This morning I got a text from my cute friend who knows what I do, knows about Project Life, but hasn’t really tried it herself. She’s a busy mama to 5 and a small business owner. She knows a thing or two about feeling overwhelmed. This was her text.
You know I love you right?? Sooo I have been so bad at journaling and scrapbooking for the last years, actually forever. I’m tempted to try one of your Project Life books. Can I do it? Is it a picture a day with journaling?
I could have just texted her back. But I had this overwhelming feeling that my response wasn’t just for Kristi. It’s for everyone who’s not exactly sure about Project Life and if it’s the right fit for them. So here goes. This is for anyone and everyone who hasn’t actually tried Project Life but it curious about it.
Project Life does not = Project 365. Gotta put this myth to rest, first of all. When I first developed the product several years ago it started out with the idea of documenting life with a picture-a-day for a full year and that would fill an album perfectly. Yes, Project Life works insanely awesome for anyone who wants to take the 365 approach. Yes, I’ve taken this approach myself. Did it 3 years in a row. But …. Project Life evolved to be waaaaaay more versatile than that and I would say most people use Project Life not with the 365 approach.
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Project Life is whatever you want it to be. I really, really, really mean this. Literally. Let me give just a few examples of what a full Project Life album might contain:
1. A year in review, highlighting random memories from this year … last year … any year at all. Photos can be organized chronologically or by theme (have categories like birthdays this year, travel this year, school stuff, in our spare time, friends, etc. – and add Scrapbook Dividers to label your sections for ultimate organization).
2. Cover the span of several years. Let’s say you haven’t done much scrapbooking ever. But you’re itching to get at least some of your pictures in an album. How about tackle an entire decade in one album? Each year could have say, 6 layouts (our Big Pack of Photo Pocket Pages comes with 60 pages) and you can include the “best of” pictures in those 6 layouts per year. An entire decade of “catching up” in ONE album? YES. And you can do it all without touching a pair of scissors or using any adhesive whatsoever.
3. On a related note, I totally think most of us could compile an album that sums up our entire childhood. True story. Just blow the dust off those old photos, throw them in the pockets along with the Title Cards and Journaling Cards that come in the Core Kit of your choice. Done.
4. Pick a theme, any theme. Create an entire album all about … you name it. Perhaps all of your travel adventures go in one album, or maybe you fill an album with memories of a loved one that is no longer here, or think about anything you have lots of pictures of and BAM! There’s your theme.
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Project Life is easy-peasy. Like – for real. If scrapbooking in general gives you anxiety, that is 100% normal. Think about it – we all have thousands of photos on our computers, in boxes, wherever. I totally know what it feels like to be drowning in pictures. That’s my story too. That’s why I developed the system … so that I could get my photos + memories into books but not even have to think about designing a page, choosing products, adding embellishments, or any of that stuff that is part of “traditional” scrapbooking. This is back-to-basics, folks. Photos + captions. That’s it. But the end result is what we love: A scrapbook.
Everything placed in pockets. No cutting. No sticky anything. No embellishments. No techniques.
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Now what? Okay – this is for Kristi and everyone like Kristi who really, really, really wants to get a handle on their pictures but is feeling utterly overwhelmed or confused or intimidated. A few key steps for my newbie friends:
1. Take a peek. Virtually flip through a few of our sample albums just to get the wheels spinning on just how easy this is going to be to get your memories into an album. This will also help you become familiar with some of different editions. We currently have 5 editions (styles) and there are 2 more Project Life editions coming late December, just FYI (you can see details of all editions – existing and coming soon – by clicking on them on our Products page).
2. Begin with the end in mind. Decide on ONE topic or theme or chunk of time that you want to fit into an album. It could be for a child, for your family, for yourself … whatever. Just pick a plan. And by the way – you can start with right NOW if you would prefer to work with the pictures you’re going to take starting TODAY (or January 1 or whenever). If you do it this way, you can always go back to “old” pictures later.
3. Choose your products. On the Products page you’re reminded that all you really need is a Binder + a Core Kit + a Big Pack of Photo Pocket Pages. Any accessories you want to add are the icing on the cake but they’re not absolute essentials to make an album.
