WITL 2024 Share Thread

Has anyone taken thereypie's hybrid all year around class? I know it is an older class. Just wondering if people thought it was helpful in following her amazing approach to scrapbooking. I see she has a Dec Daily class that is more current on Big Picture scrapbooking also....

I have. I've taken all of the hybrid classes!

I was new to Photoshop Elements when I took Jennie's class, so there were a few things that went over my head. After I got more comfortable with hybrid scrapbooking, I went back and viewed all of the lessons again and got so much more out of it. She uses Photoshop rather than Elements, so I had to adjust to a few things. She has downloads available for each lesson, which was incredibly generous. It is definitely not a beginner class, but if you have facility with the software, it's a great value.

Speaking of downloads, I just realized that Jennie had shared some WITL templates in the AE blog about a month ago when she was setting up her formula:


Jennie Rey's Templates

I worked on my album a few evenings over the weekend and am almost done. Need to print a few large photos, fill out my Reason Why card (which has a typo), and once I rethread my machine, sew on a few cards.
I worked in batches, which helped immensely. Otherwise, if I had done one day at a time, I don’t know if I would have completed the project.
Good luck everyone!

It's awesome! Thank you for sharing with us.

I was going to document my week starting Monday but it’s supposed to rain 5 days straight so I may push it back one more week.

I started going through the products tho and deciding on a loose design formula. I ended up buying both kits. Agree that the inspiration seems to be less this year. For me when they killed the ambassador program inspiration on IG went way way down.

What did everyone do with the vellum circle sheet? I love Jennie Reys idea but I’m not sure I could find that many things in my life to match the colors and fill both sides of the sheet.

Bravo to everyone who finished or is close to finishing.

I've been doing my pages digitally, and I have finally sent the last batch to Persnickety for printing. I've been recovering from surgery, so sitting in a recliner with my laptop has been the best I can do.

I do miss actually handling paper and supplies, though. Maybe I'll go back and add a few touches when I can.

Has anyone seen this on the AE blog? I love the way this artist took the supplies and totally made them her own:

Shannon Flatley's WITL

Minor annoyance: Just noticed there isn’t a vellum sheet that matches wednesday but there is a black one? Strange.

Just putting the products and pp in my album and it’s already thick. They need to start making a bigger spine for this project lol.

I'm 95% done with WITL for this year. Now that I've process and created, I have some thoughts.
+ Overall completely underwhelmed with Ali's output this year, seemed like a lost project by the time she finished. Also uninspired by the Team except Jennie.
+ I'm 100% a 6x8 girl. I don't think I will ever do another 10x8.
+ Main and Mini kits were great to use, enjoyed them quite a bit. Overload on the quotation marks IMO, especially on the banners. No idea how to use those.
+ Vellum circle papers were a waste of money. No one except Jennie had a decent way to use them. I found them to warp once I put photos on them. Disappointed.
+ My album is FULL. So full that the 5.5 cardstock inserts are not going to fit. I know how I'd use them, but my album is too full.
+ Did not care for the coordinated colors for each day. The colors were off just enough that it bugs me and then the (intentional?) mix up with the vellum papers is just weird.

I will be happy to be done and onto story kits.

And with a feeble whimper my 2024 witl is complete.
Just didn’t feel the same as when everyone did the project at the same time, and I hate the severe lack of inspo on YouTube with the kit this year. I miss you krystle idunate!

I’m currently in the photo picking/printing phase. Waiting for my enlargements to ship.

I am liking the inspiration from jill.drangsholt on IG. She used the vellum sheets as a timeline page. Love that. Was going to put photos on mine but if they warp I’m weary.

That's a good plan, paget. I'm not making nearly as much progress on catching up on PL as I had hoped. I want to work on WITL, but if I don't start it soon, it may not get finished. 

“I always say I'm going to do something like WITL, but do one page for each week of the year” rymeswithpurple - isn’t this just project life? I do weekly project life pages which are like mini WITLs I guess.

Having the hardest time with those giant plastic days of the week embellishments. They probably work really well on a 10x8 enlargement but too big for 6x8.