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    Home » Crafts

    A Year of Project Life Pages

    Updated: Jan 26, 2015 by Melissa Mortenson · This post may contain affiliate links · This blog generates income via ads · Leave a Comment

     

    A Year of Project Life Page Ideas

     

     

     

     

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    Disclosure: Affiliate links are included in this post//  Today I’m going to share with you a bit about how I approach Project Life.  For those of you that don’t know, Project Life is a system of scrapbooking that incorporates the use of divided page protectors and focuses more on capturing your everyday life instead of only special occasions.

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    The original approach included taking one photo every day then putting them all in a scrapbook as the year went on. You can read a lot more about it on the Project Life page.

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    Now as much as I knew that I loved scrapbooking,  I knew that the “photo a day” approach would not work for me.  So instead, for my 2012 family scrapbook I developed the “Month at a Time” approach.  You can see my original pages before they were scrapbooked on this post.

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    I included a printable calendar each month (found here from Rhonna Designs) then highlights of our month.

    So totally “do able” for me.

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    To keep up with “traditional” scrapbooking a bit I also included one 12×12 page each month.

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    These are some of my layouts from my 2012 album.

    I love that we can look back and remember the things that we did last year,  and the approach was easy enough that it wasn’t a big deal to stay “caught up”

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    I found that some of the 6 x 12 Page Protectors are the perfect size to keep memorabilia from vacations and kids events.

    For 2013 I’ve decided to do a more traditional “Project Life” album and bought the Olive Edition designed by Heather Bailey (hello! Fabric AND paper LOVE!!!).  I’m still going to do the month at a time approach just eliminate the calendar pages this year.

    Here’s are some of the rest of the pages! The page protectors with the multiple photo openings proved wonderful for scrapbooking some of the hundreds of photos we take when we go on vacation.

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    What about you? Who else is playing along with Project Life?

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    Melissa Mortenson

    Melissa Mortenson is a blogger, designer, and content creator. She is the Polka Dot Chair blog founder and has been sharing fresh and creative ideas with readers since 2008. She is the author of “Project Teen, Handmade Gifts your Teen will Actually Love.” Her work and designs have been featured on HuffPost, TODAY, Pioneer Woman, HGTV, BuzzFeed, Better Homes & Gardens, and many other established publications. Her first fabric line, “Derby Style,” debuted in January 2015 through Riley Blake Designs.  Additional fabric collections have followed it in subsequent years. A mom of 3, she considers herself lucky to be living in Kentucky.

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