A Day In the Life, recorded.
I love this project. I recorded many of my thoughts and photos from the day I documented this year in March
on my blog here.
I used a Studio Calico 6x8 handbook album to put my project together. I plan on documenting my day along with
Ali Edwards every few months. I'm hoping that will be more do-able than monthly.
I did get the Ali Day in the Life kit to use as well. It's a super affordable little kit, but it came with a great roller time and date stamp and some cards and circle chipboards as well. I used several of the Story Kit Stamps as well. The rest of the cards and embellishments are mostly kit club leftovers.
I kept the title page pretty simple, but the colorful 4x6 card really made it stand out. I used kraft alphas for the title. A big thing for me in
mini albums is repetition, so in addition to kit items I repeated the kraft throughout using word strips. I also repeated the cork heart in several places.
I love the graphic look of these black and white cards together.
I used photoshop to add an inch of white space to hold my text on my photos. I used Bebas Neue for the times and Courier New for the text. It seems basic but I like the typewriter look it has without being too fussy.
I added my own handwriting to several of the cards as well. I always sstruggle iwth teh way my writing looks so I tried several different approaches.
I added the white script on my foot photo in photoshop as well.
Grey tags are another element I tried to repeat in this album. I like all the white space with pops of color on this spread.
Lots of different handwriting mixed together. Cursive, careful printing and messy text all on one spread. I used the time stamp here again.
Simple details. The picture of the three of them on the bed is the only picture I really asked them for all day.
I slipped a chipboard arrow next to the text over the photo this time.
A little quote from Lakshman. I always love recording those, and I need to be better about it next time I do this.
Love leaving one pocket see through with the translucent moon paper there. Most of the text is taken directly from my blog post. So thankful I wrote that while it was still fresh.
I ended the album with a picture of Avinash that I cropped to fit a 3x8 protector. I printed the photo on a 5x7 photo and then added an inch of text to the bottom.
Somebody spoke and I went into a dream ...
To be continued.
See all of my
Day In the Life projects here.
If you are thinking about getting into scrapbooking, may I suggest Day in the Life? It is a highly fulfilling project that can be completed quickly. One day of pictures and writing and then just a few days to put it all together. You can repeat this project every year or even every few years and get a great snapshot of what life is like recorded for yourself and family.
