Polly! Guest Designer - Lauren
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Project Life Fun with Lauren Matthews
Happy Monday Polly! Lovelies! Lauren here and I am up with a
Project Life spread using the January Pocket Scrapbooking Kit Raspberry Shortcake. I love love loved working with this kit especially the Basic Grey
Fresh Cut and Studio Calico Printshop lines, plus all of the cute
embellishments.
I decided to tackle my 2014 Week One (let’s not even discuss
if my 2013 album is finished yet) using this kit, as I used the Almond Biscotti Scrapbooking Kit to document our New Years Eve celebration and wanted this page
to be an insert in my weekly PL spread.
Ruth does an amazing job at coordinating the Scrapbooking
and Pocket Scrapbooking kits – so I knew that they would work perfectly
together.
I decided to use the Fresh Cut paper and cards as the base
for the weekly spread – I absolutely loved the Summer card and knew it was
perfect for a January spread!
This was such an easy kit to work with it. Lately I have
been using banner flags and layering on my layouts to add texture and also
bring a sense of continuity to my pages. It also means that I can use pieces
from a single collection to link the layout. For this layout I also used a piece
of the paper from the Almond Biscotti kit – which I also used on my 12x12
layout – bringing all the pages together.
One thing I love about Polly! kits are the diversity of the
embellishments – many of them probably wouldn’t have caught my eye if they
weren’t in the Polly! Kit. Those wine glass clips, the labels, the bigger
sequins, the EXCLUSIVE Amy Tan tag (total crush on Amy so to include one of her
EXCLUSIVE creations was so rad!) and the enamel dots are all absolutely
drool-worthy and really mean that you can make your layout pop. But before I go
any further lets talk about those alphas for a minute! Swoon! Ruth, I seriously
need more!
I didn’t have to add anything to the kit, other than the
piece of paper from the Almond Biscotti kit and my old school dymo labeller. I
also tried stamping on photos with white Staz-On ink for the first time and I
am reasonably happy with how it turned out.
You can see that I used a variety of page protectors. I am
really loving including the new square protectors – I am addicted to Instagram
(I Instagram everything - particularly every meal I eat) so they work perfectly
with the square format and they print out easily on my Canon Selphy photo
printer. If you’re interested visit my instagram @theotherbacall, I’d love to
see you!
It was so fun having printables this month to accompany the
kits. Now when you look at the January card I used you may notice the colours
are different – that is because my printer lost the plot and isn’t printing
blue. I think that the pinks and yellows worked, and I outlined the month in
black to give the month more definition. These monthly cards are a great way
for Polly! subscribers to tie their year together.
As I was on holidays for the first week of 2014 lots of
things were going on – we love having adventures and getting out amongst it
with our friends and family – so I needed an insert to document everything we
did. I also wanted to document my One Little Word for 2014. You can read more
about my One Little Word and how it chose me over at my blog - https://lovelifelauren.squarespace.com/journal/2014/1/5/gratitude-my-one-little-word-for-2014.
It has been so much fun playing with the January Polly! Kits
– I will be back next week with some more creations!
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