April Pocket Pages and Free Template

Hi everyone

I decided to change my Project Life to 12 x12 starting in April I was doing 6x8 and got full so I realized that size for me was not going to work. I started to have too much fun  and really enjoying the process so I guess that's why my album got full.
I also buy a lot of digital products to print at home today many digital scrapbooking kits comes with pocket cards.
So this template helps to just clip to the masks and save and print but remember to print at actual size and NOT the option  fit the page.


Here is my pages so far for April.

Mostly the pocket cards are from Gossamer Blue kit I'm loving the life pages monthly kit.

You can download the free template HERE.

Thanks for stopping by
Jana

Create your own supplies for your Scrapbook Video Tutorial

Part 1

Part 2

Usually I have a subscription to Just Jaimee and Ali Edwards but any kit I see there are good elements to print and cut is a go .
To me is more practical I like to have different embellishments and I don't go as much to the store.
I also have a pocket page subscription from Gossamer blue and I buy pocket cards from CTMH which they call Picture my Life.

Hope you enjoy
Thanks
Jana

Happy 2013 and my Finished Project Life

Happy 2013 to everyone. I wish a lot of health and creative endeavors !

Well this was my Project Life for 2012 and there were positive sides and negative ones.

Positive :

-It was the first project that I actually did the whole project, but I did what project life is really about no pressure. I did it monthly and printed pictures every 2 weeks and I think that contributed to my success.
- Another thing I loved was to keep memorabilia and things that Lucas (now at school) brings. Also everyday his teacher send notes of what he did at school and sometimes I would add that to the spread of the month.
- It was a place to put cards, certificates absolutely everything I did the past year. Also I included layouts I did about Lucas in the project which I think this year I won't.
- It's something really powerful to go back and see all the details of your life. Things that before just with layouts I didn't have in so many details.
- But I didn't feel the need to create tons of layouts, which is a positive thing in my case because space.I became more  selective about the stories I wanted to tell.


Negative:

- The fact that I actually would need 2 albums to complete this project by the end of the year. I saw that I could not put as much stuff and I basically stuffed everything in there that the whole binder is just at point to explode. Very difficult to turn the  pages but I think this is  a issue to people like me that don't have a lot of space. Having to do 2 albums a year is just too much for space.

- Having to spend more money  printing pictures because I print them at home and it was getting hard to print for layouts. It has to be more cost effective.


My solution:


I will start to create the spreads digitally, I thought that the fact that it will save space in the album will contribute to the fact that I want to maintain one  album for the whole year.

Also doing the spreads digitally makes me save money because with sales to print  layouts is cheaper than to print 20 pictures or more a month.

I want to spend more time doing other crafts and maybe mini albums and recording more videos and that will save me time.


Let's hope this all works.

Jana

My Project Life 6 months video

Links I talked about:
Check about project life HERE.

Products that I got





Thanks for stopping by

Jana

Project Life W1 and apps to help you with it

I got very excited to start Project Life,  feeling more relaxed this time, I think many things helps not feeling pressure and having a better system to keep on with your journaling. One good idea is to journal on the metadata of your pictures I do that sometimes but here is a great post from Noell at Paperclipping on how to do that and her approach.
But one I have been using a lot is Day one app for the iPad they also have for desktop .




I think it has been the easiest for me , it gives you pop up messages to remind you, but I usually journal in the end of the day, I also use Momento pretty much just to catch up my twitter and Facebook pages it keeps track for you so I know I can use it anytime to get the posts I want.

The words I did with my silhouette, silhouette store had many fun  words die cuts for that. And stamps from Ali Edwards.


Jana