Showing posts with label Project Life 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Project Life 2014. Show all posts

Friday, June 27, 2014

Project Life: March 2014

I seem to be moving through my Project Life spreads with ease. I am keeping things simple and using it as a creative warm up for my 12x12 scrapbooking endeavors. Recently, I was asked about how I choose which photos go into a Project Life Spread and which become 12x12 layouts. I have a criteria, but keep in mind it's not set in stone. There are no hard and fast rules when it comes to scrapbooking, except that you should have fun telling your stories.

When it comes to Project Life, I consider it an introduction to my month. It's sort of a recap of the events and often includes photos that don't make the cut for the 12x12 layouts. These photos usually include nature photos I take on my walks, foodie shots, our currents( reading, watching, video games we are playing) and quick snaps of daily life that I want to capture. I often take a ton of photos of my cats. I tend to document the best ones in 12x12 layouts. I'm a bit cat crazy, so most of the extras make their way to Project Life.

In some cases, I make the 12x12 layouts in Project Life Page Protectors. March only had 3 Project Life Spreads. I put the first page of March on the back of a Pocket Page style Layout. This requires a little planning on my part. However, It's important that you don't force yourself to make extra PL spreads with tons of filler cards. Don't get me wrong...I love filler cards. I just don't personally want layouts filled with tons of them. Project Life is a way for me to include more stories in my albums while taking less space.






Page one documented playing Titanfall with my husband, the Get It Scrapped online crop,my son watchin tv with our cat in a box on his lap, and doing laundry with our cats' help. I used a journal card to write about how TV is different now then when I was a kid.

Page two documents our family staycation. I didn't feel it was a big event like it would be if we had traveled somewhere. However, I really wanted to document some of the little stories behind what we did as a family. A pocket page spread was the easiest way to go. I could work on the cards a little each day. I only ended up needing one page to cover our week at home.










Not a whole lot happened to us in March. I included my usual screenshot of our weather and pictures from a few random events. For example, there were fireworks one evening for some unknown reason. I snapped a few photos and wanted to document how much we enjoyed them. I also snapped a shot of a trip to starbucks with my son during errands.Project Life provides a way for me to document the little things in my life that mean a lot.


What does Project Life mean to you?





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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Project Life: February 2014

I would like to say I approach all of my projects with my best effort. Two things seemed against me when I made these pages. One was time. The other, a lack of creative mojo. I needed a project that helped me work out my creative block. Project life became just that. I approached my February pages with a need to get them done and to exercise my creativity. They may not be my best pages. However, they are done and I think it's important for everyone to visit the idea that not everything one produces is their absolute best. There is something we can learn, even from our mediocre work.

I approached page one without a plan. It's sort of evident in my choice in cards. I grabbed whichever cards inspired me at the moment. Probably not the best idea and something I want to try to avoid in the future.











I struggled with the second page. The photos I had did not fit the orientation of the page protector I had used for page one. It was a simple fix. I just rotated the page protector. Now my readers will have to rotate the album in order to see the page. I am ok with that and will keep this as an idea for future layouts.











Page three is actually a layout I did for Layout a Day. It's a quick and simple page which utilizes some of the 4x6 postcards that came in my son's megablocks kit. I like this one a lot.













I completed both page three and four separately at different times. I had to trim some of the cards down to accommodate the page protector. This became an issue later when I had to move the cards to the back side of the page three layout. Now my cards are out of order. I need to plan pages ahead of time a little better so it doesn't happen again.










Yes, I made a few mistakes with the month of February. However, I learned a little more about my process and what I can do to improve Project Life for me in the future.

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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Project Life: Fireworks

It's getting close to Independence day. I always adore the fire works. It occurred to me that I had yet to share the fireworks photos from New Year's Eve. I actually completed most of my January pages some time ago. I saved the fireworks photos for last. I have a hard time deciding which ones to use. I always love so many of my shots and I have gotten better at capturing them over the years. This year, I chose to print smaller photos and to fit them into a pocket style scrapbook page.

I printed all of the photos onto 4x6 pieces of photo paper. Some I cut down to fit the smaller 3x4 pockets. Some photos I left as 4x6. I then used a piece of very thin washi tape to divide them. I love how the washi tape delineates the photos while allowing me to work with a larger size pocket.

I used a vintage postcard along with some Project Life 3x4 cards to fill the extra pockets and house journaling.









