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Post by anonrefugee on Sept 2, 2016 14:28:22 GMT
There's some good discussion happening.
I don't stick to one brand, but the concept works for me. And it also works for the bits I store to put in an album in the future, when I get around to it 😀
BTW @zingermack I wish manufacturers read I want more 8.5x11 page options and albums. I might try 9x13 if it was around!
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Post by lisacharlotte on Sept 2, 2016 15:07:26 GMT
Project Life brought me back to documenting my life. It's like my personal diary with lots of pictures. I'm just not a traditional scrapper. I'll make an occasional 12x12 layout for my album, usually for vacations.
I don't feel tied to BH brand. I have quite a few core kits, but also lot of cut aparts and other brand cards. I don't care about mixing rounded or square corners. If I like the design I buy it. I'm also not hung up on paper weight. It's in a pocket and makes no difference to me.
I give BH credit for taking the idea and running with it. Did she invent pocket scrapbooking? No, but she brought it to the masses in a way that hadn't been done before or successfully.
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Post by freeatlast on Sept 2, 2016 15:19:36 GMT
I still do occasionally pocket style pages using WRMK page protectors. My big request to the manufacturers (if they are out there reading) is for journaling cards you can actually journal on. Fussy prints, word cards and dark colors render the cards useless. Do I want some of those types of cards in my spreads? Yes, of course, it's nice to have a "hello fall" or a leaf print in one or two of the pockets on a 2 page spread. But I want the focus to be my words and my pictures. And I can't hand write if all the cards are bold colorful designs or have words on them.
Please, blank journal cards. With lines. You can decorate them a bit (a border, a small image, etc.) but please give me some space to capture my words.
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Post by scrapcat on Sept 2, 2016 15:21:25 GMT
Yes! I've been using a 8.5x11 album this year and really want more options there too. I was hoping to find some options at the Scrapbook Expo, but there were none. I am actually tempted to start a company geared towards this size.
As far as the whole divided page protectors style goes...way before I knew of BH and PL I used a divided page protector style that was purchased at the Hallmark store. I don't remember the brand name. I remember when PL came around to being popular and how it seemed like ppl thought she "invented" it. I had a few albums with those protectors in it already, I was like damn I guess I could've invented that. lol.
I also don't stick to one brand, never been a 'fangirl' of anyone. I've followed Ali since like 2004, I've purchased some classes, but have never bought a DD kit or any of the subscriptions. I just don't do kits. I just buy what I like. I don't think I have ever suffered from fomo with this hobby, if ever. Oh wait, I digress...I used to buy PTI stamps, then that whole release, sold out thing got ridiculous & customer service went south, so I stopped doing that.
I don't do PL specifically, but I use elements from it, I have some journal cards, bought kits. If I like it, I get it. I don't really care about who is attached to it or not. I don't "follow" BH, nor did I know about the Home dec thing, but I think it makes sense bcz it seems like everyone is trying to be the next Martha Stewart.
That other thread and thinking about this just makes me feel like I am not a very opinionated person and more of a starving artist...i just wanna be inspired and do my thing.
If anything my biggest complaint about this industry right now is lack of quality, that's why i will stick with companies like Simple STories, Fancy Pants, etc. I want quality paper. That's about it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2016 15:24:46 GMT
Ali has a decent 8.5x11 but it's out of stock. linkFor PL, I only ever bought one core kit and a few minis. I liked the core, but it was back in the old days when the quality was higher and they came in those big boxes. The minis have been awful and I bought 2 before I realized, hey, why am I buying this flimsy paper when I can make my own w/a lawn fawn card die for 4x6 and 3x4. But I do love that pockets have become so popular and that makers started sizing their offerings to work well w/them. I love putting random but important (to me) shots in a pocket and not having to do a whole layout for them. And I love that they help me use my stash. Nothing makes me happier than a pocket spread that looks coordinated and that I know I put together using completely separate (mostly sale  )stuff that looks great together and w/the shots. |
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Post by Linda on Sept 2, 2016 15:26:44 GMT
BTW zingermack I wish manufacturers read I want more 8.5x11 page options and albums Yes - I'm an exclusively 8.5x11 scrapper (ok...I do an occasional 8x8) and I wish there were more options out there. I've never really tried pocket scrapping - I did one trip album in a pocket photo album years ago and really wasn't happy with the results - re-doing it is on my to-do list eventually. The lack of pocket page protectors for 8.5x11" doesn't help either. |
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Post by sarahbee on Sept 2, 2016 15:37:40 GMT
