I am glad I have got to week 6. In my mind it is confirming that this project isn't just something to do one a whim but that I am committing to documenting life for the year. Project Life is changing my photography habits too. I know that at the end of each week I will be looking for photos to put in the album therefore certainly the big camera gets more of a workout!
I know that there are different ways of tackling PL. Mine is the least scientific. I find a couple of hours on a Sunday and make my two pages. I don't mind too much about coherent papers etc. I am still working mostly from the seafoam and olive kits but also add some of my own creations into the mix.
At week 6 I have found I like neutrals and pops of colour, that keeping to just two fonts was a good idea and that I hardly ever just pop a photo into a space without adding anything to it!
A few weeks back I played around with splitting a photo across several of the slots. I really liked that effect so did it twice on this first page with my photos of the library.
I often take words from the blog and use them for journaling in my PL album. The journalling here was taken from my previous post about the cathedral library.
I also played around on this page with combining three photos onto one 6 x 4 on the bottom left. I find this is a great way of getting lots of photos in, especially ones that go in a set like these do.
The second page documents my trip to Edinburgh. I decided to write straight on the photo of the city as it had some great white space at the top.
If I was doing the album in paper form I would have included my train ticket. As it was, I photographed and cropped it and added it to one of the spaces. I am so glad I did and I think that I am going to try and repeat this with other tickets and receipts that would have normally gone in.
I love looking back on the pages and seeing how they differ. I am still so excited by this project.
2 comments:
Hi Abi,
I love the pics across two slots. I am going to commit this to memory as I often use this template but don't like to stuff the unused journaling panels with lots of fillers.
Yes I have just completed week 5 and I used a slightly different format this week as I didn't have much but I am so glad I did it. It recorded the moment for me. Project on!
Glad you are still enjoying it so much and it's a great way of keeping track of life as it happens. I'd be one for neutral pages with pops of colour too :). I like the way you've used all the space, including writing on the photos too - gives a great scrapbook feel.
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