2014 Project Life

 Finally decided to stick with Becky Higgins' Project Life products for my 2014 Project Life Album.  

I chose the Honey Album and Core Kit that you see here.  

I had thought about going smaller and use a Simple Stories 6 x 8 but decided to stay with the Becky Higgins line.  This will be my fourth or fifth year now doing Project Life.
Do you do Project Life, Project 365 or similar scrapbooking project?  What are doing in 2014?

2012 Project Life Blog Hop begins Sunday, February 5th at 8am ET

Hi!  Thank you for stopping by my blog for the 1st Project Life Blog Hop!



Week 2 Left hand size
Core kit elements used



Week 2 right hand side
Added birthday card directly to album using 3 hole punch to punch holes
"birthday "tag added - adhered to Close To My Heart Flip Flap Memory Protector

Week 2 right hand size (again) without birthday tag and card

Week 2 right hand side one more time with Close To My Heart Flip Flap
Memory Protector flipped to show photos underneath

Week 2 right hand side close-up of Close To My Heart
Flip Flap Memory Protector on horizontally oriented photo

Week 3 through 4 left side

Week 3 through 4 right hand side
Pocket in upper right corner holds a journaling card from Simple Stories Year.O.Graphy with
a saying I clipped from a calendar and distressed with Tim Holtz Distress Ink.

Week 5 - one page - not finished

If you would like to see Week 1 its featured in my previous blog post for February 4th. 

The first 5 weeks of the year has kept me a little off-balance.  After being away the first week of the year I came home to 4 new Big Picture Classes that started while I was away.  The last 4 weeks have been playing catch up on the classes and household stuff.  I'm starting to feel back on track but unfortunately the picture taking for PL has taken a back seat.   That's why Weeks 3 & 4 are combined and Week 5 is quite brief.  As I mentioned in the previous post about Week 1 I really want to keep 2012 to 2 albums so I want to be more selective about which photos I put in the album.  I also want to find ways to include more journaling - to do that I need to work on my page layout and jotting down some thoughts during the acutal week. 
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To continue on the your blog hop journey visit Donna's blog next.  Go here:
http://www.joyfullydonna.blogspot.com/

Here's the entire list of blog hop participants if you want to start at the top and work your way through the entire list.

Jill              http://jillconyers.com/

Margie      http://xnomads.typepad.com/

DonnaB  http://donnasprojectlife.blogspot.com/.

Sharon   http://projectsofmylife.wordpress.com/

Noelia   http://www.noeliaevangelista.typepad.com/

April     http://capturethememories.blogspot.com/

Brooke http://everysnapshot.com/

Lynn    http://www.crafty-creativity.blogspot.com/

Donna  http://www.joyfullydonna.blogspot.com/

Project Life 2012 Week 1

 2012 is my second year doing Project Life (PL).  I don't have any hard & fast rules for how I do this. Week 1 found me visiting my son, DIL and 9 month old grandson in Seattle.  I was happy to do some baby-sitting while I was there and I snapped a lot of photos of Owen.  So there are a lot of pages for this week!  I also use divided page protectors for creating 2 baby albums of Owen (one for me and one for Owen and his parents).  I usually put Owen's photos in the baby albums but these I'm including in PL since its was about my visit there.




 



 For these pages I'm using a mix of items from Becky Higgins PL Core Kit and Simple Stories Year.O.Graphy collection.  The 2" border at left is one of Year.O.Graphy pieces.  So easy to do - just cut and slide into the pocket!  I tend to shoot quite a few vertically oriented photos so I need to use a variety of divided page protectors like this one.  I use page protectors from Becky Higgins, We R Memory Keepers and American Crafts.





 

 

Page on left is same as the one on right.

Different photos are showing on right with the use of Close To My Heart Flip Flap Memory Protectors.

 

Page above still needs some work. I want to do farm animals for embellishments on the 2" paper strip. Haven't found exactly what I want to do yet. The 2 pages above are the same page but the one on the right shows a Close To My Heart Flip Flap Memory Protector in the bottom right hand corner flipped up so I could include more photos.  Its great that these work both horizontally and vertically.

2" paper strip needs embellishment yet

Added children's menu directly to album by using a 3 hole punch to punch holes.

Right hand with menu page turned.  Simple Stories Year.O.Graphy pieces on bottom of page along with receipt from dinner.

PL Core Kit and Year.O.Graphy pieces mix well together on this page.

 



Arrived home in western NY to snow!  No suprise there although it has been quite a warm and generally snow-less winter here.  Very unusual but appreciated. 

Notes to self - need to include more journaling and try to stay with a select few photos that show the best represent that time period!  I ended up with 2 very full albums (probably should be 3) last year.  I just have a hard time leaving out photos of Owen!

Hope you enjoyed my first week!