Story Play | Yesterday + Today Project Idea 03

I honestly had such a good time putting projects together using this Yesterday + Today kit as the jumping off point.

A couple ideas to highlight with this one:

1. For this project I was able to search "backyard" in my Photos app. It brought up all kinds of images from my photo archives of my yard and made it so easy to collect a bunch together. Try searching for something you'd like to document over the years (might be a person, place, or thing).

2. Bringing together multiple photos from over the years (photos you may or may not have already included in a project) tells a new story. That's the best! You can literally see the passage of time in my yard and there's so much beauty in that - I think I'm feeling it acutely with the girls getting ready to start their senior year of high school.

3. Remember that yesterday + today stories can be about all kinds of things (not just photos of you from childhood). The core component is the passage of time.

4. Don't be tricked into thinking that your photos alone, with just a couple embellishments, aren't enough.

Here's a closer look at how this one came together:

And here are some more photos:

To add context and story to my photos I cut around the outside edge of the journal cards to remove the part around the shape. I stamped the date and handwrote a bit of journaling.

Some stories are long and some are short.

The 2 inch x 2 inch page protector wins again as an easy home for 2x2 photos. After searching through my photos I selected 11 from the past and 11 more recent ones of my backyard to add to this page protector.

I left one pocket empty and added two rounded corner chipboard squares (I think these were from a previous Week In The Life™ release). I added a sticker tab to each of the chipboard squares and adhered them to the outside of the page protector.

Here's a look at the two full page photos without the insert. This could completely work as a project without the insert if you wanted to simply highlight two main photos.

SUPPLIES

• Yesterday + Today Mini Kit

• Yesterday + Today 3x4 Stamp Set

• Year By Year Date Stamp

• Page Protector

• Basics via Amazon Storefront (printers, trimmer, etc)