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weekend inspiration: becky higgins project life

 

Project Life is such a popular trend and we all love were its going.  Leeann loves the whole idea because it’s so quick and simple with already made up cards. She has decided to step out of the box and create a mini album for an up and coming holiday to Phuket using the 3x4 and 6x4 project life core honey cards. She added a few splats of ink, washi tape, random stamping, machine stitching and embellishments. She stitched together the 6x4 cards and created pockets so that she could add memorabilia/journaling from the trip, then using a binding machine created this mini album which is ready to fill while on holiday by the whole family.

 

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As an added extra, Leeann created this page using one of the 3x4 project life core honey cards and simply cut the quote up and used it for her title /journaling. You can see that the cards have many possibilities.

 

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The talented Leanne Allinson has kindly allowed us to share two weeks from her project life weeks 5 and weeks 33. And if you would like to see more of Leanne’s project life pages go here.

 

Another Fabulous scrapper is Kim Jeffress who is also taking on project life and she shares week 33 with us. You can see more of Kim’s project life pages too just here.

cha summer 2013: project life

Project Life introduces four new core kits in this release, four new mini kits by some of our favourite designers including Dear Lizzy and Amy Tan, and a host of new mini theme packs to cover every occasion.  There’s also new alphas, tools including a corner rounder with a radius perfectly designed to match the PL cards, new page protector designs, and album designs, including cloth ones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

scrapbooking the everyday – stacey young

 

Stacey choose to create something a little less traditional for her "Project Life" creation.  Mini albums are taking the scrapbooking world by storm at the moment so she decided to go with that approach. 

 

 

 

 

She started out with the Heidi Swapp Memory File boards and punched a hole in the top to connect them together instead of placing them in the actual file system.  Creating the mini album allowed her to embellish to her hearts content but also allowed her to capture and journal about her life's everyday moments. 

 

 

 

 

Stacey believes she isn't much of a journaller but was so happy this project pushed her to write down those everyday thoughts and feelings.  The Heidi Swapp Vintage Chic collection was a perfect fit for her Project Life mini album.

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scrapbooking the everyday

 

I’m sure we all have random photos – ones which will never make it onto their own scrapbook layout, or perhaps even off the hard drive.  They’re not particularly noteworthy, but they certainly capture tiny moments of time, tiny details that might just be a more fascinating view into our lives than many perfect portraits.

 

Suz has decided to round a lot of these shots up and turn them into a page for each month, printing most of the photos at 2x2” – small enough to fit lots on a page, large enough to be able to enjoy the details.  Some are from her camera, some from her phone, and most are more about the minutiae of everyday life rather than the big events.

 

It was interesting to her too to cover these three months and note how many of them moved from indoor winter activities and shots to more outdoor and active photos as the weather warms up later in the year.

 

Suz has used the Snap! Studio range by Simple Stories for her pages.  With so many random photos it would be easy to be overwhelmed with bold patterns and multicoloured papers, so this range is just perfect with many monotone and simple prints.  For each page she took her colour cue from the monthly title stickers, and used elements from the journalling spots and word stickers of that colour to give a cohesive feel to each page.  The pages look particularly effective one after another in an album, with each different colour changing the mood of the page.  The format for each page is the same and predictable which allows the focus to remain on the photos.

scrapbooking the everyday

 

Nic Howard is only a recent convert to the Project Life way of scrapbooking, but is already loving the results.  This page shows everything she loves about the concept behind it – the divided protectors, the ease of slotting in photos and including journaling either handwritten, typed on the computer or added in by other family or friends (note Abby’s little note and smiley face?!). 

 

 

Nic also mentions she loves the way one collection such as Teresa Collins Designs “Tell Your Story” can last so long, this double page has paper, stickers, washi tape and diecuts from that collection with enough leftover to do dozens more pages.  This makes it easy to carry on scrapbooking this way, it makes it extremely economical and it makes all the pages really cohesive.  The teal, orange and butterfly theme carries on for several more of Nic’s pages with cute little flags, cards and stickers cut straight from Teresa Collins Designs papers.

Other fun things to note about scrapbooking this way is how you can include your more lumpy bumpy projects (Nic just slots photos of them right in there!) and how it’ll make hybrid or digi scrappers happy too... see the days of the week on the photos?  They are a digital creation!

 

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scrapbooking the everyday

 

Iris loved the concept of Project Life. Though she does not make a habit of capturing daily photos, the concept of using photo sleeves for creating pages works well for people like her who takes lots of pictures of certain events. Because she has so many photos that she wants developed and housed in her album, the concept of Project Life makes this a not so difficult task anymore.

