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{Free Printables: Valentine themed : Cards and tags}

by on February 8, 2013
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A whole bunch of Valen­tine stuff com­ing your way!

First, a sim­ple print­able to make with your kids. Just print, cut and fold. I explain more about how my print­able cards work in this post...

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Click here to down­load “Valen­tines for kids” cards

Sec­ond, a set of cards for your loved one. Prop this card (with a sweet hand­writ­ten mes­sage inside it) on the dresser for Valentine’s morn­ing and sur­prise him. Or her.

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Click here to down­load “valentine” cards

Lastly a com­pletely col­or­ful set of 3 by 4 inch cards. These would work great as tags for valen­tine gifts or as filler cards for your Project life :)

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Click here to down­load “the valentine” tags

 

 

Want even more Free­bies? Read all pre­vi­ous Free Print­able posts by click­ing here

If you are inter­ested in dig­i­tal free­bies, like/fol­low me on face­book or twit­ter and get the lat­est updates and sneaks!  I  pin a lot more of the free­bies that I spy in this pro­jectlifeLOVE board on pin­ter­est.

 

Thanks for stop­ping by today & have a fab­u­lous weekend!!

We are expect­ing snow. We are prob­a­bly going to stay in, cook yummy food (we have the menu planned already– yes we are like that) and hope­fully I will get time to craft.

What are your plans for this weekend?

 

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Posted by Smitha on February 8, 2013

http://www.smilingcolors.com/2013/02/free-printables-valentine-themed-cards-and-tags/

{Project life: Week 5 : February}

by on February 5, 2013
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It’s Project life time again! It’s week 5 and I am still here.

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 With the past two days being super busy I was very tempted to skip work­ing on my spread. But then I real­ized that I needed to work on my PL spread more than ever this week, just to make myself feel good. I decided that I should just make it quick and move on. Noth­ing fancy required. This week its a sin­gle page Design E style page protector. Free print­able sub­way art for Feb­ru­ary came from here (which you can repin here). I also loved this sub­way art by eighteen25 (which you can repin here)

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I made photo col­lages for all of my 6 by 6 inserts using these free sto­ry­board tem­plates by gin­ger pixel. If you are a pho­to­shop novice, she also has this com­pre­hen­sive tuto­r­ial on how to add your pho­tos to your tem­plates (repin it now for future ref­er­ence)

I made most of my pho­tos Black n white and col­ored just a few pho­tos. A hint of color rather than a pop of color.

I chose to shrink my tem­plate to be about 4.75 inches and then back each col­lage with a pat­terned paper. All of the 6 by 6 papers ( I love 6 by 6 paper pads!) for this weeks spread from BasicGrey’s Fic­tion collection.

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And here is a look at my final spread. Really sim­ple. The only embell­ish­ments are the Freck­led Fawn Wood words and some felt hearts. And lots of Tiny attacher staples.

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I don’t have  a new free­bie ready for today, I am work­ing on a cou­ple dif­fer­ent things and will have them posted by the end of this week. There will be free Valen­tine cards for kids and adults– so stop by again ;)

Mean­while, feel free to revisit last years Valen­tine themed free print­able (Has it been a year now since I started desig­ing free­bies? Wow, time sure flies when you are hav­ing fun!

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Click here to down­load “the valentine” cards

Want even more Free­bies? Read all pre­vi­ous Free Print­able posts by click­ing here

Click here to scroll through all of my pre­vi­ous Project Life spreads

Thanks for stop­ping by today!

If you are inter­ested in dig­i­tal free­bies, like/fol­low me on face­book or twit­ter and get the lat­est updates and sneaks!  I  pin a lot more of the free­bies that I spy in this pro­jectlifeLOVE board on pin­ter­est. I am also join­ing in on the Project life Tues­day at The Mom Cre­ative, I love how Jes­sica gives us a dead­line to get our spreads done.
The Mom CreativeIf you are new to Project life head here to learn more. If you want to read more about my 2013 approach to Project life head here. upplies: I am print­ my pho­tos (and the PL cards) at home using my Canon 9000 pro series.
I use this paper by Canon- which is sim­ply amaz­ing!!! It is a matte paper and has the look and feel of card­stock. This printer/paper combo is the main rea­son Project Life is work­ing for me this year. I am also using this new cor­ner rounder by Fiskars.
My album and page pro­tec­tors, I got at Tar­get and are the We R mem­ory keep­ers brand. I am try­ing to main­tain a con­sis­tant jour­nal­ing font this time, and am using Hel­vetica Neue. I do all my dig­i­tal pro­cess­ing in Adobe Photoshop Cs5.
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Posted in Freebie, Hybrid Scrapbooking, My project life spreads, Project Life
Posted by Smitha on February 5, 2013

http://www.smilingcolors.com/2013/02/project-life-week-5-february-free-printable/

