Are We There Yet? | Inspiration

Hello all!  Wendy here to share up a Spring Break vibe project for you this Friday.  As many in the States are gearing up for week long vacay (aka "Spring Break") to hit the beach (at least those coming to the Gulf Coast) and road trips, I thought appropriate to inspire with a travel card today.

So, let's pack up the flip flops, shorts, bikini, favorite snacks, and hit the beach!

I kept my card clean and simple.  I used a USA map stencil along with a fine tip Sharpie (non-bleed type) to fill in my stencil.  I added a puffy gold star sticker from Gold Misc Shapes Puffy Stickers.  Many of the puffy sticker collections from Evalicious have lots of colors in the stars to add a fun touch to mark your point of destination on a map.  Especially, I love the gold puffy stickers!  Gold is in and well, we all need a little gold in life. Ha!  

In the corner of my card, I stamped 'road trip' from the Road Trip Clear Stamp Set.  Under the stamped wording, I added the classic phrase heard often on road trips.... "we there yet?" as found in the Itinerary V1 Puffy Stickers.

I hope you enjoyed my quick, fun, and simple card!

Safe travels!

xo, Wendy

Shop Evalicious Product Used:

Itinerary V1 Puffy Stickers

Road Trip Clear Stamp Set

Gold Misc Shapes Puffy Stickers

We Were Here | Inspiration

Hello all!  Wendy here and let's greet this month of March head on with some beachy, springy, sunshiny vibes, shall we?  In living about 40 min from the beach (hey, don't hate) and the serenity of the Gulf Coast, I am completely absorbed in the peace and calm of the ocean.  Honestly, I can say I've never experienced a 'true' winter (again, don't envy) but I do like to share up my Gulf Coast living around here.  I've probably taken a million seagull pictures but each one is so unique.  Something about seagulls (their sound is the best), pelicans (their beaks are a bit scary as one did snap at me once...ok, I digress) and the beach....well, all collective of 'easy living' to pause and reflect.  

So, let's vacay together in my project today.

Somehow my husband spends more time at the beach than I do, I'm still working out that equation. Ha!  And I always joke with him that the seagulls and pelicans are his bodyguards and best friends.  They croak at me (and steal my sandwich, truth) and soar with open wings to him .  I don't get it!  We are both quite lovable but oh well....'we were here' together. Ha!

I love the Evalicious badge buttons.  The cool typewriter words in the Vintage Maps Badge Buttons are perfect for adding to the edge of your photos.  I also used Snip Snip page tabs  and Snip Snip Labels layered around my photos too.

It's fun to mix it up with stamping as layers around photos.  I used the 'fly away' stamp from the Fly Away Stamp Set.  

I added some watercoloring and free form messy journaling as another layer on my project.  

I hope you enjoyed our mini vacation (for a moment) together!  

xo, Wendy

Shop Evalicious Product Used:

Vintage Maps Mini Flatback Buttons

Escape Snip Snip Labels

Hello 2014 Miscellany v1 Puffy Stickers

Everyday Snip Snip Page Tabs

Fly Away Clear Stamp Set

Photographic Evidence | Inspiration

Hello all!  Wendy here to share up a bit of weekend inspiration!

Sometimes you need a bit of a fun and colorful project to push through the winter chill.  I'm bringing you just that today...a bit of colorful vibes for your weekend.  I love to bring a bit of random and unexpected to a project.  Many times I keep my mixed media projects less involved and more on a cleaner style with lots of white space.

After watercoloring my background.  I layered a tag from the Photo Shoot Large Tags behind my photo.

Then, I added touches of embellishing with puffy stickers, stamping, and a badge button.  You can find all the links below for the product.

I hope you enjoyed my project!

Evalicious Product List:

Itinerary v1 Puffy Stickers

Hello 2014 Miscellany v1 Puffy Stickers

Field Notes Clear Stamp Set

Photo Shoot Large Tags

Just Us Badge Buttons v1

xo. Wendy

Love You Lots | Inspiration

Hello All! Wendy here to share up some "pre-heart day" love for you!  Happy Valentine's (Eve), if there is such a thing, yes, let's bring some sweetness to the day!

I'm loving the page size of my Project Life ™7 1/4" x 8 1/4" in all sorts of ways these days.  You can see more of my projects in this size here and here.  I recently snapped these random pics last weekend of dear hubby and self as we were out and about one sunny + warm day.  Hey, we try to be the cool kids! Ha!

