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Post by mamakoala on Mar 17, 2017 22:07:06 GMT
Some were from pieces of kits, some were pulled from my own stash, but all are matched with photos! Took me hours, and i am pooped, but now i can just grab a folder thingie and scrap!!!
I know only you guys would be proud of me LOL...
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Post by Luckysue on Mar 17, 2017 23:18:49 GMT
That is very impressive. You might just motivate me to do some also this weekend.
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Post by creative*moma on Mar 17, 2017 23:21:41 GMT
Wow, great job! I so need to start making a few for the Expo in a few months.
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Post by mamakoala on Mar 17, 2017 23:34:57 GMT
I am going to my first crop in many many years in May and since i scrap fast now, I am wondering how many page kits I will have to make. I make a 2-pager in about 30 minutes...so....scrap from 9:30 am or so until 9:30 pm (staying at home so have an hour drive) back) for 3 days makes.....36 hours....throw in some time for card-making...i think i will need to make about 50 page kits! WOW! that's a lot!  |
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Post by iheartpaper on Mar 17, 2017 23:40:52 GMT
DIY kits are so fun to make! I always feel like once I'm in the groove I can make tons...and you'll need a ton for your crop. Have fun!
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Post by mamakoala on Mar 17, 2017 23:46:08 GMT
i dont really use embellies, so they're really easy to make lol.
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Post by houston249 on Mar 17, 2017 23:48:49 GMT
Scrap me super impressed!!! That is awesome!
Have you ever shared your kit making process and if not, will you please, pease, pretty please with sugar on top, share your process?
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Post by mamakoala on Mar 17, 2017 23:54:16 GMT
Scrap me super impressed!!! That is awesome! Have you ever shared your kit making process and if not, will you please, pease, pretty please with sugar on top, share your process? Ha! Not much of a process. I sort photos into piles (each pile is a page, or a 2-pager). Even if it's a solo photo page, it still gets its own "pile". Then I pick up a pile, decide what cardstock color to use (i tend towards white or kraft but have been known to break into the blues LOL). Then I pick 2-3 matching PP. I do NOT pick alphas--i pretty much only use american crafts alphas, 99% of the time black or white, so I keep those in a 12x12 iris case. I might throw in a few embellies. As I mentioned above, i do mostly paper pages, very minimal embellies. If i am using a kit or partial kit, even easier--just decide what photos go with a kit and sometimes, put in more than one "pile" into a kit storage folder since I can often squeeze 4 pages out of one page kit. I just add extra cardstock. I have an evernote tab of 2-pagers and 1 -pager templates so I can just go in there when I am reading to scrap and find a sketch to use. I am a pretty simple scrapper, so i know this process won't work for everyone. Back in the day when I had a million embellies, it took FOREVER to choose the right ones. I use mostly non-themed embellies now (brads, some simple cardstock things) so it's much easier. Hope that helps! |
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Post by freeatlast on Mar 18, 2017 0:12:26 GMT
You will be so productive at your crop!
I make card kits for crafty days/weekends. In fact, I am working on them tonight for our get together tomorrow.
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Mar 18, 2017 3:43:01 GMT
It seems like these page kits will really help you at your crop. Way to go on putting so many together!
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Post by njinkerbelle on Mar 18, 2017 4:16:43 GMT
I just went to a weekend crop last weekend and took the time to make page kits. It was the first time I did this. It was great. I didn't have to bring my entire stash with me and traveling light was a welcome relief.
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Post by aggiebonfire00 on Mar 18, 2017 5:15:01 GMT
That is super impressive! I have been busy sorting all of my trip memorabilia into those IRIS bins from Michael's. Now when I go somewhere, I can just grab a trip and one of my old SC kits and get going. Hopefully this will help keep me from wasting hours looking for my trip stuff and all of my supplies! Let us know if you post your layouts here when you are finished!!!
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Mar 18, 2017 11:55:57 GMT
I am SO proud of you!!
18 kits is amazing!
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Post by Peamac on Mar 18, 2017 12:42:16 GMT
That is very impressive. You might just motivate me to do some also this weekend. You know, I just got my 100 Amazon prints in the mail yesterday, and I might have a few hours on Sunday afternoon to do scrappy stuff. I should plan to put some kits together too. Most of my 100 photos are from trips and I already have product set aside for those, but some are just regular scrapping photos. |
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Post by mikklynn on Mar 18, 2017 13:30:29 GMT
Eighteen is a lot! I am impressed.
I think I will copy your process before my Saturday crop in April. I always take too much stuff. Thanks for sharing it.
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Post by justjazzy3 on Mar 18, 2017 15:50:14 GMT
Have fun at your crop. I always make page kits for crops. It is the best way. 😀
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Post by roberta on Mar 18, 2017 16:15:18 GMT
Wow! That is great - and yes we appreciate and understand the accomplishment!
I second the idea for you to post pics of a few of your completed pages! Would love to see them.
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Post by houston249 on Mar 18, 2017 16:22:07 GMT
mamakoala Yes it does help, thanks so much for sharing your process! Let us know how the crop goes.
