Paper Camellia Bits and Pieces

I talk at great length about using every last bit of kits here on the 'ole blog-a-rooni. This month I did just that.. although I will admit that between the February kit and add-on I still have supplies left for more projects! woot.

Here's a look at a Project Life spread I made using extra bits and pieces of the Paper Camellia Scrapbook Kit... (guys, just go ahead and subscribe. I have it on good authority that the March and April kits are to die for.)

Pretty much the only things came from my scrappy stash are the labels (I love labels!) and some washi tape, plus a couple of enamel dots. Everything else is kit...

Positives and Negatives

I'm over on the Paper Camellia blog today talking about using the positive and negative spaces from a punch. Check it out! You'll read about how I planned these layouts around stretching the supplies..

Rainbow Hair, Gotta Share

Hey guys! I did something cray-zy. (shocking, I know.) I decided to go full on Rainbow Dash....

I'm not sure what came over me. Oh wait, it is maybe the coolest thing ever in the history of everdom! Why would I not want rainbow hair?? You could say, hey Elizabeth, you're a 32 year old mother of four... maybe you're a little too old and settled for crayon colored locks? I say, how dare you. haha, I kid, I kid.

In all honesty I know my hair is bananas. I know most people just don't get it. When in public I steel myself for the stares (most obviously from kids who point and tug on their Mom's, and old folks who look at me with utter disbelief.)... I hear people fling around judgements and mutter things about "needing attention" ... all behind my back when they think I'm out of ear shot. Maybe curly rainbows are supposed to cause hearing problems?

I'm sorry, I can't hear your judgement through my epic waves.

Luckily I don't do outlandish things with my hair for anyone but me. I don't do it to be noticed (in fact being noticed makes me pretty uncomfortable). I have rainbow hair for one very simple and important reason: 

I just want rainbow hair, because I think it's cool. 

That's it. I just want to do cool things with my hair, even if that makes me weird. I'm not crying out for attention, or trying to stand out from the crowd, or sticking it to the man, or fighting against the stay at home Mom stereotypes. Playing with different hair colors is fun. I'm a creative person who has always been drawn to bright, bold colors. I use them in every aspect of my life... it's no surprise, really, that that translates to my hair.

So that's it. I just wanted to share... 

I wonder what colors I'll try next?

February Paper Camellia Reveal

Forget the "big game," let's talk Paper Camellia! The February kits are out and I can't even handle how gorgeous they are. This is the Main kit...

The Add-On, so much Crate Paper loveliness...

Everyday Life kit. Told ya, gorgeous!....

 Here's the page I made using the Main Scrapbook Kit only...

The Add-On only... 

..and the other four pages with a mix of the two. I just couldn't stop making pages!!

Next week I'll show you the pocket page spread I made using the remaining bits of the kit. Yay! Happy Scrapbook Sunday, everyone. While you're in the mood go ahead and swing by the Paper Camellia blog to see what the other design team members created.

The Help

I have a pile of printed Instagrams on my desk (hot tip: Walmart does them fairly cheap!) just begging to be scrapped. I keep pulling out my favorites and putting them on top.. and these two photos make me smile every time.

He was driving me bonkers that day... kid would not get out of my grill! I had a bunch of assignments on deadline but every time I sat down to work he would climb up beside me to try to "help." Funny how something that was so super annoying at the time can be this cute, happy memory in retrospect. He looks adorable in the photos, but I remember counting down the minutes to nap time that day... and feeling like a bad Mom for turning on the TV in an effort to distract him, and then being disappointed when it didn't work.

I wonder whats making me crazy right now that I will actually miss down the road? Toys everywhere? Drawn out night time tuck-ins? Endless puppy energy? A bottomless pit of laundry? Crumbs everywhere? One thing I know I won't miss is stepping on legos... cuz ouch. I digress. Here's a page...

Project Life: The Rest of 2014

Today I'm taking some time to do a quick couple of January PL spreads. I figured why not share the rest of 2014. Why, you ask? Because this is a scrapbook blog, for goodness sake, I say! I mean, I've shown you every other detail of my pages. Why cheat you of the boring entirety of the year? 

Here's Thanksgiving week. We had visitors so it was an extra busy one (I left the house AND put on real clothes, ya'll!)...

That blank card is for my thoughts on my family finally seeing me play roller derby. I need to print those photos. :)

On busier weeks I always do an insert for the extra stuff. This on is front and back of Thanksgiving Day...

A little blank spot for my journaling about the holiday. I've since filled it in...

One of the harder weeks this year. Trying to live life to the fullest, but mourning a friend.

In the pocket below I've written about my friend and teammate, Rage. Her funeral was really hard. It was important to me to remember the abundance of love and heartbreak that was in the room.. but it felt right to keep the words in a pocket where they can be more private...

Still obsessed w/ these trees. I was going to do a dying tutorial. Anyone still want that or should I wait until next holiday season when it's relevant again?

Another insert for Christmas Eve and Day...

I hope you liked seeing more of 2014 than you bargained for. I'm sure I'll overshare my PL pages in 2015 too... so there's that to look forward to. See you back here tomorrow for a special project, and a shorter post, yay!

Paper Camellia February Sneaks

You all know how much I love my Paper Camellia kits. I am so excited about being on the design team. I swear, just when you think no grouping of supplies could get any better, your mailman arrives (and rings the doorbell, and the dog goes cray, and the baby gets woken up after a 20 min nap. It's fine, I'm fine. I have a glorious kit now). Ria hits it out of the park every time. The February kit rocked my socks off, guys. Fo reals... like, where are my socks? My feet are cold. (that darn dog probably ate them. uh oh.)

But, seriously. I was able to make six (you heard me, SIX!) layouts. Plus, a pocket page spread. AND I still have supplies left over. Overachiever, you say? What's she trying to prove anyway, you wonder? I say, nay! It's the kit! It's just that good! I sat down the day it arrived and with a few wiggles of my nose, poof! The pages were done. (bet you didn't know I was a witch, huh.)

Anywho.. I'm sharing some sneaks today, but be sure to come back on February 1st for the full reveal ... and more hearts than you can even count. (Ok, you could probably count them all up if you really wanted to.. I mean, you're smart people, you know how to count.)

Ok! Now I have to go do laundry so I have some socks to wear. Sheesh! Who's in charge of laundry around here?? I'm very busy scrapbooking, and then Instagramming about scrapping, and then blogging about it. These socks aren't going to wash themselves, people!