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Post by refugeepea on Apr 13, 2019 23:01:45 GMT
I tend to get a little behind sometimes and let some layouts pile up. Especially ones that need journaling and titles. Once it hits about a dozen I can't stand it anymore. I used to do layouts start to finish and put in an album before moving on to another layout. I've relaxed quite a bit. I used to scrap strictly chronologically but now I enjoy going back and scrapping an old story and like a little blast from the past in an album. I feel like I've hit a good middle ground too. I'm having fun scrapping whatever strikes my mood, but the pages are organized chronologically. Journaling is always the hardest for me. I've kind of given up on titles.
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Elsabelle
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Post by Elsabelle on Apr 13, 2019 23:13:53 GMT
Elsabelle , happy anniversary! What great presents Thank you!
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Chinagirl828
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Apr 13, 2019 23:20:47 GMT
Really??? I had 2 pages for my DD's album sitting out. I was going to wait to put them in her album until I did another layout, but when I got up they were bugging me and I put them in. Haha, I'm totally like this. I currently have four completed layouts still out and every time I walk near my desk I feel the guilt of not having put them away yet. I'm planning to finish the two partially completed pages on my desk then put them all away. I learned after Sketchtember last year I absolutely cannot cope with a large stack of unfiled layouts.
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Post by warrior1991 on Apr 13, 2019 23:56:07 GMT
I scrap on whatever fits my mood at that moment and they go in my book in that order too. I might have a layout from 2010 next to a layout from 2019. Doesn't bother me a bit.
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Post by KelleeM on Apr 14, 2019 0:05:50 GMT
I probably have 150 or more pages not in albums. I don’t scrap chronologically so it gets to be a pain. I need my house to be my own so I have room to sort out layouts and albums. That may never happen. My albums would probably drive some people nuts. All of the layouts are organized chronologically except they are in different stages of being completed. Then there are a lot of post it notes in the page protectors of what I need to do to finish the pages. I have a boomerang kid. He was gone for a year, back for maybe six months, and he's out again. I asked him to at least clear off the makeshift table desk I have in his room, so I can leave messy things out. Still, if I do work in there, it will be going up and down the stairs to get things. Ugh! Currently, I have scrap stuff in my living room and do things at the kitchen table. I have a boomerang kid and her kid too. Dh and I never got to live in our home alone. We bought a townhouse in July 2016. This is my first time owning a home and my scrapbooking stuff is in a nook in the basement...it’s better than nothing but I’m tired. It was not my plan for them to live with us and dh gave them three years. He’s not dd’s father. Anyway, three years is up in less than 3 months but they’re not going anywhere.
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Post by hop2 on Apr 14, 2019 12:56:18 GMT
Still, if I do work in there, it will be going up and down the stairs to get things. Ugh! Currently, I have scrap stuff in my living room and do things at the kitchen table. This is why I stopped scrapping. I had stuff in each closet around the house and my table in the basement ( usually with other people stuff plopped in it ) so to work I have to first clean off the table then gather stuff from where ever it was by that time something usually came up and I didn’t gave time anymore, I can’t wait to have my space organized how I can use it. I’ve been scrapping now, even with the lack of organization. But organized will be much easier. I actually wanted to work a bit to see how I’d like to have everything. I’m just about there now. I’m spending my small tax refund on getting the things I need to be organized - carts, bins etc. and if I have to get up & do something I can leave everything in place with no worries.
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Post by hop2 on Apr 14, 2019 13:06:16 GMT
Ok so this weekend I have been learning to use ephemera. Which is semi new to me. This is dangerous as now I probably need more ephemera packs.
I have also tried pocket scrapping, not sure how I feel about that yet. I’m sure it’s probably easier with 12x12 than 8x8 but I’m so used to doing 8x8 for travel books that I started there. We shall see. But so far it’s been ok for this project. I’m using the doodlebug pages and have some regular 8x8 mixed in, which I definitely like.
