Digital Project Life 2013: Wedding Edition!

This month's challenge for the Becky Higgin's creative team was to create a layout using exclusively Project Life products. This was really fun, so easy, and my pages turned out beautiful!

Doing this reminded me once again that simple is good! I don't have to cram a bunch of things into each and every layout. Let's review how easy this was: pictures in, journaling cards in, journaling done and ta dah! A complete, gorgeous layout. Project Life is awesome!!!

Supplies used:

Template Design A

Template Design D

Project Life Mini Kit Wedding

Digital Project Life 2013: Week 17

This week was pretty much about my brother's wedding. You don't see many pictures here from his special day but come back on Monday to see a whole separate layout of just wedding pictures!

On this side I used three Seafoam journaling cards and one from the Midnight edition (far left). I love the series of images on the bottom right here - it's totally sad how many times I had to repeat that video... and it still wasn't great. Yeah, I'm totally not meant to be in front of a camera! I added a few green embellishments on this side to tie in the green on the right side page.

The top two images on this side are from the rehearsal dinner and wedding. I got the picture of the wedding party off of the photographer's facebook page and left her logo on there so she would get credit. The large 4x6 middle journaling card is from Lori Whitlock's 4x6 Life Card Brush set. I love how it turned out here and really enjoyed having plenty of room to type out the wedding details. The bottom two pics are pretty self explanatory, I think. Of course, for my quote card I had to put something about love ;) (and I know there is a spelling error, I promptly went back and fixed it once I noticed).

I really didn't take very many pictures this week and was a little worried about it. However, I think that less might be more! I really like how clean this layout turned out; here's to not worrying so much about taking so many photos!

Don't forget to come back on Monday for more wedding pictures!

Lori Whitlock Creative Team | 4X6 & 3X4 Templates Set

New this weekend from Lori Whitlock at jessicasprague.com are these awesome 3x4 and 4x6 templates. I used them in this project-life style layout documenting our trip traveling to Australia last year. They are 30% off right now so go check them out!

I added circles to this image so that you could see exactly where I used the templates. I love how they added just a little "pop" to my pages here and there. I clipped some paper from the pink basics kit and the happy day kit from Lori Whitlock to each of the templates. 

We took this three week trip with my parents and little sister to Australia over a year ago now. I took thousands of photos and have been wanting to make an album that can get most of those pictures off my computer and into a book. So here is the beginning, I'm just going to take it one day of the trip at a time or even one event at time and go from there. No rules except for getting pictures on pages! 

My [current] plan is to use Project Life templates and Lori Whitlock life templates (love how many options I have with these!) and LW basic kits (pretty much anything with bold colors). I hope to make a beautiful, bright, and happy album.

Of course, my main goal is always to keep up with my weekly Project Life. So think of this album and my on-the-side job :)

Check out more inspiration from the other creative team members on Lori Whitlock's blog!!

Supplies used:

Lori Whitlock Life Templates

Lori Whitlock 3x4 and 4x6 Templates

Lori Whitlock Happy Day Kit

Lori Whitlock Pink Basics kit

Sunshine in my Soul Font

Haettenschweiler Font

Adobe Caslon Pro Font

Mossy Font

Lori Whitlock Creative Team: Kraft Frames & Mothers Day Life Cards

Last Friday (April 26) Lori Whitlock released some new great products! I was gone all weekend and didn't get a chance to post these earlier.

This page uses elements from Lori Whitlock's Sweet Memories and Maggie kits. Also, I used a frame from the new Kraft Frames. And be sure to check out the Kraft Borders! 

My next layout is one I will insert into my Project Life album in a few weeks. I used Lori's new Mother's Day Life cards and a few of the Kraft frames to make this layout with some of my favorite images of my mom and me.

Digital Project Life 2013: Weeks 14, 15, & 16

It's been a busy April and though I have kept up with my Project Life layouts I have neglected to find time to post them! I've been going through some transitions at work and my brother's wedding was just last week. The good news is I have three whole weeks to share with you today.

WEEK 14:

Things to note: This was the first week of April so I included my goals for the month and my usual paislee press calendar card. Definitely feel like there is a "hodge podge" of photos this week... but the important thing is that the moments are documented ;)!

Favorite supplies: I used Lori Whitlock's Life Card brushes on the second page (for the bank trip and nightshift cards). I really like them and think they add a little more character to my journal cards!

WEEK 15:

Things to note: I didn't take one picture with my dslr this week, I've been getting lazy! Love that I got a picture of Jason and I's faces in :) 

Favorite supplies: I used another Lori Whitlock's Life Card brush on the first page (for on working nights card). I also used a couple Cathy Zielske templates on the second page and one on the first page - love being able to get more photos in!

WEEK 16:

Things to note: Still no dslr photos! These two weeks are the ones where I had weird hours at work and it definitely makes it harder to take photos. I don't know how I took so many photos last year when we both worked second shift! Jason took a few photos this week (I didn't even ask!); they are included in the "our friday" 3x4 card on the second page.

Favorite supplies: The "theme" of this layout is mainly from Lori Whitlock's Sweet Memories kit. I plan on inserting the scrapbook page I made from that kit in this week's layout. I used three Cathy Zielske templates this week as well!

Thanks so much for looking! I apologize again for my hiatus.

Lori Whitlock Digital Creative Team!

I am very excited to announce that I am now part of the digital Lori Whitlock Creative Team! I feel so honored to be on this team and I can't wait to continue to grow my skills as a digital scrapbooker. Many of you know that I mainly do Project Life layouts - and OF COURSE I will continue do those but I also plan to make regular scrapbook pages and some other albums as well. 

Today I am sharing with you my first layout. It is sized to 8.5x11 inches and I will insert it into my Project Life album. I love how this page turned out - this kit is absolutely gorgeous (but then isn't everything of Lori Whitlock's amazing?!). I used Lori Whitlock's new kit, Sweet Memories, available at JessicaSprague.com and through this weekend is 25% off! 

Go on over to Lori Whitlock's blog to meet the other Creative Team members and see their amazing layouts. Also, be sure to join Lori's Facebook page so you can stay up to date on all new product.

Project Life Inspiration: Organized Desktop Background

The other day I was trying to think of a way to make my desktop more functional and organized. I usually try to organize my files pretty quickly but there always seems to be few things that get left behind for a while. I decided to google "desktop backgrounds to organize icons" and this is what I got:

Definitely NOT my style... I mean, how ugly can we get, right? However, that third image did strike an idea with me... why not make my own beautiful desktop back ground with digital Project Life cards? I used a selection of the Kraft edition journaling and filler cards.

Want to make your own? Here's how:

STEP ONE | In photoshop make a new document the size of your screen (mine was 2560 pixels wide x 1440 pixels high). 

STEP TWO | At this point you can leave your background white your change it. I opened some Kraft edition cards and used the Eyedropper Tool to make a matching background. 

STEP THREE | Add journaling and filler cards and arrange as needed. I added text to a few to help me organize my icons. On the far right I left a space for my icons that stay on the desktop at all times. To do this I just added a rectangular shape (with the Rectangle Tool) and made it the same color as the background with 89% opacity.

Ta da! Now I feel much more sane about the icons left on my desktop. Let me know if you have any questions.