Our Creative Team is already rocking + rolling with great inspiration. I love how they’re each using Project Life in their own, unique way. They are each so brilliant with how they each photograph their life + happenings + loved ones. Of course I love the end result – gorgeous and fun scrapbook pages that didn’t zap a lot of time out of their schedules.
NOTE: None of them have the new editions yet, but the same ideas apply across the board, no matter which edition you’re using. You will be inspired looking at their pages and pictures. (Yes, the Cobalt + Clementine Editions are coming this week – they’re almost here and I will let you know as soon as it shows up on Amazon.)
Oh – and did you hear? Since announcing that Ali Edwards and Loni Stevens joined the Creative Team, we have also welcomed Cathy Zielske as our most recent addition.
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Layout by Ali Edwards. Notice how she implemented art into one of the 3×4 pockets.
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Layout by Deb Duty. I love how she included smaller pictures on a bi-fold card (unfolded and placed in a 4×6 pocket here).
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Layout by Jennifer Woodbury. It’s so fun to see Design G put to good use. Vertical + horizontal pictures in one page protector! This 10×12 size is so great for in-between pages when you have a lot you’re documenting for one theme/event/occasion and therefore want to include several pages.
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Layout by Liz Tamanaha. I love how she utilized Design E to enlarge a couple favorite pictures and capture snippets of loving conversation they have with the girls. Four, large, square pockets = clean design + fun, dramatic effect. I really like the Design E Photo Pocket Page.
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Layout by Marcy Penner. Part of her fantastic, eclectic look is due to implementing a variety of products in the details. If you have a stash of scrapbooking/crafting products that you haven’t used in a while, add little touches in your Project Life album!
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Layout by MaryAnn Perry. Check out the fun way she documented + displayed their Thanksgiving memories on this layout!
The 8.5×11 page protector is from We R Memory Keepers. The digital page design is Cathy Zielske’s Layered Template No. 95. The grey background on this page is digital paper from the Project Life Cobalt Collection.
MaryAnn used Design E and simply cut one of the 6×6 sections from the rest, making sure to keep 2 holes for placing in her album. On the back side of this, she stores a DVD that goes along with their Thanksgiving memories. (That is a self-adhesive disk holder from Avery.)
MaryAnn says, “Because neither of my little girls can write yet I decide to record a video of them discussing the things that they are thankful for. It turned out so cute and I wanted to include it in my album with the rest of the my thankful cards so I burned the video to a DVD. I used some of the digital paper from the cobalt collection and made a label for the DVD. I added a Cathy Z brush to the front of the DVD.”
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Layout by Michelle Wooderson. Notice how she added little touches of different papers by simply punching circles and adding those. Such a great way to soften the bold colors that are part of the Turquoise Edition for her personal style.
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Layout by Monica McNeill. Look how easy it is to add “extras” in the rings, just like the Photo Pocket Pages. She simply punched holes in the little envelope to add. The right side of this layout (behind the 8.5 x 11 insert) is utilizing the Design B Photo Pocket Page for Monica’s vertical pictures. The smaller 3×4 pockets are perfect for the little extras. They don’t always have to be used for 3×4 Journaling Cards.
Tags: creative team, Project Life
I love that your team just keeps expanding my creativity. these are wonderful. Thankfully, Odessa
Ooooh can’t wait to see these posts on a regular basis! Really helps me think outside the Project Life box
Love each of these! Great glimpses into each of their lives and how they’re documented … And excites me about new products and uses I hadn’t thought of for different product types.
And … It makes me think of my multiple album question! As seen above … Who gets to keep the stories from the Disneyland trip? Who gets to keep the certificate in one of the last albums? How does your Creative Team deal with the dilemma of memory keeping for multiple children? This obviously really puzzles me and stresses me! Because I want each child to have albums but I don’t want to start some crazy, hard-to-keep-up-with system. But I’m sure there’s a simple answer! Can’t wait to see/hear what people do.
Thank you!
Kate, re: your multiple albums question – I would suggest keeping a “master” album. You create the one album in your normal way. When it comes time to gift albums to the children, make high-quality copies of each layout and the kids get those in an album of their very own. The master is retained by you or in your collection of originals.
I agree with Kylydia here. I have three children of my own and struggled with this in the beginning too. Now I consider my album the “master copy” and my reference book. When my children leave the house, they will each receive 3 albums total that sum up the highlights of their childhood. I have all the digital copies of the images safely stored by year and month so with the master album dated and journaled, I can easily find any image and have it printed. I can also easily recreate the journaling from the master. There is just no way I’m keeping up with 4 albums every year.
I can tackle that project when I have more time and less mundane daily motherhood responsibilities on my plate. In the meantime though, it’s safely recorded.
