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.

Capture Idea: Always with food.

Capture Idea: Taking a picture of fortunes from fortune cookies is the only way I remember to get them in a digital scrapbook.

Capture Idea: I got my car services, so a quick snap of the invoice and buzzer.

Capture Idea: Messy kitchen table.

Capture Idea: Messy desk. These simple things are what I think I’ll enjoy looking back on the most.

Capture Idea: More food.

Capture Idea: My cousin was using my house for temporary storage so I snapped some before-and-after shots of the storage area.

Simplicity Point: The center square is comprised of patterned paper with a scaled-down journaling card layered on top and offset.

Capture Idea: I humorously spilled a bunch of dirt in the trunk of my car. I like to include even the messy bits in my book.

Capture Idea: I had a couple of dressy events for work, so of course selfies were entirely necessary.

Simplicity Point: Same deal as the previous page with the patterned paper and offset journaling card. I definitely like this look!

Capture Idea: Going on a trip. Long Beach Airport lets you get on the plane from outside, so I was able to get an unencumbered shot of the plane.

Capture Idea: NY-specific food.

Simplicity Point: One journaling card and a quick list of highlights from the trip.

Story Idea: Two pages dedicated to a trip out to Yankee Stadium.

Capture Idea: More food.

Capture Idea: An updated shot of the outside garden.

Capture Idea: And food. But at least one is a meal I cooked at home.

Resources:

Photos edited with RadLab. (Affiliate Link)
Templates by Cathy Zielske: 01, 02, 05
Fonts: ABeeZee and Klinic Slab
Kit: Scotty Girl Design, Jade Edition, 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.

One quick and easy way to document your life is list journaling. This has been around the internet for awhile (examples: 30 Days of Lists, 52 Lists from Moorea Seal, and possibly others!) Cori (aka TheResetGirl) started a challenge called ListersGottaList and she provided prompts for people to journal in list format.

I’m going with an all-digital format for documenting my lists. (Since I’m a digital scrapbooker, of course)

My supplies for list journaling:

• Abstract art backgrounds (my own designs – available here)
• Brush lettered prompt headings (my own lettering, digitized and converted into stamps – scroll all the way down to grab these for yourself)
• Assorted journaling cards from digital Project Life kits
• Elements from digital scrapbooking kits (most often by Scotty Girl Design)

What I’m skipping:

• Numbering the prompts
• Because I skip the prompts I don’t enjoy! I realized that it’s supposed to be fun, not a standardized test. It’s ok to skip the questions! It’s so much less pressure to answer the stuff I want to and skip the ones that are annoying to answer.

What I plan to do with all my layouts:

• Four lists per page.
• Right now, I’m thinking I’ll get them printed as a 12×12 book.

Hope you enjoyed seeing my layouts. To see other awesome lists, check out the #ListersGottaList tag on Instagram.

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