I have such mixed emotions with this announcement because, as you know, we loooooove our 2012 Creative Team. Love, love, love. This past year we have been utterly INSPIRED by their Project Life sharing and GRATEFUL for their willingness to show the world their pages so that we could all feel enlightened by their excellent life documenting, story-telling, use of product, and of course – love for Project Life. They’re not done yet. We still have a couple months worth of sharing from our remarkable 2012 Creative Team.
It’s hard to believe, but we are coming up on a new year soon, which means we are looking for an all-new Project Life Creative Team! Are you interested? Could YOU be on our new Creative Team?
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{ how we are building the new Creative Team }
A few Project Lifers have caught our attention lately (via social media and online galleries mostly) and we absolutely want to consider them for our Creative Team, so we are reaching out to those individuals. They may be interested, they may not. The majority of the 2013 Creative Team will come from submissions. YOU are invited to submit YOUR Project Life pages.
If being on a Creative Team is not of interest to you, but you know of someone else who really inspires you with their Project Life pages … please encourage them to check out this opportunity! Or you can even drop us a note and send us a link to someone who you think we would want to know about.
And by the way, we don’t care if you’re kind of a “known name” in scrapbooking circles or online communities – or not. You could be Jane Doe out of nowhere, that we’ve never heard of, and your chances are equal. Everyone has a fair chance as long as you meet the requirements as listed below.
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{ what it means to be on the Project Life Creative Team }
Creative Team members are asked to do what they normally do with Project Life, true to their own personal style, and they submit 2-3 layouts or projects each month (which they’re likely already be doing for themselves or their family anyway) so that we can share their awesomeness. Once in a while there is a “special assignment” but really, we don’t ask much … and it’s really just FUN and easy. Expectations will be more clearly defined with the final Creative Team when they are chosen.
Oh – and we hook you up with loads of Project Life goodies all year long while you sit on the Creative Team. ; )
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{ what are we looking for? }
We would love for our Project Life Creative Team to represent a variety of life scenarios. We know most scrapbookers/Project Lifers happen to be in their 20s to 40s with kids so naturally we’ll see lots of submissions from people in this boat. But we want to see teenagers, grandparents, young adults, married or not married, kids or no kids, world traveler or stay-at-home-mom, living in the city or in the middle of nowhere, or on the other side of the world. Heck – is it possible we’ll finally get a GUY on our Creative Team!?
We also want to represent different Project Life formats, meaning – some digital Project Lifers, and even those who do Project Life in the photo book format on Shutterfly. The majority of our team will naturally be made up of those using physical Project Life product.
Here’s what will get you noticed … no matter what your life circumstances, your nationality, or where you live. We are looking for:
1. Fantastic photography. You could be a fascinating person with a super interesting life, but if your pictures aren’t great, it’s not really the perfect fit for our Creative Team. We are looking for pictures that are clear, crisp, interesting, good lighting, excellent quality. You don’t have to be a professional photographer, but you need to have some skill behind the lens. And I know many of you do.
2. Great story-telling. I don’t mean you have to be a stellar writer. The little Journaling Cards are only so big, right? No – I am talking about the story-telling that happens with the way you document your life, primarily through your photographs. So not only do we want fantastic photography, but we would love to be inspired by how you photograph, what you take pictures of, and how well you illustrate experiences in your life through your lens. This doesn’t mean that your life itself needs to be perceived as anything but what it is. You could be a world traveler or a stay-at-home-mom and that doesn’t matter. What matters is that you capture our attention through how you document life.
3. Use of product. Naturally, we are looking for folks who make Project Life products look good. We celebrate the fact that there are so many styles out there and that lots of people love to embellish and get creative, and we hope to represent at least a little bit of variety. But MOST of our Creative Team will be comprised of folks who use Project Life products for how they are designed. In other words, we are looking for SIMPLICITY. Folks looking for more creative use of products in terms of embellishing and artistic touches will find loads of inspiration from other places, such as the Studio Calico Design Team. That’s their niche.
But our Creative Team is different. We want to inspire people with simplicity – because that’s the whole nature of Project Life. Slip photos and cards into pockets and you’re done. Sticking with the Project Life Core Kit and our Photo Pocket Pages is all you need to get onto our Creative Team, as it will really be your photography and story-telling that will capture our attention the most. Please don’t feel like if you do a little embellishing here & there, your chances will be slim. That’s not the case. Like I said, we want to show a VARIETY of styles.
4. Layout photography. The actual photos of your Project Life layouts need to be excellent. Good lighting, very clean & clear, no flash, no distracting background. You see, we don’t require our Creative Team to part with their pages so that we can scan or photograph them. Instead we ask that they photograph the layouts and projects themselves – and that’s why it’s imperative that your layout photos are awesome. If you want to see how our current Creative Team photographs their layouts, check them out by clicking around on their various blogs.
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{ how to submit }
Email submissions to creativeteam@beckyhiggins.com and include the following with your email:
- name
- location (city, state, country)
- links to all things YOU (website, blog, shop, gallery, pinterest, facebook, twitter, instagram, whatever)
- Project Life format (physical product or digital or Shutterfly photo book)
- a little about you (single, married, kids, no kids, empty nester, teenager … whatever) – short + sweet, please.
- 3 to 5 images of layouts you have completed (remember – see #4 above as this will have a big impact on your first impression with us)
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The deadline for submissions in Monday, November 19.
Specifically, our cut-off will be at midnight Pacific time that day. If you are chosen to be on our Creative Team, you will be personally contacted by me before December 1. The 2013 Creative Team will be announced mid-December.
If you have any questions at all about submitting to be on our Creative Team, you can email kari@beckyhiggins.com. (Kari manages our Creative Team. She’s pretty amazing and so much fun!) If your question is GENERAL and something that perhaps others would likely want to know as well, simply leave a comment and we’ll do our best to answer questions here (publicly) also.
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We can’t wait to see your layouts!
