Week In The Life™ | Ali's Embellishing Adventures

My 2023 Week In The Life™ album is almost complete!

Today I'm sharing a closer look at some of the repeated embellishing I created for each day in my album. Tomorrow I'll share a full walkthrough of my almost-completed album with additional information. 

Let's dive in to a video that takes you through my production process for putting together these repeated embellishments: 

Here's a look at each of those embellishments via photos: 

LOVING CARDS

Each day includes one of these cards that documents something I'm loving right now on the front and on the back you'll find some fun pattern vellum/transparencies + the plastic circles from the Main Kit. 

SUPPLIES
Number + Journaling Inserts Phrases + Circles Stamp Set Slick Writer Precision Pen  Staz On Ink 

On the back: 

I love the pattern pops in the album that is primarily focused on photos + words. 

SUPPLIES
Transparencies from 2023 Stories By The Month™ Kits Plastic Circles from Week In The Life™ Main Kit 2.5 Inch Circle Punch Tiny Attacher White Cardstock (for behind the plastic circles) Vicki Boutin Color Story Vellum 6 Hole Punch  Miscellaneous Vellum from my stashCHIPBOARD NUMBERS + VELLUM PHRASES

I knew I wanted to do a little something with the chipboard numbers in the Main Kit so I decided to pull out an old dotted stamp that I've probably had since I first started memory keeping back in 2002. You could replicate this look with a stencil or another pattern stamp. You could also stamp the days of the week or other sentiments on top. In addition to the stamping I also added the vellum phrase strips from the Mini Kit using red line tape. Each one of these is adhered to the days of the week transparency to start off each day. 

SUPPLIES
Chipboard Numbers from Main Kit Vellum Phrases from Mini Kit Dotted Stamp from Savvy Stamps (super old) - a stencil could also achieve this look StazOn Ink VELLUM TAGS + WORD PHRASE STICKERS FROM MY STASH

I used the seven vellum tags from the kit to hold a fun collection of word/phrase stickers from my stash and used rolling adhesive to add them to some of the photo enlargements in my album. 

SUPPLIES
Vellum Tags from Main Kit Word/Phrase Stickers from my stashDAILY KRAFT POCKETS

I used the small chipboard sentiments from the Main Kit as journaling prompts for my writing on the cards. I left the back side blank but you could easily add a photo or collage of photos if you were needing more homes for photos in your project. 

I grabbed some puffy heart stickers from my stash to add to the plastic circles on the back of the craft pockets. 

SUPPLIES
Kraft Pockets + Chipboard Circles from Main Kit Plastic Circles Alpha Stickers Puffy Hearts from stash  Pentel Brush Pen for journaling Tiny AttacherHIGHLIGHTS PAGE

For the Highlights Page at the front of my album I decided to add photo strips to each day. These measure 1.25 inches x 6 inches. I love having this to begin the album.  

On the back of the Highlights Page I decided to add a full page photo with word art from the 10x8 Layered Template Set along with writing that's looking back at the project as a whole (written once I was almost done with the whole thing). 

Thanks for visiting today! Tomorrow I'll share a full walkthrough of my almost-complete album.