Let's talk about our scrapping projects again
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Txcorey
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What is your secret to getting that many pages done? I'm so behind and would love to make some progress catching up. I'm a slow scrapper and get overwhelmed with all the things I would like to scrap.
For our last vacation, I'm trying a different process. I'm trying to type out journaling so I don't forget it and then I'm trying to get all the photos i want to scrap in templates so that when I sit down to watch tv at night I can just mindlessly scrap. I think deciding which pictures I want to use and putting those pictures into templates is my most challenging task.
clucaswvu04
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I have been catching up - but still no where near caught up, working on Oct. 2019 currently, though I started with Jan 2019 with the stay home stuff so it is a decent bit. I also scanned for days and days and days it felt like. We took all our paper albums and those are scanned now, along with old year books, random old pics and documents. That will be the side project to get those all done (I have done a few hear and there). We are getting ready to move though (in a week) Tuesday the truck is getting loaded, so after that it will be trying to entertain the three kids with nothing in the house lol - but I'm hoping to get some scrapping done too because my computer always gets carried with us even if monitors don't, and this time we made room so I could keep a monitor out with me so I'm excited to get to use it in transition - I still am old school with a desktop). My goal is to finish Oct 2019 this week but we'll see
rach3975
New member
I'm not nearly as fast a scrapper as Vanessa is, but I've been doing something like what you're describing. Even though I love having my finished weekly pages to look back on, I don't enjoy the process of narrowing down the pictures, getting everything placed in a template, and making the journaling (which I pre-write throughout the year) fit. I've started batching them like you're describing, and it's helping. First I went through, sorted photos into folders by which page they'll go on, and deleted the ones I won't use. (My To Scrap folder is all copies, so I delete as I finish with them.) Then I organized my journaling. Right now I'm in the process of placing each week's photos and journaling into templates. Later I'll go back and add papers and elements. That's the fun part, so I won't procrastinate it the way I do the earlier steps. I'm finding that when I get into a routine like this it's easier to make myself move onto the next one and get them done. When I'm scrapping start to finish for one page, I have trouble switching gears constantly back into the less fun parts that I have to concentrate on.
nesser1981
Sweet Shoppe SugarBabe
I've always been pretty fast a scrapping, I know I could spend more time on layers and all that, but to me getting it done has always been more important.
I'll share this video I did on how I organize all my photos to scrap, that helps a lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQHMeQEWbSc&t=17s
And my process is pretty similar to what you've been describing. I don't add my journaling first, but I have been getting photos in templates to scrap. Or I was. I'm working on a project now. Which is no journaling, just a round up of my favorite photos for my kids to have their own personal scrapbooks/photo albums. More simple, one layout a month of my favorite photos of them from birth through probably the end of high school, IDK. I thought 5 year increments, but now I'm wrapping up my daughter's 5th birthday, it's only 62 pages, so I'm thinking 10 years to make it the most bang for my buck with printing costs.
I got a laptop this year too, so sitting on the couch watching TV has helped a ton too.
I'll share this video I did on how I organize all my photos to scrap, that helps a lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQHMeQEWbSc&t=17s
And my process is pretty similar to what you've been describing. I don't add my journaling first, but I have been getting photos in templates to scrap. Or I was. I'm working on a project now. Which is no journaling, just a round up of my favorite photos for my kids to have their own personal scrapbooks/photo albums. More simple, one layout a month of my favorite photos of them from birth through probably the end of high school, IDK. I thought 5 year increments, but now I'm wrapping up my daughter's 5th birthday, it's only 62 pages, so I'm thinking 10 years to make it the most bang for my buck with printing costs.
I got a laptop this year too, so sitting on the couch watching TV has helped a ton too.
JennNtheBoys
New member
Wow! That's a LOT of scrapping !!! It must feel so good to be caught up! I have no idea what that is like and I don't think I ever will LOL The most i've done scrappy wise since March is like maybe 10 pages.... I've done a LOT of page planning and kit buying though! (more than normal in the run of a year lol). Every week I keep thinking "this is gonna be the week I get back into the groove" and then nope. I've actually had way less time to do anything since March... if you walked into my house right now, you'd think a bomb went off, but in actuality I spend every waking second trying to keep up with everyone and the messes they leave everywhere...... my kids (and husband) are such slobs... I knew they left things laying around before, but I had NO IDEA how bad their habits actually were 
I have been doing a lot of work trying to get them in the habit of daily tasks, things are getting better but still not quite where I need them to be to be able to allow myself some fun time with my scrappy stash. I may just have to put all the camping supplies outside.... put a cooler full of food on the deck, send them out for a swim (as the pool in the only thing that manages to get them outside) and then lock the doors.... They might figure out how to build the tent.... but my money would be on finding them snug in their sleeping bags in the deck chairs lol
I have been doing a lot of work trying to get them in the habit of daily tasks, things are getting better but still not quite where I need them to be to be able to allow myself some fun time with my scrappy stash. I may just have to put all the camping supplies outside.... put a cooler full of food on the deck, send them out for a swim (as the pool in the only thing that manages to get them outside) and then lock the doors.... They might figure out how to build the tent.... but my money would be on finding them snug in their sleeping bags in the deck chairs lol
Txcorey
Active member
Txcorey
Active member
Rachel, this is me to a T. I love looking at the finished product and I like pulling in papers and elements, but I hate going through and choosing photos and putting them in templates! I have also started trying to take less photos, or more meaningful photos, but I think what bogs me down especially are trips. I take a lot of photos on vacations and then when I sit down to scrap the trip I am overwhelmed. My Disney trips especially really bog me down-I know you are a Disney fan too. I'm almost finished with my 2018 trip, and haven't yet touched my 2019 trip!
nesser1981
Sweet Shoppe SugarBabe
StacyLynn
Well-known member
I am so excited! I ordered my daughters grad book! 107 pages!
I also put all the pages into a movie (with video clips of her growing up) to show at her grad party. I did this for my older two daughters as well. I used a bunch of Sweet Shoppe kits ... if any one wants a peek, here is the link for it..... https://youtu.be/4vWnbqkN9o8
feels so good to have it all done!!
I also put all the pages into a movie (with video clips of her growing up) to show at her grad party. I did this for my older two daughters as well. I used a bunch of Sweet Shoppe kits ... if any one wants a peek, here is the link for it..... https://youtu.be/4vWnbqkN9o8
feels so good to have it all done!!