4. Check out the slideshow. I pulled this together especially for you. Photo by photo by photo you’ll see how Project Life works and how this will sooooo be life-changing for you. : )
5. Pull it together. Now you know what your direction will be, you have the product in hand, and you are equipped with the knowledge that this is slipping photos & adorable cards into pockets with your captions and stories (as much or as little as you want). It doesn’t need to be anything more than that. Keep it simple this first round so that your experience is awesomely smooth and FUN. Involve the kids if you want, or do it on your own. Whatever floats your boat.
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Ask anyone who’s done Project Life and they’ll tell you why + how this has changed the face of memory-keeping for them. We get emails every day … testimonials from people who are so thankful that they can finally get a grip on scrapbooking because it’s that easy – and that fun. I so don’t want to sound like an infomercial. Kristi didn’t know what she was getting herself into when she sent a simple text this morning. I just feel so passionate about what this is, how Project Life solves problems, and I just KNOW you can do this Kristi. Thanks for letting me take your innocent question to a public level. : )
I’m fairly new to PL. I started in July of this year but I still get “Project Life Block”. I do mine weekly but I have weeks where it’s just a basic week of cleaning, cooking and all that fun stuff that SAHM’s do, nothing out of the ordinary so suggestions on what to put up for that week would be so helpful for me. I know I could probably place things like … that pile of laundry is never-ending, etc but I don’t really want to have the same thing weeks or months later.
Thanks
Do what feels right, I do not do weekly/monthly layouts, I do layouts of photos I like.
I have plenty of weeks like that. What I do is combine several weeks together. Also whenever I think of it I take pictures of ramdom things in my life and just keep them in a box to fill in on those not so exciting weeks. Example: piles of dirty laundry, picture of my purchases, food I like, jewelry I like to wear, etc..just random things. No rule says you have to have a spread for each week. Just enjoy.
I don’t have any of these products YET, but most certainly will very soon! I’m a wife, mother and grandmother of 10 so will have to build a room for all my albums I’m sure!
What I really wanted to address are the quandaries the singles and childless are presenting.
YOUR LIFE TODAY WILL BE A PATH TO KNOWLEDGE FOR THE FUTURE GENERATIONS!!!
Your future partner and children will be able to witness you as you “were then” and you will be providing a beautiful insight into what and who made you the YOU they know today! So chronicle your challenges, your thoughts, your view of your world as you experience it! Think back to your parents, grandparents and great-grandparents… What do you wish you knew about them? What questions would you have liked to hear their answers to? Now go pick up your camera and just START!!! Your great-great grandchildren will love you for it!
Great Advice Jackie-Lee, we really over complicate it sometimes.
Personally , I like the housework photos. Its a good reminder of 24/7 effort parents put in to make the special occasions happen.
Could you put in what’s going on in your head while you’re doing that big pile of laundry?
Favorite songs you listen to. The book you’re writing in your head — or the rant. Your wishes, hopes, dreams. How you feel about being a SAHM. How long you plan to live where you live, do what you do. How it compares with your mom/sister/grandma/friend. How it compares with what you thought you’d be doing, or what you did 10 yrs ago. What you worry about.
Or depart from your daily routine and capture what made you laugh this week, what your current faves are, what you’re looking forward to. What you dreamed last night.
I lump my weeks together sometimes. Most of the time, enough random things happened in a week to fill a spread, but as I’m going through my photos, if I end up with 2 or 3 weeks where I didn’t take any photos, I’ll just put those 2-3 weeks into one spread and call it done. The opposite can be true, too. When we went on vacation this summer, I had a TON of photos I wanted in my album, so I did that one week spread out over 4 pages (2 full spreads plus an envelope to hold all the keepsakes).
@Michelle
Sometimes I take a picture of my children’s artwork that is currently on display (I have a special spot in the house where I rotate their art). These photos make an awesome addition to PL. Or I might take a picture of their backpacks lined up by the front door or toys abandoned (in mid-play) when the children left for school. One of my favorite “filler” pictures was inspired by one that Becky posted on her FB page–it was a closeup of the spines of the books that my younger child was reading at the time. I think I should do another one of those before year is up, because the books are a lot different now! I do also have a week where I ended up taking about three pictures total. I put in blank cardstock into the picture spots and journaled that I was busy packing for our cruise…I think seeing the empty photo spots with solid color cardstock really tells the story of just how busy I was–because I typically have *lots* of pictures!
