Project 12: Nov & Dec

How was everyone's New Years Day?!

Mine, was busy.

I'm the queen of list and to do projects. So of course yesterday I kept adding to the list instead of finishing what was already on it!

That's so me :)

But it was an organizational project!! Those are always productive...and fun!

I'll share more of it later, but first let me show off the last 2 Project 12 spreads for the year.

My November wasn't as busy at seems, although it doesn't feel like it. At work, I had 3 weeks to pull together a reception/guest list from scratch. Which probably explains why I wasn't very socially active those first few weeks. I was tired!

This I think is my favorite of my recent Project 12 layouts. I was in a taping mode after checking out the last Products you love Every which way class on 2Peas. And I do loooove me some tape!

And finally, December!! Another full month, this time with parties and festivities and some traveling.

With regards to design, it's hard combining multiple photos in varying sizes into one cohesive layout! But then I was reminded of this layout of Audrey's I'd seen while blog perusing the other day. I thought the photo placement was perfect for a December recap layout.

In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny "That's all folks!" I finished my Project 12 layouts!!

Actually, I'm still going to share the cover page, end page and wrap up pages here in a few days. But the big part, the harder part, is complete!

xxbesos

Project 12: Sept & Oct

I'm back on the Project 12 bandwagon. It's been awhile since I've done one of these pages. I like them so much when they're done but have so much trouble getting them finished!

I think it's because I'm not that good with tiny spaces and little clusters.

I've had the calendars for these months filled out for awhile now, but my second stumbling block is collecting all of the photos. From my point and shoot, my iPhone, my DSLR whose images are saved on my computer and some on MT's computer.

It becomes a chore.

But like I said before, love 'em when they're actually completed and in my album!

September was a fun busy month, with a trip to Hawaii and my 27th birthday.

I'm loving these colors together, the inspiration for which was American Crafts Chap line. I'm also loving the misted wood veneers. Adore that you can still see the grain!

October was a blur with 2 work trips to Denver and Lafayette, LA. Plus 2 road trips to Corpus Christi and to Austin. And 2 weekends with my nephew.

I love my crazy busy life!

I love that I get to travel for work.

I love that I'm too tired to scrapbook everyday, but still get to find time to catch up on it later :)

For these pages I only focused on color, bright and bold.

They're playful, and I like that.

Oh, and button-tastic!

Only a few more pages and Project 12: 2011 is complete!

I love this album.

MT has told me it's his favorite album.

And I think I just might make it again next year.

It's crazy that I decided to do it on a whim, only after having seen these gorgeous KI Memories calendars. But I'm really glad I did.

My entire year scrapbooked in just 24 pages. Even if I don't make another page with any of these photos, I'll at least have this album complete.

xxbesos

Project 12: July & August

I'm loving my Project 12. Even Matt declared it to be his favorite of my scrapbooks.

Sharing July and August today.

Can you believe I'm up to date?!

I have to admit that these pages are very hard for me to do for some reason. I never know how to decorate the grids, I'm always struggling for creative ways to display 6-10+ photos on a single 12x12 page.

This month though, I think I knocked 'em out of the park.

July was a fun and busy month...and crap! Just realized I put some of July's photos on August's layout. Oh well! Such is life I suppose :)

But anyway, in July Matt was home in Ohio, my parents came for a visit, I got to meet Kelly Purkey! and we traveled to Austin for Tara's birthday.

We started out the month down at the beach house, eating tons and doing some fishing. Matt caught his first "keeper" fish!

He also lost a bet and had to get some skinny jeans :) Jokes on his friend, because he actually looked nice in his hot pants ;)

And I got to meet my scrap crush, Kelly Purkey! Who was so sweet and so fun and cute and tiny. I took all three of her/Studio Calico classes at CKC Houston.

My sweet little guy came to visit. Love it when Urijah John is in the house! And love even more getting photos of him with Gma and Gpa.

For these pages, I combined some of the new Studio Calico Memoir line (I won it from Nicole's blog!!) and what is rapidly becoming my go-to line, Amy Tangerine's. I think they meshed fairly well on this page, given the very different color schemes.

Which brings us to August! That was only 4 days ago =) Well chuffed at having it complete.

I took on Kelly's Color of the Rainbow SC Weekly challenge as the basis for these pages.

I loved that my photo strip fit perfectly into the grid of the calendar (and that I apparently had nothing going on on Thursday's this month :) I also love my IncrediBooth app. It made these photos super easy to capture. And given that we were outside in the semi-dark, it caught a lot of light!
For both of these layouts, I went riffling through my scrap stash and hand cut strips and boxes, to nestle in between these photos. Then I went through my Studio Calico kits looking for small embellishments to finish it off.

Which btw, I disassembled my 4 oldest kits (eeeeppp!!!) and stored them along with the rest of my stash. It's a first step. My space is becoming more and more organized as the days go on.

That's it for today, thanks for stopping by! And see you next month (hopefully) for another Project 12 Post.

xxbesos

Project 12: April, May, June

Hello dear bloggie friends! My apologies for the random hiatus. I've been scrapping lately, I just haven't had the chance to blog.

The words don't come as easily to me :) But I try!

So last weekend, I got caught up on my calendar pages. 3 whole months worth! I took a bit of a break from these for one reason.

My sweet Maddie got her angel wings in April.

And it left a big black hole in heart.

And I just couldn't bring myself to document it.

But it's been 3 months now and I'm just barely getting use to the idea of her being gone and just barely able to document. I still miss her so much!

For the April calendar, I used some Pink Paislee House of Three and bits of Studio Calico.

And the accompanying picture page, is full of color. I had to include that photo of the Royal Wedding and all of it's lovely fairy tale-ness & this awesome diecut from My Minds Eye that I've had in my stash for quite a awhile. It was too perfect to not use!

May was a much busier month, in the beginning. And then it was pretty low key and restful up until the end when we went all out with a trip to New Orleans!

I used my Lawn Fawn Polaroid stamp and some Studio Calico stamps to share some of the highlights. Also btw, lately I've been loving blue! It's not one of my usual faves (aside from the Tiffany's/robins egg/teal variety) but lately I've been using it quite a lot.

And then on to June, which led to a lot of activites, but not a lot of pictures!! What the heck was I thinking not taking a picture with my high school best friend, as we had dinner for the first time in 4 years?! What was I thinking when I had everyone over to my house for a pizza party to convince Susie to not be scared about her upcoming trip to Amsterdam?!

But alas, it's true. I do not have any photos of these oh so fun events.

I did however, have a few photos from date night, baby-sitting Urijah, and our weekend trip to San Antonio. Well, of some of the food we ate but none of me and my Grandpa! The entire reason why I'd driven out to San Antonio in the first place!

In the words of my mid western boyfriend, oh geez!

I guess I haven't learned!

xxbesos