Valentines Baking with FREE Printable Recipe Cards!

Hello! I sure hope you are all having a sweet week! Mine definitely got sweeter with these pretty & delicious cookies that I made for Erica to take to school for a little Choir party! I decided to make a little digital scrapbook page using the Project Life App and add in the recipes for these simple, but awesome Sugar Cookies and Glaze. The Project Life App is FREE to download on your devices and I use it for so much more than making digital pages. I edit my photos, use the template to create two 3x4 sized photos to print out as a 4x6 - as well as many other sizes, save journaling cards, and today I decided to use the Recipe Value Kit ($1.39 CAD) to create my own recipe cards. I also purchased the ability to add extra text to photos and cards in various fonts, and I use this feature all the time!

Feel free to save these cards and print them out for your own use! This is one of the best Sugar Cookie recipes I've found. It pretty much stays the size you cut it out as and I always take them out of the oven just before they turn brown. They are delicious as is, but I wanted to kick it up a notch for Valentines!

I used the Rhonna Designs App to add a fun frame around my cookie pic and a cute and fitting sentiment! Because, hey, why not?!!

 Thanks so much for stopping by! I'd love to know what you do to celebrate Valentines - whether it's baking, making cards, decorating or giving some chocolately goodness to your family, friends or yourself 💘 Wishing you all a very Happy Valentines!

Linked to:
SSS Wednesday Challenge - With Love

Relax, You're At The Lake!

Hi friends! We've been having a wonderful time relaxing at the lake in Invermere the last couple days! I thought I'd share a Project Life page I put together using the Project Life app, my iPad and the Rhonna Designs app on the trip home. I love being able to access my photos I took on my phone and then make a scrapbook page with them!

I hope you have a relaxing week, whether you're at the lake, or having a bit of crafty fun wherever you can fit it in!

Linked to:
The Casual Craftlete - Creative Gallery #190

Scrapping Everyday Miracles - December Challenge!

It's time for a new challenge over the Scrapping Everyday Miracles blog!

I'm using the Bible Verse this month and I've created some digital art using the Rhonna Designs app. In this app you can choose a background, text, and images to arrange on your project in the size you want. I choose gold accent images and a grey background along with the silvery washi tape image along with bottom. I wanted the verse to stand out, and be complimented by the images, while keeping it feeling Christmassy.

Don't forget to see what the other Design Team members have come up with for their December projects! We always have a layout sketch, card sketch and a Bible verse to play along with, and we'd love to see what you come up with!

Linked to:

PDE Linky Party - AG

Project Life Week 19!

I wanted to share a quick look at my Project Life Week 19! I used a combination of journaling cards and collaged photos from the PL app along with using the Rhonna Designs App to add some digital text before sending my pics to be printed. Then I added in some PL cards and added some handwritten journaling as well. I added some stamps and stickers and diecut ephemera after I placed my photos and cards where I wanted them.

Since it was Mother's Day this week I had lots of extra photos! It's so nice to look back at this week and remember again how awesome my kids and husband are, and how blessed I am!

Thanks for stopping by!

Linked to:
DL Art - Thankful Thursday October Linky Challenge
Little Scrap Pieces - Show It Off Saturday
613 Avenue Create - AG

Being Thankful!

I'm posting the In The Word Wednesday segment at the Scrapping Everyday Miracles blog today, and since it was Thanksgiving this past Monday here in Canada, being thankful is definitely on my mind. As a rule, I try to look on the bright side and focus on the positive because I think it's too easy to get caught up in the bad stuff that happens in our lives. I also think that no matter what I'm going through, there's someone else who is worse off, and I really do need to be thankful for the amazing things I have.

This bible verse on being thankful is from the NIV, and I used the Rhonna Designs App to create a pretty photo featuring it.

I also found an interesting article from the Greater Good website on tips for keeping a gratitude journal, which is a great way to remember to be thankful for both big and little things. Here's a list of the tips in the article-

• Don’t just go through the motions. Research by psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky and others suggests that journaling is more effective if you first make the conscious decision to become happier and more grateful. “Motivation to become happier plays a role in the efficacy of journaling,” says Emmons.
• Go for depth over breadth. Elaborating in detail about a particular thing for which you’re grateful carries more benefits than a superficial list of many things.
• Get personal. Focusing on people to whom you are grateful has more of an impact than focusing on things for which you are grateful.
• Try subtraction, not just addition. One effective way of stimulating gratitude is to reflect on what your life would be like without certain blessings, rather than just tallying up all those good things.
• Savor surprises. Try to record events that were unexpected or surprising, as these tend to elicit stronger levels of gratitude.
• Don’t overdo it. Writing occasionally (once or twice per week) is more beneficial than daily journaling. In fact, one study by Lyubomirsky and her colleagues found that people who wrote in their gratitude journals once a week for six weeks reported boosts in happiness afterward; people who wrote three times per week didn’t. “We adapt to positive events quickly, especially if we constantly focus on them,” says Emmons. “It seems counterintuitive, but it is how the mind works.”

