I finished January Project Life pages this weekend. I cleaned up my craft room and then promptly covered my whole tabletop again working on my pages.
I planned out my pages in Lightroom before printing out the photos. I wrote a post with a video about planning Project Life pages in Lightroom last year. At first when I planned out my pages, I tried to squeeze my January Part 2 photos all onto 2 pages (Design A & Design D).
But that didn’t leave very much room for journal cards & embellishments, so I added a third page (the back of Design D).
That gave my photos a lot more room to breathe. My final layouts is still slightly different than this, but planning it out gave me ideas of which photos I wanted to print full-size at 4x6 and which ones to print smaller.
To see my pages from the first half of January, click here.
January page 4: We had lunch with AJ & Meera and the kids at Chipotle; went running at the coast; Noodle antics; dinner with Dejah & Roby at China Max.
Supplies: One Little Bird “Positive Spin” digital kit; washi tape, sequins, date stamp, Sharpies pens, AC Amy Tangerine “Cut & Paste” mini PL kit; WRMK File Tab Punch; Studio L2e “Labels & Tabs” and “Labels & Tabs: Sentiments” stamp sets; Catslife Press cat stamp; Simple Stories Sn@p letter stickers; Elise Cripe “You Are Here” stamp.
Closer looks:
January page 5: I got braces; I had lunch with Julio at Ortegas; We went to Sat night church; Todd and I put the finishing edges on my DIY Craft Island; Noodle cuteness.
Supplies: One Little Bird “Positive Spin” digital kit and journal cards; washi tape, date stamp; AC Dear Lizzy Neapolitan mini PL kit; arrow paper clip; Evalicious Camera Love Puffy Stickers.
Closer looks: I made the left side 6x4 journal card digitally using the One Little Bird “Positive Spin” digi kit. The cassette tape was also from the digital kit.
January page 6: Chinese New Year lunch at Pearl with work friends. I only filled up half the page, so I’ll add some photos from February when I work on that this weekend. It doesn’t bother me at all that January photos end mid-page.
I diversified this time and used a Design D page protector, not just Design A! :)
Other Project Life Supplies That I Always Use:
- Adobe Lightroom
- We R Memory Keepers 12x12 faux leather album
- Project Life page protectors
- Sharpie pens
- Date stamps
- Scotch ATG
- Glue dots
- Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher
- Cutterbee scissors
This looks awesome.
ReplyDeletei love the peek into your process, Christine!!
ReplyDeleteThis makes me want to start PL! I love your approach. You have great handwriting, by the way!
ReplyDeleteI must have missed the 'planning pages on Lightroom' the first time around. That is such a great tip. THANKS!!!!! BTW You should just hand journal your penmanship is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous pages! I am doing my pages monthly this year as well, but I'm really having a hard time with the format and am creating inserts to divide the months so I feel like I have to end at the end of a page...which is much harder than it seems!!
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