I often include pop culture in my album – what is headlining in the news, what movies are nominated, what TV shows premiered. I think that you could also do some really fantastic “theme” weeks – what we eat week, what we wear week, where we live week.
I often add print outs of FB posts and responses, Quotes from the kids, scans of their artwork, I’ll list their heights and weights a time or two a year. I add photos of laundry, cookies I baked, the condition of the kitchen. I think thses things will be interesting in ten or twenty years, how different things will be.
Oh, and I also cut out the labels of stuff the kids like, like the packaging for goldfish.
Great post, Becky!!! Thanks!!!
Oh, and I guess I should mention that last week I came into possession of an album, a large pack of pocket pages, and a huge box filled with journaling cards and so forth. LOVE IT! Excited to get started!
Loved this post so much! I’ve been wanting to take the Project Life plunge since April but seeing that I’m OCD I couldn’t live with my album not being from January to December! So I decided to start in 2013 (also I’ll be turning 25 so what a fantastic way to document a milestone year). I wasn’t sure how I could make it fit, I’m not married, don’t have kids *only a furry one* but I follow a few blogs (Elise, Kelly and Ann-Marie) and I love, love, love their albums. I’m so excited for the new year!
You sound a lot like me!! I decided to do project life awhile ago also but I’m waiting until January [which has been really hard to do!!] but I wanted it to be a perfect year. I’m also worried about what to include because I’m 26, not married [though I live with my boyfriend], without kids and in law school so my life is just a lot of the same. I hope I can find interesting things to include in my album! Good luck with yours
Linda…you will find so many things to document! I hesitated doing PL because my husband & I do not have children. I am so glad I did it. Thoguh your life is alot of the same now…it won’t be that always & you will be able to look back and see what it was like now. I post about what we do regularly: what tv is on, what I am reading what we are eating, etc. You can post about what you are studying right now…years from now you will look back at that…it will be cool!! About a year ago, Becky had a post on here about people doing PL who don’t have kids…..it is what piushed me to start this year. I am so glad I did!!
Thanks so much Janet!! I was just reading your comment and it gave me that confidence I needed to do PL. I’ve been getting supplies together to get started in 2013, but I admit that I was hesitant at first because my husband and I also don’t have children. Sometimes i still wonder If mine will be “boring” because of that, but now I realize that it won’t! There’s plenty that I can document. Of course i wish i could find that old blog you referred to. Thanks again!:-)
Hi girls! I just wanted to add that I am 27, not married, do not have children and am currently living about 2 hours from my boyfriend. I watched and admired Project Life from afar for a few years and was worried I wouldn’t be able to fill a book, but in this first year of Project Life (yes, I took the plunge last January!) I have been amazed that I have had enough content to fill TWO albums! And have inspired several friends who are in the same boat as me but who have never even given a second thought to scrapbooking become ADDICTED to this system after seeing how it works! Sometimes, when I have hit a bit of a “creative block” or have realized I haven’t taken many pictures that week, my boyfriend has swooped in to snap a pic and fill out a journaling card, which gives it a bit of variety and is really fun to see a different perspective. I just recently had a friend give her take on an event and she had so much fun picking out her journaling card and feeling like she contributed to the album. So, if you ever get to that point, it could be fun to have others near to you make a contribution. Anyway, I am so excited for you all to start your project. I guarantee you will love it!!
I feel like my album might get “boring” and I know there will be weeks where I cannot fill a whole two page spread so my plan was to just do one side of a page for a week. This way, if I wanted, I can take a ‘favourite picture’ from the week and print it out as a 12×12 to fill the other side. Or if I do something exciting I’ll have the two pages to fill. The possibilities are endless!
I am in the same boat – not married, no kids. But I LOVE my album. And I fill an entire 2pg spread every week {well, one time I did two weeks in one – because I was sick.} Anyway, I may not “have a family” but I do SOMETHING {ha, ha} every day. And I love collecting “stuff” to go into it. I also only use the A protectors – because I need to have a continuity. I love Elise Blaha’s album … her husband is often on deployments – so she’s ‘single’ some of the year. She does pics of her crafts, her work, her food {love those}, her goals, and her running {love that too} and the friends she hangs out with. Travel is also something that can be added without “kids”
I just thought you might like a list – seeing as how you follow her blog. lol.
