I attempted Project life in 2011. I used the basic kit from Becky Higgins and didn't really do any outside embellishing. I kept it rather simple and it worked out pretty well as a place to keep track of the weekly pix of Baby Geek. I did a fairly good job of "keeping up" I'd say I did about 80-85% complete. Not bad.
Last year I was so impressed with the examples I saw from the likes of Elise Blaha, Nichol Magourick, Amy Tangerine, Ali Edwards and Cathy Zielske that I've decided to give it a go again. I've been stalking the Becky Higgins site in anticipation of the Seafoam kit being available for sale. In the mean time I've been browsing Etsy, Pinterest and all other creative places on-line in search of great project life printables, and boy have I found some wonders!
There are tons of great options out there, and so far I've used FREEBIES! There are a few paid kits I have my eye on, and I'm still planning on buying a Seafoam kit to sprinkle through out because there are going to be many times when I won't have, time, energy and or creative mojo to whip up an awesome layout!
One thing that I've done differently right from the start is to look at the week as an overview not 7 individual days. That was one of the things that I'd get hung up on the last time and end up "staging" a photo to fill in the missing spot.
Another great resource was this tutorial on how to create multi-photo collages that I can print at home or at Costco. This technique lets me print 2 3x4 images on a 4x6 or have more fun with Instagram, or other square images, by printing 1 4x4 and 2 2x2's. The one problem I've run into is if there are any borders on the images when I print them at home or upload them to Costco the borders get cropped oddly. If anyone has a fix for that I'd be glad to hear it.
So far these are the items I've used in my project life album:
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