PROJECT LIFE 2024 Mega Thread

My PL 2023 was a dismal failure. I took tons of photos, as usual, but I think I only completed one double page spread!! I hope that I am able to stay on top of it this year. 

Thanks for starting this pantsonfire!


I am right there with you, although I think I completed about 8 pages.

Will you be doing weekly? Monthly? Weekly hopefully
Do you do a hybrid style where you scrapbook but via pockets with full page layouts too? I started hybrid style last year and like adding full page spreads with my pocket pages for longer stories.
What size will you be working in? 9x12
So you subscribe to any kits? Elle's Studio only this year
Any favorite companies? I like Elle's Studio and Paper Person, but I probably won't buy from PP this year
Do you do any hybrid pages where you use digital products? I use a lot of digital products on my pages, from digital stickers on photos to printing out digi elements & cutting them out

Will you be doing weekly? Monthly? Monthly

Do you do a hybrid style where you scrapbook but via pockets with full page layouts too? Hybrid. I am a chronological scrapbooker that has dabbled w/ pocket pages over the past couple of years. This year I am making my first layout of the month a project life spread, with a monthly card and then pockets w/ some of the smaller stories that would not necessarily get a full page, but that I want to document in some way. That "divider" so to speak wiil then be followed by full page layouts and possibly some pocket page layouts also.

What size will you be working in? 9x12

So you subscribe to any kits? AE SK and SBTM and Elle's Studio

Any favorite companies? AE, Elle Studio

Do you do any hybrid pages where you use digital products? yes and I also use the PL app often.

Will you be doing weekly? Monthly? Committing to monthly, but will likely end up more like weekly. I picked PL back up in 2022 with the AE SBTM, did not love her 2023 changes, so I tried stop the blur and only got through a few months and realized the size was just not working well for me. In 2024 I am resubbing to AE SBTM with the new changes.

Do you do a hybrid style where you scrapbook but via pockets with full page layouts too? I am definitely hybrid, but will lean towards lots of pocket pages for expediency.

What size will you be working in? 9x12

So you subscribe to any kits? AE SBTM. I also get HS Stamp Society but that does not necessarily get used for PL.

Any favorite companies? Ali Edwards, Heidi Swapp. And then I have a lot of stash from Paper Person kits prior years, 49&Market, Crate Paper, Carta Bella and a few other brands I will definitely be working to pull in. I also really like Elle's Studio dies and stamps.

Do you do any hybrid pages where you use digital products? I will probably use some Paislee Press digitals and some In a Creative Bubble items as well, but for PL I tend to use physical products and my pages will often pull from a design template I will reuse month to month to some extent.

Will you be doing weekly? Monthly? Weekly spreads.

Do you do a hybrid style where you scrapbook but via pockets with full page layouts too? Mostly pockets, but I do add in other layouts if I have time/larger events/photos I want to include.

What size will you be working in? 9x12

Do you subscribe to any kits? everything Ali Edwards, Cocoa Daisy Modern Memory Keeper and others.

Any favorite companies? AE & CD

Do you do any hybrid pages where you use digital products? Yes, although not super often in my project life lately. I should do that more!

I share weekly process videos on youtube. I just shared my set up and cover page for my 2024 album. www.youtube.com/lindalovescreating

Will you be doing weekly? Monthly? I have never done PL the way it was originally conceptualized. I've always done a more loose version. Often monthy, but try to stay chronological. I am the kind of person who used to need the page protectors to flow in a way, so if I ended a month with 3x4's and then, flip... there were 3x4s the second week of the next month, but a 9x12 the first week, I have no problem putting a photo from the 10th before photos on the 3rd, if that makes sense. For the most part, no one will remember.

Do you do a hybrid style where you scrapbook but via pockets with full page layouts too? I think I answered that above lol.

What size will you be working in? 9x12 - just manage to squeak some new albums at 40% off with free shipping lol finally nice to catch an actual deal. Boring black pleather---- would be nice if AE would make them in more colors... I would love to see that happy yellow!!

So you subscribe to any kits? No. I used to, but the value just isn't there. No one is innovative any more. Also, I've gone from 3 9X12's a year, to two, and am very photo heavy. I've been trying to clear my stash for several years. It's slow going. I feel less guilty about buying what I want, when I want it though. I was that FOMO fool at SC 8-10 years ago. Those sneaks went out and I was ready to buy buy buy. Maintaining subs for early access. Not anymore.

Any favorite companies? Was Kelly Purkey... but that's up for grabs now. LOL I guess I have to say AE- because I buy most of my stuff from "her." Heidi Swapp is definitely moving to the stage though. I loved her Sunchaser collection, playing with Adventurers for a special trip from last summer, and purchased the majority of Set Sail, but haven't touched it yet. I think she's likely my future. I've just learned I'm a very simple stamper. I buy her classes and watch, and love recreating what she does, but it just doesn't click for me.

