Project Life Update - 2012 Album

Hi Everyone! I hope you all are having a great weekend. It was another beautiful weather weekend here and spent some time outdoors with the doggies. My husband mulched our backyard landscaping yesterday so our backyard is now back to normal. Now I need for him to work on the front
landscaping :)

I did work yesterday morning in clinic but spent most of the late afternoon/evening in my craft room. I organized the remaining pictures from 2012 which I still need to put in my Project Life 2012 album. Yes, I still have to finish my 2012 album. I was finally done with my 2011 album last month :)
Slowly but surely I will get there.

So I spent yesterday evening making layouts using my pictures from our Carnival cruise in September 2012.
Our clinic closed so that we could all go on a 4 day cruise from Galveston to Cozumel as part of our 10 year anniversary. It was awesome!
There were 2 pictures I knew would need to go on a 12 x 12 layout instead of the divided photo pocket pages.
I was only able to do 2 layouts and 1 whole photo page. I still have several pictures left to use from our cruise trip.

Late last year I bought the American Crafts Shoreline collection when it went on clearance sale at www.scrapbook.steals.com.
I knew I wanted to use this collection for these pictures - I love the colors which include fuschia, orange, yellow and navy blue.

I also used Glitz's new paper line called Uncharted Waters which is GORGEOUS. When I saw this on Two Peas online, I knew I had to get it.

The first 12 x 12 layout is more of an introductory/title page for the month of September.

Check it out:

Once I was done, I really thought it was too yellow but decided to keep it as is. All the patterned papers are from the Shoreline collection. The orange/red tag is from Making Memories which I bought a long time ago. The alphabet Thickers are from the Shoreline collection as well as the small alpha stickers. The Adventure sticker is from Heidi Swapp.


My next layout is done using the Glitz Uncharted Waters paper collection:

I really LOVE how this layout turned out. I finally bought into the mist craze and have been buying some colored mist sprays from Studio Calico (Mr. Huey's) and Heidi Swapp.
For this background, I used a Studio Calico mask which looks like sun rays. The colored mists I used were the Mr. Huey's Lucille and Sherbert colors.

This is a picture of our boat the Carnival Triumph - yes the famous Carnival Triumph. I am very thankful that there were no issues on the boat during our trip.
I took this picture after we docked in Cozumel.


The next few pictures are of another page for my album - for this one I used a divided pocket 12 x 12 page from Becky Higgins.

This first one shows the pictures of Cozumel once we docked and the market area (Puerto Maya).

I used Bazzil's Wayfarer collection including journaling cards and cardstock stickers for this page.
The alphabet stickers are from October Afternoon.

This next page layout highlights our excursion in Cozumel which included a tour of Mayan ruins and stopping at a Tequila factory/distillery on the way.
We were able to taste several tequilas made there including aged tequilas and flavored tequilas. My favorite was the blackberry flavored tequila which I ended up purchasing for that next girls night out :)

I also made a video for my You Tube channel (PandPCreations) which goes into more detail regarding these layouts. So check it out below if you get a chance.  There is even a little extra craft room video surprise at the end :)

Thanks for stopping by and will be back next weekend with a new project here at P&P Creations Blog!

I will be heading home mid week to help my sister prepare for her baby shower this coming weekend. I am planning on making a diaper cake for her baby shower as well as a mesh wreath so will be posting those here on my blog once done.

I hope you all have a great week!

12 x 12 Layout Share

Hi Everyone! I hope you are all having a great weekend so far.

Wow, it has really been a beautiful weather weekend! My husband finally started to weed our backyard landscaping. We need to re-mulch as well but unfortunately our dogs love to eat mulch so we have been waiting until the last minute. In fact, we did not re-mulch our backyard at all last year.


This weekend I have been working on some 12 x 12 layouts using some photographs that I came across in my photo stash.

One of the pictures is one of Terry and I during our Washington DC trip in 2011.

Since Valentine's Day has come and gone, I wanted to use Crate Paper's Fourteen collection on a layout. This collection has the most beautiful papers! If you tune into my blog, I made a video last month showing most of the papers in the collection.

I really like how it turned out. I used some embellishments from Pink Paislee because they worked well with the papers and colors on my layout.

I really liked this wide chevron pattern paper and knew I had to use it as a background paper.
The cardstock arrows are from the Pink Paislee ephemera pack. I used Dear Lizzy 5th & Frolic gold glitter Thickers for my title which is just our names.

The hearts are from one of the patterned papers but I cut some of them out and used them for embellishments instead. If you notice, I stitched in the middle of the hearts using a gold metallic thread I found at Joann's - LOVE it!

My next layout is using some pictures I found from Christmas 2010. We actually hosted Christmas that year at our house. Both our families came out that day to open presents.
I decided to go ahead and use them in a layout and add to my 2011 album.

For this layout, I used scraps from Crate Paper's Sleigh Ride collection that I used in my December Daily.

