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Project Life, Week Ten + video tutorial

March 15, 2013

Project Life, Week Ten + video tutorial

OBSERVATIONS: This weeks marks the first week where every single photo came from my phone. I knew it was bound to happen. This iPhone 5 camera is pretty sweet and it’s with me all the time, unless my I haul out my dSLR. I think the shots are pretty decent. One thing that has really changed for me with Project Life is not worrying about having the best quality shots on every spread.

Real life isn’t always about the best quality photos. I’m shooting for real and true as often as possible. So there you go.

Let’s take a look at Week Ten.

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Of course, last week was Birthday Week (me and Dan celebrated on the 6th and 8th, respectively), ergo the cupcakes and the lovely birthday series of photos of yours truly.

In an effort to create more of a clean look, I designed a new 4×6/6×4 photo template series called Mini Minimals 01. The set includes 10 photo templates, both landscape and portrait, that present simple collages with common margins, ample white space and a single line of text to add a caption.

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Here’s one of the templates featuring a series of iPhone shots taken of some of the gifts Dan and I received for our birthdays. Simple, elegant and a nice way to get several photos on a single 6 x 4.

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I also designed a new card set, J-Cards No. 10 Everyday, and used a few of those cards in this week’s spread.

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One think I felt compelled to do this week was to capture one of my Comcast Visual Voice Mails. They crack me up. The accuracy is generally horrible. Just try to make sense of this message from my father-in-law, who can be difficult to understand beneath that Minnesota accent in the first place.

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I’m really curious as to what he ‘plugged in Iowa.’

On this journal card, I added in a white bar over the dot pattern so I could add a little caption to the card. You can do this easily to any card or file. Here’s a very quick 3-minute tutorial showing you how.

Adding a caption box to a predesigned journal card from Cathy Zielske on Vimeo.

 

If you want to learn how to add text to journal cards, watch this video.

Speaking of adding text to a card, I also used one of my new Life Lists cards to log the media we ingested for the week.

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Here’s my recap for the week:

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And that is all I wrote for Week Ten.

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  1. Juli says

    March 15, 2013 at 9:32 am

    Love your pages Cathy! Really looking forward to Clean & Simple…3 more weeks!!! I’m starting to use the week in review cards for my weekly spreads…love it!

    Reply
  2. cherylH says

    March 15, 2013 at 9:44 am

    I am so very inspired by your pages each week! I have a few questions (ok, I have tons of questions), but I’ll only bother you with one: what size type font is on your Week 10 Week in Review journal card? I have SUCH a hard time deciding what size will be readable when printed, but this looks really good.

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  3. Heather Johnson says

    March 15, 2013 at 9:51 am

    I REALLY like those new templates. Having multiple photos in a 4×6 box wasn’t something I was always crazy about…even though I did it in my layouts…and now I know what I was missing–white space around the edges!

    Love it, off to make another digi supply purchase:)

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  4. cathy says

    March 15, 2013 at 10:05 am

    I usually go with 10 point type on most everything. : )

    Reply
  5. McAmy says

    March 15, 2013 at 10:32 am

    THANK YOU for the 4×6 templates!!! I’m doing an all 4×6 Project Life and I’ve been looking for some templates.

    Also, what a great teacher cole has! I bet he never forgets that.

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  6. denali says

    March 15, 2013 at 10:32 am

    Love your Project Life, as usual, but I have one burning question:

    What kind of cupcakes??? πŸ˜€

    Looks like at least one red velvet (my Mom’s fave).

    Reply
  7. Helen says

    March 15, 2013 at 10:47 am

    Love the new templates! How did you get the black background behind the tulips?

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  8. cherylH says

    March 15, 2013 at 10:58 am

    Thank you! I’m dialing it down. I’ve been stuck on 12 and I just can’t fit it all in.

