Everything AE/Ali Edwards

I'm undecided. Maybe if I think long enough it will all sell out and save me the choice lol! I wish there was a plain grid pad.

Is the large roller stamp new, or a rerun? If it's new, I may pick it up at some point.

I know the time one is from the first DITL set, so I already have it.

The prices are crazy for everything else.

The roller stamp isn't new, but it's not the one from DITL I think it was a spring release last year. Has phrases on it and most fit on an Avery Label 

I love the concept of planning stories. I need to do that. I think I am going to try my own system once and for all. I have found that the Felicity Jane 6x8 page protectors fit perfectly in my Kikki K binder since it is wider than most A5 planner binders. I can easily use those pp for the pictures and then the basic note pages for the story writing. I'm so glad AE's concept pushed me over the edge to find my own economical way to do it.

I shouldn't have looked at Ali's blogpost. It's tempting me. But it's still too expensive. I wish the pages inside were in color, I would have thought about it twice at least. 

ETA: Jennifer Wilson from Simple Scrapper had a similar project sheet for free, I believe. I remember downloading it, but I don't know where and when. It was part of a bundle.
ETA2: Found it! www.simplescrapper.com/2015/02/how-to-plan-a-scrapbook-project/

the concept is excellent, the products are not anything i need. i'll enjoy watching others use it, but at most would only be interested in a few of the smaller items. 6x8 would have made this more appealing to me, as well.

you're allowed to enjoy the binder .

Me, too.  I wasn't at first.  I keep a running MS Word file on my laptop to record things on a daily basis.  That has been working really well for me.  BUT, I am not the most efficient scrapbooker, and I have many stories I'd like to tell.  My son may not care at this time (he is graduating college in May, and getting ready to embark on the world, so he is looking forward, not back...for now) but he may one day.  Or maybe his wife and children (none of which exist at this point) may care. ALSO, when Ali talked about how she would use it, I thought she had a lot of good ideas.  Finally, a lot of the product can be used on PL or other layouts.  I'm kind of excited about it!!   But I can't buy anything else scrapbook related for the rest of the month.

After seeing the full reveal I think there's a lot of missed opportunity. I was expecting something with the outline of a page--both divided page protectors and outline for a traditional page for you to sketch out your layout plan. I think there are a lot of unnecessary boxes (can anyone say personal pep talk?) and not enough space for the needed part. The system I use is in my bullet journal but I have everything really well indexed which is why it works so well, and this product release doesn't have anything resembling an index system. Which I guess works if you don't have a lot of ideas piling up, but I think most of us do. I also think it needs a place to write out steps for a project and then check boxes to check off those steps.

In my bullet journal I create a 2 page spread every time I get to a new story kit class and that is where a lot of my ideas/page sketches come from. I also will just jot down ideas as they come to me in my daily pages. But what really makes it work are the project indexes I've created--3 of them, one for project life, one for traditional layouts and one for scrapbook class (mostly story kits). For example, the traditional layouts page has check boxes for steps (journaling done, photos printed, completed) as well as a place to write the layout size, what album it will go into and the page number of where the layout is planned in more detail. I also have an index page for the story kit classrooms where I cross reference which page my notes for that class are on and check off boxes for when i've watched the different portions of the class + a box for each layout I create (my goal is 3 per class so I have 3 boxes to check off per class).

I don't need a story planner as I already have a system in place, but I think the fact that the products are odd sizes makes it hard for people to pick them up for other projects. I would get the linen album if it was the normal 6x8 size for another project. Also the stickers if they didn't come with the tab labels. I would consider the pocket pages/transparency but they seem overpriced.  I definitely give props to Ali for coming up with a system in general because I'm not sure I've seen anything else like this, but it doesn't seem like something that would actually work.

I really like the transparency and pockets, but at that price it’s over $4 per item, which seems a bit ridiculous to me. I like the idea and many of the products, but the prices kill it for me.

I’m glad she’ll have digital versions, especially of the notepads so those who like this system can print their own refills if the physical products don’t get restocked or are discontinued.

Products being discontinued is what I was afraid of yesterday.

Ali said if the release was successful, AE/Inked would release more (stock and items). But what if they abandon the project altogether because it's not profitable to them? Seventy dollars is too much for me to take a chance. Digital versions wouldn't help because of all the work (for me): printing, cutting, punching, etc.

ETA: If you don't spend 60 dollars to get the 10 dollars flat shipping rate, shipping fees can go to 22 dollars for just a few items. 

ETA2: I realized you cold manage to lower the shipping fees from the 22$ I saw earlier. The fees are still high compared to the purchase in itself, but you could manage something if you're willing to spend some time trying, and letting go of some things. Not ideal though.

Ill give her some credit, at least she’s being transparent that it may not restock. She could be tricking everyone out of their $50+ dollars. Though her honesty is probably affecting her sales.

Then again, I don't think she meant it that way!