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Post by sleepingbooty on Jun 25, 2023 21:07:29 GMT
And then it was June 25, the day a perfect 6 months away from both Christmas 2022 and Christmas 2023.  (Yep, last Christmas is already half a year ago!) And with less than a week to go before July 1st. So, welcome, welcome. This is your hub for all things related to CHRISTMAS IN JULY 2023. Whether it's working on past DD albums, creating holiday cards, brainstorming your 2023 holiday documenting, organising or purging your holiday paper hoard, starting to put together your 2023 Christmas kit, gossipy reviews of the new Christmas Hallmark movies releasing this summer, prepping your first 2023 DD pages, sharing your scrappy December grievances, everything and anything somehow related to the holidays goes. All end-of-the-year celebrations welcome, too! Come share your Christmassy plans, be they big or small, for the upcoming month and find motivation, community and laughter as we all try to get something done.   |
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pantsonfire
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Post by pantsonfire on Jun 25, 2023 21:36:57 GMT
Going to start working on Christmas cards for the swap. I am also going to go through my stash and purge then see what new things I can use and would like to add.
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Post by lindas on Jun 25, 2023 22:41:48 GMT
Iām going to see how long I can hold out and not buy anything Christmas related. Not another die, not another sheet of paper, not another stamp.
I did start the die cutting from the Spellbinders Santa Lane kit yesterday. I had planned on making 10 cards using the santa and sleigh but itās a lot of little pieces, I may have to rethink that.
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Post by joblackford on Jun 25, 2023 22:51:42 GMT
I finished my JYC blurb trade book for last year but haven't shared it yet so I might manage a flip-through video here soon. I have been working on upcycling Christmas cards from my stash but found out that my preferred charity can't take the glittery ones so I'll probably RAK them to someone doing the swap here. I still have more upcycling to do and I'll probably try to kill a Doodlebug Christmas collection making cards this month.
We're taking a trip home to NZ this Christmas. I'm a little nervous after the Iceland fiasco last year but crossing my fingers it will work out better with 2 fewer family members, more local knowledge, and (hopefully!) no monster storms. I might do a slightly different kind of Xmas photo book since it will be a family trip and also my first Christmas at home since 1999.
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Chinagirl828
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Jun 25, 2023 23:02:16 GMT
I've been waiting for this thread! I've been working on my PL albums from the last two years and have a few pages from Dec to be completed, so my goal is to get them all finished this month.
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paget
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Post by paget on Jun 26, 2023 0:05:32 GMT
Whoa. I guess Iād better get busy then, lol! Last year was my first year for DD and I wasnāt planning on doing it until I was doing Aliās DD. prep class - I just thought Iād throw an extra page or 2 in my project life. I worked on it a bit but then put it aside to just keep up with my regular PL and started my one little word album (Iām not doing that project next year so for dd 2023 I will plan to keep plugging along after Christmas until itās done).
I really want want to finish DD 2022 but I also want to finish other projects I have. Truthfully, I will probably not work on it in July. I will probably pick it up in the fall as that will feel more festive and motivating to me. So my goal is to finish my week in the life album by then so I can be all Christmas in the fall. Let me dig it out and see how far I gotā¦.
Ok, 12 days are complete (doing 26). Could be worse. ššš
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Post by breakfastattiffanys on Jun 26, 2023 0:27:58 GMT
Iām excited and hope to have the motivation to do my DD from a few years ago, 2018 I think? I have photos, paper, ephemera and book ready to go!
Then Iāll be caught up to start my DD 2023 later this year.
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Post by lynn0117 on Jun 26, 2023 1:48:36 GMT
I bought 2 luscious red velvet 9x12 albums from scrapbook dot com and my plan is to put all my Christmas memories before 2020 in there. Letās hope it goes well! š¤š»
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Post by blemon on Jun 26, 2023 5:44:35 GMT
Woot! So excited for this thread. Not excited to start thinking about Christmas though. Not at all.
Last year I was like, I'm not buying anything, I have enough.
Then as I started working on it, I realized I didn't have the right things so I had to buy stuff.