I’m just unsure, I have a place ( possibly more ) where I need horizontal pictures on the other side from vertical pictures. Do I cheat and mount those pictures on cardstock as if the were pocket scrapped? OR do I cut one set of the picture in half and pocket s rap them anyway? It’s not people if that matters - the first place I e come across it is the pantheon so just a building would be cut in half. I started to set them up on card stock but it looks weird to me. But once cut there’s no going back.
Opinions would be helpful.
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Post by hop2 on Apr 14, 2019 13:07:59 GMT
Oh btw. I extremely happy with my jillibean soup ephemera packs. I bought 3 because I needed one thing in each but I’m finding them real easy to used
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Post by kitbop on Apr 14, 2019 13:11:29 GMT
Really??? I had 2 pages for my DD's album sitting out. I was going to wait to put them in her album until I did another layout, but when I got up they were bugging me and I put them in. Haha, I'm totally like this. I currently have four completed layouts still out and every time I walk near my desk I feel the guilt of not having put them away yet. I'm planning to finish the two partially completed pages on my desk then put them all away. I learned after Sketchtember last year I absolutely cannot cope with a large stack of unfiled layouts. I have about 100 layouts in a stack to put away right now and they are yelling at me in my dreams. I leave the most recent ones out to show my DH and the kids, plus I like to flip through them, and if I put them in albums I don't get them out... But they accumulate. Problem is, my albums are REALLY full. So to add a few layouts to "summer 2016" means shifting layouts onward chronologically to later albums. But those albums are also REALLY full. So I'm shifting things through YEARS of albums to get to the point where I can add a new album in the current time! I try to leave space, but I always scrap more layouts of a season than I expect. Scrap issues!
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kitbop
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Post by kitbop on Apr 14, 2019 13:17:45 GMT
I have a place ( possibly more ) where I need horizontal pictures on the other side from vertical pictures. Do I cheat and mount those pictures on cardstock as if the were pocket scrapped? OR do I cut one set of the picture in half and pocket s rap them anyway? If you are mounting on cardstock, and then placing those in 8x8 page protectors, I say *definitely* go with this. Although the aesthetic of the album is better with cutting photos, I personally think it does take away from the photograph. And if you are scrapping travel photos, I feel it's the photo that should count, not continuity of the album.
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Post by KelleeM on Apr 14, 2019 13:21:46 GMT
I scrap on whatever fits my mood at that moment and they go in my book in that order too. I might have a layout from 2010 next to a layout from 2019. Doesn't bother me a bit. This is how I need to approach putting pages into albums...just do it!
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Post by refugeepea on Apr 15, 2019 16:08:43 GMT
I have a boomerang kid and her kid too. Dh and I never got to live in our home alone. We bought a townhouse in July 2016. This is my first time owning a home and my scrapbooking stuff is in a nook in the basement...it’s better than nothing but I’m tired. It was not my plan for them to live with us and dh gave them three years. He’s not dd’s father. Anyway, three years is up in less than 3 months but they’re not going anywhere. I'm sorry. I'm nervous about the kid that has left once again. For his sake, I hope it ends up working for him, but I have doubts. Then there's my other two kids; one is likely living with us indefinitely.
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Post by mikklynn on Apr 15, 2019 16:31:45 GMT
Ok so this weekend I have been learning to use ephemera. Which is semi new to me. This is dangerous as now I probably need more ephemera packs. I have also tried pocket scrapping, not sure how I feel about that yet. I’m sure it’s probably easier with 12x12 than 8x8 but I’m so used to doing 8x8 for travel books that I started there. We shall see. But so far it’s been ok for this project. I’m using the doodlebug pages and have some regular 8x8 mixed in, which I definitely like. I’m just unsure, I have a place ( possibly more ) where I need horizontal pictures on the other side from vertical pictures. Do I cheat and mount those pictures on cardstock as if the were pocket scrapped? OR do I cut one set of the picture in half and pocket s rap them anyway? It’s not people if that matters - the first place I e come across it is the pantheon so just a building would be cut in half. I started to set them up on card stock but it looks weird to me. But once cut there’s no going back. Opinions would be helpful. Could you print 2 of the same photo, then try it each way? I have done it both ways. I like to use pocket pages between a 2 page layout when I have a lot of photos of the same event.
