Project Life

In December I heard about Project Life for the first time.  Since Scrapbooking is something I LOVE I'm surprised that was the first time I heard about it as it's not a new concept.  I have been looking for a new way to scrapbook as I typically feel overwhelmed by the amount of photos I have and the scrapbooking that I need to catch up on!  I did a great job keeping up last year on my albums (3 of them in all) but I knew I could do better and possibly make it more fun, enter Project Life.  My initial goal was to just scrapbook one page layouts and then fit the rest of the photos into slots.  I did not want to do a photo every day as that seemed like to much to keep up with up.  Then I read an article in Scrapbooks, etc about Project Life and how taking a photo a day gets you more of the everyday photos, photos you typically wouldn't take and I was sold.  I started this month and this is how my book looks from last week, since the project life pages have been sold out for a while I just used some I got at Hobby Lobby to fit into my book.  I'm not using the project life kit as I have tons of my own supplies and paper.

There is a photo of my daughter coloring, our Valentine Decorations, her treat we made, my kids doing a craft with Daddy, etc.  I LOVE this page.  These are things I normally wouldn't take photos of and document.  I am SO EXCITED to keep this going for the rest of the year. 

 Here's a layout I did for Valentine's Day that is the next page on my book.  I love that I didn't have to try to fit a million photos into it and I could just play with these two.

 I love this waffle paper from Stampin UP! All the other paper is Stampin UP! as well.

 I embossed the punched out hearts with my Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder and cut out the Valentine's Day with my Cricut Imagine using Plantin Schoolbook and Lyrical letters.

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I Wanna Do it Myself Layout

As Mom's most of us go through that stage with our kids as toddlers when they want to do everything themselves! When my daughter was 2 we went through this stage. I found these photos in my stash and was just going to do a simple layout with the photos. Luckily I have been keeping a family blog for the last few years. I went through it and found this entry about how at this time Ava, my daughter, was very much into her independence. I was so happy to have that entry so it would make my layout complete!

I used Cricut Lyrical Letters for the title and flowers on this layout. I stamped around my journaling box and for the border around the pink with my Market Street Stamps Simply Stitched Border stamps. I cut out the brown with my scalloped edge punch and tore the little green piece with flowers on it for added dimension. I got this layout idea from the page maps book, a gift from my friend Nancy for my birthday. I love this book! It has helped me so much in my scrapbooking.