December Daily 2015....Thanksgiving

This year my youngest daughter is not playing basketball.  This allowed us to not worry about practices over Thanksgiving break so we loaded up and headed to my sister's house 5 hours away.  It was such a wonderful time and I'm so happy we got to go.  There's a full size 6 x 8 photo of my girls on the left.  

 This is a trimmed down page protector with a 4 x 4 photo and two 2 x 2 photos.  The tab was stapled on.

 I adhered a gold rim tag to the photo and the JOY button is adhered to the outside of the page protector.

 Turning the page you see the back side of the small insert that features a day of hunting.  It was the first time the girls went pheasant hunting so it was well worth documenting.  On the right I have journaling cards with hand written and typed journaling.  I used some plaid paper since the plaid theme appears quite often this holiday season for us.  I also stitched on another of the Gossamer Blue sticky notes with typed words.

 Here's the two page spread without the insert.

Next I'll be moving on to our daily December activities.

December Daily 2015...dear Winter

Today I'm sharing a page about the ice storm we had while traveling to my sister's for Thanksgiving.  The left page is the back side of the clear insert.  

 I used a white shimmer envelope as a smaller insert with a photo of our wintry scene.

 This is the back side of the envelope which will hold a photo of the icy roads and a story about our road trip home during the storm.  The right page is an insert with a wood veneer embellishment and a trimmed down journaling card.

This is yet another insert I added before I actually start my days of December.  Stay tuned for more to come.

December Daily 2015....the 4 of us

It's become tradition in my December Daily albums that I start out with a photo of all 4 of us.  It seems my favorite always comes from our annual Colorado vacation.  So before I start with my numbered, daily December pages I included a page about the 4 of us together.  The pinecones were fitting and I added a #4 tag, a little plastic embellishment, washi tape and a gold glitter heart.  The photo size is 6 x 6 in black and white. 

 This shows the back of the 6 x 6 photo.  I'll hand write about spending time with my favorite people in Colorado and what this album means to me this year.

 I used gold letter stickers, my favorite sticky note flags from the Gossamer Blue December Memories Kit, and word stickers. In previous years I've used red stitching and I'm continuing with that in this year's album.

 This is a 12 square insert with 2 x 2 journaling cards, a wood veneer piece, sequins, black metal tag and wood veneer tree.  I like to use the Tiny Tim stapler a lot too.

You can see my next page peeking through.  I'll be back to share that soon.

Daily December 2015....album and cover page

Today I'm sharing the beginnings of my December Daily 2015 album.  I'm using an Ali Edwards album this year in red.  The page sizes are mainly 6 x 8.

 Here's my cover page which starts out with a clear overlay.

 Peek through to the main cover page.

 The cover age is wonderfully embossed and doesn't need much embellishing.

 I used a chipboard sticker, glitter star, memories sticker and the date is typed with my vintage typewriter.

Looking forward to filling up my album.  I'll be back soon for more updates.

December Daily 2015...the kits I'll be using

Hello there, today I'm kicking off my December Daily 2015 posts!  This year I decided to use both the Gossamer Blue 2015 December Memories Kit and the Ali Edwards December Daily Main 2015 Kit + an add on kit by Jasmine Jones.  I also decided to use an Ali Edwards album because the size matches the ones I've used in the last few previous years.

 Here's a peek at the Gossamer Blue kit contents, stored in a vintage cutlery tray.  I sort the smaller items with vintage Jello molds.

 Here's the Ali Edwards kit contents in green vintage cutlery tray with more tiny embellishments added to additional Jello molds.

 Here's both the kits, all unpackaged and ready to go.  I like to take all products out of their packages so I'm not fumbling with opening up plastic packages.  I'm more like to use something if it's out in the open and I can rummage through the little pieces.

I'll most likely be adding a few tags and items from some of my packaging kits from my shop too.

I'm all set up and ready to work.  This year I'll be sharing just my completed pages here on the blog.  I post little previews and works in progress + lots of other happenings on my Instagram account.  Feel free to visit me over there at Mish Wooderson.

At the first of the year I'll be sharing more on my art journey.  I've photographed and have been adding a lot to Instagram about my my year of starting over in my artful creations.  I'll be backtracking and sharing that progress in hopes of inspiring you to maybe pick up that paint brush.....and start again....or just start.  I hope you'll join me.

Project Life....let's eat

Sharing another week of my Project Life today.  This week pretty much involves food photos and I used the August Gossamer Blue kits for my supplies. 

 We love it when garden season comes around because it's all about canning jams and veggies that we grew.  I used the "currently reading" card to list books that I've been reading and also websites that I've been following for art journaling, etc. I used my black pen to draw lines around a lot of the journaling cards just to give them a border.  I love lots of cards that provide ample writing space. I also don't mind using my fine tip Sharpie to journaling directly onto photos.

