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Post by dasmith2 on Jan 6, 2016 14:33:10 GMT
I took a long hiatus from scrapping. Now it seems like project life is all the rage. What's the difference between this and regular scrapbooking? I'm curious is all. I have enough supplies so I'm not going to go out and get more for project life...I don't think lol... TIA
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caangel
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Post by caangel on Jan 6, 2016 15:21:44 GMT
Project Life is a brand of products created by Becky Higgins originally promoted to help people document their Project365/photo a day.
The products consist mostly of pocketed page protectors in various configurations of 3x4 and 4x6, and later 4x4 and 2x2, with pre-designed cards of the same sizes. There are now many manufacturers who sell similar products with different names.
Many people still utilize the products for daily documentation but the products can be used in any way. The brand name Project Life has become how many people refer to the style of scrapping with pocketed page protectors even if they are not using the products created by BH.
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Post by ibetsey1 on Jan 6, 2016 15:24:29 GMT
PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR MIND BLOWN, lol! Project Life is scrapbooking in pockets, like those old school 4x6 albums our grandparents used (depending on your age). Becky Higgins invented (pioneered?) it. Take a look here for more info: beckyhiggins.com/project-life/You get an album and plastic page protectors in different configurations and slip photos and pre-designed cards into pockets. Becky's vision is that it is very simple: cards + photos + journaling, but a lot of people take it up several notches (see: Studio Calico or any of the monthly kits). Like you, I took a long hiatus from scrapping. I'm not independantly creative enough to make traiditional layouts I liked, but pocket scrapping (to me) is like training wheels (or rather a tricycle because I never want to ride the normal bike of traditional scrapping again!). Every pocket is its own tiny layout and the pre designed cards make everything look awesome together. Hope that helps, maybe it's more info than you were looking for! My advice is just to buy a core kit (Midnight and Seafoam IMO are the most versatile), an album, some protectors and get going. It comes together really fast and is super satisfying for the creative outlet! |
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Post by lisacharlotte on Jan 6, 2016 15:39:44 GMT
Everything above states what it is. Here is why I Project Life. I'm not an "event" scrapbooker. My PL albums are photo diaries. I include more than just photos. My albums also document current events and memorabilia of things I've done. I include things like books I'm reading, movies/tv shows I'm watching, music I'm listening to. Each little pocket is a little slice of my life.
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Post by dasmith2 on Jan 6, 2016 16:14:14 GMT
Thanks everyone your replies helped me to understand much better
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Post by myboysnme on Jan 6, 2016 18:58:49 GMT
I do not use pocket page scrapping although I have previously done 2 albums this way that I plan to take apart and traditionally scrap. First of all, the pockets don't always fit the orientation of the photos I am scrapping. Secondly, I can put them on the page as though I am using pockets but just adhere them to the page.
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Post by birukitty on Jan 8, 2016 0:30:23 GMT
I do not use pocket page scrapping although I have previously done 2 albums this way that I plan to take apart and traditionally scrap. First of all, the pockets don't always fit the orientation of the photos I am scrapping. Secondly, I can put them on the page as though I am using pockets but just adhere them to the page. This is why I never got the appeal of Project Life and why I never got into it. I started scrapbooking in 1998, and the biggest appeal to me way I would finally place my photos anywhere I wanted on the page. No longer was I confined to placing my vertical (portrait) photos in a pocket that forced them to go sideways because that is the way the pocket was designed to go in the pocket albums that were available in the market up to that time. All of the pockets were designed for horizontal photos (landscape) photos as if no one ever took a vertical photo. It was like "Freedom!" When Project Life came about I thought, "No way! Why do I want to be confined to pockets again? Even if they do come in different formats now so I can have my verticals and horizontals, I'd still have to buy upteen page designs to get the ones I want when I could much more easily just adhere my photos exactly the way I want on a background page. So I've never left traditional scrapbooking and don't intend to. Proponents of Project Life claim it makes scrapbooking easier but I think it makes it harder. Debbie in MD. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2016 7:34:57 GMT
This is why I never got the appeal of Project Life and why I never got into it. I started scrapbooking in 1998, and the biggest appeal to me way I would finally place my photos anywhere I wanted on the page. No longer was I confined to placing my vertical (portrait) photos in a pocket that forced them to go sideways because that is the way the pocket was designed to go in the pocket albums that were available in the market up to that time. All of the pockets were designed for horizontal photos (landscape) photos as if no one ever took a vertical photo. It was like "Freedom!" I have been scrapbooking a long time. Your description of scrapbooking is the best I ever heard. I never looked at it that way. Complete freedom to put your picture where you want it. I really love your viewpoint. Every time I scrapbook now I will think of that. Thank you for new inspiration. |
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Post by jackie on Jan 8, 2016 16:27:35 GMT