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Post by mikklynn on Apr 15, 2019 16:32:44 GMT
Oh btw. I extremely happy with my jillibean soup ephemera packs. I bought 3 because I needed one thing in each but I’m finding them real easy to used I also love Pebbles ephemera / diecut packets.
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Post by LisaDV on Apr 16, 2019 15:29:51 GMT
I have a boomerang kid and her kid too. Dh and I never got to live in our home alone. We bought a townhouse in July 2016. This is my first time owning a home and my scrapbooking stuff is in a nook in the basement...it’s better than nothing but I’m tired. It was not my plan for them to live with us and dh gave them three years. He’s not dd’s father. Anyway, three years is up in less than 3 months but they’re not going anywhere. I thought she was looking for a place a few months back. How does dh feel about this? ’m just unsure, I have a place ( possibly more ) where I need horizontal pictures on the other side from vertical pictures. Do I cheat and mount those pictures on cardstock as if the were pocket scrapped? OR do I cut one set of the picture in half and pocket s rap them anyway? It’s not people if that matters - the first place I e come across it is the pantheon so just a building would be cut in half. I started to set them up on card stock but it looks weird to me. But once cut there’s no going back. Opinions would be helpful. I do both. Depending upon the page & the photo. If you cut it and don't like it, you can always reprint or just place it back together again. Sometimes printing the full photo with a text on the negative space also helps.
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Post by hop2 on Apr 23, 2019 1:42:43 GMT
I’m all caught up in my daily journal planner.
I’m plowing ahead on my DD’s travel book. I’m liking the doodle bug ring binder I’m using with the varied page protectors. I scrap the photos I want to and slip the rest in pocket pages. It’s been enjoyable.
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msliz
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Post by msliz on Apr 26, 2019 16:16:04 GMT
I'm losing my mind. Where the heck are my Cutterbees? I remember the exact spot I was sitting when I last used them, but they're not there, they're not in my tool box, they're not out on the craft table. What the heck?
And last week I wasted a good half hour searching for a sticker I had stuck on cardstock and fussy cut not 5 minutes prior to when it disappeared. I finally found it under a pad of paper.
But my scissors are too big for that. Where the heck are they?
Scrapbooking is not supposed to be stressful.
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Post by mikklynn on Apr 26, 2019 19:05:34 GMT
I feel your pain msliz! I once lost a photo from my desk. It had the tiniest bit of adhesive on it and stuck to the bottom of a piece of cardstock. Any chance your family "borrowed" them?
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Post by mikklynn on Apr 26, 2019 19:06:08 GMT
I am hoping DH feels up to going to his poker night tonight. I can use some home alone time in my happy place!
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Post by Linda on Apr 26, 2019 19:28:40 GMT
I have about 100 layouts in a stack to put away right now and they are yelling at me in my dreams. I leave the most recent ones out to show my DH and the kids, plus I like to flip through them, and if I put them in albums I don't get them out... But they accumulate. Problem is, my albums are REALLY full. So to add a few layouts to "summer 2016" means shifting layouts onward chronologically to later albums. But those albums are also REALLY full. So I'm shifting things through YEARS of albums to get to the point where I can add a new album in the current time! I try to leave space, but I always scrap more layouts of a season than I expect. I use 'working' albums to help with this. I have cheap 3-ring binders with page protectors and I pop photos and/or journalling notes in chronologically. I don't move to the actual album until I have a complete month (chronologically - so if March is complete but Jan isn't - it's still in the working albums. That way when I do move stuff to an actual album, I'm not having to make space or cram stuff in. And I can tell, just by looking at whether it's a album or a binder- where the gaps are.
