top five: project life inspiration!

hello friends!

i hope you checked out my project life update yesterday!! i am so excited to get back into this wonderful project & it has spurred me on in so many ways. 

it didn't take long to get my groove back - and it won't take you long either! so pick it up - now! let's catch up together.

as i was trying to gain motivation to catch up {it seems super daunting at times!} - i looked to other project lifers for inspiration. today i'm going to share with you my five favorite places to get some project life inspiration.

1. becky higgins. the mothership of project life.

her & her creative team share their versions of project life once a month. when i saw this post i was immediately ready to get back together with project life. 

2. ali edwards. this wonderful lady is why i even knew about project life in the first place. is awesome about posting once a week & is GREAT about journaling and keeping snipits from her week. she's all about making it work for you which i love.

3. elise. i've been reading her blog for a long time now and just in the last year she became a part of project life. and now a part of their creative team. she's a big paper crafter & i know you'll be inspired by all of her project. i love her version of project life because she doesn't have littles {yet} and she still documents her & her hubby. i LOVE that. so inspiring. plus: she's adorable too. 

4. kelly purkey from it's me, kp. she's doing a mini-kit. she mixes in non project life stuff {which i actually think everyone does} and i'm SO jealous. i want to do a mini-kit. next time. i think these would be great for vacays. 

5. rebecca cooper from as simple as that. this is a recent find of mine, but she's on the PL creative team as well. look at this darling instagram collage templates she made. yay! this is so cute & i just might have to buy these for myself. i can't wait to stick these into my next week. IG is going to be blowing up with my new pics!

and there you have it! i think i gave you plenty of pretties to look at this morning!

i SO hope that you will all try to catch up along with me. i am trying to gain momentum and stay on top of this inspiration to get all the way caught up. it's so much easier when you're current. 

have a happy monday!!!

project life. 2013 - week 2.

here i go - playing catch up!!

won't you play with me? i'm setting my timer for 30 minutes - just THIRTY minutes every day {namely at NAP time!} to get caught up. i started on thursday & i'm already halfway through february! you can do it too!

click here to see how i got started!

so - week 2 was kind of a big week for us. that's why there are loads of pictures & inserts.

 a look at the whole spread.

 

washi tape is new for me this year. i just ordered up a whole bunch from this site. i use it in packaging as well, so it's kind of "multipurpose", right?

 

 

i love the baseball card inserts. i did this for my sister's wedding & for valentine's day cards. it's awesome if you have just a ton of pics to get into one week. i got mine at target. they're in a weird section up front, but they're there!

first & last time. front page of the dmn. pretty cool to keep for my littles when they get older. i'm so grateful to that photographer. so grateful.

first thing's first. if you have no idea what project life is, WHO ARE YOU? i'm just kidding. if you seriously don't... it is a product created by becky higgins to make documenting your life EASY. and i mean EASY.... and creative and fun! i promise. she and her brilliant design team are already getting ready for next year - and i believe that her products will be posted sometime this fall {hooray!} and highly recommend her kits! they're going to be sold in stores SOON - also on HSN. they have digital versions and all sorts of crazy good stuff. so what's stopping you! get some pics developed and let's catch up together!!!!

have fun!

project life 2013, baby!

getting started before i get too far behind! i am remembering how much i love this project. i don't know how i'm going to end up doing last year - probably monthly - but this  year i'm going to do it however feel right for the week. whatever gets it done!

i get my pics printed at wolf camera on tuesdays/thursday for CHEAPO. and they're great quality. 

using my trusty stapler & kraft paper again. i read somewhere that becky higgins is coming out with a kraft paper edition of project life. what??? i would LOVE that. will keep my eye out!

happy wednesday, friends! have YOU started project life yet?? get inspired here & here!! i promise you'll love it!

project life catch up.

it's project life time!!!!

yes, i do still do project life. and i'm actually pretty current thanks to a long night with a sweet friend who was doing hers as well.

i was about a month behind (4 weeks) and it took me all of two hours to put everything together.

i have honestly been keeping it very basic.... even started paying "full price" to print my pics at 4 x 6 to skip the step of the cute paper behind it like i did last year.

i'm trying to think big picture here.

even if it's not as cute as it would be had i spent an hour on each layout with all the bells & whistles, that's not the point. the point is to have a book of memories for years & years to come... and i do. 

b. loves looking at the books from last year. the stay on our coffee table for that purpose.

my plan is to have j. write a little blurb about his donuts with dad day so i can attach it somehow. i think that it will be neat to have that written account of their morning together at school.

and yes, i still love this project even though i don't spend as much time on it as i did last year. it's more that i love the result of this project if that makes sense.

and if you lack inspiration just look here & here & here & here.

i'm determined to be more creative at my next catch up session!! just look at this girl.... it's like a regular scrapbook inside of project life. love it.

make it work for you! all sorts of ideas.

start at the beginning & get going!!!

project life updates.

check them out.

week four

week five

week six

project life: week six.

***new to project life? check out this post here. project life is a product created by becky higgins and, i believe, helps 'non-scrappers' document life in an easy, creative & efficient way. you get to make it as elaborate or as simple as you want. that's why i love it. check out my other project life posts here.***

project life: week five.

keeping it super simple around here. i love seeing all the exciting and new project life tricks, tips, techniques, etc. on pinterest. sometimes it gets me discouraged. sometimes it motivates me. but at this point, i just want to have each week done. week by week. 

so, i'm just sticking with what i know right now.

i cut out some artwork b did at home. {on the very far right} to fill in the journal card slots. 

and i tore out my grocery list too. i like keeping little tidbits like that so in a few years i can reminisce over all the goldfish i use to buy.

i'm still figuring out settings on my camera since the big 'break' back in december. i don't feel like i've yet been able to get it back to where i had it. so here's to my yellow-ish pictures..........

project life: week four.

for some reason, my right page 'close up' was super fuzzy, so you don't get one this week. sorry!

project life: week three.