Project Life | Last week of October

This week was photo rich and I had difficulty choosing / leaving out images. I tried to go with what best tells the story, but some days have many everyday stories to choose from.

I don't usually do much editing (beyond brightening and sharpening) to my photo's. But I was recently inspired by the dreamy images in this photobook:  http://www.blurb.com/books/2253438 (found via Ali Edward's twitter updates. She takes her pictures on film. I love the grainy look. Just something about it. Then I stumbled upon this tutorial (while downloading a christmas printable actually): http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-give-your-photos-a-cool-retro-analog-effect . I wasn't motivated to go and figure it out on Photoshop, but - for the left page/ main photo- tried some of the suggestions in my Microsoft Editing program. Not perfect, but I enjoy the effect.

Happy Monday!

Project Life | catching up.

I'm still quite good at finishing up my week's documenting at the end of every week. I just love this project that much, that it is one of those things that I actually keep "working" on. But I didn't get around to adding finishing touches and posting them. So here's my Project Life for the last 3 weeks:

You can click on an image to enlarge it. The cute text bubbles were a freebie from Audrey Neal (Every  Day Celebrations) at Design House Digitals. If you sign up you get weekly and monthly freebies.

The photo frame is from Carla Dudley, also Design House Digitals, http://www.designhousedigital.com/kit-types/freebies, the tags are from Katie Pertiet, Designer Digitals. Read more about Project Life here: http://www.beckyhiggins.com/blog/.

Project Life | Last week of September.

I'm planning on doing this project using the "Project Life kit" (by Becky Higgins) next year. You can check it out here: http://beckyhiggins.com/products/

Defnitely so worth it!

But for this year I'm loving my digital project.

The Wordart (on the left page) is from "Thanksgiving Celebrations Element kit" by Ali Edwards, the tag is Simple Spots by Katie Petiet. All available from Designer Digitals. The template was a freebie by Anna Aspnes, no longer available, I think.

It was fun to send the camera to work with my husband this week. And good to have a photo of his "everyday" included in our album.

Project Life | Third week of September

Hello, here is this past week's Project Life lay-out. I have much to learn about Blogging. I don't even know where to go to learn. If I knew how, there would have been a link on the sidebar to my previous post on this Project. But for now, any-one interested can just have a look in my archives. Love this Project, even in a week when every-one was sick!

Project Life | 2nd week of September

 

My Project life for the week 5 - 11 September. The bottom, or right hand side page was done in Photoshop Elements, using an free template by Anna Aspnes (I'm not sure where I found it). It was then saved as a JPEG document and opened in Microsoft's Digital Imaging Program. That's where I usually go to add text. If you're smart, you can do it in Photoshop, but I find this system working for me. 

The left hand/ top page was also done in the Microsoft program by opening the previous layout and the photo. The photo was the dragged over the bit that already contained the grid of pictures. I deleted the text above and underneath and then added the new text over the photo area. The label is from Designer Digitals, called "SimpleSpotsMonths" by Katie Pertiet. Once again I opened it in the Microsoft program, dragged it onto the page I'm working with and added the text.

Here's a link to Designer Digitals:

http://www.designerdigitals.com/digital-scrapbooking/supplies/products_new.php

Project Life | First week of September

This year, as last year, I am doing a digital Project Life album. It basically entails taking a photo per day for the full year and creating a weekly page.

I absolutely love this project. Doing it has really captured the story of our lives so well- the small changes, the big changes, the details, the forgotten days and so much more. It is (like this blog) a great place for all the stories I want to tell, but don't have the time to do individual layouts for. It celebrates our everyday lives, instead of just focusing on "big" events. It gives a wonderfull perspective. Like I said, just love it.

You can check out Becky Higgin's site for more info and inspiration:  http://www.beckyhiggins.com/ 

Ali Edwards also has a very inspiring album in the making:  http://aliedwards.com/about-ali/portfolio/project-life .