Laura Vegas

Hey all. Just popping in with another quick look at another weekly spread in my 2018 Project Life album. Here's week forty six. 

I think I've mentioned that I have a hard time using the striped filler cards, and this one was pretty bold with the colors. But I feel like it worked out with the photos for this week's spread.

Funny side note. Alyssa will occasionally sit down with my album, and will go thru each week and make notes for all of her photos. That way, when I'm ready to do journaling cards, I have the info I need. The photo above was the only photo I had for her that week. Which was weird. But she made a note for week 46 that said "I guess the only thing I had going on that week was a strong eyeliner game". Lol. 

I hope you all have a great weekend. I'll be back next week to share a few more weekly spreads, and maybe even the last weeks in my 2018 album, if all goes as planned. Crossing my fingers I can get it all finished up 🙂

Hey everyone! I know that I've been sharing a lot of Project Life spreads lately, and while I know they may not be for everyone, it's what I've been working on. So it's what I have to share ;) 

I have three more weeks of my 2018 album to share that are finished up, and I'm working on finishing up the last five weeks. So I hope to have those to share as well later next week. I'm not one to just toss images into a post, without having things to say about each image. But I think that's what I'm going to do for these. I think you all pretty much know the drill on how I do these weekly spreads, and I'm sort of running out of ideas on details to add. Lol. If I think anything needs mentioning, I'll toss that in for good measure.

"It's a dog's life" is from one of Kerri Bradford's kits – I used the PNG file digitally.

Just so it's not mistaken for one of my digital cards, the "real life stories" is a filler card printed from the Project Life app.

I'll be back tomorrow with another quick look at a new weekly spread.

Hey everyone! So, about two weeks ago, I shared the spread you see above. Week forty four in my 2018 Project Life album. Which was the last weekly spread from my last batch of catching up that I did several weeks ago.

I spent some time one day last week working on a few more weekly spreads, and I realized that week forty four had an entire extra spread. I guess I'm so used to having 6×12 inserts for those weeks when I have more photos/stories, that it didn't dawn on me to check for a second full 9×12 spread. 

While I don't believe that I need to include every photo we have for each week, I also love to include as many photos as I can, especially when they have a story behind them. 

Project Life is a great way to do an overview of each week (or month, if you like to do monthly spreads). 

I know the idea is that when you have a lot of photos, from something that happened that week, or bigger stories to tell – that's when you can turn to layouts. Or whatever type of documenting you do. 

Between Project Life, layouts, and other projects, you'll eventually get all of those important stories – big and small – documented and in the books. 

At least, that's my thinking ;) 

So there's a look at the second half of week forty four. Lol. I'll be back tomorrow to share another weekly PL spread.

Hey everyone! I'm back to share another week in my 2018 Project Life album, so here's a quick look at week forty four.

I have a definite system for where I put my photos, filler cards, and journaling cards. I always start by adding in my photos, and I honestly never really move them once they're in the pockets.  

So sometimes, like with this particular week, I realize that maybe I should have moved a few things around for better color balance. I obviously don't stress over these spreads all that much 😉

Note to self – I need to find more purple filler cards. I already added in all of my filler cards for the rest of my 2018 album, and I'm pretty sure I used the last of the purple cards.

That's it for this week. Hope you all have a wonderful Mother's Day weekend!

Hey everyone. I'm back to share another weekly spread in my 2018 Project Life album. Week forty three, which had a few more photos than usual that I wanted to include. I added a 6×12" insert, which is my go-to choice for those photo heavy weeks. 

Here's a look at the first half of my spread, with the 6×12" filler page on the right.

I'm going to keep this short and sweet, as I don't have much to say. Basically, my spreads all look the same.

Same basic layout, as far as where the photos go, where the filler cards go, and where the journaling cards go. 

Just different photos, and different stories each week. 

Which I'm totally fine with, as it is one of the biggest reasons I've been so successful keeping up. 

Even though by "keeping up", I mean I'm getting it done. 

Because yes, it's May of 2019. And 2018 ended 5 months ago. 

Here's a look at the second half of my spread, with the 6×12" filler page on the left.

And I actually still have 8 weeks to finish up in my 2018 album. And if I had been "keeping up", I should have been done 5 months ago. Or at least 4 months. 

But I still think I've done fairly well with last year's album, and I know that I'll have it officially done really, really soon. 

And then I'll get started on my 2019 album. Ya know, hopefully before the year is half over 😉

In fact, I feel behind in my photo ordering routine. Just last night, I placed an order for my March and April photos. So those will be here the beginning of next week. 

I got this. Yes, I think I do 😉

I have one more week that's finished up and ready to share. Look for it on Monday. Have a great weekend!

Hey everyone. I'm back to share a quick peek at week forty two in my 2018 Project Life album. 

