Project Life is my preferred method of scrapbooking and I’m hoping to provide you with some useful tips for either documenting your own lives or putting together your own pages with minimal fuss.

Here’s what I’m going to emphasize with the layouts I share:

1. The random stuff I like to capture and document for myself.
2. The simple approach to Project Life that I take. There are a lot of photos and very little embellishment and journaling.
3. The way I organize some spreads into themes or stories.

You can click on each image below for a slightly larger view.

Capture Idea: Still practicing that brush lettering and capturing it here.

Story Idea: This spread contains pictures from a single trip to an art museum and all the fun things I saw.

Simplicity Point: I filled one “pocket” with just scrapbook paper and didn’t embellish much at all.

Simplicity Point: All squares in this layout for ease of putting together.

Simplicity Point: Super simple list-style journaling across the pages.

Resources:

Photos edited with RadLab. (Affiliate Link)
Templates by Cathy Zielske: 01, 02, 05
Fonts: ABeeZee and Klinic Slab
Kit: Seafoam Edition
For more info on my general approach to Project Life, check out this blog post.
Project Life is a memory-keeping system created by Becky Higgins. She’s awesome. Go visit her website for more information or watch her 3-day course on CreativeLive.

Project Life is my preferred method of scrapbooking and I’m hoping to provide you with some useful tips for either documenting your own lives or putting together your own pages with minimal fuss.

Here’s what I’m going to emphasize with the layouts I share:

1. The random stuff I like to capture and document for myself.
2. The simple approach to Project Life that I take. There are a lot of photos and very little embellishment and journaling.
3. The way I organize some spreads into themes or stories.

You can click on each image below for a slightly larger view.

Capture Idea: Can you tell we like to go out to eat a lot?

Capture Idea: For eBooks, I take a screenshot of the cover from the Kindle app on my phone. I’m what you’d call the cliche voracious reader, so I like to document the books I read.

Story Idea: The right page is entirely from a trip to Disneyland.

Simplicity Point: I had a filler card of Mickey that I downloaded from Sahlin Studio (available here) and I recolored it to match the journaling card I put on this page.

Capture Idea: Before and after shots. I was working on trimming this plant in my backyard and wanted to show my husband the before and after while he was at work.

Capture Idea: Any digital receipts or invoices of fun stuff? We bought the LEGO Ghostbusters Ecto-1 (affiliate link), which was super fun for my husband.

Capture Idea: Progress shots of your hobbies! Seriously, these are so fun to look back on.

Simplicity Point: The screenshots I take of my book covers end up just slightly smaller than the 3×4 slot. I just fill that background with white and call it a day. You could also use digital scrapbook paper.

Story Idea: San Francisco Trip. Organizing spreads into trips and locations makes so much more sense to me than breaking it up by week, especially since travel dates may overlap different weeks.

Simplicity Point: One journal card on the left for quick recap. And then one filler card to balance.

Capture Idea: While I was in SF, my husband was at home and received his new Lego toy. He sent me progress shots as he was building it. Pretty neat idea though. Can you tell I like to document progress?

Resources:

Photos edited with RadLab. (Affiliate Link)
Templates by Cathy Zielske: 01, 02, 05
Fonts: ABeeZee and Klinic Slab
Kit: Kraft Edition
For more info on my general approach to Project Life, check out this blog post.
Project Life is a memory-keeping system created by Becky Higgins. She’s awesome. Go visit her website for more information or watch her 3-day course on CreativeLive.

Project Life is my preferred method of scrapbooking and I’m hoping to provide you with some useful tips for either documenting your own lives or putting together your own pages with minimal fuss.

Here’s what I’m going to emphasize with the layouts I share:

1. The random stuff I like to capture and document for myself.
2. The simple approach to Project Life that I take. There are a lot of photos and very little embellishment and journaling.
3. The way I organize some spreads into themes or stories.

You can click on each image below for a slightly larger view.

Story Idea: The left page is from a single lunch date at Maggiano’s.

Story Idea: The right page is a variety of plushy characters I thought were cute. I snap a picture of these instead of buying them…

Simplicity Point: On the right page, instead of using journaling cards, I layered a couple of embellishments over coordinating digital paper.

Capture Idea: Ordinary life. I usually cook a batch of hard-boiled eggs on the weekend so that I have a quick breakfast during the week.

Capture Idea: I got a shot of my planner and to do list plus an assortment of writing supplies in rainbow order.

Simplicity Point: One screenshot from my phone was easily layered over digital paper to fit the slot.

Capture Idea: I received a single carnation at work and I held it up to my office whiteboard for a clean backdrop.

Simplicity Point: The “Enjoy Today” And “Hello” are parts of journaling cards that I layered over coordinating digital paper for a bold filler card look.

