Project Life 2012 | Week Seven

how i miss those cute class valentines now that mine are in high school and college!

Thanks for the inspiration. I love your last page and that you included all your journaling from yesterday.

Those cats are awesome. My son (3.5yrs) draws lots of people. I've loved to watch his "dot" noses develop into a "straight line with lots of horizontal lines across it" to a shape that looks exactly like a real nose.

Hey! I totally agree with you. I found that when I was determined to take a photo EVERY day, that it kinda stressed me out. Now, somedays I take 1, sometimes 0 and sometimes a few. I also, while I love project life, also enjoy the process of the traditional/ digital scrapbooking. I choose some of the bigger events and include an entire layout. Anyway, love your website. The only one I visit with any regularity. You rock!

Ali - interesting post today. At one time in my life I considered myself a scrapbooker (and even took a class with you in IA City) but never felt like I measured up/was creative enough, etc. After awhile the joy of purchasing/collecting and coveting became too much and I gave it all away. Now years later the lure of PL has brought me back. I love the simplicity of it and how each person can make it their very own. But it feels like that PL has swept the scrapbooking industry by storm and that's all I'm seeing - everywhere! I absolutely love watching your weeks with PL unfold but find all of your work inspirational and can't wait to see more of it.

Yay for the whole page of the girls weekend! Love that you are doing some this way. So great to keep in mind it's a story and sometimes it takes more than one pocket or photo to tell that story. Love how you used the 3x4 spots for the text. That is super cool.

Love this, I also love that you are not worring about a photo a day! It make it more realistic ! I have been adding layouts to my project life .. It might be one day I want to highlight or just something I want to add as a memory not to forget some people outside my family that mean the world to me this moment! I can't wait to see what you are working on!! Have a great week! Xx

Love love love it. I think it's great Katie puts something in as well. I sure wish I had a Katie ha. She seems like an important part of the Edwards family. Instead of a katie my boys have their granny. She's the best mom and grandma!. Thanks for all you do Ali

I have to say it is a bit of a relief to hear that you have not forgotten traditional layouts! With so many great scrappers showcasing their PL spreads, regular inspriation is a bit thin and I'm feeling as though it's being neglected - even though I appreciate the PL format.

Ali, you know what i'm loving about this project is that it can be anything you want it to be and one week's "format" doesn't have to stay consistent with the one before or after. It's free-style, which i embrace wholeheartedly. I find that I can keep up more when I'm not locked in to a consistent format. "the only constant is change..." I also love that it can be a chronological library that I can refer to which sparks ideas and inspiration to create traditional scrapbooking pages for other albums that I'm working on. I really enjoy this process! Thanks for sharing yours and inspiring so many of us along the way!

Wonderful pages, as always.

Oh I'm so excited to do this week but haven't gotten around to it yet. My 15 month old is in school now, and I'm so happy that he got some Valentines. I bought some baseball card holders at Office Max and they'll be perfect for holding the valentines. I know what you mean about the need to do more traditional layouts. I miss it so much. My main focus has been project life so far this year. So if your starting to work on more layouts, does tis mean your office is in order? Pictures please!

jennifer olson said

bring more project life to us

and are you going to buy more project life stugg too

does you kid help you

YAY! thank you for pointing out the protectors were back in stock. i'm already a few weeks behind and was ready to give up continuing the rest of the year because i could never order fast enough. but not this time! they are on their way to me and all is well in the world again. :)

ps....love how you added in the valentine's day cards! simple perfection.

Hi Ali!

I'm so glad you mentioned your desire to start working on more traditional layouts again! This has been on my mind too. I started with Project Life last year, immediately fell in love and felt such a sense of accomplishment for having stuck to it. (I've got a tendency to be really excited about starting projects, then not following them through to completion. So to say this was a success is an understatement :) )

In the meantime, I've joined a kit club and been hoarding away supplies that just aren't getting used the way I had hoped they would. I'm working on it. In fact, I used one of your traditional layouts as inspiration to start and FINISH one of my own just last weekend (the first one since last summer!). I can't wait to see what your plans are. I always find them inspirational, and often just what I need to get motivated again.

Thanks so much!

(PS. Your weekly creative prompts have been awesome! I look forward to finding them in my email every week :)

I'm really happy to hear that you will be making more traditional layouts again, because I have missed them.

Sadly, more and more of my favorite bloggers have joined the PL bandwagon and have stopped doing/posting traditional layouts. I don't do PL, so I'm feeling left behind and I'm not checking their blogs as offend as I used to.

I would hate to think that the future of scrapbooking is only PL.

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Superbe album... plein de souvenirs pour les années futures!!!
Ton blog est très inspirant...
Bravo

Hi Ali
I just love visiting your blog! It is so inspiring. I love your work :)
So, I have just started Project Life today :) YAY!: I opened up my "Big Variety Pack 2" with designs A and D and was surprised they are different sizes...Design D a bit wider. Is that how they are meant to be? Maybe I am just a bit stupid and it is obvious they are meant to be that way???
Thanks, Alison

hi :)
i was just wondering how on earth do you get pictures of your project life pages without having major glare on them. i just finished my first PL page and no matter how i try to take the picture, nothing seems to help. i use no flash, don't put it anywhere near a window... i have a compact digital camera so i can't use any special lenses. i'd really appreciate your help.
loved your post about the farting book. we all do need to laugh more, don't we? one of our favorites is wacky wednesday by dr seuss.

[...] Ali: I add in an insert – like a long journaler or 6×12 layered template here. This past week I also used all four of the 3×4 spaces for one story, which you can see here. [...]