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Post by mikklynn on Dec 5, 2019 13:06:53 GMT
I'm sure many of you, like me, have been too busy with holiday stuff to get much scrapbooking done.
I did start an album for my DS. I've been going through old photos and found some great ones. I am not going to try to do his whole life, just random stuff. He's almost 40, so no going back!
I also switched to 8-1/2 x 11 for his album. I think it will be easier for him to store. But, sheesh, it's hard to work on that size when I am used to 12 x 12! There is no room for photos and embellishments.
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Post by needtime2scrap on Dec 5, 2019 13:59:38 GMT
Me too! I've been taking a photo/day for my DD but nothing has been prepped or anything besides the first coat of paint on my Dec album. I decided not to buy an album for it this year so I have to be a bit creative to make the one I have work with my colors. It's all good.
Happy to have finally tracked down some new 12x12 albums for the price I was willing to pay. I grabbed 3, plus some extra PL page protectors. I'm ready for next year. I took this year off and I really missed it!
Also tossing around the idea of freezing my SB budget for 2020. Thinking I need to be creating more than I have been buying.
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Post by msliz on Dec 5, 2019 14:19:51 GMT
I'm feeling very disorganized. I'm waiting for 2019 photos from 2 DDs and my DH so I can begin to organize and edit, and in the weeks I've been waiting I've let my workspace get cluttered. While I was cleaning up the rest of the house for Thanksgiving guests, a lot of the overflow was dumped into my room to be dealt with later. I guess it's later now, and time to deal.
On the plus side, I just ordered a bunch of 6x8 albums in order to begin heritage projects and childhood albums for both myself and DH. I'm very excited about these, and I'm not putting any pressure on myself to complete them by any certain date.
Oh, and I need to finish my cards and get them in the mail - Almost forgot about them!
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Post by dald222 on Dec 5, 2019 19:33:50 GMT
I started my heritage challenge. i finished my mmario i really love i but i have to wait to take 1 pic. my son called last night & said he might come home with a friend this month I sure hop so I really miss him I have not seem him since he was here for my birthday wedding  |
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Post by msliz on Dec 6, 2019 3:19:38 GMT
Hey Peas! I saw some cute metal words at Dollar Tree today with all the Christmas stuff. It's a 3 pack with Peace, Joy, and Believe. The Believe was around 10 inches, so you could use it vertically on an 8.5x11, or any way at all on a 12x12. Or just decorate them and stick them wherever you still have an empty spot in your house. Or on your house. You could stick one of these bad boys on a wreath! My head is spinning with all the possibilities!  |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Dec 6, 2019 4:19:27 GMT
I haven't scrapped in December yet.
Ive been jotting down notes of holiday things we do day by day, so when i get to scrapping the holiday season, i know what to include.
And i still need to order November photos.
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Post by grammadee on Dec 6, 2019 5:26:48 GMT
Made a birthday card today: first thing I have created this month.
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Post by KelleeM on Dec 7, 2019 1:12:03 GMT
I did a two page layout last weekend with pictures of my dgd when she went on the Polar Express with her aunt and uncle. Adorable pictures and Doodlebug Christmas Magic...I couldn’t resist. Since my husband’s death I’ve moved some of my scrapbooking stuff into the bedroom where I can use his desk. It’s better than the cold basement in the winter.
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Post by kikitwo on Dec 7, 2019 3:52:27 GMT
I just finished an 8.5 x 11 album for a seventeen year old boy and his mother (who has had cancer/chemo for a lot of years). When I was first asked to do this two weeks from Thanksgiving, I said no. Then I thought about her not doing well, and I would feel guilty forever if this is her last Christmas. I only have girls to scrapbook and I only do 12 x 12, and I don’t know the mother nor the boy.
