Memory Keeping Monday ... Hello January 2014

Happy New Year. It's exciting to be starting a fresh new year.

But, Wow. This morning was tough.

Just dropped the kids off at the bus stop. It has been two full weeks since they last attended school. They were scheduled to go back to school on Thursday, Jan 3rd ... but the winter storm closed school for an additional 2 days. So after such a long break, this morning was really tough ... waking up in the dark, trying to get back into our routine.

The girl said, weary-eyed, over her bowl of cereal, "I hope they don't expect too much today".

And that's pretty much how I feel. But I do have a full day ahead of me, lots going on, appointment, errands, orders to complete; and a meeting tonight at 7pm. It will be a long Monday for sure.

I did some Memory Keeping over the last few days ... here's what I have to share. My PL is almost done for 2013.

Week 47

Becky Higgins Digital Project Life | Squared Away Template 14

Becky Higgins Digital Project Life | Just Add Color

Becky Higgins Digital Project Life | Midnight  

Valorie Wibbens | Project Care JC, Good Stuff, Sunkissed
Paislee Press | Outdoorsy Elements, Labeled Frames & Clipping Masks, Be Merry, Is It Friday Yet?, Capturing Fall
One Little Bird | Memory Collector Elements, Papers, & JCs, Trail Blazer Elements & JCs, Rise & Shine, Capturing Fall
Michelle Godin | Capturing Fall
Pink Reptile Designs | Simple Things, Capturing Fall
Lilypad Designers | Together Collab
Becky Higgins Digital Project Life | Templates A & D 

A closer look at Week 48.

 A closer look at Week 49.

Memory Keeping Monday ... Digital Project Life Weeks 45 & 46

Hello. We are covered in snow this Monday morning. It snowed for over 24 hours this weekend and dumped at least 10 inches on us. Our first big snow storm of the winter season. It was really cold too, but we braved the icy temps to play outside for a little while.

I of course had my camera and was busy taking pictures while the kids and dogs played. They still love playing in the snow. Love that!

Catching up on Project Life pages with DigitalProjectLife.com's new Squared Away Templates. Here's my Week 45 page with Template 8.

Becky Higgins Digital Project Life | Squared Away Template 4 Becky Higgins Digital Project Life | Just Add Color Becky Higgins Digital Project Life | Midnight Katie Pertiet | Twine Banner Template No. 2 Rachael Scraps | Pearl Button Gennifer Bursett | Love You More (mint button) Mye De Leon | The Good Stuff This Week (ampersand) HGD Laurie Ann | Happy Camper (black button) Just Jaimee | Your Life (wood heart) - See more at: http://www.myscrapbookart.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=667863&ppuser=8435#sthash.2KKMGl2U.dpuf

Becky Higgins Digital Project Life | Squared Away Template 4

Becky Higgins Digital Project Life | Just Add Color

Becky Higgins Digital Project Life | Midnight
Katie Pertiet | Twine Banner Template No. 2
Rachael Scraps | Pearl Button
Gennifer Bursett | Love You More (mint button)
Mye De Leon | The Good Stuff This Week (ampersand)
HGD Laurie Ann | Happy Camper (black button)
Just Jaimee | Your Life (wood heart)

Becky Higgins Digital Project Life | Squared Away Template 4 Becky Higgins Digital Project Life | Just Add Color Becky Higgins Digital Project Life | Midnight Katie Pertiet | Twine Banner Template No. 2 Rachael Scraps | Pearl Button Gennifer Bursett | Love You More (mint button) Mye De Leon | The Good Stuff This Week (ampersand) HGD Laurie Ann | Happy Camper (black button) Just Jaimee | Your Life (wood heart) - See more at: http://www.myscrapbookart.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=667863&ppuser=8435#sthash.2KKMGl2U.dpuf

And my Week 46 page with Template 10.

Becky Higgins Digital Project Life | Squared Away Template 10

Becky Higgins Digital Project Life | Just Add Color

Becky Higgins Digital Project Life | Midnight
Gennifer Bursett | Anchored (polaroid frames)

One Little Bird | Memory Collector (heart sticker & brad)

Thanks for looking. xoxo Jenn

Digital pages with templates

Happy Friday! I am so glad it is Friday. It seems like this was the longest week. The recent ending of Daylight Savings, with the darker & shorter days is starting to take its toll on me. I'm no adjusting easily. My least favorite part of the week days has been simply getting out of bed, It's cold and dark, and I find myself hitting snooze more than usual. Not good when you have two kids to wake up and get off to school on time. We are really looking forward to Thanksgiving recess.

My big project this week has been trying to get organized with my Gallery Wall. I took it down over two years ago, to have our home painted ... and well, it never went back up. I wanted to switch out some photos and relocate it ... and so it kind of went on the back burner of my To Do List.

