Project Life Week 1

So after a great start to my December daily album, I crashed and burned around Day 8. My computer hard drive crashed and took two weeks to get fixed (I lost everything, luckily I had only recently backed up my photos), so without access to downloading and printing my photos and journalling, everything came to a screeching halt. I have kept up my photo taking and journalling so I am hoping to get back to it at some point!

However with the New Year now here it is time to focus on how I am planning to record this year and that is with Project Life. I was so excited to recieve my new Seafoam Kit a few days ago!

I am really happy with the kit - there are SO many cards and I love the colours!!! It immediately inspired me to get started, which is a great thing since I usually tend to procrastinate so much! I am now just waiting for my Studio Calico Project Life kit to arrive, but I don't want to let myself get too far behind so I decided to start without it!

So here is what I have done for Week 1 :

Using items from the kit, some printed elements and some of my own creations. 

The blank card on the left hand side is where I am planning to put the January Calendar card that should be coming with my SC kit. 

I am also planning on putting in some inserts that will include a couple of quick trips that I went on this week, however I want to get the photos printed out first. The ones included in this layout were printed at home, but I think if I am going to print larger amounts I will do them at a photo processing place. 

I really love this project, so I hope that I can keep it up once school begins and I take on a big move to the country!

Jodie

December Daily - Day 7

Day 7 was nice and quiet. There were a few events that happened that I am probably going to include in my Project Life instead (if I ever get around to doing it), so for today I decided to focus on a subject that I have been wanting to scrap for a few days and that is Christmas Movies. I have a large collection of Christmas movies and wanted to record my love of watching them each year. This year I am especially enjoying putting one on as I sit down to work on my December Daily album. 

I seem to like the pages more that have this general formula - one photo with washi tape and a couple of small embellishments.

I think that I still might add something small to the blue journalling card, but I couldn't work out what today. It was one of those times when you have to step away and come back at a later time with fresh eyes.

Thank you so much for looking! 

December Daily - Day 5 and 6

So, I fell a day behind, but luckily I have had a pretty quiet day today, so I managed to catch up, phew!! I can imagine that this won't be the only time that happens for the rest of the month!

Day 5 was a quiet one, so I decided to include a photo of the lights on our house and talked briefly about how putting them up is one of my favourte traditions. I also included a picture of the horrible weather as I was driving home from the shops with the words Hello Summer? Underneath I journalled about how we are still waiting for the arrival of summer down here. There was even snow on the apline ranges a few days ago!! In the bottom pocket is my journalling and a printable element from the 25 Days class at Studio Calico, printed on one 4x6 piece.

I love the grey snowflake paper, so I decided to keep the page very mininal. I had always planned on doing a full page photo for our lights and I LOVE when I see other people do this, however when I tried it, it just didn't look how I wanted it to, maybe because it was too different to the rest of the album?  So anyway, I just went with a smaller photo instead!

My Day 6 page is all about my niece's Kinder Christmas concert. I had a bit of trouble with this page, I think because I wanted to inlcude more photos than I usually do. On the right I included my journalling, the program of the songs they sang and a filler card. 

I hope everyone else is still finding the time to create!!

December Daily - Day 4

Wow, Day 4 was a busy one!! I joined in with my niece and nephew's advent calender activity, which was to go to the shops to buy a decoration for their tree. They get to choose one every year to add to their collection. This was after we had already been to swimming, the library for story time and posted their Santa letters!!

While we were there we also made a quick stop to see Santa!

I had a lot of photos today, so I decided to make a collage to go in one of the 4 x 6 page protectors. I just did this in Pages on my Mac (I don't have photoshop) and printed it on to photo paper.

I then added some stars and glitter in to one of the pockets and used my sewing machine to stich it closed along the top.

As you can see although I don't have kids myself, I spend A LOT of time with my sister's so you will see my nieces and nephews feature on many of my pages!!

Another day completed, hope you are all enjoying the process as much as I am!!

December Daily - Day 3

Day 3 documented!! Today was about making Christmas play dough with my sister, niece and nephew. We also put our Christmas lights up on the front of the house, so I included a photo of my Dad hanging from the verandah with the words Lights = Danger (since he nearly fell off last year)!

I am really enjoying completing this project, as well as looking at what everyone else is coming up with!

December Daily - Day 2

Here is my page for day 2 of my December Daily. I am really loving this process so far, however I don't know how I will go keeping it up for the whole month!! I am finding myself at my scrap table pretty late in to the night!

December 2nd was all about finding our tree, so that is what today's page is about. During the day I recieved photo messages from my sisters of my nieces and nephews with their tree's, so I decided to include photos of all three of our tree's in the divided page protctor. This was actually my second go at this page, the first one just didn't feel quite right.

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has visited my blog and left comments, it is wonderful to recieve some feedback! Thank you!!!

JYC Christmas Manifesto

Today I recieved my first prompt from Shimelle's Journal Your Christmas Class, which is all about declaring your intentions for the album and writing a Christmas Manifesto. I decided to include mine at the beginning of my album after my cover and intro page. I placed it back to back with a photo of fairy lights that I took while getting the Christmas decorations out. I placed this in a smaller sized page protecor, which is a We R Memory Keepers 5.5 x 8.5 page. I just punched an extra hole and trimmed a bit from the top.

For the manifesto I decided to mainly use the words that Shimelle had included at the end of the prompt, and then just added a few small lines of my own words. 

The biggest issue I had with this page was the title. I wanted to print all of the journalling and use letter stickers for the word MEMORIES. I went back and forth between about 5 different sets of letter stickers and eventually ended up using these Heidi Swapp block stickers, however I'm still not sure if I am happy with them! Titles are generally were I have the most trouble!!