Big Picture Classes Pajama Party Project!

You may or may not know that Big Picture Classes hosted another online "Pajama Party" on September 26th. The past two Pajama Parties have had featured projects from Close To My Heart (one of which was the "Just Because" container that I keep drawing my challenges out of), however, this month, the featured project was sponsored by Studio Calico. The project uses a kit called "Project Life", which you can STILL purchase at a SUBSTANTIAL discount HERE by using the code SeptemberPJParty at checkout (Only $10 plus shipping until October10th). I highly recommend it, though you can be the judge once you've seen the project!

I began, of course, by ordering the kit. It comes in an adorable, magnetic-closure box. Here is what is inside:

LOTS of journaling cards in 4" x 6" and 3" x 4" sizes, alphabet stickers, a small acrylic stamp set, and more. Now, here's the fun part - what we did with it! There were three pages to the online project. Here is the first page:

The project is "a look back on 2013", with an "empty" spot for a Fall 2013 pic (mine has already been filled on page 3). Two things of note: 1) The tan border around the edge is just the table I took the photo on - it is not part of the page. 2) Evidently, "Project Life" is designed to go inside special photo pocket pages, which I did not have. Therefore, I just adhered all of the pieces to a 12" x 12" piece of white cardstock. Now I can just slip the pages into my regular Memory Protectors.


The great thing about this project is that they give you a "prep" worksheet which gives you all of the writing prompts and photo suggestions that you will need to complete the project. Once those prompts were filled out and the photos printed, the project was a cinch! (I'll give the links for the worksheet and the project instructions at the end of this post.) Here's page 2:

It's funny because I didn't have a few of the photos I needed to complete the project, so I made my family take part in a few impromptu photo sessions! One of them was the "breakfast from Dunkin's" pic, and the other was the "foot" pic (middle row, far right). This was one of the suggested photos from the prep sheet, so we went out to the backyard and took it - and I LOVE it! How adorable! I recommend everyone taking this pic whether they complete this project or not! And...page 3:

This is the "winter/spring/summer/fall" layout. I added a few of my own embellishments, like some bling I had lying around waiting to be used, and a couple of alphabet stamp sets in order to stamp "Holiday 2012" on the heart card. Everything else came from the kit. It was a breeze to put together, and I just LOVE the way it came out.
As promised, here are the links for the worksheets:


Prep Worksheets: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwyFxaosgJeYbHZBa2MtUnFHdkU/edit?usp=sharing
Project Instructions: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwyFxaosgJeYNkhGT0E3d0xiT2M/edit?usp=sharing

I hope you get your "Project Life" Kit for only $10, as I did. And I hope you have as much fun putting it together!