Oh thank you thank you thank you! I am starting PL in 2013 and have been second guessing way I would since I {cough} scrapbook but after reading this post I know I made the right decision. Sometimes scrapbooking overwhelms me. Finding the right paper, embellishments, etc.. for the right photo I want to include. PL will, hopefully, simplify the process. I can several photos, journal and embellish (if I want – but I don’t have too) and viola I’m done. Phew – thank you again!!
The timing of this post could not be more perfect. I first became interested in scrapbooking when my first son was born although I quickly became paralyzed by all the supplies and the idea of designing the perfect pages! I have been reading your blog for a long time but had yet to actually take the plunge and order project life. When the deals were available on Black Friday, I decided to take advantage of the great savings and ordered my kit. My box arrived a few minutes ago and I decided to check out your website to get some ideas on where to start and voila this post appeared. Thank you for all the inspiration. I am so excited to get started on telling my family’s story and stop getting stuck in all the details (i.e. designing a perfect page with all the embellishments).
You are not going to regret it! PL is awesomesauce!!
I think the most important thing is to do Project Life your own way.
For example, PL is a terrific “system” for organizing, and we all know Becky is super-organized — that’s her style. But what if you are not? What if you don’t want to do two pages per week, and capture your year in one album, all nice and tidy? Then don’t!
Seriously, if you’re like me, you have 27 pictures of that time you went swimming last year, and one grainy picture of the house you grew up in. Not tidy. Doesn’t come out even. Go with it!
Becky might journal on each page, but you only feel like you have something to say every once in a while. Do it your way!
I still like to do some paper/scissors/stickers scrapbooking pages, so I just freely mix them into my album with the PL pages. Yes I do!
Project Life – ah once I let go of the need for perfection of what everyone else was doing, I settled into it and I so enjoy it. I incorporate some traditional scrap pages in with standard P.L. pages, which is truly your message Becky, do it how it works for you. Project Life is so great that I have even talked my therapist in to doing – now that is something!
I have four kids and FOURTEEN years of photos and memorabilia. I had nothing in albums. Started in August and I now have four years of pictures done. I cannot speak highly enough of the PL system. I’ve made it work for my kids album and couldn’t be more thankful for this simple, beautiful, and affordable way to record out family memories.
Most rewarding thing I have done. Wish I would have started when my kids were born. I love making it my own. No Pressure. If I have photos enough for two spreads then I do two spreads. Don’t have much photos one week only do a half a spread. Do a spread for one month. You can make Project Life whatever you want it to be. I’m just so happy that I actually have pictures printed and not stuck on my computer for no one to see. I love all the little moments and memories I have captured in 2012 and look forward in the years to come.
Thank You
Backy & Team
What a great post! I am going to share it with my friends who think I spend a lot of time keeping up with Project Life. They comment that is must be nice to have so much time to do this weekly. I try to tell them it is FAST and simple but they don’t believe me. I had totally given up on scrapbooking about seven years ago and this year of Project Life has brought me back to memory keeping in a simple and easy way. Love the idea of going back and doing my childhood photos into a PL book plus it will give me a chance to play with the paper-based PL rather than the digital I am doing now.
I just posted on my newbie experience. 2012 was the first year for me and I’m loving it. http://inspiremegrey.blogspot.com/2012/11/project-life.html
Becky!!!!!!! Would you mind turning on the share icons on your blog posts so we can share them on other social media? Or am I missing them?
I have share icons in my toolbar on my Mac but on your post would be so easy!
EEK! Is that too much to ask? So sorry! Just want to share Project Life!
Hope you, David and your little ones have a blessed Christmas!
Waiting for Baby Project Life,
Jenifer
This post was so meant for me!! I saw a preview of you on Studio 5 and so I totally googled you (hope that doesn’t sound creepy.
I have been looking around your website ever since, but have just been a little unsure aboue everything. Your post coudn’t have come at a more perfect time.
I think I only have one question…
How many sheet protectors/layouts can one binder hold?
I think you were inspired to write this post.
Brooke
@ Brooke
It really depends on how much “extra” stuff you put in your binder. I thought I’d be able to do a whole year in one binder–I do one “open face” spread per week. Meaning that if you have the binder open, the left and right side are for one week. However I’ve found that I put extra pictures in between those regular sheet protectors using the extra “bonus” packs. I also sometimes add in ticket stubs or I hole punch programs and add those into my book. Or sometimes I add in flip-up pictures (made by a different manufacturer). Anyhow, all of that adds to the thickness of the album. My 2012 is two albums and this lets my pages turn comfortably. Other people have more albums.
