Hello there! Hope you are enjoying your weekend. Just wanted to pop in today to share the amazing pages that the creative team made with Curated No. 4 & 5.
page by Emilie Ahern
page by Sucali
page by Sucali
page by Desiree McClellan
page by Brenda Smith
page by Lex
page by Crystal Livesay
page by Brenda Smith
page by Shaui
page by Jippo
page by Kelly Schmidt
page by Jippo
page by Mi Monteiro
page by Elisa Hubbard
I hope these wonderful pages helps to illustrate how truly versatile the pages are – they work with both color and black and white photos, and the pages look great whether you choose to use them as is or add your own twist with extra embellishments.
Curated No. 4 & 5 is now in the shop! It’s a special bundled kit, which means that when you purchase them together, it’s 10% off the regular price, but today through Sunday , March 31st, you get an additional 20% off as a special New Release discount (for a total of 30% OFF!) That makes for a pretty sweet deal on this bundled kit. You can also purchase No. 4 and No. 5 separately and those sets are both 20% off thru Sunday as well.
Danielle, being the overachiever that she is, also designed an additional set, Curated No. 6, that also coordinates beautifully with the bundled kit.
And that’s not all! In celebration of this latest release, our entire Curated Collection (Our original Curated No. 1, Curated No. 2 and Curated No. 3) is on sale through March 31st.
THE DETAILS
How it works: Ordinary yet beautiful objects have been gorgeously styled (or Curated), photographed, and then formatted into digital quick pages. You, then add your family photos, journaling a title (or more) and you have a completed page or album. The great thing about these quick pages is that most of the work has been done for you and your photos will blend seamlessly into these handcrafted layouts.
The End Product: Use the quick pages to create individual scrapbook pages or create a cohesive and complete album with the entire collection that you’ll cherish for years to come! Do you create Project Life Albums? You can also print the individuals pages, slide them into page protectors and add them to your Project Life album.
LAYOUT SAMPLES
The bundled kit includes 10 quick pages – enough to build a complete album – just pair each quick page with a large photo layout and you’ve got yourself a 2 page spread. Here are a few pages from the photobook I made.
The geotag digital stamp on this layout is by my dear friend Kelly Purkey. The digital file was included when I purchased the rubber stamp and it looks like now she’s made the digital stamp available as a free download. What a sweetheart she is!
And here are some of Danielle’s pages. I especially love that she paired the quick pages with patterned papers instead of photos (the striped paper is from quintessentials no. 2).
And one of my favorites from Danielle is this sweet page of her two boys. Love that she isn’t afraid to make boy pages with pink.
While you can use the quick pages as is (just add your photos) to pull together your layouts (very quickly), you can also dress it up and really make the page your own by adding your extra embellishments. Here are a few samples from the creative team.
page by Jippo
page by Kelly Schmidt
There are so many more amazing pages by the creative team that I want to share with you and will be doing so over the next few days so be sure to stop by over the weekend!
Today I’m sharing the photobook I made using the quick pages from Curated No. 4 & 5 (coming to the shop tomorrow)! The album took me two days to complete (including uploading to print vendor + placing an order for the album). A big chunk of the two day process was spent cataloging and tagging 2 years worth of photos so if I take that out of the equation, the actual album making time took less than a day to complete. Not too shabby for a slow scrapbooker. Also, most of my photobooks are year in review themed albums and since I just recently finished a year in review album for 2012 I was sort of at a loss on how to tackle this one. Usually, I’ll sit on a project like this until inspiration strikes but I wanted to have a completed album to share (nothing like pressure to get you going!) so I just dove in. I started with a set of photobooth photos taken back in 2011 and about 4 pages in, everything started to come together. This album, We Were Here (Vol. 1) is a compilation of photos ranging from 2009 – 2013.
The title page is simple full photo layout with the text everyday is a new adventure.
A few of pages using Curated No. 4 by Kitschy Digitals.
And a few pages using Curated No. 5 from me.
The closing page.
You can see the album in its entirety here:
Click here to view this photo book larger
Be sure to pop over to Danielle’s blog to see the album she made, it is simply stunning!
ps. There’s still time to enter for a chance to win Curated No. 4 & 5! Enter a comment in the giveaway post HERE and HERE by midnight tonight!
Happy Wednesday friends! I’m super super stoked to share a sneak peek of Curated No. 4 & 5, a new collaboration project with the amazing Danielle Thompson of Kitschy Digitals! You may remember that we first collaborated a few years ago (back in 2010!) on Curated Album No. 1. Ever since that first album we’ve been talking about doing another one together and it’s finally happening!
The album will be available in our shops this Friday, March 29th, but first, we are offering a chance to win the new album before it’s released! To enter this giveaway simply leave a comment here by midnight on Thursday, March 28th. Be sure to stop by Danielle’s blog to see another sneak peek of the album and enter for a chance to win there as well!
and the winner is…
Congratulations Soco! Be on the lookout for an email from me shortly. 
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Happy Monday friends! I’m super excited to announce that Midnight (the Project Life Core kit I designed) is now available in digital form at AC Digitals! The actual physical kits won’t be available until May but you can start creating with the digital version right now.
