I've always added little stories from my childhood & younger days to my scrapbooks, but this year I really The keys to completing a long-term project for me are (1) a simple and repeating design (2) an overall I don't plan to do this in a set time-frame, it might take a year. Or two. It doesn't matter. former) to live my teens and twenties in a world without camera phones so I don't have photos to go along She suggests making a timeline and I've found that really helpful to just get a handle on what year things

Some fonts are only good for titles, they just don't read well for longer text, especially the ornate It's clean and crisp. his one is great for longer titles and looks really good italicized too I don't This style of funky, seventies font has been very popular over the last few years. I've been using this one all year in my digital journal for subheadings. It's very cute and fun.

I used this template to document by husband's reading over a year and turned off the title layer before Perfect for people who are not doing weekly documenting this year. Mine is cooking (I'm making 52 new recipes this year) but you could use this for general favourites, Obviously, kraft will never be over for me - long may it reign. Document a year of weekends with one page per week.

Have you guys heard of digital planners? I had no idea and it blew my mind. I would definately want a printed book at the end of the year so I've stuck to a photobook-friendly size I had been thinking of skipping Project Life this year, but as these test pages came together, I realised So I need to decide if I will take on another year-long project. I'm thinking yes.

Every year I watch the Christmas episodes that they bundle together and every year that leads to a rewatch from the Paislee Press December You Are My Fave No 9 4x8 Album Kit (HERE) and the stars are from last year's love this project and embrace being a little bit crafty every day, it really is the busiest time of year It's OK to save everything for next year. It's OK to make pages in spurts. There is always next year.

The last few years I've kept my project simple so I can work on pages daily and get it all finished by like sharing deeper thoughts about the season and I think I'm leaning towards more journaling this year This has been an extraordinary year, in good ways and bad, so some reflecting will be good. I'm going to use a red Life Crafted album by Citrus Twist that I bought earlier this year and plan to But I'm definitely being pulled in the direction of deeper, more thoughtful stories this year.

Well, it's been a year, and we are only halfway. falling behind in my weekly digital memory planning project (which is my version of Project Life for this year You won't remember that you binge watched that show on the June long weekend. ~ One thing that keeps me going is knowing that I will treasure this finished project in years to come

I've enjoyed working in my Daily Pages notebooks this year (with Kristin at the Awesome Ladies Project I've also decided to skip Project Life next year so I want a place to document the little bits and pieces Last year I made a little 4x4 December Daily and I am still obsessed with those tiny squares. although that happens naturally) or do a set number of pages per month like I did with my 5x8 books last year

After many years of digital December Daily (and digital scrapbooking in general), I'm in the mood for I want to keep this year's project really simple - a photo and a journal card or patterned paper for We are breaking tradition this year - combining Christmas with some family friends and spending the day at their place, so this will be a great year to do something different and pared-down with my book too Once this year's December Daily Digitals are available, I'll do a video and post about turning digital

I recently wrote about my plans for this years album (HERE) and so far I'm happy with the direction I'm The garland is also from In A Creative Bubble, I had this journal card set from last year (HERE). I wanted to focus on my journaling this year so I'm making the facing spread each day word focused. embellishing a little bit (the wreath is from Paislee Press' December You Are My Fave No 8 (from last year My printer is an Epson Expression Photo XP-8500, a few years old now.

The second template set I have this month is for documenting Top 5's for the year or the decade. This set has an optional grid page for more photos.

or song memories. That would be perfect for next year, I thought. But I couldn't wait so I started it anyway. I've had this Cathy Zielske digital template (HERE) for years and thought it would be perfect for this A space for a photo, a space for the song title, artist and a little note. I have made about 16 cards and it didn't take long at all.