9-7 speed scrap - goodbye Avi

love all the musical notes and the stamps! lovely!

I love your page but am bummed to hear that the bass singer is leaving. I hope they get someone really awesome. I never get tired of listening to them or seeing their videos!

how did you find all music elments in such short time?

Great use of the music circles on your cute layout.

This is awesome!!! The music note stamps behind the photos look so cool!

What?? I did not know he was leaving! I love how it almost looks like there is scrapbook paper in the background of the photo on the top left.

Love it

@Cath_ The speed with which I find my digiscrap elements is thanks to 2.5 things. 1. The iMac search engine, combined with 2. the designers' good file naming habits. The best file naming habit is making the the name descriptive, so when I do a search in my files, I see all my choices for whatever I searched for. I can search for "button" or "beach" or "music" and get many results. As for music specifically, that's my ".5" thing (I said thanks to 2.5 things above Because music is something very important to me, when I buy a kit that has anything music-themed I check to see if music is in the filename already and if it isn't I add it or tag it. I don't tag much; only when there's something I want to make sure comes up in future searches.

Oh! I thought of another helpful thing I do that makes it easy to find what I want to use. I change the folder icons in my files. I replace the blue folder icon with the kit preview image. So even though I dump all my TLP stash into one folder, I can scroll through it and see at a glance what I have. This is especially helpful when I'm looking for particular colors, because color isn't usually in the filename. If you'd like to know how to change folder icons to kit previews, I wrote a blog post about it long ago. It's for iMac, but I bet there's a similar procedure for PC. https://michelekendzie.wordpress.co...al-discovery-changing-folder-icons-on-my-mac/

@bcgal00 @Juliestcyr I'm in a Facebook group called Pentaholics and follow all the band members on FB and Twitter and IG. It was mid-summer when they made a tearful video in which Avi explained that touring was taking a lot out of him. He did complete this summer's tour though. He's also producing his own music (Avriel and The Sequoias) but that's not why he left; all 5 of them have produced their own music. In fact Scott and Mitch just published their first Superfruit album (which I love and listen to a lot now), with another one coming soon. In an interview with Mitch and Scott later in the summer, they said they are taking their time to find a new bass singer because Avi can't be replaced.

@michelepixels Yes on the tagging, yes on changing the folder icon! I also use a Mac, and I tag elements I haven't used yet purple (I like to track what I actually use). I also tag fasteners, bits of string, threads, stitching... anything I consider "neutral" but kinda essential in blue. When a speed scrap calls for a fastener, I just do a search for the blue tag and I have my pick. It also makes it easy to add those little touches to the end of a LO. Next up, I am looking for a way to make browsing my fonts and stamps easier.