Spurred on by finally finishing my USA Travel Book, I decided to finish up another photobook project I love that they fit nicely on my shelf and are easy to flip through. The tricky bit about making photobooks is that you have to work on them for weeks/months/years before It's not my Project Life - that is a whole other project HERE (and my third and final photobook project for this year that I need to have printed).

I'm making a two-page spread per day and numbering the pages this year. The number 07 is from last year's December Daily Variety Number Set. It's looking very similar to my album last year and that is fine by me. photobooks this year. I also have some new Christmas/December items in the shannanpages shop: template sets at various sizes

I used Ali's digital products (cards and templates). 2012 - 8.5x11 album with full page photos, photo and two pages of journaling each day (these pages are all digital using some of Ali's word art and templates and mixing up full-page photos and photos and journaling in pockets (using Ali's 3x8 Week In The Life templates I also want to concentrate on photos this year. I'm so excited about this project this year.

I am working on week three of Project Life today so I thought I'd make a video as I work on my digital

As is a running theme around here, I am a few weeks late to the new year. about what I want this year (besides the obvious). MY WORD FOR 2022 It wasn't until yesterday that I decided on my word for this year - CREATE. I want to make projects for me and products for my shop (especially templates) a priority. We have some home projects slated for this year and as my kids are getting older (12 and 15) I feel like

My husband, Brett, watches 31 horror movies in October so I thought I would document what my list would I made a simple template in Photoshop Elements where I could add in the movie, year, director and actors I felt like handwriting for this project, but I ended up writing my notes in Procreate on my iPad with computer as a layered PSD file so I could take each note and pop it on the card template. I've made this simple template available in my shop for free if you want to make something too (could

I am really looking forward to the Christmas season this year. year - just so achievable and fun. My photo taking needs a jolt and December Daily will be perfect for that. I think this is the way for me this year. In my mind, I'm calling this my HADD (half-assed December Daily).

I knew I would be using the 4x8 December templates from my shop so I used a red label to match in with This is my template set, available (HERE): For day one, I used a selfie because I just wanted to set I've used one of my 4x8 templates but changed the configuration a bit. I used one of my 4x8 templates as well as some word art from Ali Edwards (I love going through my digital Other notes: I'm using the same fonts from my templates in my project for cohesion.

New year, new projects. My goal for 2020 is to write more so I've been thinking about moving to a larger size for my regular album up over the year and holding a page in my hand right away and I miss making hybrid pages. And I can use my letter sticker stash again! I'm also thinking of skipping Project Life next year. The year I did skip, I made a lot more regular layouts so it all evens out.

A couple of years ago I noticed how much sagging of pages was happening with those albums so I started (My 2015 12x12 Project Life photo book using Cathy Zielske's Life Basics template) I am not someone who They are not very easy to look through and I don't think I have in years. our day-to-day stories and photos are in here and I think it is the most well-rounded way to see a year I previously made a 12x12 printed Project Life book in 2015 using Cathy Zielske's Life Basics template

I've used one of my 4x8 templates with a Kerri Bradford stamp 'Home' added. This left side is a template from the December 4x8 se, kept as-is for a change. I'm using the same fonts from my templates in my project for cohesion. The titles on the labels are Futura (I'm often switching the template titles out with my own) and the My printer is an Epson Expression Photo XP-8500, a few years old now.

I decided to finish up on the 26th - sometimes I've done the whole of December but this year I was done I like that I did a deeper dive in my journaling this year but I also had days where I wished I could The journal card is last year's from Kelly Purkey. The left page is one of my 4x8 templates and the All is Calm stamp on the right is Paislee Press. The template and star garland are mine, Twas the Night word art by Paislee Press. Day 25.