I usually have some kind of plan for scrapbooking when the new year rolls around. Not this year. A few weeks in and I still had no clue about what kind of year-long project I wanted to do (or if I wanted

As a digital scrapbooker for many years, my handwriting is missing from my projects but lately I've been

I am a big fan of the year-long scrapbook project. , so I played around with some simple, graphic templates for a year long project that would change things That brings us to this year. Seven years in and ready again to do something different. I like documenting our year but I've done it for seven years. I like having a year-long project to work on, but it can start to feel like a chore.

The tricky bit about making photobooks is that you have to work on them for weeks/months/years before Project Life - that is a whole other project HERE (and my third and final photobook project for this year A collection of my lists, TV shows, song lyrics, recipes, movies, photos, quotes, random ridiculous thoughts

Day 6 documents the wrapping paper I will be using this year, so no need for any lengthy, insightful

I'm keeping my process for this project simple - taking photos throughout the day and keeping a log of I am a fast scrapper - I make choices quickly and digital layouts don't take long to put together. Looking forward to having this little album to look back on a few years from now.

I'm fairly new to Lightroom - I've had it for about a year. of my supplies are older and just not what I am using now (I've been digital scrapbooking for eight years ORGANISING MY FOLDERS I store all of my imported photos in the Photographs folder, then I have subfolders by year I also have some of my photos stored by theme rather than year like Weddings and Holidays & Trips with

After so many years doing Project Life (see my thoughts on that), I was ready for something different this year. I started in December (can never wait for the new year when these ideas strike) with a blank 6x9 blank I had no rules for what would be included, when I would work on it, or how long it would span. also printed a few pages off just to see how the size looks, I like to do that when I'm working on a long

little story//little title It never fails me and I've been making scrapbook pages in this style for years

It didn't take too long and the big numbers on my layouts helped, but being able to sort by filename

my digital kits and include photos+journaling+embellishments) and very simple photos, lists, words, song Note: These are digital pages (made in Photoshop Elements) which I will save up over the year and have

We were away over the long weekend, so I had to wait until today (Wednesday) to catch up on last week's