I don’t know about you, but when I moved out of my parents house, I didn’t have space for 20 albums. And even now as I approach 40, I don’t want 20 albums from my childhood taking up space in my home. The highlights are good.
Hi Kate, I’ve just had a second baby & it really stressed me out thinking about that too, my solution was found over at scrapaholics.com, Meagan does a hardcover digital book for each year & makes 2 copies one for each girl, it’s called the life in photos collection & is based on Cathy Z templates & had a double page spread for each week like project life. I plan on doing this so that way I keep my master album & the girls get little 8.5×8.5 digital books representing everything my album does, I scan artwork & awards & place them as I’d do my PL album
Hope this helps a little
Hi Kate,
I have the same concern so I don’t do the paper version of Project Life and am creating a photobook for our Family Album. You can print off several copies for each member of the family at the end of the year. Photobooks take up less space on the bookshelf too. I also switched to digital because I can never keep to just one photo per day and would have three albums every year!!
I don’t collect ephemera for our Project Life family album but I think if something does come along like a newspaper article that I want to keep I might just scan it and put it in to our album. We all have our own memory boxes where we collect birthday cards and other precious items so they don’t get in an album but that’s OK for me.
To solve the problem of where to put the ephemera children collect I do a scrapbook album with plastic photo sleeves for each school age child. This incorporates all their certificates, selected art work, school photos, report cards etc. I started these scrapbooks after reading about how Stacy Julian has School of Life albums for each child in her Library of Memories system.
Hope that helps.
Genevieve
Terrifically talented group! Thanks for all the inspiration.
Karen
The DVD idea is genius! I will definitely be including video in my 2012 PL! Fingers crossed that a new kit will be under the Christmas tree this year!!!!
I know this probably sounds silly, but Becky I appreciate it when you “point things out.” For instance, when you write, “Notice how….” or “She used this product…” Sometimes, I like something, but I have no idea how they achieved that look. So the explaination helps! Thanks for taking the time to walk us through it!
That was fun! So neat to have all of that good inspiration in one place. I am really loving seeing the new ultra FUN protectors in use! I really LOVE the idea of recording a video and incorporating into the album but with so many of our DVDs becoming unreadable that would scare me to entrust failing media to hold such treasured memories. Hoping she backed the video up online as well. Really enjoyed this post, hope they will be often!
Great pages! Ali rocks as always and I love the other team member’s layouts as well!
Design G page protectors are awesome…I used some of them last night in my Turquoise binder!!
LOVE Cathy Z…I’ve been following her for years. I’m grabbing that layered template No. 95 now.
And, anxiously awaiting the Cobalt and Clementine stuff core kits!!
Also, loved yesterday’s post…even though I’m not the most religious person, I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments! (My prayer is a morning run to prepare myself for the craziness of the day…hey, whatever works, right??
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COBALT AND CLEMENTINE are available on Amazon now!!! Just purchased the Cobalt Core kit!!!!!
I love how different everybody’s work is. It really is wonderful because it is so easy to make it just your own with a little inspiration from so many wonderful people in your creative team.
I love that you show us all these different ways people have used project life I didn’t get very far last year but I hope too this year
I love seeing everyone’s ideas. I didn’t get very far this year but I hope to go the whole year next year
YIPEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve been waiting for Clementine and it is on it’s way to me. I can’t wait. Thank you, thank you. Hey, how about having Ali design a core kit for 2013?????
wow thanks for the inspiration ladies. i ordered 2 variety packs of page protectors and im now keen to try out design E & G – they look amazing …. oh as i type that im thinking maybe G isnt in the variety packas they are all 12 x12 …. oh well i’ll have to get some thru kiwiscraps so i can play – cheers :>
Thanks so much to everyone who offered ideas re multiple albums for kids etc – much appreciated!
Ooooooh. I just love posts like this. The creativity and inspiration are just amazing! Santa just ordered Clementine for me last night and it so drives me to finish this year strong. Thank you, thank you, thank you Becky for making memory keeping real and to the creative team sharing their life to spur us on to record our best life in the best way!
Silly me. I wasn’t sure about the creative team concept – just didn’t ‘click’ with me. Ok, I am converted! I LOVE this post. I really really hope future creative team posts are similar – something from all or most of the members, calling attention to something interesting on each photo. One stop looking!
I also hope these will be tagged in such a way that we can find all of them when we’re just desperate for inspiration.
A HUGE THANK YOU – if I could enlarge the font and made it dance, I would. Why?
Each photo enlarges to full browser window size if I click twice on them. Totally loving this capability. Please thank whomever set it up. If it was Kevin, remind him that your fans are his fans too.
Thank you for posting all of these great ideas… it inspires me to be even more creative with my Project Life album!