TEMPLATES & PAGE FORMULAS All of my current projects (except for my regular layouts) use a basic blue-print or template which makes it a lot easier to keep up with. For my 100 Songs Project, I just type in a few lines on the existing template (by Cathy Zielske) add I've averaged out about 20-30 5x8 pages per month so far, some are single and some are double spreads I try not to let a week go by where nothing happens with these.

ornaments we were gifted as my main page, with a small photo of the living room in a Paislee Press template tried and true methods of storytelling/journaling for this project and mix them all up throughout: a single sharing two quick videos from my Day Two process - the first using the overlays, the second using the template I'm planning to make a longer, more detailed video and post about layered templates but these little evening snippets are the best I can do on a week night when my house is full (and loud).

I made a simple template in Photoshop Elements where I could add in the movie, year, director and actors whole thing back to my 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

There is a big template set - 15 templates with prompt titles to help you in your story telling. The templates come in 6x8, 8x10 (for a photobook) or 8.5x11 and 9x12 (these are sold together).

If I am required to be too creative week after week or month after month then I'm going to have problems magazine design images at me lately for some reason) so I've been playing around with creating a digital template where I can add photos and some snippets of journaling every week. This morning I drew out a plan then created a template in Photoshop Elements and added some older photos would I like working on it every week? could I keep up?).

Because we visited so many cities/states, I tried to work on each in a block then have a break for a few weeks in 2014 when my husband and I visited New York, Las Vegas and LA so I already had a design plan and templates The photo pages are very minimal with just a few different templates that I made mixed up throughout That way, I could just set my Blurb book's template as full page photos and easily drag my fully-finished On the last week of November I promised myself that I would get this book finished and uploaded to Blurb

I generally sit down once a week and make three or four pages. 6x9 WRITING JOURNAL I just started this I'm keeping my one-off projects in these albums though - December Daily, Week In The Life etc. Maybe I should just pencil in an hour per week to work on this? This will be an 8x10 book.

I planned to do a second one later with the rest of the weeks but didn't end up doing that. Last week of work for the year. Celebratory lunch for our final work day of the year. I love to document our table every year and we had a lot of fun playing my singing Xbox game Christmas

this year after vowing not to take on a yearly project), I am just going through my camera roll each week

Again, I've made a simple template for each and will just repeat it throughout the notebook. I've fitted two 4x8 templates onto one sheet.

I should note that I always create the digital scrapbooking templates in my shop using boring-old Arial

Stick to a few digital template sets and kits. the first time I used the 'formula' of full page photo with Ali Edwards' date overlay and a collage/template /journaling on the other (in this case I used Cathy Zielske's 30 Days of Thankful 6x8 album template The templates and design plan make it easy to put together and I can probably get the spread done, printed Christmas baking for school - we always make something special for the kids to take to school in the last week