Heidi Swapp Love

There is something about Heidi Swapp which makes her so endearing. Therefore, I am sincerely loyal to buying and adoring her scrapbook products. So when her products became available at Michaels, I was all over it. 

 

A Year of Sundays

I came across the notion of Phenology: The study of cyclic and seasonal natural phenomena, esp. in relation to climate and plant and animal life, or in my case, my family. 
I translated this notion into " A Year of Sundays". I record the happenings of every Sunday to see the breadth of our year and  be able to track changes that occur in our schedule and family life. This is the first 3 cards into my Project Life album:

Project Life Update

Project life is one of those ideas that are simple and easily sustained. But I chose to make my albums a smaller size. I started out in a  Snap album:

Color Magic Classes

The first class was making 3 different cards using the color magic papers. I was most successful with template #2. Heidi's example is on the left, and the other two are my variations:

Of course the piece de resistance was the template for a magic memory folder with a great "mini book" insert:



 

And this is the sweet spot of scrapping - when the intended audience loves the "album" and wants to know if thre is going to be room for his new TKD pictures.

 

Hopefully I will get some samples of Class#3 - Color Magic Pages - complete and up soon. An awesome way to end the summer.

Color Magic Live Class and Last week of summer

Summer at an end?
But not without a scrapbooking bang...
I was fortunate enough to get into Heidi Swapp's online class and it was so informative and inspiring that I could almost burst with excitement. The classmates were so kind and inviting as well. This I know from my new addiction to Instagram and hash tags 😜! I will put the pics up later today. (have to change to the stationary device)

Summer - Week 2
Renew, Reconnect, Record, Reduce, Remember
Reduce- it was a super hot week a heat wave- and no cooler time to walk during the day (I guess I'm not hard core yet)- 10.5 km
Record-No project life I need to print some pictures

I'm going through last summer's pictures and trying to finish off some old projects.

Can I just say one more time I love the memory folder idea. I have used "lapbooks" (file folders with pockets and fold outs ) for school projects, but it never occurred to me to use them for memory keeping.  I love that it the folders work for one story with several pictures like a birthday or an event that have more than one story.

(the kids all had fun except for an overwhelmed Nicky- his story is in the cut down folder.)

The folders are also great for stories being "curated" in the Library of Memories system.

A series of road trip candids from the last 4 years.

The memory folders also work for when I have the "us" candids that don't fit into the trip story but too important to just college for an album page:

(two folders "sewn" together and one flip open)

I combined the products from my two fav designers- Rhonna Farrer and Heidi Swapp.

Back to more creating.

It's summertime...

It's summertime which means I get my "scrap" on. I do see a cycle developing -scrap all Spring Break summer and Christmas. These are the times when I get the most put together. I really need to keep my idea list handy and up to date during school time. Although if I do spend a couple hours on Sunday finding and prinitng photos for Project life, then I don't fall too far behind in my weeks.

So here is the recap of week 1 of summer and my intentions with my 2012 little words:
RENEW
Reconnect with family  (- thinking about one on one fun outings with kids and hubbie)
Record-
Project Life- caught up on 4 weeks

regular "pages"-

Totally getting into the memory files.

Reduce- challenging clutter- Our walk-in closet cleaned up
            -challenging the weight- walked 18 km
Remember to live each day fully- will find some cool blog or feed to inspire me to do something  tiny and special daily

Week 2 is coming to an end and I'll update soon..