This year I am all about catching up on my very {very!} long list of projects. I am listening to my desires by focusing on pursuing all of the things I enjoy and creating happiness in my home. {Did you catch what I did there? Focus, Pursue and Listen…January, February AND March’s TDP words of the month all in one blog post. Boom! Go Me! Haha!} At the top of my list is filling a type tray with everyday photos of my family. I created this project a few years ago when I acquired three type trays. I loved the first one I made and the other two trays have been sitting empty and neglected in a corner in my office for much too long. There is also a heaping pile of leftover photos from my project life albums accumulating in my office so I decided this was the time to get it done.
To get started, I selected photos from that pile and played around with an arrangement on the type tray until I felt I had a nice variety of images {and to make sure no child was getting left out – oh the horror that would be!}. There were moments when I wanted to go through my Lightroom album on my computer and find different images, but I resisted as I knew that I would just get sidetracked and procrastinate even more {I am quite good at that!}. Since all of my printed photos were in color, I decided that I would use neutral tones for my patterned papers and elements. I also knew I wanted to include some word are and a few simple embellishments. All of these were easily found in The Digital Press’ shop…papers and elements from Dawn by Design {tender moments}, papers from Digital Scrapbook Ingredients {everyday essentials} and word art from Karla Dudley {stamp press life}. I easily printed my chosen elements and papers on my home printer and printed the word art onto transparencies as I love the look of the type tray showing through. Then I made quite the mess on my desk but I like to think that is a sign of a great creative day. 😉
Once I hit my groove, the project came along quite easily. This project required a lot of measuring and re-cutting to get the photos and papers to fit nicely in the boxes, but nothing complicated and quite simple to do. Some physical products were all that was needed to finish things off and it was complete. 🙂 Here are a couple of closer shots to show some of the detail in the compartments:
And the finished project:
It is always a great feeling to finish a project and check it off the list. I hope this inspires you to create a project of your own!
About the Author: Lori Pereyra is a member of the Creative Team here at The Digital Press. She is a stay at home mom to 4 children and loves capturing life…the good, the not so good, & the perfectly imperfect… and documents it all through photos, paper & pixels. She feels this is modern scrapbooking at it’s best!