OCT TEAM CHAT - JOYFULNANA'S A-TEAM!

I've been card making like a mad woman. I kitted up 6 layouts for a crop this weekend so hopefully I'll actually get them done. Work has been a &*%&*(* the last couple of weeks. I've come home and fallen asleep in my recliner. Can't scrap much when I'm sleeping!!

I hope you all are well.

I've managed to catch up on the Cardtober challenges through today (and racked some nice points in the process). Hoping to make a few more simple cards from some cut-aprt sheets I bought specifically for cards...need to make dinner and wash dishes first. Thank goodness for a husband who, when I told him I hadn't done any chores, said "it's okay, you were busy today"

Have almost finished adding up points for what I have completed so far. Was going to make cards today, but got frustrated looking for stuff in my messy scraproom, so spent most of the day putting things away and clearing off some space. Found my corner rounder, my water colour paints, and $75 worth of coupons from a LSS in Edmonton! (I always bring home the coupons and leave them in my scraproom, and then when I shop there I don't have any. I can use coupons for up to HALF of my next purchase. Gramma needs to go SHOPPING next time I am in the city!)

Also started kitting up some stuff for the LSS crop the last weekend of the month--found some papers and supplies that go with my photos. Found space in my die cabinet for some of the new dies I purchased this last month. Still need to put away sorted stuff on one scrap counter, but I feel more relaxed in here.

This next Saturday I have a mixed media class and I will print the photos from this last weekend. Lots of fall themed pic's and then the snowman building! (Snow is mostly gone now, but it certainly was a wake up call that Winter is on its way).

grammadee, your cleaning up your scrap room is inspiring. Mine is such a mess because I hurry to make a card each day and don't get around to putting things away. I am amazed at how many new techniques I have tried this month. I have actually stamped and enjoyed it and just had fun finding things in my room that were being forgotten.

joyfulnana, I hope you begin feeling yourself soon. I get hayfever as the seasons change and it knocks me down. Take it easy. I hope you are able to spend some time doing something creative. That always perks me up.

I don't have tons of points this month because I have only done one layout. I don't manage to get many points on the cards, but I have loved making them and trying new things.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

joyfulnana - yes feeling better, thank goodness and back to scrapping. Glad that you are on the mend as well.

I was supposed to go camping this weekend with DD13 but she stayed home from school yesterday with a GI complaint so no camping. Given how rainy and windy it has been thanks to Nestor - I'm not too heartbroken about staying inside.

Trying to finish up my September 2018 pics so I can move on to October...just have a few more layouts from DH's business trip to go...they aren't as fun to scrap as kid pictures unfortunately so slow going

Whew! Caught up on commenting, I think, except for on the CARDtober threads. So much creativity!

This week I need to focus on getting packed up for our weekend crop. Found out this afternoon that one of my appointments has been postponed a couple of weeks, so that gives me an extra day. Originally, I had planned to create some fall backgrounds at home so I wouldn't be worried about packing up wet media or having space to dry papers at the crop. Then I thought I had run out of time. Now I have an extra day, so I might end up doing that tomorrow and then packing on Wednesday. Have some new Vicki Boutin crayons I want to play with... Hmmm...

My Autumn tub has been pulled down from the top shelf. Not sure if I will lug the whole thing with me to the crop or simply select the elements I want to pack. Have to look for my fall leaf stamps and dies tomorrow.

Hi! Just checking in! I've actually been scrapbooking a lot, but just haven't taken the time to come back and post here and calculate my points. I am always too afraid to log on because then I'll get distracted by all the posts and stop scrapping!

So far I'm just scrapping my latest pics but haven't tried to fulfill any challenges specifically, but I want to because last month it was so much fun and really helped to kick start my mojo again.

I'm so behind on trying comment on all the layouts, I feel bad I'm not keeping up, so much so that I didn't post may layouts last month for that reason. I still want to participate though so I will try and post more

thanks for all the inspiration ladies, I do love playing along!

Thanks, Linda for that reassurance! I will take some pics hopefully tonight I've got band booster meeting so I'll try to get that squeezed in too! I can take pics on my iphone and upload directly from the TapaTalk app,right? That's okay to do?

Yes I believe that's the easiest way to do it and that adding photos that way doesn't take space on the boards the way adding attachments on a desktop does. So you should be good! I'm looking forward to seeing what you've been working on, even though I too haven't been commenting much this month. I love seeing everything though

You can certainly upload photos via Tapatalk.  Not sure how many you can include in one message--at least 3 I think--but you can upload a batch and then start another message.

And certainly we like to see what you have been scrapping!  If you get time to comment, great, but I find seeing other people's creations really inspiring so I will forego your comments on mine if I can see yours LOL.

Look after yourself, joyfulnana while you recover. Dh and I are going for flu shots next week.

Glad to hear you're feeling better joyfulnana!

I've just spent 2, maybe 3 hours, trying to figure the points on my cards for the month. I haven't even gotten into trying to figure out the cardtober challenge points - so many challenges this month! So glad to have access to the spreadsheet to speed the process up a little bit.

Before that I was working on some thankful for friends cards, but I was getting a bit overwhelmed and stressed. Some cards are so easy and fun but some feel like WORK. I'm not sure if stamping and heat embossing is worth the trouble sometimes! (and yet I just ordered gold embossing powder). I made some progress and I think the cards will turn out fine. I might just be hormonally unbalanced today. My desk area is such a mess now. I think I need to tidy up before I do anything else.

I found some new inspiration for cardmaking called a Sheetload of Cards by Call me Crafty Al - a bit like the One Sheet Wonders, I guess. It's a YT series with a supply list and guide to making 6 or 12 easy cards using a few sheets of 12x12 paper and some cardstock. Here's one of the videos - this is actually the Z fold card I've been working on - www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgNqpwT6apg but some of the others are even more straightforward, very good for beginners.

I hope everyone has a good week. Only a few more days left in the month!

glad you are feeling better @jofulnana

good luck with the posting/calculating grammadee

Thanks for the link joblackford

I'm hoping to scrap today - I do need to catch up on housework though. I cleaned off my desk yesterday and put away purchases but the creavitity bit wasn't there