{Project Life: Week 2 : Peekaboo + Free Printable}

by on January 19, 2013
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Week two of my Project life is a spread that sim­ply makes me happy! I think its all the bright fun col­ors here…

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(jour­nal­ing has been blurred, to main­tain privacy)

The top right photo is an insta­gram that printed out really well. The words and Chevron are by Pink Paislee Dig­i­tal. On the bot­tom right card I used some free dig­i­tal glit­ter by Sahlin Stu­dio. The top right card and the bot­tom left card– are both part of todays free­bie (scroll all the way down this blog post to down­load). I just took last weeks free­bie and col­ored the words. I don’t know which I love bet­ter now– the grey ver­sion or the color version!

The mid­dle left card is a photo of my daugh­ter play­ing peek­a­boo. I actu­ally sew/washi taped a 4 by 6 pocket around the photo so its a flap now…

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The mid­dle right card was inspired by this card of  I made ear­lier this week. I used the same tech­nique I used to make this card but used the Basic Grey Tiny alphas to spell out my words. The ZIng emboss­ing pow­ders I used are But­ter, Rose, Grape­fruit, Aqua and Cricket (i think?)

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And here is this weeks free print­able down­load… (for per­sonal use only)

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Click here to down­load “the week-in color” cards

Want even more Free­bies? Read all pre­vi­ous Free Print­able posts by click­ing here

My blog post about Project LIfe is being fea­tured at the Busy Being Happy web­site today. Do stop by and say hi to her !

Thanks for stop­ping by my blog today!

 If you are inter­ested in dig­i­tal free­bies, like/fol­low me on face­book or twit­ter and get the lat­est updates and sneaks!  I  pin a lot more of the free­bies that I spy in this pro­jectlifeLOVE board on pin­ter­est. I am also join­ing in on the Project life Tues­day at The Mom Cre­ative, I love how Jes­sica gives us a dead­line to get our spreads done. If you are new to Project life head here to learn more. If you want to read more about my 2013 approach to Project life head here.
Supplies: I am print­ my pho­tos (and the PL cards) at home using my Canon 9000 pro series. I use this paper by Canon- which is sim­ply amaz­ing!!! It is a matte paper and has the look and feel of card­stock. This printer/paper combo is the main rea­son Project life is work­ing for me this year.  I am also using this new cor­ner rounder by Fiskars. My album and page pro­tec­tors, I got at Tar­get and are the We R mem­ory keep­ers brand. I am try­ing to main­tain a con­sis­tant jour­nal­ing font this time, and am using Hel­vetica Neue. I do all my dig­i­tal pro­cess­ing in Adobe Pho­to­shop Cs5.
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Posted in Freebie, Hybrid Scrapbooking, My project life spreads, Project Life
Posted by Smitha on January 19, 2013

http://www.smilingcolors.com/2013/01/project-life-week-2-peekaboo-free-printable/

{Free printables: Word of the week}

by on January 8, 2013
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Week one, and I can’t believe I am on track already. The first page of our album has been seen at least 20 times this last week, so I decided its time to add more stuff to the album.

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( the jour­nal­ing has been blurred  to main­tain a lit­tle privacy) 

All pho­tos in this weeks spread are insta­grams. Top cor­ner on the left is a free new year’s sub­way art from here. For the top cor­ner on the right I used these free sn@p print­a­bles. I actu­ally stitched up two of the print­a­bles in Pho­to­shop to get what I wanted. Bot­tom row mid­dle is a some­thing I cre­ated (and is part of the free­bie if you scroll below). I added a word with some thick­ers (I have hoarded enough of these, so I am glad to actu­ally be using some up) and sewed it down, just to be safe. I hate it when my alpha­bets move after they have been in the album for a while.

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I am print­ing pho­tos (and the PL cards) at home using my Canon 9000 pro series. There are many print­ers way bet­ter than this, but this one works just fine. I use this paper by Canon- which is sim­ply amaz­ing!!! It is a matte paper and has the look and feel of card­stock. Only it doesn’t soak up ink like card­stock, but gives a beau­ti­ful crisp print with vibrant col­ors. This printer/paper combo is the main rea­son Project life is work­ing for me this year.  I am also using this new cor­ner rounder by Fiskars. My album and page pro­tec­tors, I got at Tar­get and are the We R mem­ory keep­ers brand. I am try­ing to main­tain a con­sis­tant jour­nal­ing font this time, and am using Hel­vetica Neue. I do all my dig­i­tal pro­cess­ing in Adobe Pho­to­shop Cs5. I think that about cov­ers it :)

And here is this weeks Free Print­able, a fun and nice filler card, for those weeks when you don’t have too many photos,

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Click here to down­load “the week” cards

Want even more Free­bies? Read all pre­vi­ous Free Print­able posts by click­ing here

Thanks for stop­ping by my blog today!

