It's week eighteen and I love this project.
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Week of : April 29 – May 5.
What happened this week? I was home and then flew to Scottsdale for the weekend to celebrate my girlfriend's wedding.
Anything special in the spread? Yes! I included an insert with the 21 photos I took for day in the life. I kept things really simple and just printed my photos out in 2×2 squares and tucked them into a coin protector pocket page.
For the journaling, I included cardstock squares that I printed with the times the photos were taken. I spent WAY too much time figuring out how I wanted to do the journaling. At first it was all typed but I couldn't get the layout to feel right and it was becoming much more complicated than I wanted it to.
So I went digital with just the times and added the rest of my journaling by hand and am happy with the super simple look. I plan on repeating exactly this documentation method when I do day in the life again in 2013.
Techniques this week : I printed an iPhoto contact sheet for the 2×2 Instagram photos. It's the easiest way to get them the perfect size and not have to do any editing (since they are already in the square shape). This video from a few years ago talks about how I do this. To make them fit in the coin pockets, I print 3 photos across.
Overall thoughts : Last week I said I was loving the project so much more this year than last and I got a few questions about why I think that is. I am 99% sure it's because I am working from a kit this year and I feel like my spreads feel more cohesive. The project is feeling more finished to me. This doesn't mean I think you need a core kit to have "good" Project Life layouts. NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT. It just means that I am loving the result in my own albums and feel like I am putting more effort in but not taking more time to do so, if that makes sense. I also know that giving myself an extra week to complete my layouts is helping as well. More time = less pressure = quality work (again, for me).
Ratio of iPhone photos to "real camera" photos : 27 to 3.
Ratio of photos taken by Elise to photos taken by Paul : All Elise.
Supplies used : Seafoam core kit, Kelly Purkey letter stickers, Evalicious flair badge, Studio Calico Project Life kit (wood circle card), Paislee Press Happy card (recolored by me to yellow) & calendar card.
Tools used : Design A pocket pages, coin protector pocket page, 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 (including anything about the photos)? Check here.
enJOY it 
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