I don't care about mixing rounded or square corners. I am so glad to hear I'm not the only one who does this!  I don't exclusively scrap in PL style, but I like to mix 12x12 layouts with pocket pages...it helps me get projects done faster and I like squeezing in more photos. Save |
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Post by refugeepea on Sept 2, 2016 15:59:36 GMT
Project Life brought me back to documenting my life. It's like my personal diary with lots of pictures. I'm just not a traditional scrapper. I'll make an occasional 12x12 layout for my album, usually for vacations. I don't feel tied to BH brand. I have quite a few core kits, but also lot of cut aparts and other brand cards. I don't care about mixing rounded or square corners. If I like the design I buy it. I'm also not hung up on paper weight. It's in a pocket and makes no difference to me. I give BH credit for taking the idea and running with it. Did she invent pocket scrapbooking? No, but she brought it to the masses in a way that hadn't been done before or successfully. I'm very much like this! My life has changed drastically since I started scrapping. I don't have much of a life anymore. The pocket pages are perfect for the randomness that happens. I don't feel like making an entire page about a new recipe our family liked. It works better to put that photo on the same page as a beautiful sunset, or a picture of the library in our town. My family album now consist of mostly divided sheet protectors. I do like scrapping traditional pages, but in the 8.5x11 size. I put a Halloween photo in my PL style album with minimal embellishing and some journaling. I use that same photo in the Halloween album and have fun making a page. I put out that album during October. I'm all over the place! One album may have it scrapped, the other may not. I'll get there eventually. I also don't care about the weight of the cards. I'm that way with scrap paper as well. If it's too light, I put card stock behind. |
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Post by grammadee on Sept 2, 2016 16:13:56 GMT
I never thought of myself as a "traditional" scrapper. I have certainly moved away from the "old days" of Creative Memories, shaped matted photos and flat cs only pages. Have developed my own style drawing from a number of places for inspiration, including from project life.
I scrap mostly on full 12x12 pages, with anywhere from one to a lot of photos on one page. I sometimes use PL style divided pages to fill in between these pages if I have more photos than I can fit. When I do this, I sometimes struggle with finding PL cards that fit the spaces, or fitting the orientation of my photos to that of the dividers.
When I make gift albums in advance--like baby albums--I will do one page "traditionally" and then one divided protector filled with PL cards &/or pp cut to fit the spaces so that the recipient can slot in photos however they work.
I DO use a lot of PL cards and cutaparts on my pages: to act as titles, interesting comments, additional embellishments, or actual journaling cards. I often round the corners if they are not already rounded, but either works for me for this purpose.
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Post by mom on Sept 2, 2016 16:18:48 GMT
I've completed PL every year for the last 6 years (or is it 5?). Anyway, its my main documenting type now.
Initially I did weekly, but now I do monthly. It just works better with where my little family is at in life.
I do scrapbook 8.5 x 11 sometimes, but not often. I have found my family would rather see PL than regular layouts.
I dont stick to one brand and I dont mind mixing corners styles as long as the entire page is the same. I am also finding I would rather make my own cards from 4x6 papers. I just dont have a use for all the 'word filled' cards that most put in their PL Kits.
Buying my own photo printer changed my world with PL. It is so much easier now.
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Post by scrapaddict702 on Sept 2, 2016 16:58:10 GMT
I am a ridiculously slow scrapper.
We're talking...give me a sketch, I pick photos to match and then spend an hour picking papers to go with it (and sometimes changing my mind after). Then it's 2-4 hours to make the layout. I think just under an hour is my quickest ever and it was quite amazing that I managed it in that time frame.
I don't do PL in one sitting as a week can be anywhere from 2 to 8 pages for me. I put A LOT of photos because I know I probably won't get them all scrapped 12x12 no matter how much I would love to. This takes usually 3-5 hours over the course of a few days (plus 30-60 minutes to pull supplies)...but instead of having ONE memory documented, I have an entire week's worth and it's only slightly more time consuming than a single 12x12 page. While I love 12x12 and will never abandon it, PL is a very good use of my time since I'm so slow and I love the glimpse into our entire lives...I'm not likely to scrapbook that photo I took on my phone of an order I received that I was stalking tracking for since making the purchase or of a random cute hat my kid plunked on their head while we were out shopping or the mess my kid made all over their face eating an ice cream cone, but they are part of our lives and things that are nice to have recorded. I have a TERRIBLE memory, so the more I can get done close to real time, the more likely I am to remember what was going on to tell a story and the easier it will be to recall that event with a story side by side with a photo when I flip through those albums in 5-10 years and I had totally forgotten about that small detail.
Kudos to whoever truly came up with the idea and kudos to Becky for helping make it a phenomenon.
