Paislee Press Creative Team

Excited to be on another great creative team- Paislee Press! Liz and I share a love of minimalist scrapbooking. Her products are so clean and simple. In the best way. Here's her store if you're not familiar. Creative teams keep my juices flowing and make me design out of the box. 

I've only been designing for a few weeks on the team so here are my first/only two projects: 

This one was used using the Behind the Lens kit and journal cards. I have a feeling that top left card will be used over and over. So versatile and I LOVE stripes!

Does anyone use Design D anymore!? I still have a bunch of them so I try to throw one in every now and then. It usually takes me a bit longer, but this one just came together and I kind of love it! Sometimes lack of color is just as beautiful as lots of color, you know? Mixing black and white with color photos can be tricky to get right, but I think this works. This collection is called Bright Ideas- elements, papers and journal cards.

1 second everyday

My unwritten, unspoken 2016 resolution was to take more videos of our life. When a dear friend of mine's 22 month old son died unexpectedly last year, I was at his funeral watching home videos of his life when I realized that I needed to make sure that we had videos. I get caught up in photographs and scrapbooking, but there's nothing that can capture the essence of a person like videos!

So I first started with trying to take more videos. Then my plan was to sit down once a month and compile the videos together, add music to them, post them on youtube then share them with the family and on my personal blog. We'll see if this ends up happening. 

BUT in the meantime, if you've out of the loop, the thing everyone is doing is this 1 Second Everyday app. Elise Cripe brought it to everyone's attention on her IG and blog and I'm pretty sure the app creator needs to thank her everyday for her free advertising. 

But here's the jist- you take one second of video everyday. And then it compiles them and puts the date at the bottom of each clip and you just watch your days roll into each other. It's quite fun. Here's one of mine:

It's so fun and even though it's just snippets, it encourages me (and the app reminds me) to take more videos everyday.

new year, new layout

The 2015 layout I did last year was one of my FAVORITES of all of 2015. I got inspiration from my one of my favorite pocket scrapbookers, Trisha Harrison. Most of my layouts try to jam pack so much information and pictures that this layout is fun because it's just a layout to separate one year from the next.

 This year I went for something very similar, but used the lovely Thrive kit from One Little Bird. Took headshots again with the white foam board behind us (and yes, Jeremy's headshot is a repeat- no sunlight when he got home from work- plus he looks the same. haha). I just noticed that Riley (the 3 year old) is wearing the same shirt that Sienna (5.5 year old) wore in her photo last year! Nice one, girls!

Happy new year! I'm carrying over last year's motto of "Hop on it!" (aka do things right away instead of waiting and being annoyed by things) Happy scrapping!