New stencils in the house!

Still getting ready for the big show this weekend in Winston-Salem, will you be there?  Stop by Betty's booth at The Stamp Scrap Art Tour and say hi!!  We've gotten in tons of new products including the new lineup of stencils from The Crafter's Workshop!  I cranked out a couple of quick Project Life layouts for you and the show:

The first one uses some of the new Balzer Bits from TCW by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer and a Life Bits from Jen Boumis.  Both of these itty bitty stencil releases are just perfect for Project Life or any scrapbooking!

Here's the Numbers Bits from Balzer Designs:

The favorite life bits from Jen:

And my new fav, View Master Bits from Balzer Designs.  I also had a couple of panels using Stacked Triangles and Shattered Circles where I added more journaling.

And here's another page using some of Ronda Palazzari's new stencils:

Loving this new "And so On" stencil!  

Two panels use the new Baubles, one with the new Feathers stencil layered on top, and one with journaling on top.

More to come as always!  Hope to see you at the show tomorrow!

Project {Stenciled} Life

Good morning!  I am thrilled to be Guest Blogging today over at The Crafter's Workshop!  I was lucky enough to take a class with the owner, Jaime Echt, when I attended the Collins Show in April.  She is one fun energetic fabby lady!

So I created a Project Life layout for my guest post today.  You can read all about it HERE.  My pages are using the pics I took from my long weekend at the Collins Show.

The Crafters Workshop stencils:

Cityscape 12x12 and 6x6

Urban Landscape 6x6

Subway 6x6

Weekly Circles 6x6

Casey and Penelope 6x6

Eye Chart 6x6

Pie Chart 6x6

Church Windows 6x6

Ranger  Dylusions ink sprays:

Dirty Martini

Vibrant Turquoise

Squeezed Orange

Bubblegum Pink

Picked Raspberry Tim Holtz Distres paint (Ranger)

Adirondack Black Paint Dauber (Ranger)

Becky HigginsProject Life

 page protectors (American Crafts)

White sharpie paint pen

Black Faber Castell fine tip pen

Paper Craft Planet Scrappy Sunday Sketch

Its my turn at the Paper Craft Planet Blog today for Scrappy Sunday and I would love for you to please  go join in our challenge HERE!

I have been playing more and more with Project Life, even if I don't do it every week it gets me scrapbooking again!  There are so many options out there now for the divided layouts.  I used to do these all the time (without the pockets) and we called it color blocking.  Its a great way to get lots of photos on a page.

For my page today I used:

Becky Higgins Project Life divided protector

Poppy Favorite Fabric pieces (LYB)

Poppy 6x6 Paper pad (Little Yellow Bicycle)

Poppy Canvas stickers (LYB)

Poppy Chipboard stickers (LYB)

Poppy Vellum Tape (LYB)

Spiced Marmalade, Festive Berries, Peacock Feathers, & Mowed Lawn Distress ink pads (Tim Holtz)

Here's the sketch that I created for you if you would like to play along.  (Tip: If you don't have the divided protectors just make each panel slightly smaller than 4x6 and then mount them all on a plain 12x12 sheet of cardstock!)

Stampendous and Project Life Blog Hop

Its another day of scrapping with Stampendous and Project Life!  Today is our Blog Hop so be sure to head to the Stampendous blog to see who all is hopping along!

I've really enjoyed working in this format and now I need to get more of the protectors!  I may try to do the weekly recap pages that lots of gals do :)

This time I decided to do a page about my recent class at Donna Downey's studio.  For "mats" for my some of my photos I used some Ranger #10 tags and added some Distress paint around the edges and added some streaks before I adhered my photos.

For the Make Art tag I simply covered the tag with Distress paint and then stamped the brand new "Art Elements" stamp in Archival black ink.  (this stamp will be available soon at your local stamp stores)  I cut the tag in half to slip into the divided pockets :)

On the tag with the pic of Donna I stamped her name with the new Vintage Upper case and Vintage Lower case alphabets and added some tissue tape.

Thanks for popping in today!  I'm up in Massachusetts for a weekend of classes so I'll be scarce for a few days :)  -Cyndi

Stampendous meets Project Life!

This week the Stampendous gals are so excited to be working with the Project Life products from Becky Higgins!  I was lucky enough to speak to Becky at length on the last day of CHA when things had slowed down.  What a wonderful and fun person she is!  Her dream of bringing scrapbooking back into the daily lives of former scrappers is fabulous and she makes it so easy to do!

I printed some recent photos from  "birthday week"...two of my kids have bdays in the same week so we go out to eat and celebrate a lot that week!

I backed some of the photos on bright Core'dinations cs since they don't print quite 4x6 on my printer.  For the journaling block I stamped a border fromKIddo Birthday Perfectly Clear set and colored it with my Spectrum Noir markers.

I also stamped a panel with the new Birthday background (coming SOON to a store near you) and colored that in as well.  Project Life offers cute cards for all the pocket sizes but its fun to stamp your own as well!!

Be sure to head to the Stampendous blog to see more Project Life and of course Becky's blog too!