GWL | Choosing Products and Fonts

About a week ago I posted the first step of doing Grow With Love Mini Photobook. Today I'm sharing the second step: choosing products and fonts.


Choosing Papers

As I mentioned in this post I chose white, blue, red and pink for the whole album for consistency. With that in mind, I browsed my digital supplies for patterned paper. I tought it was going to be a long and hard task but actually it didn't take me long since I remembered I have a very cute collaborative kit that fits my needs by Sugarplum Paperie & Paislee Press called Patisserie.

For the record, I was member of Sugarplum Paperie's creative team in the past and I love all her designs, always soft and elegant. Nicole is such a sweet girl and working with her had been so easygoing and inspiring.

GWL | Preparing Templates

Last week I posted about planning Grow With Love mini photobook. At the end I mentioned next step was doing it and that's what this post is all about.

I don't have an entire day to scrapbook, not even an entire evening, that's why it's essential that I break down the doing in small steps. So I started by the templates. First thing I did was to visit the photobook print service website to check sizes and designs so I could create my templates accordingly. I'm in Brazil, so I chose a Brazilian service to make my first photobook. I intend to try an international one in the future because then I'll be able to compare and choose the best quality/price option. The website is FotoRegistro.

GWL | Planning the Project

Back in January I decided to take some projects along this year, in the first beginning I decided to take it slow with few projects because I know it's very hard for me to really get my hands messy and things done with a very busy routine working full time as a coordinator in a language school, designing digiscrap products and being a mother and a wife. But I promised myself I'm going to get things done, that's ok if I don't have everything done in 2014 as long as I keep on doing.

This month I became a member of Simple Scrapper community and I could have access to all planning resources Jennifer Wilson has. She is super fabulous, by the way. And then I wrote all projects and things I want to finish (there are lots) and start (also lots). I often have new ideas and every time I browse pinterest or 2peas gallery or blogs I find lots of inspiration and I feel like "I want to make one of this and one of that, oh! and that one, too." But I never know how to start. Her planning methods gave me a direction to get started.

One of the projects I want to finish is Grow With Love: Kids Edition. This was a project by Crystal Livesay and Sara Gleason and when I learned about it I started making my digital layouts. I'm a storyteller and I love prompts for journaling. Unfortunately, before I could finish all the prompts one of the girls deleted her blog and the last prompts were gone and then I left my project unfinished.

When I look at these pages I think they will make a very good minibook themselves without the prompts missing and I got all excited about it. If you noticed, each layout was made with a different kit or combo of kits because I had some CT commitments. Now I want to create an all coordinated mini photobook.