Project Life : Week 4

I struggled with this week's layout. I started out trying to make it lively and colorful, given that my 31st birthday was last Tuesday, but I just wasn't feeling bright and happy no matter how much I tried. Once I let myself go with a mostly black and white scheme, it all fell into place.

We had a few fun happenings this week, mostly involving food-- Mark made me a chocolate cake with almond cream and chocolate ganache from scratch for my birthday, Saturday's breakfast was Texas toast French toast and sausage, we had some happy hour fries and cider, and we took a French cooking class together downtown. However, some sad moments were also documented, including my reflections on my birthday / the 1-year anniversary of my grandfather's death (I included a paragraph from my blog post next to his photo), and an awful post-surgery diagnosis from my vet that my kitty Misfit has a very rare type of cancer. *Sigh.* I don't know how to deal with that news yet.

Items used: Midnight Edition Core Kit, Photo Pocket Pages variety pack, generic black ink pad, Canon Selphy printer, Wacom tablet, Thickers (similar), pinwheel button from Kelly Purkey's December Daily 2012 kit, vellum paper, polka dot Smash tape, Liz Lemon Project Life "Blerg" card via CaitididDesigns (my old blog).

Custom Touches: I used a bunch of different techniques this week. The weekly title uses a card from the Midnight kit. The words were printed on vellum and overlaid onto the card with double-sided tape. Also printed onto vellum were the "More Snow" words on the winter trees photo and the paragraph next to the photo of my grandfather. The light green background card is a trimmed paint swatch. The "You'll Need Coffee Shops" quote from Jamie Tworkowski was found on Pinterest, and comes from the organization To Write Love On Her Arms. The "Happy Birthday" illustration was a card from Sephora I received last week that I trimmed and mounted onto a striped card from the Midnight kit. Lastly, I used my Wacom tablet to write "Hello" and printed it onto a laser transparency sheet, and layered it with a card from the Midnight kit. The polka dot tape and the number Thickers were adhered to the transparency sheet (I mainly used a transparency because I couldn't decide what paper I wanted to use as a background. It took a lot of experimenting for me to figure it out).