Project Life...I started it last year in January and lasted about a week. One of the big reason that I did not last long is because I don't have a photo printer at home. I lost motivation having to wait to get photos printed and then come back and add them to my album. Throughout the year I had a urge to start it up again, but felt like I had to start at the beginning of the year and do it for a year. I felt this creative block from that thought and never worked on PL. In November 2012, I sent and email to one of my favorite bloggers who is PL pro and asked her a few question about getting started. She said to just start. I still held off from starting PL because I wanted to make sure that I was going to really work on it.
Here is the thing... I never print photos and I am not sure I ever will. I love working in Photoshop and I love digital scrapbooking. I have decided that best way for me to work on PL is by doing it digitally.
The Plan:
I am going to be working primarily from the digital Seafoam kit. I will be adding extra embellishments and using other digital products. I want to stick with the kit for the most part to get me started and soon I am sure I will start to do my own thing. I do, however, like the color scheme of the Seafoam kit.
I will be using "week in review" cards by Cathy Zielske for my week in review. I will be adding a lot of photos and journaling, but I love little recaps of the the week because I can't fit everything in.
I will be making 2 page per week layouts and blogging them here every Tuesday. With that said... that does not mean that some weeks will have more pages. If I go on a trip, I want to make sure that I add them to my PL. I don't ever want to feel that I can't fit it all in. I already have a few extra pages that I want to add for this month. I want to add my Holiday trip even though it was in 2012.
I will me taking lots of photos with my phone and my camera. I will be using the app Day One to keep track of what is happening throughout my day/ week. I will be using Evernote for journaling and writing longer stories. I want to keep this whole project digital.
You will be able to follow my Project Life here on the blog and on Flickr.
At the end of the year-- I will go through all my pages and check spelling and make sure all the pages are ready to be printed into a book. I am super excited about the book!
(week one- page one)
(week one- page two)
What is Project Life? Start here. Want to go digital and don't know where to start? Start here and or take this class. You can buy the Seafoam edition here. Extra embellishments and extra paper here and here. Follow my progress here on the blog and on Flickr.
