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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Aug 24, 2017 0:14:57 GMT
I've decided to not do a separate DD this year.
I've done the last 3 years, and it's cute, but I'm just going to incorporate the holidays into my everyday album again.
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Post by cristelina on Aug 24, 2017 2:14:10 GMT
Wow guess I should finish up last years dd. I still have some journaling to complete. I just love this project. My sentiments exactly!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2017 13:29:34 GMT
Ready and waiting for word from you all about when it's time to GO!!!
Have a Felicity Jane "Hello Christmas" mini kit that I got on sale and am going to try for my first DD this year - though more in the style of Shimelle's JYC because I'm not tied to the every day thing, just the getting the memories down thing.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Aug 25, 2017 15:41:00 GMT
I'm home from wooooork. I'm ready to go check ALL the social media to fish for any info or clues about potential DD kits. *opens Instagram* Ooooh, cat video... On the topic of potential guest designers, did anyone else read Brandi Kincaid's IG post a couple days ago and do some wisful thinking that the timing could mean she was doing the unboxing video for her guest designer mini kit? I mean, there's a lot of AE product on her social media at the mo'. Yeah, yeah, let's not get our hopes up. But if she were to be featured as a DD designer this year, imagine the coup! Ali would have instant purchases from a bunch of us who were set on not getting anything... https://www.instagram.com/p/BYGvoc1F3mZ
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Post by mommaho on Aug 25, 2017 16:40:56 GMT
Not to be an enabler but Scrapbook.com has the Very Merry on sale right now. I may have bought a few things . . . .
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Post by paperamy on Aug 26, 2017 2:40:19 GMT
Ali has vaguely announced the timeline for sneaks and preorders.
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Post by anniefb on Aug 26, 2017 5:00:44 GMT
Thanks paperamy. I'm interested to see the kits and really hope I like them better than last year's offering.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Aug 26, 2017 5:18:35 GMT
Thanks everyone for posting these DD kit-related bits of news! I very much appreciate it.
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Post by scrappyesq on Aug 26, 2017 12:24:50 GMT
Thanks everyone for keeping us all posted. Every year I say I'm not getting a kit....but we all know how that works out.
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Post by dawnnikol on Aug 27, 2017 0:01:18 GMT
I was told I could confirm that Brandi Kincaid + Feed Your Craft will be doing a DD kit again this year.
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Post by mom on Aug 27, 2017 0:17:30 GMT
I was told I could confirm that Brandi Kincaid + Feed Your Craft will be doing a DD kit again this year. I knew you'd know!
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Post by dawnnikol on Aug 27, 2017 1:00:18 GMT
I was told I could confirm that Brandi Kincaid + Feed Your Craft will be doing a DD kit again this year. I knew you'd know! I've been dying to confirm. DYING!
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Post by elegantsufficiency on Aug 27, 2017 7:36:40 GMT
I just pre-ordered the Pinkfresh December Days paper and a few embellies from Mei Li, international postage free. I thought that when the kits ocme out, I'll be tempted, I know, and yet I never create a DD album I'm happy with when I make it from a kit. I suppose I'm just too influenced by whatever others are doing with those same components and find myself following the herd in spite of my best intentions. I liked the "different" colour palette Pinkfresh have offered with this collection and since my Christmas is generally a "grown up" one rather than one including small children, I don't need quite as much Santa stuff. This will be my 15th DD/Journal your Christmas/whatevs and I'm looking forward to getting started, even though for me, Christmas doesn't begin till December! sleepingbooty, thanks for starting this thread! Christmas might not begin till December for me, but hey, we all need a warm up time, don't we?!
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Post by anniefb on Aug 28, 2017 6:02:19 GMT
Good reminder about Mei Li Paperie elegantsufficiency. Haven't ordered from there in a while but the free shipping certainly helps!
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Post by elegantsufficiency on Aug 28, 2017 7:20:41 GMT
Good reminder about Mei Li Paperie elegantsufficiency . Haven't ordered from there in a while but the free shipping certainly helps! Certainly does! I was the same - I'd placed a few orders but then moved on and forgot about them until I was searching for a source to buy the Pinkfresh things. I might have waited until a UK store had them in stock but I knew that then I'd be tempted by those kits... It was time to be decisive!
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Post by sleepingbooty on Aug 28, 2017 10:23:07 GMT
sleepingbooty, thanks for starting this thread! Christmas might not begin till December for me, but hey, we all need a warm up time, don't we?! My pleasure! I'm going to try and put a stop to my continued DD failure (it's turned into a personal tradition at this stage ) this year by working ahead, before things get mad at work and December's on my doorstep without a warning.
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Post by nicolep on Aug 28, 2017 13:46:45 GMT
I saw a couple of FYC sneaks on IG this morning. If that Comfort & Joy collection is truly mostly blue and green with pops of red I'll be all over It! There is also a sneak of a fall/Thanksgiving collection but since this is the DD thread I'm just posting these two lol.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Aug 28, 2017 15:05:47 GMT
Off to IG to take a better look at those FYC sneaks nicolep posted above. Dusty periwinkle blue and muted greens are always a favourite of mine... Comfort & Joy looks promising. I'm just giggling at the "Remember December" collection name since "Remember, remember! The 25th of December" is a possible title I have in my DD 2017 draft.