This is why I never got the appeal of Project Life and why I never got into it. I started scrapbooking in 1998, and the biggest appeal to me way I would finally place my photos anywhere I wanted on the page. No longer was I confined to placing my vertical (portrait) photos in a pocket that forced them to go sideways because that is the way the pocket was designed to go in the pocket albums that were available in the market up to that time. All of the pockets were designed for horizontal photos (landscape) photos as if no one ever took a vertical photo. It was like "Freedom!" I have been scrapbooking a long time. Your description of scrapbooking is the best I ever heard. I never looked at it that way. Complete freedom to put your picture where you want it. I really love your viewpoint. Every time I scrapbook now I will think of that. Thank you for new inspiration. That IS a good description Debbie! I bought some Project Life stuff about two years ago. I had been in a scrapbooking slump and my ds' HS graduation was coming up. I wanted to have a fairly completish set of scrapbooks to set out at his party and I was very behind. I hoped that the PL stuff would get me out of my slump and provide me with a quicker way to get some pages together. It sort of did and I'm grateful for that. I think all in all though, I have the same issues that Debbie has with it. I still have the pocket pages and will continue to use them and intersperse them with my regular pages, but I don't think using it as my only system works for me. I knew that it wouldn't be the only way I scrapbooked even when I bought it. I sometimes like to use oversized photos and that doesn't work as well with the pockets (although you can cut the photos and place them in separate pockets--I've done that before and it can be very effective, but not something I'd want to do with all of my oversized photos). |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2016 19:20:08 GMT
PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR MIND BLOWN, lol! Project Life is scrapbooking in pockets, like those old school 4x6 albums our grandparents used (depending on your age). Becky Higgins invented (pioneered?) it. Take a look here for more info: beckyhiggins.com/project-life/You get an album and plastic page protectors in different configurations and slip photos and pre-designed cards into pockets. Becky's vision is that it is very simple: cards + photos + journaling, but a lot of people take it up several notches (see: Studio Calico or any of the monthly kits). Like you, I took a long hiatus from scrapping. I'm not independantly creative enough to make traiditional layouts I liked, but pocket scrapping (to me) is like training wheels (or rather a tricycle because I never want to ride the normal bike of traditional scrapping again!). Every pocket is its own tiny layout and the pre designed cards make everything look awesome together.Hope that helps, maybe it's more info than you were looking for! My advice is just to buy a core kit (Midnight and Seafoam IMO are the most versatile), an album, some protectors and get going. It comes together really fast and is super satisfying for the creative outlet! This is me, but I'm lazy. I'd never take 365 photos and keep up on weekly spreads. So I did my own thing and now scrap PL style (divided sheet protectors). I do more of a month in review. If there's something really special, I might throw in a "real" page in there. I DO like themed pages (I'm so not a cool scrapper); So I have themed albums, of different holidays/events. I put a few photos in the "PL album" of a holiday and if I get around to it, I do something more with the theme albums. I also don't scrap as a creative outlet. I scrap because I like to see completed pages in a a simple form and be reminded of what I've done because my memory sucks. It's more like adult coloring; something to do. |
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Post by birukitty on Jan 8, 2016 23:20:20 GMT
This is why I never got the appeal of Project Life and why I never got into it. I started scrapbooking in 1998, and the biggest appeal to me way I would finally place my photos anywhere I wanted on the page. No longer was I confined to placing my vertical (portrait) photos in a pocket that forced them to go sideways because that is the way the pocket was designed to go in the pocket albums that were available in the market up to that time. All of the pockets were designed for horizontal photos (landscape) photos as if no one ever took a vertical photo. It was like "Freedom!" I have been scrapbooking a long time. Your description of scrapbooking is the best I ever heard. I never looked at it that way. Complete freedom to put your picture where you want it. I really love your viewpoint. Every time I scrapbook now I will think of that. Thank you for new inspiration. Thanks Amayalylac. I take an equal number of vertical photos and horizontal photos. I took photography in college way back in 1979 and 1980, and went on to be a professional photographer, so having that freedom to finally place my vertical photos and horizontal photos anywhere I wanted on that huge 12x12 page was incredible to me. I dived right into scrapbooking and never looked back. I must admit I've lost my mojo for awhile now but really hope to get back into it this year because I've never lost my love of scrapbooking. As far as being creative enough to make layouts I like (as another Pea mentioned) I've belonged to an amazing scrapbooking club for 15 years now called Club Scrap. They were the first and are still going strong. They have a new kit every month and the owner of the club Trish posts cutting designs and layouts (with blank photo mats) on the website on the 1st of the month. I use those designs and then tweek them for my own use. Anyone can look at them at anytime, you don't have to be a member. You can see them by going to clubscrap.com and looking under the blue header for "How To's" and then under that for "Instructions" and click on that. A list of kits will come up and you can see the designs. I also make my own layouts and I usually do a very clean and simple style because I want to let the photos and journaling shine, with just a bit of rubber stamping and maybe one or two other extras. Debbie in MD. |
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Post by birukitty on Jan 8, 2016 23:30:16 GMT
