Welcome to Project Life 2012 | Week Twenty-One.
Catching up a bit today with the story from the week of Memorial Day weekend. Lots of photos.
Here’s a look at our week (click on any image to view it larger):
One thing you’ll find I used a bunch of this week are the Studio Calico Abroad Anywhere Natural Chipboard Thicker Stickers. I had two packages here and needed that many for the amount of “e’s” I used. Love the plain chipboard look – especially for beach photos. I added a line of machine stitching to each one with my sewing machine.
Just a couple journal cards from the start of the week and then I pretty much went right into the weekend. Love that red arrow from Basic Grey’s What’s Up Die Cut Transparencies.
The “love this” stamp underneath is from the new Life Right Now Studio AE June 2012 stamp set with Color Box chalk ink.
The yellow arrows are from the week before (outline arrows cut with the Silhouette).
Two American Crafts 6×12 page protectors became home for lots of beach photos.
Used some of my new Beach Outline Banners this week. Excited to play with those on the Silhouette too.
The writing on the photo with Simon is a brush from a new set called Heart You that will be available at Designer Digitals this weekend.
Added a Gratitude Circle to this photo of Anna and my Mom.
Love that photo of Anna. Need to blow it up for the walls.
Jounaling on a photo. When I take photos I like to think about how I can set up the shot to give me room for journaling right onto the photo. The sky is great for that.
The “friends = goodness” is from Thank You Friend. The cute little stitched heart is Pebbles With Love Hearts.
SUPPLIES | 2012 | WEEK 21
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Project Life is a product and a system created by Becky Higgins. It can be anything you want it to be. The pieces used in my album are available here. If you live outside the US check Becky’s site for more information on sources. View all my posts about Project Life (including all the spreads from my completed 2011 album) here.
WOW!!! LOVE this week! LOVE the photos! LOVE the chipboard letters! LOVE the flow of it all! Not to mention it looks like you had a WONDERFUL week and yes, you definitely have a new picture of Anna that is simply precious! Thanks for sharing!
This is a precious and wonderful week of photos. LOVE LOVE IT ALL!!
Hi Ali, WOW, How stunning is your week 21 PL, so much love, happiness and great memories there, l know you cant include every pic you take but l so wished you had of included the photo of you and anna with Lily on the beach, Lily is so adoreable, but its still all lovely
I second that opinion! Love this weeks photos and your entire spread (as usual) but would love to have seen that adorable photo of Lily included.
Planning to do something else with that photo.
love it! one question – i tried to stitch over some letters and it jammed in my machine, are you using a different needle?
Nope – same needle that I always use but you do have to push it through a bit (hold tight to the paper and push gently).
Again a beautiful layout for week 21 of your PL, love it! Thanks for sharing with us your memories.
Love how you did this week! those photos just make me smile!
as always,a wonderful week in review. Always look forward to viewing your PL, just need to do mine!
love seeing your project life pages, ali!
thank you for sharing.
REALLY love this week’s layouts
absolutely love this. so good.
Once again another amazing spread! There is just something so simple and truly beautiful about your layouts. I always find them so inspirational. Thank you for sharing with us! You totally need to enlarge and frame that photo of Anna, simply breathtaking!
Looks wonderful! So many great photos and it’s so awesome how you planned photos for having the space to journal! Very inspiring! TFS!
Such lovely pages! I love all the beach pictures and the natural look of the whole week. Looks like you had an awesome weekend at your parents’ house. Thanks for being such an inspiration!
Fiona xoxo
Wonderful spread this week for PL. Where abouts are you on the coast of Oregon?
LOVE + LOVE…one of my favorite layouts of yours! lots of ideas I’m going to try…but mainly love the feelings. alot of love and gratitude
This is probably my favorite PL spread of yours. Love it! Probably because I love the coast too.
love love love love
Wow you, Anna & your Mom are like 3 peas in a pod! Also, LOVE you chipboard letters across the week! Beautiful!
Ali, I love your Project Life pages. The love you have for your family and theirs for you just shines through! I have not yet started a project like this, but am considering starting one while I watch my two granddaughters three days a week this summer. I would like to document our time together.
Especially love these pages of your PL but then, I’ve loved all of it! Your unique style shines through, even in a project like this, and you’ve done an amazing job. I’ve enjoyed watching your PL pages come to life this past year. So glad you had such a nice weekend at the coast. Your documentation of the time you spent there, with your parents and kids,is truly wonderful.
Thank you!
I love the chipboard letters right over top of the photos. Nice.
love how you did the alpha titles right on the photos Ali! great photos this week. Spending time at your parents on the beach seems very theraputic for you!!
So love those chairs that swing… totally forgot about those! My grandparents had one growing up.
Love Love Love these pages! So many good ideas I have to steal and use! Thanks!
Love, love, love how you played with the thicker letters and words – I think, I will try that in my PL, too!
I don’t know if you’ve talked about this before (I don’t think you have), but could you talk about your process of building a week spread? My situation is different because I will be printing through an outside source. I’m having a hard time getting started because I don’t know how to plan/design a week and then send it to print. I would imagine you design/print as you go, determining what you want for balance, color, etc. I know Cathy Zielske and MaryAnn Perry print at home too. I love the way all three of you design pages, but I just don’t know how to make mine look similar without it being a major affair. I’ve considered getting a new printer for good quality photos, but I’ve read you aren’t necessarily sure it would be cheaper or e,ven the same amount of $ to print at home. This is a huge consideration for us as well as the time factor. I have 3 kids (almost 4) six and under so I just don’t have the time to spend hours each week, but I really want to add some graphic elements to my spreads. Any advice? Would you consider doing a video on your design/layout process? I think at would be really interesting!