17 Things I Am Feeling Today
By Tammy MWhere Has The Time Gone?
By Tammy MI seems like only yesterday I was kissing his chubby little hand after a spill, or gasping as he came running inside cover head to toe in mud.
Collages Are a Fantastic Way To Fit In A Lot Of Photos
By Tammy MScrapbooking Goes to The Dogs - Creating The Perfect Puppy Scrapbook
By Tammy MCustomize Buttons For Use On Your Scrapbook Layout
By Tammy MScraplifting
By Tracy EI'm not one who easily comes up with my own, completely new, ideas for a layout. It has happened, but more often than not, I head to my store of magazines and find a layout that I think will work with my pictures and theme. I have scraplifted layouts so completely that all that is different are the pictures, or sometimes it is just color theme that's different. However, usually my layouts are launched from a magazine layout and then end up looking similar, but unique from the original.
For beginner scrapbookers I always recommend they start by looking at magazines for inspiration and go from there. I somewhat envy those who's designs are completely their own ideas, but ultimately it doesn't really matter to me. I like what I like, and if that means someone else has done something siimilar, so be it. Try scraplifting today and see what you think!
Movie Favorites Scrapbook Layout
By Tracy ESo, I think this is worthy of a scrapbook layout entitled Movies I Love Right Now. I'm so lovin' the idea of recording bits of me and who I am at various times in my life. Although my movie choices are not really important in the big picture of who I am, they are still a part of me and what makes up my character and personality. I'll post it when it's done. Love to hear any layout ideas if you have them. . .
Scrap By Color
By Tracy EWell . . . I found a really cool site today called www.scrapbycolor.com. On this site you can upload a photo or photos that you want to scrapbook and it will spit out blocks of colors that would match with your photo. Then you can click on the wheels at the right to see the monochrome, complimentary, triadic, etc colors combinations.
This is a great way to save time when scrapbooking as you don't need to sort through all your papers to find the right colors for your layout. This is where having your papers organized by color comes in really handy!
Scrapbooking my Past Interests
By Tracy EThis got me thinking about scrapbooking some pages about what I liked when I was young - particularly in the entertainment world. Likes and dislikes change over the years and they are worthy of recording. I may even create a layout about the time my elementary school was going to have a Michael Jackson dance where everyone was supposed to wear a white glove!
An Update on My 365 Scrapbook
By Tammy MIt has been a while since I have provided an update on my 365 Scrapbook project. Back in January I set out to take a photo a day and then each week create a layout of those photos. The idea came from Becky Higgins and although the kit sold out quickly, she will tell you that the kit really isn't the project.
It is about taking a photo, saving a receipt or a piece of mail, or telling the little antedote of the day - EVERY day.
As I indicated, I got started January 1, 2009, however I must confess that I fell off the band wagon sometime early in the spring - YIKES that is hard to admit.
But here's the deal, you can start anytime, and over again and again if you want. That is the beauty of looking at this project as 'recording each day' and not as 'the PERFECT year in review album'. So I have started again. Becky recommended that you start at the beginning of a week, so that your layouts go from Sunday - Saturday or Monday - Sunday. But it is whatever works for you.
Don't be stuck in a box - you are creative and with some simple guiding ideas you too can be off and running. Speaking of guidlines here is what I recommend:
- Have FUN
- Involve the family (let the kids take photos and add journaling too)
- Take a photo each day (or at least jot something down about the day)
- Have FUN
- Start now!
- Set aside time to compile the layout each week (I have found this is way more motivating and not near so daunting as waiting 6 months to do 26 layouts - ouch)
- HAVE FUN!
Okay so have I made that clear - have fun! Don't stress about a day missed here or there. I am sure you can remember something to journal about, especially if you are doing your layouts weekly. Or walk around you house and yard and snap some photos all at once.
Here is a great perspective from Laura Vegas
"i keep telling people NOT to stress about taking a photo EVERY single day ... and that it's ok to skip here and there. for the first few weeks, i was really good about getting a photo every day. but my last two weeks, i wasn't quite so good about it. but i didn't stress or worry about it. i just took my camera out at the end of the week, walked around the house, and snapped all my photos at once. it doesn't make the album any less meaningful or change the idea behind the album. i'm still documenting our lives and all the little things that have gone on during the week."
Now do you wonder what in the world you could possibly take pictures of each day? Are you concerned that you may take pictures of the same thing week after week?
I have chosen to do my POTD (Picture of the Day) album about everything and anything. However, you could choose to use some of these ideas for themes. (these are from Becky Higgins blog on December 30, 2008)
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- All about a kid and what he/she does every day in a year
- Self-portraits
- Month-by-month review: Simply use the page protectors to slip pictures from each month into the album. But you don't have to take a picture every single day.
- Weekly or monthly themes: Pick a topic to focus on each week or month. For example, one week might be pictures at work, another week might be errands, another might be clothes you wear, and then food you eat, and then technology you love, etc.
- All About Me: For adult or child (what you wear, what you eat, what you love, where you go, who you hang out with, where you work, why you do what you do)
- Baby's first year
- Use the kit as a regular photo album that holds pictures and journaling blocks. Doesn't have to be sub-categorized into weeks or months.
- Circle journal for Multi-Family: Combine efforts with your siblings and have each family take different months. Put it all together in one Project 365 album and you have an awesome gift for grandparents!
- favorite photo a day (old or new)
- Home Sweet Home: Focus on every little detail of the place you call home, inside and out.
- Pregnancy
- Family Journal: The whole family is involved in Project 365 and contributing their pictures & journaling to the album. Leave the camera accessible to all. Even if it means your three-year-old is taking pictures of the floor. What a great way to capture everyone's perspective! You could even set up a schedule so that you take turns for each day or week.
