Sunday, September 24, 2017

I've moved! Find me at www.thosemissingpieces.com

It's official. I have a website and a totally fresh start to my blog!

You can visit me at my new blog www.thosemissingpieces.com

Hope to see you there!

Friday, September 22, 2017

September Project Life App Creative Team Layout

The September Project Life Digital and App Creative team layouts are up on Becky's blog here

And here is my featured layout

























This is using the Design A template and all of the cards are from the Midnight Edition and using a Just Add Color overlay. Everything was made in the app and only took a total of about 3 minutes to create from start to finish!!!

This was truly one of my favorite ever layouts that I have created. So simple but the pictures say it all. I love the black and white look and am considering doing an all black and white (maybe with splashes of red) December Daily this year.

Hope you like it!

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Creative re-invention....

Every couple of years I go through this need to change things up with my creative process. One year I did all digital layouts. One year I did all 8 1/2 x 11 hybrid. One year I did weekly Project Life. The next few years were monthly PL and I did some traditional layouts here and there. Last year was back to weekly but all in the Project Life app. This year I have stayed in the app for Project Life, which is still working for me, but around the time I started considering going to Story Camp, I started feeling like I needed change. Like something was missing. And I really started paying attention to what Ali Edwards was saying in the plethora of classes and story kits I had subscribed to, and even listened to or read through and never really heard. I was missing my story. Sure it's interspersed in some of my layouts and in Project Life but the real nitty gritty, the stuff I would talk about with my friends and family, the stuff I really want to remember, was few and far between. So I decided to start writing some of those stories down. That turned into the makings of a 6x8 album which I already have about 20 pages for (and counting!)
But I am also considering how this will change my Project Life scrapping in the future. I feel like I need to document with more intent. Take photos with intent. Write down stories with intent. Spend my day with intent. Maybe if I do that, I will start to see those things that I have been missing. Those things that I never documented before and maybe never really appreciated because they were outside of the scope of what I was already used to seeing. But now if I look with intent, maybe new things will be visible and that's just the change I need in my creative process this time around. I usually wait until the new year to start a new creative process, but maybe this is something that losing two dear friends in the last year has taught me. Life is short. Don't wait. Start now!