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!

, , ,

17,341 responses to “Project Life 2018: Week 20”

  1. Hey! I know this is somewhat off topic but I was wondering ifyou knew where I could locate a captcha plugin for my comment form?I’m using the same blog platform as yours and I’m havingtrouble finding one? Thanks a lot!

  2. Thanks for a marvelous posting! I truly enjoyed reading it, you could be agreat author. I will ensure that I bookmark your blog and definitely will come back down the road.I want to encourage you continue your great job, have a nice weekend!

  3. I’m not sure where you’re getting your information, but great topic.I needs how to install portable air conditioner spend some time learning more or understanding more.Thanks for great info I was looking for this info for my mission.

  4. Do you have a spam issue on this blog; I also am a blogger, and I was wanting to knowyour situation; many of us have created some nice procedures and weare looking to trade methods with other folks, please shoot me an email if interested.

  5. Very good written article. It will be valuable to anyone who employess it, as well as myself. Keep up the good work – can’r wait to read more posts.

  6. Having read this I thought it was really informative. I appreciate you taking the time and energy to put this article together. I once again find myself spending a lot of time both reading and commenting. But so what, it was still worthwhile!

  7. I blog quite often and I truly appreciate your content. Your article has truly peaked my interest. I’m going to take a note of your blog and keep checking for new details about once per week. I opted in for your Feed too.

  8. Hi there! This post couldn’t be written any better! Reading this post reminds me of my good old room mate! He always kept talking about this. I will forward this write-up to him. Fairly certain he will have a good read. Thanks for sharing!

  9. Howdy! I could have sworn I’ve been to your blog before but after going through a few of the articles I realized it’s new to me. Regardless, I’m certainly delighted I discovered it and I’ll be book-marking it and checking back often!

  10. Hello there, I do think your web site could be having web browser compatibility problems. Whenever I look at your blog in Safari, it looks fine however, when opening in Internet Explorer, it has some overlapping issues. I simply wanted to provide you with a quick heads up! Apart from that, wonderful site!

  11. You could definitely see your enthusiasm in the paintings you write. The world hopes for more passionate writers such as you who are not afraid to say how they believe. Always follow your heart.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.