where the moon shines

There are so many gorgeous digital scrapbooking products released this weekend but I’m keeping myself from making any purchases. I figured I should make more Project Life pages first before I even thinking about adding supplies.

Here’s a few stuff I’ve been crushing on:

Filler Notecards 6 by Gina Miller

6” photo strips:

There are more, everywhere. Specially spring and Easter themes. Browsing through blogs and galleries has been inspiring, but it’s also getting to be very tempting to buy more supplies. That would be hoarding for me because I don’t really use them! This hobby can be very addicting too. I look at these stuff like how, I imagine, cigar smokers would look like cigars at BnBtobacco. Speaking of tobacco, if you’re celebrating a graduation this season, go get your cigars from BnBtobacco.com.

As for me, it’s all window shopping. No credit card swiping happens tonight.

Sharing a tutorial made by SuzyQ for effectively using digital frame/frame clusters. I actually never tried to do it this way. I’d usually just use the erase or the cut tool. This is much efficient, and clean!

I’ve recently added SuzyQ’s blog to my Reader and I’m glad I did. I never would have seen her tutorial if I hadn’t.

Tomorrow is World Photography Day! I wish I had known earlier so I could cook up something for The Newbie Photographer to commemorate the event. After shift tomorrow, I’ll make a list of things Alfred and I can do for WPD. That should be fun, here’s hoping I’ll have the energy to make something happen!

What are you doing for World Photography Day?

I know we’re already more than half-way through 2011 but I was so happy to read about Project Scrap Twenty Eleven from the Shabby Princess Designs Blog.

Bloggers and scrappers alike are either working on a Project 365, Project Life or Week 52. Project Scrap 2011 can be yet another supplement to all these efforts to take photos and scrap.

Shabby Princess and her team are providing two-page templates each month, and lots of inspiration, to everyone who wants to play along. I’ve gone ahead and downloaded the templates for January through July, and hope to make something of them. Towards the end of the year, SP will also provide templates for cover pages so that, by the time 2012 rolls over, the book of at least 24 layouts can be ready for printing. Cool!

Read all about Project Scrap 2011. By all intents and purposes, it does look like we’re already late if we’re just joining along now. But I say, better late than never!

Although I don’t think I will ever be a full-blown paper scrapper, Project Life will be as close to it as I’ll get. And though I haven’t created a single layout this year, I am a digital scrapbooker at heart.

The video is wonderful inspiration for all sorts of memory keepers.

I came across this video on the author’s guest post at Ali Edwards’ blog (yes, a blog I also subscribe to via Google Reader). From there I clicked along to Shimelle’s blog after watching the vid. Haven’t explored much yet, but I think I’m going to love that site.

If I were still working in NCO, today would have marked my 6th year anniversary. I also would have been the only one from Wave 6 to still have been there. Check out last year’s Happy 5 Years post.

What happened in the last 365 days? A lot. I wish I had a photo for each day to tell the story.

But I don’t. Hopefully though, by this time next year I’d have a full album to look at to remember the year that was. It could be a photo-a-day, or just a spread for the week. I’m not sure how it’s going to shape up, but I am so excited.

Tracy, thanks again for inspiring me and leading me to Project Life.

Last week I laid down the cover and end pages. This is how the first version looks like, but I doubt it will remain the same until next year.

Yesterday I added our very old family photograph:

The photo is old, and needs to be restored. I hope I can find a reliable shop to entrust it with.

I posted a scanned version of that photo in Facebook, and my mom left a comment giving insight into the occasion it was taken. I’ll share a better view, and the story behind the photo some other time.

I will be printing yesterday’s photo and will be adding it into the album today. The journalling for that is actually already done. I don’t know if there’s going to be a picture for today or not, but I hope there will be

The PL Kit has a lot of these journalling cards included, and I have set aside two each designs to carry with me wherever I go so I can take down notes anytime.

I am so excited already and have so many ideas for this album. I can see it branching off to at least two projects, but I don’t want to get ahead of myself and so I’ll just take each day as I go for now. Amazing.

In the meantime, fill yourselves with more Project Life inspiration from the wonderful Ali Edwards.