I find scrapbooking and Project Life also help me to be thankful and keep track of those gifts that I sometimes take for granted. Here's a layout I created with my photos from Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday in the Project Life App. I then used the Rhonna Designs App to add some text and digi stamps. 

Thank you so much for joining me today! I hope you're inspired to write down something you have to be thankful for, whether it's in a journal, a scrapbook page or just sending a thank you card to a friend to let them know how much they mean to you! 

Project Life Week 18!

I'm posting at the Scrapendipity Way Of Life Blog today and thought I'd share Week 18 of my Project Life! I love embellishing my pages with diecuts from ephemera packs!

I used the Rhonna Design App to decorate the Week 18 card from the Project Life app and printed it with my photos. When I'm designing my pages I first lay out my photos where I think they'll fit and then choose journaling cards. After I decide where my cards will go I start adding things like diecuts from different ephemera packs. Some of my favs are the Simple Stories, Maggie Holmes and My Minds Eye packs right now!

I love layering and will often use patterned paper as a background instead of journaling cards, especially when I want to layer a small photo into a larger pocket. I love using 6x6 paper pads for this!

  I used gold accents throughout my Week 18 pages, but I don't mind mixing and matching patterns!

I love being able to journal in the Project Life app and then print the card out with my photos and embellish it when I put it in my album. 

Sometimes I will just use a piece of patterned paper cut to the pocket size without any embellishments. The nice thing about this hobby is being able to add as little or as much as you like!

Thanks so much for joining me today! I hope this gives you some ideas for your Project Life or pocket page scrapbooking!

Linked to:
613 Avenue Create - AG
DL Art - Thankful Thursday September Linky Challenge
PDE Linky Party - AG

Project Life Catch Up - Week 17!

I'm finally feeling a little more settled with school starting back up and getting back into a routine! I found I really didn't have a lot of time over the summer to do Project Life, so I'm happy to get back to it now! I've printed off my pics for each week and now I can get them into my album.

Today I'm posting on the Scrapendipity Way Of Life Blog and wanted to share some easy ways to add some extra details to your journaling cards using some paper ephemera! I used some fun die cuts from Maggie Holmes and My Mind's Eye and layered them on my Project Life cards along with some stamps to add some fun accents. This cool stitching look and arrow on the card on the top right is a stamp from Pretty Cute Stamps - Awesome Arrows!

My Week 17 card was made in the Rhonna Designs App - I just love this app! and I printed it with my photos.

I used more preprinted die cuts and stamping on the second page. I find it easiest to cluster the embellishments together to get them to work on the cards!

On my third page I used some fun Cricut cuts from the Create A Critter cartridge and my Explore. I actually used the Write feature to write in my words, then added some Distress Inks and splatters with Dylusions Sprays. I used some Dylusions stamps to add some fun leaves to the dino cards.

On the bottom half of this page I used stamps from the Superheroes and Super Sentiments from Pretty Cute Stamps! I first cut the outlines using the Explore and coordinating SVG files and then coloured them in with Prismacolor Markers. Let me tell you, this makes it soooo much easier!

As I looked through my album I loved seeing all the journaling I had added and all the fun elements on my pages. Even though I'm a little behind I know this is something I do want to continue to do, and my kids love looking through the pages. That's what makes it all worthwhile!

Thanks for joining me today! I hope you enjoyed your Monday if you had a long weekend like we did here, and happy, crafty wishes for the rest of the week!

Linked to:
Simon Says Monday Challenge Blog - Stamp and Die Cut (the superhero cuts/stamps)
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Blog - Make It Colorful
613 Avenue Create - AG

Bimini Moose Challenge - Anything Goes with optional twist Specific Family Member!

Happy Tuesday! I'm back today to bring you another Pocket Scrapbooking challenge over at BIMINI MOOSE!

Our challenge this time is...

