Friday, January 2, 2009

Ready, Set, Go!

Project 365 has officially started! What is project 365 you ask?? Well, it is only the coolest project ever. The main idea of the project is to take a picture every day of the year. It can be a picture of anything you want. In the end you will have 365 pictures that tell a story about who you are. To learn more about the project see the links at the bottom of the post. It really is a pretty cool project and I am super excited for it! I am going to do a digital scrapbook page/pages for each week and in the end I am going to print them out in either one or two 12x12 shutterfly books. Here is my picture for Jan. 1st... it is of our cat Kitty...he is such a good sport for letting me do a photo shoot of him.
My sisters are also doing this project... in the process of talking my sisters into going photo crazy I also converted them to the digital scrapbooking world. They are already completely addicted to it. A few days ago I hooked them each up with a copy of Photoshop Elements and showed them the basics of how to use the program. On New Years eve we all had our laptops out and were digi scrapping...we normally play game, but that didn't happen this year. We had fun though. Here is a page I made while showing my sister Melanie how to use photoshop to scrap:
My sister monica isn't too happy that I used this picture of her. We all had a lot of laughs while working on this page. Good times!

So to all of you (...the 3 or 4 people who read this!) Dust off your camera and join me in project 365!

Here are some great links:

Creating Keepsakes Kit of the Month they have a cool kit for $40... all you do is print off the photos, do a little journaling and plop them into photo page protectors. Easy as pie.
Becky Higgins Blog ... she has several entries about Project 365
Photo ideas from the January Creating Keepsakes magazine

2 comments:

Tracy said...

Could you please come to Utah and tutor me with photshop?! One minute I think I have it figured out, then the next I get so frustrated that I give up.

Billie and Brian Taggart said...

Hi Erica! I found your blog on Tracy's. I am so excited! I love finding more friends with blogs. It is so fun to be able to keep up on what everyone is doing. Hooray for blogging!~Billie