Project Life vs P365

[Milmomma]

I think I'm totally confused. What is the difference? I thought Project Life was basically like P365 just the photos in layouts with journaling. Can you give me your thoughts? Thanks!

[jacinda]

Honestly, I think either of them are whatever you want them to be. P365 is a photo taken every day. Project life I guess is also about the journalling and ephemera that go along with the photos. Take elements from both sides and create the kind of album YOU want.

I did P365/P12 three years in a row, and changed it up every year.
1st year - I took a photo every day and scrapped it at the end of the week.
2nd year - I chose a theme for each week, and took specific photos to go with that theme.
3rd year - I did a monthly recap.
I've linked each year so you can see what I did.

I'm not doing it this year, but if I did I would just take a selection of photos from that week, and include them on a page. Whatever I think represents that week - things I want to remember. That might be 3 photos and lots of journalling/ticket stubs/etc, or it might be 12 photos and no ephemera. I don't hinder myself by thinking I 'have' to have a photo every day. Go with the flow.

[nun69]

I do exactly what Jacinda does...I think Project Life is more about the everyday things including the journaling and Project P365 is all about taking a picture a day. I don't like the "picture a day" because it makes me feel more stressed, so I just take a representation of the week and scrap it I do however journal everyday and that goes on the opposite page

[NeverendingJen]

Project Life is simply documenting your life, whether via a photo a dya, 50 photos a day, a photo a week, etc.

Photo 365 is a photo a day per year.

Both are great ways to document life, just depends on what works for you.

[KateD]

I think of P365 as a photo project - one photo each day - which I've never been successful with. Project Life is a scrapping project that can be done pretty much however you want. I do Project Life with weekly spreads and pictures taken just about every day plus the journaling and other memorabilia I want to slip into the page protectors.

[MissKim]

I do 365 via the Project 365 app on my phone, so I do actually take a photo a day on my phone.

I do Project Life by taking pictures throughout the week -- on my phone and regular camera -- and documenting the stories that go with those photos. I don't do a spread a week. Sometimes it takes me three weeks to get enough photos to fill a spread. And sometimes I can easily do 3-4 pages for a week. I don't put limitations on it. It's about putting photos and stories in albums for my family.

I was never great about printing layouts and getting them in albums. If you're one who regularly scrapbooks, prints layouts and gets them in albums, Project Life may be unnecessary and/or repetitive.

[MamaBee]

I do a mash of both... I do take a photo each day - there are a few days I miss, then I just backfill with something generic like a photo of the vitamins we take, or the gas prices, etc... but at the end of the day, the album is going to be about our everyday life.

[Ginger_79]

Project Life strictly speaking is just a system to scrap with divided page protectors and fitting cards to document your life. So it's a scrapping "style" more than a specific project. The idea behind it originally was to get your photos into tanglible albums, but keep the scrapping side easy.

[tanyiadeskins]

I dont know the difference either I think its best if you like the sound of something and then decide what it means to you.

I consider myself doing p365 because I take a photo a day. That being said... I missed 3 whole weeks last year and simply documented how I was burnt out on it. That is life after all.

Plus I include mine in to weekly p52 style LOs that will have 7 photos and daily journaling, just a few sentences to tell what is going on, some days barely any journaling, others lots... depending on what we do

I am not in to the whole project life thing because I do not want to keep up with something I can not do digitally. If we want to keep "ephemera" that is what our memory boxes are for lol

[Stacey42]

To me Project Life is more about scrapping & P365 is more about photos

Like Tanyia I'm not into Project Life because I won't keep up with something I can't do digitally. I suck at paper scrapping & don't have the patience for it either. I could try & do it digitally but the odds of my managing it for more than a month are small.

I do P365 as a strictly photo project. 2013 will be my 6th P365 project. I tried scrapping weekly pages but I fail at it.

I assemble the daily photos in a Blurb photo book as I go using their software. I add a small text box about each photo. It's quick, easy, I don't have to worry about choosing a kit or a template or whether or not this ribbon works better than those buttons, etc. I do scrap 30 or so of the photos over the course of the year, just in my general scrapping & I add those to the book but given the time I have available, scrapping all my P365, even in weekly layouts just does not work for me. I do scrap 'year in review' style pages for certain photos. Every year I pick 8-12 topics and take a photo a month of each of the topics. Those I do as scrapped pages.

[rach3975]

I never really thought much about the difference, but reading this has helped me clarify what I want for my project this year. I've never done P365 and probably never will because the most stressful part of scrapping for me is choosing the best photos. (Or should I say, deciding which photos not to include.) I tend to take my camera out 2-4 times a week rather than daily; I want to keep doing that and have the freedom to include several photos from the same activity on my PL page rather than feeling the pressure to choose just one per day.