Holidaily Walkthrough with Carolee

Hi everyone! Today I'm going to show you the rest of my Holidaily album! You can see the first part of the album by going over to this blog post I made about it. 

One of the things I really liked doing with this album is full size pictures. I never do these in bigger formats so it's fun to do them here., This was a day of festive coffee drinking for me: a nice cup of coffee in a festive teacup and a Christmas Tree frappuccino! 

This day, I chose to focus on the paper and add lots of snowy elements. We never get snow here in Los Angeles, but I thought this might be a nice day to do that with the bright lights of our lunch place. That burger was really good! I took some of the snowflakes from the die cut pack and added them along with some clusters of sequins to add a snowy look.

This was another place where I wanted to let the picture take the show. It was a great photo of the room with many of my friends in the shot. For this, I just made a little cluster of decoration in the upper right corner with die cuts, paper scraps and some thickers I had in my stash.

This page here is a bit of a weird one because I decided to add a different element to it. I made tags to bring to mind the tags on presents and added them into the notebook. Each of the tags has a picture of one of my dogs in their Christmas collars. On the other side is our stockings hung by the fireplace and a die cut letter to Santa!

This page is about the night out we had for my husband's birthday. We went to a local tiki bar and I had a picture of the amazing decor, so I made that the featured photo. For the left side, I punched green circles from the matching paper and layered them, along with more of those thickers, to decorate up that side.

Next up was Christmas Day which I got to celebrate with lots of friends, including Andrea! Here's a picture of her and I together with the gift I got her. I added the Merry Christmas paper to the right and did a bit of journaling. Easy peasy and lets the photo take the focus.

It's Boxing Day and some friends finally got us to go see Star Wars! With this one, the poster is such a strong red presence that I wanted to keep everything else really simple. Added the red ticket to the poster and a bit of paper to back the photo of our snack and it's good to go!

And finally here we are at New Year's Eve! I can't believe I finished the whole notebook! I hope you enjoyed this look through it. Until next time, happy crafting!

Holidaily Walkthrough with Enza

Hello everyone! Enza here, and today I'm going to share with you my completed Holidaily album! Yay! It's done! I think this is the first year I complete a December album. As I said in my previous posts, I have been working on two albums, one for my family in Italy, and one for us. It has been quite challenging to keep up, but I did it and I couldn't be happier with the way they turned out. 

I think one the reasons why I was successful this year was the simplicity of my process. One or two pictures and some journaling were all I needed to tell my full stories. You'll see some spreads with multiple pictures, but it is usually a collage or a combination of smaller photos. I also “limited” my stash to the Fairytale Club kits. What I love the most about the kits is that everything goes together. The colors match, there are tons of versatile embellishments, wood buttons, transparencies; the variety they offer is truly amazing. Occasionally you'll see some other supplies from my stash, used mostly to fill spaces or create layers.  

I decided to repeat some elements throughout the album to keep it cohesive: 

• glitter card stock, used either as a background layer or to add extra sparkle here and there.
• Tags, perfect for journaling or as a base for smaller photos. 
• Vellum, on which I mostly typed my journaling.
• Cut files and die cuts, to create more interest and bring in fun elements
• Interactive pieces, such as the folded flap you'll see towards the end of the album.

For a more detailed description of the first part of the album, you can check out my previous posts here, and here. Now onto my completed Holidaily album!

Thank you for stopping by. Have an amazing day!
Enza

Holidaily Walkthroughs with Carrie and Kim

Carrie

Hello everybody!  Welcome to the flip through for my Holidaily so far!!  In this video, I share my pages for December 1-10.  Most of them are complete but a few still need either journaling or embellishments.  I tend to work on my daily albums pretty slowly lol ; ) Hope you enjoy and if you have any questions feel free to leave them in the comments.

Thanks for watching!
Carrie

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Kim

I hope you all have had a joyous holiday season.  I'm doing my wrap up post on how I progressed with my Holidaily!