So I'm going back to my regular plan: buy what I like, deal with it later. I know I will never finish this project if I don't have what I need when I need it. These books mean the world to me and my family. Every year we go through them one by one. It's now a tradition and I am so thankful for the time and effort I have put into making them over the years. I think this will be year 12 for me. I'll have to count!
I have already pre-ordered a good bit of the new Paige Evans line. I picked up some of the embellishments, a couple of sheets of paper, and the stickers. I like a vintage look. I do not care for the purple but the patterns are great.
After doing this for so long, I know what works for me.
I will get the Paige Evans album if I don't like what Ali has. But I used the AE floral album last year so I'm not sure I want another floral next to it on the shelf.
Fingers crossed I will have a shelf to put these on! We are under contract for a new house. It pretty much needs to be gutted. We just got the appraisal back so I think we'll have a closing date soon. I really hope it goes well.
So glad we are back. I have missed this bunch.
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Chinagirl828
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Jun 26, 2023 8:16:45 GMT
I've just done a quick check on what is outstanding in my albums. My 2021 album just needs one 12x12 page to finish Christmas, so my goal is to complete that during July.
2022 has quite a few more pages to be completed: 10 12x12 pages and 6 pocket pages. My mojo has been a bit lacking lately but I'm hoping this thread will keep me motivated, so I'd like to get 5 pages, either pocket or 12x12, from this album completed.
I also have two last embellishments pulled out that I should be able to use on these pages, so I hope to report back that they've both been used in July.
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Post by fawkes76 on Jun 26, 2023 10:29:16 GMT
(Long time lurker here) I have exactly 0 pages completed in my 12x12 Documenting December 2022 album (a mix of full and pocket pages). However, I have all but two photos printed and everything laid out in the album. Most pages have some supplies already in the page protectors. Hoping to complete the album in July  Thanks for starting this thread--I'm excited to get started! |
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Post by mikklynn on Jun 26, 2023 11:06:16 GMT
I have about half my Christmas cards done. They are very simple, but last year I didn't make any, so I'm happy with them.
I need to do a purge/reorganization of my Christmas papercrafting supplies.
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Post by lg on Jun 26, 2023 11:13:31 GMT
(Long time lurker here) I have exactly 0 pages completed in my 12x12 Documenting December 2022 album (a mix of full and pocket pages). However, I have all but two photos printed and everything laid out in the album. Most pages have some supplies already in the page protectors. Hoping to complete the album in JulyĀ Ā Thanks for starting this thread--I'm excited to get started! Ohhh you have the photos printedā¦ Iām jealous! Thatās ALWAYS the bit that completely ruins my mojo and ends up with an incomplete project until I rage order in a huge batch one day years later. Youāve done the hard part now you just get to play with all the prettiesā¦ Iām jealous! |
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Post by Linda on Jun 26, 2023 13:13:56 GMT
I don't know if I'll be scrapping in July or not - hoping to
2009 needs about 7 layouts
2012 needs about 13
2013 about 14
2014 about 17
2022 (big kids) needs 8
I say about because sometimes what I have on my list as one layout ends up being more
But that's roughly 60 layouts. I COULD get caught up on December in July....
