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Do You Make Scrap Goals?

EHStudios said:
Use this confused feeling as your emotion! It’s just focusing on a feeling & expressing YOU in this moment.
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Maybe I need to read it over again. I felt like she was saying that we were supposed to scrap what art journaling IS...UGH. Confusion would be easier to scrap! :)
 
Pachimac said:
Did you get your new computer all set up?
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In the process of at the moment, it’s ready as such but I am currently doing data transfer from laptop to PC so I have my files again - it’s a slow tedious process
 
Pachimac said:
I am in awe of those who can hybrid and paper scrap. I can't do it to save my life. They look like a kindergartner did them!
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I started out in traditional scrapping 23 years ago. Heck, I could say I started when I was in high school since I started keeping articles from newspapers and putting them into artist drawing pads. But what we know as scrapping, I started in 1999 with Creative Memories. That is where I got my style from and the reason for my scrapping... telling the stories and memories that go along with the photos.
 
littlekiwi said:
In the process of at the moment, it’s ready as such but I am currently doing data transfer from laptop to PC so I have my files again - it’s a slow tedious process
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I know the feeling. When we got the new iMac it took weeks to feel comfy as a sofa again!
 
HavaDrPepper said:
I started out in traditional scrapping 23 years ago. Heck, I could say I started when I was in high school since I started keeping articles from newspapers and putting them into artist drawing pads. But what we know as scrapping, I started in 1999 with Creative Memories. That is where I got my style from and the reason for my scrapping... telling the stories and memories that go along with the photos.
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I scrap for Melissa. She is an only child, my sister and brother are somewhat estranged from us so she has no cousins around or family. I want her to have her family history and our memories.
 
Not really. My only scrapping goal was to finish MOC 10 which I did. I did complete several challenges in Feb. I may have to scale back a bit over the next month or so as I’ve got renovations starting and I suspect lots of noise, dust and disruption. I do hope to try the monthly muse sometime.
 
HavaDrPepper said:
I started out in traditional scrapping 23 years ago. Heck, I could say I started when I was in high school since I started keeping articles from newspapers and putting them into artist drawing pads. But what we know as scrapping, I started in 1999 with Creative Memories. That is where I got my style from and the reason for my scrapping... telling the stories and memories that go along with the photos.
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I started at same time too! Was 13 & that's the year my twin cousins were born. A friend of my mom's did CM.
 
I don't make scrappy goals very much. The most far reaching scrapping goal I ever made was at the beginning of 2015 when I declared that Sunday would be my scrapping day. I had neglected scrapping for the previous 4 years as I was obsessed with learning photography and considering going into business with that. Establishing that routine worked. I have been scrapping at least once a week nearly continuously ever since.

I kind of have a goal of completing MOC every year too. Or is that more of a habit?

Irregularly I decide "this month I'm going to complete all the monthly challenges" or something like that, and I usually do.

Some years I have committed to projects, like Project 52.

I haven't focused on improving any scrapping techniques beyond one single layout really, except with Farrah's monthly themes she has been doing and a few classes I've taken, like Tangie's Art Journaling class. That's a good idea though. The thing I've wanted to improve most for years is shadowing, and I have a little, but I haven't focused on it systematically. I tend to just lazily do the same thing over and over and not put very much effort into my shadows. Probably because I scrap only for myself and for pleasure. I'm relaxing when I scrap; not inclined to work.
 
My goal this year is split. 1/2 organization and 1/2 scrapping. My goal is to scrap 30 pages a month. A page a day would be amazing, but I also know my life doesn't always allow me to do a page a day. So, my goal is 30 pages a month, with intent to do 1 a day.
The other half of my goal is organization based. I will spend 7 hours a week on organizing between photos and supplies. My end goal is all my photos tagged. I have been working on this slowly over the last two years, and I'm at a point where I think a good push is all I need to finish it. My scrap organization is basic driven: I want to tag my previews with products/items so I can find them a little easier. Like stitches - I struggled to find the stitches I wanted last year, but I know tagging each supply would be totally overwhelming. I like my AcdSee search better than windows, so I'm committing to using that this year. My goal is to lightly tag what I struggle to find, especially templates by photo spots and small patterned papers. Another part of this is doing an 'album audit' (as Shimelle calls is) and seeing what stories are missing in my books. That way I can add those to my "To Be Told" notebook and make sure they are documented.

I'm hoping my goal gives me that good mix of organizing and scrapping so I can work on whichever I'm more "in the mood" for each day without sacrificing the other.
 
bestcee said:
Another part of this is doing an 'album audit' (as Shimelle calls is) and seeing what stories are missing in my books. That way I can add those to my "To Be Told" notebook and make sure they are documented.
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I did that a couple years ago after I found a bunch of photos I didn't have after scanning negatives. I found so many pictures of vacations going back to my childhood that I wrote out what I had already scrapped and what I needed to scrap. I made that my main scrapping focus for awhile. But that is what spurred me to set up the spreadsheet of some of my main albums thus letting me see if I've missed anything. That then spurred on the project(s) of scrapping for my 2 cousins... 3 Shutterfly books done for them, and another one almost finished.

The 'album audit' was also good for me since my albums are by theme and I could get things arranged chronologically within each theme.
 
No , I don’t set goals such. But now and again I will look t my stash and realize I have not used a particular designer, or a certain style in a while. Then I will dedicate that months challenges to that.
I always try to do the monthly challenges,but it is not a goal as such.
 
Pachimac said:
Any hints for me? I feel like when I use patterns, the elements get lost and especially the text stamps I so love to do!



Me too!!!! I'm stumped on Week 1 of the Muse this month!



I agree. HOWEVER, lockdown meant not going anywhere, so I have precious few photos. I hate bull crapping my pages, but I have some memes and interesting photos in my Pro 52 this year!
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Just scrap an AJ with the style of AJ that is you. The style you think when you hear AJ.
 
The only scrapping goal I really have each year is to finish MOC within the deadline and I've managed that for 10 years in a row! I love the overdrive mojo I have every year in January. Other than that, I'm just trying to scrap pretty consistently and stay relatively caught up so that when I create a page I can mostly remember enough to do authentic journaling. Although my memory is getting worse and worse, so a couple of years ago I also have been keeping some sort of journaling every day (in a Google Doc) so I can go back and grab journaling from there to jog my memory. :giggle

I used to have the monthly goal to complete all of the monthly challenges here, but that's definitely slipped to the way side... I sure start that up again. I always love those challenges to keep my scrapping too!
 
My only goal is to print a book containing the pages that I made during the year. Doesn't matter I scrapped photos from 2010 or 2022. They all go into that year's book and I need to just get the book printed. That way I stay up to date with printing. The boys and the rest of my extended family like to go through the books to see what I've done.

It's neat to hear about others goals though and might spark an idea for myself!
 
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In other words, nope, no I don't

unless you count, buying pretty things. lol
 
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