There isn't much new report from a finishing standpoint because I've done 3 blog posts about it.  If you haven't had an opportunity to see those progressions here are the links:

1. https://andreabethke.com/fairytale-club-blog/2017/11/16/kims-advent-planner
2. https://andreabethke.com/fairytale-club-blog/2017/12/16/holidaily-with-kim
3. https://andreabethke.com/fairytale-club-blog/2017/12/21/holidaily-part-two-with-kim

But I did do a flip through of my entire faith journal/planner from the past three months which includes the whole month of December using just the JOLLY Kit

Thanks for tagging along with me on this Holidaily Project!

XOXOXO
-Kim

Teresa's Planner with Everyday Wishes

Hey guys! It’s Teresa, and I’m beyond happy with this months box! “Everyday Wishes” 
O-M-G it's amazing! 

There’s so much girly cuteness! In full bright pastels! If that’s possible, and it is!

This kit screams Cinderella! And I LOVE IT! And filled with unicorn wishes and ice cream dreams. 

There are so many die cuts in the kit is crazy! Plus stickers! And so much more like...

Sparkly confetti! Yesss confetti, which you can do so many fun things with! 

I hope y’all enjoy me sharing this kit “Everyday Wishes” 

My Wish Layout with Andrea

Hello there everyone! It is Andrea here and today I want to share with you a fun layout that I made using the new "Everyday Wishes" kit from The Fairytale Club!

Yay! I am so in love with this new kit/collection! All the happy imagery, like the unicorn and the princess and the rainbow and the castle and the little blue birds, makes me fill with hope and reminds me to wish on stars and to dream big! The Fairytale Club is all about believing in fairytales and happily ever after come true...and I think this kit in particular stands up as a perfect example of that! 

Since I am so in love with this kit, I was of course, really excited to start playing with it! I have been finding it very difficult lately to do any scrapbooking because of my health situation and how bad the pain has gotten. However, I still try to do a little bit of scrapping whenever I can and so the other day I decided to pull out the new kit and make a fun, quick layout!

I decided to use the new word die-cuts that come in the kit and make the phrase "my wish" for my title. The layout is about how my current wish is just to be healthy again and get back to a time when things were going better in that regard. So I used a picture from sometime in the summer of last year, 2017, right before things started going from bad to worse.  I have had to deal with poor health because of my CRPS condition, for a while now, however the last several months have definitely been much worse. Despite this fact though, I still find myself believing in all the beauty and possibility in life and that my wishes and dreams can and will still come true!

I layered several of the beautiful pattern papers behind my photo and to the top right of that I added a bow paperclip from the "happily ever after" version of the kit. On the bottom left, to balance things out, I added a cluster of goodies, such as my "wish list" ephemera piece and the yellow rose ephemera piece. I just adore the ephemera pack this month...it is so filled with lovely and magical die-cuts! And with those die-cuts, I also added a layered, 3-D butterfly which I created out of several of the pattern papers and one of the butterfly ephemera pieces. It came out super cute I think!

At the top of my layout, I added a little label from the cut-apart sheet which has a little quote about wishes on it...and to the side of my pic, I added another such label...this one with my wish on it..."I wish for good health". 

To finish things off, I added a couple of vintage buttons from my stash (and some white tulle from my stash) and one of the adorable flair buttons from the kit -- the one with the little rainbow heart!

Overall, I am really happy with how this layout came out and I hope you enjoy it too! If you haven't ordered your "Everyday Wishes" kit yet, get it today! It really is made of my wishes and dreams and I think you will find that it carries with it such happiness and hopefulness from me to you!

Hello 2018 with Carolee

Welcome to 2018 everyone! This year, I've decided to do my memory keeping in the memorydex format that I got started on last year. Today, I've made a few cards for the beginning of 2018 with the new Everyday Wishes collection. Let's check them out!

One of my favorite things about Memorydex is that there are dies so you can make basically anything into a card. For the first two, I used two of the personal sized planner dividers and for the second two, I just used the photos so I could build on them.

First up was this Hello 2018 card. I'm obsessed with unicorns so I thought I'd use the unicorn divider for that front card! I grabbed some thickers from my stash, cut the card from the divider, glued one of the die cut words to the front and added the thickers. Easy peasy and it looks great!

