Kelly Purkey

I've closed the book on my 2015 Project Life album! Woohoooooo. I kind of never thought this day would come and it would sit incomplete on my desk forever. Until last weekend, when I realized it's almost August and I now have an entire half a year of 2016 to work on. Time to get 'er done. Back in the spring I'd printed the photos for the last seven weeks with my Epson PictureMate printer, so that definitely helped streamlined the process. 

While I don't have any process videos to share of the last seven weeks, I did do an overview video walking through the spreads and giving a little info + thought process behind them. You can watch it below or here on my YouTube channel:

Back in January 2015 when I was sitting with Tina + Jamaica thinking up the 6x12 size, we had no idea at all that it would inspire so many people to switch to that size. It's incredible to see a huge number of people now using this size for their album and saying how easy or manageable it makes Project Life. I'm so happy that I could inspire you out there!

And now here comes a flood of photos of the last weeks in 2016:

On the December spreads I used some of the new Clearly Kelly holiday stamps - thrilled about this new release coming from Hero Arts! I had a lot of fun designing it and they're fun to use. I hope you like them too. A preorder for the holiday stamps will be up at KellyPurkeyShop.com on the 28th.

It might take me another four months to light the fire under my butt to make some progress in 2016 but this year has been amazing, so I'm excited about documenting it. Lots of photos to get off my devices and actually printed. I can't wait.

The rest of my 2015 album blogged here.

It seems crazy to type Week Forty-Five since that's so close to the end of the year and the album. I already started my 2016 album, which I want to share soon, but have a few more to post wrapping up 2015 as well. I spent a few hours printing all of the photos for the rest of the weeks and it's helped streamline the process a lot. 

I've got a process video of Week Forty-Five to share, click below to watch or you can view it on my YouTube channel:

And here's a look at the completed spread:

Bits of the week spent at home in Portland and the rest in Hawaii visiting Maui and Honolulu. There's a fun contrast to the photos.

I used the Hawaii themed stamp set that I designed for my friend Eri's shop - Sakuralala. You can find the set here. I paired it with the new Clearly Kelly 3x4 Grid wood stamp that was just released. This is a great one for making background 3x4 cards.

More to come and would love to hear how your 2015 album wrapped up (or if it's still in progress like me!)

 

Back in mid-December I filmed a little tour video of my Project Life album with the spreads covering May to September that I've done. I have another video with January to April also on my YouTube channel that you can also check out. I really do love looking through this album and even through I'm missing huge chunks of weeks, I'm proud to be ending up with what I've got now that we're in week fifty-two of the year. 

Click to watch the video below or you can also view it here on my YouTube channel. And taking a moment to say thank you to all who have subscribed + viewed my channel this year!

Here are the three weeks from the album that are included in the video but I haven't blogged yet. All photos in these were printed with the Epson PictureMate printer on Epson glossy photo paper.

I mentioned this before but I love love love the Everyday Project Life core kit - so good. I used little bits of it in this spread.

There are stamps used here from my November shop kits - Hot Mess and Best of 2015 as well as the Clearly Kelly Work Planner set.

This one also uses the Everyday core kit along with my Clearly Kelly Food Planner set and Brilliance Moonlight White ink to stamp on the photos.

I don't know how but September already seems like such a long time ago!

This is my second spread from Japan - the first one is blogged here and the Traveler's Notebook I put together of the trip is blogged here. 

I ended up using the Brilliance Galaxy Gold ink a lot on this spread and I really wanted to go crazy with it all over but held back to just some little details. 

So there you go! I have yet to start November pages which was a big travel month for me, so not sure how to pick + choose photos for those spreads quite yet. For my 2016 album (yikes, I can't believe we're talking about that already) I'll be sticking with the 6x12 size (I think) and will share plans for that album hopefully next week!

I finally figured out how to solve the iMovie issues that I was having and wanted to share another Project Life spread this week along with the process video. Hooray! My YouTube channel has been neglected for way too long. Here's what the spread for Week Thirty-Two looks like:

A quick note I want to mention first is that all of the photos here (and also the ones from Week Thirty-Nine posted here) were printed with a new Epson Picturemate PM-400. Epson kindly sent this over for me to try and I love it. It's a small, portable printer which is really the best for 4x6 photos and prints them out at high quality. I have been using the Canon Selphy for so long but the results of the Picturemate are definitely superior, as is the speed of printing. You can print wirelessly, or directly from your memory card, or USB. Super easy. I shot a little two minute video introducing the printer and also printing a photo so you get a better idea of the printer.

Click below to watch the video on the Picturemate along with the process video or you can view it here on my YouTube channel:

Here's a closer look at the Picturemate as well:

And closer looks at the Project Life spread:

I mention a lot in the video how I love that blue is really the color for this spread and comes out in different hues through the photos and the inks I used. Also in the video I'm flipping through some Project Life core kit cards and I forgot to talk about those but they're from the Everyday edition which is amazing. The designs from Liz are perfect and I think everyone needs one of these kits.

Here's the Greenpoint alphabet stamp set, which was added to my shop in November, in action. I'm going to be using this guy a lot - love it. Hope to be back on track sharing more process videos and also have a walk through video of the album to post as well. Let me know if you have any other things you'd like to see or I can help answer.

One final note: the Big Shot die cut machine which is the one I personally use the most, is 40% off right now at Scrapbook.com (as is the Big Shot Plus.) That is a huge sale and it would make a great Christmas gift. The Fuse is also on sale, which would be a nice stocking stuffer. I will share some other scrapbook favorites in a gift guide on Monday but wanted to point that out today since it's such a good bargain. Happy weekend everyone!

Slowly getting back into working on my Project Life album. My goal is to eventually have all the weeks of 2015 represented someway in the album, even if it takes me until 2020 to finish. So here we go again! I filmed a process video for Week Thirty-Nine but the file ended up corrupted and despite trying all the tricks in my book, I couldn't get it to import into iMovie. Grrrr.

Week Thirty-Nine was back in September and the first week that Thor + I were in Tokyo. Most of this was documented in the Traveler's Notebook that I shared, but I also wanted to put some photos in my PL album since there aren't any in the notebook. 

I used the Greenpoint alphabet which just made its debut in my shop last month and is going to be well used around here. The cards are from my Hot Mess kit and the stamps are a combination of the Clearly Kelly Travel Planner and Clearly Kelly New Adventures. I also used the Clearly Kelly Urban Inks and Coffee + Donut inks for the spread.

I picked up this cool Maste Japanese themed washi tape while I was in Tokyo and I added it onto the spines of the page protectors, like I did back on this Hawaii spread. It adds some fun colors and makes me smile. Will be sure to share the second week in Japan spread soon.