colors combo galore: in the navy

happy friday everyone!  

there's a new challenge up at colors combo galore and i'm in love with the colors this week!

i had so much fun putting my layout together.

there's just something about balloons, a princess dress, a banner and enamel dots that make for some fun.

here is the inspiration board.  aren't the colors awesome?

and here is my layout for the week.

i used lots of dear lizzy's lucky charm collection for this one.  it was the perfect match for me.  and the photo of my two sitting on the hill holding the balloons couldn't be better!!

i took my inspiration from picture #1: focus on trends (banners)...and I also some inspiration from that first picture for the polka dot paper and the enamel dots on the page.

the vintage look of the birdcage in picture #4 was perfect inspiration for the distressed dear lizzy card.

thanks so much for stopping by!  pop on over to color combos galore and check out the other inspiration this week!  so fun!

outdoors...

we've been living outdoors these last few days.  

daylight savings time in the spring always makes me so tired, but oh so happy.

so ready for spring!!

dreaming of spring...

i'm dreaming of spring today.

pretty flowers

warmer weather

open windows

sunshine

late sunsets

butterflies

project life: week 10

week 10 and this project still rocks.

nothing really out of the ordinary this week. 

playgrounds.

painting.

snuggle time.

sickness.

our life.

we've been having some gorgeous "spring-like" weather so we have spent a lot of time outdoors lately. loving the sunshine right now so much.  

here's a look at the whole week...

i love the little cards from dearest someday (bottom left card).  i love her style and i love how easily they fit right into my week.

and here's a better look at the right and left sides.

the top right card is a picture of some journaling i did for a layout over the weekend.  i love what it says so much that i just had to include it.

and i love those little tabbed cards from elle's studio!  so fun and so versatile. i cut this one down so it would fit behind the studio calico march project life card.

happy tuesday everyone!  hope you all have a great day!  thanks so much for stopping by!

linking up with the mom creative.

this is our story...

nicole samuels posted a challenge on her blog this week to create a layout about how your journey with memory keeping began.  I'm desperately missing the daily Bright Ideas challenges at Studio Calico and I loved the idea of documenting "your story".

For me, my memory keeping journey began in 2011 with project life.  i love project life (as you probably know if you follow my blog).  it's perfect for recording the little bits and pieces of life.  but i've also fallen in love with making layouts and documenting more memories.  i do it because i love paper and stuff.  and because it keeps me sane.  it's my little "quiet place" where i get to be creative and dream.  

but i also love having those little conversations of my children written down in one place.  and ticket stubs from plays (even if they are awful).

so this was layout for nicole's challenge.  i created a "project life" style layout, of course.  i'm loving it so much.  i love how it documents "our story".