Around this time of year (before December hits) I like to take stock and look at what's working and what's not for me and memory keeping. I've enjoyed scrapbooking in 5x8 and making my Blurb books (book one is HERE) but I think I need a change. No matter how much I feel like I've found the best way forward, things always get stale and I crave something new. New year, new projects. I just don't feel excited about doing another year of the same thing no matter how well it worke

Digital scrapbooking process video today - talking about recolouring digital elements. (5x8 layout using the new Watch Story Kit by Ali Edwards). #Video #AliEdwards #DigitalScrapbooking #DigitalTips

My goal was to finish this little music project (HERE) by October so I could move onto other things. So I spent a few days at the end of September and got the pages finished, uploaded to Chatbooks and all sent off on a Saturday night with a few days to spare. I chose Chatbooks for this project because they offer a 6x6 book (HERE) at a reasonable price. I picked a softcover for this, there is also a hardcover option. I have printed a few Instagram books through them before and

I've always added little stories from my childhood & younger days to my scrapbooks, but this year I really wanted to tackle that in a more organised way. I scrapbook my own story all the time so it's really the pre-scrapbooking days that are missing. I started playing around with ideas and think I've come up with a way that will work. The keys to completing a long-term project for me are (1) a simple and repeating design (2) an overall structure to organise my pages and thoug

I love this project, started by Ali Edwards (HERE). I've made about five WITL albums over the years and treasure them. I don't participate every year - happy to leave a year or two between them - but I love what I have. I was going to sit this one out (I made a cute 3x8 album last year) - to be honest, I just wasn't in the photo-taking mood. But with all the excitement around this project I started to get some serious FOMO and tried to think of a way I could make it work this

Today I've got a video of some real-time digital scrapbooking using digital journal cards in layouts (rather than pocket projects). The first page uses a 3x4 journal card from Paislee Press' Autumn Vibes Journal Card set available at The Lily Pad (HERE). The other two projects use 3x8 journal cards from Geralyn at In A Creative Bubble -the Remember set (HERE) and the Delightful set (HERE). Her full 3x8 collection can be found (HERE). I am so happy that digital designers are

It's been a while since I shared my Project Life pages on the blog so I thought I would catch up today. I'm still happy with the template and look forward to working on the spreads every week. It's been a few years since I did weekly Project Life and I like the immediacy of it as well as the ease of only having seven days to consider (compared to pulling everything together from the last thirty days when I was doing a monthly project). Hopefully the enthusiasm lasts a bit lon

February - I hardly knew ya! I don't know where the last month went but here we are almost halfway through March. A few full and busy weekends have put me off my scrapbook game a little bit but that's how this hobby goes. Last weekend I finished up a few wayward half-finished pages for February and got them loaded up into my Blurb book so I could get going on March. I have a lot less pages for February than for January and that's OK. (As a reminder, last year I made a digital

I am working on week three of Project Life today so I thought I'd make a video as I work on my digital spread in real time. Happy to answer any questions here or on Instagram (HERE). Thanks for being here :) #Video #ProjectLife #DigitalScrapbooking

I've been planning a series of post for digital scrapbooking beginners but the scope is so large I just thought I'd dive in with a video about using digital templates, which is an awesome way to learn. A QUICK NOTE ON SOFTWARE: I use Photoshop Elements (PSE) for all of my scrapbooking (even though I also have Photoshop as part of my Adobe subscription). PSE is a more simplified version of Photoshop with less features but I have always found PSE to do everything I need. It is

After making my December 26 pages I decided I was done with this year's December Daily. We don't have much on the schedule for the next few days besides relaxing by the pool at home. I'm so happy with how it all came out. I switched to 3x8 on a whim and I'm glad I did. The smaller size really simplified the process. The only challenge was the full page 3x8 photo I used every day. It's not always an easy size and I had to be conscious when taking photos that I had enough space

Further to my last post, I've made a few pages to start off my new 5x8 commonplace book project for 2019. I'm planning for this book to be a mix of 'scrabook-ey' pages (where I can use my digital kits and include photos+journaling+embellishments) and very simple photos, lists, words, song lyrics, movie posters etc. The left is a page about Zara's bedroom makeover (using More Or Less digital elements from Paislee Press). I have recently bought a bunch of my older digital scrap

Happy December - we are underway! I'm enjoying the 3x8 size so far. I just have to remember that I need tall + narrow photos if I'm doing a full-page. I never plan out my project or make foundation pages beyond choosing a size and buying a few digital kits. I find that once I make my first day's spread, it sets the tone for my project and I feel much better about where I'm headed. (I have a post with the digital products I'm planning to use here). The first of December is the

Happy December people! First of December here in Australia and the first day of Summer so it has suddenly become unbearably hot. I had been planning to do another 6x8 December Daily this year because I already had an album and I just love that size. But then I had second thoughts about doing more of the same and decided to change it up and go 3x8. I bought this album from Ali Edwards' shop (even though it's not the December Daily one) because I already have one from Week In T

By about September/October I start to lose steam in my year-long projects. I've been making a Project Life album (in various forms, not always the traditional Becky Higgins style) every year since 2010 and around this time of year I start to look ahead at how to change things up for next year. A year is a long time to work on something so I've learned that if I stick to a simple formula, it's relatively easy to keep up. If I am required to be too creative week after week or m

In this post, I want to share how I organise my digital scrapbooking supplies. BUYING & IMPORTING SCRAPBOOK SUPPLIES On my Mac, when I download a purchased digital scrapbooking kit, it is automatically unzipped and saved in folders in the Downloads folder on my hard drive. Other computers may need the files to be unzipped first. To add a kit to Lightroom, I click on Import in Lightroom, choose my Macintosh HD under Files (if I'm importing photos from my phone, it will show up

I've put together a series of posts about using Lightroom for scrapbooking, especially for digital scrapbooking supplies, because it is such an important part for my process and flow and makes everything easier. I'm fairly new to Lightroom - I've had it for about a year. Before that, I used Aperture for my photos, which is a similar Mac program that has been discontinued, and the Apple Photos program for my digital scrapbooking supplies. So while I am no Lightroom expert, I h

So what do you do when you are up to your eyeballs in scrapbooking projects? Add another one into the mix and get really excited about it of course! I only recently learned about commonplace books from Kristin at the Awesome Ladies Project, who then pointed me to Brandi Kincaid. Brandi's post "On Still Keeping A Notebook" is amazing and you should read it, but in a nutshell, a commonplace book is a journal for keeping ideas, quotes from books, notes and ephemera from everyday

I thought it would be good to sit down and take stock of all the projects I have in the works right now. Some are year-long and I'll add to them as we go, some are hangovers from last year (or the year before, eek!). 1. YEAR LONG PHOTOBOOK I wrote about this project last time. It's still going and I'm happy with the framework and finding it easy enough to keep up with. 2. BOOK OF ME This is a project I've joined in with at Awesome Ladies Project - you can read more about it h

I usually have some kind of plan for scrapbooking when the new year rolls around. Not this year. A few weeks in and I still had no clue about what kind of year-long project I wanted to do (or if I wanted to make one at all). I was really happy with my 2017 me-focused project. I received the Blurb Trade Book just before Christmas and loved the end result.The photobook option is great because it takes up a lot less space and is much easier for us to take down and flip through,