Project Life 2015: January

As I mentioned in this blog post I will change things up a little bit for 2015. This year I will no longer complete weekly spreads but I'm focusing on a monthly/theme based documenting and I want to tell more stories.

I worked on this spread in three settings. First part was the planning part, where I decided which photo and which stories to include. Second part was adding text to all the photos and printing them out and the third part was decorating my pages.

I kept it very simple and used almost no embellishments. I like to keep the focus on the photos and the text. To include more text in my spreads I added some longer stories onto the photos before I printed them.

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Here is a closer look at one of the inserts. One of the things I want to do this year is to keep track of all of my knitting projects. 

I'm planning to include this list every month to have an overview what we watched, which podcasts I listened to and which books I read.

Here I included stories with the same theme (meeting my sister) on one card although they weren't from the same day.

Because my focus is now on the whole month I can include similar photos next to each other. I like that they tell another story when they are gathered in one spot.

PAGE PROTECTORS I USED
Design A, Design F, Design G, Design I, 8x10 horizontal page protector which I cut down

SUPPLIES I USED
FAR FAR AWAY Project Life Kit from Studio Calico (JAN wood veneer), Digital Journal Cards Conversations No2 from BigCityQuietDesigns, Digital Journal Cards Just Love You from BigCityQuietDesign, Currently Word Art from Paislee Press, cheers card from jamaicamakes, stamp set Speech Bubble

TOOLS I USED
Precision Pen 03, StazOn ink pad, White Bazzil Cardstock, Tiny Attacher, date stamp, I printed my photos at home with my HP Photosmart C5280 on Canon semi gloss photo paper

Project Life is a system to document your life, created by Becky Higgins. You can find all my posts from 2015 here and from 2014 here. In this blog post I talked about my weekly process. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the comments and I'm happy to answer them.