Sunday, January 22, 2012

Project Life 2012: Week 3

Week 3, the 2-page spread as you open the album.

Close-up of the left-hand side...generally keeping with the bottom left is Friday, upper right is Saturday and bottom right is Sunday. Title card in upper left is Sydney & the birthday girl grooming one of the ponies. Little scrap of ephemera, the label from a new toy of Sydney's.

Close-up of the Week 3 title page.

Back-side of the weekly title page is a collage of the Saturday event and on the right is the Week 3 long-journaler.

Back of the weekend long-journaler, is the weekday long journaler. On the right, I'm also including the party invitation and some 5x7's.

Back-side of 5x7's and Sydney's art.

The back-side of Sydney's art is an enlargement of a special event at her school this week and I also inserted the invitation that she had made for us to the event. I made sure to center the enlargement so I could just slip the invitation in right along with the enlargement in the page protector.

And the final page in the spread, the weekday photos. Generally I try to include 1 photo from each day of the week (since I got into that habit last year) but this year it's no hard & fast rules and if I miss a day I'm not going to panic about it.

Project Life 2012: Week 2

Here is a look at the 2-page spread as you open the album.

Close-up of the left side. Upper left is my version of a "title card". Also some ephemera...my favorite stevia that I add to my morning coffee.

Week 2 title page. We signed Sydney up for gymnastics, ballet, tap dance class.

Back of the title page is some art by Sydney and also on the right is this week's long journaler with the photo enlargement.

Close-up of the long journaler and a look at the right hand side of the spread.

Back side of the long-journaler and a look at the final page of the spread.

Close-up of the last page of the spread. This side generally represents the school-week Monday-Thursday.

Project Life 2012: Week 1

Here is Week 1. This is the 2-page spread as you open the album.

Here is a close-up of the left hand side on the spread. In general, I still try to have the bottom left photo be Friday, the top right Saturday and the bottom right Sunday, but there are no hard & fast rules. The top left spot is what I consider to be the title card still but instead of using the PL title card, I generally have this be a photo, usually of a sign or inanimate object or something like that. Since I date my weekly Title page, I no longer have to actually include the week's dates on this title card.

Here is the weekly title page again, blogged about this page on the previous post.

On the back side of the weekly title page, is a collage of the event we went to on Saturday for a chance to add more photos from that event. After that is a 6x12 long journaler (Ali Edwards template). Since I'm approaching this as a weekly spread, I decided to do my journaling as a weekly summary instead of daily journal cards. So far, I'm able to get all my weekly journaling onto the 6x12 lay-out. And I like a chance for another large photo.

Here is a closer look.

And the other side of the long journaler...more journaling & another large photo.

This week, I also included an American Crafts 3-up for some additional photos I wanted to include.

And the back...

And finally, the last page of the spread. You can see by doing the journaling as a weekly summary on the long journaler, I am able to add so many more photos, which I love.

Project Life 2012: Weekly Title Page

A look at the first 2-page layout of the year. I am going to be doing a weekly approach rather than a photo-a-day approach like I did last year. So, the first new component I'm adding this year is a "Photo-of-the-week" on a title page.

The title page is either my favorite photo of the week or the one photo that kind of captures the main story from the week.

Once again, my weeks will begin on Friday and end on Thursday so that the first days captured (generally the left side of the album) is of the weekend and the right hand side of the weekly spread is the Monday-Thursday stories.

The title page also captures the dates of the week. The template is from Ali Edwards Week In The Life series.