Project Life | Week Five
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Hello Project Life | Week Five.
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Page one:
First page insert:
This week I added in one 8.5 inch x 11 inch page protector.
I didn't feel like doing any cutting and stitching so inside the page protector I slipped the cute certificate from the hair-cut place, a little envelope with Anna's hair, the story of her first hair-cut printed on a long journaler, and a little photo of her adhered to the top of the long journaler (I just moved my text down to make room - look for a video tutorial on working with these overlays to be posted later this week).
I attached the little hair envelope to the certificate with one of Tim's Trinket Pins.
On the other side of the page protector I included the program from an event Chris and I attended on Saturday night.
Close up of page two:
This week I asked Chris if he'd write a bit on a card.
It was his first week back at the Capitol and there's usually a couple weeks of transition for him as he gets back in the swing of the workload and time. Here's what he wrote:
Our babysitter is also great at getting in on the documentation. Here's a card she inserted this past week:
I also included a bit of handwriting from Simon in the form of a little yellow sticky note:
Anna decided to draw on Simon's little note too.
Something new I added this week is a 4 inch x 6 inch journal card. Some days/weeks I want to add a bit more writing that's a bit longer than a small journal card and less than a long journaler.
This new set of 4 x 6 journalers will be available at Designer Digitals on Thursday (the first day of the quarterly sale). The set includes PNG files and a PDF file for easy printing. Days of the week plus a few other sentiment journal blocks are included.
This week I also wanted to share some work from Nicole. She made her own version of Project Life using many of my digital products from Designer Digitals.
I love how she used the 365 overlays as journal blocks. She opens the PNG files in Word, inserts a text box and adds her journaling, and prints.
I also received some cool examples via email from Angie who is printing out my Title + Journal Photo Overlays Vol.2 for her Project Life album:
Thanks to Nicole and Angie for sharing their work!
Project Life is a product created by Becky Higgins. It can be anything you want it to be.The album kit is available for purchase through Amazon. If you live outside the US check Becky’s site for more information on sources. View all my posts about Project Life here.
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I got my first Project Life kit the end of Jan and have now caught up. Being a digital scrapper, I find I'm not using the cards much, maybe about 4 so far. I am printing my photos at home and find that I'd like to design and print out my own cards and journalers, using the awesome digi products I have in my stash. But I am LOVING this process . . .all because of Ali's December Daily!!
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Hey, Ali! I recently bought the B8550 printer. My colors seem off when I print my pictures. Do you notice this problem? Do you know if there is a way to calibrate the printer so what I see on the screen matches what I print? Thanks!!
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I haven't done any specific printer calibration. What I have done is learn to adjust the colors on my monitor (usually lighter) to achieve a better color result with my prints. Lots of just messing around (how's that for a technical response?)...
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Awesome B&W of Simon! Those eyes.
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Ali - I was wondering if you'd ever condsider creating STAMPS for your 4x6 365 days overlays? I know you have these available through Designer Digitals, however with PL I'm doing SO much more printing @ home on my selphy, I would love to use a stamp of these right over my picture with some white Staz on ink.
Any chance of doing this?
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Ali, do you expect to fit your whole PL year into one album?
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I'm not sure yet...I anticipate if I keep adding in other things each week that I will need 2.
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I can't believe you gave up coffee.
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Crazy isn't it? Yesterday I had a latte in the afternoon - but am done (at least for now) with all that I was drinking in the AM.
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Your album is so very gorgeous, Ali! I'm just starting on mine and I've already downloaded a bunch of your elements from DD to print out and use in my album!It's getting me scrapping again and I LOVE that! Thanks for all your creative inspiration:)
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great post, ali!
thanks so much.
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[...] inch x 4 inch Journalers. This package also includes a PDF file for easy printing. I used these in Week Five of Project [...]
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Ali,
Thank you so much for sharing your Project Life every week. I love to see how other people are using the album in new ways...so inspirational!
Also, would you mind sharing what kind of camera you used for the small pictures? Are those from an instant camera or did you resize them in Photoshop?
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did you change the daily journal overlay from the photo that was here yesterday? Or am I crazy...I thought it looked different yesterday.
Good sale at DD!!!!
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I don't think so - no adjustments ;)
Must have been when I was dreaming of what to order when the sale started :)....yes I do dream about PL....Ordered a bunch of stuff from DD...SO much easier and less clutter doing digital. Thanks for being such a good instructor...everything I know I learned from you,
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Thank you for the inspiration! Just purchased my own Project life set and I'm excited!
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Is that a long-arm photo of you taken with the Instimax? Just got one for my anniversary they fit in your book perfectly.
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