To enter for a chance to win the digital version of the Midnight Edition just leave a comment here by midnight (HA!) on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Winners will be announced here by Friday. Good luck!
and the winner is…
Congratulations Piper! I will be contacting you shortly with details on how to redeem your midnight edition!
The flu made its rounds in our household. One week after another everyone got sick. Everyone except me. I don’t know how I lucked out. Now that everyone is recovered I’ve been keeping busy trying to play catch up. I’m also in major cleaning mode. Maybe because it’s the start of Spring or maybe it’s because I’m stressed – I seem to always want to clean when I’m feeling overwhelmed. It’s probably a little bit of both. And I’m in the I want to make a few dozen photobooks mode. Basically I’m wanting to do lots of things but don’t have time for them all. So I’ve been trying to do a little bit of everything and not getting much of anything done. Not my favorite place to be. I need to focus and get back on track. Hopefully I’ll get this sorted out over the weekend.
In the meantime, I wanted to share a few lovely creations from the creative team.
Lately I’ve been digging the use of clear “pockets” on digital layouts.
page by Jippo using oh dearie
page by Jippo
page by Sue Falstaff
More lovelies that make my minimalist heart go pitter patter.
page by Sucali
page by Wendy Bretz (guest polly)
page by Shaui
page by Wendy Bretz (guest polly)
page by Leora Sanford
page by Wendy Bretz (guest polly)
page by Elisa Hubbard
Happy Weekending friends!
Project Life week 5.
My favorite this week is the photo of Madeline on the top left corner. When I’m working on layouts I usually start with my favorite and build the page around it – make sure the colors and tones of the other photos complement the main photo. The rest of the color photos on this page were easy to match because they were taken at the same time. I ended up converting a few photos to black and white so it wouldn’t compete with the colors.
I still love using woodgrain journaling cards – it adds a little of texture/depth and also helps to transition/differentiate between photo sequences (color vs. black and white). The woodgrain journaling cards are printed on photo paper. Anytime I have a blank slot on a 4×6 photo collage, I’ll add the woodgrain card to fill the space. I get the most out of my 4×6 print ( I get them printed at costco) and now I have a nice stash of woodgrain cards on hand when I need them.
I use photoshop and these template sets (1 and 2) to put together 4×6 photo collages.
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Right side.
It was an action packed weekend. A kid’s birthday party on Saturday. I think we’re at that stage where there seems to be a birthday party to attend almost every weekend. On Sunday I went out for afternoon tea with my girlfriends, sans kids. For years we’ve lamented about how “busy life is” and “I can’t believe it’s been 3 months since we’ve seen each other” so this year we’ve committed to getting together more often. Once every 4 – 6 weeks to be exact. Of course, we’ve said the same thing in years past but the difference this time around is that we are making a point of marking a date for our next outing.
Two additional inserts this week. On a 5×7 page protector, a series of photos I snapped of the girls while we were waiting for Eric to get his haircut.
The other side holds a sketch by Madeline, “It’s the unicorn pillow.” (I also love that her “n” is backwards).
Monthly divider using pages from the Mara Mi for Target calendar. (See January’s here.)
How it looks in the album.
products used: Design A page protectors, Design D page protectors, woodgrain journaling card templates, 3×4 white cards, 4×6 photo templates
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Project Life is a memory keeping system created by Becky Higgins. Read more about it HERE. All of my project life entries can be found HERE. Photos edited using either RadLab by Get Totally Rad! or VSCO
Friday morning, at PappaRich in Old Town Pasadena.
It’s been one heck of an exhausting week. I finally snuck in a nap yesterday afternoon and I slept in the morning so I’m feeling much better today. Now if only my left eye would stop twitching. And the bags under my eyes would go away. I read somewhere that tea bags help with the under eye circle thing. Do you battle with this? Besides “get in 8 hours of sleep every night” (which just isn’t possible for me right now), what remedies do you use?
Because is 20% OFF thru March 17, 2013. Purchase the kit this weekend and get the set of coordinating journaling cards free. (promo offer good thru March 17, 2013).
inspiration from the creative team
layout by Tina Aszmus
layout by Brenda Smith
layout by Morgana
layout by Crystal Livesay
layout by Kelly Schmidt
layout by Sucali
layout by Brenda Smith
layout by Emilie Ahern
layout by Jippo
layout by Todido
layout by Shaui
layout by Nicole LeBlanc
layout by Leora
I went back to week one to add these inserts from this Mara Mi calendar I bought at Target. The Design D page protector with the vertical 4×6 spots are perfect for the inserts. I just cut off everything to the right of the 4×6 slots.
The other side would be a great spot to include a month in review photo collage (using instagram photos perhaps). I ended up using this space to summarize things I’d accomplished with my business for the month. The top photo is a collage of the products I released in January and the bottom is a to-do/goals list.
How it looks in the album.
Do you include monthly dividers or make month in review inserts for your Project Life Album?
products used: Design D page protectors, 4×6 blank white cards
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Project Life is a memory keeping system created by Becky Higgins. Read more about it HERE. All of my project life entries can be found HERE. Photos edited using either RadLab by Get Totally Rad! or VSCO