 I  pin a lot more of the free­bies that I spy in this pro­jectlifeLOVE board on pin­ter­est. If you are inter­ested in dig­i­tal free­bies, like/fol­low me on face­book or twit­ter and get the lat­est updates and sneaks! I am also join­ing in on the Project life Tues­day at The Mom Cre­ative, I love how Jes­sica gives us a dead­line to get our spreads done. If you are new to Project life head here to learn more. If you want to read more about my 2013 approach to Project life head here.

 

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Posted by Smitha on January 8, 2013

http://www.smilingcolors.com/2013/01/free-printables-word-of-the-week/

{Free Printables and My Project Life 2013 approach}

by on January 1, 2013
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A new morning

A new day

A new year.

A brand new year!

Hello 2013

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A new year means new crafty res­o­lu­tions right? ;)

Last year I did Becky Hig­gins Project life approach Dig­i­tally– doc­u­ment­ing every month in a two page spread. I have most of the year fin­ished, just havent got around to blog­ging it yet. (Click here for my last year’ posts)

For this year, I have a new approach to Project Life.

While doing it dig­i­tally was fun, I have yet to print my album. And now that my older one is a lit­tle older– 3 yrs+ I am pretty sure she will enjoy look­ing at the album in progress.

So this year I am doing the actual Project Life= album, page pro­tec­tors and print­ing pho­tos at home. I really want to use the Seafoam Kit by Elise Cripe, but it hasn’t hit the mar­ket yet.

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But I am not doing it with a two page spread per week. That would be too much pres­sure for me to handle.

Instead, I am aim­ing to do about 2 or 3 page pro­tec­tors per month. Maybe. A page will be done when it is filled, not when the week is up. And I wont share all pages on the blog either, just a few here and there.

There might be months with just one page.

And that’s ok.

My album is sit­ting on a makeshift table, a big card board box. Its the right height for the girls to look at and thats what this project is about. Them.

Its not just pre­serv­ing the mem­o­ries, its also the process of pre­serv­ing the mem­o­ries. And enjoy­ing those mem­o­ries at any time. Not just when I pull out the album and let them see it.

And this album is a fam­ily project this year.

yes fam­ily :)

I will be over­see­ing the album, choos­ing which page pro­tec­tor to use and what pho­tos to use.

But– I have del­e­gated the print­ing of selected pho­tos to my hus­band. He LOVES pho­tog­ra­phy (check out his pho­tos here), and LOVES our new photo printer– so this has been fun already. I usu­ally used to upload my pho­tos to Costco and pick them up once in every few weeks, but print­ing the pho­tos at home just makes this SO much easier!

And my lit­tle girl, this one here in the photo– she is in charge of round­ing the cor­ners (We use this *NEW* cor­ner rounder by Fiskars). And she is good at it and its fun for her! They might not all be per­fect but thats ok.

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(I have had to tell myself and my hus­band that “It’s OK” a cou­ple of times…)

I think it is more impor­tant that we get this done in a fun way– not that it is absolutely pixel per­fect :)

Enough talk, now shall we move to how the cover page looks?

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For the “2013” card, I cre­ated the 2013 in Pho­to­shop, and added a wood veneer that I had cre­ated for us say­ing “The Katti’s”

I then added two coats of Glossy Accents on top of the num­bers to give it some gloss.

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I also added some more wood veneer words and some sequins to some of the photos…

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I added my last weeks Free Print­able She/He Said card with some jour­nal­ing. And called my cover page done.


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On hind sight, I would not have done the Glossy Accents– it took too much time to dry and I had no patience for it..

But I am in love with this project already, and have filled a few pock­ets of the next page already!! Eeks, this is exciting!!

And here is a Free Print­able for you all– the 2013 card. Hope you enjoy this one!

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Click here to down­load the 2013 cards

 Want even more Free­bies? Read all pre­vi­ous Free Print­able posts by click­ing here

I am also join­ing in on the Project life Tues­day at The Mom Cre­ative! I love the energy they have there!

 

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Link me up to your new albums!! I would love to stop by your blog and say hi!
Happy new year everybody!!
Thanks for stop­ping by my blog today.

(If this is the first time you have heard about Project Life, go here to learn more)

 

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Posted by Smitha on January 1, 2013

http://www.smilingcolors.com/2013/01/free-printables-and-my-project-life-2013-approach/

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