Project Life: Birthday week

 This week: Nandini turned two.  We celebrated as a family with a picnic in the park (her party was the next weekend).  We also went strawberry picking and back to the rodeo one last time. Avinash started a new routine of wanting to sleep in my bed with my old baby tiger. I did this spread a couple days earlier than usual and it was much easier to remember the little details (clearly there is too much aluminum in my deodorant).

Page one: Found my groove with the vertical photos this week.  Just lots and lots of pictures.  I used many cards of the American Crafts holiday kit again this week.  I used a few die cut ephemera from Crate Paper and Lucky Charm here (why are they so hard for me to use!).  I layered wood on wood, putting the word happy over a little banner.  I also have a few SC printables circles here and there (love this, hi, today, love).  I used my new circle mask (thanks Anandi!) on a tag and I stamped&gold embossed with this Lucky Charm roller all over.

A few MME buttons and banners here and there go a long way to adding dimension to the pockets.   I used the boy crazy set and the sweetest thing set.  The teal letter stickers are Jillibean soup, my fave flat alphas for Project Life.  The yellow ones on the wooden tag are from an SC kit, they should totally sell those too!

I stamped on a little Martha Stewart tag and added some 'faux washi' stickers from Crate.   I added some wooden stars, a camera and enamel dot to finish it off.  I realized that I used to put wooden cameras everywhere last year and I really miss that.  

Page two: I moved things around quite a bit on this side.  So much that I tore the bottom seam.  Luckily a little squirrel paperclip works well to hold things in place (I hate slipping).  All of these cards are printables, mostly American Crafts Holiday Line, and one paislee press woodgrain card.  So simple and so epic. 

 The gold glitter thickers were special enough to document Nandini's birth date (pi baby!).  I chopped a journaling card in quarters and then wrote directly on the photo in white pen (sharpie poster paint pen).  I did a bit more gold embossing on the memories card.  I forgot how much I love the look of metallic embossing.

 More printables.  That font on the strawberry photo is peach sundress.

 Let me know if you have any questions. Linked up with The Mom Creative for Project Life Tuesday. The PL kits I am using are the Seafoam kit and Clementine kit, with multi-pack page protectors, and grid journaling cards.  Thank you so much to everyone in this wonderful community. I love all the feedback and looking at everything people do each week. It definitely keeps me motivated. Also, please include a link to your projects below so we can check them out too!