Archive for September, 2011

What exactly is a Core Kit?

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

I’m glad you asked!  : )

Okay, so if you’re following the news of what’s coming this Fall … you know we’re no longer offering a full Project Life kit (reasons outlined here). So you probably have heard of the Project Life CORE KIT, and possibly saw the first sneak peeks of the new little white box shown here.

Let’s have a closer look inside the Project Life Core Kit, shall we? Today’s post is loaded with pictures so you can really get a feel for what comes in the Core Kit. These images are of the Turquoise Edition and the Amber Edition. We don’t have samples of the Cobalt and Clementine Editions yet, which is why they’re not shown here. But the contents are the same. Just different designs.

Here is a list of the contents. This card comes in the kit so that when you receive it, you can easily and conveniently verify that you got everything you should be getting.

Project Life Core Kit: Turquoise Edition with the lid off:

You can set the box inside its own lid – or not – and place this on your desk, in a drawer, or on a shelf. It’s tidy and organized and compact. Yum.

Something we’ve added that used to NOT be a part of a kit, is a stack (60) of blank grid Journaling Cards. These little 3×4 gems will be sooo handy for extra notes, stories, lists, little photo mats, or however you end up needing them. Part of your Project Life album, or other scrapbooking, or other random projects!

And of course you get like a million (okay, so closer to 380) of the decorative journaling cards as well, that are compatible with the rest of your Core Kit components.

And those bi-fold cards are super handy when you have more to write on some occasions.

We aren’t leaving you hanging for that very first page of the album … or the last page! There are cards that are specifically designed to slip into the front and back pages of your Project Life album. This isn’t new; We have always included these in the kit.

What IS new … is that we now have printed on the back of each card, the suggested placement … so there is no confusion for those of you who want to follow the layout design exactly as we intended it to be.

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Alrighty. So do you get it? Do you feel like you know all about the innards of a Project Life Core Kit? The bottom line with the Core Kit is this: It’s all the core components of what you would need (besides your pictures) to complete an entire album … (and then some, because there’s so much stuff!). Obviously the other key component is the Photo Pocket Pages. You’ll want to get a Big Pack of 60 (Design A), or the Variety Pack of 60, or whatever packs of 12 that give you exactly what you want.

I won’t interject with more notes. Now I’ll just show you similar pictures of the AMBER Edition.

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Both the Turquoise Edition and the Amber Edition of the Project Life Core Kit will be available as early as October. The Cobalt Edition and Clementine Edition will be available as early as November.

website update: products

Monday, September 5th, 2011

Want to see all our products in one place – current and coming-soon?

Want to know when specific products will be available?

Want to download a copy of our catalog? (It’s 3 pages, but hey – it’s still a catalog!)

I am pleased to share with you our newly updated PRODUCTS section of beckyhiggins.com.

Look around. Click on products to see them larger (and we’ll soon be adding more detailed images and product information for the items as well). Download & print the catalog if you’d like. Watch the Project Life video at the bottom, if you haven’t seen it.

If you have friends who are overwhelmed by the very thought of scrapbooking, share this with them. Help them to understand it doesn’t have to be complicated, time-consuming, product-focused, and expensive.

I put my heart + soul into simplifying the process of memory-keeping because I totally get how busy you are. I also get how important your pictures are to you. Me too. And … me too! That’s why I am committed to sharing products and inspiration that are solutions.

I know you’re doing your best to cultivate a good life. I also know your life is absolutely worth recording (no matter how uninteresting some of you think your life is!). Keep it simple so that your story – your family’s story – is not left untold. This is why I do what I do.

the new favorite white box

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

Many of you are very familiar with the “big white box”, as we have affectionately come to know it. (If you haven’t seen the very fun collection of Happy Customers pictures, it’s worth a peek.)

As you know, Project Life used to be offered in a full kit with the binder and Photo Pocket Pages and all the core paper components and … well, everything. But as you know, we are changing the way we offer our products – giving you more flexibility and freedom to choose only what you want. If you missed the explanation about that, be sure to check out our recent Fall Products Q+A post.

So I wanted to share with you the NEW “little white box”. I will soon be sharing more information + details about the Core Kit, including pictures and a list of exactly what the Core Kit contents are. In the meantime, I thought you’d enjoy a glimpse of the new size.

And … because it has been a tradition for customers to take a picture with their big white box, naturally the tradition will continue when everyone begins to receive the NEW product this Fall! We will soon be seeing pictures like these:

No, these people do not actually HAVE the product. These are personal friends who willingly let me take their pictures with the new little white box (Project Life Core Kit) so that I could help you imagine what kind of picture you’ll soon be able to take.  : )

Turquoise and Amber editions arriving October. Cobalt and Clementine editions arriving November.