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Post by Night Owl on Jun 26, 2023 13:41:47 GMT
I ordered Sugarplum Wishes (Paige Evans). My mom recently gave me her memory card from her digital camera (she takes pictures but doesn't know how to get them off the camera) and she had photos from our big family Christmas party 2022 I want to scrapbook. I think the Paige Evans line will work well because there are a lot of kids and bright colors in the photos.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jun 26, 2023 18:00:46 GMT
Going to start working on Christmas cards for the swap. I am also going to go through my stash and purge then see what new things I can use and would like to add. Looks like you have a fun month of looking at supplies, making decisions and playing with what you like in your stash ahead! ā¤ļø Iām going to see how long I can hold out and not buy anything Christmas related. Not another die, not another sheet of paper, not another stamp. The reasonable one, ladies and gentlemen! š (I kid, I kid.) But it looks like you'll be frozen like a margerita as long as possible. I wish you luck as the tidal wave of new goodies comes over us in the next few weeks. It's going to be hard to resist but you can do it!  We're taking a trip home to NZ this Christmas. I'm a little nervous after the Iceland fiasco last year but crossing my fingers it will work out better with 2 fewer family members, more local knowledge, and (hopefully!) no monster storms. That's so exciting, joblackford! Can you do a detour through Europe and stash me in your suitcase on the way? I would love a nice, warm Christmas. š¹š“š (I say this as it's currently 33Ā°C/91Ā°F inside my apartment at nearly 8PM and I'm desperate for the night to drop below 30Ā°C/86Ā°F so we can cool off a little. What's wrong with me? š¤Ŗ) I've been waiting for this thread! I've been working on my PL albums from the last two years and have a few pages from Dec to be completed, so my goal is to get them all finished this month. Yay, Chinagirl828! You're a great finisher from what I've seen over the years on the board so I have full faith that you'll make it. It's going to feel so, so good being completely done with all those Christmassy PL pages and move ahead with the next festive season with a clean slate. š Ok, 12 days are complete (doing 26). Could be worse. ššš
Hey, hey, you're only 1 single day away from being 50% done! That's actually great progress. š¤© I'm impressed. Iām excited and hope to have the motivation to do my DD from a few years ago, 2018 I think? I have photos, paper, ephemera and book ready to go! Then Iāll be caught up to start my DD 2023 later this year. Wow, just one DD album to finish putting together (seriously, you've got the entire basis structure down with photos and paper and ephemera) and you'll be completely caught up. That's some serious DD commitment. Hope you can get it done this summer so you can chill and prep with zero stress for DD 2023! āØšā I bought 2 luscious red velvet 9x12 albums from scrapbook dot com and my plan is to put all my Christmas memories before 2020 in there. Letās hope it goes well! š¤š» Oooh, very exciting project! That sounds like a wonderful scrappy trip down memory lane. And those SB.com velvet albums are gorgeous! I hope you'll share your progress with us. š I'm going back to my regular plan: buy what I like, deal with it later. I know I will never finish this project if I don't have what I need when I need it. These books mean the world to me and my family. Every year we go through them one by one. It's now a tradition and I am so thankful for the time and effort I have put into making them over the years. I think this will be year 12 for me. I'll have to count! Hey, you tried something different and with good intentions but it didn't work out. It's ok! I'm glad you're back to your usual groove and have found *your* collection already. This year will be better than last! š«¶ 12 is a lot. Very impressive, girl. (Long time lurker here) I have exactly 0 pages completed in my 12x12 Documenting December 2022 album (a mix of full and pocket pages). However, I have all but two photos printed and everything laid out in the album. Most pages have some supplies already in the page protectors. Hoping to complete the album in July Welcome to the board! So glad you came out of lurkdom. You've gotten through the difficult task of getting your photos printed already so you get the have ALL the fun with paper and embellishments now. It's the best part! š Let us know how your process goes when you get started, will ya? I have about half my Christmas cards done. They are very simple, but last year I didn't make any, so I'm happy with them. Whoa, you've already done half of your cards? mikklynn, that's so productive. You're going to be ready well in time for December! But that's roughly 60 layouts. I COULD get caught up on December in July.... But Linda, you are one of the most prolific scrapbookers on the board. š You totally could get completely caught up next month (not that you have to - this should all still be fun for you). I don't want you to overdose on Christmassy things this early in the year. What's a realistic but still motivating goal for you? One December LO a day? I ordered Sugarplum Wishes (Paige Evans). My mom recently gave me her memory card from her digital camera (she takes pictures but doesn't know how to get them off the camera) and she had photos from our big family Christmas party 2022 I want to scrapbook. I think the Paige Evans line will work well because there are a lot of kids and bright colors in the photos. Oooh, how fun is this. You get to play with someone else's photos and revisit the Christmas memories through their eyes! šš
