Welcome to Project 12 - 2011! Bring on the New Year! I have so many goals and aspirations for 2011, and moving forward with another year of Project 12 and amazing PageMaps from Becky was on the list. I’m so happy to be hosting the blog today to bring you the next challenge. First, however, because we are always looking at the month before, I wanted to share some fun November layouts.
This is what I came up with this month:
And this is what we’ve been seeing in the Facebook album and linked to the November blog post.
I love Brenda’s use of Cosmo Cricket here and the addition of all her extra photos:
It’s a really pretty color palette and perfect for this time of year.
A variation on this color theme, but perfect for the month and especially the photos is Jill’s layout:
I really like the trees and the use of maple leaves tied up with ribbon.
Last to share this month is this one from Jennifer:
I love how she used the tags, hearts, and the clouds here. It is a lot of fun detail in a place of a paper strip.
Thank you for playing along ladies! The winners of the WeR Memory Keepers Garden Grove line for November are Jennifer Larson from the SCT blog and ShellyJ from my blog! Congratulations! Send us your name and address to ideas@scrapbookandcards.com and put in the reference line "Project 12 Nov winner".
I know it’s a new year and many of you may be on board with the new challenge, but we can’t document January until after January is finished, so many of us are working on our December layouts. Your December sketch should be linked to THIS post (the post where the December sketch was revealed!). All December sketches should be sent to us or linked by January 20th. We will finish up the year and showcase the December layouts in a special post on January 27th!
Here’s the December sketch again:
Have you been playing all year? If so, there is a special prize in store for two lucky winners! Our great friends at American Crafts offered our winners the choice of one of these albums:
or this one!
If you have completed each month's sketch and either sent them to us or linked them in each month's post, send us your name and address to ideas@scrapbookandcards.com and in the reference line put "Project 12 COMPLETED!" and we'll draw two names to win these albums!
January 2011 sketch reveal
This brings us to the exciting launch of the first sketch for 2011! Here is your January sketch...drumroll please...
Would you like to know what the exciting January prize is just for playing along? It's a good one! You will be playing for a prize package from American Crafts from the fabulous LOVE line (perfect for the February sketch!)...
and as a bonus a little adhesive just like this...
Playing along for a prize is EASY and if you played along last year, we have made it even easier! Here's how to play:
1. On the 1st of each month we will release that month's sketch - just like today where we released January's sketch on January 1st.
2. You have until the 28th of the same next month (in this case February 28th) to send us your sketch or link your sketch to the month that the sketch you are linking was released. For example, your January sketches should be linked to THIS post where we released January's sketch.
3. On the 1st of the next month (in this case February 1st) we will release February's sketch and showcase some of the December January sketches we received (remember by the 28th!).
4. Sketches can be sent to us at ideas@scrapbookandcards.com to be included in our facebook album!
5. Don’t forget to increase your chances of winning by linking to my blog as well at www.davinie.blogspot.com. One winner each month is taken from those submissions too!
6. Even if you are not playing for a prize, just complete the monthly sketch, put it in your album and enjoy the fact you are on your way to having a fabulous album at the end of the year!
If you are new to the challenge and have any questions about how to play, please feel free to email us at ideas@scrapbookandcards.com.
Here’s to a great year! We are thrilled you have joined us for Project 12 - 2011! Becky Fleck has outdone herself with these fabulous two page, multi photo sketches. You are sure to love them as you complete each month. Remember, you could do a year-in-review, a vacation album, a baby's first year, a wedding album, etc. The choice is yours. Just play along with us!
~ Davinie
love the December sketch - January's will be a challenge!
Sandra
Posted by: Sandra ltb | January 01, 2011 at 08:51 AM
Love the multi photo layout. I always have more pictures than the one or two in most layouts. Can't wait!
Posted by: jill | January 01, 2011 at 10:32 AM
I think this sketch will help me finish my Disney album! Thanks for the inspiration.
Posted by: Krista Hogenboom | January 01, 2011 at 11:11 AM
Yeah!!! I am loving the new format and the January sketch! In 2010 Project12 was my resolution and I did it! I'm saving it again for 2011!
I was never a 2page scrapbooker, and it has taken me about a 'year' to get into the Project12 'groove' - meaning, at the beginning it took forever to get a layout done, now they are coming together very fast! I am addicted!!
Thank you Becky, Davinie and Scrapbook and Cards Today!
Posted by: Andi Sexton | January 01, 2011 at 11:37 AM
Oh, I'm so excited for this. I have already listed this as one of my creative goals on my blog for 2011. Love the sketch and can't wait to work with it. I will be back sometime this month to post the link to my layout.