    Reply
  9. cathy says

    March 15, 2013 at 12:45 pm

    Hmmm. Well, they were: tiramisu, cafe con leche, boston cream pie and red velvet. : )

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  10. cathy says

    March 15, 2013 at 12:46 pm

    That is my fireplace mantle area. : )

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  11. Pedroza says

    March 15, 2013 at 2:09 pm

    Love the new templates and cards!

    Reply
  12. muerinda says

    March 15, 2013 at 3:28 pm

    Thank you for making me laugh today. I’m happy to report that you are not the only one experiencing.. what did they say with their dads. I often get off the phone with my dad not understanding a word he said but you have to love them for that too.

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  13. Cara Seppelt says

    March 15, 2013 at 4:13 pm

    Thanks for the new templates and cards – off to shop right now.

    Reply
  14. keianna says

    March 15, 2013 at 5:08 pm

    Love the new photo template. I think I own them all :-)Can we get one for 3×4 or would the pics be too small with the white space?

    Reply
  15. Erin says

    March 15, 2013 at 5:47 pm

    Iowan here and I too am dying to know what’s being plugged…keep us posted! Love the templates, your Project Life, and your posts!

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  16. Robyn G. says

    March 15, 2013 at 6:12 pm

    I just got back from Minnesota/ Mall of America. My daughter wanted to go there for her 13th BD gift. (We’re from PA). Are you close to the mall? There is a great store there called Typo–stationery, a bit of scrapbooking thrown in, gifts, etc. Really cool store based out of Australia..Anyway seemed like it would be someplace you would like!

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  17. Tricia says

    March 15, 2013 at 6:56 pm

    Hey Cathy. I have a quick question. I found the video tutorial on using weather screen shots in your PL. do you follow the same process for screen shots of text messages. Also at the end of the message you suggest creating a 4×6 canvas before uploading to a print service. Is this a third layer that you just keep blank.

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  18. Tricia says

    March 16, 2013 at 12:11 am

    I think I figured out the 4×6 question on my own so never mind. Thank you for all the PL inspiration. You rock!!!!

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  19. cathy says

    March 16, 2013 at 8:26 am

    HA! too funny!

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  20. cathy says

    March 16, 2013 at 8:26 am

    I think the pics might be too small. : ) I dont plan to make that size.

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  21. cathy says

    March 16, 2013 at 8:27 am

    I havent been to the mall in a while. Ill have to check it out the next time we go!

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  22. Heidi says

    March 16, 2013 at 12:07 pm

    Ok, Cathy, I just have to share this really fun story after you posted about the e-cloths…

    So I went to amazon.com to look for them, and while I was browsing, I clicked through the “Customers who bought this also bought…” list. Nothing but cleaning items except for this one: “Project Life Core Kit”. I had to smile… The power of scrapbook blogs… πŸ™‚

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  23. cathy says

    March 16, 2013 at 12:45 pm

    Ha! Thats awesome. : )

    Reply
  24. J3SS1C4 says

    March 17, 2013 at 5:30 am

    I’m from Aust, and have to agree with the awesomeness of Typo!! I can’t go past there without at least on new item coming home with me!

    Reply
  25. J3SS1C4 says

    March 17, 2013 at 5:41 am

    Yet again, I love what you’ve done with your page πŸ™‚

    The story about Cole’s teacher is awesome… I wish I had teachers that cool! You’re cupcakes look amazing as well!!

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  26. Lori Ande says

    March 17, 2013 at 8:47 am

    Great tutorials today Cathy. Just bought Mini Minimals….LOVE. Thank you!

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  27. http://neontruckerhats.com says

    March 18, 2013 at 2:15 am

    Hi cathy, great tutorial video you have uploaded feels good to have such one. Keep on doing!!!!

    Reply
  28. denali says

    March 18, 2013 at 4:16 pm

    I didn’t catch your reply because I ran off to score a cupcake. Cherry Limeade. Wasn’t bad! But I still wondered, so thanks for the reply πŸ˜€

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  29. Allie says

    March 19, 2013 at 7:45 am

    Love, love, love the mini minimals. Thank you! Off to purchase them now…

    Reply

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