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Another week down! I really am loving the weekly layouts verses the picture-a-day. I'm using more photos because I'm not tied down to feeling the need to have a photo and journaling for each day. This was a pretty basic week, and it felt good after having huge layouts for week one and week two.
I hadn't planned to use anything other than the Project Life Core Kit for this week, but as I was putting it together, I found myself reaching for supplies that were collected years ago and sat. It felt good again to be a bit creative with the week. I've added links to the product I've used at the end of th post.
Left side:
Right Side:
And a few closeups:
Once again this week I took time to add brushes and journaling directly to the photos. I really like how that turns out. Week Four (how are we at Week Four already?) is going to be a busy one!
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Last week was a tough week as we said good-bye to Scott's Grandma. I loved her just like she was my Grandma, too. I spent alot of time on the layout, as I wanted to include photos from our time with her. It was hard, and it was healing. I didn't use many elements from the Project Life core kit...I wanted to use paper that reminded me of her.
I used quite a few of Ali Edward's Celebration of Life brushes for the photos. I also put the date the photo was taken, as well as any other information I wanted to remember (fonts used are CK Ali's Hand and Traveling Typewriter). Paper is Cosmo Cricket's Early Bird. The Left side:
An up-close photo of the title card:
A close up of one of the cards. Stickers are Cosmo Cricket's Tiny Type.
And the other card. Butterfly is Jenni Bowlin and the acrylic hearts I don't know the source, I've had and saved forever.
Next I used an insert for the Celebration of Life program. On the other side I will be scanning a recipe card in her beautiful handwriting of my husband's favorite cupcakes she made.
The next insert is the obituary from the paper, and the other side will include a copy of the eulogy that my Father-in-law gave.
The next insert is Design F of Becky Higgin's Photo Pocket Pages. I simply cut off the last row as I didn't need that many slots. I inserted more photos, photos of flowers from her funeral, and the Memorial piece. Hoping that my husband will write a favorite memory on the journaling card I left blank.
And the other side. I wrote my feelings, as well as what I wanted my boy's to remember. Another flower photo and a photo of the sunset the night she passed away. The family loved the cross in the sky, welcoming her to heaven.
And the right side. I used Cathy Zielske's Journaling cards again to write 2 or 3 sentences highlighting the week of each family member, as well as a journaling card from Paislee Press to keep track of the boy's basketball games. Basketball Brushes are from this set of Art Warehouse.
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I meant to share more with you about this photo from my Project Life :::Week One::: post on Tuesday.
The photos together show my quest to eating better and drinking more water...nothing too exciting. But what is exciting is how easy it was to make this collage. Literally, in less than 30 seconds, I had it done and ready to print. The photos were all taken from my iPhone, and I used the Diptic App. I opened the app (99 cents in the App Store), chose the design, inserted my photos from my photo roll, and emailed it to myself so I could print it out. The borders aren't exactly even, and while that would have bothered me to the point of not using it a few months ago, I'm going with it. I'm embracing the imperfection of it and choosing to be happy that I have the photos! Here is what it looked like before printing it on the 4x6:
Next time I will more than likely print it so it doesn't appear stretched out or cut off. Or I may not.
Next week I will be sharing another big Project Life week as we said good-bye to a loved one this week. It will be hard to complete, but also healing. I want to make sure I get this one right.
Have a good weekend. Make it count!
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Completed Christmas Pages!!
Today I'm sharing what I've starting doing for my Christmas album. In November I finally accepted the fact that I had done nothing in preserving Christmas memories for NINE years. And so I started the prep work for a long weekend I had coming up. I sent NINE years of Christmas memories to be printed. I didn't do a lot of editing on them. If they were noticably bad, I would edit them quickly, but for the most part I just sent as is. And while there are a few that I needed to redo, I'm happy that I got them done!
I pulled all of the Christmas supplies I had been collecting over the years (what? I always had plans to document Christmas!), purchased my Becky Higgin's Photo Pocket Pages and dividers, the album, and got to work. And while I didn't get nearly as much done that weekend as I'd hoped, I am three years closer to my goal of being caught up!
Enter Christmas 2002
I stamped with red ink the year on the page divider (currently out of stock). I also enlarged my favorite photo from the year, used a circle template to cut, and then stitched the page protector to fit.
On the back I used Christmas paper (sorry...it's old...I'll have to try to look up what company it is) and our Christmas card.
During my prep work I also printed on the blank journaling cards (currently out of stock) all kinds of word art, mostly from Ali Edwards. I love the look this added to the album.
I used this page protector (Design B), and just cut off the part I didn't need.
I also used a lot of Christmas paper inside the Photo Pocket Pages.
Here is another page protector I cut and just used what I needed. I believe this may have been one of the original Project Life protectors...yep, using up supplies from projects that were never completed!
The next page is another Page Protector cut in half. In case you couldn't tell, I really like the different layers of Page Protectors ;o)
I believe one of the reasons I love using these Page Protectors so much is because, as Leah commented in this post, staring at 12x12 empty white pages just got to be too overwhelming for me. I felt like each page had to be unique, its own work of art. Now I'm happy that my PHOTOS are my work of art on each page ;o)
That was the first year I did using the protectors like this. I will assure you that I am almost done with 2011 and I may not have any inserts at all...but I will have at least 6 pages of photos with journaling that was completed while I still remembered what I wanted to!
If you missed my solution to my boys School of Life Albums, you can find it here!
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If you are interested in a $25 Erin Condren gift card, Meghan from In this Wonderful Life is hosting a giveaway thru Sunday. I referred to my planner in yesterday's post. I have to say, even as much as I love technology, I love having this planner even more. At heart, I'm still a "list" girl ;o)
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I'm excited to share with you Week One of 2012! I definitely liked doing a "weekly" layout verses a picture-a-day + journaling. I am using Becky Higgin's Project Life Cobalt Kit, along with Design A (for the most part) page protectors and We R Memory Keepers album.
For this week I decided to see how I liked the look of a white border around my photos. I liked it and it was easy enough to print from iPhoto. I also used a journaling card from Paislee Press. I changed the color and word, and it was simple enough that I will definitely use again. Left Side:
First Insert: I decided to make a copy of my Erin Condren planner to give an overview of the month. Not sure if I will keep it...more than likely I'll decide at the end of the month if it is something I will continue to add.
Basketball games started for the boys this week, so I put an insert of my favorite photo from their games and stitched the protector to size (Digital brush can be found here):
And the other side (Digital brush can be found here):
I used Ali Edward's new 6x12 template for my next insert. It tells the story of sharing my Project Life + School Kit last week.
Other side is the email I received from Becky, along with a photo from 2005 that I had of myself with Becky and Ali.
And the last page. I used a journaling card template from Cathy Zielske and highlighted each family member's week. I liked doing that and it was easy to write 2 or 3 sentences for each person. I also used another journaling card from Paislee Press.
It feels good to have the week done. I spent way too much time messing around with it, but I'm happy with the results. I know each week won't be as intensive!
I'll be sharing what I've done with the Becky Higgin's protectors and my Christmas album in the next few days.
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