And, by the way, even though I use lots of pictures, my PL still is very simple–pictures and journaling with the occasional extra thrown in there. I am *so* glad I’ve started this method of scrapping!
What I love about Project Life is that it can truly be whatever you make it. No rules no restrictions. I look though my last 2 albums and can clearly see how my ‘style’ has changed and evolved. I love that.
It is so flexible and it is what you do (or don’t do) to it that makes it unique, your own and beautiful. After all, no one will be taking the exact photos you do and only YOU can tell your story.
I also found traditional scrapbooking crippling, it’s just not for me, and that’s ok. SIncerely my hat off to those who can maintain it.
Project life was my “halleluiah” moment for memory keeping and I have not looked back since. If I can do it with 3 youing kids and a full time job then anyone can. Thanks Becky. It’s the simple ideas that are often the best.
Thanks for this great post. Like others, I’ve been watching from afar and am finally jumping on the PL bandwagon for 2013. I bought lots of product when you were offering the Black Friday sale. Now that I have the supplies I don’t know what to do; I’m stuck and need your help.
I would love to see a blog post on how people (on your creative team or random people) prep/assemble supplies in anticipation of starting. Where & how do people organize and store the journaling cards, filler cards, etc. Do people leave the album and supplies sitting out or put away and then pull out when they work on the album?
There are a lot of posts about this kind of things on peoples blogs, you just have to search around, a lot of times they are at the beginning or the end of the year. I have also found videos on You Tube also.
Thank you Thank you Thank you for posting this.
I purchased Project Life earlier this year…and then life happened…and I just always felt to behind to start. But after looking through and seeing how even the simplest effort is still recording the importance of your life, I’m renewed with inspiration and motivation.
THANK YOU! I’m a digi scrapper, but have so many photos to get in albums from the pre-digital age. I think Project Life can help with this. So many benefits to this- photos get looked at, and an area in the closet gets decluttered. So glad you shared Kristi’s text with us.
I have to smile and tell you that 24 years ago this is how I scrapbooked – the Project Life way. I used pocket pages (6 slots to a page) and in one of the six I wrote date, caption, names, etc. on an index card. Then my mother introduced me to fancy scrapbooking four years later and I was happy it was so easy to make “beautiful pages” because everything was already in order. Now, for the last two years, I have changed my approach because its just too much work to make all those pages, and I have another new hobby that I’m loving. So, now I make 2 pages for every month. That’s it. And I make them all over Thanksgiving weekend. Then the coming year I just fill in the “spots” I have saved for photos. All extra photos I want to look at I stick back into pocket pages at the end of the year’s monthly pages. Very easy for me, and uses up all the scrapbooking supplies I bought for years. Do I care if I’m using the latest supplies? No. Just glad to be documenting life still.
Hi Becky
I have been meaning for a while now to tell you what I did with Project Life for my brother in law’s wedding gift. He and his wife are absolute travel bugs and have been to lots of countries between the two of them and have plans for many more sooooo …. I set up a Project Life album for them as a travel bug album. I completed and embellished the back and front cover pages, then collected enough 2 x 3 journaling cards to have one for every country in the whole world (plus a few extras, like Wales, Scotland etc). I set up their album so there is a 2×3 title card for each country (I have prelabelled them with the country names), where they can write the date, then another 2 x 3 card next to that for a brief amount of journaling, then two 4 x 6 spaces per country for 2 photos to represent their time in each country. It looks awesome and they have had fun filling in the places they have been to so far and are having more fun dreaming of when they can get to all the countries. Thanks for having such an awesome product that let me bring my idea to life!
I LOVE LOVE PROJECT LIFE!! This is my 3rd year doing PL and I also did 1 year of 365 and can’t imagine every NOT doing this!! It is the most basic, easy, stress free way to scrapbook. It’s my most treasured albums, even beats out all those scrapbooks I did for years before Becky came out with this method. Each year this project just gets better and makes me happier. This year is my favorite year yet, changed some things and added more into it.
