New Year's Resolutions & Scrapbooking

The new techniques are: 1) I had received a Cricut machine for my birthday, and had been mostly using it for fonts, then shapes. I received the Mickey & Friends cartridge and the Mickey Font cartridge and learned the wonderful techniques of layering. Oh my! Such wonderful things I can do! I made a bunch of birthday cards for everyone in January! 2) I use my sewing machine frequently to stitch in my layouts and cards, but I found that I could use the piercing tool (done next to a ruler) to evenly space small holes and to stitch a small piece (if that's all I needed to do...). This allows me to save time if I am only doing a small piece and also allows me to use different types and gauges of threads that my sewing machine won't take. What a wonderful compliment to some crafts and layouts. This month, I'm hoping to learn "distressing."

Very cool. I bought one of those "little" craft sewing machines a few years ago for a scrapbook I did for my great uncle. I still pull it out from time to time. The last time I cheated through and used rubber stamps that have the look of it being sewn. Destressing is so much fun! Especially because if you did something you didn't mean to do, no one can tell because it's all part of the process. lol Sounds like you are having fun with your cricut. I have some friends that have some and they love them. I am dreaming of one of those cutters that you plug into your computer and it cuts everything out for you. Have fun scrappin'!

Congarts! I like your fourth one - what was the new technique you learned?

I use a few sites for inspiration for scrap booking. Scrap Therapy and Little Scrapbook Shop are two of them. The one I use for participation with work I've done is Chooksraps. If you type in either of those three into your browser you will find many layouts. Hoping this helps you. I have been scrapping now for about six years but I have only been scrapping over the net for about two years. I find it is a very helpful site and the participants are very friendly and helpful.

I agree resolutions are hard to keep. I decided to keep it simple and break my resolutions into small goals so they are easier to keep. Do you have your work somewhere online to share? I would love to take a look.

You are not the only person I have heard that from! Try to set some time for yourself to do it. I know it can be hard to do. So, I make a "date" for scrapbooking and schedule it into my calendar. By signing up for crops is a good way to do it. Or with a friend. I have a girl friend coming over on Valentine's Day to scrapbook with.

I know what you mean - always doing someone elses! lol. It's hard to set the time aside. My friend signed up for a crop and did a ton of pages there so she wasn't distracted. She put everything in but the journaling and added that later. That way she way able to do a ton of pages at one time and could do the journaling a bit at a time.

Four - yup. But got nothing done for myself. I can get a big scrapbook done in a week if I block out everything (and I mean everything). But that doesn't include getting supplies or design, that's just production. I'm sure your pastor and wife will cherish the mini albums you are doing for them. So, this weekend I did 4 pages showcasing my daughter's broken elbow from last year. She's been wanting to show those photos at show and tell for months now. Have fun scrapping!

Sorry, I thought I responded to you months ago. Thanks for your post and I hope everything is going well.

Quitting smoking is a hard thing to do - I wish you the best of luck!

I think I should adopt yours of using up some of the supplies I bought before. I've gotten better, but I still have quite a bit of back log of supplies.