This is | week 1 | of my PL 2014 and to sum it up: "Hip hip hooray for neon pink & lord, I love me some Kal Barteski.
I titled the left side page "Quick Flashback" because I included an insert or two for Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Years Eve, and New Year's Day -- as my homage to the final days of 2013 (which I never got around to fully documenting in my 2013 album).
9 of the 11 cards that make up this page were designed by me, and printed out on HP glossy photo paper just to make the 'look' flow together - Impact Label + Letter Gothic (my new fav) fonts used throughout just like in the | intro page |.
I re-designed and printed the prompts that I usually stamp over a photo with my currentlies stamp.
On Christmas Day, the fam and I saw Walter Mitty. I grabbed some images from the movie, and printed them to fit inside that film strip card from an old Studio Calico kit. Next to it, of course, are two of the four ticket stubs I insisted I collect from everybody -- oh, the strange requests of a life documenter.
New Year's Eve was low-key and spent at home next to these crazy two, but I was sure to wear my sequins anyway. I didn't make it to midnight and the ball drop, but I dozed off with sweet wishes for a good 2014 of dreams realized and woke up around 12:30 to a party guest's karaoke rendition of Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me" at my sister's downstairs NYE party.
The above exclaimation point card and the below "J" January card were designed to look like two cards from Studio Calico kits.
New Year's Day was cold and frumpy and made of nothing special at all: a sister walk & an ugg shot of it, and meatloaf dinner by yours truly.
I kept the black and white + neon going strong well into the left side.
I recently purchased this Project Life protector page set, and the above 7x5 photo holder you see pictured here was a part of it. I made one side a 7x5 scan of the beautiful Kal Barteski brush script print that came with this month's Studio Calico's kit...
...and on the other side a 7x5 print out of my january goals.
The first insert on the right side page says it all, I think. The "right now" was a digital card from the Midnight edition of PL, slightly altered to fit the "HOT PINK" ink (Hero Arts NEON PINK).
A quick gridlike 'week in review' card I designed is next to it -- the look of which will probaby change as the year goes on. Below, how I plan to label each week...
...with a simple thin-lined container placed on top of a photo, and space to double date stamp.
I love how the combination of simple digital journaling + the neon pink hand-stamped accents work together on these pages. I predict this will be occurring throughout this year's album.
At the start of the year, we New Yorkers had us a big fat snow day. Actually, didn't most of the country? That banana bread shot is my favorite of the week, and that sentiment captures it completely. We wanted to start our diet come new years, we really did, but happily -- baking and eating was all that took place instead.
The stamp sets that came in the Studio Calico scrapbook and project life kits these past couple of months were tremendously on point. That "so over it" stamp was begging to be stamped on top of snow. I obliged it. ;)
That's wrap on | week 1 |, folks. This is my third year documenting a | week 1 | and it's still just as thrilling as it was then. It's funny to look back at how I designed two years ago. I can't believe how much my style has grown and matured (proof of what I wrote about in this post), but yet many things are eerily the same (the use and love of black and white & the sporadic selfie shot that pretty much tells the whole story). Look at the shot of myself in this year's | week 1 | and the selfie shot from two years ago. Amazing, right? What a difference two years makes when you follow your heart and chase your dreams.
Thank you for allowing me to share, readers. This year I'm going to start sharing over at the Studio Calico member gallery as well. Peace, love, warmth, and craft to you all!
*For more of my past Project Life spreads and crafts, go HERE.
*For more on Project Life itself, go HERE.