Do you do any hybrid pages where you use digital products? I do alot of hybrid. I have started doing most of my journaling in a hybrid kind of way. Also, about 2 years ago I started making 8.5x11 "highlights" pages. Several a month. Usually use some digital papers, templates, journaling and drop the most special photos in my printing queue (I print a couple times a year) for the year on a couple pages, then name them with chronological scheme plus key people/words. I also tend to do a look back page of something from the past that the current stuff is putting in perspective or a new look, or just a sentimental reminisce. At some point I'll upload them all and make a photobook or 3 lol They only take a few minutes while I have PSE up, and the photos loaded, edited and most of the journaling done. I don't use the same journaling as I use in my scrapbooks. I consider the (eventual) photobook to be something I will gift to family. Almost like massive Christmas Card Letter, if that makes sense. Someday I'll know what I'm doing with it Haha!! But it is all digital.

Will you be doing weekly? Monthly? Monthly Spreads

Do you do a hybrid style where you scrapbook but via pockets with full page layouts too? Nope

What size will you be working in? 9x12, I think. Past albums have been 12x12, ready for smaller.

So you subscribe to any kits? I have all of 2022 SC documenter kits to use in 2024. Plus a massive stash of older cards and I get Ali's Story Kit.

Any favorite companies? Previously, SC. I don't care for the direction of the new kits, so no more PL for me after this year.

Do you do any hybrid pages where you use digital products?Nope.

Will you be doing weekly? Monthly?
I will be doing weekly.

Do you do a hybrid style where you scrapbook but via pockets with full page layouts too?

My current plan is PL with an occasional 12x12 for highlighted events. That may change though.

What size will you be working in?
12x12 with some 12x9 mixed in

So you subscribe to any kits?
Hip kits main kit not PL and Elle’s Studio. I think I’ll mainly use Elle’s studio and things from my stash. I also got Jess foresters class from SCT and will use though pages.
Any favorite companies?
I like the simplify of Elle’s studios.
Do you do any hybrid pages where you use digital products? I’ll probably use some of the Elle’s studios digital cards along the way. Mainly for journaling as I hope to type it up this year.

Will you be doing weekly? Monthly?
1 page per week usually, thought I will add on additional smaller pages if I feel like it.

Do you do a hybrid style where you scrapbook but via pockets with full page layouts too?
I like to always start with pocket pages, but will add in standalone regular pages as I feel like it. 

What size will you be working in?
12x12 for main pages, but I do like adding in smaller sizes if I have overflow.

So you subscribe to any kits?
Not currently, maybe I will later in the year if I make a significant dent in my card stash.

Any favorite companies?
I feel so out of the loop. I do like the SC and IACB stuff I have a lot.

Do you do any hybrid pages where you use digital products?
Ehhhhh once in a blue moon I print out digital cards but I prefer physical product.

Ok, now it's confession time.

I first started doing PL in 2018. I have worked on it every year since. I have never once completed a year. I get more and more done each year and enjoy it more and more each year which is why I keep trying. Last year was my best year yet but I am still not quite halfway? I initially started out doing two pages per week. For some older years I had already pivoted to monthly spreads. The last several years have been one page per week. I am not giving up yet, 2018 is a good natural split point in my life so I am happy focusing on that year forward for now, and maybe one day going back farther. I am still convinced I can get all those albums 2018-current to a point where I am content, if not fully completed this year than at least I should be able to make major progress. I believe in myself. This is my year!

Very interesting. Krystal was big in AE's world so I wonder if something went down there? I just thought Krystal flamed out like most people who try and make a career out of scrapbooking do.

Oh, I hear you!! I have been doing PL since 2009...... that's FIFTEEN years of unfinished PLs!!    And 2023 was the worst year by far - I only finished one double page spread. I am determined to finally finish a year this year. Mind you, I've said that every year since my first unfinished year in 2009, so...... 

I think this will be my first time following along in this thread. They usually overwhelm me due to the size they get, but I figured if I'm here at the start of it and keep up with it, it might be okay! I'm going to try.

Will you be doing weekly? Monthly? Monthly

Do you do a hybrid style where you scrapbook but via pockets with full page layouts too? Hybrid - the monthly pocket layouts are to capture smaller moments that don't need a full page and otherwise wouldn't be included.

What size will you be working in? 12x12 is my go-to size for traditional scrapbooking so using 12x12 pockets works well. I have "base pages" created for each month from a previous SCT class taught by Jess Forster so I'm hoping that will make it easier for me as I tend to struggle with pocket scrapbooking.

So you subscribe to any kits? No. I think if I can make it through 2024 using the premade pocket pages and I don't abandon it before then (entirely possible!), I could see getting a monthly kit next year. I like the idea of each month being different instead of the same color scheme all month. My scrapbooks are a mishmash of supplies on any given page so having the monthly pages be coordinating might bother me. Time will tell.

Any favorite companies? For PL specifically - no. Otherwise I'd say Simple Stories, Pinkfresh Studio and Shimelle/Vicki Boutin collections.

Do you do any hybrid pages where you use digital products? I haven't in the past. I have a couple Syncopation Design digital collections that I'm interested in trying to incorporate but that might end up waiting until next year due to the whole "coordinating" thing mentioned above.

I am with you!!! The last (and only) year that I really did PL was 2021. I still have November and December outstanding. I too feel like this is my year, and I really want to wrap up those two months. Somehow it has become a much bigger project in my head than it actually is.