Road Trip Infographic

Hello, Welcome.

I'm really glad to be sharing with you the photo book cover and few pages of our family vacation. One of the few books I have finished in a reasonable time after the vacation. It ended up being 31 pages, although I should get to count the cover and back of the album because we have to design those too.

So what do you think?
I'm really happy about using an infographic for a road trip, because it seems to tell our story. So much repetitive things happen that don't necessarily define the trip but are an intricate part of the journey. I haven't ever really put all the parts together before, adding up the numbers but it turns out to be interesting. (During the trip, before I knew I was going to do a infographic, we were laughing about how many burger are we were eating because the kids kept getting burgers. While driving, we were purposely taking routes that would maximize the number of states we drove through.)

>> Please don't feel like you have to plan the infographic before a trip (or whatever), you can make it work. Shh, don't tell my family, I actually don't know how many hamburgers we ate. I'm not the type to keep a journal, so I did a rough count in my head and called it good.

>> Don't stress about the accuracy of the numbers, do your best but give yourself a little creative freedom then treat as if they are accurate.

About the photo book

I think this time, I was able to actually get a photo book completed, and in a reasonable time frame, due to a few things:

• I had a scope of work. The photos were defined and the quantity wasn't overwhelming but decent.
• I had inspiration. After the trip, surfing Pinterest, I saw a road trip info-graphic from Studio Calico here. This motivated me.
• BIGGEST reason: creative freedom. I had some templates to get going, but I didn't restrain myself to these. Sometimes, I feel like I have to keep it consistent (like there's some kind of scrapbook rule) but this time I just put photos on a page.

I'm not sure if you care, but the album is 8"x11" - yeah, not square (I'm breaking another scrapbook rule?!?!). I really love My Publisher and they run free book specials and often, $35 specials. My Publisher uses the 8"x11" size but their quality is just too amazing to get hung up on the size thing. Plus, I like the idea that I could print these on my own. The last photo, show how you can still use the typical Project Life design, even in a non-square format (gasp).

Thanks for visiting!

All the best, Jessica

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Freebie Project Life - Month in Review Cards

This were designed just for you. Thanks for the idea Amy.

This is a full set of month cards that match the Week in Review freebie cards. (There are an extra August and November for no other reason than I couldn't decide which color looked the best.) These Month & Week in Review cards are designed to leave plenty of space to journal or add a photo.


Hope you guys like them! I would love a link to see how you used them :)

Please let me know what you think and share with your friends. Just point them back using a link.

 

To download, click here or on the image above.

Project Life is a back-to-basics approach to memory-keeping created by Becky Higgins. It can be anything you want it to be. To learn more about Project Life check out Becky’s Website. The pieces used in my album are available through Jessica Sprague here and Lettering Delights here. My Project Life is all digital, I'm using MyMemories Suite. Simple.

Thanks for visiting!
All the Best,

Jessica


The copyright in this blog, and the material on this blog (including without limitation the text, computer code, artwork, photographs, images, music, audio material, video material and audio-visual material on this blog) is owned by Jessica Hines. If you would like to share, only link back to this blog. Downloads are for personal use only.

Freebie - Ombre Color Cards

Welcome

Here are some simple Ombre cards in various colors for your Project Life. There are 7 .png vertical cards in a compressed zipped folder. These could be for journaling or just to add some color; however, you decide to use these I would really love to see it.

I'm working on more ombre cards, come back soon.

Please let me know what you think and share with your friends. Just point them back using a link.

To download, click here or on the image.

Project Life is a back-to-basics approach to memory-keeping created by Becky Higgins. It can be anything you want it to be. To learn more about Project Life check out Becky’s Website. The pieces used in my album are available through Jessica Sprague here and Lettering Delights here. My Project Life is all digital, I'm using MyMemories Suite. Simple.

Thanks for visiting!
All the Best,

Jessica


The copyright in this blog, and the material on this blog (including without limitation the text, computer code, artwork, photographs, images, music, audio material, video material and audio-visual material on this blog) is owned by Jessica Hines. If you would like to share, only link back to this blog.

Project Life: 2012 Week 3

Week 3: January 16-24

 

 

 

 

 

Elements used:

Page 1 Middle-left:
Page 2 Middle-left:
Fonts: Watermarks: aka Dora; Journaling: Segoe Script
Paper: Echo Paper Comfort & Cheer (Jessica Sprague here)

Project Life is a back-to-basics approach to memory-keeping created by Becky Higgins. It can be anything you want it to be. To learn more about Project Life check out Becky’s Website. The pieces used in my album are available through Jessica Sprague here and Lettering Delights here. My Project Life is all digital, I'm using MyMemories Suite. Simple.

Thanks for visiting!

All the best,
Jessica


The copyright in this blog, and the material on this blog (including without limitation the text, computer code, artwork, photographs, images, music, audio material, video material and audio-visual material on this blog) is owned by Jessica Hines. If you would like to share, only link back to this blog.

