Kelly Purkey: 2012 Project Life

2012 Project Life: Weeks Thirty-Eight + Thirty-Nine

Two Project Life weeks to share with you... I think I only have done one more week that hasn't gotten blogged yet. The rest of the year, well, it'll someday get put together. Or not. We'll see. But for now here's week Thirty-Eight:

I came back from Panama and then also went to my first Crop + Create in Canada that week. I got to hang out with Krista, Nicole, Stephanie, Kristine, and Vicki - which was so much fun. I included a flyer I got in the mail for Annie on Broadway (which I just saw a couple weeks ago and was oh so cute) and a text from John about Shake Shack that still makes me laugh. The leaf stamp is from my Thankful set at Simon Says Stamp.

And then here we have my week Thirty-Nine. Yep. That's it. I used a Becky Higgins 6x6 envelope and there are two pieces of journaling inside smaller envelopes. It was one of those weeks - we all have them - where revisiting it over and over later on doesn't really seem necessary. So I wrapped it up and into the envelope it went.

I haven't decided yet how I'm going to approach Project Life for 2013. I'm definitely going to be making an album of some sort, since this is probably my favorite thing I've ever worked on. But I haven't quite figured out the format yet and my schedule will be changing the beginning of the year, so I'd like something more managable. I just always felt so bad getting behind and seeing others chug away. I'm thinking a smaller size or something like Jamaica put together. I'm looking forward to all the inspiration that the new Studio Calico PL and Becky Higgins PL teams are going to be bringing - how exciting is that! Just have to find a way to make it work for me. Please feel free to share your plan of attack for next year here in the comments.

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Cocoa Daisy Hello My Name Is Kits

I'm still in Tokyo and getting my days/time zones/schedule all mixed up... but that will fix itself tonight when I head back home. We'll see if my internal clock will stay 14 hours ahead or not. So I meant to post these pages much earlier but here's what I made with the Cocoa Daisy December kits. It was so much fun for me to play with kits again!

I picked up the Nice to Meet You add-on because it had the awesome Sn@p stickers in there (these are amazing) and also the cute Pebbles Journaling Cards. Love this add-on.

My exclusive stamp set is in the main kit and it's one that can be used over and over - and easily with Project Life! I'm sloooowly still knocking out my weeks.

I'm thankful to Christine for this fun opportunity and especially to have my stamps in the kit. Christine actually lives right in the town next to the one where I grew up and my mom had to drive over to drop something off to her. I emailed to ask if she got there and she wrote back saying yes and how very nice Christine was. Couldn't agree more.

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2012 Project Life: Week Thirty-Six (The Real One)

Somehow I ended up with two week thirty-six's in my album but I'm rolling with it. This is the real one. And it was a good one. John was here for a couple days meaning we ate ton, I was able to catch up with a lot of friends, including Paolo coming to town, and snuck in a beach day + night out in Brooklyn with my favorite people on Saturday. It's rare that I do a double page spread for one week but there was just too much fun happening.

My Plain Jane alphabet from Simon Says Stamp is getting a lot of use. I love it. Also making another appearance is a letterpress card from Jamaica Makes... this time I'm professing my love for Shake Shake on it.

Lots of photos happening this side of the spread and a screenshot of Amanda's, Missy's, and my Foursquare check-ins just because I love it when we're all in the same place.

It seems that I'm never able to shoot my album without the glare on the plastic but I think that has a bit to do with the white walls and white ceiling of my apartment making light bounce so much. If you have any tips, I'd love to hear them!

Also I have a Studio Calico December Daily kit I purchased that I'd like to sell. If you're interested, please contact me - thank you!

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2012 Project Life: Week Thirty-Seven

I meant to post this on Monday... this is my Project Life week that Becky shared on her blog this month. I kept the week to just a single side spread and used the Cobalt core kit. Cannot wait to get my hands on the new core kits, especially Elise's fun Seafoam.

Some Kelly Purkey stamps mixed in there - the Plain Jane alpha and Thankful. Plain Jane is getting a lot of use around here. I've got a two page spread coming up to share with you next!

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2012 Project Life: Week (Dirty) Thirty

I don't know how the "dirty" got added in there for Week Thirty but once I put it in I couldn't get it out of my head while I was planning out this spread. And so it stayed. Week Thirty was actually a really great one - I came home from Dublin (which will be documented in it's own spread on the other side of the album) and went to Vegas, then came home and had a great weekend at home. Here's the Dirty Thirty...

Because it was Vegas week I wanted to do a little neon color scheme and pulled out some more awesome Heidi Swapp products. She does neon so well, that rockstar. I also used the Hero Arts neon ink pads and stamped onto a "fly" letterpress card from Jamaica Makes (I want to hoard these things.)

The alphabet stamps used here are my new ones called Plain Jane at Simon Says Stamp.

There were so many things I wanted to document that happened in this week but I didn't want to make it a two page spread. Because frankly, it was 3 am, I was too lazy, and just wanted to crank it out. So maybe I'll go back in and add an insert someday.

I feel like I'm not doing anything revolutional or fresh with my Project Life but that's ok. I'll keep getting it done and will keep sharing because it's the only scrapbooking I'm really doing right now. That's all you're going to get from me when you come 'round these parts. So... more tomorrow!