January PL (via Simple Stories Sn@p) Part 2

Today I am sharing my January Project Life (via Sn@p) part 2, or part deux!

With all the rain and bad weather that we've been having here in the UK I thought it fitting to create a page about it.  We live local to Cookham Moor which is a lovely place to walk Rupert along the Thames, especially when the weather is nice.  The views are beautiful and there are loads of other people there walking their dogs so it is also a good place for social interaction for him. Over the past week (January 6th thru 12th) or so it has been raining nearly non-stop here and as well we have been hit with gale force winds.  We had heard that a lot of low lying local villages had been flooded and also that the river had overflowed, which I've been told is quite common here.  So I went along one afternoon to Cookham to see what all the hub-bub was about and I was shocked to see the road through Cookham was completely underwater, a sight to behold.  Well, sadly for Rupert we won't be walking him at Cookham Moor for quite some time. In this layout I wanted to echo the colours of the outdoors and water so choose the green and blue colour palette.  It also worked well as I had just received a new Washi tape by Queen & Co with a blue background and green dots on it.  I am absolutely dotty for polka dots! (as I'm sure you've noticed by now).  And as you can see, in the lower corner I have included another Insta-Weather snap.  I am just loving my Insta apps!

SUPPLIES | Background paper is heavy cardstock that comes with the Simple Stories Sn@p albums. The pics used are from Insta-Weather. The blue & green polka dot (which I am obsessed with) Washi tape is by Queen & Co, Trendy Tape. "Been There" & "What" sticker are Simple Stories. The blue "Flooded" letters by also Simple Stories from the Sn@p Stickers Letters pack. The multi-colour arrow, gray Sunday tab and both stars are from the Daily Grind Simple Stories bits & pieces pack. The Beech Bend Park ticket tucked in the upper corner of the page is from the SC Double Scoop kit as is the green paper behind the main photo, its by MME called Presh "Right Now" by Jen Allyson. The blue camera brad is by Simple Stories from their Sn@p Brads - Life pack. The "Golly" sticker is Dymo style tape from Marcella by Kay embossed stickers. The "Cookham Moor" green lettering is from a kit (don't think it was a major brand name) that I found at TJ Maxx (the British equivalent of TK Maxx - not sure why they changed the K to J)

 

A Night Out in Windsor (with Big Dan & Sembi)  With this page my main photo was taken with my Insta-place app. I blew it up larger than its usual 4x4 size so that it was almost the full size of the page. I really liked the rich blueness of the night sky in the photo and wanted to accent this with some different colours, sort of step outside my usual comfort scrapping zone so pulled out my handy dandy colour wheel and went with the triad colours for blue - variants of orange and green. I think it looks a bit wild with all the polka dots, green & orange contrasts and it turned out quite psychedelic in the end. Not sure whether I like it or not but at least it's down on paper. I tried spelling out the title with different colour letters but the green didn't seem to work, neither did a shade of blue so I ended up with orange as I thought it looked best. As I didn't think it popped enough against the background I drew around it with a black marker.

SUPPLIES | Orange and white polka dot background paper is by Bo Bunny, think its called "Gift of Life". Very old from my stash.  All the letter stickers are by Simple Stories, from two different packs - Sn@p Stickers Letters (big orange) and Sn@p Stickers Typeset(small orange & green). The ampersand is by lilybee design called Sweet Shoppe letter stickers. The green polka dot Washi tape is Trendy Tape by Queen & Co.

  

For this following layout, as I had picked up the Nando's takeaway menu as a memento from that night I wanted to use it in my layout.  This page actually came together quite quickly.  Once I decided to use the Peri-ometer multi-coloured pepper I knew that I could use these colours in my page. I enjoyed the bright colours used on this page and funny enough I never would have expected to ever use a gold doily in my scrapbooking.  When I received it in my kit, I thought to myself "I am never, like never, ever (in the words of Taylor Swift) going to use a gold doily in my scrapbooking".  Funnily enough, when I was working on this page and had all the elements laid out on the page, I felt I was missing something in the lower left hand corner and it just wasn't tying all together.  And then into my head popped that gold doily.  As I didn't think I was ever going to use it I did have a difficult time finding it as I hadn't put it with my usual stash.  However, I think it worked out quite well in the end with the page layout and colours.  What do you think?