This layout, with Crystal Livesay's newest template release (collab with Little Green Frog Designs) Starlight Star Bright, shows a peek into what's going on with that Gallery Wall Project.

Crystal Livesay | Starlight Star Bright Templates

One Little Bird | Memory Collector

Karah Fredricks | Capturing Fall

HGD by Laurie Ann | Capturing Fall

HGD by Laurie Ann | Just Because

Allison Pennington | Capturing Fall

Amy Wolff | Capturing Fall

Just Jamiee | Owl Family Word Mix 

Kaye Winiecki | Capturing Fall

And the second layout with Crystal's templates is this page about my son's new sport: Crew. 

Crystal Livesay | Starlight Star Bright Templates

One Little Bird | Trailblazer

One Little Bird |  Memory Collector

Amy Martin | Blanc Stitches 

Paislee Press | Outdoorsy Elements

Karla Dudley | A Lifetime Elements

That's it for me for this week. Enjoy your weekend & thanks for looking! 

Happy DSD !!!

Are you enjoying digital scrapbooking day! The blog hops, the freebies, the contests, the sales ... there is so much going on in the land of digital scrapbooking this weekend.

As a member of Crystal Livesay's CT, I have been busy working with tons of her lovely templates. Some are brand new, some are freebies and some are from past iDSDs or NSDs that she has put up in her shop as $3 grab bags! Also there's this beautiful Breathless Template set for the Nov Co Stash at Pixel & Co for under $3!

Crystal Livesay | Breathless Templates

Creashens | Wildflower, Torn Bits No 4, S'more Please, Wonderfall
Gennifer Bursett | Anchored
Celeste Knight | Sherbet Paper
Wishing Well Creations | New Beginnings
Katie Pertiet | Tidewater, Twisted Stitches No 2, Laced Edgers No 2, Doily Edgers No 1, Collageable Notions

This page was made with one of Cyrstal's templates from the new Grab Bag Collab with Sara Gleason: 

Crystal Livesay | DSD 2013 Grab Bag (collab with Sara Gleason) 

 Creashens | Head Over Heels, S'more Please, Hello, Krafternoon, Otterly

Katie Pertiet | Oiselet Bleu, Simple classic Travelers Kit, Web Inspiration 070410, Cardstock Tabs, Wooden Arrows, Home and Garden, From my Bookshelf Blendable

Rachel Scraps | Pearl Button. Pastel Vintage Button

This page was made with one of Sara's templates, also from the new Grab Bag Collab:  

 Crystal Livesay | DSD 2013 Grab Bag (collab with Sara Gleason) 

Sara Gleason | Olive Tree Kit

This page is made with the Piccadilly template (totally free & part of a huge collab freebie from the deisgners at Pixel & Co, go here to snag it!) 

Crystal Livesay | Piccadilly Template
Creashens | S'more Please, Simply Swell, Fling, Wonderfall, Krafternoon, Otterly, Torn Bits 4
Mye De Leon & Gennifer Bursett | A New Beginning (stitches)

Crystal Livesay | iNSD 2012 Grab Bag (collab with Sara Gleason)
Creashens | Hello, Kraternoon, S'more Please, Just Go With It

Crystal Livesay | DSD 2012 Grab Bag (collab with Sara Gleason)

Mye De Leon & Gennifer Bursett | A New Beginning

Pixel & Co Collab | More Or Less

Gennifer Bursett | More Cowbell

Creashens | Hello, Fling, Head Over Heels

Anita Designs | Ordinary Moments

Sabrina Creations | Photogenic

Wishing Well Creations, Gennifer Bursett, Dawn By Designs | Photobomb Collab

Enjoy DSD 2013! Thanks for looking.

Friday Layout

Popping in to share one little scrapbook page this Friday ... using Crystal Livesay's newest release: Listmaker ... a collab with Jimbo Jambo Designs ... and it includes 6 awesome templates. One, which specifically encourages you to scrap a page without a photo! Love that!

I choose this one, with the circles because I thought it would show case my little photos of a recent trip to the farm market for apples and pumpkins. Check out the collection of templates, available at Pixels & Co, while they are on sale!

Crystal Livesay | Listmaker Templates
Creashens | Wonderfall, Hello Stitches, 3 lil birds Elements, Simply Swell Elements, Otterly Flairs, Summered Papers
Gennifer Bursett | Giget Papers
Pixel & Co. | In Good Company Collab
AC Crate Paper | Acorn Avenue

Check in on Monday for all the new Digital Project Life releases. Happy Weekend!

Layouts with Templates

Today I have a bunch of layouts to share using some fabulous templates by Crystal Livesay. She's a designer over at Pixels & Co and her templates are really fun to work with.

This first page is filled with all the colors & paterns I am loving right now ... soft pinks & greens with pops of color and a bit of black ... and for the patterns ... watercolor, dots, chevrons and florals. So pretty.

