Valentine Project Inspiration

Just one more week until Valentine's Day!  We know that you have cards to create and treats to package...even layouts that you are dreaming of creating after the Big Day!  So today we are giving you a little inspiration for those projects!  We hope you enjoy!

Please click on the pictures to view the project in a bigger format and click on the designer's name to visit their personal blog and learn more!

Practical Scrapper Janice

Practical Scrapper Christine

Practical Scrapper Becci

Practical Scrapper Jessica Arrant

Practical Scrapper Karen used washi tape to create folded zig zag strips and a frame of rick rack to finish off this Valentine's layout beautifully.

Practical Scrapper Janice

 Practical Scrapper Cathy

 Practical Scrapper Wendi Robinson

Practical Scrapper Deborah

Practical Scrapper Charity

Practical Scrapper Jennifer Haggerty

Practical Scrapper Nicole Laha



Practical Scrapper Christine

Practical Scrapper Kristy MacKeen

Practical Scrapper Marcia Dehn-Nix

Practical Scrapper Kim Ryden

Practical Scrapper Krissy Clark McKee created this card with her Paper Bakery Love Potion #9 Scrapbook Kit 

Thanks for stopping by today.  We hope to see you back here next week for some more fun!!

Project Life Feature - January

Hey everyone!  Welcome to our first Project Life spread of the year!  We are excited to be bringing you this feature a few times through out the year to inspire you on your own Project life spreads!  Let's check out what the Design Team has to share this week.

Practical Scrapper Nicole Laha documents January 8-14 in this spread. The Project Life Kits from Studio Calico have coordinating journaling cards and embellishments which make it easy to pull together a spread. 

Practical Scrapper Charissa documented her week 2 of 2014 using her January Studio Calico Project Life kit.  Having a kit or core kit makes it really easy to ensure that everything coordinates!  She also included two different confetti pockets on this spread for a little bit of fun.

Practical Scrapper Wendi Robinson is working on her PL 2012 album, and getting caught up. She used vellum on a couple of the pocket areas for a fun touch.

Practical Scrapper Jennifer Haggerty documented this Fall 2012 week using Teresa Collins Designs' Family  Stories collection. (Jennifer is way behind on her pages!)

 Practical Scrapper Kristy MacKeen documented Week 2 of 2014 using lots and lots of October Afternoon rub-on snowflakes.  Her kids had 5 snow days in a row, so snow played a major theme in her work for this week.  She used cards from Studio Calico, We R Memory Keepers and Becky Higgins Project Life.

We hope that these spreads inspire you for your next Project Life page!  As you can see there are lots of ways to do your Project Life and it is even a great project to go back and do for older photos!

***Project Life is a system of memory keeping created by Becky Higgins.  You can learn more about it on her blog.***

On Trend: Chalkboard

One of the fun trends in the paper crafting world right now is...Chalkboard.  You can achieve this look with black cardstock and white chalk or paint or ink.  But there are many companies that are incorporating this technique into their papers, stickers and embellishments these days!

 

We hope you enjoy what the Design Team created for you today!  Make sure to pin the projects if you love them and leave some love for the designers on their blogs!  We love to hear from our readers!

Practical Scrapper Wendi Robinson used some Crate chalkboard paper and embellies along with using a white pen to write on the black cardstock.

 

Practical Scrapper Charity used paper from Kaiser Craft and Recollections to make this "Just Because" card.

Practical Scrapper Mary Pat used some Core'dinations cardstock and scored and sanded it. She then stamped and heat embossed various sentiments.

Practical Scrapper Cathy used a collection from Elle's Studio and a white chalk marker from Zig to create the Hexagons along with some Marshmallow Glimmer Mist!

Practical Scrapper Marcia Dehn-Nix used Chalkboard from We R Memory Keepers for this layout.

Practical Scrapper Karen chose to mimic the chalkboard look by sanding Core'dinations paper and adding a few smudges to give the appearance of chalk dust haze.

Practical Scrapper Lisa used Basic Grey's Fresh Cut collection and the chalk sentiments from Studio Calico to document her focus this month for her One Word 2014: Choose album.

Practical Scrapper Charissa used a chalkboard cards from Studio Calico and some Fancy Pants Chalk Tape to add interest to her page about her little princess.

 

 

Practical Scrapper Kim Ryden used a Chalkboard sticker by Pebbles on this fun "Hello, hi" card.

 

Happy New Year

We are taking a break for most of the holiday time, but we wanted to pop in and wish you all a Happy New Year and share a few projects focused on the new year!  

Practical Scrapper Wendi Robinson shares a New Years card

Practical Scrapper Jessica Arrant shares a New Year's card

Practical Scrapper Deborah is looking forward to adventures with her family in 2014.

Practical Scrapper Alison shares a KISS New Year card. Simplicity is her One Little Word for 2014 - here's hoping this card can start things off right!

December Layout Sketch

It's time for another Layout Sketch with the Practical Scrappers!  We hope that you enjoy this sketch and that you play along with us this month!

Here is the sketch that Liz created and that inspired us all...

Practical Scrapper Wendi Robinson

Practical Scrapper Erin Morehouse

Practical Scrapper Jessica Arrant

Practical Scrapper Jennifer Haggerty

Practical Scrapper Lee-Anne Thornton

Practical Scrapper Krissy Clark McKee rotated her sketch to create her layout.

Practical Scrapper Kim Ryden

Thanks for stopping by today!  We hope that you enjoyed out layouts and will come back next week for some more crafty fun!

December Card Sketch

It's that time of the month again...Card Sketch Time!  We love Card Sketches around here and we know you do too!

This is a fun one...

Now check out what our Design Team did with it today...

Practical Scrapper Wendi Robinson

Practical Scrapper Jessica Arrant

Practical Scrapper Patty

Practical Scrapper Lee-Anne 

Practical Scrapper Kristy

Practical Scrapper Kim Ryden

Thanks for stopping by today!  We would love for you to play along with us and link up in the comments section here on the blog or on our facebook group!