Everything AE/Ali Edwards

I have a lot prepped, but not everything finished yet, but I have time because I’ll doing my week either starting 8th of May or even later. I‘m really tired and a lot sleepless, so I don’t have enough energy next week. 
This will be my first year in 8x10 this year (shocker)  - but am really looking forward to a new set up.
 I will do a lot of stamping in advance for collage pages.
Next up is making my own kraft pages for the daily stuff. Made a template to draw lines with a white gel pen and it worked beautifully. 
Then I will make lists for photos I want to take like Linda did last year @legal_lady,
that was a great tip.

Not at all. I ordered from Citrus Twist and it hasn't shipped yet. I feel like I need the album to get started.
I'm also not sure I'm going to do it next week. It's the last week of classes and I'm going to be doing so much grading. My brain will hurt at the end of the day, every day.

Then on Friday we have to take the kid to DC for history bowl so it won't be a normal week. Pics of DC might be cool but I think it might all just be too much. Trying to think about it while on the road.

I think I'm going to wait until May 1. I like working on it a good bit during the documenting week and I'll just have so much more time.

I am tempted to do WITL next week because I find it easier to do with everyone, but I think I am going to wait and do it in May (either the week of the 22nd or the 29th).

I think I would have a problem design-wise dealing with the April/May thing too.

It's definitely cleaner to have just May. You could always figure out first how you're going to date it. Maybe you'll have enough room for all of it. It could just work!

I'm totally using my massive date rolling stamp from studio calico. I love that thing. Just don't know what I'm going to do at all.

And you know what, I'll be gone this weekend too and I won't have time to prep so it's going to have to be May 1.

This time of the semester is just too busy.

Stamps: I like some of them but not enough to pay full price. If they're still around at the next 40% off sale I may pick up a couple then.

WITL: I keep thinking I would like to do this but the task seems so daunting I never actually do it. I did like this year's DITL focused on color, I may do that someday (probably not because I say I will then never follow through )

Ready for WITL next week, nothing prepped. I don’t prep other than print out Ali’s daily sheets and a few pages from last years digital notebook. All my journaling goes there. Haven’t even watched the prep day class.

Has she released new templates for this years WITL?

I bought the phrase stamp + the big shape stamp. I cannot wait to use the shape stamp to make tags.

That uppercase alpha is almost exactly the same as the SC Laina alpha, just a touch slimmer.

www.studiocalico.com/shop/stamp-set-6x8-laina-alpha

Might have already been touched on via the 2 peas board, but I just got the remember, wander and history story kits and the cards feel super thin and the printing looks very different, is this a “new norm” like no adhesive on chipboard and crappy quality kit stamps?

The no adhesive chipboard has been a thing for awhile now...and I hate it. I stopped my sub after "Teach" but have picked up a few kits since that are no-adhesive and I'm so glad I don't sub anymore. The WITL was so bad but thankfully I could put all of the pieces in my album & not have to worry about it.

I can't comment on the cards because I didn't notice any big difference on the few I've used.

Well, I’ve completely changed my mind. I was going to add about 2-3 pages to my PL for WITL and do a later week. This afternoon I decided to do next week with the community and do a separate album. I’m doing 6x8 (the yellow WITL album from last year I already had) and just stash busting as the only things I bought from this year’s release were the plastic circles and the morning/evening stamp. I’ll be planning it out tomorrow and we’ll see how it goes! Lol

Couple of WITL updates from me! First, Storytelling with WITL I went through the handouts for Lessons 2 and 3 and am super happy I purchased the class. I still need to go through the videos - and there are several - but I found the hand outs super helpful to me in thinking through how I want to do this week. One handout was 10-11 pages, and the other 6-8, so lots of content and ideas. Now if you have been doing Ali's courses and content for a while, you will know some of this and some will feel like a different flavor of her content, but I still thought it was helped me think differently and creatively about new ways to do WITL, which was my goal.

Also, in going through the content I realized that what I saw as a meh week this week, is really a great week to capture the more everyday aspects of my week rather than trying to pick a week with lots of things happening. SOOOOO, I started today! I am loving it so far and doing some really different things based on inspiration after reading through the handouts and also looking bath through the prep day content. Feeling excited.

I am using her 6x8 album, both the main and mini kits and pulling in 49 and Market Spectrum Sherbet papers and die cuts to complement the colors from kit. I like having colored papers to use outside of the page protectors. I will check back in as the week goes along, but I am happy so far. I am a SUNDAY first day of the week person, so that is why I started today.

I haven't been around the scrappy world the past few months (as evident by my 3 months of unopened SC kits 🙃) and I was no longer planning on WITL anymore but then a small part of me is like..


I'm thinking I can wing it with nothing in mind and start documenting tomorrow 🤷 I've got a zoo day picnic and a showing of the Spirited Away play already planned so at least something is happening this upcoming week vs taking time to plan and doing it in May.

I have an unused CT album in some kinda blue shade and a grey linen 6x8 AE one I can gut. Might spend the evening flipping through stamps and cards to see what I can scramble together 🤔

My topics this week are, in order, what’s cooking, at work, knees (current health issue), facts & feelings, in the garden, my partner, & my kids.

That was the extent of my prep!