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msliz
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Post by msliz on Apr 26, 2019 19:47:33 GMT
I feel your pain msliz! I once lost a photo from my desk. It had the tiniest bit of adhesive on it and stuck to the bottom of a piece of cardstock. Any chance your family "borrowed" them? I'm planning to ask suspect number one when she gets home tonight. I hope you get to scrap tonight!
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Post by mikklynn on Apr 26, 2019 20:27:10 GMT
I feel your pain msliz ! I once lost a photo from my desk. It had the tiniest bit of adhesive on it and stuck to the bottom of a piece of cardstock. Any chance your family "borrowed" them? I'm planning to ask suspect number one when she gets home tonight. I hope you get to scrap tonight! Ha ha "suspect number one". I love it. The best thing about an empty nest is the scissors and tape are always in the drawer.
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Post by hop2 on Apr 26, 2019 20:39:27 GMT
I misplaced my own fussy cutting scissors. I dropped them out of my class bag on my way home one night. Then I was in my car for work and saw them on the floor so I threw them in my work bag intending to put them away when I got home. I forgot. The next time I needed them I tore my work bag apart nada- nothing- no fussy cutting scissors. They were lost.
I bought myself a new pair, upgrading to the spring ones. Then I saw another one on clearance sale so I bought myself the second pair. One for home & one for my class bag.
Then I find the first set in my lunch box - I have no idea how it got from my work bag to my lunch box. Now I have 3 pair of fussy scissors. As for regular scissors there was a clearance on fiskars at Joanne’s when I got divorced so now I have 4 pair: kitchen drawer scissors, hall closet scissors, scrap area scissors & class bag scissors. ( mind you my apartment isn’t that big ) So there’s always a pair a few steps away.
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Post by Linda on Apr 26, 2019 21:07:56 GMT
I misplaced my own fussy cutting scissors. I dropped them out of my class bag on my way home one night. Then I was in my car for work and saw them on the floor so I threw them in my work bag intending to put them away when I got home. I forgot. The next time I needed them I tore my work bag apart nada- nothing- no fussy cutting scissors. They were lost. I bought myself a new pair, upgrading to the spring ones. Then I saw another one on clearance sale so I bought myself the second pair. One for home & one for my class bag. Then I find the first set in my lunch box - I have no idea how it got from my work bag to my lunch box. Now I have 3 pair of fussy scissors. As for regular scissors there was a clearance on fiskars at Joanne’s when I got divorced so now I have 4 pair: kitchen drawer scissors, hall closet scissors, scrap area scissors & class bag scissors. ( mind you my apartment isn’t that big ) So there’s always a pair a few steps away. I don't actually own fussy cutting scissors - although I probably should. But I got tired of never being able to find regular scissors so I bought everyone in the house their own pair, plus a pair for the kitchen, my desk, my scrapbook desk, DH's scrapbook desk, and the craft cabinet- plus two pairs for the wrapping boxes (reg. and Christmas)...and yet, still, I reach for scissors and they aren't where they belong
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Post by scrapaddict702 on Apr 26, 2019 21:09:45 GMT
I'm such a bum. Every time I get caught up on photos I say I'm not going to get behind again. I'm doing so well on keeping up that I just ordered photos for June-August 2018 yesterday. The upside is that the 3 orders have already shipped. I even ordered September just a few minutes ago and my usual daunting October folders aren't as bad as I was preparing myself for (not even half of what I expected). I don't like getting behind because I hate the editing process. Most photos are pretty quick, but when you have hundreds to do, quick still adds up to time consuming. If I notice a speck of something I can easily edit out and order the picture without editing to save time or in an effort to be less of a perfectionist, the specks end up being the only things I see when I get the picture. Let's not discuss the fact that I don't notice these things when I take the pictures, though, lol.