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Post by elegantsufficiency on Aug 28, 2017 15:23:19 GMT
Hehe, as soon as I've been decisive, another temptation comes along!! I love the blue and green and might just have to think about DD2018! (Well, I did say we need a bit of warm up, didn't I?!) Thanks for sharing that little beauty, nicolep sleepingbooty are you familiar with the British version of that rhyme? "Remember, remember the fifth of November, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot" !
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Post by sleepingbooty on Aug 28, 2017 15:31:37 GMT
elegantsufficiency Yes, that's where I got the title from! I remember hearing it for the very first time when I was still a kid and wondering why the heck they wanted the Pope to choke on cheese... ETA: which direction are you taking with your DD album this year, elegantsufficiency? I am *this* close to placing an order for mine...
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Post by AmandaA on Aug 28, 2017 16:06:44 GMT
I will be curious to see Brandi's collection. While the floral wreath is very much in keeping with her style, the color scheme and font she used feel different to me. I know I have some things in my stash that look like that writing... is it similar to Life Love Paper? My brain is drawing a blank. Not sure that I have an opinion about it one way or another, just an observation that it isn't her usual cursive script that we are used to seeing. But I do like the color palette in the sneak and like that it feels a little softer than what I remember from last year.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Aug 28, 2017 17:39:33 GMT
While the floral wreath is very much in keeping with her style, the color scheme and font she used feel different to me. I know I have some things in my stash that look like that writing... is it similar to Life Love Paper? My brain is drawing a blank. Yep, Life Love Paper! You've seen it before in Studio Calico kits. Heck, it's even present in this month's.
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Post by AmandaA on Aug 28, 2017 18:25:46 GMT
Thanks sleepingbooty. I wasn't giving my sleep deprived brain enough credit! I knew it reminded me of things I had gotten from SC, but I really don't "keep up" with all of the different designers outside of seeing them pop up in kits. I am actually quite jealous of Brandi's beautiful script, so that just really jumped out at me as a departure from what I tend to think if as her style. Excited to see it all looks like.
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Post by elegantsufficiency on Aug 28, 2017 18:45:58 GMT
elegantsufficiency Yes, that's where I got the title from! I remember hearing it for the very first time when I was still a kid and wondering why the heck they wanted the Pope to choke on cheese... ETA: which direction are you taking with your DD album this year, elegantsufficiency ? I am *this* close to placing an order for mine... As children, it was always the PLOT which was spoken very loudly and with huge emphasis, except that I'm sure I had no idea what the PLOT was all about...it was just a lovely word to say at the end of that sentence. It's a pretty unpleasant concept to celebrate and I am reluctant to dwell on the idea of burning a figure on a bonfire, but I do lament the loss of an old English folk tradition with the commercial "give me sweets" Hallowe'en that seems to have overshadowed it. But back to DD, I imagine that I'll begin with the usual good intentions and base the first few pages at least (!) on Shimelle's Journal your Christmas prompts, even if they are not necessarily in the right order! I like her general good humour and find the themes work well for us, even though we don't have small children around. But I have to speak firmly to myself and not repeat what I did last year (or the year before that). For example, she bases one of her prompts on "counting down" - maybe with an Advent Calendar. It would be oh so easy just to go and take a photo of the same old same old, but I try to be strong and find a different slant. Yet some things are the same year after year - we have a Paddington Bear and his Aunt Lucy, who always dress up as Nikolaus on December 6th. Of course, that's always my page with a 6 on - and it's just one of those things which we *always* do; one of our traditions. Here's a link to my 2015 DD and one to my 2016 DD so you can see however much I try to make them different, somehow, they end up pretty similar. I guess I have a "house style" !! (I did try a very different one in 2013 but I'm not sure it worked terribly well - it certainly takes up way too much real estate in the basket!) Oh, and I just found the blog post about the SC kit album i did in 2012 My goodness, that was a rabbit hole I just fell down, wasn't it!?
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Post by anniefb on Aug 28, 2017 20:11:14 GMT
I like the look of Comfort & Joy. Very interested to see what the rest looks like.
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Post by Mystie on Aug 28, 2017 20:17:24 GMT
I appreciate y'all bringing this up now...I have three JYCs from '14, '15, and '16 that are 75-90% finished, and if I start thinking about them now, maybe I can get them done and albumized before I have to decide whether I'm doing a JYC for 2017.
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Post by mom on Aug 28, 2017 20:32:30 GMT
Comfort and Joy looks promising!
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Post by AmandaA on Aug 28, 2017 22:34:30 GMT
Just saw the official DD email. No sneaks yet.. boo! Just the timeline and the info that there will be a main kit and 3 minis. Hoping for quality over quantity... even though I said I am not participating 🙄
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Post by anniefb on Aug 28, 2017 22:35:06 GMT
Ok so I just got the email from AE. Order selection period begins on 6 Sept.
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Post by nicolep on Aug 28, 2017 22:37:18 GMT
Love how we are on top of this! A couple screenshots from the email.
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