Hello there and welcome to Project 12 for May! Are you still capturing your month in this fun easy way with me? For Project 12 this month I wanted to share my process in creating a layout inspired by The Colour Suite in addition to the PageMaps sketch by Becky Fleck. The first thing I do is shop my stash based on the color palette given. I have found this type of challenge to be the perfect way to utilize the "stash". What’s the point in keeping it all if you aren’t going to use it? Based on the colour suite we are challenged with this month (just released today so check it out here), this is what I came up with:
If you are familiar with these products, you’ll notice that flower paper hails from…2008. It was definitely time to put it on a layout!
It is only after I have the products picked out that I shop my digital files to put it all together on a layout. Because this is Project 12, obviously that means going through my April photos and choosing those that represented the month for me. This month that meant digging through my digital files as well as my camera photos, as I use my Iphone a lot in documenting our life.
I had previously decided to use the January 2010 sketch for this layout.
I got carried away with piecing paper for this layout and utilized several different prints.
My girls are still busy helping me with school, we celebrated Easter, started softball, and have been enjoying the everyday. The month just flew by. For fun I wanted to see what my layout looked like when I utilized this sketch the first time in January, 2010.
I hope you are still busy documenting your everyday on a layout. Be sure to check back next month. I will have a new Project 12 layout to share with some fun tips and tricks, and also a new "idea" I think you’ll like to document your summer!
The next sketch I plan to use to document May, 2012, is this sketch, from March, 2011:
Before we go though we want to let NinaN know that she has won a one year subscription to Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine for playing along last month! Nina, send your address to us at ideas@scrapbookandcards.com.
I hope you’ll play along with the challenge this month ~ it's very easy! If you are new to this challenge, here's how it works:
1. Choose any of the PageMaps sketches from our website HERE. Becky has created 24 sketches to inspire you with!
2. You are recapping the past month so you will be working on your May layout now and linking it to this post by June 14th. That gives you two weeks once the month is finished to complete your layout!
3. To increase the challenge level you can use the current Colour Suite challenge for the month. So, for your May layout you would use the May Colour Suite challenge:
4. We have added a prize feature so be sure to link your May layouts to this post by June 14th and I’ll randomly draw a winner for a prize.
Enjoy the rest of your May! Keep taking those photos and documenting those memories.
~ Davinie
Woohoo!
Love this month's colour suite!
Posted by: NinaN | May 15, 2012 at 12:23 PM
I am excited about this project. I think it will be a great way to capture some very special moments. Not only that, I just discovered that my photo storage system allows me to keep daily notes which will make journaling much easier!
Posted by: Brenda B | May 15, 2012 at 04:15 PM
I am excited to I am going to try thr monthly layouts.What a fun project
Posted by: Lori Lange | May 17, 2012 at 04:25 PM
http://krcmasterpiece.blogspot.com/2012/06/dinner-6pm.html
I did the sketch & The color challenge
Posted by: Karen Conner | June 10, 2012 at 08:22 PM
Here's my April recap: http://underconstruction-agata.blogspot.ch/2012/05/avril-2012-april-2012.html
I've chosen a different sketch by Becky and I altered it, too. Hope that counts! :)
Posted by: Agata | June 12, 2012 at 05:38 PM
Here's my family's May:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47273565@N06/7181792811/
I've been doing a 1-pager for every month, but trying to keep to the Color Suite. Thanks - with my kids out of school and our going on vacation, this may be the only page I get get done all June!
Posted by: Cynthia B. | June 12, 2012 at 07:56 PM
Here is my LO using the May 2010 sketch and the current Colour Suite.
http://ninastimeout.blogspot.ca/2012/06/project-12-may.html
Posted by: NinaN | June 14, 2012 at 11:09 AM