Project Life Tuesday: Week 42
Welcome to Project Life Tuesday 2013 If you are new to The Mom Creative, welcome. I hope you will stay awhile. I’m Jessica – wife to Matthew, mom to Elias, a silly and spirited five-year-old, and Adeline, a spunky two-year-old. I’m also a marketing professional, savvy deal finder, photo lover and memory keeper trying to juggle it all.
Each Tuesday, I share my most recent spread as well as host a linky for readers to link up their pictures/layouts. Some links are affiliate links.
Week 42: October 13-19
Pages used: Design A, Design D
This week came together very quickly – probably because we didn’t take a ton of photos. The majority of this week’s photos are from our trip to the pumpkin patch. I stuck with all black and white journaling cards, along with a few black, white and orange stickers, to create a Halloween feel to the spread. I REALLY love how this spread turned out.
For the first page, I added some washi tape to the date card to tie the black and white theme together.
I love the smile/hello friend stickers (by Pebbles) used on the bottom left image. I also like the look of the journaling on the black and white lines.
On the 6×12 insert, I added a strip of polka-dotted washi tape to add some visual interest to the insert. I love how this breaks up the spread. SO fun and easy. I also used a few more of the Pebbles stickers.
The design D page has just two more photos from the pumpkin patch on the left. The rest of the page is random photos from the week that I tied together with one journaling card. I love the Heidi Swapp sticker letters I added to two of the photos. I also used a few Martha Stewart orange office labels.
I think this week is a great reminder that you don’t have to go crazy with embellishments to have a very cohesive spread.
I love weeks like this when the spread can all be about one thing – usually it’s just random pictures for each week but I love how every now and then there will be a group of shots all from one event! I’m all about low-embellishment spreads lately with a 1 year old running around the house 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
I love when that happens now and then too. 🙂
I really like how it turned out as well. Sometimes simpler is better 😉
I agree. 🙂
Love your Pumpkin patch page and the little captions all over. That’s all it takes!
I have been following your blog since last christmas and I love the idea of project life. I am thinking about buying one for me but I have no idea where to start. Do you have any tips? I am really curious about printing photos. Do you use Walgreen or online places? I have sooo many questions.
This post should help answer a lot of your questions: https://www.themomcreative.com/2013/01/project-life-tuesday-20-questions-answered.html
I use Walgreens for most of my photo printing. I print large photos on my home printer.
This year is my first year doing project life. So far, I’m loving it! I’ve had to spread my layouts into two albums. I know that you do multiple albums each year. I was wondering whether you had ever done a post on what you do for the cover pages and the end pages of the “in-between” albums. Looking for ideas…
I have not done a post for the cover and end pages, but you can find lots of samples on Pinterest.
I love seeing your spreads each week and getting PL inspiration from you! Random question- recently I’ve been noticing you don’t use filler cards (at least the past few weeks when I realized), just photos and journaling cards. Is that because you have so many pictures you want to use? And what do you do with all your filler cards?
What do you mean by “filler” cards? Cards that just have a design on them, but aren’t necessarily intended for journaling? If so, yes, I don’t use these very often. I tend to have lots of photos, so those types of cards aren’t a good use of the slots for me. I have used them in the past though. Just rarely. 🙂
Hi Jessica!
How/where exactly did you stick the polka-dot washi tape on the 6X12 page?
Veronica
Just along the side and then wrapped it to the other side.
Ah, I see. Thanks.