If you haven’t joined in due to worry about doing it “RIGHT” DON”T let that stop you!! There is no right way to do this, that’s what’s soooooo amazing about this album. There is only YOUR way and what makes YOU happy!! Sure I skip some weeks, sometimes a few photos/words are missing but that just shows the real life and busy days we sometimes have.
I keep mine pretty simple, sometimes there is added embellishments but for the most part it’s the photos and words that matter to me. These albums are filled with lots of everyday moments that make up our lives. I’m thankful everyday for Becky creating this idea.
So if you haven’t jumped in yet, RUN NOW TO THE PHONE/COMPUTER AND ORDER YOURS TODAY! YOU WON’T BE SORRY!!
Come check out my blog where I share mostly Project Life and a few fun things between.
http://everydaymemorieswithprojectlife.blogspot.com
Thank you Becky and team for all you do and share for us!! I couldn’t be happier with my Project Life!!
That’s exactly what i saw when I first watched the little video about project life: endless possibilities! I wanted an album for each kid, one for me, one for the year, one for the past years….
I LOVE PROJECT LIFE! Thanks so much Becky! My Project Life album that I fill week after week with our everyday stuff is my favorite album on our shelf! THANK YOU!!
I have been doing Project Life for years. First as a picture a day and then a week at a glance. Your post gave me the idea to try a new approach for 2013. I like your idea of doing it by theme: birthdays, vacations, holidays, real life. I was a little unmotivated to continue in 2013 but this new approach seems so freeing.
I stumbled across your Blog by accident (or not
) ) and I think I’m inspired to finally get into scrapbooking. Project Life is a brilliant idea and something I’m really keen to do. I can’t believe Scrapbooking has been around for so long and continues to grow in popularity. I didn’t jump on the bandwagon in the beginning because I thought it would be another novelty that would just fade into the distance.
Can’t wait to get started.
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I have one more idea to throw in there…my grandmother has a box of photos. Had PL been around before she passed, I would have taken out a picture, asked her about it and filled out a journal card as she spoke…or had her fill out a card. It would have been a random group of pictures with no particular order at all, but they would have been memories that would have lived on. I guess I would have called the book “Grandmas Memories.” Now, I have only photos with names and dates on the back. She knew enough to give me that info. But, for me, it’s about the stories to tell. Grab a photo…tell the story that goes with it, grab another photo. It needs no order, needs no theme…just Becky’s kit to make it flow without hassle. Each albums title is really “Stories to Tell” in my mind.
I only discovered Project Life since March, it’s life changing our our family has become involved in keeping our memories alive. More choice in digital is going to be fantastic. Love it! Thanks so much Becky
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I love Project Life and can’t wait to give the gift of the Baby Edition at the next baby shower!
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I would love to do this with my 1960′s early 70′s photos that are square with the white border around it, when they put the date on the front but there are no square photo pages that I’ve found. Could anyone tell me if they make them??
You could scan the originals, then print and crop them (or crop before printing), so that they would fit the pocket photo pages. There are several sizes of pocket pages, just use the ones that would work best.
***IMPORTANT*** I wanted to post a link to this blog post on my Facebook account to share this with all my non-scrapping friends, but though the thumbnail and title are accurate, the text it shows is all about Viagra and, er, related stuff. I think you’ve been hacked. Or something. ): I’ve never had that happen before, and don’t think it’s on my end.
Ok so this may seem like a totally idiotic question, but do you guys only put things in pockets facing one way or do you put them back-to-back so that you’re building two pages with one page protector? It seems to me that that would be the way to go, although I’m not exactly sure.
Help!
Wow! I discovered project life today while browsing Amazon for baby books and beating myself up for not doing a first year book for my now 16 month old twins, and feeling even more guilty that I never finished one for my now 8 yr old son! Where does the time go?! Anywho, started feeling very excited about project life and have been looking it up online for the last two hours. Now I feel overwhelmed again since I’ve watched numerous vids on YouTube with layouts and beautiful book my OCD is kicking in and my perfectionism is getting the best of me!
loving this and im doing my first one for 2013 and a 2nd one formy pet but by chance have anything for us spanish speaking crafters wld love to see spanish words, our slang, etc
I agree! I have to make up my own Spanish cards to add to my books and they are hard to find on the market too!
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Thanks Becky, you’re awesome!