If I were to pick colors for my filler cards based off of the photos, I don't think I would have come up with bright pink and blue. Lol. But I will usually look for a busier card to start out with, if I can find one that works with my photos for the week. And for this weekly spread, I picked the brightly colored chevron patterned card (on the second page), and that card just led to these bright and fun pink and blue cards. 

I really don't use any embellishments at all in my 2018 album. But as I was going to photograph this spread, I realized that the blue filler card had an empty box under the "today is", which meant that I needed to add something there. I still don't have a real grasp on where things are in my room, so I went with one of the first things I could find – the little "perfection" sticker. 

Crazy to see photos from when we moved into the new house. And crazy to realize we've been here a little over six months now.

I got tired of searching for the perfect word/phrase digital stamp (or PNG from a cut file) to add to the top of this filler card, so I finally just added the camera, which is a digital stamp.

I'll be back tomorrow to share another week in my album 🙂

Hey all. I know, I know – more PL layouts. Lol. It's the only thing new I have to share, so I'm just going with it. I finished up another 4 weeks in my 2018 Project Life album last week, so I'll be sharing those this week. That means I only have 8 more weeks to complete, and I really do think I can finish those by the end of this week, since I have a lighter work schedule this week. Soooo. Here's week forty one. 

I'm constantly forgetting when I've added in recaps of the products I've been using in my 2018 album (I try to add that info in here and there for any new-comers), so I'll add those into this post in case anyone is wondering. 

I like to add the info for my weekly title cards every now and then, since I get asked about them a lot. I used the Pocket Guide No.4 kit from Paislee Press. I created each week's card in Photoshop, using the template from the kit – switching out the week number and adding the dates for each week. 

I love using one of these J-Card Weekdays digital journaling cards from Cathy Zielske each week. I like these cards, because they format your text as you type and they're just so easy to use. Also, they have plenty of room for journaling. I love to pick a photo each week that I know has a bigger story to go along with this card. And often times, I can pull that story straight off my Instagram, and just copy and paste it in.  

I work one of the Recorded Journaling Cards from In A Creative Bubble into each weekly spread. If you click that link, it takes you to one of those sets – but she has 9 sets currently, and I use cards from all nine of those kits. If it's a week that has an insert, and then I may use two cards for that week. She's got a great selection of these simple black and white cards to choose from, so I can always find one that fits my photo/story. 

The "This Story" digital journaling cards are also by Cathy Zielske (offered as a part of her Scrapbook Your Year class) and I love to use one per week. They're set up with four on a page, so it's really easy to knock out 4 at a time, with very little effort.  

This lined journaling card is the one card that I can have fun with each week, personalizing it to fit my photo. To add a little something to the top of the card, I usually use a digital stamp or two. 

I'm still using strictly filler cards that I printed using the Project Life app. I love how it's simplified the process, and I've been able to make it work using only the cards that I've had printed and on hand. 

Hey again. Just popping in to quickly share another week in my 2018 Project Life album. Here's a look at week forty. 

Here's a random true story for you. I was applying for jobs left and right, most of them in retail/grocery, as that's what I knew before doing daycare. The first interview I had was with Target. I had applied to several positions, one of them in pricing, as that's what a large chunk of my experience was in. I found out that the interview was actually for a position stocking shelves in the grocery part of Target. And guess what? I was told I wasn't a good fit. 

It was oddly funny to me, seeing as how I worked for 15 years in grocery/warehouse stores, and a huge part of what I did was stock shelves. Granted, those 15 years happened a long time ago. But I still thought it was pretty hilarious that I couldn't even get a job at Target. It felt a little pathetic at the same time, but I got a good laugh at it all.

Most of my photos had the same look, color wise. Especially the ones on the second page of the spread. I had a few touches of color in the photos on the first page of the spread, so I  pulled one color (aqua) and used it for one of my filler cards. I kept the other filler cards black and white.

I have Alyssa go thru and make notes for all of her photos for me when she's home, so that I don't have to bug her with texts when I go to do my journaling cards. And I noticed that she made a note for this week, saying I had a type on my card about her winning Justin Timberlake tickets. I see it now. But I most likely won't fix it. Lol.

"Are you ready for this?" seemed like a fitting filler card, seeing as this was the week that we officially moved out of the old house. 

I think we were as ready as we could be, looking back. 

We still drive by the old house often, since it's right between my parent's house and my brother's house. It's kind of weird to drive by and realize it's not our home anymore. Random fact. One of the first things they did after moving in was cut down several of our large birch trees in the front yard. They were oddly concerned about those trees, and actually wanted us to pay 15K to have them removed (I wish I was joking with that number, but I'm not). Sure, they needed to be cut back a bit – but so sad that they took them all the way out.