the celebration continues
The life we are living right now is a wild life.
No matter where you find yourself in the circumstances of life this instance.
It's just all a wild ride.
And it's most wild that we so easily forget.
As story tellers we are remember-ers.
We remember. We write. We tell.
I may or may not be exploiting this National Scrapbook Week (Day) just a little bit.
But I am not ashamed.
More than ever I am fueled to not only tell these stories in my life, and learn how to tell them even deeper. But I am fueled more than ever to share that love with you.
This week I will use the vehicle of National Scrapbook Day to share the everyday telling of our story here. As I shared here in THIS post: How To Use Storyline Chapters, I am using that collection to be the home to what I am calling Family Chapters.
This has formerly been found in my album collection known as Project Life.
And it is still just that.
This format is still a collection of the week's stories in one place. Only I am not using the page protector pockets and the 12x12 album. Although that is not to say I will not return to that format. For now though...I am loving this 7-inch by 9-inch page size to tell our weekly family stories.
As I explained in the How To Use Storyline Chapters post (it's all laid out in that post), I am using a two-page spread a week to tell those stories.
The left side is the week at a glance in grid format.
Disclaimer: this is always subject to change. But for right now there are a few benefits to making these pages like this:
- all the photos are the same size
- the format is the same from week to week
- no guess work to what page protector I need
- continuity in the album
- using less photos helps streamline the process for me
Sounds so utilitarian doesn't it?
In some areas of my life I need just that.
But each of these week pages still provides space for pretty stuff. Spaces for embellishments. Interactive elements. It's just a bit more streamlined.
Because there is always the fun side too:
The right side is what I call 'the story of the week'. This side is the story that really stuck out to me in the week. It could be a trip. An event. Or just a quiet moment that heart struck me. Made me stop. That visual that prompted me to find my camera.
This page has plenty of my layering techniques. Journaling. Embellishment clusters. Stamps. All the things I love to play with and bring a lot of interest to a page and story.
But the story...it is ALWAYS there to be found.
I am eager to share with you the rest of March and how that chapter is playing out right here.
Be sure to check out THIS post about how sometimes I interrupt the flow of these pages.
Because. Because sometimes I do that too.
Welcome To (Inter)National Scrapbook Day
SUPPLIES
HeidiSwapp Storyline Chapers: bit.ly/HSStorylineChapters
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