I am excited to see that Costco's 9 cent mail order thing is still going on because it means I can order one month at a time instead of a 100 photo minimum (used to be the only way to get less than 17 cents a print was to order at least 100 to get 14 cents a print) because those took me at least an hour, usually longer, to sort back to chronological and folder order. I think I'm just going to have to get used to living behind because my best intentions never seem to pan out, lol.
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Post by Linda on Apr 26, 2019 21:32:17 GMT
scrapaddict702 - it took a couple of years for my good intentions of ordering photos regularly to actually become a habit. I don't know if you're an Amazon Prime member, but I am and ordering 9 cent photos free shipping is what finally did it for me in the end - I don't feel like I have to have a certain number of photos to justify the shipping or meet a deal requirement so I can order weekly or monthly and just get what I need.
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Post by scrapaddict702 on Apr 26, 2019 22:59:01 GMT
scrapaddict702 - it took a couple of years for my good intentions of ordering photos regularly to actually become a habit. I don't know if you're an Amazon Prime member, but I am and ordering 9 cent photos free shipping is what finally did it for me in the end - I don't feel like I have to have a certain number of photos to justify the shipping or meet a deal requirement so I can order weekly or monthly and just get what I need. I haven't ordered with Amazon, but my guess is that's why Costco lowered their print prices for online ordering (it's still the old pricing in the warehouse, but I stopped doing that because my in store people suck and always blame me for the mistakes they make when printing...the reality is they're lazy and don't insert the paper correctly or properly maintain the machines) sometime last year. The price had me really excited to be able to order pictures in smaller groups because the biggest pain was having to wait 2 or 3 months to have 100 pictures to print to save money and then the added work in sorting the photos back out. I think they grab them randomly a bunch at a time because they are in sequence in small groups, but it is still a lot of work to get them back in order again.
At any rate, my issue is that if I don't HAVE to do something, I probably won't do it. I am better at getting stuff done with outside forces creating a need. Like a school schedule or expecting company. I technically never have a need for photos unless I really want to scrapbook things that are more current...being that I'm always working behind, there is no urgency. No urgency means easy to forget.
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Post by msliz on Apr 27, 2019 0:03:45 GMT
I'm planning to ask suspect number one when she gets home tonight. I hope you get to scrap tonight! Ha ha "suspect number one". I love it. The best thing about an empty nest is the scissors and tape are always in the drawer. Well, I have my scissors back! I asked suspect number one if she had seen them, and she told me, "oh yeah, I know where they are." "Where are they?" "They're in my bathroom." "Why are they in your bathroom?" "I wanted to cut my hair. But I only cut it a little bit." I guess she needed tiny scissors to cut her hair only a little bit? She's lucky I love her so much.
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Post by refugeepea on Apr 27, 2019 0:43:02 GMT
scrapaddict702 - it took a couple of years for my good intentions of ordering photos regularly to actually become a habit. I don't know if you're an Amazon Prime member, but I am and ordering 9 cent photos free shipping is what finally did it for me in the end - I don't feel like I have to have a certain number of photos to justify the shipping or meet a deal requirement so I can order weekly or monthly and just get what I need. Thank you so much! I have the same problem. The cost of shipping always holds me back. I'm a prime member. My scrappy randomness: When you say thanks for the card and add in "I wish I had the time to do thing like that" I'm no longer going to give you a card. This is someone who works with my son (special needs). No, I made time. In tiny little increments to make very simple cards over the space of two days. You're welcome!
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Post by mikklynn on Apr 27, 2019 11:41:54 GMT
My scrappy randomness: When you say thanks for the card and add in "I wish I had the time to do thing like that" I'm no longer going to give you a card. This is someone who works with my son (special needs). No, I made time. In tiny little increments to make very simple cards over the space of two days. You're welcome! That would annoy me, too.
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