purplebee
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Post by purplebee on Mar 4, 2017 13:10:53 GMT
Trying to work on my 2017 PL style album, and get back in the scrapping groove. I want to finish up January this weekend, I'm almost there, but need to scrap a few more "stories" and do the journaling.
I was fairly consistent with my 2016 book, 9 x 12 size, up until I lost a dear friend in Sept. My mojo disappeared, and I gave myself permission to put the book away unfinished.
I know that being creative is good for me, so I very tentatively started a 12 x 12 PL album in Jan. I just subscribed to Gossamer Blue, hoping that a monthly kit (my first!) will give me the incentive to make time to scrap.
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Post by LisaDV on Mar 4, 2017 14:39:37 GMT
up until I lost a dear friend in Sept. So sorry for your loss. Hugs. |
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Post by grammadee on Mar 4, 2017 18:40:39 GMT
Trying to work on my 2017 PL style album, and get back in the scrapping groove. I want to finish up January this weekend, I'm almost there, but need to scrap a few more "stories" and do the journaling. I was fairly consistent with my 2016 book, 9 x 12 size, up until I lost a dear friend in Sept. My mojo disappeared, and I gave myself permission to put the book away unfinished. I know that being creative is good for me, so I very tentatively started a 12 x 12 PL album in Jan. I just subscribed to Gossamer Blue, hoping that a monthly kit (my first!) will give me the incentive to make time to scrap. Good for you, giving yourself permission to set that book aside, and then finding a way to get back into the game with recent photos. I know that the reason I have not finished my vacation album from the fall of 2016 is that I lost my brother and had to return early from the cruise for the funeral. Whenever I think of that album, my creativity kind of closes up. I printed my photos and put them in a small photo box. I also had the album well on the way by journaling throughout the vacation and gluing in postcards and ephemera. It really needs only the photos. I had also planned to do a story book for dgs about his toy donkey's adventures on the cruise (he had given it to me to take with me), and I have those photos in that photo box too, but that frozen creativity seems to be attached to that project too. At some point, I will get back to these projects. Right now I am having fun scrapping all the more recent dgk's adventures. |
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Post by purplebee on Mar 4, 2017 19:15:49 GMT
Thanks for the kind words, lisadv and Grammadee. Sometimes things take time, and I know that grief and missing a loved one have no timetable. But I'm happy to be scrapping again, and looking forward to receiving my GB kit.
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Chinagirl828
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Mar 5, 2017 9:42:15 GMT
I think I should have set my goals a little higher as I've finished already. My goal was to complete my 2016 PL album which I did today.
So my new goal is to complete 6 layouts this month.
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Post by ctpea on Mar 5, 2017 23:10:32 GMT
I'm doing calvinball as well and I had no idea how motivated I would be. I've already exceeded by monthly goal of 8. It's my first time and had no idea how much time I would have since I rarely scrap during week nights. Happy scrapping everyone!!
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Post by Linda on Mar 6, 2017 1:51:38 GMT
Feeling like I'm making progress...
make thank you cards (carried over from Feb)
make hi/thinking of you/just a note... cards
participate in Calvinball 81 points so far
Keep working on the 2016 album (I'm mid-way through Sept) finished September
keep the 2017 album up-to-date complete through Feb and I just picked up photos to start March
finish catching up the Junior GS album complete except for yesterday's workshop and I just printed those
start catching up the Brownie GS album
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Post by grammadee on Mar 6, 2017 12:04:20 GMT
Glad so many people are scrapping this month. What with Calvinball and all the challenges popping up on .this board, there's no shortage of inspiration.
I have 10 of the 31 pages done so far, so have a bit of breathing room. Using up a bunch of old stash and mixing it in with the newer stuff. Making a big dent in my stockpile of u scrapped photos. Having fun.
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Post by dasmith2 on Mar 6, 2017 12:24:26 GMT
I've gotten 2 pages done for the bash it challenge. I'd like to get at least one for each 2peas challenge out there this month, so I'm going to make the kit challenge as well for that, that should help me prepare for the other challenges. Today we are going to be working on the bathroom reno most of the day, but hopefully I can get a little playtime  |
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Post by Elsabelle on Mar 6, 2017 18:05:27 GMT
It's great to see how much all of you are accomplishing. I, however, am having a bit of a scrappy dry spell. I haven't scrapped in over a week. I've been busy with other things like obsessing over Disney planning, increasing my exercise, healthy eating, and enjoying the bits of sunshine we're getting here and there.
