Project Life: Week 37

CAUGHT UP!!!  I'm so excited to be caught up again.

Here's week 37...

Project Life: Week 36

Dangerously close to being caught up again!  To tell the truth... this is probably one of my least favorite spreads that I've done recently.  I just wasn't feeling it and struggled with photos to use.  Oh well... it's done!

Project Life: Week 35

Okay... so this isn't about my book... yet.  I haven't taken photos of it to post, but I will.  In the meantime though, I did finish week 35!!

I didn't go into this one with this color scheme in mind, but I really like the way it turned out!

Project Life: Week 34

I've stalled out on week 35, so this is the last week I currently have completed.  Was short on photos again, so I had to get creative with filler.  I like how it turned out though!  Different from previous pages!  Oh... and I got in my Shutterfly book for the first half of the year!!  I'm totally in love with it!  I'll do a post on it next.

Project Life: Week 33

This was a rough week.  I didn't take many photos and I hadn't taken any notes about what we did that week... so I had to rely on lots of filler cards and my memory!  :-)

I think I remembered enough though...

Project Life: Week 32

Our last week at Bearski :-)

We finally had beautiful weather on our last week there!  I also have a TON more photos of our trip to the cherry orchard.  It was just amazing.  I may have to do a separate post of those.

Project Life: Week 31

 Another week at Bearski...

Project Life: Week 30

At the end of our first week at Bearski this summer, we hosted Jeff's family for his parents' 70th birthday celebration.  The weather didn't exactly cooperate but we still had a good time!  I even played laser tag!  It was a lot of fun!

Project Life: Week 29

Yikes!  Didn't realize it had been so long since I had last posted.  I've had quite the time adjusting to my new laptop and new version of photoshop this summer.  I also got a little behind with PL.  I'm currently working on week 34, so I'm not too behind anymore... but I really hate being behind.  Maybe now that school is back in session and our routine is beginning to emerge, I can get back on track!

Here's week 29....

I'm not sure of the exact supply list right now, but the template is by Amy Jaz Designs (fb freebie).  The photo templates within the spread are by Designs by Lili and pretty much everything else is by Emily Merritt.  

Project Life: Week 28

This week was probably my most challenging.  I just couldn't decide how to handle it.  First off... I had a bunch of photos, but I wasn't sure how to break them up.  I ended up separating out all of Alex's camp stuff and made a 2 page camp "insert".  My other challenge this week was that I was at the mercy of other people for a lot of my layout photos.  In addition to Alex being at camp, Clara was in Missouri for the week at my mom and dad's house.  Thankfully she took a bunch of photos and my dad took some as well.

Here are my week 28 pages...

 Supplies:
Template by Amy Jaz Designs
Title Card - hey daddio by Emily Merritt
This Rocks card - ahoy by Emily Merritt
journal card - hashtags #1 by Emily Merritt
4x6 photo collages by Designs by Lili

 Supplies:
Template by Amy Jaz Designs
4x6 photo collages by Designs by Lili
Cards - hey daddio by Emily Merritt
Journal card - this week cards by Emily Merritt

 Supplies:

Template by Amy Jaz Designs

4x6 photo collage by Designs by Lili

striped paper - free by Emily Merritt

journal card - hello lucky by Amy Jaz Designs

frame 3x4 - make today amazing by Emily Merritt

Supplies:

Template by Amy Jaz Designs

4x6 photo collages by Designs by Lili

wow card - make today amazing by Emily Merritt

I'm very lucky on the camp specific stuff... Kanakuk offered several things for download (I just recolored a bit on some).

Project Life: Week 27

Having trouble keeping up with the posting this summer!  Our schedule changes every single week and I've lost my routine that I had during the school year!

I have decided to split my PL 2013 book in half since I was going to go over the page limit if I tried to put it all in one book.  Apparently that has given me free rein to add extra pages :-)  Week 27 is a four page spread now, and so is week 28.  Week 29 will be normal, but I have a feeling week 30 will be another double!  If I'm not careful, I'm going to go over the page limit with just half a year! I haven't sent the first half to print yet, because I still have to put together my cover and title page.  I'm hoping to have time to work on those over the next few weeks.  I'm anxious to see the first half of the year in print, but it'll probably end up being done after school is back in session.

