’s the event of the YEAR!

you can find all information HERE if you want to attend.. Angela Urbano and I will be hosting a class there.. well *ahem* Angela is actually teaching.. I will be there for entertainment..LOL .. It is supposed to be an amazing event .. anything that Catherine from SCT puts together is phenom.. so if you have not registered yet, might I suggest you do so ASAP? LOL

So lets discuss a little bit what the class Angela is teaching is about.  First of all, if you dont know Angela, she is an AMAZING scrapbooker.. Life journaler.. her style is graphic and clean.  Just gorgeous!

The class is called LIFEBOOK 101.. here’s a little excerpt of what the class is about:

“Are you one of those scrappers who can’t think of the right words to say on a layout?  Do you hesitate when writing what you truly feel when you are in the moment?  Do you suffer from JOURNALER’S BLOCK?

Conceived by Angela Urbano and Emily Block , Lifebooking is a new revolutionary way of looking at how we we scrapbook.  Lifebooking is BOOKING LIFE not scraps..LOL.  It’s time to track the little details of your life.. the simple facts to the most difficult emotions.. and the lightbulb to the Seinfeld moments we experience every day.  A lifebook page doesn’t always start with a visual, a colour palette, a photo or pretty patterned paper.. Sometimes it’s the words that tell the story.  Sometimes it’s the words that paint the picture.  Sometimes it’s the words that capture the moment.

Angela will take you through “journaler’s block’ exercises to create a 12*12 double lifebook spread.  Join us om our Lifebooking adventure.  Check out our different lifebooking techniques which make us each unique as well as makes us one.   We will arm you with tools needed to start capturing the words.  They will arm you with the most POWERFUL TOOL needed.  the power of YOUR WORDS.  Lifebook THAT. ”

Angela and I have been hard at work developing a new concept.  A concept that is extremely important for future generations.  It’s called LIFEBOOK.  It’s a verb.. ie.  DO YOU LIFEBOOK?  or OMG I HAVE TO LIFEBOOK this moment … it can also be a noun… I am a LIFEBOOK GEEK/NERD.. LOL  ..

The foundation of lifebooking can be different for everyone… Angela loves to Lifebook on 12*12 pages.. I LOVE to lifebook in my journal.. you can lifebook on a napkin, toilet paper.. a bar coaster…

So what is a lifebook you ask?  Well, it’s a place where you can document your every day musings, thoughts, events, conversations.  A place to put random pictures that will be appreciated in years to come.  How I can’t wait til my kids look back at my lifebooks and giggle.. cry.. and understand that their mom is more than a mom.. but a PERSON.  Are you angry that you ate that MARS BAR?  Stick the wrapper in your lifebook and write why you are angry about it and in 20 years, our kids won’t even know what a Mars bar is… in effect, it is creating your own history.  Write the weather down.. your mood… what you REALLY felt this day or that day..  It’s your place to say it as it is.

Now along with the concept of LIFEBOOKING will come a series of PHENOM stamps that will be used in your lifebook.. whether it be on a 12*12 layout, your daily agenda, or your journal.  These stamps will be a series of icons.. and prompts to help you get in the habit of lifebooking.  They are the CUTEST things ever (if I do say so myself..LOL).. and they will be SO useful .  We will have a WHOLE series that you will NEED and WANT to collect.

I think the daily nonsense.. the daily grind is what scrapbooking is really about.  Of course celebrating the loss of a tooth is an amazing feat.. but what about the tooth fairy.. how you explained her to your kids.. what about the PRIDE on your child’s face.. documenting what they felt.. documenting what you felt when your child lost that tooth… like OMG I KNOW this kid will need braces.. and how much is that gonna cost me!  As TABOO as that sounds on a scrapbook layout, it’s OK to say that in your lifebook.  Your kids will thank you for it.  Trust me!

Wanna see a little sneaky peeky of the layout for the class?  OHHH and there is a bonus single page layout and a card that will be taught in the class! And I will be doing make and takes with these new little stampies.

Can you see the stamps in this sneak peek?  HMMMM? (that’s Angela looking very mysterious)

Trust me sistahs.. Join us in this journey.  You will not regret it.

More to come

Mwah.

Mwah.

Mwah.

Lifebook a mwah, will ya?

Em