Project Life Tuesday: Week 3

{Click on the icon above to visit Jessica's blog and see other Project Life inspiration.}

Another week and I am still behind.  I planned on getting my pictures for the week off my camera and working on these layouts on Sunday afternoon, but life got busy and it just didn't happen (and I watched the last 4 episodes of "Friday Night Lights" on Netflix to finish the series.  So good!).

 Here is my layout for week 2 (January 8-15).  I don't have time to do it this week, but next week I am going to put the photos and journaling separate below the spreads so you can actually read it (for all the grandparents reading). 

2 down, 50 more to go.

P.S. Thanks for all the input about the background.  Looks like everyone thinks the light gray background works. 

Project Life Tuesday: Week 2

{Click on the icon above to visit Jessica's blog and see other Project Life inspiration.}

 Here is my layout for week 1.  It took me a little while to get back in the groove of using PSE.  I do love how much easier (and less messy) digital scrapbooking is for me.     

I can't decide what to do about the background color for my layouts. Obviously, if you are doing a traditional album, this is just clear space on your page protector. I am going with this light gray for now because when I put a color on the background, it seems like a little too much. What do you think?

I was hoping to have spreads from week 1 and week 2 finished in time to post, but it just didn't happen.  I will catch up before next week.  

1 down, 51 more to go.

Happy scrapping!

Project Life Tuesday: Week 1

 One of my goals for this year is to get back to scrapbooking.  I do a decent job of memory-keeping here on the blog, but I love to have books to hold in my hand and look at in person and not on a computer screen.  Plus, I don't necessarily blog about everything I would scrapbook about.   One of my favorite blogger is Jessica over at The Mom Creative.  I am going to try Project Life this year.  (Project Life is a 365/daily photo project created by Becky Higgins.  You can read all about it here.)  Jessica has a weekly post where she displays her weekly PL layouts and has a linky where other people can do the same.  Accountability works ... or so I like to believe.  I do think this is a good way to stay on top of my scrapbooking for each year.   I decided to do digital project life and then I will print my 52 spreads (one for each week of the year) in a bound photo book at Shutterfly or Snapfish when they have a good deal going.  I just purchased my digital kit TODAY and got Photoshop Elements loaded onto my laptop.  (It runs super-slow on our desktop, which is why I avoid using it very often.) Here is my cover page for the album. (I have blurred out our last name.)   

Although I hate to be behind already, since I just started today, I will try to post my layout for week 1 and week 2 next Tuesday.