Here are my week 27 pages...

 Supplies:
Template - Amy Jaz Designs
Title card - Titled Templates by Amy Jaz Designs
3x4 photo templates by Designs by Lili
4x6 photo collages by Designs by Lili
cards - hey there by Emily Merritt
Swim like a fish - summer play by Emily Merritt

 Supplies:
Template - Amy Jaz Designs
4x6 photo collages - Designs by Lili
anchor card - ahoy by Emily Merritt
frame - hey there by Emily Merritt
journal card - hashtags #3 by Emily Merritt
Adventure - summer play by Emily Merritt

 Supplies:
Template - Amy Jaz Designs
3x4 photo collages - Designs by Lili
4x6 photo collages - Designs by Lili
Title Template - Titled Templates by Amy Jaz Designs
Paper on title card and other cards - free by Emily Merritt

Supplies:
Template - Amy Jaz Designs
4x6 photo collages - Designs by Lili
Cards - free by Emily Merritt

our 2012 bearski book...

... has arrived!!!  And I'm totally in love with it.  I had a lot of anxiety around this book.  With my 2011, I just used one of the book templates on Shutterfly.  This year I decided to go on my own, and use the blank book for digital scrapbooking that they offer.  From doing project life, I have fallen in love with pocket scrapping and decided to do this book that way.  I started posting pages here on the blog, but I got behind with posting and got on a roll with scrapping, so they're not all on here. 

I had two big stresses when completing this book:

1.  Would I lose things around the edges when printed.
2.  What in the world would I do for a cover.

 Well... for the cover, I used one of Emily Merritt's page templates...

As you can see... I did lose a tiny bit of stuff on the left and right edges, but not enough that it bothers me.  The cover portion of the 12x12 book is not quite 12x12, so keep that in mind when designing your cover.  Other than the tiny bit I lost... I couldn't be more pleased with the cover and how it printed!

I'm also totally thrilled with how the pages inside printed as well.  I used a variety of different templates from The Lilypad and not a single one got cut off when printed.  You can see though, from the samples below... that some templates printed closer to the edge than others, but again, none of them got cut off (and I made no adjustments to the templates)...

The quality of the photo printing is wonderful!  Above you can see some Instagram photos and below the smaller photos were all taken with my iphone.  They all printed really nicely.

Everything below was pretty much taken with my big camera....

... and I'm thrilled with how those came out as well.

This was my test run for my project life photo book I've been working on.  If I had problems with this book, I was considering going the route of printing individual pages and putting them in an album.  But I couldn't be happier with how things turned out!  I'm excited to print my project life book now!  My only beef is the page limit on Shutterfly.  I'm going to have to break my project life book into two parts now, since I'm going to be just over the 110 page limit.  Oh well... on the bright side, that means I'll get to see half my year of pages printed in the next few weeks!!

Project Life: Weeks 25 and 26

Yikes!  I didn't realize that I didn't get week 25 posted before we left on our trip!  Things were a little crazy that week with getting ready to go.  I'm late in posting week 26 as well... but I just finished it yesterday.  I didn't get all of my laptop stuff figured out before we left so I could scrap at Bearski.  Went to Best Buy yesterday, so now I think I have everything I need.  Now just to finish the set up before we go again.  I'm just so afraid that if I ever get behind, I'll give up.  So far, so good though!

Week 25...

Supplies:
Template - Amy Jaz Designs
4x6 photo collages by Designs by Lili
Grey card - hey there by Emily Merritt
I love summer card - Sweet Summer by Emily Merritt
All other cards - Hey Daddio by Emily Merritt and Splendid Finns

Supplies:
Template - Amy Jaz Designs
4x6 photo collages by Designs by Lili
3x4 photo template by Designs by Lili
Hey card - hey there by Emily Merritt
You are here card - Sweet Summer by Emily Merritt
moments captured card - hashtags #1 by Emily Merritt
Black patterned paper - corn maze by Emily Merritt

Week 26...

Now I'm off to start week 27!!!

Project Life: Week 24

I almost forgot to post this!  I got caught up in finishing my Bearski book today before Clara comes home from camp tomorrow.  I got it done and sent to print!

