Hello lovely 2015 people! And you time traveller, non-2015 people too. It’s Caylee here. Wishing you all the best for this exciting new year.

I’m starting 2015 by sharing my 2013 book. Delayed. I know. But when you live in undeliverable South Africa, and you have to wait for your husband to go to England on business so that he can bring Moleskine photobooks back to you, that’s what happens. 2014’s one will be quicker, thanks Germany and emigration.

I have been obsessed with the Ten Things layered template since I discovered Paislee Press. I’ve had it at the ready for the longest time. It looks even better printed than it does on my computer screen.

I unknowingly gave myself a colour scheme for the year – gold glitter, mint, and peach. These are the colours that I kept for the book, along with the standard ones in the template. For the content, T and I chose ten of our favourite moments from the year. I kept the moments in chronological order, because I couldn’t possibly bare to rank them. I kept the 12×12″ sizing for the files, even though my book ended up at 8×8″. I simply chose the full page photo option and inserted each page into there.

I scanned my handwriting in for the left (the same one as the cover), gold glitter-ified it, put it over the digital paper from the kit. On the right is a blank page for journaling that was done by hand, straight onto the book. I didn’t want to share those private words, so I took a photo before writing. This was the longest journaling in the book. The rest of the pages got one line.

I followed the templates for each of the top ten, and put a large image next to it. I just changed the colours for the circles. I can’t get over how easy this was for how great it looks.

After my ten favourites, there were a few extra things I wanted to include – moments, as was included in the template, and the places we saw, since there were so many.

I wrote my own “places”, and scanned it in to look just like the template’s “moments” page.

Each place got one page, and one photo. More of my handwriting, and more circles.

There were a whole bunch of moments and places that I included. I couldn’t include them all here so I put them onto my blog. They all followed the same style.

This year was definitely a fave, if not the fave, so I included the gorgeous word art over a circle for the last page.

I love how easy this made the photobook. I’m pretty sure I’m going to be doing it every year from now on (I’m already at 100% success rate, since 2014 is ready to be printed). See you next month!

Products: Ten Things (12×12), You Are My Fave word art

♥ Caylee

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