Project Life: 2012 Week 2

Week 2: January 9-15

This week we went to the park quiet a bit since we don't much nice weather - it's hot and humid here most of the year. We also forgot to take some of our Christmas pictures so it was make-up time, starting with a decent family picture. Normally we take one in front of the Christmas tree but we had to settle for the fireplace mantel - what can you do?! You know it bothers me that our year after year pictures has been one way and since I forgot I had to change it but you know what at least I got a picture. I could have been totally crazy and set up the tree again but I had to set crazy aside.

...it will be ok... [exhale] :)

 

 

 

Elements used:

Page 1 Top-left: Echo Park Hello Summer (Jessica Sprague here)
Page 2 Bottom-left wordart: Echo Park Hello Summer
Fonts: Watermarks: aka Dora; Journaling: Segoe Script
Paper: Echo Park Hello Summer

Project Life is a back-to-basics approach to memory-keeping created by Becky Higgins. It can be anything you want it to be. To learn more about Project Life check out Becky’s Website. The pieces used in my album are available through Jessica Sprague here and Lettering Delights here. My Project Life is all digital, I'm using MyMemories Suite. Simple.

Thanks for visiting!

All the best,
Jessica


The copyright in this blog, and the material on this blog (including without limitation the text, computer code, artwork, photographs, images, music, audio material, video material and audio-visual material on this blog) is owned by Jessica Hines. If you would like to share, only link back to this blog.

Project Life: 2012 Week 1

Week 1: January 1-8

 

Elements used:

Page 1 Top-left (bugs): Lettering Delights
Page 2 Bottom-left: A Vegas Girl at Heart freebie
Fonts: Watermarks: aka Dora; Journaling: Segoe Script;"real life": CK Puppy

Project Life is a back-to-basics approach to memory-keeping created by Becky Higgins. It can be anything you want it to be. To learn more about Project Life check out Becky’s Website. The pieces used in my album are available through Jessica Sprague here and Lettering Delights here. My Project Life is all digital, I'm using MyMemories Suite. Simple.

Thanks for visiting!

All the best,
Jessica


The copyright in this blog, and the material on this blog (including without limitation the text, computer code, artwork, photographs, images, music, audio material, video material and audio-visual material on this blog) is owned by Jessica Hines. If you would like to share, only link back to this blog.

Project Life: 2012 Title Page

Did anyone else realize it's 2013... what

As any parent, just doing the best I can and maintain a level of sanity, I'm thoroughly behind on photo displaying, journal writing, and memory organization (on multiple levels). I truly understand why homes with multiple children you see a lot more photos of the first child and progressively less of younger children - my home included. So this is why I'm sharing with you my 2012 Project Life pages (and not yet 2013).

Beginning at the beginning... the title page

Waiting until the year has concluded made the title page come together easier. I like having a list of key events from the year and these with our annual professional photos follows how my scrapbooks prior to ProjectLife started so makes my consistency/organizational-craziness happy. I don't know how other families manage multiple professional photo sessions, it is usually [unfortunately] an exhausting event for us.

 2012 Title Page

Elements used:

Bottom-left: RobynMeierotto freebie

Project Life is a back-to-basics approach to memory-keeping created by Becky Higgins. It can be anything you want it to be. To learn more about Project Life check out Becky’s Website. The pieces used in my album are available through Jessica Sprague here and Lettering Delights here. My Project Life is all digital, I'm using MyMemories Suite. Simple.

Thanks for visiting!

All the best,
Jessica


The copyright in this blog, and the material on this blog (including without limitation the text, computer code, artwork, photographs, images, music, audio material, video material and audio-visual material on this blog) is owned by Jessica Hines. If you would like to share, only link back to this blog.

My first freebie - Project Life: Week in Review Cards

Welcome

I love Project Life, why... because I can actually get photos on a page to share and it's not intimating, has some structure and it's simple. This little cocktail helps my creativity thrive and I hope to encourage your's too.

Here are some simple - "Week in Review" cards in various colors for your Project Life. There are 10 .png journaling cards in this compressed zipped folder.
BONUS: it makes it so easy to journal

       Update: Also available for free download are matching Month in Review cards here.

Please let me know what you think and share with your friends. Just point them back using a link.





Click here or on the image.

Project Life is a back-to-basics approach to memory-keeping created by Becky Higgins. It can be anything you want it to be. To learn more about Project Life check out Becky’s Website. The pieces used in my album are available through Jessica Sprague here and Lettering Delights here. My Project Life is all digital, I'm using MyMemories Suite. Simple.Thanks for visiting!

All the best,
Jessica


The copyright in this blog, and the material on this blog (including without limitation the text, computer code, artwork, photographs, images, music, audio material, video material and audio-visual material on this blog) is owned by Jessica Hines. If you would like to share, only link back to this blog. Downloads are for personal use only.