Scissor Sisters Q1 Chat Thread

Happy New Year!

I was laid off last month, so I have extra time to be crafty for a bit, though I am diligently looking for a new job as well. I recently got a new storage piece for my craft room/home office/guest room, so I'm doing a lot or rearranging currently. My son came home from college for Christmas and announced that he's not taking the job he already accepted here in Massachusetts when he graduates, he's moving to Colorado with his new girlfriend and interviewing for a not-quite-as-good job with the same company in that area. He emptied his dresser already. Which is sad, of course, but also about to become overflow craft storage, mostly for things I'm destashing and the small amount of scrapbook stuff that hasn't been looked at in 20 years. Someday I will muster the courage to really look at it and either complete the three to four partial projects or finally give up and let them go.

I am predominantly a card maker. I have materials to make two matching scrapbooks of the trip my mother and I took to Italy in the fall of (gulp!) 2022. Maybe this will be the year I get to that. Maybe. See above.

I am a little bit obsessed with kits, I think. I "subscribe" to Club Scrap's card kit and Stampin' Up's Paper Pumpkin, but skip them regularly based on unboxings/sneak peeks. I follow Hero Art's My Monthly Hero and Make Yourself at Home at Joann card kits and buy them when they look interesting. I am sometimes aware of Gina K's kit releases. I do try to limit myself to no more than two/month.

I'm also really enjoying the online retreats with kits of products. I might burn myself out on these if I'm not careful -- I have three coming up in the mid-February to mid-March timeframe.

I hope to attend some in-person convention-type events this year. My SU peeps will be doing another in-person retreat for any and all crafts in Maine in April, I think, so I'll probably go to that as well.

Thank you for leading us this quarter jeremysgirl

I'm aiming to be frozen except for essentials (albums, adhesive, and the like) but I DID get a HL gift card for Christmas so... I do have more than enough stuff though. No kits here.


Project wise - I'm looking at finishing up some past albums (or at least making significant progress on them) and hopefully staying somewhat up with 2024

In general I'm an 8.5x11 scrapper with the occasional 8x8 album (the current one I have going is DD17s Girl Scout album). I do a family album and an album for my two older kids (DD23 and DS32 - they live together so one album to share) plus DD17s GS album and then trip albums. I have a really big trip coming in October (to England and Scotland) so I'm trying to make a small dent in my unscrapped/unfinished trip album stacks.

So, up until very recently I could highlight a line or paragraph in someone's post and "quick quote" it, rather than copying/quoting the entire thing. That functionality disappeared recently. Anybody know why or even know who/where I should ask?

Thank you for leading our team this quarter jeremysgirl .

I had a very slack last quarter, so I am hoping to get more layouts done in Q1.  Mind you, I have done 71 pages from my Thailand album, but I don't really consider that scrapping. I am using a basic template with virtually no embellishments, so the pages don't take as long to do as a normal layout would take.



Yes, I noticed that the other day too. I just tried to do it again, and no, it's not working. I am Peaing on my MacBook. I'm going to try it on a desktop and see if, like Linda , I can still do it on that.

Testing testing 123......


Yep, it works on my Windows based laptop. What are you Peaing on Shakti ? (ETA: I see you answered above.) I wonder if it's only an issue on Mac / Apple?

Unfortunately, having been laid off, I have no access to any Windows devices, unless I convince DK to let me try theirs briefly. DH's MacBook has additional browser options, so that I can try tomorrow.

jeremysgirl, thanks for being our fearless leader this quarter.

I scrap 12x12 and also make cards. I've also made some smaller (8x8) albums as gifts. I tried 8.5x11 but found it too limiting and went back to 12x12 non-pocket scrapping.

I don't subscribe to any kits (never have) because I love the process of putting LOs together from what I have. I have a fairly good mid-sized stash that I'm happy with (not that I'm not tempted to add to it from time to time LOL), so I can usually find what I need in order to make my ideas come to life on a page. That said, I have been trying to use sketches more often for inspiration if/when I get stuck for a LO design instead of just endlessly searching for that "perfect something" IYKWIM.

All of that to say I have absolutely NO mojo for scrapping lately...I want to, I really really want to, but something is holding me back and I need to work through that in order to be able to dive back in. (Not trying to sound cryptic or vague - I'm just grappling with some grief issues, general sadness, maybe a bit of depression...all stemming from my Dad's passing last spring.)

My goal this quarter is to start small and work my way up to finishing 2 albums that are so close to being done it's a bit silly to not have finished them - one only has ~3-4 more pages left to do.

Or you could be like me and mark a spot intending to keep track as you go, but then still scramble at the end to track everything. LOL! 

First of many questions, I’m sure! How do we “respond” to the challenges? Do I have to pick which ones I want to do every quarter? Or, can I work off the long list? I saw where we had to do something by January 7, and I’m not sure I understand. Certainly don’t want to let y’all down! Haha!

For the most part, I ignore the list. I do, or at least attempt, the SheetLoad of Cards challenge every month. Other than that, I do what I do and at the end figure out what I met.

I suspect there’s more shared inspiration in the challenges for the scrap bookers— CARDtober was a TOTALLY different experience for me than any other challenge month and also the only one focused on cardmaking.