Since there were so many beautiful flowers in this collection, I decided to add a card about my One Little Word for this year, bloom. For this card, I used the die to cut a card from a divider (seriously, they're great for extra paper, especially since they're thicker!) Then, I layered the flowers, added my word in thickers and stamped OLW on the tag.

Next up are the photo cards! First is this one of the food I got at my friend's new restaurant. It was so yummy and all I could think of seeing it again was hearts! ♥️ So, I cut the card from the photo and glued a few hearts to the left side. Since the picture's the main event here, I like to keep the decorations small and focused. 

The last card is this photo of my treadmill at the gym. I've really started to take my health and fitness seriously so this is my spot a few times a week. I wanted to commemorate the start of all of my hard work since it's such a part of my daily life. Again, I used the die to cut the card from the photo, added some stars ⭐️ and it was done.

I love the Memorydex because of how versatile and easy it is. I like it much better than Project Life because I also don't feel like I have to do things weekly, I can just add moments from my everyday life. I hope you enjoyed checking out this second batch of Memorydex cards and the new Everyday Wishes collection. Until next time, happy crafting!

"Everyday Wishes" Now Available to Purchase!

Hi everyone!  Andrea here, and I just wanted to officially announce that "Everyday Wishes" is now available to purchase through the website.

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Jolly with Carolee

Hey all! I'm here on the blog today with something I don't normally do, a 12x12 layout! However, I wanted to be able to use the super sweet Santa paper Jolly before the end of the season, so it was time to try something a little different. I'm also trying to stretch myself a bit more in 2018 so I grabbed a sketch and got started!

As you can see, I layered the two sides of Jolly and backed the photo with Candyland, another paper I'd been hoarding ;)

After that, it was time to add my favorite part, sprinkling die cuts and other goodies onto the page! I added the last of my hearts, the candies (to bring out a bit more of Candyland) and some of the sequins from the kit. Last but not least, the Jolly die cut because this was certainly a jolly night with friends!

I hope you enjoyed this look at a different type of project for me. Until next time, happy crafting everyone!

January Planner Banner with Kim

Happy New Year!  I'm still kind of in shock that the January is back again but I am thankful that we are afforded a clean slate every year!  

This month,  I wanted to have a welcome banner to start the year off in my work planner so I chose some pattern paper from the 'Sweet' kit.  I've always liked how fresh and vibrant the colors are and thought it would look great for January!

For the notes section, I cut out 'JAN' to obviously symbolize the month, January.  I then sewed it together with some space in between the letters,  to create that banner effect (even though it is tacked down with adhesive).  Then I used my electric cutting machine to write the year.  Adding part of it positive and the other part negative creates a nice layered effect don't you think?

On the calendar part, I used some of the kits label stickers to being to write some of my due dates and added a die cut heart too!

This project is one where it doesn't take long to spruce up, but definitely makes me smile when I've got my planner at work!  Thanks for joining me today.

-Kim

Hello 2018 with Enza

Happy New Year, everyone!!! Enza here to share a new layout that is all about welcoming 2018. I really wanted to make an opening page for this year's album. I went through all the photos taken in the last few day and came across this picture of my daughter holding her brand new Instax camera. How perfect was that! I couldn't think of a better photo to start our family album with.

I mixed elements from a couple of kits: Storytime, and Jolly. I love that the kits always have pieces that coordinate with each other, no matter the theme. I started with two cut files (surprise, surprise!), that I combined to create a background for the layout. Both cut files are by Paige Evans and can be found in the Silhouette Design store (228014, 233776). I used patterned paper from the Jolly kit to back the word “Hello”, while for the numbers I went with the black and white patterened paper included in the Storytime kit. 

I also decided to back the stars with more patterned paper before adhering them down. To achieve dimension, I used foam adhesive for some of the letters, as well as some of the stars. I like the movement created by the different heights of the cut files. I built several layers behind the photo and added the word “click” along the right side. The gold foiled Alpha Chipboard Stickers from the Storytime kit are so beautiful! Wooden buttons, a tag, and some word stickers brought in a fun and colorful touch to the page. 

I finished the layout with enamel stars, sequins, and drops of gold Color Shine.

I hope you like how this page turned out. I love it!!!

Have a fabulous day! Thank you for stopping by!

Enza