2014 Project Life | April Part 2

I finished another 5 pages for April Project Life.  Combined with the first four pages of April, this makes a total of 9 pages.  I did three pages last night because I just wanted to be done with April, lol. 

April page 5:  I cleaned up my craft room in preparation for Peppermint’s visit.  We saw “Captain America: Winter Soldier”.  We went to the April “Taste of Terroirs” at Mille Fleurs.  General Noodle cuteness.

This page is all “hybrid” scrapbooking, except for the top left pocket.  By “hybrid”, I mean that I pulled up digital journal cards into Photoshop, typed journaling on them (or copied from my blog), and printed them out.  The journal card with the eating utensils background is from the “Prix Fixe” journal card pack by One Little Bird Designs (Peppermint Granberg).  The “Foodie” card I made, using the “Good Eats Word Art” pack by Digital Design Essentials.  The lower left card with the ball of yarn is from the “Cat Theme Pack” from Digital Project Life.  I made the Captain America card.

Details:

In my album I have a 8.5x11 insert with the menu from Taste of Terroirs.

 

April page 6:  the beginning of Peppermint’s visit, eating at Burger Lounge, and Noodle cuteness.

Except for the right-most 3x4 journal card in the middle section, this entire page was made with stuff that Peppermint designed.  I thought it was fitting to use her stuff since this was about her visit!  However, I was so nervous cutting into those gorgeous papers that she designed for Gossamer Blue, lol.  You can find Peppermint’s digital designs in her One Little Bird store at The Lilypad. 

Details:

This is how I made the above journal card.  Then I stamped on it.

I made the journal card on the right using the stamp set from the April Project Life kit from Studio Calico.

 

April pages 7 & 8 were an actual spread.  I normally don’t do spreads, but this was all about when Peppermint was here and all the stuff we did, so I decided to make the facing pages matchy-matchy, lol.  I used mostly items from the Maggie Holmes Styleboard collection (Project Life mini kit + the regular scrapbook collection of papers & embellishments).

April page 7:  We went to Nothing Bundt Cakes, we made fish tacos at home, and I finally got to do Project Life together with Peppermint in my craft room!

Details:

The left journal card with the stitching border was made using the Lawn Fawn Stitched Journal Card die (3x4).

The Cake card is from Elle’s Studio.  I’ve been saving this cake journal card for a few months now and finally got to use it! :)

Really loving the colors of Maggie Holmes Styleboard!

The “Maker” card is a digital 4x6 card in the “Creative Life” pack by Digital Design Essentials that I made smaller, recolored to pink, and printed.

 

April page 8:  more fun with Peppermint.  We had the best carne asada at El Nopalito, we went to the beach, we had dinner at Amaya. 

Details:

This spread came together quite easily because I used Project Life cards, 12x12 papers, and embellishments from the same collection.  I’ll definitely be doing that again!

April page 9:  the end of Peppermint’s visit.  Brunch with Kami & Peppermint at Snooze.  Dinner at home with Pearl also joining us.  Lunch at Tender Greens before dropping off Peppermint at the airport.

Details:

I especially loved the vellum embellishments from the Styleboard collection.  I added them to a bunch of pockets and they just give it an airy look and they’re not overbearing on the page.

Thanks for stopping by!  I think I’ve project life’ed myself to death doing these April pages.  It may be time to take a break and work on my Maui vacation album!  :)

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Everyday Ordinary

We’ve had a fairly ordinary week sprinkled with some fun.  Above photo was a journal card in the making.  Trying something new.

This past Thursday I had jury duty.  It never fails that every couple of years I get summoned. 

I didn’t get picked for a trial, and there was internet there.  They even had a café with coffee and banana bread.

We were dismissed by lunch time.  Since I was in the vicinity of Phil’s BBQ, I stopped by to get takeout for dinner.  Todd loves the El Toro sandwich at Phil’s.

On Monday I got to have lunch with my good friend Meera.  Any day that I get to see her is a good day!  I loved catching up with her.

We cooked some great food at home.  I’m slowly easing back into eating food I can chew again.  This braces thing is the pits.

On Saturday we had an early lunch at Panera, where I had soft foods, lol.

Then we went to see the movie “X-men: Days of Future Past”.  It was really spectacular.  I love X-men but love it even more after the last reboot origin story “X-men: First Class”. 

Todd showed me this article this week:  In Search of America’s Best Burrito.  What I really want to know is:  how do I get a job traveling the country trying out the best burritos? This is quite a comprehensive study... glad to see that four San Diego restaurants placed in the list. Of course we did.

On Friday morning as I was leaving for work, the mailman gave me a package for Todd.  It was obviously a pair of shoes. So the following text message exchange happened. (Bear in mind that he bought a pair of trail runners on Sat, and two pairs of regular running shoes on Monday.)

Me: Did you buy more shoes? One more pair came!
Todd: Yes, a pair of cross trainers.
Me: You bought 4 pairs of shoes in one week?? LOL, that's worse than Daryl.
Todd: I almost bought five.

And I couldn't stop laughing.

Todd finished a 1,000 piece puzzle this week.

I found this receipt tucked away in my backpack this week.  It is from Dec. 24th, 2006.  The reason it’s significant is because this was the last dinner we had all together (my entire family including my mom, my dad, Todd, Todd’s parents, and my sister’s family) before my mom passed away in February 2007.  I miss my mom.

I got some crafty time in this week.  I made more progress on my Project Life album.  I made one page that was almost all hybrid (digital printed out).

Today I started another Project Life page, the part in April where Peppermint visited us.  I thought to myself, hmm, what better way than to use the papers she designed for Gossamer Blue!  But I had some performance anxiety.  I always get jitters trying to cut into the pretty papers that she designs, lol.  I'm scared!

But I did cut the paper, and you would not believe how LONG it took me just to make this one title card for a page.  Sigh.

I made some DIY glitter foam alphas (similar to Thickers).  You can see the tutorial post here.

Some Noodle cuteness.  Mr Bluebird on Todd's shoulder... Noodle loves to perch himself on Todd's shoulder for a better look around the world, lol.

Still loving his tissue papers and plays in them all the time.

Tonight we are relaxing, blogging, and getting ready for the week.  I love ordinary scenes like this:  Todd relaxing in his recliner, having a glass of wine, and watching the NBA playoffs. 

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