It's week eighteen and I love this project.
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Week of : April 29 - May 5.
What happened this week? I was home and then flew to Scottsdale for the weekend to celebrate my girlfriend's wedding.
Anything special in the spread? Yes! I included an insert with the 21 photos I took for day in the life. I kept things really simple and just printed my photos out in 2x2 squares and tucked them into a coin protector pocket page.
For the journaling, I included cardstock squares that I printed with the times the photos were taken. I spent WAY too much time figuring out how I wanted to do the journaling. At first it was all typed but I couldn't get the layout to feel right and it was becoming much more complicated than I wanted it to.
So I went digital with just the times and added the rest of my journaling by hand and am happy with the super simple look. I plan on repeating exactly this documentation method when I do day in the life again in 2013.
Techniques this week : I printed an iPhoto contact sheet for the 2x2 Instagram photos. It's the easiest way to get them the perfect size and not have to do any editing (since they are already in the square shape). This video from a few years ago talks about how I do this. To make them fit in the coin pockets, I print 3 photos across.
Overall thoughts : Last week I said I was loving the project so much more this year than last and I got a few questions about why I think that is. I am 99% sure it's because I am working from a kit this year and I feel like my spreads feel more cohesive. The project is feeling more finished to me. This doesn't mean I think you need a core kit to have "good" Project Life layouts. NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT. It just means that I am loving the result in my own albums and feel like I am putting more effort in but not taking more time to do so, if that makes sense. I also know that giving myself an extra week to complete my layouts is helping as well. More time = less pressure = quality work (again, for me).
Ratio of iPhone photos to "real camera" photos : 27 to 3.
Supplies used : Seafoam core kit, Kelly Purkey letter stickers, Evalicious flair badge, Studio Calico Project Life kit (wood circle card), Paislee Press Happy card (recolored by me to yellow) & calendar card.
Tools used : Design A pocket pages, coin protector pocket page, Fiskars corner rounder, Zig Millenium pen, Rotatrim paper trimmer, Office Depot date stamp, staz-on ink. All photos were printed at home on my HP Photosmart 2575 printer on Office Depot semi-gloss photo paper.
Project Life is a memory-keeping system created by Becky Higgins. I use photos, text and stuff to document our life weekly. You can see all the posts from 2012 here and 2013 here. Do you have a question about how I am tackling this project (including anything about the photos)? Check here.