Resources:

Photos edited with RadLab. (Affiliate Link)
Templates by Cathy Zielske: 01, 02, 05
Fonts: Oil Can and Adria Slab
Month Brush: Hand-lettered
Kit: Scotty Girl Designs This Life and F-Stop

For more info on my general approach to Project Life, check out this blog post.
Project Life is a memory-keeping system created by Becky Higgins. She’s awesome. Go visit her website for more information or watch her 3-day course on CreativeLive.

Project Life is my preferred method of scrapbooking and I’m hoping to provide you with some useful tips for either documenting your own lives or putting together your own pages with minimal fuss.

Here’s what I’m going to emphasize with the layouts I share:

1. The random stuff I like to capture and document for myself.
2. The simple approach to Project Life that I take. There are a lot of photos and very little embellishment and journaling.
3. The way I organize some spreads into themes or stories.

You can click on each image below for a slightly larger view.

Capture Idea: Walking to the parking lot after work, I noticed that my shirt color coordinated with my lunch box. Have you ever accidentally matched your things?

Story Idea: We went to baseball games at Angel Stadium two nights in a row, so I put all the pictures together on one spread.

Simplicity Point: For the right side spread, I fit the photos in 3×4 slots and then put title and first page cards in the 4×6 slots.

Simplicity Point: It’s nothing but squares on this layout.

Simplicity Point: On the left side, I placed a 3×4 journaling card in the space, but it didn’t quite fill the square widthwise. I solved that problem by color-matching the card and coloring the background of that slot to match.

Capture Idea: Snap the gas prices every so often. It’ll help you tell your future kids, “In my day, gas prices were only …”

Capture Idea: Keep documenting those books that you’re reading!

Story Idea: This whole spread was from a single trip to Las Vegas.

Capture Idea: I snapped our feet with some interesting looking tile at the Wynn. (You can read more about my photo series idea here).

Simplicity Point: I labeled my photos with digital clip art of banners and then typed over them.

Capture Idea: The view from your hotel room. Most of the times, I neglect this because it ends of being a loading dock. This was a pretty good one though.

Simplicity Point: On the right, I took a driving selfie with the front-facing camera on my iPhone 5s. The resolution was lower than a 4×6 photo slot, so I just placed it on top of a piece of digital scrapbook paper.

Story Idea: This whole spread was from a single trip to my mother-in-law’s house in NY.

Capture Idea: Airport selfie. We were taking a red-eye flight so we were wearing hoodies and looking overall disheveled. It’s important to document yourselves as you really are though, even without being all done up.

Simplicity Point: A super quick recap of the trip on a 3×4 journal card. Only the highlights here.

Capture Idea: I generally try to get a picture of the rental car we get. Just for fun.

Resources:

Photos edited with RadLab. (Affiliate Link)
Templates by Cathy Zielske: 01, 02, 05
Fonts: ABeeZee and Klinic Slab
Kit: Jade Edition
For more info on my general approach to Project Life, check out this blog post.
Project Life is a memory-keeping system created by Becky Higgins. She’s awesome. Go visit her website for more information or watch her 3-day course on CreativeLive.

Pink is the theme around these parts this month. For a cynical gal like me, I’m actually rather fond of Valentine’s Day. My husband and I actually call it “trifecta weekend”, which includes Valentine’s Day, my birthday, and the anniversary of when we started dating. We celebrate in our own way, which usually means some delayed date (to avoid the crowds, of course).

I designed some brush lettered word art and some digital scrapbooking supplies to get you guys through the process of documenting your undying love of pink.

Make sure to visit the shop for more good stuff.

Here are the products in action with some photos from my totally unfinished 2013 album (one page down!).

Project Life is my preferred method of scrapbooking and I’m hoping to provide you with some useful tips for either documenting your own lives or putting together your own pages with minimal fuss.

Here’s what I’m going to emphasize with the layouts I share:

1. The random stuff I like to capture and document for myself.
2. The simple approach to Project Life that I take. There are a lot of photos and very little embellishment and journaling.
3. The way I organize some spreads into themes or stories.

You can click on each image below for a slightly larger view.

Capture Idea: I bought some new pointed pen nibs for my new hobby, so I snapped a picture of them.

Capture Idea: Try to get a picture of some of the books that you’re reading. I absolutely loved reading The Happiness Project and Happier at Home. (affiliate links)

Story Idea: A few awesome ladies on Instagram started this project in April, so these were all my various cups photos for the month. I thought it looked pretty cool put together in a single spread.

Resources:

Photos edited with RadLab. (Affiliate Link)
Templates by Cathy Zielske: 01, 02, 05
Fonts: ABeeZee and Klinic Slab
Kit: Midnight Edition
For more info on my general approach to Project Life, check out this blog post.
Project Life is a memory-keeping system created by Becky Higgins. She’s awesome. Go visit her website for more information or watch her 3-day course on CreativeLive.