Posted by: Laura T. | January 01, 2011 at 12:25 PM
One of my goals for this year is to participate in this challenge! Hard to find time with a baby, but I think it will be manageable. Plus it is good motivation to get some scrapping done this year (even though I am still way behind from last year).
Posted by: NinaN | January 01, 2011 at 02:56 PM
Planning on finishing project 12 2010 and starting 2011, love the fact that you have a whole year scrapped when you are done, without even having to think about it. Thank you for the inspiration.
Posted by: Arlene B. | January 01, 2011 at 04:39 PM
So happy This is continuing. Happy New Year All!
Posted by: Jennifer | January 01, 2011 at 07:46 PM
Thank you for this. I have not ever submitted any of my l/os but have done all 12 of them ... with some effort for November, but I'm pleased it is now done!
Posted by: Jenny | January 03, 2011 at 02:31 AM
Love this idea, have done it this past year, just with my own ideas. Plan to follow the sketches this year.
Would it be possible to get a title page sketch??
Also, we have to have the layout done the last day of the month? i.e. if we want to include pictures from the last day of the month there is not enough time to do it.
Posted by: Vanessa | January 03, 2011 at 03:11 AM
I only managed january in 2010, but will try to make it further this year! Thanks guys for the great inspiration!
Posted by: Katy | January 03, 2011 at 12:32 PM
I'm very excited to see the new sketch! This will be my fist time playing along with Project 12---wish me luck!
Posted by: Steffanie S. | January 03, 2011 at 12:44 PM
Thank you for the very last paragraph. I rarely have time to scrapbook the everyday stuff, which is what I thought project 12 (and 52 and 365) were about. But if I can use these sketches to peck away at a baby album or travel album without making it specific to events of that month, I am in!!!
Posted by: Ann | January 03, 2011 at 12:48 PM
This is one of my goals this year too - With Baby #2 on the way mid-year this would make for a great time to document my family before and after the new arrival.
Posted by: Karin Daunoravicius | January 03, 2011 at 12:48 PM
I would really like to participate this year... but I have the same question as Vanessa above: we submit the January page no later than the 28 of the same month which means that the last few days of January won't be featured on the January page, correct? (and the same is true for each month)
Posted by: Nathalie | January 03, 2011 at 08:37 PM
I just found your site and this Project 12 challenge couldn't come at a better time. My scrapbooking roots have gone by the wayside since I started designing cards. My goal for 2011 is to get back to the scrapbooks and complete an album for each of my five adult children for their 2011 Christmas present. These monthly sketches will really help me out. I can't wait to get started.
Posted by: Jeri | January 05, 2011 at 02:02 PM
Vanessa and Nathalie: I just read her post over on her blog and it explains a little further that you are working a month behind so you would be posting January's layout by 2/28 and so forth. I was a little confused too but it makes more sense now!
Posted by: Peg | January 05, 2011 at 07:06 PM
That's what I was thinking Peg, but this has me thinking otherwise
"On the 1st of the next month (in this case February 1st) we will release February's sketch and showcase some of the January's sketches we received (remember by the 28th!)."
Posted by: Vanessa | January 05, 2011 at 08:25 PM
Right, those will be December layouts. Note that she shared November layouts on the January 1 post. It's all good. Go check out her post over on her blog. She's more explicit. :)
Posted by: Peg | January 06, 2011 at 04:38 PM
I love the January sketch! I am going to play along! Exciting!!!
Posted by: vicki | January 06, 2011 at 05:47 PM
I have found several links to this site while hunting for a 2011 project and I really like the look of it. I haven't done a 2 pager like this for ages, so it'll be a different focus for 2011. I'm in!
Posted by: Kirsty Angus | January 09, 2011 at 12:46 PM
Here is my take on the January sketch. I loved using this sketch to include 13 photos in all.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47114229@N02/5359498239/
Posted by: goldnuggt | January 16, 2011 at 07:46 AM
I was very excited to order a scrapbook last week with all of the digital pages I made with Project 12 last year. 2009 down so I'm moving onto 2008!
Here's my January sketch done:
http://minehobbies.wordpress.com/
Posted by: Mags | January 18, 2011 at 10:27 AM
For some reason, I thought I had already posted my layout here, but I don't see it. I probably got interrupted while making my post. Go figure! Anyway...
Here is a link to my January layout:
http://darlaweber.blogspot.com/2011/01/project-12-are-you-in.html
Posted by: Darla Weber | January 18, 2011 at 05:32 PM
when starting QB Christian Ponder was hurt. In 2011, though, Manuel has the reins of the offense, and with the talent surrounding him, it won’t be too long before he is being touted as a potential Heisman trophy winner in 2012.
Posted by: chanel Purses | January 20, 2011 at 09:18 PM