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Post by warrior1991 on Sept 2, 2016 17:09:21 GMT
I still do occasionally pocket style pages using WRMK page protectors. My big request to the manufacturers (if they are out there reading) is for journaling cards you can actually journal on. Fussy prints, word cards and dark colors render the cards useless. Do I want some of those types of cards in my spreads? Yes, of course, it's nice to have a "hello fall" or a leaf print in one or two of the pockets on a 2 page spread. But I want the focus to be my words and my pictures. And I can't hand write if all the cards are bold colorful designs or have words on them. Please, blank journal cards. With lines. You can decorate them a bit (a border, a small image, etc.) but please give me some space to capture my words. I should send my cards to you. I rarely journal, so it seems like that is all I find is blank journaling cards. I still do traditional 12x12 scrapbooking, but started PL last fall. Love it. |
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Post by anniefb on Sept 2, 2016 17:58:50 GMT
Project Life brought me back to documenting my life. This is how I feel too. I did occasional scrapping - mostly of big vacations. Then in 2013-14 I did a PL album to celebrate my niece's birth and first year. That got me excited about scrapbooking and documenting and led to me doing my own PL album and now a lot more layouts and spreads. I'm not a huge fan of the actual PL core or mini kits, but the concept and the attention BH brought to it happened at the right time for me. |
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Post by dawnnikol on Sept 2, 2016 19:31:37 GMT
I started scrapbooking after I got married and then really amped up when I was pregnant with my first baby. Ali used to use pocket pages before her PL and I stocked up at my LSS to do some of my daughter's pages that way. Then Ali started to do PL and I couldn't leave it alone anymore. I had originally planned to do a 365 project in 2011, but it went south early on, so once I had my 2nd baby that following autumn, I did my DD (for the 2nd year) and then jumped into PL with a new baby and a 2 year old and I never looked back.
I find the pockets really help me compartmentalize and make it not so daunting to record my stories big and small. I can tell more stories and faster than when I was doing a 12x12 "traditional" page. If I go on vacation, I'll take notes and then have a photo book made and then do highlights in PL to cover the week. During December, I still do December Daily, but anything else can go into the PL album. I stay caught up because I loathe being behind and can do a "normal" layout if I want to.
I've even started going backwards to put prior years in the same kind of album, not as far back as when I was in high school, but starting the year I met my now husband and then going forward through to where I started PL in 2012. I don't stay on top of this as much as I'd like to, but if I'm done with other projects, it gives me something to work on. During the school year I work on my daughter's school album too, which is pocket pages, and it makes it easy to just print any photos and slip something in a pocket rather than have a page about every single thing.
I don't have a bunch of core kits, I had a Midnight kit and 5th and Frolic, I think? But I usually end up giving most of the cards away because I seriously do not want 8 of the same freaking card in my album. Ugh.
So, after this December I'll go into documenting this way for my 6th year and I have zero plans to stop.
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Post by catseatcheese on Sept 2, 2016 20:16:25 GMT
I completed my first year of PL in 2015 and I am up to date with it this year as well. I have loved it and consider it like a journal with photos. I do one 12x12 page per week and occasionally I may do a 2 page spread or add in an extra page if we have an extra busy week or a vacation. I subscribed to Studio Calico and Paper Camelia from summer 2014 through December of 2015. I have purchased a few core kits, mini kits, and kits from other brands (non BH) as well. I feel like I have enough cards to last years and years. I don't have any plans to stop this sort of memory keeping. I also do 12x12, 8,5x11, and some art journaling. I like to have the PL as a journal.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Sept 3, 2016 0:04:35 GMT
PL is what truly made me step into scrapbooking and I still love the idea of a weekly/bi-weekly/monthly Keeping-Up-With-My-Life spread. It's a very interesting concept in a world dominated by curated social media and a much more difficult line between privacy and public display to distinguish. My PL albums are private, in a way. I wouldn't have them lying about like a coffee table book or invite anyone to flip through them. They are for those people who are genuinely close to me. I've just switched to 6x12 after feeling too restricted with the 6x8 bit still use the 6x8 as an addendum album, inspired by KP's Little Bits Book. No BH products at all in use over here right now. I started out thanks to the splash and constant noise she made pushing her PL products but no matter how hard I tried, I just struggled making her core kits and mini kits work. I still have random leftover cards from a Maggie Holmes mini kit lying around and just know I'll never ever use them. The card kits have made me much more demanding in terms of paper weight, square corners, printing quality and overall design. 6x12 album is a faux leather by WRMK filled with WRMK pocket pages. 6x8 is a faux leather from Simple Stories' Sn@p line filled with the Sn@p pocket pages. PL-style documenting is like keeping a finger on the pulse of my own life. Things fly by so quickly once you hit your mid-twenties and just keep accelerating. It's a genuine pleasure to flip through an album from just a few years back and see myself, my closest friends and family. Our hairstyles, our silly "insignificant" moments together, our bad jokes and trivial anecdotes written down, this is the stuff I want to remember but that otherwise would have been at the very least half-gone already from our memories. |
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Post by infochick on Sept 3, 2016 1:51:15 GMT
For whatever reason, I cannot stop buying PL core kits and mini kits; however, I find when I actually get down to scrapbooking, I end up using mostly scraps and cut apart sheets in my PL layouts. As much as I like the convenience of the kits, I do wish there was less repetition. I don't do "traditional" project life scrapbooking, but rather tend to use it most to supplement my 12x12 layouts when I have lots of photos. My favourite album ever is one where I mixed 12x12 layouts with all different size page protectors and pocket pages...it's a fun and interactive album. I'm with the others who said that they don't mind the lighter weight of the PL cards. I usually end up with two in a pocket (back to back), so it is not so noticeable . I also mix square and rounded corners...not usually on the same page, but definitely in the same album. I often just end up rounding corners of other products when I'm mixing in PL product. That said, I do like to try to use PL cards on regular layouts, and for that I would definitely prefer square corners. I like the Simple Stories and WRMK page protectors, as well as the PL branded ones. I mix them all from layout to layout depending on what the pictures call for. I like some of the different configurations offered by other brands. I've heard a rumour that WRMK divided protectors were being discontinued, and I really hope it's not true. I know that I can use the FUSE to make my own, but it is so much easier to have them ready to go  |
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Post by peagia13 on Sept 3, 2016 3:39:12 GMT
I do pocket scrapbooking but I don't buy the cards.
