Do you have a personal scrapping challenge?

Right now my personal challenge is to finish my last vacation book. I only have maybe 8 more double layouts to go. Not sure why this one is so hard to finish. I keep doing anything but working on those pages.

I once set myself a challenge for one of my vacation scrapbook projects. For the entire album, I was only allowed to use scraps, washi, and a pack of this paper I wasn't happy with, and my background papers were the white reverse sides of some of the ugliest papers in my stash. (When you buy pads of paper, sometimes you only like half of what's in there, but you don't want to waste, so ... )

I think your die challenge is a great idea. I have a bunch of alphabet stamps I don't reach for anymore. Once I bought a die cut machine, my titles were just easier to make that way. But stamps are nice too, and sometimes it's worth it to make the extra effort.

"Finding time in the work week to scrap" probably doesn't count, huh? I work full-time (currently WFH), and even without my commute, I still find it difficult to have time leftover for scrapping on most weeknights.

I am trying to challenge myself to use more of the hundreds of letter stickers I purchased (in every possible font, size & color) before I got my Cameo and started cutting all my page titles & embellishment words electronically.

I had challenged myself to finish baseball 2019 pictures before my annual crop in mid-March, but then I tested positive for Covid on 2/9 & had to isolate in my bedroom. I mostly felt like I had a bad cold, but I still didn't feel like scrapping. Once I did feel better it was either too cold to be at my desk in the always-cold-in-the-winter basement or I didn't want to disrupt DH who was working from home in the same basement while we were all quarantined. He goes back to work tomorrow so maybe I can get more done...either way I'm not taking baseball pictures to my crop...not when I have lots of football & soccer pictures to do too!

I try to stamp something on every page, even if it's just the date.

Great question, artisticscrapper. If I challenged myself to Use. Every. Stamp. I would have to give myself longer than six months, I think!

Just finished the 50 page challenge without buying any new supplies, and probably could do another 500 if I wanted to, but I love the new pretties, so I let myself off that wagon.

I need to assemble my dgs's album(s) for his high school graduation. Most of the pages have been copied from family album pages, but I need to do get them into page protectors, see what is missing, and then do any pages needed to fill the gaps. And get the original pages back into their proper albums.

At some point I should probably scrap the cruise I was on in 2016 when I got called back for my brother's funeral. Have the photos all sorted, the day to day journaling done, a giant tub of Travel scrappy supplies: just need to get it assembled onto pages.

BTW, does anyone know of a die or a stamp with a small donkey? On that cruise, I took my dgs's toy donkey Jack, and many of the photographs--and most of the highlights--have a pic of Jack in them. I was thinking of adding a small donkey image on each LO (you know, like people add little Mickey ears...)

My challenge is to use the plethora of embellishments I have. I tend to make basic layouts with little embellishment mainly because I forget what I have and now that I have them all organized I'm hoping it will be easier to search through. I also like the stamp challenge, to use stamps on every layout. That would definitely take me all year or more! LOL

I suppose you mean beyond, um, START? I still like scrapbooking, but my craft time for the last few years has focused on cards, cross stitching, and gift creation. I thought I'd be the mom who had a completed baby book and a scrapbook per year for their kid. Uh, not so much my reality. My kid turns 8 in a few weeks and there's not much by way of scrapbooking to show for his life. And the baby book never did get filled out. My goal at this point is 1 page a month for our family album with the opposite page being a calendar that has journaling/notes on events we attended/did that month. And I can't even seem to do that. I got a little caught up at the start of the pandemic because I was WFH and didn't have the travel time taken out of my day anymore - but I went back to the office and that catch up fell apart too. I'd like to at least get our family album (remember, one page per month) caught up. And then try to tackle the stacks and stacks of memorabilia I kept around hoping to get back into a regular scrapbooking habit. My other problem is I'm a scrapbooker who neglects to take photos in the moment! So I have to beg my DH to scroll through his album of more than 10K photos to find some event from July 2019 and he is, understandably, reluctant.

Just doing it.

I have a page in progress that has been sitting on my craft table for weeks. It’s part of the Disney album that I have been working on here and there for at least a couple of years.

Cards are just so much quicker, so when I have a few minutes to craft, I usually make a card. I need to make scrapbooking more of a priority.

My personal challenge is to pick 3 stamps or stamp sets from my stash each month and use all of them. I'll be using other stamps and supplies with them. I think this will help me use things that I haven't used in a long time, and "might" have forgotten about.

My goal is to get some breathing room back in my storage. To do that I really need to focus on using patterned paper, blue/green embellishments, and PL cards. I also want to reduce the number of alpha stickers/thickers I own so I've been pulling out ones that are nearly used up and trying to make a last couple of words/titles before tossing them.

I challenge myself on every layout to use something beyond paper, photos and journaling. It can be enamel dots, washi, inking, liquid media or a punch.  It makes me use up my supplies which could fill a store.

 PS I read your posts for years and this is my first!

My personal challenge is just to keep scrapping! I do need to use up my stash, but I have a lot of pictures that I want in albums. I have told myself even if I just put the photos 4 x 6 dividers, get them in an album!!