Will your mother be participating in the scrapbooking of these photos? Maybe through giving her perspective for the journaling? |
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Post by Linda on Jun 26, 2023 18:04:44 GMT
But Linda, you are one of the most prolific scrapbookers on the board. š You totally could get completely caught up next month (not that you have to - this should all still be fun for you). I don't want you to overdose on Christmassy things this early in the year. What's a realistic but still motivating goal for you? One December LO a day? the bigger issue for me is I'm in the midst of a photo organising project that's currently taking 10-12 hours/day and my current pace seems to be 1 year/day...I'm hoping once I get back before digital cameras it'll go faster but I'm trying to stay focused and see how much I can accomplish before I can't face it any longer. So scrapping is currently on hold. I think a good goal for me if I do scrap in July would be to finish at least one of those Decembers... |
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jun 26, 2023 18:07:13 GMT
I'll be joining the December crafty fun by still trying to figure out a way to get Christmas scrapbooking down to a few pages/year for a 6x8 multi-volume album series. I'd love to go back to 2019 to get a non-pandemic perspective in there. I yearn for the insouciance and ease of those pre-Covid days. Don't know if I want to craft my own dividers to separate each year, if I want to do one colour scheme focus/year or use only traditional colours (seems a little boring to me, to be honest), which stories to pick from each year, how to synthesise all the smaller stuff in one page, etc. So, my July looks like brainstorming and some trial & error as I test some things out in the album. š§Ŗš„ Talking of albums... I just saw this large spine 6x8 album (in spoiler) at Craftelier and it's at such a low price point (under 10ā¬ right now). Ugh, those soft colours, that cute deer face. Send help before I sneakily place an order. I am but a weak creature! š |
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Post by Linda on Jun 26, 2023 18:27:52 GMT
sleepingbooty - that's a lovely album and a great price. If you can formulate a plan for it, I would go for it
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jun 26, 2023 19:26:00 GMT
sleepingbooty - that's a lovely album and a great price. If you can formulate a plan for it, I would go for it *sneakily adds to cart* š„ø |
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Post by dewryce on Jun 26, 2023 19:59:11 GMT
I am a very slow and sporadic crafter, but I sure do enjoy the process! Have never done a DD, it can literally take years for me to finish a set of cards  so that would be pushing it for sure. But I do look forward to seeing yāallās progress, which collections youāve chosen, etc. My goal will be to make a good indention in my cards for this year. I started them last year and am determined to get them completed this year. My preferred method of card making is very assembly line, so last year I did the design and purchasing of supplies and die cut most everything I needed, will have to wait until I finish my backgrounds so I know what colors to finish with. I also learned how to use alcohol inks, that process took me a while. Iād say I have about 1/3 of my backgrounds made. So a very specific goal will be to finish the alcohol ink backgrounds. blemon Truer wordsā¦As methodical as I am in my planning I always miss something, or several somethings, or I decide I want to add a detail or two to my original design. |
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jun 26, 2023 20:25:25 GMT
the bigger issue for me is I'm in the midst of a photo organising project that's currently taking 10-12 hours/day and my current pace seems to be 1 year/day. [...] So scrapping is currently on hold. I think a good goal for me if I do scrap in July would be to finish at least one of those Decembers... That's a massive project, Linda. I'd be so overwhelmed in your shoes. Kudos for sticking with it and getting it done. I think finishing one December is already a pretty lofty goal considering your huge photo organisation mission. Can't wait to see what you come up with! š My goal will be to make a good indention in my cards for this year. I started them last year and am determined to get them completed this year. My preferred method of card making is very assembly line, so last year I did the design and purchasing of supplies and die cut most everything I needed, will have to wait until I finish my backgrounds so I know what colors to finish with. Sounds like you've found your groove, dewryce! š The satisfaction of getting your cards finished this year will be immense. I bet you had a lot of fun learning new techniques like making alcohol ink backgrounds. I hope you'll share your creations with us. |
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Post by sarahsprettypapers on Jun 26, 2023 20:33:37 GMT
Normally I am all "Yay, Christmas!" around this time, but this year... I am just not ready yet. I think it is because last December was a very rough month for the family. But I do hope to tackle some Christmas pages in July now that the first half of my wedding album is done. I have not made anything for last year's holiday season... I don't think I even pulled out a paper collection to use. So I think I will start there: evaluating my Christmas stash, pulling some supplies and watching some Hallmark movies to inspire me. Setting small goals!