One thing that would help is to clean up my scrap space. My desk is completely covered with stuff. Random stuff that doesn't belong there. That will be my goal for the day and hopefully it will lead to some actual scrapping. It usually does.
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Post by Linda on Mar 6, 2017 20:40:02 GMT
Elsabelle - no scrapping here today either - I've been scanning previously finished albums instead
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Post by dasmith2 on Mar 6, 2017 21:20:24 GMT
Today has been a completely unproductive day..so much I needed to get done around the house. And I wanted to pull some page kits together but couldnt even do that  Hopefully I will be feeling much better tomorrow |
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Post by amom23 on Mar 6, 2017 22:07:03 GMT
We have a local photographer who takes photos of the HS football and basketball teams and a fellow mom who also takes LOTS of game photos so I have 3 years worth of sports photos on CD's that I need to make a priority of going through and printing the favorites of DS for his school album. It's really photo overload and I just have to finally deal with it. So that is my goal for March. So far I've gotten all the CD's uploaded on my computer and Shutterfly. I placed a large order and only have my friends photos yet to order from Shutterfly. |
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Post by carolynhasacat on Mar 7, 2017 2:39:42 GMT
Today has been a completely unproductive day..so much I needed to get done around the house. And I wanted to pull some page kits together but couldnt even do that Hopefully I will be feeling much better tomorrow I hope you're feeling better tomorrow, dasmith2. My allergies were making me super grumpy this morning but they settled down this afternoon. I just have to not let the unproductive time get me down. Sometimes our bodies just need a rest. |
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Post by dasmith2 on Mar 7, 2017 12:53:27 GMT
Today has been a completely unproductive day..so much I needed to get done around the house. And I wanted to pull some page kits together but couldnt even do that Hopefully I will be feeling much better tomorrow I hope you're feeling better tomorrow, dasmith2 . My allergies were making me super grumpy this morning but they settled down this afternoon. I just have to not let the unproductive time get me down. Sometimes our bodies just need a rest. Thank you I am feeling better. My allergies triggered my asthma so it just wasnt a fun day lol. The weather in the midwest has just been silly.... warm,cold, warm, cold. It's messing with me too much lol. I hope your allergies are better today! |
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Post by grammadee on Mar 7, 2017 13:39:10 GMT
I hope you're feeling better tomorrow, dasmith2 . My allergies were making me super grumpy this morning but they settled down this afternoon. I just have to not let the unproductive time get me down. Sometimes our bodies just need a rest. Thank you I am feeling better. My allergies triggered my asthma so it just wasnt a fun day lol. The weather in the midwest has just been silly.... warm,cold, warm, cold. It's messing with me too much lol. I hope your allergies are better today! Hope you both are feeling better soon. |
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Post by Elsabelle on Mar 7, 2017 21:00:53 GMT
I did manage to get my scrap space cleaned up but I'm still feeling a lack of motivation. No mojo. I sat their looking at a set of pictures and The Pier collection, which has been one of my favorites, but there was no spark. It'll come back. But probably not today.
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Post by dasmith2 on Mar 8, 2017 3:17:24 GMT
I did manage to get my scrap space cleaned up but I'm still feeling a lack of motivation. No mojo. I sat their looking at a set of pictures and The Pier collection, which has been one of my favorites, but there was no spark. It'll come back. But probably not today. I'm with you there...I managed to make a kit but the mojo wasn't there to scrap today. I printed off a few more photos today, so maybe I'll feel up to creating |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Mar 8, 2017 11:12:25 GMT
Yesterday I finished my ds's Dr. Seuss week layout.
On my desk I currently have the 100th day of school layout, just beginning the process on that.
I love school-related layouts.
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Post by grammadee on Mar 8, 2017 13:26:49 GMT
Yesterday I finished my ds's Dr. Seuss week layout. On my desk I currently have the 100th day of school layout, just beginning the process on that. I love school-related layouts. I love school pages too. And you just reminded me I have some great photos for at least a couple... Thanks! what did your kids do for 100 days? |
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Post by carolynhasacat on Mar 8, 2017 17:21:56 GMT
I did manage to get my scrap space cleaned up but I'm still feeling a lack of motivation. No mojo. I sat their looking at a set of pictures and The Pier collection, which has been one of my favorites, but there was no spark. It'll come back. But probably not today. I'm with you there...I managed to make a kit but the mojo wasn't there to scrap today. I printed off a few more photos today, so maybe I'll feel up to creating No mojo for me today, either. Taking a break from my studio for a couple of days, I think. I'm getting stuck at photo organization issues, so I'm trying to gear up to get some of my digital files organized, a long overdue project. |
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Post by Elsabelle on Mar 8, 2017 17:42:57 GMT
Yesterday I pushed myself to start scrapping and I'm happy with what I've done on the layout so far. Usually I don't like the results when I force myself so I'm relieved. The paper and pictures are done and maybe I'll get a little time later to start embellishing.