 More food photos, iced coffees because when it's 101 degrees with 110 degree heat index, hot coffee is too much.  Also love the little mason jar night light my mom gave me as a souvenir from a recent trip.

 Josey carried a melon.  Always love to quote that from Dirty Dancing.  Love this simple "EAT" card.  I stapled the July accent to it.

 Journaling card with a flower die cut and enamel stickers.

Thanks for stopping by.  Right about now we're just returning from cooling off in the beautiful mountains of Colorado.

Project Life....July 13-26

This week's Project Life spread was created using the August Gossamer Blue kit.  

 We spent a lot of time getting ready for Jordan's Senior Photo shoot.  I love gathering up props and helping the girls pick out outfits for photos.  Jordan's photo shoot was so unique and just her style.

 I'm going to start including photos of my watercolor sketches in my albums so that I can incorporate some of my art.  Zinnias from the garden, hay season and a cruise with the ladies. I'm embracing my handwriting so I love 3 x 4 cards with lots of white space for journaling.

 Loved the VW bus chipboard sticker, perfect for Jordan's photo shoot pages.  I must admit that I designed this "wild child" stamp with my girls mind.  Jordan loves that song by Kenny Chesney. The Tom Petty quote made it on a stamp in last month's kits.

 These page flips are included in a kit this month.  I used them a lot to add additional photos and journaling.

Thanks for stopping by!

July Gossamer Blue.....vacation journaling cards

Hey everyone! The Gossamer Blue July Kits are now up in the shop.  This month presented us with some amazing kits and all new projects from our brand new Design Team.  Our own Peppermint Granberg took over illustrating my stamp concepts and she knocked it out of the ballpark.  There were so many great comments on the stamps this month, thank you!

Today I'm sharing some journaling cards I created to have on hand to scrapbook my daughter's recent trip to Chicago.  I love all the travel themed products in the kits this month so they came in very handy. I reached for the Life Pages Add-on #3 (now sold out, it was a good one) mostly.  I love to just rip open a kit and sort out all the pieces and parts. 

 I grouped together like items like the glittery pieces, tags and arrows.

 My daughter rode on a train, a car, a Segway and an airplane for this trip.  I definitely will want to use the airplane, suitcase and location icons. Plus all those tickets will make great accent pieces.

 I reached for most of the journaling cards, designed by Peppermint, and added simple embellishments to each card.  I'll use these as filler cards to go along with photos and plain cards that I will journal on.

 I collaged together several elements and then added machine stitching or stapling. I like to stitch over chipboard alphabets just in case they want to fall off in 50 years.

 Here's some close ups of the collaged accents.  So many fun little tidbits.  That vellum ticket?  Eeek.

 I stacked all my finished cards and the left over travel accents into a little tray so everything will be ready when I get around to scrapbooking the trip.  I also added in some of the awesome plain journaling cards from the shop.  There are lines, graphs, notebook designs and more.  I can't get enough of these in my stash.  I'll also be adding stamped images from the stamp set in the Life Pages Kit.  That little camper turned out soooo dang cute.  I just swoon over anything Peppermint does, right?

Okay guys, there's still kits left in the shop this month so be sure to check out the store.  Don't forget to grab a cup of coffee and stroll through the gallery too.  So much talent there!

Project Life..... Week 7, 2015

Today I'm sharing Week 7 of my 2015 Project Life.  I used One Little Bird journaling cards that I downloaded and printed here at home.  I love Peppermint's designs so much. Clean and simple and so easy to use.  Here's the two page spread. 

 The left page. Simple photos and a few embellished journaling cards.

 The right page.  I added more photos and journaling cards with hand written journaling.

 For the main, dated 4 x 6 insert, I added chipboard letters to a tag.

 I love how the One Little Bird kits coordinate so well and are designed so simply.  That leaves lots of room for embellishments and journaling.  Or I can leave the inserts unadorned if I want a cleaner look.

Slow but sure.....more pages to fill my album.

Project Life 2015....Week 11

Today I'm sharing Week 11 from my Project Life 2015 album.  Products are from the April Gossamer Blue kits.  

The right page including my watercolor sketch from a day at the pond fishing and shopping for Prom dresses in the city.

The left page.

The dated, 4 x 6 insert including the days of the week stamps from the Gossamer Blue April Life Pages Kit.

More stamps including the numbers in circles, perfect for making lists or numbering your journaling lines.

Lots of flower seeds, hoping to grow lots of Zinnias.  I can tell you, it ain't looking pretty for the Zinnias right now.  We'll see if I can salvage any of them to plant.

Hand journaling with die cut, stickers and wood veneer.

Another one for the books.  Thanks for stopping by!