I cut down some of those millions of pieces
of pattern paper that I own from the past decade
Of scrappy supply collecting.
The quality is better than those flimsy project life cards and I don't end up with 10 of every design.
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Post by catseatcheese on Sept 3, 2016 8:27:50 GMT
PL is what truly made me step into scrapbooking and I still love the idea of a weekly/bi-weekly/monthly Keeping-Up-With-My-Life spread. It's a very interesting concept in a world dominated by curated social media and a much more difficult line between privacy and public display to distinguish. My PL albums are private, in a way. I wouldn't have them lying about like a coffee table book or invite anyone to flip through them. They are for those people who are genuinely close to me. I've just switched to 6x12 after feeling too restricted with the 6x8 bit still use the 6x8 as an addendum album, inspired by KP's Little Bits Book. No BH products at all in use over here right now. I started out thanks to the splash and constant noise she made pushing her PL products but no matter how hard I tried, I just struggled making her core kits and mini kits work. I still have random leftover cards from a Maggie Holmes mini kit lying around and just know I'll never ever use them. The card kits have made me much more demanding in terms of paper weight, square corners, printing quality and overall design. 6x12 album is a faux leather by WRMK filled with WRMK pocket pages. 6x8 is a faux leather from Simple Stories' Sn@p line filled with the Sn@p pocket pages. PL-style documenting is like keeping a finger on the pulse of my own life. Things fly by so quickly once you hit your mid-twenties and just keep accelerating. It's a genuine pleasure to flip through an album from just a few years back and see myself, my closest friends and family. Our hairstyles, our silly "insignificant" moments together, our bad jokes and trivial anecdotes written down, this is the stuff I want to remember but that otherwise would have been at the very least half-gone already from our memories. I agree with all those that have stated that the WRMK pocket pages are much better quality. The plastic seems thicker and every time I use a BH one (bought a lot on sale at one point and can't bring myself to throw them out without using since it is hard to find that sort of thing where I live currently) the corner on at least one pocket splits. |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Sept 3, 2016 11:27:11 GMT
Thank you for posting that link. I didn't even know she offered that size. Now to find it. I don't exclusively scrap in PL style, but I like to mix 12x12 layouts with pocket pages...it helps me get projects done faster and I like squeezing in more photos. Me too. Especially for my dd's 12x12 high school album. She is in so many concerts/plays/etc. I like to highlight one or two really special photos per performance on their own 12x12 layout, and then use the 6 4x6" pockets to put all the supporting photos in. I DO use a lot of PL cards and cutaparts on my pages: to act as titles, interesting comments, additional embellishments, or actual journaling cards. Me too! I like to layer with PL and cutaparts on my layouts. |
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Post by needtime2scrap on Sept 3, 2016 16:17:14 GMT
I do both PL and traditional scrapbooking. I used to scrapbook 12x12 only and after 14 years it was like how many layout could I do that said live laugh love? I felt like I was burnt out (being on a dt didn't help) and felt like there wasn't anything new to scrapbook or there was too much to scrapbook. When PL came out with the single kit/album combo I took it and ran with it. Did one year traditional and one year digital and realized that aims love the traditional way better. I still scrapbook 12x11 pages but those are for the big stories...PL is foready all those photos that I take that make up our photographic life. This is why I love Ali's approach with stories. It helps me get back to the scrapbooking I love and not feeling like I'm doing the same layout year after year. Stories change.
I have a couple of core kits that my friend and I have broken up and shared and I use my AEG story kits as well as any sale SC kits.
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