October Joyful scrappers chatting joyfully :)

Thanks everyone for the support, you are a wonderful team 🥰 I am doing so much better today.

Good Friday morning, Joyfuls! Hope your week is ending on a high note and that your weekend will be whatever you want it to be.

I have been trying to keep up--mostly--with CARDtober, and also with LOAD, over at ScrapHappy. Don't know why I do this to myself, b/c once I get started, I feel driven to complete, even though I know this is just ME pushing me. And I had promised to do a Sketchy Saturday challenge for tomorrow, so that was hanging over my head. I apparently LIKE that feeling, since I so often put things off until the LAST minute!

But today I am feeling really relaxed. My CARDtober sample is posted. Finally got my Sketchy Saturday LO done, and since today's LOAD prompt is one that I have done before in my little album, I am going to post that sample as my "prompt adjacent" submission today. Most of my LOAD pages have been for my 6x8" All about ME book I started last February and then dropped as soon as I had more "interesting" things to scrap. (In my mind almost ANYTHING is more interesting than a book about ME) But LOAD is pushing me to finish it, so that is a good thing.

So for the rest of today, I plan to PLAY... Next weekend I will be attending an in-person CROP!!! Have a few pages I hope to do there, but for the most part will be putting together Christmas cards. There won't be any shared equipment of course, and I don't want to take my Vagabond or Silhouette with me. So today I want to do some diecutting and dry embossing and maybe play around with media, creating card backgrounds.

If you don't hear from me, look under the pile of diecut gnomes in my scraproom!

I don't have scrappy plans this weekend. Sister in law announced her pregnancy to us last weekend, and now this weekend she wants to do a gender reveal. I quickly knocked out 2 baby cards (a box card and a shaker card) and I might just give them both to her! The box card certainly will not fit inside an envelope so I may just stuff it into her gift bag, and then use the shaker card to write the message. I am finished with my Halloween cards, and mailed them out to my friends. I do have a few left over. I still have plenty of Halloween supplies, so it seems I over-prepared but I was happy to have the variety. I need to make a bday card for my husband for Wednesday...

I have a big pile of paper scraps big enough for card fronts that I’m trying to work through. I am trying to train myself to cut a stack of card bases as a warm up to each crafting session so I always have extra and don’t run out halfway through crafting.

Yesterday I was doing some quick decluttering and found the pictures from a National Parks calendar that I had saved as inspiration for artwork. Well, I told myself I need to use them or toss them, so I cut them up, managed to get two pieces from each picture to make card fronts. I stuck them down today and they look pretty good! Then I kept going with some Halloween scraps while I watched Shimelle.

I should catch up with my virus diaries and October album tomorrow, but hopefully I’ll have time to stick down another bunch of scraps because I’m getting sick of all my piles of unfinished projects! But the thought of trying to catch up on the last month’s fire hose of news is quite daunting... I was actually going to try drawing a fire hose and add some headlines and keywords into the water part. Not sure if I can pull that off though!

We’re halfway through the month. Am I the only one who hasn’t calculated any of their points yet? Eek.

I haven't been able to do much scrapping this weekend. I do all of my scrapping on my MacBook, and I spilled coffee on it on Friday, so I turned it off and have to wait 48 hours before trying to turn it on again. 

The whole reason I bought the MacBook is because my PC couldn't run the latest version of Photoshop properly, as it doesn't have enough RAM. (Plus I wanted the portability so I could scrap anywhere.) I had a LO that I just had to add a few things to, so I logged onto my PC. I managed to finish it, after it crashed numerous times.

The other reason it was difficult is because I broke my big monitor a few weeks ago, so I am having to use an old monitor. The resolution is stuck on wide angle, and can't be fixed. So everything is stretched and my 12x12 layouts look like 16x12 hahaha! 

I feel sick about my MacBook. If it's dead and costs too much to fix, or can't be fixed, I can't afford another one, so I won't be doing any scrapping for a while.  

Oh that’s awful!!! I hope your MacBook is ok!

Oh no, AussieMeg! Hope your MacBook survived! As joyfulnana says, we need you scrapping!

schroema, the pages you posted are awesome. You do such great things with those sketches! Can you access the classes on your own schedule? If so, then you can't be "behind".

I am in quite the muddle in here. Starting to put stuff aside to take with me to the crop on Friday without packing up everything in the room. I always SAY I will pack lighter, but... Also, I want to keep up with the LOAD challenges, so I can't really pack the heavy stuff yet (trimmer, mats, cutting plates,...) So far, I just have a bunch of half filled containers and a flurry of sticky notes. It has been a year since my last crop, and it's weird packing for one now. I will remember Oh yeah, I need x, and then that reminds me that I usually take y, and then I start looking for z...

I took the new Heidi Swapp card class today. There are 8 sessions (pre recorded) and I watched 5 today and will do the others tomorrow. It cost $10.00. It was interesting to make this mini album styled card that was layered inside lots of envelops and pockets.

AussieMeg- WHEW! I am glad your mac is ok! We need your layouts and would be sad if you couldn't scrap for a while!

Ugh, y'all, I'm totally failing this month. I haven't done a single thing except print out some pictures for my what was supposed to be October sort of daily album. I will hopefully get something done this week. I started out all gungho and just peetered out. While my daughter is in her morning zoom class I'll look through the challenges and prep one for motivation!

AussieMeg - I'm so glad your Mac is working! I used to do tech support and am a Mac certified technician and spills can be really awful. 

Hello fellow Joyful people. Where is this month going? It is like two thirds over already. I've been participating in CARDtober and I appreciate all the hostesses that come up with challenges. I've been able to keep up with CARDtober because, as grammadee says, "I gave up my pesky day job". Good news for me, my grown son is visiting! He's been working from his apartment and he thought, "Why not have an extended visit and be less lonely?" The weather here has been pretty good so I've been doing a lot of walking.

AussieMeg I actually felt a sense of relief when I heard your MacBook was working.

I have really enjoyed cardtober. It’s manageable enough to do one card a day, or if you fall behind, to catch up. I definitely ended up with a lot of varied cards that I may not have ever thought of myself! I still have some interactive cards to catch up on, but my weekend is totally free so I can craft.

I am not looking forward to calculating all my points, though!