I managed to get it done. I hope they like it. It’s so much easier to do for someone you know. I did enjoy doing it, but it was stressful at times.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Dec 7, 2019 13:01:37 GMT
I just finished an 8.5 x 11 album for a seventeen year old boy and his mother (who has had cancer/chemo for a lot of years). When I was first asked to do this two weeks from Thanksgiving, I said no. Then I thought about her not doing well, and I would feel guilty forever if this is her last Christmas. I only have girls to scrapbook and I only do 12 x 12, and I don’t know the mother nor the boy. I managed to get it done. I hope they like it. It’s so much easier to do for someone you know. I did enjoy doing it, but it was stressful at times. You did a wonderful thing. I'm sure it's beautiful and that they'll love it forever. |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Dec 7, 2019 13:11:55 GMT
Last night i ordered November photos. Pretty small order. And most were screen shots/ stealing from my kids' Instagrams.
This morning I looked over the past two years of December & holiday layouts.
I'm making a goal to take more Christmas morning photos this year. Last year I got three.
I always have intentions of those perfect present-opening, faces full of joy photos.
But it's more like sharks scenting blood in the water.
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Post by hop2 on Dec 8, 2019 0:57:29 GMT
Ok, I know it’s only been a year, but I reorganized my dies. I was tired of some of them falling off the magnet sheets in the bin they were in. I sorted them all. Dies that go with stamps are on small magnets in a pouch with the stamps in the bin i had. Previously they were all over 1/2 in the die bin 1/2 in the stamp bin and it was frustrating. Then I bought a 2nd paper sorter from the container store ( plus extra shelves for it) and now all my stand alone dies are sorted in trays, still on the magnets, labeled and at my finger tips. I moved my paper because I just don’t reach for it as often. It’s still near by down on my die machine cart. There’s plenty of room for 8 more shelves  |
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Post by dald222 on Dec 8, 2019 3:23:55 GMT
msliz here is my heritage challeng Do you have boxes and albums and envelopes full of photos that you took long ago or that you inherited and promised that you would scrap someday? Well to help you arrive at someday here is a little bit of motivation that might help. Jon this challenge and scrap those wonderful old photos we are using photos from any decade you can use pages that you did recently ***Please make sure to Allow Public Embedding**** You may use this for other challenges too Digi is ok too may scrap as many as you want & post them here. IDEAS for December You do not need to use the ideas Whatever you scrap this month will be wonderful! we have Christmas Eve, Christmas day, go caroling day, make a cut out snowflake day,look for an evergreen dayk,santas list day. mitten tree day, christmas card day poinsettia day my mom loved her poinsetttia we went caroling too bake cookies day. do a page about your family at Christmas time we also have New yeards eve & day do a page about your family on ne w years we have Channakah.. a joyous & happy festivitie where small gifts are given to family & friends during the 8 days of Channaka we have Pearl Harbor remembrance day where our2400 American servicemen & 65 civilians were killed. was anyone in your family at pearl harbor or in WWII Helena Rubinstein was a noted American cosmetics manufacture. my dear mom used to buy me those fabulous make up sets every year from Estee Lauder which I loved 1900 Ronald Mcfee got a patent for a shoe making machine we also had wear brown shoe day do a page that has shoes from your family Chrales Macontosh the Scottish inventer who patented the 1 st waterproof material in1823. the raincoat do a page wear someone is wearing a rain coat 1863 Arthur Little was an American chemist that invented rayon 1926 Tilt a Whirl the famous theme park ride was trademarked do a page fr any theme park or fair or amusement park. 1955 the Volkswagon car was registered did any one have Volkswagon ?1861 Charles Edgar Duryea was an the 1st auto inventor in the United States do page about a family car 1948 Scrabble the board game was registered 1935 a patent for the game Monopoly was receveid we have bingo month card playing day crossword puzzle day, my mom loved crossword and any game do a page where someone is playing a game 1781 David Brewster invented the kaleidoscope I had one it was great fun we have international childrens day do a page where children are playing 1890 Harlan Sanders invented Kentucky Fried Chicken. my mom sure loved going there. Asa Griggs Cardle invented Coca