NO/LO CHALLENGE Oct 13, 2017

Thanks whambampam. No spending for me this week, though I have to admit I was a bit tempted by a couple of things in the Concord & 9th release.

I have a couple of albums in my craft room filled with page protectors but the others are empty and in a cupboard and the pages protectors are in a stack in a drawer. I like your idea of storing them in folders instead.

It's 5pm on Fri 13th here in New Zealand and I'm just in my way home from work, ready to enjoy the weekend

I bought some cards/envelopes so I can make thank you cards after our wedding. I do need to buy gold ink. I thought I had some already. I also picked up a 5 dollar paper pad.
My spare albums and page protectors are in a cabinet in my scrap room. I have 3 cabinets that I need to organize.
Hoping to scrap next week, getting married tomorrow so that is taking up all my time lol. I'm so excited:)
I really love that color combo and thanks for posting this challenge!

Congratulations. I hope you have a wonderful day tomorrow with many more to follow.

Happy wedding dasmith2 !

I'll participate but don't really need the tag - I'm always here Hope it's OK with everyone that I talk about my business here, because that's where I need to watch my spending.

My Etsy business is a rather broke (again) and I'm overwhelmed by cards right now - I have a lot of inventory that I'm trying to keep organized, and I need to STOP making so many cards until I sell some more (and especially need to stop buying supplies to make cards until I have some more sales).

I had a coupon and I needed card bases for Christmas exchange cards (I already have the cut-aparts cut apart and ready, so I just needed something to stick them to) so I stocked up on all the bases I need and then kept on walking past all the pretty things. Of course I also knew that I had an online order coming in - a very cute CTMH Christmas scrapbook kit that I'm going to use to make cards, enabled/inspired by Jess Crafts on YT.

This weekend I'm going to channel my crafting energy into finishing the projects I already have going, then tidying up, and then working on my journal, which is my sort-of-PL, which is very neglected and needs a major re-boot.

I have page protectors, even though I've not had any need/desire to use a page protector in about 2 years. I thought I was going to do KP-style 6x12 PL and so I bought a gorgeous aqua album (a closeout special) and protectors for a year. But then I accidentally bent one of the rings on the album so it won't close properly any more and I also realized I sort of hate plastic page protectors. So I'm telling myself I'm "storing spare page protectors" in that album, but really I'm just sad that I wasted money and ruined something beautiful and probably should either commit to using it in its broken state, start looking for a replacement OR just donate/give away the whole thing and forget about it.

what does no/lo stand for, I can't figure it out lol.

I am sorta frozen. I do have some freckled fawn washi coming this week. I am saving for the new cricut maker.

This week I organized my Kiwi Lane Templates and I will be doing some stamp organizing.

Tonight is craft night at church so maybe I can make a Friday the 13th layout.

Thanks for sharing your challenge.

And dasmith2 congratulations on your wedding!

dasmith2 , congrats! I hope you had a blast and had lots of great photos taken.

I was a no spend this week. I finished a couple of digital layouts and laid out a traditional layout on my desk that I keep staring at. I keep hoping to get more accomplished, but it's eluding me at the moment. There's always next week.

whambampam, thanks for starting this challenge.

No spend for me. I am rid of all my subs and I have no other orders coming. Time to use my stash!

I keep my 12x12 page protectors in the box they came in, on my shelf beside the albums. My 6x8 page protectors are housed in an old WITL album that arrived bent (they replaced the album for me so the bent one was extra).

Happy wedding day dasmith2!

I have two friends coming over today and we are going to scrap all day. I’m looking forward to getting some pages done!

Thanks for posting the challenge here whambampam For years I've stored my pp in an unused album but I noticed that if you don't use a certain type for a long time they actually get dusty/smeary inside I'm now looking for a new way to store them. I think I might use the Becky Higgins pp boxes in the future (but just need to empty one - lol). Now, if someone has an idea on how to clean the inside of a pocket page pp - I already tried a cleaning cloth for glasses and it works but it's very time consuming...

Oh and I almost forgot I'm not planning on spending any money on craft supplies this week, but I still have two orders coming from last week (AE and a stamp set I wanted to get for a long time and always postponed to order but was reminded of it by comment from someone here on the boards )


Happy wedding from me too dasmith2 !

congratulations on your wedding, dasmith2!!

this is a fun challenge! I need a low spend / no spend challenge to keep myself honest- I did a lot of impulse spending over the summer, and now I need to use all those supplies.

I haven't actually done any scrapping lately, but I did a couple crafty projects recently- (they were kids' craft projects from Michaels, for Halloween, that I bought a couple weeks ago for 40-60% off). One of them was 6 cardboard Dia de los Muertos masks that came with stickers and some sequins in the kit. And then I added LOTS more of my own sequins and Stickles glitter glue to them from my stash. I'm going to string them together into a garland and hang them outside the front door, I think. The second project was one of those 3D kits from Michaels that's all made of craft foam, for a cute little haunted house with a vampire, a witch, some bats, and a dead tree behind it. The foam pieces all had notches and cut-outs so they all fit together without glue, but it was a bit more of a pain than I thought it would be. It did turn out really cute, though!

I store my page protectors in a 12x12 3-ring album that had to be repaired so I can't use it for photos. They do sag a little bit, but it seems to be easiest to get them out of it rather than in a 12x12 Iris case.

I did just start working on Christmas cards for my own cards and for the NSBR swap: so far I got two Christmas stamp sets from Goodwill, I found three or four easy-to-assemble card ideas from Pinterest, and I just pulled together a pile of patterned papers to use from my stash. Now I need to start the cardmaking assembly line: cutting and folding card blanks, cutting the patterned papers, stamping and coloring the images, and then assembling. I think I'll probably make at least 4 or 5 different designs so I don't get too bored, but I need to get started on them so I can get them made in plenty of time.

I also want to edit and send another order of at least 100 photos to Costco, but the process of editing and uploading photos is sooo tedious!!

I am just now checking in...

I didn't purchase anything last week. I was tempted by Ali's chipboard bundle but the reality is I don't need 7 sets of Christmas chipboard.

Sadly, I didn't complete any of the posted challenges, but I did pull out my PL album + print photos from June-Sept. I am finishing up my May spread(s) - there are a bunch since my son graduated that month.

I'm still working on the previous challenge of downloading my SC class videos. I already downloaded all my SC digi files and BPC classes.

I stored my pocket page protectors in a 12x12 album, but that didn't really work for me. Now I store them in a Paper Folio from Hobby Lobby that has expandable pockets so I can sort the styles. This works so much better for me to flip through and find what I need!
www.hobbylobby.com/Scrapbook-Paper-Crafts/Storage-Organization/12-x-12-Frosted-Paperfolio/p/20473

For purchases, I was bad this past week - bought some Elle's Studio and then picked up some things on super clearance at Hobby Lobby (thickers, minc supplies, wood veneer), and snagged a Peachy Cheap deal. My plan is no spending this week and get some actual creating done!