Archive for January 7th, 2011

giving away project life

Friday, January 7th, 2011

1. Today there are two well-loved blogs featuring us: Tom Kat Studio and Where Women Create. There are a few pictures of our home office on the WWC post, for those who have been asking for pictures. And … I am giving away Project Life in both places. So if you head on over and leave a comment on both posts, you have double chances of winning a free kit.  : )

2. Inventory update. As most of you know, we sold out of kits. This is temporary. We are expecting more Project Life kits to become available on Amazon by the end of January.

3. Facebook is not wanting to cooperate with me at all today. Not sure what’s up there. Those of you who get my Facebook feed probably know it’s pretty unusual for me to not share at least a couple ideas/tips/links/anecdotes on a weekday. Hopefully that’s up & running again.

4. I ordered both designs of the brand-new Photo Pocket Pages and Journaling Cards and they came in the mail! Which means … many of you must also be receiving your orders as well. Super excited about the potential with these basic, basic, basic ingredients to simplified scrapbooking. More idea-sharing coming soon.

weekend inspiration.

Friday, January 7th, 2011

As we head into a weekend I wanted to share some fun ideas with you, curtesy of a few dear readers like yourself.

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{ inspired by her creative paper uses }

Rosie in South Australia didn’t have a hard time thinking of ways to use the bonus designer cardstock in her Amber Edition of Project Life. First of all, she took some “blah” magazine holders and turned them into darling-yet-functional accessories.

She also framed some of the paper. Rosie wrote: “I do this all the time. I have white frames in my hall and rotate regularly with the kids’ artwork, Christmas wrapping paper at Christmas time, quotes and sayings etc. Even fabric looks great. You don’t have to be an artist to create great looking art! And all of this costs next to nothing. I am looking forward to making cards with the rest of the paper too. The cardstock really is a great addition to the kit.”

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{ inspired by her enthusiasm }

I enjoyed a good laugh reading this email from reader Denise in Pennsylvania: “After daily checking the UPS tracking website… And by daily, I mean about ten times a day… IT ARRIVED! I just spent nearly two hours setting it up. It was two hours of bliss!”

She continues: “I was alone in the house & this was my conversation out loud:

12:43 PM: “I hear it! I hear [the UPS truck]!”

12:44 PM: *waves* “Thanks, Mr. UPS man!” (He looked at me like I was absolutely insane).

12:45 PM: Grabbed my camera and started shooting!

1:00 PM: (Started Opening)

1:10 PM: “Hey, Where are my month bookmarks?”

1:11 PM: (Opens another box) “Oh, they’re here!” “THEY’RE HERE! THEY’RE BEAUTIFUL!”

1:12 PM: “I thought I was supposed to have bi-fold journaling cards.”

1:13 PM: “OOH! There they are! Oh my goodness. This is awesome.”

1:14 PM: “This is awesome.”

1:15 PM: “Becky Higgins, I love you.”

1:17 PM: “Seriously, Becky Higgins. Your website doesn’t do this project justice.”

1:20 PM: “If I had a million dollars, I’d buy this for everyone I knew that was getting married, having kids, moving… everyone!”

1:45 PM: “Becky, I heart you & Project Life”

1:50 PM: “I LOVE THIS! I LOVE THIS I LOVE THIS!”

3:30 PM: My parents come home as I’m sitting in the middle of Project-Life-land and asks how my day is going. My response? *grins* “Oh, nothing. Just having the best day of my life.”

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{ inspired by her loyalty and awesome project-follow-through }

Karen in Wisconsin wrote: “I just wanted to share with you how much you have inspired me. Your blog is about the only blog I read and I try just about all of your ideas. I’m not one to come up with crafty things on my own BUT I LOVE to copy good ideas! I wanted to show you just SOME of the examples. THANK YOU for all your wonderful ideas!!!”

Photograph inspired by Tracy’s picture in this post (3rd one down). Announcement inspired by this post.

Inspired by this post – making your own custom coasters.

Inspired by all the spray-painting posts. For example, this one.

Inspired by the Gratitude family project in this post.

Inspired by how we organize in our home office, as shown in this post.

Inspired by a photo display in our home office, as shown in this post.

Inspired by this post about making digital invites.

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If you’d like to share your projects with me, particularly if you’ve done something outside-the-box with your Project Life kits or any Becky Higgins products, I’d love to see. Feel free to email your pictures to submissions@beckyhiggins.com.