Have you heard about Project Lift? It is scrap booking made easy! After Lauren's 5th birthday I decided her next scrapbook should be a Project Life scrapbook. It comes complete with an album, pages, journaling cards, card stock, and all you need are pictures and a pen!
All the card stock match and your whole album has the same color theme. This is the title page of Lauren's album. I am not sure that I want to keep that first picture of her at the top...I might change it.
Here is an example of a completed page. At the top is the title card. If you look closely you will not see a title. I am a little behind on titling the pages. I used card fillers and journaling cards to complete the page. This was Easter Sunday so there was a nice theme to the page.
This a page that I had to get a little creative on and figure out how to incorporate all the pictures together. The pictures of Lauren in green are from St. Patty's day so I used them to match her umbrella, that is also green. The bottom right picture was initially a vertical picture, but I trimmed it down and added card stock to the side to make it fit into this page.
I took so many pictures at Lauren's Pre-K graduation! It was such a fun night. At the top I made a collage of several pictures and just printed it up into a 4x6 print, that way I was able to put several images on one page.
I also included some of her art work during the year on this spread.
I used more card stock and filler cards on Mark's half marathon page. I wanted the girls to remember it and it could not really fit onto one page, so I made it into a whole spread and just added some paper. Less pictures and more paper was a nice change in the flow of the album.
Lauren's first day of Kindergarten also included tons of pictures. I did not really have anything from the kit to match the purple outfit Lauren was wearing, so I added my one paper to this spread. I have a large area on another page that will included all the journaling and memories of the first day of Kindergarten.
I like how I have two filler cards on the outside and the journaling in the middle.
Trick or treating this year was so much fun with Lauren and Addison's little friends. I included several pages on the October traditions that we have.
Doing this album has been a lot of fun. I have enjoyed changing it up a bit and doing a different kind of scrap booking with Project Life. I have ordered another album this past week to get started on my next one! I have decided to keep going with Addison's book and keep doing individual ones for her with the old fashioned scrap booking. It is only fair since I have done Lauren up to age 6. I decided recently to start doing a family album for each year now. Lauren currently has 9 scrapbooks all of JUST HER. Instead of doing separate ones for the girls I am going to start the family album (but continue with Addison until she is 6.)
I will probably do a school years album for both girls and really want to get started on Lauren's. I also thought I would do some random albums here and there of their hobbies and sports as they get older.
Of course, family vacations are digital (usually on Shutterfly) because I take so many pictures in one weeks time that I would never be able to make a scrapbook of the vacation unless it is digital.
I hope to finish Lauren's current book before her birthday (which is in 2 weeks.) I have to do November and December. It doesn't sound like much, but December was full of so many fun activities that I am not sure I can completely get it done, but I am going to try.
So give Project Life a try. I love it!
