Thursday, March 20, 2014

Project Life 2014: Week 11

Rolling right along with getting things posted!

Something that I'm pretty excited about lately (in regards to project life), is that for the past couple of weeks Jeff has been sending me a photo or two of HIS week!  He travels most weeks, so he's not in our day to day photos a lot.  Most of what I include in our weekly spreads has to do with the kids or us as a family, and since I am the one putting things together, I throw in things here and there that are just me.  It was time that Jeff was included like that as well.  His work travels are as much a part of our family story as anything else.  So, we talked and now he sends me the occasional photo.  This week it was a pic of the client he was at and a shot in O'Hare on his trip home.  The airport shot really helped with the story I was trying to tell about our Thursday nights, so I was thrilled that he had chosen to take that photo.

Enough rambling!  Here are my pages...


And the supplies (links here)...



Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Project Life 2014: Week 10

I struggled with week 10, I'm not sure why.  I had it open most of last week and changed things around daily.  Still not sure I *love* it... but it's done!



Week 11 is coming right along.  It's pretty much done except for journaling.  Week 12 is going to be a bear though!  It's Wednesday and I haven't taken one single photo.... not one.  It's also just a pretty low key, normal week so I don't have any big events coming up to take photos of.  Alex has stuff with his friends, but he is notoriously bad at taking photos for me.  So... look for a lot of filler cards in week 12's layouts!  :-)

In more exciting news... Clara has decided to do her own version of project life!  I'm so excited about it!  We're going to be doing it with actual physical products (not a digital version like I do) and printed photos.  I've ordered her some cards, she's been labeling her photos in the collect app and next week during spring break, we plan on shopping for an album and pocket pages!  I'll try to do posts with her pages as well.  I'm just so excited for her!  She takes so many photos with her phone, but she didn't know what to do with them.  Now we have a plan!

Okay... here's what I used for week 10 (products will be linked here):





Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Project Life 2014: February Misc.

With February over, I went through my phone photos to see what miscellaneous photos didn't get used in my weekly PL spreads.  I had enough that I wanted to use, so I created another "orphan" photo page for February like I had for January.  I don't want to over think these pages, so I decided to do the same basic format each time and for now, my plan is to use the monthly members' kit from Little Dreamer Designs each month.

Here is February's spread...



Supplies (links here)...






Monday, March 17, 2014

Project Life 2014: Week 9

And just like that... I'm really behind again!  Well... with posting, still current on the actual pages.  I have fallen into one of my regular slumps though.  I go through this about once a quarter it seems.  I think it's not really a scrapping slump, but a photo slump.  It seems especially bad this year since one of my project life goals was to use my big camera more.  When I have mainly phone photos to work with I'm just not as excited to work on my pages.  But, I just haven't had much lately that felt "big camera worthy".  And on the couple things that were... I didn't feel like lugging it around.  Oh well.. I'm just happy to still be current!

This week was different for me.  I think I like switching up the background colors.  I don't think I'd like dark backgrounds for a whole book, but I do like them on this week...


Supplies (links here)...







Monday, March 03, 2014

Project Life 2014: Week 8

Week 8 has been done for a while too... just didn't get around to posting it either.  :-)

My book is going to have a very different feel this year, but I think I'm really going to like it.   I liked my collages last year, but this year I'm liking having each photo pretty much stand alone in it's own spot.  I'll probably still throw in some collages here and there, but nowhere near as many as last year.

Here's week 8, pretty clean and simple...


And the supplies (links on pinterest)...




Sunday, March 02, 2014

Project Life 2014: Week 7 Part 2

I honestly don't know how I get so behind with posting, but I do.  Here is part 2 of week 7... finally!  

I had a bunch of outdoor photos, so I started with them...


Then I found I had just enough indoor photos for one page.  Instead of making my page count off with a random one page layout, I decided to try an insert like I had see on the Family Bees blog.  I can't wait to get my book so I can trim the page!

Here's the front...
 And here's the back...

Here are the supplies I used... (will post the links to pinterest)...