The thing that I really love about Project Life is the ability to include the bits and pieces from every day life. Having a toddler in preschool, I have a lot of art projects that I want to save!
If you've read my blog long, you probably already know that I'm a planner. I need a plan for everything, or I feel overwhelmed. So I've begun my planning and I'm gathering my supplies.
I'm still waiting for this binder to become available:
Please Becky- all I want for Christmas is my 2012 Project Life Binder! ;-)
As of right now, I'm sticking to Design A for my planner pages. This makes it easier on my planning, but I can see how I might get bored with the same layout for each week, so we'll see how it goes.
I will begin each month with a little 6x12 divider page.
Next I went to Joann's and stocked up on some Smash products, including almost all the Smash Pads they had, paper tape (a MUST- and I want more to choose from), a date stamp, and some other random goodies.
At this point you might be wondering which kit I am using- Clementine? Cobalt? Turquoise? Well....IF I was going to buy a kit I would definitely go for Clementine- it's yummy! However, I know myself, and I will be bored with just using one kit for an entire year. I won't make it past January without being bored!
So I have settled on this- I will incorporate my own kits (yes, you can expect journaling cards from me in the coming year!), and I will use one kit per month (to reduce a crazy amount of design time, and also to give each month a little cohesion). For January, I am definitely using my new "Fresh Start" kit! It's perfect for documenting the start of the new year.
Now for the execution of my album...
This year I found that once I started getting behind, it was really hard to remember what happened each week, and getting caught up was becoming impossible. So a few months ago I started using Oh Life, and have found it to be EXTREMELY helpful in remembering what happened when I get behind. I also love it that half my journaling is already done by the time I got to put my layout together.
However, I also needed help in mapping out what happened each week, and how I was going to get it all in my album, so I created a weekly planner:
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And a weekly map, so I can sketch it all out before I go to put it in my album:
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I have been using these two pages for my December layouts, and for ONCE in this process, I do not feel overwhelmed because my weeks are already planned out, and thanks to Oh Life, my journaling is half done. I keep my planner pages in 8.5x11 page protectors in my album as a place holder for that week. I made these planner pages a free printable. Just click on the image to download these PDFs.
So that's my plan for 2012! Are you ready? What materials are you using?
5 comments:
Thanks so much for the maps! Those will be so handy for my Project Life 2012!
Thanks for the downloads - will make Project Life 2012 sooooo much easier!
These are awesome! Thanks so much :)
Love the Weekly Map ! Any chance you'll create a weekly map for Designs B-G ?
Wow, I really have to begin with Project Life too. I love it!
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