 SUPPLIES |  The base paper is from my stash and is Basic Grey I do believe, called "Out of Print Classifieds" - this is actually side B, if you will, the other side has coloured newsprint strips on it and is why I purchased it in the first place.   As you can see I cut up the takeaway menu from Nando's and used that as the base for my background.  Tucked behind the menu is a gold doily from the SC Double Scoop kit.  The orange heart in the bottom right hand corner is actually something I punched out from the back of the menu.  All the word stickers "Say Cheese; My Life; Its all Good; & Enjoy!" are all by Simple Stories.  The Peri-ometer pepper is cut from the menu.  The orange star is also Simple Stories and the metal art brad (with the brad removed) in the lower left corner is an old, old K& Co product.

For the page opposite I continued to carry on with the same bright colours, I'm thinking I may have gone a bit overboard at this point though.  Upon reflection I do have to say that I did enjoy these pages as they are not the typical colours that I would usually scrap with.

SUPPLIES | The background paper in the top pocket is Bazzill peach cardstock and on this is a scrap of the orange and white polka dot paper by Bo Bunny.  All the embellishments (grid journaling tag, Details arrow, Today chipboard speech bubble and Life brad) are all Simple Stories.  The "Fun" embossed Dymo style sticker is Marcella by Kay and the yellow brad is by MME from The Sweetest Thing pack. For the pocket on the bottom the green polka dot background paper is from a random kit that I found at TK Maxx ages ago. The yellow chipboard "2 of a Kind" number is by K&Co from the Wild Saffron line, the "Been There" green arrow sticker is by Simple Stories, the orange brad by MME Sweetest Thing, the "Awesome" tag is by Simple Stories which is the top of a bingo card that I cut off and the green chipboard button is by Webster's Pages, buttons & twine from the Your Life. Beautiful.

Close up shots of the detail on the page

 

 

   
 

This next layout is about, surprise, surprise, my dog Rupert!  He lets me "torture him" frequently by taking picture after picture of him, I suppose he really is quite good when you think about it.  On this day I was sorting the laundry, putting stuff in the machine and taking damp stuff out, then putting it into the laundry basket.  Rupert was watching me and curious as he is he put his paws up on the edge of the basket to look into it and that's when my "evil plan" hit me.  How cute would he look sitting in the basket with the laundry sign in front of him?  Then I could create a layout titled "Dirty Dog".   So I set up my props and went about conducting my mock photo shoot!

 Below are both pages together, as I felt one picture just didn't truly represent the cuteness of this "photo shoot".  I was amazed at how good he was, just sat in the basket and let me click away, time after time.  I kinda thought that he would try to jump out and run away.  But no, he's a good boy and sat there patiently while his crazy mother humiliated him in front of all the other neighbourhood kids. Gotta love that dog! x

SUPPLIES | The blue polka dot background paper on the left is by Studio Calico, not sure on the name. Blue "Dirty Dog" stickers are by Simple Stories, Daily Grind line. The blue circular tag is by Elle's Studio. The four stickers at the bottom of the left page are all by Simple Stories (Vintage Bliss & Daily Grind lines) and the dog house sticker with a loveheart in it is also by Simple Stories 24/7 but I have placed it on a punched out piece of paper to raise it off the page a bit. On the right side, the background paper is simply a piece of Bazzill cardstock, the vellum lovehearts are from the SC Sugar Rush kit, the other punched lovehearts are punched out from scraps of paper I have, the blue & pink enamel dots are from the SC Double Scoop & Sugar Rush kits. The "Be Unique" bingo card is by Simple Stories and the lined note card is from the SC Sugar Rush kit. The blue lined and polka dot circle at the bottom are both scraps of paper from Simple Stories that I punched with my circular punches to fit together.

 

 

 I've noticed this month that I have really gone with not only quite a few colours, but quite a few bright colours.  Maybe it's a sign that I have had enough of this dreary UK weather and am looking forward to a more colourful time of year. 

Roll on Spring!

(I haven't completely finished part 2 but thought I would post what I have so I can feel like I've accomplished something and stop stressing out.  Can't believe its already March and I haven't even started on February).


Thanks for stopping by to have a look!
Christine  : )