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Post by lostwithout2peas on Mar 18, 2017 19:25:40 GMT
Some were from pieces of kits, some were pulled from my own stash, but all are matched with photos! Took me hours, and i am pooped, but now i can just grab a folder thingie and scrap!!! I know only you guys would be proud of me LOL... Great job!!'ve been doing page kits for the past few weeks for a retreat and now I'm addicted!! Any free time I have, instead of scrapping I'm kitting. I love the feeling of things being used, but not all the time it takes to actually put a page together! I will leave that till I have hours upon hours of uninterrupted time to scrap. Right now I have 54 page kits.... now I know I'm not gonna get all 54 done at my retreat but I figured I might as well keep on going while I'm on a roll. And this way, when life settles down a bit and gets back to somewhat normal, when I just have a little bit of time to scrap I can just grab a kit! |
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Post by mamakoala on Mar 18, 2017 19:33:29 GMT
That is very impressive. You might just motivate me to do some also this weekend. You know, I just got my 100 Amazon prints in the mail yesterday, and I might have a few hours on Sunday afternoon to do scrappy stuff. I should plan to put some kits together too. Most of my 100 photos are from trips and I already have product set aside for those, but some are just regular scrapping photos. do it!! It makes it SO efficient!! I am actually (GASP OF HORROR) RUNNING OUT OF PHOTOS!!!! OMG!!! LOLOL |
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Post by mamakoala on Mar 18, 2017 19:34:23 GMT
mamakoala Yes it does help, thanks so much for sharing your process! Let us know how the crop goes. thanks everyone!!! CRop isn't until May so my guess is i will go through all of these by then, but I'll keep making more--need to take more photos!! |
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Post by mamakoala on Mar 18, 2017 19:35:14 GMT
Some were from pieces of kits, some were pulled from my own stash, but all are matched with photos! Took me hours, and i am pooped, but now i can just grab a folder thingie and scrap!!! I know only you guys would be proud of me LOL... Great job!!'ve been doing page kits for the past few weeks for a retreat and now I'm addicted!! Any free time I have, instead of scrapping I'm kitting. I love the feeling of things being used, but not all the time it takes to actually put a page together! I will leave that till I have hours upon hours of uninterrupted time to scrap. Right now I have 54 page kits.... now I know I'm not gonna get all 54 done at my retreat but I figured I might as well keep on going while I'm on a roll. And this way, when life settles down a bit and gets back to somewhat normal, when I just have a little bit of time to scrap I can just grab a kit! 54 kits!!! WOW!~!! how do you store them? In large ziplocks? That's VERY IMPRESSIVE!!!! |
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Post by lostwithout2peas on Mar 18, 2017 20:03:10 GMT
Thanks! Yes, 2 kits to a ziplock. I have 2 different ways of kitting. One is when I'm in a no brainer mood, just putting patterned papers together and cut a parts from different lines. Then later I will go in an add photos, a title, & embellishments.
The other way is starting with the photos and pulling paper, embellishments, making a title, stickers, everything. I put all the sticky stuff on wax paper and just toss it in the kit. This way I have everything I need to complet the page without taking the bulk of my stuff. I call this half scrapbooking. Cause I'm doing have the work thinking of the colors and titles and what I wanna convey with my pages. Then I do the other half at the crop coming up with a page design!
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Post by Scrapper100 on Mar 19, 2017 0:32:42 GMT
the fact that you have the photos and paper for so many is impressive - for me the hard part is getting the photos I want edited and printed - and many times picking out paper. I have a few photos that I don't have a clue what paper to use. Good luck you are off to a great start for getting ready for your crop.
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Post by myboysnme on Mar 19, 2017 1:04:46 GMT
I am going to my first crop in many many years in May and since i scrap fast now, I am wondering how many page kits I will have to make. I make a 2-pager in about 30 minutes...so....scrap from 9:30 am or so until 9:30 pm (staying at home so have an hour drive) back) for 3 days makes.....36 hours....throw in some time for card-making...i think i will need to make about 50 page kits! WOW! that's a lot! Take enough to make 50 pages. I am a fast scrapper too and I got almost that many done at my weekend crop. It will go even faster with actual page kits! I just toss whatever I might want to use in a page protector and work with whatever is there. |
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Post by mamakoala on Mar 19, 2017 1:31:54 GMT
the fact that you have the photos and paper for so many is impressive - for me the hard part is getting the photos I want edited and printed - and many times picking out paper. I have a few photos that I don't have a clue what paper to use. Good luck you are off to a great start for getting ready for your crop. i no longer edit my photos. I just upload them and print. I crop as needed but no editing on the computer. It's a big timesaver and I enjoy the whole process much more than when I was an editing addict. |
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Post by lostwithout2peas on Mar 19, 2017 8:46:40 GMT
the fact that you have the photos and paper for so many is impressive - for me the hard part is getting the photos I want edited and printed - and many times picking out paper. I have a few photos that I don't have a clue what paper to use. Good luck you are off to a great start for getting ready for your crop. I've got 3 kids, and a close nit family that includes nieces, nephews, and now great nieces and nephews. Add that I've been a scrapbooker for 20 years and love photography.... I have enough pictures and paper to last me a lifetime!! And I do the same, no editing, just print them out. |
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Post by crystalb on Mar 19, 2017 12:46:45 GMT
WOW! Great job! I love kitting, almost as much as scrapping. For me it helps tremendously when life gets super busy (like now) and I only have 5-10 here or there. I can just pull a bag/envie out and go. Great job!
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Post by Delta Dawn on Mar 20, 2017 13:42:49 GMT
That is very productive. All you need now is a couple of hours and you can cut and paste and have fun. Totally great idea!!!
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Post by lemondrop on Mar 20, 2017 14:45:43 GMT
Good for you! What is more impressive it that you are going to a crop in MAY and you are planning NOW!  |
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