Project Life Week 23, 2012...Guest for Basic Grey

I'm back today with Week 23 of my Project Life. This week I am a guest at Basic Grey and will be using the Clippings collection of products on my pages. Melanie Bauer from Basic Grey will also be using the same products for a week of her Project Life. I was thrilled when Mel asked me to use the Clippings line because I love it! It's graphic, a little vintage, has a great neutral color way and there are oodles of fun embellishments within this line.

For me, the best way to use a large variety of products from one line is to grab some blank Project Life journaling cards and just start creating my own handmade inserts. I made way more than I needed for one week but the leftovers will go into my stash to use for future PL pages. Please zoom in to get a better look. I used just a few tags from my shop + a few punches and the rest of the items are from the Clippings collection.
Here are a few of my favorites. I love the "guest check" journaling card from the Snippets pad, the notebook fringe stickers from the 12 x 12 Element Stickers sheet and the great patterns in this line. When it becomes available again I'll be purchasing the Garland also. It's die cut and stitched together, ready to use. Cool idea.
From the Snippets booklet I also made these 4 x 6 inserts. I used just a few items from my stash to fancy them up a bit. I also embellished a paper sack to hold some journaling or tags.
And now for my finished pages. Here's how I use my handmade journaling cards: once my photos are trimmed and placed on top of the page protectors I go through my journaling cards and just start selecting ones that seem to fit in terms of color, photo placement, etc. A layout comes together really quickly this way, especially since I had 4 x 6 inserts made ahead of time also.
Here's my left page.
Here's the right page.
This dated 4 x 6 inserts was embellished with a photo collage, a snippet of Washi tape, an arrow sticker from BG, Studio Calico number stamps and letters from the 12 x 12 Alphabet Stickers.
Our pets. Another 4 x 6 BG insert simply embellished with typed label stickers + a date stamp.
Curious Charlie discovered what the pool is all about. I loved the layered look of this 4 x 6 BG insert. I added a small tag with circle heart sticker + Washi + my typed labels. I love the layered look without all the bulk.
Eric had a nice day of early morning fishing at the big pond. I typed on a trimmed down BG journaling card from the Snippets pad.
Here's another 4 x 6 insert straight from the Snippets booklet. I added more of the BG letter stickers, some tickets from the Elements Stickers and then hand cute a few long strips from a piece of patterned paper from the 6 x 6 paper pad. Here's the 12 x 12 version of this paper so you can see the fun strips.
Moving on to the 3 x 4 inserts. On the left insert I used one of my handmade journaling cards along with more stickers from the 12 x 12 Alphabet Stickers + some arrow stamps from the coordinating Hero Arts set. Here's the other stamp set, also great for PL. On the right I have a Week in Review card. All I had to do was add in a little of my own handwriting.
More inserts embellished with my typed labels + some stickers from the12 x 12 Elements Sheet.
Here I used a some hand cutting and a little help from punches to embellish my 3 x 4 inserts. I loved using the small BG letter stickers with stitching over the top. They make fun mini titles for my 3 x 4 cards.
On the left is a page from the Snippets booklet. I only added my photo and typed journaling. So easy. On the right I used a tab punch + a border sticker from the 12 x 12 Elements Stickers.
I also created an 8.5 x 11 traditional scrapbook page insert for this week also. It was a big day when the girls got their new iPhone 4's. I printed a giant 8 x 8 size Instagram print which filled most of the page. For my inserts I like to print larger photos so that an event is really highlighted and made special.
For what was left to embellish, I used 2 of my handmade journaling cards. I just tucked them under my photo after adding some stamping and typed journaling. The fun yellow tag is a Printed Hang Tag from my shop. On the left I embellished a sticker from the 12 x 12 ElementStickers sheet with some small BG sticker letters and tucked it under the photo also. I added a border sticker along the top of the photo and as a finishing touch I added the memories tab from the sticker sheet to the outside of my page protector.
And that's it for this week of Project Life. I'd like to thank Melanie for asking me to be a guest this week for Basic Grey. This was definitely a fun week for me to work on and the Clippings product line is so awesome.

Edited: Forgot to add that I'll be doing a prize drawing for the Basic Grey 6 x6 Paper pad, the alphabet stickers, the elements stickers the snippets booklet and one of the stamp sets. Wowzers! Just leave a comment on this post telling me a little bit about how your Project Life is going. I will close the comments on Sunday evening at 8pm Central Time.

Shopping?

Hey, you might want to check out Studio Calico's lineup of products in their kits & shop items this week. I see that there are lots of Basic Grey goodness there this month, including that sold out garland I've been seeking. Happy shopping. :)

NEW Project Life products are finally in stock:

You can read all about them here at Becky's blog. Don't hesitate if you want something. :) I can't wait to use some of these new items.

My new 2 Squared School Kit:

A fun new kit with a challenge to boot! I've been tweeting lots of project peeks and I'll be showing you projects all week long starting tomorrow. :)