Fall Project Life 2013

So I’ve fallen behind on Project Life by nearly two months. I can’t seem to keep printer ink. I bought the new XL HP cartridges, hoping they would last longer…no such luck! In fact, they ran out much quicker than the regular ink. Never spending $60 again for ink!

It never fails. I’ll get ready to start working on Project Life and begin to print my photos, and WHAM! I’m out of ink. This happened a couple of weeks ago with my black ink. I found a great deal on Amazon for only $28 for a two pack. When it finally arrived, I pulled out the PL album and tried to print again. You guessed it. The yellow ink ran out. There went that plan.

While I was waiting for my ink to arrive in the mail, I made some journal cards. This one is using the tree cutout from the Graphically Speaking cartridge for Cricut, and then using snippets of washi tape.

This is my first attempt at using veneer embellishments. I received them in the October Antiquary Project Life kit from Studio Calico.

Trying to continue being creative for my new month pages.

A Fall day at the park with my sons…

And this last page has to be one of my favorite pages I’ve done in a very long time!

Project Life Greeting Cards

Why didn’t I think of this sooner?

I will admit I’m a bit of a Project Life journal card hoard. I can’t help myself, because I love to mix and match. They call that “eclectic,” or so I tell myself.

Last week, while trying to find new cards to purchase (as if I needed more),I ran across an idea to use some of those cards in various ways, one of which was making greeting cards.

This is a very quick and easy way to crank out cards for when you need them at the last minute.

I used mostly blank cards, or filler cards from the Webster Albums Made Easy collection by We R Memory Keepers.

 

A few months ago when Cricut had a free digital cartridge with flowers (I can’t for the life of me remember what it was called) in the Craft Room, I had a whole bunch made with different papers, including vellum. I hadn’t used them for anything and decided to finally put them to good use. I also used some designs from the Essentials cartridge. The decorative brads are from My Mind’s Eye, Lost and Found 3 collection.

 

 

Simple!