Crystal Livesay | These Moments V2 Template

Maggie Holmes Collection

Maggie Holmes | Flea Market Digital Project Life Mini

Creashens | Wonderfall (stitches) 

The Ardent Sparrow | Savannah (buttons) 

The next layout is from our extended family summer vacation spent on Lake Ontario ... it's a picture of my daughter, nephew and SIL enjoying our day out on the boat. It's amazing how being out on the water can erase all your stress and worries ... could use a little of that right now.

Crystal Livesay | Effortless V2 Template

Dear Lizzy | Lucky Charm Collection

One Little Bird | Stargazer

Gennifer Bursett | Anchored Collection

2 am | Destination Adventure (paint)

Lou Cee Creations | Sailaway (pinwheel)

Angie Kovacs | Sailaway (wooden wheel)

This layout expresses my love-hate relationship with Fall. The mum photo is from our weekend's day trip to the Apple Orchard. This layout came together quickly using Crystal's template and just one kit, Wonderfall, by Creashens.

Crystal Livesay | These Moments V2 Template

Creashens | Wonderfall Kit

All three layouts were done is short amount of time ... that is the beauty of using well designed templates. Love that! 

And I have just one more layout to share today. These photos were taken in poor lighting with my iphone while my (too old to be riding tricycles) kids were goofing off in the department store & zooming up and down the aisles. But the memory was too good to not use the photos just bc they weren't perfect, so I scrapped them anyway. I used an adorable kit by Dani Mogstad to liven up the page and really accent the colors in the Instagram photos.

available at jessicasprague.com

Designs By Dani | I Like Love You Collection

That's all for today. Thanks for looking.

Memory Keeping Monday | Digital Project Life

Morning! This Monday the last of the new templates are featured and on sale at digitalprojectlife.com. Here's a peak at what the collection looks like. You can purchase them together or as singles. These templates make doing digital project life pages so easy ... and with so many styles to choose from, they are just so versatile too! Love them.

I created this page from last year's OBX vacation with Template W.

available at digitalprojectlife.com

Becky Higgins | Project Life

Template W

Clementine Edition Extra Elements

Cobalt Edition Extra Elements

Jade Edition Title Cards

Jade Edition Bi-fold Journal Cards

Jade Edition Paper Pack 1

And I have this page using bits and pieces from a bunch of Project Life editions along with the adorable Template V.

available at digitalprojectlife.com

Becky Higgins | Project Life

Template V

Jade Edition Title Cards

Jade Edition Filler Cards

Rain Edition 3x4 Journal Cards

Rain Edition Paper Pack 1

Midnight Paper Pack 2

Baby Edition Paper Pack

Thanks for looking!

Memory Keeping Monday

August 7th: Oops. Revision. The Template S was not the correct design. I've taken down the previously posted layout and image and replaced with the correct images. Sorry folks!

Two more Project Life pages to share with you this August Monday (can not believe how fast this summer is going!) ...

Digital Project Life has more new templates on sale this week:

What a great, easy way to quickly incorporate a dozen or so photos onto one page.

I whipped up these pages on Thursday afternoon, while packing and getting ready for a long weekend at the Jersey shore.

Becky Higgins: Project Life 

Template S

Jade Edition First & Last Page Cards

Jade Edition Bifold Cards

 Jade Edition Title Cards

Also:

Dear Lizzy Paper Pack 3  

A Pennington Destination Adventure

Boutique Cute Doll: Just Like You Alpha

Becky Higgins: Project Life

Template O

Jade Edition First & Last Page Cards

Jade Edition 3x4 Filler Cards

Also:

Dear Lizzy: Paper Pack 3  

Miss Mint: Destination Adventure

Ali Edwards: Today Rocks Freebie

A Pennington Destination Adventure

Template Tuesday ... Freebie

Hey there ... it's Template Tuesday over at jessicasprague.com. This week was my turn to create a template free for the taking. Be sure to enter the contest to earn Sprague Bucks to spend at the store. Details in the post found HERE.

 

Template Tuesday #39  by Jenn McCabe

Carina Gardner::
FRESH PICKED - Winter Solids
FRESH PICKED - Spring Solids
FRESH PICKED - Summer Solids
FRESH PICKED - Spring Florals
O CHRISTMAS TREE - Ribbons

Echo Park::
Springtime Alpha/Element Pack 1

 On another note: I'm getting a lot of wholesale orders and wholesale questions ... since reopening my Etsy shop after "a much too long" (and unintended) hiatus. I did close my personal website this past summer, but please know you can still contact me and request a wholesale order. I will invoice you via paypal's invoice feature.

And my Etsy shop is up and running too ... with a coupon for 30% off your entire order! Please use code Falling at checkout. Stock up on gift toppers, teacher gifts, hostess thank -yous, and stocking stuffers! Don't see the item you want in the color you prefer ... just let me know and we'll get that taken care of, easy peasy.

best- xoxo
jenn