Pocket Scrapping Meets Art Journaling: 2014 in Review

Hi, everyone! Sarah here. 2014 was such a fun creative year for me and one of my favorite creations was my Snap! album art journaling project.

For Christmas 2013 my husband bought me a Snap! album. I had one on my wishlist but I wasn’t really sure what I was going to do with it. I’d been doing project life for a couple of years and absolutely fell in love with this style of scrapping. At this point I was transitioning to mostly hybrid scrapping. When I started project life in 2012 I knew I wanted to do it hybrid and toward the end of 2013 I began printing some of my digital scrapbook pages at 8″x8″ in layers and adding traditional embellishments in place of the digital ones . The only projects that I was still creating totally digitally were my art journaling pages, and I wanted these to be something tangible that I could hold as well. So an idea was born. I would use my Snap! album for my 2014 art journaling projects. Just before the New Year I created this page. It was so hard waiting until 2014 to create more pages for this album!

Over the course of last year I created 46 pages for my album. Here are a few of my favorite spreads.

 

 

I learned a few lessons along the way. The first of which was to pay more attention to page configuration. I had a tendency to not look in my album and start creating based on my first reactions to a kit. While there is merit to this, at the end of the year after organizing all of my pages I found that I had a few blank pages I wasn’t able to fill in with what I had already created. As of right now I have four pages that are still blank. Such as this one.

And this one.

My plan is to go ahead an fill these pages in over the course of this month. For 2015 I know to be more aware of this and work toward filling up the pages in order.

 

I also found out that my favorite page orientations were the one with four 3″x4″ pockets and the one with two 3″x4″ pockets and a 4″x6″ pocket. Because I used these more often than the other page orientations, I purchased an extra pack of each of these a few months ago in anticipation of 2015. Along with the pocket pages that I used in my 2014 album I have also purchased a multipack of the Snap! insta-pockets so that I can create some square pockets as well.

 

Here is my cover page for 2015.

I have set a goal to create a page a week for my album this year and I’m excited to share my continuing pocket scrapping art journaling journey with you in 2015!