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Post by scrappyem on Jun 26, 2023 20:51:33 GMT
Yay! Love this thread. You all inspired me to dig out my never-ending 2020 album and see what the damage actually is. I discovered I've got 5 days left but that includes Christmas with my bonus son and his birthday so there is a crap-ton of photos. I may just try and limit myself to a couple of favorites per day in order to actually get it done. I'm running out of room so I need to anyway, but also the sheer number of photos is overwhelming me. I did discover I'm further along than I thought, so that's nice. I could decide to just do the Christmas morning stuff and call it a day so I may ponder that option and see what I think after I finish those pages. *Repeats mantra to self, "done is better than perfect" taking deep breaths, while knowing I'm being silly.  |
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Post by tampascrapper on Jun 26, 2023 23:25:00 GMT
So I'm going back to my regular plan: buy what I like, deal with it later. I like this plan! I love making Christmas cards and I used up or got rid of my Christmas stash last year. So Iām buying a few things here and there. Iāve already made about 15 cards for this Christmas. |
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jun 27, 2023 11:57:54 GMT
PSA for our Hallmark afficionados:Beginning July 1st, the Hallmark Channel will air Christmas movies back-to-back daily from 10 AM to 10 PM. You can vote for your favourites through the weekly polls on the Hallmark Movie Checklist app. Two brand new Christmas movies will air during the month. A Royal Christmas Crush premieres July 8 and features Katie Cassidy and Stephen Huszar who fell in love IRL on set // Ava (Cassidy) accepts the opportunity of a lifetime to work at the Royal Ice Hotel, which leads her to a surprise whirlwind romance with the most important guest of all, the Royal Prince (Huszar) himself. The Christmas Reboot premieres July 15 and features Vanessa Lengies and Corey Sevier // A Christmas wish gives Renee (Lengies) the successful life sheād always dreamed of. This new reality is perfect, except for one thingā¦she is no longer married to her husband Aaron (Sevier). Now, Renee must race against the clock to win him back before Christmas Eve. No preview video available yet.
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Post by myboysnme on Jun 27, 2023 14:17:05 GMT
I am working on finishing the remaining layouts for Christmas 2022. I include pretty much all of Dec since almost everything is holiday related. I scrap separately for 2 dgds and a few pages for each of my 2 boys.
The problem is I have kind of lost track of what I still need to scrap. I've organized it at least 3 times. I think I am within 10 layouts of finishing maybe?
Nothing for Christmas 2023 except collecting ever more Christmas product
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Post by scrapcat on Jun 27, 2023 16:07:59 GMT
Love it! I am trying to complete a folio I put together for my December 2022 London/Edinburgh trip. I keep setting it aside as it is hard for me to scrap Christmas in summer, but I want to get it done as my digital book is still in progress. The one thing that was exciting me about it was I purchased some pieces of the Ciao Bella London's Calling collection, which has a wintery scenes and will work well with our WB Harry Potter visit too. I need to pick out which photos will make it into the folio and figure out sizes and all. Going to try to work on that this week. |
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Post by tampascrapper on Jun 27, 2023 23:55:43 GMT
A few items from Vicki Boutinās peppermint kisses line may have arrived at my house today š
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dawnnikol
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Post by dawnnikol on Jun 28, 2023 11:16:12 GMT
Last year's DD was so rushed and terrible because we'd been at Disney World in November (I know, my problems are not problems) and I hate it. I might try to pick it up and fix it. I think I need to purge quite a few things that I've been holding onto, too. I'm not usually "less is more", but might be time to try.
ETA: Booty has claimed.
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(Yep, last Christmas is already half a year ago!) And with less than a week to go before July 1st. 
Thanks for starting this thread--I'm excited to get started!