I wanted to keep my page clean with a punch of color, FUN, and full of LOVE, boom!

I used a badge button from Love You Lots V1 Badge Buttons as the perfect pop of dimension among some misted paint sprinkles on my layout.

I can't get enough of the puffy stickers!  I might confess to hoarding them because they are just that sacred.  Shhhh..... Then again, the mini star puffy stickers (Miscellany Shapes Puffy Stickers) were just the starry accent needed to the words used on my layout from "The Chaos of Stars".

Sending you hugs + kisses!  Enjoy the love day to the fullest!

I hope you enjoyed my project!

Evalicious Product List:

Miscellany Shapes Puffy Stickers

Note:  The Love You Lots V1 Badge Buttons I used on my project are currently sold out.  However, you can find TONS of amazing badge buttons from Evalicious here.

xo. Wendy

Insta-cakecoma | Inspiration

Hello all! Wendy here to share up a Project Life ™inspired layout for you.  I'm using a ~7"x8" format and working gradually to add more layouts into my smaller album.  The smaller album format works for me in my busy happenings.  I'm loving this approach and it's my goal to really be more into documenting the everyday now that I'm married because I'm really enjoying these moments together.  Even if not in so many words but photos alone, just getting the photos and moments onto paper.

I enjoy mixing it up (as you can see in my previous post here) and for this layout I reached back to older photos from the year or so past.  Go ahead, give yourself permission to mix it up....document out of order and just re-live the moment.  Many times I'll create it up with the same photos more than once.  I'm guilty and it's ok.

In this layout, I used birthday photos of my husband from 2013.  They seriously crack me up as he had a stomach full from dinner at home and then there was THE cake.  Well, being the comic that he is, he 'staged' a shot where he was head first into the cake and afterwards, the cake coma face. Yes, such a comic.  I had a laugh or two while creating this layout (and I confess he had a good laugh in remembering this moment too). Ha!

I used the 'cheers to a new year' from Hello 2014 Snip Snip Page Tabs along with wood veneer numbers.  Then I added a sprinkling of ink along with a mini triangle stamp from Photo Shoot Clear Stamp Set and fun puffy stars from Miscellany Shapes Puffy Stickers.  Just the right touch of festive fun for a birthday, yes!

I added the 'note this' badge from Field Notes v1 Badge Buttons.  The 'say cheese' tab is from Photo Shoot SnipSnip Page Tabs.

Did you know the Evalicious labels are perfect for layering too? I used the music note label from Love You Lots SnipSnip Labels.  Then, a sweet touch on texture with a wood veneer shape 'Fig. 1' from Field Notes Wood Veneer and more mini triangles and puffy stickers too.

For my title, I explored a fun twist by mixing stamps (#insta) and the new Evalicious Ledger Paper Alpha Stickers.  The grid effect on the puffy stickers are clean and versatile.  Then, a bit more stamping on the title as 'life documented' from the Field Notes Clear Stamp Set.  

I hope you enjoyed my project!

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xo. Wendy

This Weekend Looked Like This | Inspiration

Hello all! Wendy here and bringing a bit of sun, sand, and surf this chilly day of January.  I love to re-cap memories from all seasons (and sometimes from a year or two ago).  Many times I use a photo more than once in my projects simply because it's a fav and I want to create with it with a different flair.  In this case, I used a fav photo of my husband when we were at the local beach (Orange Beach, AL) from a couple of years ago.  I did a spin on a 'layout' to working the photo onto a tag.  Nothing wrong with changing it up a bit, right?

I spritzed the foundation of my tag with misting of paint and even hand dyed the ribbon with the mist.

I used a journaling card from the Photo Shoot Large Tags to layer behind my photo.

Then, I added a flair button from the Field Notes Badge Button v1.  Those buttons are SO fun and add just the perfect pop of dimension to a flat project.

As I've said before, I can't get enough of the NEW wood veneers from Evalicious!  So, I 'had' to use a wood veneer banner from the Field Notes Wood Veneer.  LOVE them.

I finished off my tag with a few pearl accents.  Now, I'm thinking to add my tag as a fun twist into my mini version of Project Life album.

I hope you enjoyed my project!

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xo. Wendy