Project Life: Week 1

I know it's currently Week 33, and maybe I'm crazy, but I'm starting with the first week of January. You see, even though I haven't been working on my album, I've still been documenting our everyday life. Taking photos, lots of photos, and scribbling notes into a daily calendar, and piling ephemera into a basket. So I have all this stuff just waiting to be put into page protectors. And now that my health is a little better, I'm ready to get the past 32 weeks into an album! So here is my week one. For those of you wondering what in the world Project Life is, check out this awesome video.

I gleaned a lot of great ideas from Ali Edwards and purchased some of her digital products to make the process go more quickly. I also pulled lots of product from my stash and organized it in a basket. Having everything together will also make this process go more quickly.

I'm using Becky Higgins page protectors and her Clementine Core Kit along with lots of odds and ends from my scrapbooking stash. I'm using my Silhouette to cut weekly title cards. I'll back them with various patterned papers (here I chose a diagonal yellow stripe from Echo Park), and maybe ephemera and photos too. I plan to use a lot of mini bags in my album, like the blue chevron print above. You can purchase them in a variety of sizes, colors, and prints at CuteTape online. They have lots of great washi tape too.

I wanted to include a tag with journaling inside the mini bag, but the opening for the page protector pocket is on the other side of the page. To make the tag accessible I simply cut a slit in the page protector a bit wider than the tag. Now it can be easily pulled out for viewing. 

The colored tags (red above) that I will use throughout my album are from CuteTape as well. The photo corners (yellow dots, red stripes) are just triangles cut from ribbon. So easy.

Well, that's it for week one. If you have any questions about my pages or the products I used, just let me know. Thanks for stopping by!