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Project 52/Project Life 2016 Week 42

Theresa Moxley 0 Comment March 8, 2017

Hi guys, today I am sharing with you a layout from my 2016 Project Life album for Week 42! This was created in the Project Life App, printed, and embellished on top!

This was the week of my birthday, October 19th, so most of my photos are from that day. Our children were so proud to help Alan make dinner for me while I relaxed on the sofa! My heart is filled with gratitude and I love bringing that gratitude into these layouts!

My layout for this week was created in the Project Life App using the Stampin’ Up Hello Lovely Edition! I print my layouts here at home using a Canon Pixma wide format printer on Staples brand matte photo paper, and then I embellish on top.

The left hand side of my layout features an enlarged photo of my view from the sofa as my family lovingly prepared dinner for me on my birthday. This photo invokes lots of happy memories and feelings for me, some of which I’m not even sure I have words for. But that is totally ok. Include the photo anyway, and use your ephemera to help invoke some of those unwritten feelings. I have used my One Little Bird stamp set to add the week number and dates, and a few simple 3-dimensional embellishments from Freckled Fawn.

I loved using this polka dot card as a background for simple embellishing. All it needed was a strip of washi tape from Pink Paislee, a stamped sentiment, and just a few tiny ephemera pieces.

My right hand side features supporting photos from by birthday and a few other miscellaneous photos from the week.

Now, when I placed the little flag clip here, it stands above the page and when I slid it into the page protector in my album, it stood up too tall to fit in my shelf. So I laid that flag down flat and it layers nicely over the other banners. Ha!

This filler card was fun to embellish! I used the stamp set from Gossamer Blue and numbers from Pinkfresh Studio to create my list. Also, did you catch what all is underneath the puffy house sticker? It took three tries for me to get the house right – don’t be afraid to cover things up that you don’t absolutely love!

Just a few more embellishments and this layout is done. Notice how I carried the colors from the Hello Lovely kit right through in my embellishments to keep everything cohesive. Ah, love it!

Thanks so much for visiting today! See you back here soon!

~Theresa

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Project Life 2017 Week 05 Layout | Embellishing the Digi Layout

Theresa Moxley 0 Comment March 7, 2017

Hey guys, it’s my layout for Week 05 in my 2017 Project Life album! Today I am sharing how I complete my digital layouts using physical products.

I am loving how these hybrid layouts are coming together this year! Have a look at the completed layout.

This was a particularly quiet week and I only had a few photos to share. No exciting events, just a few random photos from around here and there. I love that Project Life allows the space for the random photos and that here, in these layouts, they all come together to tell the story of this particular week.

My base layout was created using the Sahlin Studio Clean Lined Template and the March Memory Pockets Monthly kit called Roar. I love the colors in this kit and so I chose to repeat them through the physical embellishments as well!

I also used the digital elements in the Roar kit, printed out and cut using my Silhouette. This is a great way to make your digital kits go further – typically I select my favorite ones, bring them into a blank page on my Silhouette, and then print on both cardstock and vellum.

The right side of the layout features this lovely sunset photo and the title draws your eye right to that photo first. The journaling cards bring your eye around the page.

I am loving the opportunities that Photoshop provides me to include journaling on my photos. I had been trying to figure out how to include that in my work flow, and now it is so easy while I am bringing the photos into the layout just to add a few words. It definitely makes big impact!

These bright, fun journal cards are making me so happy here!

And that is Week 05! Thanks for following along! See you back here tomorrow.

~Theresa

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05 Photoshop Tutorial | Creating the Digital Portion of Hybrid!

Theresa Moxley 0 Comment March 6, 2017

Hi guys, so today is the awesome day that I share with you my complete process from start to finish creating a hybrid Project Life page. In this video I am creating the digital layout in Photoshop CC using the Sahlin Studio Clean Lined Templates and the Roar MPM kit, both available at The Lilypad.