I have been scrapbooking a long time. Your description of scrapbooking is the best I ever heard. I never looked at it that way. Complete freedom to put your picture where you want it. I really love your viewpoint. Every time I scrapbook now I will think of that. Thank you for new inspiration. That IS a good description Debbie! I bought some Project Life stuff about two years ago. I had been in a scrapbooking slump and my ds' HS graduation was coming up. I wanted to have a fairly completish set of scrapbooks to set out at his party and I was very behind. I hoped that the PL stuff would get me out of my slump and provide me with a quicker way to get some pages together. It sort of did and I'm grateful for that. I think all in all though, I have the same issues that Debbie has with it. I still have the pocket pages and will continue to use them and intersperse them with my regular pages, but I don't think using it as my only system works for me. I knew that it wouldn't be the only way I scrapbooked even when I bought it. I sometimes like to use oversized photos and that doesn't work as well with the pockets (although you can cut the photos and place them in separate pockets--I've done that before and it can be very effective, but not something I'd want to do with all of my oversized photos). I've been in a scrapbooking slump too and I know how you feel. I'm hoping this is the year I get back into it because I've really missed it. Congratulations on your upcoming DS's graduation! My DS graduated college last year but I didn't have any photos of him to make a scrapbook with because for the last 5 years he absolutely refuses to let me take any photos of him! I guess it's payback because I took tons and tons of him when he was little. I hear what you are saying about using oversized photos. I did a class with Cathy Z. and she had us print 5x7's and 8x12's and also 4x6's along with the smaller sizes of 3x4's and 3x3's. I'm normally very stuck on 4x6's so it was very eye opening to use all of those different sizes. I'm also a VERY clean and simple scrapper. I want those photos to be the first thing you see and I like to use lots on my pages, and then the journaling to be the next thing you see. I use rubber stamping and then maybe just one other element. I don't have a ton of things on my pages. I'm glad it worked for you when you needed to get something done quickly. I'm halfway through an album on Japan about a trip I took in 2008! and I want to finish that this year before I forget everything about it. Debbie in MD. |
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Post by amom23 on Jan 9, 2016 21:59:08 GMT
Project Life is scrapbooking. It just incorporates using divided page protectors and often premade journaling/embellished cards.
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Post by mymindseyedpea on Jan 11, 2016 2:41:33 GMT
I don't do Project Life, but I was given some of the protectors.
I use them to put a photo/s in when I go shop to get papers for their layout.
The photos sit nicely in their pockets while I hold them up to the papers behind them.
I'm also using them as pockets for my calendar.
4 sheets a month and pocket a photo or memory a day.
Once the month is up the inserts get filed away till the next year when I pocket them back in to reminisce with till they are swapped out with new memories of that month.
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Post by mymindseyedpea on Jan 11, 2016 2:45:49 GMT
PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR MIND BLOWN, lol! Project Life is scrapbooking in pockets, like those old school 4x6 albums our grandparents used (depending on your age). Becky Higgins invented (pioneered?) it. Take a look here for more info: beckyhiggins.com/project-life/You get an album and plastic page protectors in different configurations and slip photos and pre-designed cards into pockets. Becky's vision is that it is very simple: cards + photos + journaling, but a lot of people take it up several notches (see: Studio Calico or any of the monthly kits).Like you, I took a long hiatus from scrapping. I'm not independantly creative enough to make traiditional layouts I liked, but pocket scrapping (to me) is like training wheels (or rather a tricycle because I never want to ride the normal bike of traditional scrapping again!). Every pocket is its own tiny layout and the pre designed cards make everything look awesome together. Hope that helps, maybe it's more info than you were looking for! My advice is just to buy a core kit (Midnight and Seafoam IMO are the most versatile), an album, some protectors and get going. It comes together really fast and is super satisfying for the creative outlet! This would be me. I wouldn't be able to contain myself from not taking it up several notches, I have a creative expressive obsession  |
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Post by 950nancy on Jan 11, 2016 4:27:12 GMT
PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR MIND BLOWN, lol! Project Life is scrapbooking in pockets, like those old school 4x6 albums our grandparents used (depending on your age). Becky Higgins invented (pioneered?) it. Take a look here for more info: beckyhiggins.com/project-life/You get an album and plastic page protectors in different configurations and slip photos and pre-designed cards into pockets. Becky's vision is that it is very simple: cards + photos + journaling, but a lot of people take it up several notches (see: Studio Calico or any of the monthly kits). Like you, I took a long hiatus from scrapping. I'm not independantly creative enough to make traiditional layouts I liked, but pocket scrapping (to me) is like training wheels (or rather a tricycle because I never want to ride the normal bike of traditional scrapping again!). Every pocket is its own tiny layout and the pre designed cards make everything look awesome together. Hope that helps, maybe it's more info than you were looking for! My advice is just to buy a core kit (Midnight and Seafoam IMO are the most versatile), an album, some protectors and get going. It comes together really fast and is super satisfying for the creative outlet! I had these pages long before Becky started them. They were black (backings) and not clear though. I kept two scrapbooks of my teaching career. Trying to remember the company. I think Becky did an amazing job of altering the idea and making the cards to fit in the pockets. |
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Post by scrapbug on Jan 11, 2016 22:52:24 GMT
To me it IS scrapbooking, just a different style. I'm trying it out on a mini album for my Journal Your Christmas this year, but other than haven't done it and don't plan to. It doesn't appeal to me, but others love it and I think it's awesome for them. I still like looking at them even if I don't do that style myself.
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