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

We were away over the long weekend, so I had to wait until today (Wednesday) to catch up on last week's spread. The good thing about being away is that I had tonnes of photos and had trouble narrowing them down. Plenty left for other projects and pages :) It only took me about twenty minutes to get this week done. This week I've used two journaling spots, a TV poster, a concert poster and a 'Today' filler card from the Fresh Project Life digital kit (HERE) - the rest are phot

Week 03 is done. I was back at work and a more usual routine this week, even though the kids aren't back at school for another week and a half. I had more photos this week too which was good. Sticking to my formula of a couple of journal spots, some filler cards, some small photo templates and then the photos. I really like the journaling spots and being able to tell a few quick stories each week - big or small. I've also bought some of my older Project Life stash (and some

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

It was my last week home from work for the Christmas break. Spending more time at my desk than usual, I kept my digital project life spread open on my computer and worked on it as the week went by. A little story here, a photo there. That worked really well. Not sure if I can do that every week, but it was easier to type my stories straight in or add in a photo rather than wait until Sunday to pull it all together. I didn't take many photos this week. I had a friend visit for

Week 01 is done. Not a lot going on this first week of January - really hot start to the year in Sydney so we haven't been going out. Much cooler weather and storms yesterday and today thankfully. It's been great time to catch up on scrapbooking and my around-the-house to do list before I go back to work in another week (kids are off school for the summer until 30 January). Lots of purging and cleaning happening room by room (even before I saw that Marie Kondo is on Netflix t

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

I've been playing around with various Project Life options for this year since about October and this morning settled on a plan going forward which is different to all the other plans (of course). I knew I wanted to make mine digitally and have it printed as a book. I was tossing up between 12x12 or 8x10 but have settled on 8x10 because it's a bit easier to fill and smaller on my shelf. I've made various test templates but have just decided to stick with a tried and true grid

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

It was a wet and cold Spring weekend in Sydney so I had the opportunity to work on some of my neglected projects. One of those is my version of Project Life (which I've written about here). This year, I am making a 6x9 photobook (planning to print with Blurb at the end of the year) that is very photo-heavy with a weekly recap every few pages. I'm dividing the book by season, using seasonal digital elements by Paislee Press. I thought it would be a good time to talk a bit abou

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,

After so many years doing Project Life (see my thoughts on that), I was ready for something different this year. I wanted a smaller printed book I wanted to put whatever I felt like in it I wanted it to be very personal to me I wanted to be free of chronology and expectations I wanted to have fun working on it I wanted to make digital pages I wanted a loose format to follow I wanted it to turn into whatever it wanted to be I wanted the reader to know me I decided on a Blurb t

I am a big fan of the year-long scrapbook project. Even though these projects are a labor of love, there is something special and valuable about capturing a little bit of your year each week - the whole is definitely greater than the sum of its parts. I made my first Project Life album in 2010 using the physical kit from Becky Higgins. It was hard work but worth it in the end to have this record of our year. I did five more years in various forms (one year I did 6x8 but I nee