 

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A fan of scrapbook handmade albums, Iris took the concept of Project Life and created her very own "Snap Albums". It combines her love for chipboard pages with the ease of photo sleeve pages. Again this makes documenting and housing photos and memories of a certain event easy for her. She completed this entire album in just one day. Best of all, she was able to include most of her photos of the event in just one single project! Time saving, fun, and pretty all at the same time.
For this project, Iris used the brand new collection "Best Friends" from Webster's Pages... coming to the Aussie Scrap Source site soon!

documenting the everyday

 

Danielle loved this 'Project Life' approach to creating layouts, as it renewed a focus on snapshots of whatever is happening around specific dates.

 

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She imagined creating a handful of layouts per month and ending up with an album of fun pages which genuinely capture the moments that passed.

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As for theme, Danielle went for a 'totally random' feel, mixing standard photos, regular mobile photos and instagram shots together however suited the page. Each page featured a date as a main part of the title.

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documenting everyday life

We’re hoping to inspire you with different takes on the ‘project life’ concept in this series.  For Kim, this challenge was a great way to scrap some of the Photo a Day photos that she had taken with her phone.

 

For each month, Kim printed a selection of photos for the month in a small size and then created a collage by placing the photos in a casual grid design.  Kim used the Echo Park Everyday Eclectic range for both of her layouts.  Kim wants to say thanks to Tara Scobie for teaching her how to use black texture paste with a mask at a recent retreat. 

 

 

A tip for situations where you have a photo that you want to include but not make easily viewable, tuck it into a pocket you create under a journaling card or larger photo - like Kim has done on her second layout.

 

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documenting everyday life

Louise uses the Instagram app on her mobile phone to record both random and significant moments.  She loves the 'real time' ability to capture and share her 'real time' everyday life and moments.

 

It is a funky and fun way of photographing her everyday life, and interaction with her environment. Louise now uses her Instagram photos in her everyday scrapbooking, [she is a die hard scrapbooker]and tends to use this form of creative expression over that of Art Journaling at the moment]. Instagram photos are also a favoured form of image capture for Art Journalers.

 

 

 

 

So what is Instagram?

Wikipedia definition; "Instagram is a free photo-sharing program and social network that was launched in October 2010. ...[It enables] ... users to take a photo, apply a digital filter to it, and then share it with other Instagram users they are connected to on the social network as well as on a variety of social networking services. ... A distinctive feature is that it confines photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 4:3 aspect ratio typically used by mobile device cameras."

 

 

So with that in mind you can see that Louise has created 3 layouts that allow the photo and the journaling to tell the story!

 

documenting everyday life

 

Sue Tonga loves the project life concept.  Being able to record some of life's little memories in a pretty but quick way, is certainly appealing.  The We Re Memory Keepers divided page protectors make scrapbooking such a easy process.  And the wonderful thing is they come in a variety of styles so you can create a lot of different looking pages due to the differing photo sizes. 

 

 

 

 

 

Sue chose to use photos taken on a recent weekend away where her children and niece indulged her in a little photo shoot. She used a mixture of product to create her page including papers and embellishments from Prima, Echo Park, MME, October Afternoon and Tim Holtz.

Another great thing about this concept is that you can use up lots of your random, pretty leftovers from other projects.

 

 

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documenting everyday life

We thought we’d take a look at alternative ways of documenting and scrapbooking our lives.  There’s a big move towards simplicity in scrapbooking with the project life concept – using divided page protectors in an old fashioned photo album concept, but adding journalling and embellishments as well.

This is a great way of memory keeping the everyday stuff, and you can still do it weekly, monthly or whenever you get around to it!  We gave our design team the challenge of looking at different ways of recording moments.  Leeann Pearce kicks off the series this week, with iphone photos – the ones that often never make it onto big scrapbook pages.

 

When Leeann was given this assignment project life she was a little unsure where to begin. She’s generally not one to record the everyday events. Plus the whole project life concept seemed like a big commitment and she hates it if she was to fail by not keeping up especially when she forgets to take her camera! So instead Leeann gave it some thought and came up with using photos off her iphone, she never forgets that and is always capturing those random everyday moments.

Once Leeann had her game plan sorted it was then time for the fun part. Leeann has used the WeR Memory Keeper’s photo sleeves, which come in an assortment of designs. She has used a mixture of products from Fancy Pants, Basic Grey, Echo Park, Studio Calico. All Leeann had to do was print and cut the photos and pattern papers to fit each pocket. Then simply embellish each one.

Check out the rest of her fun pages below.

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