Week in the Life Album | Cover + Monday Pages

I have so many projects that I make for me.  Many started and not all finished (especially mini books), and even less blogged.  

I got off to a slow start with this album, it was so hard to find time!  But I put a lot of effort into photo taking and then recording the stories so I really wanted to get them printed.  I am so glad I at least had the journaling done through daily blog posts at the time while it was still fresh.  

Then Lakshman started attending school two mornings a week, I suddenly find myself with an embarrassment of riches in free time to scrapbook.  Well, not counting the first day which I spent reading the Martian and eating fried potatoes.  Laundry is more of a family activity anyway. 

I have loved seeing Ali Edward's pages go up.  I am working with her kit from last year (which I bought on discount, woo hoo!) and my stash.   I have a few handbook sized albums and ended up choosing a red one. 

 I love the fabric badge from last year's kit.  Plus it reminds me a girl scout patch, which I always felt like I was way behind on as a kid.  One can never have too many after all.

 I added the word art brush from a Craft the Story kit a few months back (the Magic kit, obvi).  One of my favorite kits, and I ended up using the digital kit a ton on different projects, like a kindergarten yearbook for Avi.

The gold arrows are another Craft the Story kit item.  I like that the see through nature is inviting you to see more and look forward.  

Something I loved about last year's kit too were these chipboard numbers.  Planning to repeat this look ever day.

I pulled the journaling from my Monday blog post and used photoshop to add text to the photographs.

I almost always added a little word strip or sticker or label to the text.

Stickers + stamping here.  I love when geotags look delicate like these cork ones do.

I was very low on page protectors at this point and was searching for different materials.  I punched holes in the Story Kit envelope and added some big glittery title stickers.

 No words, just pictures.

I like the vibrant photo next to a black&white photo.  

I lifted this label up on some pop dots.  It adds nice dimension but it's alot less bulky than flair so I don't have to be careful about it.  Last year's album doesn't really close because I put in way too much flair (7 pieces).  It looks pretty though.

I am working through the rest of the week. Stay tuned for Tuesday and Wednesday soon!

You can see all of my Week in the Life posts here.