2014 Project Life | April Part 1

I’ve got 4 pages of April Project Life done, with 5 more pages of photos in the pockets that I still need to work on.  Even though I do Project Life on a monthly basis, it seems that I have just as many pages as if I did it weekly.  But that’s ok with me. 

April page 1:  a busy beginning of the month, with a work lunch, dinner & movie at AJ & Meera’s (we watched Disney’s Chimpanzee), and Todd and AJ had a “man-date” to watch “Draft Day” movie.

By the way, a quick tip on taking photos of your Project Life pages inside the pockets.  I notice that people ask all the time how to take photos of PL pages without all the glare from the page protectors.  I usually stand by a sliding glass door with indirect lighting.  That means earlier in the morning or later in the afternoon.  I put my pages on a piece of white foam board.  Then I angle the board around to avoid glare.  It is especially hard to avoid glare on the top two pockets.  My first try with the above page looked like this.  See the glare on the top two pockets?

I had to move my foam board around quite a bit before I was able to take the final photo without the glare.  Another tip is to stand RIGHT ABOVE your page.  If you stand at an angle to your page, you will most likely get a LOT of glare on the page.  Hope these photo tips help you with taking photos of your PL pages.

Details:

I created a month title page using a 4x6 card from Studio Calico, some Thickers, wood veneer star, and star sequins.

 

April page 2:  dinner at Karl Strauss, Noodle on his perch, watched the movie “Divergent”, brunch with my friend Pearl, and being published in the Dutch magazine Flow. 

Details:

I love adding in little details like the circle arrow.

I totally didn’t know what to do with this 3x4 envelope that came in one of the Studio Calico add-on PL kits.  So I just used it like a journal card and decorated it with gold and woodgrain sequins.  I have not thought of anything to put inside the envelope, lol.

 

April page 3:  bookstore date at Barnes & Noble; birthday lunch with the girls at work; discovering how much I LOVE to print digital journal cards on Canon 4x6 matte paper; saw the documentary “Jodorowsky’s Dune”.

Details:

The left photo was from the Collect App on my iPhone.

The left journal card was printed using the Canon 4x6 matte paper I referenced on the right journal card.

I love that “Let’s Go On An Adventure” stamp from one of Kelly Purkey’s stamp sets.

 

April page 4:  running at the coast; dinner at Chocolat in Hillcrest.

Details:

Almost everything on this PL page was from Dear Lizzy Daydreamer collection.  I cut papers to 4x6 or 3x4 and used stickers and diecuts from the collection.

A little tag I cut with my Silhouette and stapled onto the page.

Stamping inside the “bubbles” of the paper.

Another little tag I cut with the Silhouette.  I love how it adds just a little bit of cuteness to the photo.

One thing I discovered about these Project Life pages is that the sum of them all is more than just adding each page together.  When I was working on these pages, I did not love any of them that much.  I was not 100% happy with them.  But after I took photos of the pages and saw them all in Lightroom, I actually liked them a lot more.  There’s something about seeing all the PL pages TOGETHER and seeing the stories of life come together that makes the sum of them worth way more than each individual page by itself.  Just another lesson to not fret over each individual pocket or page, because after they’re done and in the album, they will be loved!