As mentioned at the end of 2013, I am no longer completing my Project Life album on a weekly basis. I did that for two years. I enjoyed the process and I love my albums. This year I am taking a much more relaxed approach and playing more with this project. I don't have much of a plan other than to complete at least one (and sometimes many more) spread a month.
The big win is that I can never be "behind" on this album. I also like that I don't have to worry about having seven horizontal 4x6 photos each week and can group photos by subject instead of date. I love that I will be under no "weekly deadlines" and will be blogging just once a month about my album.
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March ended with 5 4x6 photos, so April starts with 5. These are just random favorites from the month that didn't need too much of an explanation. Next to it a sequence of photos that I love of Ellerie from one morning a few weeks ago. I used stickers, cards and letters from the Studio Calico Camelot kit and Lancelot and Arthur add-ons.
This pocket page is by We R Memory Keepers and features a 6x8 pocket that I floated a 4x6 journaling card inside. I am obsessed with free space and floating items this year.
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I am so happy with how this spread turned out.
I had to back that 4x6 card with something and so I wrote some simple journaling and picked four more favorite photos that tell part of our story from April.
That HELLO stamp and those cute tags are from the Studio Calico Camelot project life main kit. I love using "hello_______" as a journaling prompt (I think I got the habit from Ali) and the stamp was perfect to set off a lot of different journaling about this month. That checker board scheme (alternating predominantly white journaling cards with photos) is still my favorite.
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And then it's all about coffee.
I buy and drink a lot of coffee and have been saving the bags on top of our fridge. This month the collection got a little unruly so I decided to chop them down to 4x4 and slip inside a square pocket page from We R Memory Keepers.
To give them a little context, I printed 12 3x4 photos from my #eliselovesmornings series (these are not all from April). I love to see photos of the same thing taken different ways and I love that this little (but significant) part of our daily routine is not documented.
And that's April! No stress, just simple. Thank you so much for following along. See my title page for this album here and 2014 album progress here.
product sources: Studio Calico Camelot PL kit and add-ons (available tonight at 9pm Pacific time), We R Memory keepers 9 pocket page, We R Memory keepers 6x8+4 pocket page, Design A pocket page, staz-on ink, black sharpie.
all photos were printed at home on my Epson PictureMate Show.