Keeping the blog short and sweet today! Pop on over tomorrow for the physical portion of this layout to see my process for completing the layout. See you then!

~Theresa

** The Memory Pockets Monthly (MPM) kit is a subscription based collaboration with many of the talented designers at The Lilypad. To learn more and to subscribe, check it out here.

The Sahlin Studio Clean Lined Templates No. 01 can be purchased here as well.

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TBT Project Life 2014 Halloween Pt. 02 | Feat. MH After Dark!

Theresa Moxley 0 Comment March 2, 2017

Hi guys, this is part 2 continuing from yesterday’s layout about our Halloween adventures in my 2014 Project Life album! These are photos of each child individually highlighting their costumes that year.

I am having so much fun working with these photos and sharing these layouts with you! Have a look at the completed project:

My photography strategy for Halloween is much the same each year: try to get a few of us in the neighborhood early on before it gets too dark, get a few of the whole loot, and also do a mini session before we ever go out into the neighborhood. I try to keep that session short and sweet because they are obviously off the walls excited (!) but my main goal is to get an overall shot of each child in their costume and one close-up head shot of each one.

Addison was dressed up as Rocket Raccoon this particular year. I think he was the cutest raccoon ever. One of my favorite cards from the After Dark collection was this one that allowed me to add some fun facts from the night. That definitely goes in the “need more of that” category for next year!

Nick was a Star Wars character named Ethan Adare. He looks like such a cute little imp in this photo below!

Emberlynn chose to be a mermaid this year, and particularly a red mermaid. I did go back and look up who our source was for these tutus – an Etsy seller named BloomsNBugs. Her shop shows she is taking a break, but I will include a link here. I highly recommend her work, the tutus were GORGEOUS!

She made the cutest mermaid, didn’t she?!

Last but certainly not least is Natalie as Elsa. 2014 was the year every little girl was Elsa from Frozen. Gah, the cuteness. I loved including my own excitement in the journaling card – I really did have fun planning out their costumes that year. Normally in the interest of time and money, they purchase pre-made costumes from the store. But this year I wanted to do something special for them. I am so glad I did that. Just once, to splurge and allow them to feel like princesses!

I absolutely loved how both of these layouts turned out! Every year the Halloween layouts bring me such joy to create and look at in the future. I hope they mean as much to the kiddos as well!

Thank you so much for joining me the last two days! I hope you have gained some strategies for photo-documenting and scrapbooking your own Halloween memories. See you soon!

~Theresa

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TBT Project Life 2014 Halloween Part 01 | Feat. Maggie Holmes After Dark

Theresa Moxley 0 Comment March 1, 2017

Hi guys! Ok I know it’s not Thursday but this is part 1 in a 2-part series I am sharing from my 2014 Project Life album! The layouts I am sharing feature our Halloween adventures and I decided to create two layouts and share these layouts with you in two parts!

You guys, these Halloween layouts slay me every single year! The kids take such happy photos and the layouts always turn out stellar!

So once I placed my photos I pulled from my fall and Halloween products to fill in pockets and then embellish. Oh what fun! Much of my product choices are from Maggie Holmes After Dark, and then I added in some Gossamer Blue, Elle’s Studio, and Simple Stories.

I absolutely love using pocket pages to document specific events, don’t you? Everything about this layout makes me incredibly happy. Look how happy the kids are!

I talked a bit in the process video about my habit of using a “tic-tac-toe” strategy to decide where to place photos and journal cards. I typically try to arrange them alternating light and dark, to keep the layout balanced and from becoming too visually heavy in one place or the other. Try it and see what you think!

My primary goal in this layout was to tell the overall story of our Halloween adventures that night. In my next layout I will share individual photos of each of the kids so their adorable costumes will be documented in our albums.

Notice how simply I embellished each card or photo – literally just one or two very simple embellishments on each one. So quick to complete and not much obsessing required that way!

