Showing posts with label Project Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Project Life. Show all posts

Friday, August 23, 2013

My Thoughts on Project Life and Project from Bella Blvd

Hey there, do you do Project Life? What do you think about it I would love to hear your thoughts!
Today I'm going to share my thoughts with you :) I love the concept and I'm so happy that Project Life is creating a way for people to document their memories because I know traditional scrapbooking isn't for everyone! I love the divided page protectors and I love that you can make it your own by embellishing or you can simply use the card and the photo.  

BUT

(you knew it was coming) Project Life just isn't for me! I tried, I really did! I told myself that I would do Project Life for the summer and I successfully did...for 2 weeks and then I quit. I quit because it was a "task" for me not something that I got to do for myself that I enjoyed. As a busy mom I didn't want to create another task for myself and I certainly didn't want to make my creative release of memory keeping into a task. So, with that being said. I do use Project Life products and I love the journaling cards that most manufactures are creating, I use them all.the.time.

Bella Blvd's latest CHA releases are full of 3x4 and 4x6 journaling cards. I've only had their new collections for a couple of weeks and I've already used almost all of them..oops. I'll be placing an order for some more soon!


 



I really would love to hear your thoughts. Leave a comment and let me know what you think! Thanks :)

Monday, August 12, 2013

Becky Higgins Project Life at Michaels

Hey Everyone, I'm back from a short vacation in Vegas. Thanks for stopping by today!

I have a project to share with you today that I am so excited about. This is a little bit different than the traditional scrapbooking that I usually do. This approach to memory keeping is called Project Life. Project life is hitting the scrapbooking industry by storm because of the simplicity. Anyone can start Project Life without any fancy tools, adhesive, or embellishments.

This approach to scrapbooking appeals to me as a traditional scrapbooker because I adore journaling cards. I use them all.the.time. Also, when creating a layout I often have a few extra photos that don't fit within my design so by adding a divided page protector next to my traditional layout I can add the extra photos and journaling without creating several layouts about the same event.

With one quick trip to your local Michaels you can get started with Project Life or you can add Project Life to your traditional scrapbooking. Michaels carries a ton of supplies for Project Life including The Dear Lizzy 5th and Frolic Core Kit that has a soft beautiful pastel color palette with whimsical icons such as typewriters, foxes, trees and birds. Michaels also carries the Vintage Travel Core Kit which includes a distressed-vintage-travel theme with a rich color palette of navy blues, brick reds, and kraft and icons of airplanes, trains, and maps.
On this particular project I chose to use the Vintage Travel Core Kit on a traditional two page layout. I used the journaling cards in a few different ways. I used them as journaling cards, as photo mats, as a base for embellishment clusters and as a base for my title.
 
I chose to create with this kit because I wanted to document my photos from my trip to Vegas AND I wanted to use the remaining supplies on projects in my son's albums. These colors are perfect for masculine projects and travel themed pages alike.

This is how I used the cards to create a space for my title and embellishment clusters.


On the right hand side of my project I used the cards to create a grid design. Some of them were used as journaling spots, as a base for my embellishments, and some I used to mat my photos.



The card in the middle of the bottom row also serves another purpose. This is probably my favorite feature of the card kit. This card came scored so that I could attach my photo on the outside and add some additional journaling.

Just one Project Life card kit comes with 616 cards that can be used in dozens of different way.

Thanks again for taking the time to stop by today. I appreciate all of you!

*This post is part of a paid campaign with American Crafts, but all opinions are my own.*

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