enJOY it

It's week twelve and I love this project.

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Week of : March 18 – March 24.

What happened this week? I was home, nothing too exciting. Found out about the gestational diabetes and went to clinic about what to eat. On Friday, I flew up to Sacramento to spend the next week with my parents.

Anything special in the spread? I added an insert to the spread to celebrate getting to the third trimester. You can see more of the layout on the Studio Calico blog in my Tips & Tricks post. I still love breaking up a big photo into little pockets.

Techniques this week : Really nothing special. I love playing with the same colors throughout the spread. This week, that meant a lot of the Seafoam color. Partly from Seafoam kit cards, partly from embellishment labels and partly from the Studio Calico April Project Life kit. Having a color scheme helps me feel like the spread all works together.

Overall thoughts : I have stopped worrying about getting photos in any sort of "date order." I used to focus on keeping Monday-Thursday on the left side of the spread and Friday-Sunday on the right, but now it's more what fits where that matters. Chronological dating is over for me apparently.

Ratio of iPhone photos to "real camera" photos : 4 to 10.

Ratio of photos taken by Elise to photos taken by Paul : All me this week.

Supplies used : Seafoam core kit, Studio Calico April Project Life kit, Elise Joy heart stamp, Digital PL midnight edition, Evalicious flair badge, American Crafts patterned paper, Elle's Studio journaling tag, Chic Tags circle tag.

Tools used : Design A pocket pages, Design F pocket page, Scrapbook Dividers, Fiskars corner rounder, Zig Millenium pen, Rotatrim paper trimmer, Office Depot date stamp, staz-on ink. All photos were printed at home on my HP Photosmart 2575 printer on Office Depot semi-gloss photo paper.

Project Life is a memory-keeping system created by Becky Higgins. I use photos, text and stuff to document our life weekly. You can see all the posts from 2012 here and 2013 here. Do you have a question about how I am tackling this project? Check here.