Today I am going to start sharing my 2015 Project Life album. When I first discovered Stampin' Up! about four years ago, my intention was to be a scrapbooker ~ but then I discovered card-making and I never quite found time to do scrapbooking. Then just last year, Stampin' Up! introduced me to Project Life ... a memory keeping system that is simple and, for me, was an "a-ha" moment. I finally had away that I thought I could make scrapbook pages AND still be a card maker. I did a few Project Life pages and a vacation album last year and LOVED the product. This year, I decided to try to do a "true" project life album by scrapping weekly. (Thanks to the easy concept of Project Life, so far it's been easy for me to keep up with weekly spreads.) For my album, my weeks run Saturday thru Friday. That works for me because I take pictures all week and then I have Saturday and Sunday to get that week in my scrapbook. I thought maybe I'd start sharing my pages with you so that you can see how easy Project Life really is. Today I'll share my cover page and my week 1 pages.
Here's my cover page:
You'll notice some praying hands in the top right corner. I initially intended to put another family photo in that slot, but then I was at church one Sunday and there was a beautiful "family prayer" in the bulletin and I thought it would be a great idea to put an annual prayer for my family on the cover page of my annual albums, so that's what I did. I wrote the prayer out on a piece of whisper white card stock but then I covered it with a piece of velum that you can lift up if you pull that piece out. I wanted the prayer itself to be semi-private, but still able to be read if I wanted to pull it out. Here's what that looks like:
I'm really happy with the way that came out!
Finally for today, I thought I would share my "Week 1" spread. I spent week one of 2015 in Raton visiting family, so it took two pages to scrap those photos:
As you can see, I'm not sticking with a theme or color through the album. I had red and black on my cover page and now oranges and blues. I am not a "fussy" scrapbooker. I think that the most important thing is to get the memories in to my album and to enjoy looking at it. So I take my photos during the week and then decide on my color combos and layout on the weekend when I scrap them. It's mostly just based on my mood and I like working that way!
Well, that's it for today. Thursday I'll be sharing my week 2 and week 3 pages, so please come back by. Until then, my friends, here's wishing you many creative adventures and a very blessed day!
Kim
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