Wintertime activities

Playing around with paper and so excited with the results! Now I just need to write down the story and week 1 of project life is in the books!

more project life prep

today i searched around some more blogs to get inspiration and ideas for making project life happen in 2013! Cathy Zielske has some great templates to help with cropping and prepping photos to be printed at home. After playing around with the templates and watching her videos i created some template additions of my own!

Cathy has some nice digital projects available (as do many other scrapbookers that I follow) and i loved her idea of using hashtags from twitter to overlay on photos that she uses for project life. I took a few of my current faves and made .png files out of them so that i could easily drop them on top of photos before printing.

here is an example after i dropped the .png file onto the photo, made it white and adjusted the opacity.

 

it is so simple and adds just a bit of fun to the photo :)

here are a few other tips i picked up along the way:

1. have everything easily accessible!
2. choose a day that you are regularly available to sit down and work on the week's layout.
3. organize your photos when you import them into folders by week, quarter and project life (or what ever system makes sense for you)
4. do what works for you, not necessarily what others are doing.
5. precut cards and have them ready to grab and go!
6. enJOY the process (i am REALLY looking forward to this part!)

creating

I've been occupied all night playing with my new toy: Project Life! I really wanted to dive in, so I began some prep work which will hopefully help me keep at it during the busyness that will surely hit once Christmas break is over.

I started by browsing the different kits and looking up some of the bloggers who have participated this year. I got some great ideas for how to document 2013 and in the end, I was inspired to make some cards if my own!

Here are a few photos S took for me. I created the cards with Adobe Photo Shop Elements and Apple's Pages program (Word equivalent). After inbuilt the images, I printed them at home on white card stock. So simple and VERY fun! Looking forward to dreaming up some more design ideas and color schemes.

**the calendar cards were inspired by http://paisleepress.com/. I made my own template and cards for 2013 using Liz's design scheme and Helvetica Neue.

**the font for the "jot a thought" card is the Becky Higgins Script font found at http://www.creatingkeepsakes.com/articles/CK_free_fonts