Kelly Purkey: scrapbooking

March 20, 2017

2016 Project Life Album: Weeks Twenty-Six and Twenty-Seven

I had to laugh when I was typing the title for this post because it seems a little silly that we're almost a quarter of the way through 2017 and I'm still only halfway through my Project Life album from last year! Ooops. Well, I'm still plugging away at it and determined to get that done. Never mind that I still have six months to go on it - I'm going to do it!

Catching up on posting here but sharing Week Twenty-Six:

Here's the process video for the spread - click below to watch it or you can view it on my YouTube channel (hope you will subscribe over there):

This week I was in Portland with my friend Jamaica and in LA with my bestie Sarah - both wonderful times with great friends. Nothing makes me happier. Here are a couple close-ups of the stamping:

I used my Clearly Kelly Los Angeles stamp set for the title photo - glad to put that set to use.

The big stamp here is from my Truth Bomb set which is one of my favorites. We all need to be dropping more truth bombs.

Here are the supplies used for this spread:

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And now a look at week Twenty-Seven:

Here's the process video for the spread - click below to watch it or you can view it on my YouTube channel:

And a closer look at the spread:

I will never stop being delighted over stamping in white onto photos. I used the Brilliance Moonlight White ink pad and this pad has lasted me for years. Eternal favorite. It's combined again with the Truth Bomb stamp set.

In February I released a kit called Love Story and used a lot of the stamps from the kit on this spread, it's a set I could easily use every week. I combined it with my new Clearly Kelly Good Night set and Everyday Alpha here. And yes, I was terrified stamping all of those separately onto the photo and thought I would mess it up. But somehow, it worked!

Here are the supplies for Week Twenty-Seven:

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I'm posting more process videos onto my YouTube channel way before I get around to sharing them here, so be sure to subscribe over there for updates. More to come soon.

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November 17, 2016

2016 Project Life: Weeks Five, Fourteen, and Fifteen

Playing a little catch-up posting my Project Life spreads here. I've been trying to post at least one process video a week on my YouTube channel and would love for you to subscribe over there. I've got about six to share on the blog here, so let's start with three!

Here's a look at Week Five:

And here's the process video for the spread - click below to watch it or you can view it on my YouTube channel:

This was back in February uses two stamp sets that I released in my shop back in September - Happy Things and Singleton. I love the text bubbles from Singleton and need to pull those out more. I'm going to include the supply lists for each spread here as well, just in case you want to check out any of the products I'm using:

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Skipping ahead a bit (I posted Weeks Six, Eight, and Nine here) here's the spread for Week Fourteen:

And here's the process video for the spread - click below to watch it or you can view it on my YouTube channel:

Here's the supply list for Week Fourteen:

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I had two weeks back in New York City with friends plus it was spring in the city, so I really love these two spreads.

Here's the spread for Week Fifteen:

And here's the process video for the spread - click below to watch it or you can view it on my YouTube channel:

We had a #PurkeyParty so I brought out my Instax camera and included an extra page with some of the photos between the regular two pages. Also... donuts!

Here's the supply list for Week Fifteen:

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I've really been enjoying working on the album this year and am always so glad that I keep up with this project. Even though I've skipped a few weeks here and there, the album is filling up and I love flipping through it. You can see the rest of my 2016 album here and I'll be back with more soon!

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November 09, 2016

My Morocco Trip Traveler's Notebook

I love documenting. I'm kind of obsessed and likely always will be. When I get to combine it with pretty paper and inking up stamps, I love it even more. Right now I may be behind on my Project Life album, haven't made a scrapbook layout in well over a year, and have more ideas for mini albums that I honestly think I will ever have time for. But still... I love it all and will continue to try to make making stuff and documenting a priority.

Back in June I went to Morocco for ten days and it was one of the best trips I have ever taken. I blogged a little about it here and wanted to create a mini album to document the adventure. I started putting it into a Traveler's Notebook and am really happy with the final project. I've been working in the space of pocket pages for so long that it really was a fun challenge for my brain to try to do things in a Traveler's Notebook size.

I shot a quick overview video of the Traveler's Notebook and flipped through all of the pages so you could see the inside. Click below to watch it or you can view it on my YouTube channel:

Here are a few the inside pages:

All of the photos were printed on my Epson Picturemate printer onto 4x6 papers and this helped tremendously. If you're looking for something to put on your Christmas list, I highly recommend it. In the video I also mentioned how using the spreads in the Traveler's Notebook felt like a throwback to doing a 12x12 layout, which was so much fun and made me miss doing them. Maybe 2017 is the Year of the Layout Comeback. Wouldn't that be cool?

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September 27, 2016

2016 Project Life: Weeks Six, Eight, and Nine

I've been posting some Project Life process videos over on my YouTube channel and finally have a minute to get caught up sharing the spreads here on the blog as well. It's been fun to attempt to catch up on this album (even though I've only made it to March so far!) and I'm enjoying the experience of going back and sorting through those memories.

Here are three weeks that I haven't shared yet on the blog starting with Week Six:

And here's the process video for the spread - click below to watch it or you can view it on my YouTube channel:

I got to use the Clearly Kelly Seattle stamp set that was released through Hero Arts and brought out my good old favorite white ink as well. I'm going to post the supply list for each week here in case you want to check out any of the products:

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Here is the spread for Week Eight:

And here's the process video for the spread - click below to watch it or you can view it on my YouTube channel:

I really love this spread because it documents some of my favorite things. My friends Tina + Jamaica, donuts, photobooths, flowers. Sigh. Happy.

Here's the supply list for Week Eight:

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Finally here's the spread for Week Nine:

Here's the process video for the spread - click below to watch it or you can view it on my YouTube channel:

A couple of my favorite stamp sets in this spread including the set from the September kit Around Town that will be in my shop on September 28th. I hope you love this kit!

And finally here are the supplies for this week:

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Whew! A few down... so many to go. Ha. I hope you've been making progress on your own 2016 album too!

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September 12, 2016

2016 Project Life Album: Week Four

I spent two hours this weekend printing out photos for two months of my Project Life album (while watching The Catch for the first time on Hulu - very fun!) so I could feel like I was on top of my game just a little more. I think when I try to print photos as I go week by week, it really slows me down. When they're already waiting in the album I get in the mindset that it's time to play and make and crank out spreads. I ended up doing about four weeks on Sunday. Yes! Let's go!

Here's the process video for Week Four (I skipped Week Three for now) on my YouTube channel. Click to watch it below or I hope you'll subscribe to my channel to get automatic notifications when they go up:

And here's a look at the final spread:

It was a very gray week which I think is typical for the last week in January. I was able to spend the weekend in Chicago + Milwaukee with two favorite people, so that definitely perked up the week.

Two stamp sets used above are Let's Make Magic (the words in the blocks) and the Moby alphabet - both in my shop now. I've been using the Let's Make Magic one a lot and it's a perfect set for Project Life.

Like I said, I had a productive weekend with my album so stay tuned for more Project Life spreads to come. One month down... only seven more to go! Ha!