I really can't believe 2013 is over and I've actually completed an entire year of Project Life. I love having a scrapbook full of our adventures. It's so fun to look through it and remember all the fun we had this year. It's going to be awesome to look back at this album later in life!
But I've learned a lot about my personal scrapbooking this past year. I developed a game plan last year and stuck to parts of it. I guess for me, I never know exactly how I'm going to do something until I just start it!
So here's the plan for 2014. I'm trying to simplify some things (color choices!) and make more time for other things (embellishing!) We'll see if I stick to it :)
- I'm going to do weekly spreads with my weeks going from Monday to Sunday to keep the weekends together. I'll get creative with the dates again when we go on vacations or I don't have enough to fill up 2 pages. I did 1 page per week a couple of times last year and it worked just fine.
- I'm going to use the Coral kit as my foundation kit. Basically, I'm going to use this kit to help me narrow down color choices each week. I feel like my pages are more cohesive when I pick a limited color palette and go with it for the week.
- I just started a 6 month subscription to Studio Calico's Project Life kit. I'll be using those cards and others from my stash to break up the Coral kit just a little bit. I don't want to get bored.
- I will not be pre making my weekly title cards. Last year, I made them all horizontal and renumbered them, which caused me to feel constricted. I also want to be able to choose which color/pattern of card I want to use each week.
- Speaking of which - I hope to use a little more variety this year. I have a ton of assorted pocket pages. I want to break out of my "go to" Designs A and F.
- I'm really loving white borders around my photos. That's not to say I'll never put a photo on a PL card for a little pop of color.
- I hope to use more stamps this year!
- I'm going to continue printing my pictures at home - just got a Canon Selphy CP900 a few weeks ago and I'm loving it!
- I'll be getting another extra large Pioneer 3 ring scrapbook. I just have to decide which color. Last year, I bought a super cute American Crafts album... but it was too small to hold all 52 weeks. I don't do a ton of inserts, so I really couldn't fill up 2 albums. This Pioneer album from Archiver's is perfect for me!
So what about you? What are you going to do differently this year in Project Life? If you're just starting - what's your plan?
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Wow so many goals figured out, good for you! I look forward to seeing how this works out for you. I got the cinnamon kit for Christmas so I'm thinking that I will be using this for my main yearly kit and to have the ability to use Close to My Heart pieces that they are coming out with in Feb as additions to the album. Have a fantastic New Year's Eve and wish you a great New Year
ReplyDeleteHope 2014 PL goes well for you too Tina! Happy new year!!
DeleteLoving how organized your thoughts are for 2014's PL! Looking forward to seeing what you do with the Coral kit, it's one of my faves. Happy New Year! :)
ReplyDeleteI just had to have Coral as soon as i saw it. I love that it's so colorful without being too bright or rainbow-y . I think it will coordinate just fine with my stash and my new SC PL subscription. I'm gonna try the sub out for 6 months ) Happy new year!
DeleteI am trying PL for the first time this year eek, thanks for the tips :)
ReplyDeleteOh good Fleur!! Your pages will be awesome! Let me know if you have any questions! I love to talk about PL :)
DeleteI haven't finished 2013 yet, but would like to continue in 2014. I don't want to do collage photos this year. I am hoping to get the seafoam album from Project Life. I am also going to just use the 6 pocket pages to make it easier on myself :)
ReplyDeleteI definitely gravitate towards certain pocket pages too - but I'm really going to (try to) branch out this year. Good luck with 2014!
DeleteIt sounds like you definitely have a plan. My only plan for 2014 is to use the kraft edition and keep it flatter than last year. Trying to embellish too much, while lots of fun, also bogged me down, so I missed several months this year. Oh, I popped over from 2Ps, I hope you'll have time to return the visit.
ReplyDeleteI like the Kraft edition too. I've added a few flair buttons and they definitely amok the pages fat. Thanks for stopping over. I'll definitely check your blog out. It's always great to find new bloggy friends :)
DeleteHi there well i found Pl by accident around sept2013 and started looking out for inspiration then bought a few things album a box of plastic pockets 6 styles and some Pl cards here in uk its not massive and only just seeing things in hobbycraft not alot of choice but saying that ive loads of . Paper as im a card maker anyway i have had a load of events last year and so did a month over two pages just a few gaps still to find photos for thats cus compute crashed losing photos i had to beg family for their pics. Im not sure if i could do a weekly spread but have enjoyed doing the month. Just need to catch good photos. I also started project 360 but i do forget to take a daily pic oops thanks for your blog as it really helps to give me ideas. Only problem i spend hours reading and looking at different articles i run out of time to do my own ha!
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