On further research, I learned that Project Life is "pocket scrapbooking." Scrapbooking made easier with pre-designed cards (Project Life Cards) that are meant to go inside specific-sized clear pockets (basically photo album pockets but in different sizes and layouts!).
The beauty of Project Life was:
- The pocket pages had different templates/layouts but follow a standard size for pockets (3x4, 4x6 at the beginning, though they've now expanded to: 2x2, 3x3, 2x8, 4x4).
- PL cards are bought in sets--and they would already be in a theme, making it a no-brainer. You just put them inside the clear pockets, add a bit of journaling and maybe some photos, then DONE.
Check out our Project Life Pinterest board:
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| Photos of feet/shoes and food/coffee seem to be the top choice for Project Life photos. OUR SHOES AND FEET MUST BE REMEMBERED FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES! #UnderstandngFirstWorldMillenials |
After seeing more and more posts about Project Life, I got intrigued and as usual, was fooled by Pinterest (and Project Life's marketing) that this would be an uber-simple and uber-easy way to store physical photos with journaling, to make the albums extra special.
Boy, was I wrong. But we'll get to that later.
Some people use Project Life to document their daily lives. That's too impractical and expensive for this Tita. Other people use Project Life to document milestones. I, and Tita T, belong to that category.
I decided to document my trips. It's been seven years since I went to New York (and the US) and I had no physical photos! So I decided start with a 6x8 album and build up a travel album collection. I'd do one album per city/country, depending on my length of stay.
Simple, right?
WRONG.
#KuripotTitaHits
- Location + Expenses
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| First attempt at DIY Project Life cards. |
I didn't print available free designs online either, since they don’t fit me/my personality plus I didn’t like the idea of the amount of ink I'd waste printing cards for the PLs I had planned would consume.
You can't get anywhere in life without doing some things yourself.
- The Layout Is Super Easy! is a LIE! #thingspinterestdoesnottellyou
I had pocket pages. I had an album. I had index cards, designed paper, stickers. I printed photos (ha!). Now all I had to do was cut, put the photos in, and stick random cards inside, right??
- ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY PRINT PHOTOS, EVEN IF THEY ARE IN THE CORRECT SIZE FOR A POCKET PAGE.
IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SIMPLE AND EASY. BUT PINTEREST SHOWED ME ALL THESE BEAUTIFUL LAYOUTS AND PHOTOS AND AND WHY ISN'T IT EASY HUHUHU
"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty..." - Tito Teddy Roosevelt
Of course, Project Life, like all things, is subjective. Some people are satisfied with the ready-made cards and printing their photos, even if they don't match in color tone. In the end, it's the memories that are important and the fun you had putting your album/s together.
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| New York, 2009 cover page. DIY cards + BW photo taken with Olympus camera. Pin here. |
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I've graduated to gradually adding color to my Project Life albums but still keeping a clean look. More posts soon--but meanwhile, tell tita all about your Project Life struggles!
Love,
Tita J
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