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Hi! I just ordered my first project life kit and am so excited to get started. But I was just checking out your baby kits. How do they work? Are they the same like week 1 week 2 of your baby for the first year or is it more general than that? I’m wondering what the difference is between them and the regular project life kits.
Thanks!
Mandi
Hi! I just ordered my first project life kit and can’t wait to get started. But I was checking out the baby editions and am wondering how they work. Is it the same as the other kits as in Week 1, Week 2, etc. of the baby’s first year? I guess I’m wondering what the difference is between them and the regular kits. I am also wondering if its something I would be able to do in hindsight. I have a 4 month old baby and a 2 1/2 year old. Is the baby book something you would want to do while they are still a baby? Or can I fill one out by combing through my stash of pics of when he was a baby.
Thanks,
Mandi
Ooops, that’s me twice! Didn’t realize my first comment went through. Sorry!
I’m thrilled to read this and totally sold on the ‘no embellishments’ part of having a fabulous scrapbook. I’m ready to start now!
I have been scrap booking for a while and this way looks so much simpler. No embellishments no adhesive Wow. I want to do an ABC album of my family.
This makes so much sense to me. This just cuts right to the chase. Telling our story without getting bogged down on the embellishments, tools and tricks. I can’t wait to get started!
New Project Lifers,
I love Project life too! SIMPLE and FAST. I recently found an amazing website to make printing journal cards simple and fast. What’s so amazing is that you don’t need adhesives or tapes when printing your journal cards. It’s back to basics with their templates. You type your journal card then print and it works with all of Becky Higgins products such as the PL 3×4 and PL 4×6 and more. They also have different size templates. It is so simple to use. You can also print digital brushes on your project life cards and print. I tried it, and I couldn’t be happier. I thought I would SHARE! Welcome to Project Life!!!!
New Project Lifers,
I love Project life too! SIMPLE and FAST. I recently found an amazing website to make printing journal cards simple and fast. What’s so amazing is that you don’t need adhesives or tapes when printing your journal cards. It’s back to basics with their templates. You type your journal card then print and it works with all of Becky Higgins products such as the PL 3×4 and PL 4×6 and more. They also have different size templates. It is so simple to use. You can also print digital brushes on your project life cards and print. I tried it, and I couldn’t be happier. I thought I would SHARE! Welcome to Project Life!!!!
Check out – http://www.smpljournal.com
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[...] When you visit our Inspiration page, you’ll see several different Project Life sample albums (yes, there is more than just the Jade & Blush Editions that are shown on HSN today). They’re all put together in the simplest form; no embellishing or cutting or adhesives or extra anything. Check out my post – Advice for Project Life NEWBIES. [...]
Hola….no entiendo nada de inglés…solo puedo decirte que me encantó todo lo que hay en esta página. Soy de Argentina, por lo tanto es imposible poder comprar. Pero me gusta mucho mirarlos, y de a poco aprendiendo algo.
[...] Project Life creator, Becky Higgins. At BeckyHiggins.com, there is an entire section dedicated to Project Life for newbies (that’s us y’all!) which will walk you completely through the process of starting your [...]
Great web site. A lot of useful information here. I am sending it to a
few buddies ans also sharing in delicious. And certainly, thanks in your effort!
I have been seeing (on Pinterest) and hearing things about “PJL” and didn’t now what it was all about until today. My scrapbook store – Precious Memories in Langley BC Canada – just posted they are going to be getting this in so I decided to research it and found this. I am so excited, I have been scrapping for a couple of decades or more since it first started. I’m bogged down. Have many beautiful albums but will never finish what I want recorded at this rate. I have thousands of pics. I’ve decided to do project life for most of my pics but for those special pics/times I want highlighted I will scrap the old way and that will help me to get caught up and not feel so guilty ……but I can still have the creativity for those special times!! It will be my legacy to my kids and grandkids and eventually great grandkids!! Thank you Becky for once again coming up with something so simple yet so doable!!! LOVE this concept!! Wish I had seen this years ago, it will certainly simplify my life!!
Love the concept you have come up with. I bought your Project 365 kit back in 2009 and was only able to keep up for the first four months or so. The new ideas you have presented will be much more doable.
We will be forming a meetup group at my LSS, The Inspiration Station in CT to get friends together to share ideas, tips & tricks. I’m really looking forward to sharing the PL experience.