Hi Stampers! If you're an avid paper crafter, you will know that an important person in the biz, Heidi Swapp and her family, recently suffered a devastating loss when her 16 year old son passed away. Heidi has been posting a lot about the importance of preserving your memories after this incident. What she has shared has spoke to me on a deep level. It's so important to take pictures and PRINT those pictures! Don't get caught with loads of them on your phone that magically disappear after an update or on a hard drive that crashes. Seriously people, print those pictures and put them in albums to enjoy. There is nothing better than sitting down with a photo album and just remembering both the good times and the not so good times.
Lately my kids have been taking photo albums off our shelves and looking through them. They love to see what Kevin and I looked like "in the old days" (seriously, we are not that old!!!), to see where we lived, what we drove and what we did. They have also noticed a big gap in our memories where scrapbooking and memory keeping was pushed to the bottom of my priority list. My youngest son especially notices this with the lack of pages in his album! Because of this, I am determined to get our memories into albums and Project Life is going to help me do just this!
In my Memory Keeping Club, we are combining Project Life with traditional Scrapbooking to create quick and easy layouts. They had a good chuckle over my mistake on my sample layout this last month. This is what happens when you are scrapbooking memories from 10 years ago....
I have pictures of my oldest son when he was 2 (he's now 13) on this page with today's dates. Oops!!! Needless to say, while this layout was sitting on my desk waiting to be fixed I changed my mind a little about parts of it (so club ladies, if you're looking at these pics wondering why your layout is a little different this is why!).
First of all, I fixed my mistake!
Here's what the whole layout looks like. This month we used the
PL #3 page protector in the assorted pack and some
English Garden DSP for our layouts.
I am loving combining the ease of
Project Life memory keeping with Traditional Scrapbooking! Here's a look at the journaling card I did for my layout! In keeping with the planting flowers theme, I used the Handpicked Framelits to make a little banner and cut out that cute little garden shovel!
As I was making up this layout I was remembering the day we planted those tulip bulbs. My boy was so excited to dig the holes and put them in the ground. And, he was very impatient at waiting for them to grow! I also remember the look on his face when we finally saw the little green shoots of new plants and then when they bloomed! We no longer live at that house, and I found myself wondering if the people that live there now still enjoy those flowers coming up every year like we did or if they planted something else in that spot.
Peeps, it's time. It's time to print your pictures and enjoy remembering. Whether you have kids or not, whether you're married or single, whether you are creative or not...it's important. I can help you do this quickly and easily with
Project Life. Seriously, it's as easy as sliding pictures into pockets...that's it! Check out all the
Project Life products in my online store and then contact me to order (or ask questions, or for help getting started, or to join my Memory Keeping club).
Have an inspired day!