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Post by msliz on Mar 9, 2017 3:57:32 GMT
I'm just really happy tonight with all the scrapping I've been getting done lately. My only project is my family album, which is chronological and makes use of every decent photo I can get my hands on. I scrap multi photo in order to keep the number a pages to a minimum, but I can still easily fill a 3 ring binder with a year's worth of photos. Anyway, in January, I was still finishing up 2016, and my February goal was to finish up 2015 (which was already about 2/3rds done. ) Well, I did that in the first week of February, and then I kept on going. At this point, I only have a handful of layouts left before I finish up 2014 *and* 2013! And the only reason they're not done already is that I want to print more photos to include in them. When I was stuck in bed a few weeks back with a respiratory infection, I went ahead and edited my 2012 photos and placed a print order. They're all sorted now, and I've even done a couple of layouts for it already! I'm just really excited and I wanted to share the happy with you all  |
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Post by grammadee on Mar 9, 2017 4:56:11 GMT
No scrapping for me today, but I did print some photos and restocked my glue glider refills. At 16 pages I am halfway to my March goal. Good thing, as I may have a week long babysitting gig later in the month. And we have at least one funeral to attend in this next week. Was hoping to get back at scrapping tomorrow, but no clear idea yet of which photos I will be working with, or what I might do with them. I could finish up working with my little boy photos. That would use my diy kit I set aside for crystalb's challenge. But I feel tapped out on ideas for those pages after all the ones I've done this past week. And I really am NOT good at finishing things. Maybe in the morning I will feel it, but right now I would have to just push through the funk... I DO have some ideas for scrapping some hockey photos I printed today. And I have other hockey and skating photos I could work with as well. But that means I would have to drag out a whole new batch of papers and other elements, and maybe [[[shudder]]] clean up my scrap counter to make room for those papers & elements. And I really want to get to some baking with the dgd's photos. Or some of their school &/or hanging out photos... That would be a total break from masculine pages, and I'm drawn that way, but again... some cleaning may be in order... |
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Mar 9, 2017 8:51:17 GMT
my February goal was to finish up 2015 (which was already about 2/3rds done. ) Well, I did that in the first week of February, and then I kept on going. At this point, I only have a handful of layouts left before I finish up 2014 *and* 2013! This is an amazing effort! |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Mar 9, 2017 11:39:08 GMT
what did your kids do for 100 days? Made capes with 100 "something" on it. He put 100 pom poms, hot glued on. In class they made a necklace with 100 beads. And apparently ate 100 treats, if his tummy ache was anything to go on.  |
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Post by grammadee on Mar 9, 2017 13:18:12 GMT
what did your kids do for 100 days? Made capes with 100 "something" on it. He put 100 pom poms, hot glued on. In class they made a necklace with 100 beads. And apparently ate 100 treats, if his tummy ache was anything to go on. Sounds like a fun day to scrap. We were chatting with a mom in a restaurant shortly after their school's 100 days event. She told us her kids had to dress up like they were 100 years old. I asked the kids what hundred yr old people looked like, and was told, "the men wear suspenders. And have no hair. And the women have white hair with curlers in it. And they walk with canes and walkers. |
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Post by dasmith2 on Mar 9, 2017 13:44:48 GMT
I cut a few things out on my Silhouette for a couple pages, hopefully I can get to creating sometime today. Right now its back to the bathroom remodel.. Paint day Glad its a small bathroom lol |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Mar 9, 2017 17:08:05 GMT
Made capes with 100 "something" on it. He put 100 pom poms, hot glued on. In class they made a necklace with 100 beads. And apparently ate 100 treats, if his tummy ache was anything to go on. Sounds like a fun day to scrap. We were chatting with a mom in a restaurant shortly after their school's 100 days event. She told us her kids had to dress up like they were 100 years old. I asked the kids what hundred yr old people looked like, and was told, "the men wear suspenders. And have no hair. And the women have white hair with curlers in it. And they walk with canes and walkers.  |
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Post by LisaDV on Mar 9, 2017 17:59:38 GMT
I finish page 37 of my 40 page month goal this morning. Girls weekend starts today for me and dd11. So productivity will be down until next week, but immense fun will be had and probably some scrap photos taken.
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Hopefully I will be feeling much better tomorrow 
