Hello Fall Blog Hop (Lets Get Sketchy)

Hello and welcome to the LGS Hello Fall blog hop!  If you have arrived here from Connie's blog welcome to the hop!  If you have stumbled across this by chance and want to play along then you can head back to the Lets Get Sketchy site to start at the beginning.

The girls here at LGS are excited about the change in the season and thusly we are celebrating with a “Hello Fall” blog hop and giving away lots of daily prizes and a grand prize of a $25.00 gift voucher to Creative Embellishments.  To be eligible win any of our hop prizes you will need to visit each designer’s blog, leave some love on each of our design team’s blog’s and follow their blogs. Each member of the DT will be sharing a Fall themed project for your inspiration.  To find out how to win our Grand Prize as well as lots of other giveaways, make sure you visit the LGS blog!

For your Fall inspiration I have created a Project Life spread for this May (which is our last month of Autumn here in New Zealand) for the blog hop:

Scrap Stash Kit Club is an awesome way to use up scraps!  Our darling baby girl was only 3 weeks old on Mother's Day, and we had her dedicated at Church, then out for lunch in Arrowtown.  Sam (aged 7) drew the cutest Minecraft pictures and left them lying around the house, so of course I had to include them!

I used my September Scrap Stash Kit Club (Mr Fox), which worked really well with the Autumn colour scheme of reds and oranges paired with neutrals.

I'm offering a randomly drawn RAK to one lucky Australian or New Zealand blog hopper, so make sure you leave a comment (including where you are from) and follow my blog to be in to win!

Next up on the hop is the lovely and very talented Wendi.

Line up is:

Brenshevia - http://scrappingeverydaylife.blogspot.com/2014/09/lets-get-sketchy-hello-fall-blog-hop.html   

Nadine - http://myscrapnstuff.blogspot.com/2014/09/hello-fall-lets-get-sketchy-blog-hop.html

Melinda G. - http://melindagarner.blogspot.com/2014/09/fall-blog-hop.html

Mayoori - http://butterfliesnbuttons.blogspot.com/2014/09/lgs-fall-blog-hop.html

Lisa - http://lisasscrappyhideaway.blogspot.com/2014/09/lgs-fall-blog-hop.html

Shirley - http://mascarinashirley.blogspot.com/2014/09/hello-fall-lgs-fall-blog-hop.html

Devra- http://mycreativeview.blogspot.com/2014/09/lets-get-sketch-fall-blog-hop.html

Joefil - http://joefilcate.blogspot.com/2014/09/lets-get-sketchy-fall-bloghop.html

Melinda F. -http://scrapmhel.blogspot.com/2014/10/falling-leaves-hello-fall-lets-get.html

Jenessa - http://jenessafranco.blogspot.com/2014/09/lets-get-sketchy-hello-fall-blog-hop.html

Lynn G. - http://memoriesonthepage.blogspot.com/2014/09/lets-get-sketchy-fall-blog-hop.html

Michelle -http://michellesscrapdesigns.blogspot.com/2014/09/lets-get-sketchy-fall-blog-hop.html 

Connie - http://timestocherish.blogspot.com/2014/09/lets-get-sketchy-bloghop.html

Melissa - http://yesterday2day4ever.blogspot.com/2014/09/hello-fall-blog-hop-lets-get-sketchy.html

Wendi - http://scrappydayinparadise.blogspot.com/2014/09/hello-fall-lgs-blog-hop.html

Tone-Lill - http://tone-lillpapirdill.blogspot.com/2014/09/lets-get-sketchy-hello-fall-blog-hop.html

Valerie - http://www.valeriehuangdesigns.com/2014/09/hello-fall-lgs-blog-hop.html

Danie - http://scrappydanie.blogspot.com/2014/09/lets-get-sketchy-hello-fall-blog-hop.html

Thanks for hopping!

LGS Inspired Magazine Issue 4

Hello and welcome to August!  Well our 4th issue of Lets Get Sketchy "Get Inspired Magazine" is now live, so grab a coffee and enjoy!

The only unshared layout I have in it is my March Project Life spread.  I generally keep it very simple for PL, and use up paper scraps and bits and pieces.  I have the Becky Higgins Dear Lizzy Polka Dot Party Mini Kit, and a Kaisercraft set of 3 x 4 cards which I'm using for PL throughout the year.  This spread also has a couple of exclusive printable cards from the Paper Bakery that I hadn't used.

I love to include photos, ephemera from the month, and my kid's art.  I've done some stamping on this spread too.

Doing PL on a monthly basis is a no stress solution to telling the everyday stories.  At the moment I'm 3 months behind, but I'm not concerned as I can do a monthly spread in an evening.

You can check out the magazine here.

Happy viewing!

Project Life 2014!

Yes that's right, you read the title correctly!  I've re-joined the Project Life trend after a year and a half break.  Just by way of background, I started doing PL in 2012, and managed to keep up weekly pocket layouts for 6 months, from January to June.  I started doing PL to take the apparent "stress" out of my scrapbooking, as I felt I was never going to be caught up. However, doing weekly layouts was too stressful, and I got behind way too often, and to be honest just wanted to be scraping 12 x 12 pages.

So after a years break I decided to start again, but on a monthly basis. This year has several milestones in it: Shaun went back to primary teaching, we're welcoming a new baby in April, and Azaria is starting school in June, so what better year than to try again!

Here is my cover page:

I'm using the Dear Lizzy Polka Dot Party Edition kit by Becky Higgins, and Captured Moments Happy Days 3 x 4 Journal Cards by Kaisercraft as my base filler cards.  

My objective with this album is to get it done quickly. This means minimal embellishment, printing photos out at 4 x 6, using up older scraps of paper, and including memorabilia and my kid's art where possible. I want it to be a snapshot of our life at this time, so everyday-type photos.

My biggest issue at the moment is photographing these spreads, as the pockets make it difficult with glare etc, so any tips are much appreciated!  I'll be back soon with my January and February spreads.

Be blessed

Melissa x