project life 2013: week 4

this was the most intense project life layout i’ve ever put together.

i blame the ridiculous amount of photos that i wanted to include from our san francisco trip. i thought about doing a separate hardcover album from shutterfly or a mini project life album for the trip, but i really wanted the photos to be in my regular albums with the rest of the year. so i sucked it up, printed out planning sheets, and spent almost 3 hours editing and re-sizing photos to make sure i’d have what i wanted for the album.

click on above photos to enlarge them.

dates covered: january 21-28

what happened this week: my 27th birthday & our san francisco vacation!

products used: mostly photos and ephemera from our trip. i did sneak in a couple cards from the seafoam kit and the january studio calico project life kit, but that’s about it. i also used persnickety prints to print the photos. i really wanted them to be high quality and i don’t always love how the photos i print at our local walgreens turn out, so i splurged a bit. it was totally worth it. i also used tons of inserts this week – 1 horizontal 5”x7” insert, 2 design i pages, 1 design h, 1 design j, and 1 design b.

techniques used: lots of inserting text on photos before printing this week. i knew i was going to fill up those pockets with mostly photos, so i didn’t want to have to use those spaces for journaling cards. i also printed one 12”x12” photo and then cut it up to fill one entire design a page. that’s the last page of this layout and i love the effect.

i apologize for the photo overload, but i am pretty much 100% in love with how these pages came out. hooray for successfully documenting an amazing vacation!

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you can see all of my 2012 project life posts here, my 2013 project life posts here, and learn more about project life here.

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