No Halloween layout is complete without a photo of the loot, and this is my favorite perspective. When we return home from our fun night in the neighborhood, we bring in all the treat bags and buckets and dump everything out on the floor. There is no denying that with four kids, we receive way too much candy! We go through and keep what we like and then give the rest away. But it must be like Christmas for the kids, seeing all that candy there on the floor and knowing they can have whatever they want! How fun for them!

Last photo from this layout, a close-up of all of them together. These truly are the most special moments, you guys, and I hope with all my heart that they look back on these days and remember how happy life was. Even though it’s hard every day, and every single one of our children carries pain in their hearts, I pray they know that they had some amazing times too.

Thank you for following along with me today! I will see you back here tomorrow with part two!

~Theresa

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Project Life 2017 Week 04 Feat. Sahlin Studio Clean Lined Templates & Freckled Fawn!

Theresa Moxley 0 Comment February 28, 2017

Hey guys! Today I am sharing my layout that I began in my last Photoshop Tutorial for Week 04 in my 2017 Project Life album! I created this layout in Photoshop CC using the Sahlin Studio Clean Lined Templates No. 01, and in this video I will embellish on top using my Freckled Fawn February kit.

This layout appeared last week on the Sahlin Studio blog and can be viewed here.

This was quite a busy week for us, and I loved having so many photos to share! I especially loved having so many opportunities within the templates to include all those photos, there are ten in all! This week the boys had a match for their National Academic League and I was able to snap a couple of photos of them wearing their shirts. Notice the cool wall mural behind them! Also, Nick had braces put on his bottom teeth. He has had them put on the top twice now, and we are entering (hopefully!) the final stages for him in this really long journey. He was quite the trooper. I also included photos of our food that week – apparently we had a few lunch dates at Moe’s and Chick-Fil-A! And we also had just a few spots of sunshine – a really big deal to capture and include this time of year!

For the left hand side I used a large photo of the boys as a focal point for this layout. I also used the smaller frames (3×2’s) for tiny pops of color brought to you by patterned papers. Those papers are included in the Hello Sampler kit by Sahlin Studio.

I loved using those little frames of patterned papers as the base for little embellishments, too! So much fun!

On the right hand side of the layout, the photo of Alan and me plus the Week card provide the counterpoint. Now, confession time: I don’t necessarily journal about every single photo, and I think that is ok. Some photos, like the one of our dog being cute, are simply there because I love including them!

Hey, notice the pop of turquoise there in the black and white card? I decided to use a color for my stamp instead of my usual black or navy, just to help that stamp pop a tiny bit within the black. Love it!

I don’t know if you are like me, the winter time is hard with so many dark hours and rainy/snowy days. Any sunshine I can find I am embracing and including in my layouts!

Thanks so much for joining me today! See you back here again soon!

~Theresa

**The Clean Lined Templates are available at The Lilypad and can be purchased through this link here!

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Photoshop Tutorial No. 04 | Bringing Photos Into Templates

Theresa Moxley 0 Comment February 25, 2017

Hi everyone! Today I am beginning the part in my Project Life process where I bring my photos into the templates in Photoshop to finish the digital part of my layout. Have a look at the tutorial here:

Thanks so much for watching! I will be back soon with the actual layout and my embellishing process!

~Theresa

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Project Life 2017 Week 03

Theresa Moxley 0 Comment February 20, 2017

Hi guys! Today I am sharing my Week 03 layout in my 2017 Project Life album. I am using the template I shared in my last tutorial by Sahlin Studio, printed at home, and today I will embellish the layout. Have a look at my process here:

So once a month Sahlin Studio releases a free template and this month I decided to make excellent use of that template in my Project Life layout. I am so glad I did – it’s a gorgeous, easy to use template and converting it to 12×24 was easy-peasy as well. Here is how the completed layout turned out!

