I have to be honest… over the last couple of years I’ve been slacking on my Project Life albums. There’s been a lot of changes in my life with my job, friends and home and I just haven’t had the mental or physical energy to stay on top of it. I started the year on a good note because I had finished my 2019 December Daily album but shortly after that I got off track.
This year we’ve all experienced a wide variety of changes to our normal routines because of COVID. For me those changes have been working from home, canceling vacation & travel plans and oddly spending more time with friends. Most of these changes have created a lot of stress in my life and to help deal with that stress I decided to get back to my scrapbooking, planning and design work and use it as art therapy.
In preparation for all the upcoming scrapbooking I decided to get some inspiration and re-join Hip Kit Club with the July Main Scrapbook, Pocket Life and Color Kits. I love having the variety of both 12×12 and pocket scrapbooking supplies. I don’t do as much 12×12 scrapbooking but I like having the supplies for when I do. Plus, you can cut down the 12×12 papers and get a lot of use for pocket scrapbooking out of them. Plus the color kit had that cool stencil from Echo Park that I can’t wait to use on some of my holiday cards. If you’d like to see what was in this kit check out my unboxing video.
I also went back through my old albums and made a list of all the pages that needed to be finished (or started) and set about a goal of getting caught up on ALL my Project Life albums by the end of the year. I want to start the new year fresh and be current. I’ve made a lot of progress on my past albums and I’ll be sharing some flip-throughs on YouTube.
As of today, I am completely caught up on my albums for 2015, 2016 and 2017. I have a few months to finish in 2018 and for my 2019 album the months are all finished, I just need to add my opening and closing pages. I’ve even been able to work on some of my 2020 album. I’m starting to make process videos again and have my first one up for week 23.
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I started the year on a good note because I had finished my 2019 December Daily album. I was really proud of this project because this was the first year that I did a complete album with one page a day. In the past I didn’t have enough photos to do a complete album so I would document the photos I had but would incorporate a couple of years in one album. Not this year. I was very mindful of my goal and took photos every day.
I even purchased a kit to use specifically for this years album. Granted it was the 2018 December hit from Hip Kit that I got on sale but that’s ok. It’s the first year I treated myself and didn’t create a kit of my own. I found the album on sale at Michael’s. It’s a 6×8 Project Life album in teal with a white snow flake pattern. Even though we don’t get snow in Phoenix I loved the colors and thought it was really cute.
I’m really happy with the way it turned out and I’m going to buy another kit for 2020. Here’s a flip through of the finished album.
I was rummaging through a pile of photos the other day when I came across this blast from the past. This is a photo of me and my best friend from high school on the day she moved away. It’s so fun to look back at old photos like this from the 80’s when our hair was all big & crazy and our clothes… Man, our clothes in the 80’s were something else!
Even with the crazy hair and the dated clothes, I LOVE this photo! I don’t have many pictures of us. This was WAY before cell phones with cameras and even before digital cameras so unless it was a very special occasion we didn’t really have cameras at hand to document the beautiful memories like today.
But this photo is special to me. After my friend moved we wrote letters to each other for years. Like real, physical letters that you’d put a stamp on and mail! Man, I love those days. The excitement of checking the mailbox every day to see if the letter was there made it feel like Christmas when the letter finally arrived. Over the years the letters became emails then messages on MySpace than Facebook. We still share old photos and memories but it’s different. The days before cell phones, email and Facebook seemed so magical and I wanted to document this special day.
My layout was inspired by two sketches from Sketchabilities (#129 & #130). I liked the title and the cluster around it on sketch #130 but I liked the cluster on the upper right of sketch #129 so I just combined those elements to make the layout fit my needs. If you’re ever in need of a great scrapbook or card sketch head over to the Sketchabilities blog for more layout inspiration!
I’ve been wanting to use up some of this old kit Gossamer Blue kit I got back in May 2016. The background paper is a Dear Lizzy paper from a paper pack I got at Michaels and the paper for the flags I cut were from Simple Stories and My Minds Eye.
The pink acetate doily and this adorable silver heart puffy sticker are from a recent Freckled Fawn sale box. The feathers, floral corner and the woodchip paperclip are all from Simple Stories.
The “friends forever” title was a cut file from Miss Kates Cutables, the “you & me” flair is from my Etsy shop.
The button and the “heart” Love This embellishment are from Pink Paisley and tag behind the title is from My Minds Eye.
I loved this little envelope from the Carpe Diem bits & pieces set from Simple Stories. It was perfect with my journaling about the letters my bestie and I wrote after she moved. I paired it with a page flag cut from some My Minds Eye paper and this Simple Stories chipboard flower sticker.
I just finished a process video for my new YouTube channel if you wanted to check it out.
I was rummaging through a pile of photos the other day when I came across this blast from the past. This is a photo of me and my best friend from high school on the day she moved away. It’s so fun to look back at old photos like this from the 80’s when our hair was all big & crazy and our clothes… Man, our clothes in the 80’s were something else!