I seemed to have spent a lot of time in the kitchen this past week. Between trying out new dinner recipes (this month's Cooking Light Magazine is awesome!), making scones for my scrapbooking friends, Chris having a guest for lunch on Friday and then hosting a dinner party on Saturday, I'm beginning to feel like a professional cook! It's all good though! If I'm not creating things in my studio, I'd rather be creating something yummy in the kitchen!
I really seem to be in a groove with my Project Life workflow. Thursday is my scrapbooking day with friends. Even though I am not done taking photos for the week, I find that I am printing my page planners and planning where things are going to go for the weekly layout. Since I don't have my photos printed, I am at least choosing filler/journal cards, and placing them in their appropriate slots. On Sunday I am editing and printing photos and placing them in their protectors. Mondays are spent journaling, adding any embellishments, photographing the pages and doing my blog entry. So far it is working for me!
On to Week 4!
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I did a few "different" things in my layouts this week. The first was that I made a photo flow from one slot on the page to the next:
This is a photo I took of some Bay Laurel plants I found at our local grocery store a few weeks ago. I just love Bay Laurel. In one of Martha Stewart's Christmas books she decorated with this pretty plant and ever since I saw what she did with them, I wanted one. Unfortunately I could never find them in the States. I'm not sure if the climate wasn't right for them, but I looked and looked for them and was never successful. So for the next two and a half years, I will be caring for these little babies as if they were my own children ;). I cropped the original photo to 4x8 and then trimmed two inches off of the bottom. Notice on the top photo I only rounded the upper corners and left the bottom ones alone. The two-inch piece that I trimmed off is attached to the 4x6 piece of patterned paper and the bottom corners are rounded rather than the top. This is makes the photo flow nicely from one compartment to the next and makes it look "whole". I really like this look and plan to use it throughout my album!
The second thing I did differently was I attached journal cards to the outside of the protector rather than sliding them. In the example below, I wanted to use one of the bi-fold journal cards, but I was afraid it would slide around too much in the 4x6 slot. I felt by attaching it to the top of the protector, it would be easier to read and makes the page interactive.
In the second photo of this post you can see I placed another journal card on the outside of the protector between the top two photos. In that example, there was just too much to say and not enough space to say it in within the boundaries of each divided slot, so placing a journal card on top, between the two slots was a good solution!
This week brings a new month! I hope to have some extra posts this week with some Valentine decorations along with some photo collages on my walls! Keeping checking back!