I also used the patterned papers and digital elements available in the Sahlin Studio Hello Sampler kit. I chose two different patterns for each side of my layout and love how that looks. Here is the left hand side:

Our week was so busy and I had lots of photos for this week. Yay! Nick had a school assignment that involved creating a dragon out of floral foam and we had so much fun creating that dragon! He also made a 100 on the assignment, so that is why I stamped that number at the top of the photos. Alan and I are practicing yoga together – I have to say it is a powerful exercise to do as a couple. It kicks my butt every time but we get to spend quiet time together. So awesome. I also wanted to include one of my head shots I took when I was creating the Introduction video for this album. I completely enjoyed creating those photos!

Typically when I print digital elements at home, I print them both on vellum and cardstock, and then cut them using my Silhouette. The elements in the Hello Sampler were perfect!

Let’s have a look at the right hand side!

This girl turned 12 this week and it is always so much fun to celebrate with her! She loves her birthday so much and every present is happiness for her. Love it! So I made this whole layout about her day – fantastic decision. I loved having the space to include several photos. Awesome!

I have to admit I was not sure how I would feel about having smaller photos on my layout in this year’s album. It is something I wanted to try and at least give it a chance, because I have been wanting to include more photos in these weekly layout sometimes. I am glad I gave it a chance, because I really am loving it. I love having larger photos too, and love including the smaller ones to tell more of the stories.

And even with so many photos, I still had space for a fun filler card!

I love this project so much! See you back here soon!

~Theresa

Products used include:

Sahlin Studio February template; Sahlin Studio Hello Sampler kit.

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TBT Project Life 2014 October Roundup Featuring Maggie Holmes Chasing Dreams!!!!

Theresa Moxley 0 Comment February 15, 2017

Hi everyone! I could not wait to dive right into this brand new collection from Maggie Holmes called Chasing Dreams, and I especially loved using it for this pocket page layout for October in my 2014 album!

This layout is another roundup for the month of October and really highlights two events – a date day with Alan and my birthday. The Chasing Dreams collection goes beautifully with these photos and I am in love.

So a tradition that Alan and I have is to make time for date days. He takes the day off (and I now take the day off as well from filming and writing!) so we can hang out together. We don’t always have the ability to have date nights, but this is almost even better! On this day we went to the Reynolda House in Winston Salem. This is a historical site and art museum that was built and owned by the Reynolds family of RJR/Nabisco. We love it for the art galleries and the beautiful grounds.

So I must confess I still love to create Project Life pages from traditional collections and papers. Anyone else with me?! Of course working with Chasing Dreams is an absolute dream with such beautiful patterns and colors.

I also can’t say enough how much I am loving these photos I took that day. The skies were so clear and the grounds beautiful as always. I just love adding these tiny detail embellishments to bring your eye around the page.

We absolutely set up the self-timer on my camera so we could get a few of us together. I love this so much and I realize I am lucky to have a husband who is happy to help set up the shot and will smile and laugh. In the end these photos mean the world to him too.

The other side of the layout is all about my birthday. I don’t always do layouts about my birthday, to be honest, and don’t always take photos on that day, but this year we did. I am so happy we did.

I absolutely had to use these glitter alphabets so that is how I created my title card. They layer so beautifully over the patterned papers!

This photo of me and Emberlynn might be one of my favorites ever. So sweet!

Also on my birthday I had the honor of leading worship and delivering the sermon at our church. At the time I was attending seminary and serving as an intern. So lovely to be able to include this very important memory here!

And what a great way to wrap up a fun layout with these cuties! So much to see in this layout and I love everything about it. I hope you are inspired too!

~Theresa

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On the Scrap Explosion Blog Today | Project Life 2016 Week 52

Theresa Moxley 0 Comment February 7, 2017

Hi guys! I am sharing my Week 52 from my 2016 Project Life album today on the Scrap Explosion blog, along with a fun process video.

And just a sneak at what is there:

No worries, I haven’t finished that project quite yet! Stay tuned for more.

~Theresa

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