Hello Friends!
How do you keep up on your scrapping? Leslie, one of our CT Members, provided these bits of wisdom.
“Keeping up with scrapping can be a challenge. And in point of fact, I’m not caught up. Juggling family and a full time job has made my scrapping time difficult to mange. I often feel guilty about spending precious time at my computer and not with my family. But I’ve taken to waking up earlier than I need to to go to work. I’ll fritter on Facebook, read emails, and edit photos to get them ready to scrap. It’s my own little quiet time where it’s just me and my Labrador retriever. Sometimes during my lunch hour, I’ll use Teamviewer to access my home computer and work on a page or get some scrappy chores done.”
About 9 months ago, Chelle set a goal to do some scrapping every day. I get to share those layouts with you each week in our Sunday post, “Chelle Scraps.” At first it was overwhelming to try it with that BIG deadline everyday, but Chelle founds some ways that have worked well for her. She has scrapped about 95 double page layouts since that time, just by using these simple ideas.
Chunking:
1. Go through your photos for an event or layout, select the photos you want to use, run them through Radlab and save them in a sub folder folder called “To Be Scrapped.”
2. Utilize clusters, templates & stacks that are pre-made (You Tub, Using Stacks)
3. Your layout a day isn’t set in stone. You may have a layout that is elaborate. It may take 2 days.
4. You can finish a layout started a previous day by adding the journaling, clusters, etc.
5. Consistency makes your scrapping faster.
6. Keep a spreadsheet or list of the layouts you still need to do. (Do you scrap by event or by year?)
7. Think about the kits your favorite designer’s are releasing, Then look at your list. Could they be combined and make your layout quicker. Think about elements or clusters.
8. Use your smart phone to keep track of journaling moments. Chelle’s 4 year old son recently told her, “Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, & Santa Clause are the good guys in case you were wondering.” You could use any kit to scrap around funny things your little one’s say.
9. Set realistic goals. I can do a layout a day for this week, this month, until this book is done, until this year is done. Suddenly you’ll find that you are naturally taking those 30 minutes a day to get a layout done. Then it won’t be long until you have a book ready to publish.
You can listen to Chelle speak about daily scrapping here.
So Just Start!
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