Project Life for me = Happiness.
All those little bits and pieces that I used to let stack up until I couldn't remember what they were for or why I kept them in the first place now have a home. I love how my Project Life album is a representation of daily life around here. Good and bad. I love that already, just two months in, I wonder why I never followed through before. I look through the past nine weeks and realize just how full life is and how happy I am that I'm recording it. I have scrapbooked for years and years and have albums of layouts but somehow this format gives a much better overall view of our lives. It rejuvenates my soul, has given me renewed interest in all things crafty and leaves me feeling like no matter how many photos didn't make it into my weekly layout, I am not behind. Love this so very much!
Week Eight:
This week features another 8.5x11 insert similar to week seven HERE only I have two pages of artwork from my little guy. He's been on a real creative bender lately. I love it.
I was really in recovery mode this week. Taking care of myself after surgery and I forgot to take photos some days. In the past I would have let this detour my PL efforts but instead I found creative ways to get around the "no photo days". Instead I added print outs from @Zodiakfacts from Twitter that I had emailed myself and printed out on journlaing cards. I included ticket stubs, business cards, doctor appoint cards and a photo printout from a saved Tweet.
I added color to my journaling cards with colorful stamping. I used lots of super old stamps too. Some of them are from old, old October Afternoon stamp sets.
I used a Kerri Bradford template for Wednesday's photo (kit linked below) so I could include more photos from a birthday party. Because I needed additional journaling room and didn't have a 4x6 photo for Friday, I used that pocket to house two journaling cards for the second half of the week. Even thought they aren't "in order" per se I love how I took the space and made it work for me.
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Week Nine:
The end of February and start of March. This week really drove home the fact that I've made it 2 months with Project Life! It doesn't feel like a chore, rather it feels like something I get to do!
Lots of photos this week (even if that isn't exactly reflected in the layout. My new camera (Canon 60D) was getting a workout. ;)
Lots of color this week too. And stamping. This may be one of my favorite weekly spreads so far simply because I had so much fun playing with stamping.
Nothing too fancy with the weekly title card again. I will likely change them up a bit at some point but for now I am still enjoying the butterflies and banners added to the die cuts so I am keeping with that for a bit.
The alphabet stamps on the "panini" card are from one of last month's Studio Calico kit (I missed the kit but snagged these individually later last month).
I used old/discontinued stamps from my collection for the "capture" journaling card as well. "Capture" is from a 2011 Studio AE monthly stamp set and the rest of the stamps are from an old OA set.
The "you are here" journaling card features stamps from old SC monthly kits and another 2011 Studio Calico stamp set.
I used a KBS photo collage for the photo pocket in the top right corner. Love being able to add multiple photos for a single day this way!
For The Lorax photo, I simply took a screen shot of the poster from imdb.com and cropped it to 3x4 and printed. Super easy. This is how I am doing all my movie posters for the movies we see this year. :)
Because I used 2 pockets for photos and 1 for journaling for Friday, I added additional journaling to one of my photos in Photoshop before printing.
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PROJECT LIFE 2012 | FULL LISTING
- Title Page
- Getting Started. December 25-31, 2011
- Week One
- Week Two
- Week Three
- Week Four
- Week Five
- Week Six
- Week Seven
Project Life is a memory keeping system by Becky Higgins. Click HERE to learn how you can start recording your family memories with Project Life.
I love seeing your project life layouts. Thanks so much for sharing. I've jumped on the Project Life bandwagon as well this year. I was just wondering how you get the pictures of the movies (the Lorax) printed and into your album. We've rented a few movies this week that I wanted to include, but I really have no clue how you did that. Thanks again for sharing, love it!
Posted by: Chandra | March 07, 2012 at 08:30 AM
Your project life pages are amazing. I started this year but have already gotten behind. My goal is to catch up with the current week and then go back and fill in. If you ever have time, I would love to know how you organize all your bits and pieces as well as your method for creating. I have such a hard time knowing what photos to add, what size to use, etc. do you sketch out your ideas before you begin?? Love following your project! Thanks for all the inspiration and glad you AE recovering well! Take care!
Posted by: Angie Murray | March 07, 2012 at 09:42 AM
This project is amazing. As are you. I just received my boxes of stamps and misc scrap goodies and I am here in tears over all the most awesome goodness. I can't even tell you how wonderful it is! Thank you soooo much!
Jill
Posted by: Jill | March 07, 2012 at 10:25 AM
YAY! ENJOY! Makes me happy!!!!
Posted by: Nichol Spohr LLC | March 07, 2012 at 10:30 AM
Love seeing these weekly pages - I would love to do PL one day but this year was not an option with a newborn baby taking up most of the days! I'm sticking with P365 though so that's one thing!
Well done to you for getting two months in and still being up to date! I'm getting loads of ideas on how to manage PL from your posts and what things to include and how! You are so creative. If I feel ready to do it next year, I will definitely be referring back to these posts for inspiration!
Glad you are recovering well from surgery - had two ops of my own last month!
Posted by: Little nat | March 07, 2012 at 01:48 PM
Thanks for sharing your life with us. Your life seems jam pack with goodness. When do yo find time to scrap?
Posted by: Iliana | March 08, 2012 at 07:25 AM
Sorry I am way behind on my blogging, love your PL weeks. You and Mish are my inspiration, because of you I am using a lot of my stamps that have never come out of their packets and I am trying to add more bits of layering here and there. Love love love your camera strap ( from your last post)and I just happen to have a charm pack of Ruby just sitting there all unused, ahhh something else I need to add to my to do list.
I sincerely hope that you are feeling better every day.
Linda
Posted by: Linda in aus | March 08, 2012 at 08:40 AM
Hi Nichol, Firstly...I hope you're feeling better! May God speed you to good health!
I LOVE your PL pages for these 2 weeks! Very clever to use 'other-than-photo' ideas, and your pages are amazing!
Take good care of yourself, and thanks for posting even though you aren't feeling up to par!
Posted by: Barb Ghigliotty | March 08, 2012 at 12:27 PM
Hope you're feeling much better. If it makes you feel any better, I am GREEN with envy. I SO want the Cannon D60 (currently have the D40), but I can't justify buying that one as long as the 40 works fine. How much more amazing are your photos with the 60? BTW - I am enjoying your posts, thanks for sharing.
Take care.
Posted by: cindy | March 09, 2012 at 07:37 PM