I struggled with this one the most so far, but I actually think it's one of my favorites now.  Here is my week 24....

 Supplies:

Template by Amy Jaz Designs

4x6 photo collages by Designs by Lili

Journal cards - Hey Daddio by Emily Merritt and Splendid Finns

Circle it No. 1 by Emily Merritt

Thumbs Up - Thumbs Way Up by Emily Merritt

Supplies:

Template by Amy Jaz Designs

4x6 and 3x4 photo collages by Designs by Lili

Circle it No 1 and 2 by Emily Merritt

Ovals by Emily Merritt

fave - dotted: love edition by Emily Merritt

striped card - hey daddio by Emily Merritt and Splendid Finns

Journal Card - this week cards by Emily Merritt

All available at The Lilypad!

Project Life: Weeks 22 and 23...

I'm still caught up with PL... just behind on posting again.  

 Template by Amy Jaz Designs
4x6 photo collages by Designs by Lili
3x4 templates by Designs by Lili
all stickers - thumbs way up by Emily Merritt
title card - titled templates by Amy Jaz Designs

 Template - Amy Jaz Designs
4x6 photo collages - Designs by Lili
3x4 photo collage - Designs by Lili
Journal Card - this week cards by Emily Merritt
Striped card - ahoy by Emily Merrit
Love - dotted: love edition by Emily Merritt
Remember - expression bubbles by Emily Merritt
Circle it No. 1 by Emily Merritt

 Template by Amy Jaz Designs
4x6 photo collage templates by Designs by Lili
3x4 photo collage templates by Designs by Lili
Title card - Titled Templates by Amy Jaz Designs
Paper on title card - Summer Lights by Amy Martin
Journal Card - Shine by Emily Merritt

Template by Amy Jaz Designs
4x6 photo collages by Designs by Lili
3x4 photo template by Designs by Lili
You Shine card - Shine by Emily Merritt
Journal card - Which Way papers by Emily Merritt
Journal card included in top left collage - Summer Lights by Amy Martin

All available at The LilyPad!

Both kids are at camp this week (although Clara comes home on Friday)... so I'm trying to stay on top of PL and complete my Bearski book.  I'm so close on the Bearski on... just a few pages left to scrap and then I can send it print!

catching up... part 2.5

When I went back through and looked at my last post, I realized something was missing!  I knew there were more photos and pages for my in-laws' visit last summer.  I thought I just missed them when I uploaded, but no, I never saved them for the web so they weren't even in the folder ready to upload!

So, here are those missing pages (in the book they go after the swing pics and before the sunset photos in my last bearski post)....

Project Life: Week 21

Running a little behind this week because of the long holiday weekend, but it's done!  I never know which direction I'm going with colors and stuff until I get the photos on...  I'm loving this week's color scheme though!
 

 Supplies:
Template - Amy Jaz Designs
4x6 collages by Designs by Lili
circle it no. 1 by Emily Merritt
red card - make today amazing by Emily Merritt
title card - titled templates by Amy Jaz Designs
oval frame - ovals by Emily Merritt
Remember this card - Hello Lucky by Amy Jaz Designs

Supplies:
Template: Amy Jaz Designs
4x6 photo collages by Designs by Lili
Michigan card - love my state cards by Emily Merritt
family. card - simple sentiments by Emily Merritt
circle it no. 2 by Emily Merritt
"sweet" - doodlings no. 1 by Emily Merritt
Instagram card by Cathy Zielske

All (except the Instagram card) available at The LilyPad!

catching up... part 2

So sad that I have not finished this book yet!!  I have a new goal though... I MUST have it done by 4th of July week.  I really want to get it done and get started on my 2013 book so I can work on it throughout this year vs. having this huge project to do the following year.  I also want to change this project a little to include more journaling... I started out trying to do that with this 2012 book, but as time kept passing and we got later and later into this year, I just focused on getting the photos onto pages. 

These pages mark the end of our summer there last year, which means the photos left should be a manageable amount.  Our other trips were weekend trips, with the exception of Christmas... but at Christmas, I was sick so I took very few photos.  I see the light at the end of the tunnel!!  :-)

As before, I'm not posting supply lists, but if you want to know about anything specific... just ask!