Digital Baby Album Part 1

Hello

As I mentioned in an earlier post, with my daughters first birthday just around the corner, I need to have her digital baby album ready to roll so I can have it printed and back by Christmas so it has been a productive week of catch up on PL pages for the album this week so far.

Here are the first 10 weeks:

 

The pages are completed using a bit of a mix of collections including Becky Higgins Baby neutral, Midnight, Blush and Seafoam core kits with BH templates and some other random digital elements.

Thanks for visiting.

Holly x

 

Digital Baby Album Weeks 44 & 45

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I cannot believe my little miss is nearing 12 months already. This year has flown by, it feels like it was only yesterday she was born. But at the same time, it feels like she has been apart of my life forever.

There are lots of things I need to get done before her 1st birthday... like planning her party, doing a few crafty related projects such as invites and decorations and creating some digital fun for her birthday, such as a video with snippets of her first year. And of course finishing her baby album so I can get it printed before Christmas. Ahhhh.... lol

At least here are 2 more completed pages for the album.

Both pages are using a mixture of Becky Higgins project life Blush, midnight and baby neutral kits, with Becky Higgins and Lori Whitlock page templates.

 

Thanks for popping by. I am off to start working on all those tasks I just listed lol

 

Holly x

Starting to Catch Up

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Since I discovered project in January, I have wanted to go back and Project Life style record everything. Unfortunately there are not enough hours in the day to do every album I want to do, but I have made a start on quite a few, including 2012 yearly album.

Unfortunately 2012 started with an extreme high before turning into an extreme low with some personal tragedy. October is the month of pregnancy and infant loss, so I suppose it is fitting I start to share these pages in October as that is the tragedy that we faced in February 2012. However in April 2012 we were back on a tentative high with news of expecting again.

Although I am creating this album well aware of what happened, I wanted to record it as if it were happening rather than in retrospect so I have documented the first pregnancy step by step like I would if it were happening now instead. The sad stuff is something I have started but put on hold again for a bit but I will tackle those pages too.

Here are a few of the pages so far:

 

I did not take nearly as many photographs back in 2012 and before compared to now. That's what PL does to you. Suddenly you photograph everything in site.... just in case! So instead of doing a weekly 2012 album, it is more event based.

 I am pretty amazed in such a short time how much more advanced my digital skills are compared to these pages. Actually, its probably more my improved photography skills. Things have gone a long way... since that photography lesson and just in general.

Materials: Becky Higgins project life templates, Jade digital edition; other: free elements.

Thanks for popping by!

Holly x

Our Honeymoon

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I have been doing a few digital page catch ups this long weekend and realised I have not shared so many of my digital pages and Project life. Oops! I recently started my honeymoon album (only 3 years later) and realised I have not shared any of them.

We went to Fiji for our honeymoon which was great. I can't wait to go back there again one day for that ultimate relaxing holiday.

Some of these album pages I totally love. Some need some more tweaking. I also modified some of the digital PL templates to suit my needs :)

Materials: Becky Higgins Project Life kits: Midnight, Seafoam, Cinnamon; BH Digital templates.

Thanks for visiting and keep an eye out for more digital shares over coming days :)

Holly x

Baby Album Digital PL Pages

Hey there

Just a quick share of some recent pages from the digital baby album I am working on. Keeping the pages fairly simple since I have the physical album and a weekly PL album to keep up with too.

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Materials: Becky Higgins digital page templates, Baby Neutral Core kit, Blush Core kit, Midnight Core kit; digital freebies.

 

Thanks for visiting.

 

Holly x

Auckland Holiday - Project Life Style

Hey there

I got the urge on Monday night.. about 10pm, to start going back and getting into some of my past events/holidays/years etc and Project-life them. For my past holidays, I've done some traditional layouts here and there, but my style doesn't work so well with the travel themed photos and if I scrapbooked entire trips traditionally, I'd need too many albums so Project Life really is the perfect solution.

And with all the awesome new collections coming out digitally, it seemed like the perfect option. Not only is it cheaper than printing all my photos out, its also quicker.

So here is our Auckland holiday album:

 

 

 

 

You can get all the materials I have used at AC Digitals

 

The kit I have used which is just perfect for travel photos is Cinnamon and I have used the Becky Higgins page templates and altered them.

 

I have had a lot of questions in a project life group about how I got the different templates with the longer or bigger photos.I simply altered the existing template by deleting the photo clips I don't need and stretching others bigger to suit the photos and design I like.

 

To put the patterned paper behind, I created a new 12 x 12 inch document in Photoshop elements 11. I placed a patterned paper of choice on the template and then dragged my completed layout on top of this and resized it to reveal as much of a border as I wanted. This will avoid cutting off any of the actual layout if I decide to print it in a photobook. I also looks nice to have that extra pattern I think.

 

So simple techniques to go a bit outside of the square.

 

If you have any other questions, I am happy to answer them. I am still a digital newbie, having only started a little over a month ago myself, but I am amazed how easy and fun it is. Its not very often you can so easily throw together an album from a holiday several years ago in such a short time.

 

Thank you for visiting

 

Holly