I used kraft paper that is woodgrain embossed from Studio Calico as my background paper.  Crate Paper's Sleigh Ride was another collection with beautiful patterned papers.
Embellishments are from the same collection. I used some Studio Calico wood veneer snowflakes and a Findingnana badge with a camera on it.

Sleigh Ride gold and the Fourteen collection red glitter Thickers were used for the title.

I also did some stitching at the very bottom but messed up a little :) The thread somehow tangled up so had to redo it. I used the gold metallic thread again.

I really like how these layouts turned out. I love that I was able to use more of these collections and use up my stash :)

I recently purchased several new items at the Two Peas in a Bucket online store which I received on Friday. I went ahead and filmed another haul video using my new video camera.
You can check it out at my You Tube channel PandPCreations but I will also link it here on my blog.
It was a long video so had to break it up into 2 parts. It showcases some of the new collections from Echo Park, My Mind's Eye, Studio Calico, and Crate Paper.

There are still several new collections that I am really wanting like the new Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm and the new Amy Tangerine Yes Please collections. Can't wait until they are in stock at Two Peas!

I hope you enjoyed my layouts/projects this week and hopefully I inspired you to keep on scrapbooking or to start a new hobby.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a great week!

January Project Life Album Update Video

Hi Everyone! Its been a rainy day today in my neck of the woods but it was nice to sleep in a little. My husband made me migas for breakfast and I had a cup of Starbucks Verona blonde coffee. Very nice relaxing morning for us :)

 Well back again with another P&P Creations Video! Yes, you read correctly. I have been wanting to do more videos to use on my blog and on my You Tube channel since my husband bought me a video camera. I have somewhat become an expert on using iMovie so it is easier to edit my videos.
I have been thinking of doing videos of my Project Life (PL) album mostly highlighting my monthly Studio Calico PL kit.
It is already too late to show the January kit as I have used it, so I started this video with what I have left after using the kit.

I still plan on doing more haul/purchase videos and in fact I have 2 packages on their way :)
One of them is a recent Two Peas in a Bucket purchase which has several new collections from My Minds Eye, Crate Paper, and Studio Calico.
The other of course is my monthly Studio Calico (SC) scrapbooking kit and Project Life kit. I also purchased some new embellishments from the new SC lines including Sundrifter and Snippets.

Here is a picture from the Studio Calico website showing the January Project Life kit:

So check out my video and let me know what you think! I know most kit subscribers show their kits on their videos but I also want to show how I used the kit for my Project Life album.

My plan is to make a Project Life album update video once a month. Will see how well I can keep up with it :)

Thanks for stopping by this week here at P&P Creations and I hope you all enjoyed the video!
Let me know if you have any questions regarding the kit or Project Life in general.

Have a great week everyone and keep on CRAFTING!

Happy Birthday Card

Hi Everyone! Back again this week with a new project for P&P Creations.

I just want to start out by saying that it has been a BEAUTIFUL Sunday here in the Spring/Tomball area!
Of course today is Super Bowl Sunday and most of you are probably at a party right now. We are staying home this year and not even hosting a party like we usually do.
The day started off with home made Belgium waffles and Starbucks Verona coffee. Then we took our doggies for a walk which they really enjoyed.
The dogs have been playing around outside most of today especially while my husband was outside grilling some bratwursts. I took some really cute pics for Project Life and to use on Facebook.

Well for this week's project, I wanted to make another card as there are several family members birthdays coming up in the month of February and March.
I am not going to specify on this post who the card is meant for just in case they do check out this blogpost :)

I will say its a masculine card. I really enjoyed making this card as it challenged me to come up with something that was not too feminine.

My card is a standard A2 size (4 1/4 x 5 1/2) and the card base was made with Papertrey Ink cardstock in Enchanted Evening and Kraft. The patterned paper I used is from Crate Paper's Storyteller 6x6 paper pad. I really love these patterns. I should of bought them in 12x12 size but instead bought the small paper pad.

Here is a picture of my card:

I did some stitching around the card and over the top of the banner shape. I really like how the papers look together. The kraft colored tag on the front is from Basic Grey Clippings collection - from their Snippets pad.

The card is not completely finished - I am planning on using October Afternoon's mini market alphabet stickers to spell out the name on top of the kraft tag and stamp the birthday date as well.
I did this just in case the recipient decided to check out my blog :)

Well in other P&P news - my husband bought me a video camera yesterday as an early Valentine's present. Yay!! Now I can film more videos! :)
I already did one with my new camera. I decided to showcase some of the stuff I bought at Stampin' Up which came in this last week.

I am hoping to do more videos now that I actually have a camera so check out my You Tube page. I will also have a link to my videos from my blog.

I have some ideas for videos but do not want to share too much right now, will keep it a surprise :)

So checkout my newest haul video below:

Total video is 15 minutes - I really need to keep it less. Promise to do better for next time :)
Most of it is my rambling and thoughts on my purchase.


Well I hope you all enjoyed my project as well as my newest video.

Stay tuned next week for another project here at P&P Creations!

I hope you all have a great week!