I really like how the pocket pages accommodate so many of my photos. I plan to use them with this year's fireworks display as well.

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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

LOAD214 and Project Life

Over the course of February, I have been participating in Layout a Day, also known as LOAD. Some days, I stayed on target with the prompts. Other days, I had very little time. I decided that pocket pages and working the prompts into my PL spreads would help me save time while getting pages in my album.

This will be the title page for my January 2014 album. I saved the vintage postcards expressly for my January pages. I found them in my JBS Mercantile December Antiquarian kit. The Antiquarian always sells our fast since it's chock full of vintage treasures. I used some of my January Main kit along with the January Artisan and Historian kits to complete the page.

The vintage postcards were not quite 4x6 in size, so I mounted them on patterned paper.





This was one of those quick pages I created for Load. We were to journal in incomplete sentences. List journaling worked well for that and allowed me to get a lot of photos on the page. I documented some of our errands and the sites we see as we drive around Nassau. Photo number three was a bit of a triumph. I finally got a nice photo of the chickens that live on one of the cities side streets. I also documented how we don't pump our own gas.There are almost no self service stations here. It's something I put on my list after participating in the Give your Stories Podcast about posing with Cars.




During Janaury, we had lunch with one of the resident rat catchers. A local resident lets this sweet little calico cat live in it's outdoor patio. She visits the customers and helps keep rats away. We also went up to the resort for the buffet. My sona nd I both had our first macarons. When we saw them, I knew what paper I would use. I had this macaron print paper in a Webter's Pages 6x6 paper collection.









Unfortunately, we also had our first sick day in Janaury. The vintage pill box from the January Antiquarian kit came in handy for this layout. I really don't mind adding dimensional elements to my layouts. I also discovered an easy way to use up some of the 2014 cards. I have ended up with several of them. I simply added a bit of washi tape and used some small letters to write 1st illness of over the top. I plan to do the same thing with number cards and other firsts for us this year. This was completed for LOAD 214 as well. We were to document something unpleasant in our lives.




Each month, I take a variety of wildlife photos as we walk the island. Finding a way to document something that is pretty much repetitive can be difficult. For this page, I decided to document how the local birds catch fish. And yes...that is another vintage label in the title. The small silver fish is a German foil fish which was part of the JBS Mercantile August Mini Album kit.









Despite being sick in January, I had a lot of page spreads to create. In fact, I am still not done. I still need to add the fireworks and finish a couple more pages. I really enjoyed mixing my PL spreads into the LOAD prompts. I also enjoyed working on the spreads throughout the month, versus sitting down to do it all at once.

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Many of the supplies used came from JBS Mercantile kits. I mixed in some of the Becky Higgins Project Life Core kits. Some embellishments came from the Freckled Fawn Oh Deer Me Kit.











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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Project Life 2014- Our Day Begins

It not necessarily anything out of the ordinary. It's just a regular day, part of any week, any month from any year. What it depicts is a snapshot of a typical day for my family. That's what Project Life is. A little bit of the typical routine with sprinkles of  the exceptional moments.

I have written before of how I mix my Project Life pages in with standard 12x12 layouts. Today, I thought I would share a specific spread which shows you just how I do that.


I began with some typical photos. Though my son usually awakens on his own for homeschool, there are days in which I have to go get him moving. On this day, I caught a bit of the exceptional. I know our cat, Jujubee, loves to snuggle with him. It's just not everyday that I capture it on film. I used a block design for this layout. It made it easiest for me to extract a block from the pattern paper and to flip it so I could use part of the pattern on the reverse side. I used the tape to hide the seams and reinforce the design. The journaling is minimal, referring to the quiet moments and messed up bedding which begins our day.







This page will be located to the right of the 12x12 layout. It includes my notes about a typical weekday versus and typical weekend. I have also included thoughts on our current homeschool term. I am experimenting with the way I am embellishing the cards. I added the title in a somewhat circular method to the camera card. This and the card with the bird are my favorites from the spread. The bird was punched from a vintage  bingo card.









I haven't really started my Project Life album for 2014 in the same way that most do. I have yet to make my title page. I am just sort of jumping around, working on small bits and pieces here and there. I think I have a good start for January though. How about you?

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Both Layouts feature supplies from the January JBS Mercantile kits. Kits used include the Antiquarian, the Main kit and the Mini Album kit. Additional supplies include:





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