{Freebie: A week in the life mix}

This weeks free­bie is mini kit, every­thing I used to make my “A week in the life” album.

But don’t worry, if you are a core project lifer, this mix has jour­nal­ing cards in it as well

Down­load here

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This year is the first time I did  Ali Edward’s “A week in the life”. And I have already seen such beau­ti­ful takes on it. Check out what my friend Linda made– its jaw drop­pingly amazing!

For us this month/week has been extremely busy, with many dead­lines for me and the hubs travelling.

I was just going to take extra pho­tos this week, and call that done. I had NO inten­tions of scrap­book­ing them in any sort of way.

But as I was print­ing some other pho­tos to scrap on NSD this week, I bumped into a bunch of pho­tos from 2010 and I was spell­bound by how young my daugh­ter looked. I remem­ber her being that way, but I really couldn’t  remem­ber any of the smaller details. And that’s when it struck me, I needed to doc­u­ment this.

My mantra for this album– keep it sim­ple. It usu­ally takes me ages to chose, process and resize pho­tos, so for this mini book/album I made a quick tem­plate to use on every page of my album; no gim­micry, just put the pho­tos in there and print it. No chang­ing the sizes of the pho­tos, no blow­ing up just one photo.

Each day has the same for­mat of a 5.5 by 6 inch col­lage of my insta­gram pho­tos. This tem­plate is included in the download.

I selected a bunch of neu­tral to brown­ish col­ored card­stocks, and trimmed them to mea­sure 8.25 by 11 inches. My idea is to slip the com­pleted mini album into a 8.5 by 11 inch sleeve and include it in my 2012 scrapbook.

I then adhered the pho­tos, and added stitch­ing around them.

Printed out my jour­nal­ing, quotes and day tabs. These are also included in the down­load. The jour­nal­ing cards are 3 by 4 inches in size, so you could use it else­where if you wanted.

Added teeny tiny bits of pat­terned papers, trans­paren­cies and doo daas.

Stitched the book shut and added washi tape around it. I did have fun with the cover, but that is going to be tomor­rows post

Done. A week in the life of 2012 documented.

What I have for this weeks free­bie– I like to think of it as a Cake mix– just add your pho­tos, card­stock and jour­nal­ing. Every­thing else is in the mix. Add your cre­ativ­ity and it will be like icing on the top