Cola 1905 Chicklets gum was trademarked..Wrigleys gum was trademarked national cotton candy day, brownie day, ice cream do a page about some favs in your family 1833 Mathias Hohner was a german manufacturer of harmonicas we have violin day did anyone in your family play violin or a hamonica my brother played beautiful guitar and played a harmonica with it 1832 French engineer & architect Alexander Gustave Eiffel is best known for the Eiffel tower were any of your ancestors from France? or did any one in your family visit France? do a page 1895 August Lumiere & Louis were twin brothers who opened the 1 st commercial cinema 1937 Walt Disneys Snow White & the 7 drawfs was tradmarked do a page about movies your family saw 1906 Peter Goldmark developed color tv & LP records. I sure remember our color tv do a page about tv shows and records 1795 rowland Hill invented the 1st adhesive postage stamp did any one collect stamps? my mom & I did & my grandma we have bill of rights day & human rights do a pqage someone in your family who worked on human rights internatiobal civil aviattion day did any one in your family fly international monkey day do a page from the zoo we have letter writing day & write a friennd month bartender apptreciationn day Dave was a bartender Have fun 1. 2. 3. 4 5 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 12. 13. 14. 15. no_photo.png ReplyForward drive.google.com/u/0/settings/storage?hl=en&utm_medium=web&utm_source=gmail&utm_campaign=manage_storagewww.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/https://www.google.com/gmail/about/policy/ |
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Post by dald222 on Dec 8, 2019 3:26:53 GMT
we have had peas on our heritage in the past
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Post by mom on Dec 8, 2019 5:36:30 GMT
Ugh. Its December 7th and I have not scrapbooked a single things. I haven't printed DD photos yet. OR finished my 2Peas Christmas Cards. My desk is covered in crap (mail, wrapping paper and leftover holiday decor). I got the house clean and laundry done today so I am hoping to finish my cards and print DD photos tomorrow so I can work on DD next week.
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Post by msliz on Dec 8, 2019 5:50:41 GMT
I just finished an 8.5 x 11 album for a seventeen year old boy and his mother (who has had cancer/chemo for a lot of years). When I was first asked to do this two weeks from Thanksgiving, I said no. Then I thought about her not doing well, and I would feel guilty forever if this is her last Christmas. I only have girls to scrapbook and I only do 12 x 12, and I don’t know the mother nor the boy. I managed to get it done. I hope they like it. It’s so much easier to do for someone you know. I did enjoy doing it, but it was stressful at times. , I'm so glad you were able to do this for them. I'm sure it means the world to them. dald222, Thank you for sharing that resource. I have scans of a lot of the photos that I want to use, and I know what I want to journal about, so I feel like I'm already ahead of the game in some respects. I just need to organize what I have, gather some extra photos from relatives, and do the writing. Lots of writing. And then I can decorate, which is the fun part, but that won't happen for a long while. |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Dec 8, 2019 10:23:47 GMT
Ugh. Its December 7th and I have not scrapbooked a single things. I haven't printed DD photos yet. OR finished my 2Peas Christmas Cards. My desk is covered in crap (mail, wrapping paper and leftover holiday decor). I got the house clean and laundry done today so I am hoping to finish my cards and print DD photos tomorrow so I can work on DD next week. I hear ya about not scrapping anything yet. Me either! Currently my scrap desk is piled high with bags and shipping boxes of gifts that are coming in and will need to be wrapped. I'm keeping a list of all the holiday stuff i want to document, and taking photos as i go, but won't print/scrap until January. |
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Post by dald222 on Dec 11, 2019 5:24:18 GMT
I need to work on my xmas cards & my sons b.irthday I sure hope he does come home. He did last year but it was very early but I am happy to see him. I had magazines last tyear which I liked but I need a credit card. he is an avid book reader like his dad & his sister.. tried to get barnes & noble but no debit card so I gat 2 gifts from amoizon cards cause he has a million books so he shoul like it they sent it the next day |
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Post by hop2 on Dec 11, 2019 14:33:14 GMT
I have a box of holiday & Christmas cards from the classes I take but apparently none were quite right so I had to make a new one last night.
