Good morning friends. Brenda Smith here with you today and I am really excited to show you a little extra project I've been working on in my planner. 

Have you seen the Doc-It Journals that coordinate with The Reset Girl and the Posh planners? They are a Traveler's Notebook size and one of my absolute favorite things about them is how thick the paper is! I stamped and painted and had no bleed through on the other side.

Little Summer Joy is a project that I've seen several participating in on Instagram. I knew that I wanted to join and a lot of people were doing the Traveler's Notebook format this year but I've never done one. However, as soon as I saw this Doc-It Journal that coordinates with The Reset Girl line, I knew I'd found my album. (If you'd like to find out more about this particular project, please visit the Little Paper Projects blog)

Doing this notebook pushed me out of my comfort zone and got me away from my beloved typewriter a little bit. I love the idea of including handwritten journaling in my documenting projects. 

The Reset Girl SN@P! Pack makes it easy to get some color and pattern into your albums. I hand-stitched around the J for June to give it a little bit of depth. 

I tried not to overthink the process too much. I printed photos at various sizes and picked journaling cards to type or handwrite our stories on. Whenever I would get stuck and not know where to go next with my design. I'd just start moving things around the page until something looked good and then I glued it down. No second, third, fourth-guessing myself like I usually do. 

I relied pretty heavily on my stamp stash, including one of my favorite new roller stamps for the Reset Girl line. My daughter graduated from Kinder in June so I made to sure to document her friends and teacher. 

Little Summer Joy celebrates the small moments, and while this moment was a bit of a failed experiement, my heart was full watching my three working together to accomplish a goal. I used a label punch from my stash and the 6x6 pad to create the background of the left page. For the full-sized photo, I used Photoshop to resize to 8.25" by 5" and the printed and rounded the corners. 

In case you were wondering, you can sew in your Doc-It Journals! It required a little bit of pre-planning on my part because I had to place this page on the backside of a page that I would be covering up with patterned paper so that the stitching on the back didn't show through to the other side. Again, I used some punches and the 6x6 pad to make the shapes for the background. 

I trimmed some patterned paper and a 4x6 horizontal card down to cover the left side. I filled in a pie chart in Silhouette Studio with my photos and then cut them out. I used the number stickers from the Posh collection to mark the photos and then used stamps from my stash to write the coordinating journaling. 

I wanted to challenge myself to get a plastic page protector inside my Doc-It Journal. I wasn't sure it was going to work but I decided to try to stitch one into the middle seam. My hands were shaking the entire time I was machine-stitching because I was terrified I was going to mess everything up, but it went smoothly!