Project Life - January 6-12, 2014

Here is my layout for January 6-12, 2014.

This week was a major challenge. I had SO many photos and SO much to say! I didn't think this week warranted an insert, so I piled it all in. 

In keeping with the style of the early PL page I created for 2014, the title card base was white with a bit of embellishing.

Most of the "pockets" for this week contain photos with words overlaid directly on top. I edited the journaling quite a bit, but there was a ton to work with and I had a hard time cutting.

The photo collage template for the bottom left 4x6 is one from Studio Calico's Day by Day class. I have to admit I was a bit disappointed in this class. I had never taken one by Studio Calico, and I just didn't get out of it what I had hoped. I was happy with the stamps and digital goodies I did get, though.

Most of the supplies comes from Only You kit from Sweet Shoppe Designs.

More photos and words with minimal added. 

And there you have it. Another week done for 2014.

3 to go!

Project Life- April 27-May 3, 2015

Here is my Project Life layout for April 27- May 3, 2015.

For this week, I used a mini free kit from Pixels and Company called Celebrate- Part 1. Didn't need a whole lot of papers or things since I had so many photos for this week. 

It was a Maddie week, that is for sure. Almost all of the photos feature her! It was her 6th birthday (how is that even possible!) as well as some big milestone moments for her that happened this week as well. 

Kept is pretty simple with photos and words. 

Uses some of Ali Edwards' brushes this week, as usual. But not much used otherwise.

So there you go. Another week in the books!

Thanks for looking!

Project Life - January 1-5, 2014

Here is my Project Life layout for January 1-5, 2014.

Since I am going back to fill in the month of January, I wanted it to match the style of the album when I started it in February. 

In February I created my first Project Life pages digitally, so they were much more simple. Less more product to work with, etc.

The first decision I had to make was how I wanted the title card to look. I looked back a a handful of early pages and tried to mimic the look and style.

I used a snowflake brush from Persnickey Prints and followed it up with the same month cards and date banner that I used throughout 2014.

Otherwise I kept to photos taking up the whole "pocket", the card bases being white and minimal embellishing.

Had a lot of journaling to fit in these pages, so I put most of it on the photos themselves when I could and used the journaling cards for the rest of it.

There you have it. Another week completed! Let the countdown to completion begin! 4 to go!

Thanks for looking!

Project Life - June 21-29, 2014

Here are my Project Life pages for June 21-29, 2014.

There were so many pictures from our trip to California last year and I wanted to include so many of them, but I kept it to two 2 page spreads.

For this week's layouts I used the Only You kit from Sweet Shoppe Designs.

Had to keep the journaling pretty basic, since there was so much that we did. Kept the pages pretty simple as well, since there was usually a lot going on in the photos.

Customized this "pocket page" by merging the two 3x4 spaces in the middle to one 4x6. Love the power of digital pockets! Doesn't matter what configuration you have, doesn't have to match the other side of the page!

Customized this pocket page as well, by switching the 4x6 on the bottom with the middle 3x4 spots.

And there you have it! The summer of 2014 is now complete. 

Doing this layout really has given me the itch to do something with all of the photos that didn't make the cut! Not sure what kind of project that will be, or if I will even get around to it, well.....ever, with the baby coming and all of the other projects on my to do list!

The only pages I have left in my Project Life album for 2014 is five weeks of January. I have begun the process of creating them. I have at least created files and inserted all of my photos in for these 5 weeks.  The challenge with the first 4 weeks is that I blogged the weeks on my private blog which means A TON of journaling. Trying to figure out what to include and how to include it has been quite the challenge! For the 5th week, I have a gap. I didn't blog it, but I didn't create a digital page real time, and I can't find any journaling notes any where for it. Looks like I will go from a lot of detail to very little from week 4 to week 5!

Thanks for looking! Hoping to wrap up 2014 Project Life album soon, so stay tuned!

Project Life - June 16-20, 2014

Here is my Project Life layout for June 16-20, 2014.

Wrapping up the summer layouts from last year. After this one, the week of our trip to CA is left, and it is a tough one. Already know it is going to be 4 pages and that is only using ONE photo of Disneyland! Going to have to make a mini book or get scrapping those photos in some other format!

Didn't really need to use a kit for this layout, since I used so many photos! There were so many photos and this was only Monday through Friday! Saturday was the start of our family vacation, so it made sense, since I had so many photos to fill it up any way to stop there.

So there you have it! Another week done!

Thanks for looking!

Project Life - January 12-18, 2015

Here is my Project Life layout for January 12-18, 2015.

After this layout was completed I have completed all of my layouts for 2015, up to this point! This is quite the accomplishment!

For this layout I used the Dream Big kit from Sweet Shoppe Designs as well as Ali Edwards' Messy Monthly lines and Edge Sentiments. 

Coming out of the holidays, I wasn't as good about taking photos of our everyday. I struggled filling some of the pockets, so I opted to put the book covers from my son and my book clubs as filler.

I was pretty light on my notes for the journaling as well, so I don't seem to have as much to say for this week. 

Kept it pretty simple and happy to be caught up for 2015. Hopefully this will help me keep from getting too far behind once summer and baby come!

Thanks for looking!

Project Life- April 20- 26, 2015.

Here is my Project Life layout for April 20-26, 2015.

This layout uses Celebrate Life kit from Sweet Shoppe Designs as well as Ali Edwards' Messy Monthly lines and Edge Sentiments 1 and 2.

I am really enjoying the layers that are included in the kits that have paint, stitching and bits layered, all ready to go, like the one on the title card.

Created a custom journaling card using a swirl brush and butterflies in the kit.  Layered a few extras in there this week for added embellishment and color. Love how it turned out!

And there you go! Another week done! 

Thanks for looking!