Scrapbooking system day 5 - Page kits from Project Kits

Hands up if you reach a stage like me, where you practically cannot stick to one choice of paper or embellishment when you're working on your project. Hands down. 

Me too. I'm totally a person who keep looking for more options

That's the reason why I can only work with SEVERAL layouts at one time

I also call it batch tasking.

I seldom sit down with supplies for just one layout

Instead, I grab a few photos i wanna scrap and then pack a kit for that set of photos

then I go through the paper and pic out the suitable backgroud for each layout/photo

I then go through the embellishments and also match them to my layouts

I then lay some other pattern papers I want to use on the layouts

So at one time, I can have 2,3 4 or even 5 layouts in progress.

After matching them into potential page kits 

I start cutting the pattern paper into sizes 

I often have my pinterest board on my ipad mini

when i assemble the layout

for inspiration of where to place my embellishments and photos

After I place all the papers and embellishments in place

only then will I start pasting the papers down

Here is a view of how I get 3 layouts done in one sitting :)

I also start to pack page kit for my Childhood layouts

Sometimes the photo inspire the color combination of the page

other times the paper inspire the layout

that means sometimes I look at the photo and i thought of a paper that goes with it

while the other times i look at a paper and i'm reminded of a photo which is suitable for this layout

Dad feels like gray and blue

mum feels like red and pink :)

I hope you can give this batch tasking a try :)

It has been working so well for me lately

or you can try to pack page kits as well :)

It's fun!

I hope you have been enjoying System September

This week's giveaway 

To be entered into this giveaway, leave a comment sharing with me if batch tasking scrapbooking works for you :)  

. Comments will be closed at the end of the month. The winners will be posted 1st October.

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Scrapbooking system day 4 - Setting up the pages

After I have my journaling and my photos in place

I'm ready to set up the pages

Today I share how i set up my Project Life / pocket style pages 

Tomorrow I will share with you how i layout my traditionally pages

I choose this journaling card pad for my project

as i feel that alot of the phrases are very suitable for this childhood themed album

I also went ahead into my Kraft Edition Project Life Kit from Becky Higgins

and choose some journaling cards

Title cards and pattern/filler cards

Then , page by page, i place the cards 

Now that the general layout is done

it's easy next to add title, embellishments and journaling whenever i have the time :)

This week's giveaway 

To be entered into this giveaway, leave a comment sharing with me which is your favourite Project Life kit. If you dont owe one, just share with me a paper collection you like :)  

. Comments will be closed at the end of the month. The winners will be posted 1st October.

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Thank you for the comments , and have a great day!

Scrapbooking system day 3 - Journaling

I'm a fan of Evernote

It took me awhile to realize that I dont like to do journaling 

the reason is because designing and writing is 2 kind of process

when i'm in the creative mode, I dont want to slow down and think about what to write

hence I decide to seperate the 2 process

I set up notebooks for different purposes

One notebook for each scrapbook class

One notebook for each scrapbook process

Hence I have a notebook for Childhood stories

And I can drag photos into the notes and have them with me everywhere I go

I journal on my way to work , on my way home

I add bits and pieces of notes as and when I thought of them 

and i also use it to record the random ideas which pop up time and again 

so that i won't lose track of them

When i have journaling for a few layouts ready

I will then scrapbook them

Sometimes I try to prevent myself from scrapbooking those pages without journaling done

because even thought i might say i will come back and journal on these pages

it never get done!

Try Evernote, and share with me how it's like :)

This week's giveaway 

To be entered into this giveaway, leave a comment sharing what is your favourite method of journaling, or what kind of apps do you use to take notes.  

. Comments will be closed at the end of the month. The winners will be posted 1st October.

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Thank you for the comments , and have a great day!

Scrapbooking system day 2 - The Photos

Hello all, 

Today i'm sharing my process of selecting photos

I select photos from a stack of old photo albums

all the photos taken in the 90s are 3x5 instead of the 4x6 these days

I scan them on my Hp deskjet scanner

it fits 5 photos and i scan all 5 at one go, 

and cut them up on my photo manager 

I use Lightroom to add a little contrast and brighten things up a little

sometimes changing the white balance if the photo is too warm or too greenish

or turning some photos black and white because the composition is a little distracting

sometimes the photo is a little loud and i tone things down by decreasing the satuation

I print using my pretty little canon selphy 900

it's great as it has wireless printing 

and it print with lovely colours

it's convenient as i can go and see how many photos are they in an event

decide the size and the type of page protectors to use

and print them acording to size

Majority of them are in 4x6, while some are 3x4

I had shared a video of this darling printing some photos here on my instagram

So far, I have scanned and print all the photos i choosen up to 7years old

it's already about 200 photos

I dont want to scrap them all!

I want them documented but not all in the traditional layouts as that will mean i need to do about 80-100 layouts

Since I want to scrapbook my childhood chronologically

the next thing i do is I go ahead and spilt the photos into 5 piles

before 3 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old , 6 years old and 7 years old

Also, i have 2 piles of event photo

i went to the zoo and birdpark almost every year

so those i decide to scrap together instead of putting into the chronology

So then i started slotting things into the pocket pages

some important photos with big story get a page

my parents wedding photos are not printed yet

they will go here

I'm using a post it to remind myself

others which has lots of photos

goes into the Becky Higgins Project Life page protector

I will share till here

see you tomorrow :)

This week's giveaway 

To be entered into this giveaway, leave a comment sharing what is your favourite childhood memory:) 

. Comments will be closed at the end of the month. The winners will be posted 1st October.

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Thank you for the comments , and have a great day!