Project Life for August

Hello, everyone!  It's Susan here.  I know that many of you who do Project Life are always happy to find good 2-page sketches for your albums.  And for those of you - like me - who haven't begun a PL album yet, those sketches work equally well with travel layouts or other subjects where  you want to feature lots of photographs.  This is one of those great sketches.  It's by Susan Stringfellow for Basic Grey. http://blog.basicgrey.com/

 I opted to do this travel layout about my son's semester in Rome using my August Design Team kit, Carte Postale by Basic Grey.

For more ideas on creating 2- page layouts for your albums, see the Project Life section of  the Memorable Seasons website.

Documenting March/April

Hello all! 

Megan here and it's time for your next Project 12 / Project Life / Documenting in 2-page fashion challenge. Although I am doing Project Life for 2013, I am still playing catchup on Project 12. But, that's okay because I have all the journaling already typed out on my blog, the sketches picked out and all the photos printed. So when I find good product to use for a P12 spread, I go to town. And, I thought my March mix-up kit would be great for my November 2011 (yep - 2011) layout... 

And here's the sketch I used for reference. This is the actual November 2011 Project 12 sketch... 

I was really unsure about this one because of the sheer number of photos and their tiny size, and then I realized this sketch is highly adaptable. I decided to size my photos to 2x3 and use less of them. And of course, my arrangement is not the same as the sketch but you can definitely see the inspiration I got from it. 

And for those who are doing or contemplating Project Life, earlier this week, I shared some thoughts on the project now that I'm ten weeks in HERE. I am currently working on Weeks 11 & 12 - spreads are sketched out and photos are printed for both so I am making progress. I hope to share them in the upcoming week but in the meantime, here's my week 10 spread that I posted in the gallery a couple weeks back... 

So what's your challenge? 

(1) Create a layout based upon the sketch above or in the Project Life divided page-protector fashion, and... 

(2) Upload it to the gallery with a link to the challenge thread in the forum by April 30th to be entered in the monthly prize drawing. 

Can't wait to see your pages!

Project Life is it for you?

So you have probably heard all of the commotion about Project Life going around.  It seems like every company is producing their own materials or joining with someone that is.  Here at Memorable Seasons we try to keep you all abreast of all of the trends that come and go, some good and some well, they should have been skipped.  So this year, we are going to offer a challenge each month to document your everyday life - this will also count towards the monthly prize drawing.

So how can you document your life; well you could try documenting your daily life, your weekly life, your monthly life, however you decide will work for you will earn you an entry in the monthly prize drawing, plus you will have documented those little things that really do mean so much.  Each month one of the DT members will offer you a 2 page sketch to help you document your life - we've each oohed, and ahhhed over Megan and Tami's progress this year in Project 12 - 12 spreads in a year.  You can choose to use the sketch we provide, or do your own thing, but we want to offer you the tools you will need to be successful in 2013 documenting your life.

If you have thought about doing the full Project Life I wanted to share some information that I have been gathering to again provide the tools you would need to follow this path of the journey

Project Life -

1.  First up the creator of Project Life, Becky Higgins, with some information she shared with CK, Project Life .

2.  Echo Park has created Photo Freedom based on Stacy Julian's approach - Photo Freedom

3.  But most of all, here is a dear friend of mine Patricia Roebuck's outlook on actually doing a year of Project Life and answering some basic questions that I asked her and others that she has come across over the year, Roebuck Adventures

So, I hope this gives you plenty of information to consider joining us here at Memorable Seasons as we take this journey into scrapbooking the daily moments of our lives!