five on friday

works in progress

1.  project life

yes, i jumped on the bandwagon.  i did this project in 2009 and kept up with it the whole year. it is one of my favorite albums.  last year i felt like i took a picture a day but didn't make nearly as many layouts as i wanted to.  so, this year i felt like if i did project life i could get my pictures into an album and scrapbook just the pictures that warranted a full layout.  kind of took the pressure off.

i am inspired by so many other people that are doing this.  i have joined the project life community but am just doing what feels right to me.  keeping ephemera that means something to me and adding it to the book.  very easy for me to do and keep up.

here's one of my completed weeks.

i'm printing my pictures once a week.  sometimes at home, but mostly at costco.  i round the corners and add the day stickers and slip them into the page protector.  then i write something on the journaling card and call it done.  this week i included sofia's clues from her share bag at preschool. she brought in her minnie mouse doll in case you couldn't guess by the clues.  on the other side i included a ticket stub and a page from the program of a concert we went to.

you can learn more about project life here.

2. a layout

here's the layout i'm doing based on my 5 people 12 times project.

at this point i haven't decided if this will be an album of it's own or if i will just throw it into my project life album.  i used a we r memory keepers photo sleeve for the extra photos and enlarged the one i liked to 8x10.  i think i'll just stick it down on the anna griffin paper and add a title.  then i will print the journaling from my blog post and add that to a separate page protector in between these pages.  you can see that i am using some old product, but it's things that i really love.

3. 40th birthday album

here's where i confess that i haven't put together my album from my 40th birthday.  i have the album and i bought the product last year.  but i haven't done anything with it.  i don't even have the pictures printed.  but i started it and i hope to finish it before my 41st birthday next month.

i'm using an american crafts 8x8 album and the pink paislee queen bee collection along with some rhinestones and flowers.  my plan is to keep it simple and uniform.  i took stacy julian's finish line scrapbooking class last year at cha and was so happy with that finished album.  i think that is what i will do this time around.  here are the first two pages.

4. road trip 2010

i wanted to create an on the road scrapbook that i could work on while we were on vacation.  i made the scrapbook before we left and took a little kit of essentials with me.  i was able to get a lot of it done on the road.  but along with the instax photos i wanted to include photos that i took with my slr as well, those would have to wait until we got home.  i continued to collect tickets and receipts to scrap with those photos.  well we moved my scrapbook stuff into boxes for a while and i either couldn't find the book or i couldn't find my stuff.  so it's in limbo right now.  but i'm sure i'll get it finished before this year's summer vacation.

5.  a completed layout

and just so i don't look like a total slacker, here is a layout i did finish.  i am participating in shimelle's class over at two peas in a bucket and this was the assignment and sketch for january.  i absolutely love this line from colorbok that i found at joann's recently.  it's called flea market.  this yellow and blue paper is one of my favorites.  i followed her sketch pretty closely and love how the page turned out. used up some ki memories flowers that i had been saving and the martha stewart butterfly punch.  the class is free if you want to check it out.

i am keeping some of these projects in the hefty one zip 2.5 gallon bags.  they are perfect for the 12x12 paper, photos and any other product that i need.  i can dump everything out on my work table, do some work and then put it all away.  and they don't take up very much room.  planning on finishing up these projects and posting them here soon.

have a wonderfully creative 3 day weekend.