May goals/progress/sharing

linda I don't always scrap chronologically, so today I might work on March 2017, Thanksgiving 2005, and a pic from last week.

You ladies are so inspiring! I haven't scrapped in about a month but you're encouraging me to get back to it.

Great job on the finished layouts!

I totally get the need to use new stamps. Yesterday I made a point of using two new stamps sets (birthday and one set that had a dreamcatcher and feather) on a couple different pages.

How cool that your son was on the show (even briefly!) Is it weird that my first thought as a crafter was, "I wonder if she got a snapshot of the television while he was on it?" When my kid was on a school-related thing on YouTube, I did a screen shot so that I could scrap it. LOL.

The printer called today to let me know the pages they had for my dgs's grad album have been copied. I have one more container to take them when I pick those up Wednesday or Thursday this week.

Then I will need to figure out how his album will actually go together. Part of that will be getting some additional page protectors, but I can put his pages in order and put the originals back in my 18 yrs worth of albums and get those albums back on the shelf.

Wrapped up week 11 in my project life...that's what I had printed through the last time I ordered (which was March 20th). I just received a new box of pictures today to work on setting up the page protectors through the end of April. I can't wait. I need to tidy a bit (I have quite the pile of enamel dot sheets accumulating trying to get colors to work with the last several weeks I've worked on) but tomorrow the plan is to work on sorting the new photos, dating the backs and get them into my album. I might skip putting our vacation into the album just yet because I'm not sure how I'm going to tackle it. I usually do one color scheme for a week no matter how many spreads it ends up being, but with us having been to the zoo, a museum, an aquarium, and NASA, I'm not sure if I want to try to go themey for the aquarium and zoo pictures or not and that could determine how I spread pictures out (basically, by making sure each day ends in a certain place with no overlap on the same page protector if I'm going with a theme). Everything else is pretty mundane and boring, so they should be pretty easy. I'm still nowhere near caught up in 2016 or 2015 as I've only been working on this year the past couple of months, but I've never been this close to real time before. I really like it.

Yesterday I bought Recollections uppercase alphabet dies at M's. I used a 50% off coupon, which made them about $6.50

Funny thing is, the package they come in says 30 pieces. There are 27 dies. It's just a typo, but for a couple of minutes, I was looking to see where those last 3 pieces might be.


Also, bought 2 packs of enamel dots in the clearance section. One of which is Heidi Swapp arrows, dots, etc.

Very happy shopping for under $10.




As far as scrapping goes, I did scrap both my Easter layouts the other day, and like how they turned out. They came together a little too easily. They are very photo heavy, though.

I managed to get all (with 1 exception) of my pictures ready...so not only am I current from the prior order (week 11) I am all set to start scrapping again tomorrow night. 2 weeks even fit into one really long spread...one week had a lot of pictures because of Easter and the next week had maybe 5 pictures altogether. The only one I haven't tackled (they are sorted, just not in the album, yet) is our vacation. I might end up scrapping everything I've put into the album and then go back and do our vacation week after so I can dedicate a solid week to it knowing that there isn't anything else in the album waiting for me to get to it. I may only have until mid March finished, but the album is starting to look like a proper project...it's getting chunky enough that I took the second half of the year (I have index cards in page protectors to indicate the week numbers and dates for the entire year) and put it into another album the other day. I just hope the momentum keeps up because it will mean that I'll be current enough to start jumping back into my older albums again. Being sick really put a damper in my creativity...especially so since I was sick for a month straight and my only hobby during that time was taking a daily nap!

I'm working on my third layout of the month. It happens to be my most favorite picture I've ever taken. I'm finally ready to scrap it. It's of my babies when my oldest was 3 and my youngest was about 5 months. It's one of those pictures that instantly sends me back in time. It's so sweet. Maggie Holmes Open Book paper is perfect for it and I just picked up that paper pad recently so I'm ready to roll.

It's mid-month. How are you all doing on your goals?

I spent the day getting some not so fun scrappy tasks completed. I returned the rest of the pages I got back from the printer to their albums, and started returning albums to their shelves. Felt good to get some of the binders that had been cluttering up my craftroom floor back where they belong. Still not done yet though. The printer still has 20% of the pages I gave him to copy, and those should be ready this week.

Working with those albums actually helped me accomplish a couple of other things I hadn't considered. I changed how I store them so that there will be more room on my shelves. (Put the older ones away in the bottom of a china cabinet that had empty shelves).

Also, I found a few things going through the albums: one was a set of photos I took but didn't scrap in 2012. I had a space for them in the album, and had them tucked in there. Put a sticky in that album to alert me to the place the pages will go when I get them created. I put the pics along with some notes into an envelope with my Photos To Scrap.

And I found my PUMPKIN DIES and EMBOSSONG FOLDER. It too had been tucked into a page protector a couple of falls ago in the hope that I would use it there. I tell ya: getting old can sometimes yield pleasant surprises!
And this morning I was able to put the last coat of sealer onto the sign for my dgs. Here it is:

hockey sign by Gramma Dee, on Flickr

It has warped a bit, but dh suggested if I paint the back of it, it may streighen out (I guess painting just the one side caused the warping. We hung it on a hook, and it actually hangs better than I was afraid it might.

Got mine done....hope you did too. Hoping to make a page or 2 tommorow. 

This was my May goals post and I did scrap on the one day - Saturday.  I got most of the pictures printed even though we only got back from the beach Friday night because I sent them from my computer and my DH picked them up.  I scrapped about a third of the photos.  I had visited an actual still in business LSS on my trip and bought all kinds of beach paper to use.

Here are 2 layouts I did:

 

Very nice!

I really liked Victoria Marie's Layering Like a Boss class - I learned some great things about layering.