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.

Simplicity Point: I tried to follow a general checkerboard pattern with photos and cards.

Capture Idea: I love getting shots of my garden. I’m so glad to have these because I look back and see how tiny all the plants were!

Simplicity Point: Quick labels with some digital washi tape.

Simplicity Point: Journaling for me equals a short list of highlights.

Capture Idea: A random snap behind the husband as we were walking out of Target. (Very obvious it was Target. We spend a lot of time there.)

Capture Idea: Food. Always, food.

Simplicity Point: More washi tape labels.

Capture Idea: The Lilly Pulitzer Collection for Target was going nuts around the country. Except I found a fully stocked display at about 1pm on launch day in California. I snapped a picture because I thought it was funny.

Capture Idea: Um, guys. This is a second picture from behind my husband walking out of yet another Target. We definitely spend a lot of time at Target.

Resources:

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

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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