I’ve been playing with Project Life ever since Stampin’Up introduced it into its range last year… and I think I am a bit addicted to it. I started traditional scrapbooking when my daughter was about a year old (she’ll be 13 this year) and I loved everything about it from the beginning. However as time went by I became frustrated with a couple of things. 1. The amount of time and emotional energy I was putting into every page. I had way more photos than I could ever catch up with! It was slow (and I am possibly the world’s slowest scrapbooker). 2. The amount of money I was spending just to find the right embellishment and actually find items that matched each other.
In short it all got a bit too hard, slow and expensive… and I found that my scrapbooking stalled altogether for a few years. Which was great for card making and other pastimes as I poured my efforts into those. But truth be told, I missed the scrapbooking and how I felt whenever I actually completed a page.
Enter project life. I had started working with a couple of scrapbooking groups, and this has restarted my scrapbooking habit. But I had to face facts… I was never going to be able to catch up in this lifetime! Project Life has changed that for me though. Tonight I sat down and in the space of 15 minutes I had printed out the photos I wanted to scrap for my recent Hawaii trip, AND put them into my pocket pages. I had written down what I want to remember about the day I travelled from Sydney to Honolulu and simply embellished the cards and photos. DONE! And there is rule no. 1 of Project Life… DONT OVERTHINK IT! Tell your story and let the photos tell theirs, then call it DONE, and move on! That for me is why I love Project Life. The rest of my trip is what I am going to do as a project in the upcoming school holidays… and I can’t wait to get it done!
Want to join me for a Project Life class this week? I have two classes:
All you need to bring are some 6″x4″ photos (at least 12, but more is fine) and everything else is provided. The cost is $20. Classes are held on the Central Coast. Click HERE to book your spot!