Pocket Scrapbooking - ANYTHING GOES
with an optional twist - Specific Family Member

Do you have a favorite Aunt or Uncle? What is it about them that makes them so special to you? Include a photo and tell us all about it for this Optional TWIST - SPECIFIC FAMILY MEMBER. Or maybe you have a family member that went on an exciting trip (without you - what nerve LOL), and you'd like to show pictures of your son or daughter or other family member overseas or off to summer camp for the first time or leaving for college or getting married or having a baby or or or.... I'm sure you can think of lots of reasons to scrap a specific family member. We can't wait to see!

Our challenges run for 2 weeks. This one will close on Mon, June 22 @ Noon Eastern time - giving us time to pick a winner for the post the following day with our Next Challenge.

We will choose one winner per challenge to win a cut file from our amazing sponsor - 

KaDoodle Bug Designs!

These files are perfect to include in your Pocket Scrapbooking Layouts and in your other crafting as well.

For my project for this challenge I have chosen to create a digital layout in the Project Life app about my lovely grandmother! I found some pics in a box (have to do something with these!!) and simply took a picture of them with my iPhone. I was then able to open them in the app and make this sweet layout! After choosing my PL cards and adding journaling I saved it and reopened it in Rhonna Designs to add some digi washi tape, more journaling and digi stickers!

I just love how this turned out! I love being able to have it on my phone as a reminder of how great a woman she was and I can always print it in either an 8x8 or 12x12 format and include it in my album!

Be sure to pop over to Bimini Moose and check out the rest of the DESIGN TEAM and what they have created to inspire you to play along. There will be several posts on the Bimini Moose blog during our challenge, so if you want to see the current challenge, click on the CHALLENGES tab on the blog. If you want to browse through all of the posts with ideas, tutorials, and some personal layouts, click on the HOME tab on that blog

Thanks so much for joining me!! I love seeing and hearing what you are up to!

Week 14 Project Life!

I am just so impressed with how my Project Life album has been coming along! I seem to have found a process that works for me to get my photos from my phone to the printer and into my pages so woo hoo! I love that I'll be able to look back on 2015 and see how many little things I added to my album along with meaningful journaling and pretty pages all wrapped together ;)

For Week 14 I used some PL journaling cards printed from the PL app - love adding my journaling this way while I'm sorting through my pics - as well as some Heidi Swapp ephemera, some digital text and images from Rhonna Designs and some word stamps.

I created a journaling card on the bottom right of this page showcasing the products in my photo. On the top right I took a picture of my daughter's painting and then added some digital text over it to create a journaling card.

The journaling card on the top left didn't quite match so I covered part of the words with my photo and added some ephemera so it said 'Today Was Friday'.

I wanted to keep this page fairly simply and focus on the girls decorating their Easter eggs so I used patterned paper in the background pockets and kept the colours to pinks and greens.

Sunday was Easter, but since I have extra pics I'm going to make some traditional layouts along with my pocket pages for that day. Don't worry, I'll be back to share those pics!

Thanks so much for joining me today!! Don't forget to check out the current challenge at Bimini Moose and enter your own scrapbook project for a chance to win a super cute cut file!

Linked to:
DL Art - Thankful Thursday May Linky Challenge
Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper - May Linky Challenge
Cookin & Craftin - Thursday Link Up
Inspiration Destination - AG #34
613 Avenue Create - AG #124

Project Life Week 10!

CLICK HERE for the current FCCB challenge
CLICK HERE for the current Bimini Moose challenge
CLICK HERE for the current ScrapbookerPhD challenge

Happy Friday! I'm here today with Week 10 of my 2015 Project Life. I'm really so happy I've started PL - loving how my album is coming along.  My girls love looking through it and it will be treasured for years to come I'm sure.

The Week 10 journalling card is printed off from the Project Life iPhone app with my pics. I added the date in using the Rhonna Designs app. I used some stamps I had and some papers from the backside of my week 9 and added some Maggie Holmes stickers.

A PL card and some random cards I had in my stash along with some stickers and a gem complete the second page.

I didn't have a lot of pictures to fill the last page, so instead of using all journalling cards I added some recent artwork that the girls had done. I cut the pieces down to fit in the pockets, and love how it turned out. I always save the little bits of papers they draw on and it was a nice way to make sure they were in a place I'd see them again!

Thanks for joining me today! Don't forget to check out the current Bimini Moose scrapbooking challenge - anything goes with a twist this week, pets!

Linked to:
Simon Says Monday Challenge - AG
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - AG
DL Art - Thankful Thursday May Linky Challenge
Inspiration Destination - AG #31
Cookin & Craftin - Thursday Link Up #17
Scribble & Scrap Crafts - AG #43
Craft Your Passion - AG #259