PL-Week 1 / 1 Jan to 8 Jan 2012

I know we are almost at the end of week two but better late than never...

1 January to 8 January 2012

Cover page...

Double page spread.  I have spent a bit of time just playing with the first week.  Wanted to try some different things to see what I liked best.   Printed several of the same photo out more than once because I was playing with some digital things.  I wanted to see what different things looked like when they printed out, it quite often looks diferent when printed than it does on the screen...

So here is a more detailed look into our first week.  As I said lots of playing but I liked that I had the time and still got it finished in a reasonable time...

Left hand side - I devoted the whole side to New Years Eve.  I like my weeks to start on a Monday and as New years day fell on a Sunday I decided the make my first week run from Sunday 1st to Sunday 8th.  It means I have eight days in my fist week but thats the beauty of PL, anything goes.

I have included a layout and intend to add another its just not quite finished yet.  I took all these photo's with my iphone and then used the "diptic" app to collate them.  I love how this turned out.  I was able to put alot of photo's on one page.  I kept the page simple just focusing on journalling and photo's..

a bit of a close up look at my layout.  Using my iphone and apps is one of the things that I have been playing with and it is certainly making PL a lot easier.  I find I am taking more photo's and including alot more photo's...

Right Hand side - We are still on school holidays in Australia so its natural that we would be busy which means I have been taking alot of photo's.  As I said earlier I have been playing around with some stuff  which meant I could include alot more on this page...

One of the things I did was turn one of the long journallers into a pocket to include movie tickets.  I also got a photo of the movie that we went to and printed it out and stuck it on top of the pocket.  I included alot of photo's from the movies that we saw last year.  I think its a great way to remember what a movie looked like, who the characters were and a sample of the advertising that is being used in our time.  I usually just google the movie, find a picture I like and then copy and paste it into my folder where I hold photo's.  I then just resize it in photoshop and print it out.

Another thing I have been trying is journalling straight onto my photo's using photoshop.  I took alot of photo's this week so including journalling was proving to be a bit difficult.  I liked that if I journal straight onto the photo it allows me more room for journalling.

 This is a digital collage that I got from Liz Tamanaha who owns Paislee Press.  Liz is also on the PL creative team (Liz has a very simple style which I just love).  This little digital collage allowed me to include 4 photo's from a BBQ that we went to.  It was the perfect size, a standard 4" x 6" photo which meant I could just slip in right in.  I was also able to add a bit of journalling.

Thanks for taking the time read all about my first week of PL.  If you are doing PL please leave a comment with a link, I would love to see how you are going with it.

You know that I am a big fan of PL because it allows me to use it anyway that I am feeling.  This week had alot of photo's other weeks might be different.  I think thats what I like about it the most, just how flexible it is.

On a side note -  I have been baking more, I know I am in shock too and I have even managed a little quilting, yep another shock.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Love me :-)