Hey, artful buddies! That is Kim Chaffin or kimdocumentslife on Instagram and kimdocumentslife on Youtube. I documented Week In The Life April twenty fourth by means of April thirtieth alongside many on this group. It’s one among my favourite reminiscence maintaining initiatives, and I like the report of life at this second that we create in these scrapbooks. This was my sixth 12 months enjoying alongside, and I’m very excited to have accomplished my album in report time. It took me solely per week to place it collectively, which is commonly my purpose however seldom achieved. I’m sharing a number of ideas on what made the distinction for me this time round. 

I don’t usually do lots of prep work previous to a undertaking like this. I are likely to assume that the expertise of the week will inform the way in which I need to scrapbook it. This 12 months, nonetheless, I did do a minimal quantity of album set-up prematurely. I knew that I needed to make use of the transparencies to start every day. So I printed these,  and I embellished them with giant numbers in addition to die cuts from the mini package. I organized these in my 10 x 8 scrapbook, with every day adopted by one among every of the three forms of web page protectors included with that album. I knew that I might probably have extra images than this, however for now I merely needed to get the fundamental construction of the guide in place. 

I additionally knew that I needed to make use of the ten x 4 Journal Playing cards for my each day journaling and the 4 x 6 day of the week playing cards to incorporate the voices of my relations. I assigned every individual to a day card, and I positioned each forms of playing cards within the web page protectors akin to the proper day.

I spent the precise week documenting, taking images and writing journaling for every day. I additionally made certain to get the suitable individual in my household to fill out a card on their day. After the week ended, I used to be excited to get busy! 

I started with a number of introductory pages, together with a photograph of my husband and me, a screenshot of a entrance web page of the New York Instances, and the Highlights web page, summarizing our week.

I selected to observe every of the each day transparencies with a full web page picture from the day. I usually work on these initiatives someday at a time. This 12 months, I made a decision to strive batch printing as a substitute, in order that I wouldn’t need to continuously change out paper measurement in my printer. I discovered that this went way more rapidly, permitting me to maintain my deal with the duty at hand. I added a digital day of the week to every giant picture and printed these at 11 x 8.5, as a result of I deliberate for them to be positioned exterior the web page protectors. 

I additionally batch printed the journaling on the ten x 4 Journal Playing cards. Lastly, I batch printed templates, one for every day. The templates have been adhered to the again sides of the massive picture that begins every day.

From right here, I solely had to return and fill in my web page protectors with images and embellish. I added further web page protectors for many days. I’ll share a sampling of the album under, and you may see all the pages from my full week on Instagram, and a flip-through of the complete album shall be on Youtube within the very close to future. 

Thanks for documenting with me! I like the inspiration we share on this group!