Although I haven’t been keeping up with all of my weeks for Project Life®, I’ve been saving my photos and keeping the things that I need in order to catch up quickly. This past weekend I spent some time doing just that. I have a folder set up on my computer titled 2014 and inside that folder I have a folder for each week of the year (labeled week 01 – dec 30-jan 5 and so on). When I dump my photos (either from my phone or my “big” camera) I put the photos in the appropriate folder for the correct day…seems time intensive but it’s a lot easier than trying to figure it all out later!! When I have time to sit down and work, I import a week into Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5  and then pull up my printing templates (I created these based on the sizes of photos that I wanted to print) and print out the photos I need for the week. I use an Epson Artisan 50  color printer and so far I love it. I have each page protector in my album sticky-noted with the week number and dates so that I can easily pick a week to work on if I need to.

Once I have my photos ready, I trim them all and then go through my cards from my Studio Calico kits and my Project Life Core Kits…I also tend to end up making cards as well and have several blanks to work from. I use letter stickers and American Crafts Thickers  a lot for my pages but do any journaling by hand. My favorite must have tools for hand lettering are: pencil, sharpie (fine point), Staedtler Mars Plastic Erasers  and a drafting brush. I also use the Project Life Pens  when I can find them on my desk…I think there are some other hands in this house that tend to use them as well. I plan my pages as I go and often will sketch little card ideas as they come.

Project Life® is a scrapbooking system developed by Becky Higgins. Project Life® products can be found online and in many craft stores locally. There are affiliate links within this post highlighting some of my favorite products that I use regularly for Project Life®.