Circle + Arrow

Project Life 2018: Week 20

 

An external hard drive which contained photos from the last 10 years failed about a month ago and it’s been crippling regarding my memory-keeping. I talked about what happened on Instagram so I won’t go into it again here, except to remind everyone: Please check your backups!

I’m creating with the current photos I have on my phone and what was left on my camera cards while I wait on whether any of my data can be recovered. The failed hard drive is now with a data recovery lab.

Anyway, onto scrappy talk… 🙂

Here is my spread for week 20:

I just received the gorgeous TN kit from Kelly Purkey and chose to use these cards for the spread. The cards in this kit are thick and good quality, but I find I don’t actually use them that much in my traveler’s notebooks because they add more bulk than I’d like, and I also don’t seem to use much patterned paper in notebooks anyway.

I stuck with the overall color palette from the TN kit, cutting down the papers to add color to some plain journaling cards. I added a few cards I had from previous Studio Calico kits to fill out the remaining 3×4″ pockets.

I wanted to tell the story of my hard drive failure (kind of a Big Deal!) but since I can be a little wordy and it wasn’t going to fit on a 3×4″ card, I chose to make a fun pocket to hold this story. I printed the text on white cardstock, sized to slightly less than 2 3×4″ cards and adhered these to the front and back of a colored 3×4″ card. I created a tab that I stapled on so it could be pulled from the pocket and stamped “Yikes/UGH” from some Ali Edwards stamps I had.

For the pocket itself, I cut out the gold “the worst” phrase from a 4×6″ SC card and sewed it onto a piece of vellum. I then sewed the vellum along 3 of the edges to the 4×6″ backing card to complete the pocket.

The embellishments are a mix of stickers (Studio Calico, Elle’s Studio) and wood veneer (Felicity Jane, Gossamer Blue).

I love the way this spread came out, even if it documented one horrible story!

jenwong

, , ,

17,343 responses to “Project Life 2018: Week 20”

« Older Comments
Newer Comments »

  8. Very nice post. I simply stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have truly enjoyedbrowsing your blog posts. After all I’ll be subscribing in yourfeed and I’m hoping you write again soon!

    Reply

  12. My brother suggested I may like this blog. He was once totally
    right. This submit actually made my day. You can not believe
    just how so much time I had spent for this information! Thank you!

    Reply

  41. Great goods from you, man. I’ve understand your stuff previous to and you are just extremely great.
    I really like what you’ve acquired here, really like what you’re stating and the way in which you say it.

    You make it enjoyable and you still take care of to keep
    it sensible. I can’t wait to read much more from you.

    This is really a great web site.

    Reply

  42. You really make it seem really easy together with your
    presentation but I to find this matter to be actually
    something which I think I would never understand. It sort of feels too
    complicated and very wide for me. I am having a look ahead in your
    subsequent publish, I’ll attempt to get the grasp
    of it!

    Reply

  49. Whoa! This blog looks just like my old one!
    It’s on a totally different topic but it has pretty much the same layout and design. Outstanding
    choice of colors!

    Reply
« Older Comments
Newer Comments »

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.