project life: how i see it

Earlier this week, I posted about my first try at Project Life. Fast forward 5 days and I've picked up a lot of steam for this little thing called "memory keeping".  Well, it's not little, but hey...

Over the last week, I've been doing my research.  I've found people, products and tutorials that are going to prove to be invaluable to me. What I've found are truly inspirations to how I want to bring my own project life book to, well... life. I'm naturally a researcher and so finding what I love out there wasn't hard.  Also, finding ways to approach doing project life, since I'm not starting from week one, was a main focus.  Below you'll find some of the people, aesthetics and how to's that will make project life truly enjoyable for me.

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I AM IN LOVE with Natasha's aesthetic. I love the simplicity, the color choices and overall flow to how she approaches a lot of her layouts. My favorite color combos are black and white, but Natasha helped me see a spin with those color combos and a punch of another, playful color.  (Yes, I know that's navy she is using, but in my mind, I substitute black. Chill! lol) Although, I DESPISE pink, I do see the playful fun in it. So, I think I'm going to be using a hot pink punch of color throughout a lot of my layouts to keep them fun and spicy. I also am reminded to look at my layouts in full spectrum, so that when I open my book, I can have one flow of idea and aesthetic.

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Natasha also gave me a great idea about how to approach Jan and some of February, since I'm starting at week 7. I think it's week 7. *shrugs*  I'm just going to do a photo layout for January up to mid Feb. I can't remember everything that happened, but I surely took a lot of photos. I'm a photographer, so this is actually pretty easy for me.  It will also be great for weeks that I just don't have much to say. LOVE this idea!

 

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I fell in LOVE (yea, I love a lot of what I found lol), with Paislee Press. This gal's designs are top notch for me. I actually purchased quite a few things from the shop that I'll end up using over the course of years to come. One was a photo template. Well, it was free, but hey, I had to put it in the cart, so it counts! lol  I went to her blog to see how she used it and came across this idea of going back at the end of the year to do a recap/table of contents for the beginning of my book.  It's rather genius in it's simplicity and how useful it is. I had to blog it, because quite frankly, I'll forget to do it otherwise. 

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I just like the triangles.  So, I'm going to eventually try it.

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Amanda Rose Zampelli is truly a kindred spirit for me, even though she's like 10 years younger. GAH! She's going through some similar changes in her life concerning work, like I am, so I frequent her IG and blog a bit lately.  I also happen to love just looking at what she creates and the energy she gives. One other thing she does that I am definitely going to do, is incorporate my creative work into my PL. One of those things is going to be my hand lettering. Amanda has done a great job of bringing her brush script designs into her book and doing so gave me the idea of making sure my designs, photography and hand lettering appeared in mine as well.

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Since I am a photographer, taking photos as a means of documenting isn't new to me.  Getting photos printed, also not new to me.  Editing them, DEFINITELY NOT new to me. Doing an efficient process for PL is new to me. So I set out to find a good tutorial that would help. I think I've found one here using my favorite editing tool, Lightroom! She uses LR3 in her tutorial, but if you have the most up-to-date version, I'm sure things are still fairly similar. Yes, I haven't tried it yet, so my bad if things aren't as simple as they appear. If you don't have LR or anything similar, go HERE (same blog from those triangles from up above). This whole blog has been done with an iphone and iphone apps. So, using LR isn't necessary.

If you're new to PL, like myself, hopefully some of these resources will be helpful for you as you start memory keeping.  If not, oh well, thanks for reading anyway! ;-)