RaptorMama

 

I realize that I’m a bit biased, but man oh man I am loving this page.  Everything but the twine and the Thickers are from The Pier.  I just can’t get enough of it!  I went a bit wild on this page and added tons of layers.  <3

 

The Thickers were a bit hard to read so I backed them with some paper.  I had a gap between the title and the branding strip that I wasn’t quite sure what to do with.  I ended up taking a chance and journaling directly on the paper which, thankfully, worked out.

Love this page.  I don’t usually put phone photos on my traditional pages, but these were just too cute not to!

I kind of think it needs a little something in the bottom corner, but I can’t figure out what.  Papers are October Afternoon’s Midway.

 

I skipped the title card again this week in favor of another picture.  I’m liking mixing them in like this.  I kept this one pretty simple since I’m still playing catch up.  I’m almost caught up though!

Oh, and mad props to my sister-in-law who made Raptor’s cake.  Not only was it *gorgeous* it was organic and egg/ nut free.  I highly recommend her if you’re looking for a cake in the Austin area.  🙂

 

I’m having so much fun with my papers from The Pier that I’ve resorted to editing and printing current pictures at home!  In fact, I scrapped these the same week that they were taken.  What can I say, I’m just not motivated to scrap Christmas pictures when it’s so hot outside!  🙂

I found some old paper when I was cleaning out my desk (I’m pretty sure it’s Making Memories?) and the colors were perfect so I threw them in the drawer with this collection.  I really like how it changes up the look.  I’ll be honest, I bought a ton of this stuff and I don’t want every page from this summer to look the same.  🙂

 

Working on catching up!  🙂

Still loving this project!  Also clearly loving my waterproof camera.  🙂

Do you guys like seeing my Project Life layout every week?  Would you rather see more traditional layouts?  More cooking disasters?  More crafts?  Leave me a comment and let me know what you want to see more of.  🙂

 

 

So, I decided to cheat and reuse all of my Valentine’s Day stuff this week.  I’m so glad I did!

I have all of the trays and crafts in the same box as our party decorations so I went ahead and put some of them up too.  Raptor is beyond thrilled.

Here is our counting work.  I’m not entirely sure that we have all 60 counters anymore, but since this is aimed for for E and we’re working on 1-5, I think we’ll be fine.

I also pulled out our uppercase/ lowercase letter magnets.  I might just work with E on putting them in order, but if they want to play with them as magnets I’ll get out a cookie sheet.

I threw in the puffs last week almost as an afterthought, but they were a big hit with all 3 girls!  I couldn’t find my heart ice cube tray, so I just used a muffin tin.

For math, I wrote out several problems and put them in a tin with a bunch of foam heart stickers.  I’m thinking they can stick the hearts to the paper to count with.

Basic craft with some stamps.  I’ll throw in the safety scissors when I find them.

I imagine this will actually be the biggest hit.  We got Raptor some new playdoh and I pulled out our party table cloth in hopes of containing some of the mess.  I’m so excited for this week!  I had forgotten how much fun it is to do a holiday theme.  There’s just so much fun stuff to work with.  🙂  We’ll be working on this for for 2 weeks I’m sure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love Valentine’s Day and I freely admit that I bought waaaay too much Valentine’s Day paper back in January thinking that Raptor and I would do lots of fun picture worthy things for the holiday.  Then RaptorDad got sick and I just didn’t take that many pictures in February.  I’ll be set for next year!

The pictures aren’t great.  What can I say, Raptor and I were having too much fun at her party to take many.  🙂  I scrapped them anyway because I they make me happy.  I love this line from Imaginisce.  The hexagons are precious!  I think this line is too cute to pack up until next year.  You just might see it on some non-Valentine’s Day layouts.  🙂

Initially, I inked the edges of the hearts like I did with the paper layers.  It looked a bit off though so I left them plain.  I think it looks better this way.

I deliberately left off any journaling.  Her party ended up being perfect, but there was quite a bit of upset in the days leading up to it which I didn’t feel like really had a place in her scrapbook.  I have the less pleasant aspects of the story in Project Life and that’s quite enough for me.  I like to keep her book positive.

 

 

 

We went on vacation this weekend so I decided to devote the entire right hand page to that.  🙂

I had such a hard time narrowing down the photos that RaptorDad suggested I use a photo instead of a title card.  I think I like it.  🙂

I modified the template so I could add more pictures.  One of the things that I love most about going digital for Project Life is that I can make changes to the template like this without it affecting the next week’s layout.

 

 

I love this new camping line from Jillibean Soup!  I’m almost out of it and I’m totally going to buy more.  Sorry for the excessive blurring on this one.  It’s kids from Kate’s class so I decided to err on the side of caution.