the Undones: a Washi tape tip

Hey, hey!

It's been another beautiful sunny day here and it's Samy's birthday so this will be short and sweet.

I continued working away on Ben's baby album today and I just wanted to share a quick tip for altering page protectors to fit your album.

As I mentioned, I've been using the Lickety Slipper 8x8 pack of assorted page protectors for my album.  The only challenge is that I'm using a 5.5x7.5 album from We R Memory Keepers so the holes that come pre-punched in the page protectors aren't lining up with the album's rings. In short, the album is starting to look funny.

Or at least it was until I remembered a little tutorial that Julie Fei-Fan Balzer had on her blog a while back about how to customize a page protector for Project Life. In particular, she used washi tape to cover the holes and then re-punched holes to fit her album. Genius and just what I need to make some of the smaller Lickety Slippers work for my little album.

Here's a look...



The blue stripe edging is washi tape from The Freckled Fawn that I used to cover the original holes. I bet you wouldn't have noticed if I didn't tell you, right?

This is a folded page protector. Here's what it looks like when folded out.






So, there's a little tip to help you put your washi tape to work. If you're anything like me you have oodles of it but that's ok because washi tape is definitely a multi-tasker. And you can never have too many of those.

Thanks for stopping by!

zove

Cathie

the Undones: Ben's Baby Book

note: on Thursdays I blog about projects that aren't quite done.  Maybe they needed some journaling, or photos or both.  I call them "the Undones" and I have a box full of good intentions. In this series, I pick a project, finish it and share the results. I'd love it if you would play along and share a link to your newly finished project in the comments.
 
A project that has been weighing on my mind lately has been Ben's baby book.  It seems wrong that I have his first birthday scrapped but not his very first days.

So, what's the problem? Well, there are actually 2 problems.

1. It's too special. You know, that fear of messing it all up because it's important. It's silly, I know, but I think it's a very common obstacle for scrapbookers.

2. It's a big-ish project that is going to take me many hours to finish. These kind of projects are easy to put off as I don't have a large block time for scrapping.  

The solution for both of these problems is to just get started. So that's what I did at The Paperie's most recent crop night.  I had all my supplies and pictures in a plastic box so I brought them and got started.

Here's what I have so far...

























I'm really surprised how much work I did in a few hours. I think it's a good start but obviously there is a lot more I want to do.  There's not a lot of embellishing and there's very little journaling.

I'm using the We R Memory Keepers 5.5 x 7.5 album, the Twig collection from My Little Yellow Bicycle and the 8x8 Lickety Slippers variety pack.  I used them for my Week In the Life album and I loved how that turned out so I figure these products will work again.

I'll keep working on it and post my progress on Thursdays until I get it finished.

Thanks for stopping by!

zove

Cathie

Week in the Life: done at last

note: this is a long post so you might want to get a fresh cup of coffee before reading on.

Hey, hey!

Today I'm sharing my Week in the Life album.  It is done.  I am happy, proud and relieved.  Even though I didn't have any idea how my project would look when done, I've never finished a project so quickly. Perhaps my ideas about how things should look is slowing me down in other areas...hmmm.....

So, what was different this time? Well, I knew that I didn't want a 12 x12 album.  I certainly could have filled one up but I find that the 12 x12 albums are so big that people aren't as inclined to pick them up and thumb through them - especially my kids.  So, I went with the We R Memory Keepers 5.5 x 7.5 album.



Here's the side view. You can see that there was plenty of room for this project.



Here's Monday...



The "hello" is from this Cosmo Cricket washi tape. The roll has a vintage hand which I cut off and put in my art journal. The stamp is from the Studio Calico Weekdays set I borrowed from my friend Sara. Thanks, Sara!  I loved it so much I decided to start each day the same way.



I was recovering from a tummy bug on Monday and didn't take many pictures.  I took what I had and grouped them together to give an overview of our home life.



I used the Lawn Fawn Harold's ABCs alphabet set for the "little artist".  I used this throughout the book too.  The wire whale is a project Gabriel brought home from preschool.




Here's Tuesday...














Here's Wednesday...




This is a cautionary tale of what can happen when you have identical clothes for your kids. Gabriel and I ran out the door for an appointment and grabbed Ben's fleece by mistake. We didn't notice until it was too late but I had to take this picture when we got home. Too funny.







This a little note that I put in Gabriel's snack bag on preschool days.  Some days I pick a joke and other days it's a love note.  It's a great way to use up wallet pics and scrap papers.

Here's Thursday...(are you still with me?)









Here's Friday...







I had some extra pictures I wanted to add to Friday so I used a page protector from the Lickety Slippers 8x8 assorted pack. 





Here's Saturday...

And finally, here's Sunday...







More Lickety Slippers.



And that, my friends, is that!

If made to the end of  this post, thank you so much.

I also want to say "thanks" to Ali Edwards. Not just because she conceptualized this project and leads us through it each year but for her daily worksheets.  They saved my bacon this year, so to speak, because I had somewhere to put my notes during the week.  When it came time to put my album together I just punched holes in the pages and added them to the album.  So simple yet so perfect.

Another Week in our (Crazy) Lives is done and dusted.  Next year, Gabriel will be in Kindergarten and our lives will be so different so I'm really glad that I took the time to do WITL this year.

Thanks for stopping by!

zove

Cathie