We have a brand new person at work and I don’t know him at all so I needed a toned down card since I have no idea what he celebrates
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Post by pas2 on Dec 12, 2019 14:02:16 GMT
Ugh. Its December 7th and I have not scrapbooked a single things. I haven't printed DD photos yet. OR finished my 2Peas Christmas Cards. My desk is covered in crap (mail, wrapping paper and leftover holiday decor). I got the house clean and laundry done today so I am hoping to finish my cards and print DD photos tomorrow so I can work on DD next week. Don’t beat yourself up, I haven’t scrapped for 8 years! I got sidetracked with card making and mixed media. the chores will wait, go have fun! |
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Post by pas2 on Dec 12, 2019 14:05:19 GMT
I made paper pieced gift tags to dress up gifts I just mailed cross country. Hope to again make gift sets of thank you cards for the teachers I work with if I can get my gifts all wrapped by the weekend.
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Post by cristelina on Dec 12, 2019 14:46:22 GMT
Aah! this thread is stressing me out! I haven't printed photos, journaled for my JYC, finished my cards, put all the crap away from the Bath and Body works candle day. I could go on and on. Guess I need to get off this board and do some things. Brave Little Mouse took two full days away from me. One day to clean and put away all my scrappy stuff on top of my counters and a second day to clean and put all the stuff away that was on the floor. Dare I look inside the bins that I haven't needed to open? Not sure yet.
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Post by msliz on Dec 14, 2019 2:55:25 GMT
How's this for silly? DD16 had a performance tonight in which she sang La Vie en Rose in both French and English (and she did a lovely job of it too! ) And the whole time that I was watching her and snapping pictures, I was giddy because now I have a reason to buy some goodies from Doodlebug's French Kiss line |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Dec 14, 2019 12:04:16 GMT
How's this for silly? DD16 had a performance tonight in which she sang La Vie en Rose in both French and English (and she did a lovely job of it too! ) And the whole time that I was watching her and snapping pictures, I was giddy because now I have a reason to buy some goodies from Doodlebug's French Kiss line  Those layouts will be amazing! |
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Post by kitbop on Dec 14, 2019 12:28:43 GMT
msliz - a true spontaneous memory, plus our hobby = why we got into scrapbooking originally! Happiness! I always think kids who sing are brave because I have zero guts to be on stage/in a spotlight let along sing up there. I haven't scrapped anything this month either. I have done ONE calendar page for my MIL (she gets a homemade scrapped photo calendar for christmas) and hope to finish by Monday  I've finished cards, and a birthday card. I'm really hoping that over the holiday itself I might find some "me" time to create. One hold-up will be my printer: she ain't feeling so hot, and I can't get photos to print with any quality! I do normally print at costco anyways, but when it's holiday season I just like to print off a few current photos and use them right away.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Dec 14, 2019 17:20:20 GMT
The only sb related things I've done are take photos and keep a sheet of notes.
I think I'm giving up on December scrapping and wishing for a better January 2020.
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Post by msliz on Dec 15, 2019 4:24:15 GMT
Went to a fun crop today with some awesome ladies and worked on getting my 2019 family photos organized. And then I popped into Michaels and found a 12x12 Crate Paper Snow Day pad (2012) at the bottom of the Hot Buy stacks. After the coupon, it cost me $3 and change. I'm not crazy about all the browns in it, but there are some brights too. I'm pretty sure I'll get my money's worth out of it |
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Post by craftymom101 on Dec 15, 2019 18:33:55 GMT
Went to a fun crop today with some awesome ladies and worked on getting my 2019 family photos organized. And then I popped into Michaels and found a 12x12 Crate Paper Snow Day pad (2012) at the bottom of the Hot Buy stacks. After the coupon, it cost me $3 and change. I'm not crazy about all the browns in it, but there are some brights too. I'm pretty sure I'll get my money's worth out of it I loved that collection! Great find! |
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Post by mikklynn on Dec 20, 2019 15:24:56 GMT
I am really hoping to get a little time in my happy place tonight. DD and her dog have been here all week, due to a water leak in her apartment.
No offense to the dog lovers out there, but I am not a dog person. He's sweet, but messing up my routine!
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Dec 26, 2019 11:16:54 GMT
This morning I uploaded my Christmas Eve & Christmas day photos to Snapfish.
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