10 a new project.

Just what I need, something else to work on! I've been wanting to find motivation to print out more pictures, both real ones I've taken with my camera, or the million iPhone pics I upload to instagram daily. I spend a lot of time every day taking photos, and I'm not sure why I don't print them out and enjoy them. Enter the SMASH Book!

It's like part journal, part scrapbook. You can see a video on it here.  I have never really kept a journal (outside of this blog of course), but I did scrapbook occassionally in high school and college.  Between IG pics from Amanda's Smash book and reading about Elise's Project Life (which I might someday attempt if this is remotely successful), I decided I should grab one of these when I saw them yesterday.  I bought the book and some supplies at Target and a few more supplies at Michaels, and I have a ton of paper supplies already that I can add to the new stuff.  I'm excited to find a use for all the scrapbooking stuff again!

Here's the first spread that I put together.  Yesterday was our 3 year wedding anniversary, so I used the pages to document what we did yesterday and added in a few wedding pictures.

To print out the pictures, I just arranged a bunch of them on a page in Illustrator,  printed them out on photo paper on my home printer, and cropped them to size.  Quick and easy.

I added in a little journaling to explain we did, threw in some washi tape for good measure, and called it done.

I added a little orange fabric tab to show that this was my first page, since I started in the middle of the book!  My reason for starting in the middle was so I wouldn't feel so much pressure to make the book perfect.  My inner perfectionist always takes over and with things like this, that is a problem!

So that's my new project, and I'm really hoping I'll keep up with it!  Maybe I'll share more here in the future!