I am SO excited that Stampin' Up!® has partnered with Project Life® (by Becky Higgins) to offer people interested in preserving their life memories an easy, yet incrementally-creative way to do so! By combining the talents, strengths, and philosophies of these two amazing companies, the world of memory keeping just surged forward by a *giant* leap.
AND now that Stampin' Up! will be offering their own take on the Project Life concept, well hey…. who knows?!? I just might climb onboard the whole "camera, photos & albums" thing myself! (Probably about 30 years later than I would have preferred, but better late than never, huh?)
And so I have started. I actually put the initial version of this "First Birthday" layout together about 3 weeks ago or so, but I have been TOTALLY unhappy with the appearance of my journaling. My handwriting seems to be getting more and more awful with every passing year, and although I felt the photos were adorable, all my eye could see was how ugly my handwriting was. (Yes, I know all about the "you need to write some stuff in your own handwriting" thing, and I promise I'll do that when appropriate. But THIS layout, just didn't seem to be the proper place to start.)
So. Enter *Digital* Project Life (also by Stampin' Up!). And THANK goodness!
Stampin' Up! will be releasing every image they create for Project Life in digital form as well, so today I recreated the original cards that I had used from my first box of "Everyday Adventure" cards – in digital format (using MyDigitalStudio, which I love), adding text in the font of my choice, and then printed out these card images onto our white cardstock, trimmed to size, and quickily replaced the handwritten versions – either in part or in their entirety. Pretty darn cool, I think, and I'm SO much happier with the overall appearance now!
I expect I'll be making generous use of the Digital Project Life images in the future, and hopefully won't be in quite the hurry I was today – so that I can upload several pages of digital "cards" at once to Stampin' Up!'s printers and have them printed professionally. My home printer is only "sort of ok" for regular printing of text, but quite the slacker when it comes to printing photos or graphics like these. (So don't inspect today's output too closely, lol.) But I'm sure I'll get even better color and sharper images by using Stampin' Up!'s print service in the future.
So, next step: Learn to keep some form of camera close at hand – and more to the point, REMEMBER TO USE IT as life marches on! HA! A *major* change of habit, this will be, but I'm excited to give it a try! Wish me luck!
PS: Did I mention that a sampling of the Project Life by Stampin' Up! products are available NOW?!? Check 'em out here and get started on your own Project Life album!
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