New Year, New Focus on Scrapping?

bcgal00

bcgal00

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I love the beginning of the new year, it is a time when I think about scrapping and what direction I might want to go in with it.

What about you....do you have a "direction" you might want your scrapping to go in this year? Maybe some new techniques or some different page ideas you want to work on?

Do you have some albums to finish/start or some theme you are thinking of starting to scrap about?

So....any new focus for scrapping this year?
 
I want to create more pages about "me'. I did a couple in 2019 but would like to do more this year, journal about my everyday life, my likes/dislikes, my thoughts, my dreams, my goals. I would like to eventually create an album about "me" so that family and friends can get a glimpse into who I am.

I also want to create an album of wildlife/animal layouts since I've been taking so many photos of the birds and squirrels in my area, and also of Taz, my doodle.
 
My life turned upside down two years ago and so stopped scrapbooking completely. Now things have settled down and I have joined a photography club and am way more active in my photography. Decided it was time to get back into scrapbooking! My focus is going to be pocket pages so I can chronically archive my pictures but I will be playing around with other forms of layouts as well. Glad to be back!
 
I just want to be more creative. I tend to get into ruts and can't seem to break through the artsy journaling one. I can't get messy enough. SOOOO - I guess I wanna get messy!
 
Pachimac said:
I just want to be more creative. I tend to get into ruts and can't seem to break through the artsy journaling one. I can't get messy enough. SOOOO - I guess I wanna get messy!
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I love looking at Art Journal pages but I've come to realize that it's just not me. I like the traditional pages.
 
I am hoping to get my son's high school album done (and fill in any gaps that I missed from his other albums). That's my priority, but I also want to take on the ambitious project of scrapping my first trip to Germany back in the late 80s. This will be a much tougher project because I first have to scan all of the photos and then try to figure out what's in the photos...so many castle photos and landscapes and old buildings, mercy!! My son and I are going to Germany in May after he graduates so I'm hoping to get the first trip scrapped before I take the second one!

After those projects are finished and my son goes off to college in the fall, I don't know what I'll scrap about. We'll be empty-nesters and Lord knows we don't do anything worth scrapping hehe
 
I have a goal to complete 2 trips we have taken and catch up on my grand daughters books. I also want to scrap more about my family history and where I fit in.
 
I usually scrap whatever interest me from whatever year, traditionally and digitally. For digital I print them and put them in the corresponding albums. This year, I think I'm going to embrace photo books in the 11x8 size. I don't want to shrink all my pages to 8x8 for printing, I'd need the to keep a magnifying glass handy by the albums to read the journaling at that size. :D

Therefore, my goal will be to stay up to date in my scrapbooking for this year so I can print the book at the end of the year. I'm also hoping to simplify the process so I can focus on other areas of life and creativity (I have 3 quilts that need to be completed and have been learning embroidery which has sat untouched for 2.5 months). Of course, I still have lots from 2019 and before that I can play with my "normal" ways if I am so inclined
 
I plan on finishing off an album to be printed about my childhood so then I can send off my mother's old albums to my younger sister who wants to keep them.
 
This year I want to create scrapbooks for Tyler's family for next Christmas. I have all the photos to use, just need to create beautiful layouts! I only make a few layouts for each of my kits and I need to just scrap for scrapings sake, if that makes sense?
 
I have no particular scrapping focus for 2020...just to keep on scrapping for the pleasure of creating and for the joy of using photoshop....as Aimee said above:- scrapping for scrapping's sake)
 
I got the large iPad last summer and am hoping to learn two programs for scrapping on the iPad and do more of my scrapping on it. One of the programs is supposed to be a fairly highly recommended substitute for Photoshop and I have purchased it for my PC computer. Another goal is to get really comfortable with it and let go of my Photoshop CC subscription.
 
roxyrenders said:
I got the large iPad last summer and am hoping to learn two programs for scrapping on the iPad and do more of my scrapping on it. One of the programs is supposed to be a fairly highly recommended substitute for Photoshop and I have purchased it for my PC computer. Another goal is to get really comfortable with it and let go of my Photoshop CC subscription.
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How do you use kits and stuff with an ipad?
 
roxyrenders said:
I got the large iPad last summer and am hoping to learn two programs for scrapping on the iPad and do more of my scrapping on it. One of the programs is supposed to be a fairly highly recommended substitute for Photoshop and I have purchased it for my PC computer. Another goal is to get really comfortable with it and let go of my Photoshop CC subscription.
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Rochelle - keep us updated on how that goes. This is something I am possibly interested in over the next year or so. I have dual monitors in my office downstairs that I scrap on during the day (in between doing my desk work) but for night time, I have a PC upstairs in the living room and find that I almost never use it. I like to just relax in my chair at night. I might enjoy scrapping in my chair with an iPad but not sure. I need to do a lot more research on this.
 
Rae- For lounging in your chair you might want to try a small laptop- I have used a laptop for years- so nice to be able to recline the chair/sofa seat and play on the computer. I don't think these days my body would tolerate having to sit at a desktop computer. I have been mostly been binge watching Procreate video tutorials which is more of a digital painting program for creative outlet than scrapping. The other program which is the comparable Photoshop replacement is Affinity Photo- it has a $50 cost with all future upgrades for free. The iPad app version is even cheaper. Here is a page I made on the iPad in Affinity Photo on the iPad. The only one so far because I would rather watch video tutorials instead of scrapping these days!

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I always start the year out with scrapping goals and never, ever come close to completing them. I think this year I just want to keep up scrapbooking my grandkids and eventually I will feel like printing them. My 23 year old son still doesn't have his albums finished so there is that........ We won't even talk about my 18 year old son. LOL
 
My only direction is to scrap the photos I haven't yet scrapped! Not that I'll finish any one year or big event... My long term goal would be to have enough pages to fill a good sized book for each my kids' high school graduation presents. My oldest is in 8th grade, so I've got some time... but not really! Last year I was able to complete 10 challenges each month (mostly pages, but sometimes had to do siggies and such when I was running out of time!) and ended up with 145 total pages, so I'd like to keep that as a goal. I've got 300 credits waiting for me at persnickety so between the ones from 2019 that I hadn't printed yet, it'd be good to get enough pages done to use them all.
 
I am trying to finish off my vacations... but I am really click-happy so I end up with an average of 200 pictures from just one weekend... I am still behind on four or five separate 'albums'. I'd like to finish Tuscany's 4 sub albums (Florence done, just Siena, San Gim + Voltera, and Pisa to go...) and get ready for my next influx of photos from my best friend's visit.
 
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