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littlekiwi

littlekiwi

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Have realised that I’ve only got a week or so to be ready and organised for MOC. If you had very limited time (think maybe 1-2 hours spread over a whole day each day until MOC), how would you prepare? I had grand ambitions of having my stash organised but as I still had commitments up until the 23rd of December that didn’t happen.
 
1-2 hours x 6 days is still lots of time!

I can think of a few different approaches:

1) go through your last orders, and depending on how prolific a shopper you are, either make a list of the last 10 orders, or maybe the last 3 months of kits. This way, you know you have a quick and easy stash of kits to pull from that should be current. (I know The Committed Crafter is retiring, but I'm not positive when.)

2) If you are more of a favorite scrapper: Make a folder and copy (not move) your favorites. Add in a few staples, some stitches, some flowers, some generic word art, some basic papers - neutrals and your favorite colors, maybe a frame or two. This depends on what your favorite go-to products are. This takes a little longer, but I would also make sure they are current in the store. This lets you easily grab from this folder without worrying about the 75% current product since you know it is! If a challenge calls for something, let's say a mask, that you didn't put in your folder, it'll be easy to just go find that one thing.

3) What are your fullest kits that you adore? I know you subscribe to Storyteller, and you might have a collab or two. Check to make sure they are in the store (most collabs are, and I know a lot of the Storytellers are!), and pull a preview shortcut into a folder. This is best if you are a one-kit scrapper or like to color match your photos and kits. Then, you can look at this folder to find a kit to use. Click the shortcut, and you are right to the kit!

You should be able to pull together these in minimal time. Don't worry about getting every item since you know you won't use them all. This is more to give you a quick starting point.
 
There are 4 things I'd do with limited time. You could spend a day on each and then devote your extra day or two to whatever you feel needs it.

1. I'd copy pictures I want to scrap into a folder together to eliminate time spent looking though lots of folders for them.

2. I'm not the kind of scrapper who remembers every kit and can instantly think of what to use. I need to scroll through all my MOC-eligible supplies to see what works. To do that, I make a folder each year with previews of all my MOC-eligible supplies. I have one for kits, one for templates, and one for everything else (mostly styles). I pulled together those folders by first going to my visual history in the TLP store and saving all the previews that were there. Depending on how big your visual history is, that might be something you could complete in one prep session. If you have extra time, I'd look through my stash from other stores to see what I had that was a collab with TLP designers. Every time I found something I'd search TLP to see if it was current, and if it was I'd add its preview to the folder. One thing that might work in your favor about doing it that way is that during MOC you could search for kits on your computer by name rather than needing them to be well organized.

3. I'd take the time to unzip any TLP files you haven't yet.

4. Finally, I'd do like Courtney suggested and make a Basics folder full of supplies that you know are in the shop. Mine has stitches, paint, flowers, stars, frames, foliage, buttons, ribbons, arrows, scribbles, and scatters. I don't have a lot of each item, maybe 3-5. Even though I'm mostly a single kit scrapper, I find myself pulling from my Basics folder a lot when the challenge terms or a given layout calls for something that's not in the kit I'm using.
 
Everything is unzipped which helps - to be fair while I have 1-2 hours a day, it’s more likely to be in small chunks of time due to my fatigue....I just want to make life a little easier if I am to complete MOC.
 
This will be my first MOC as well. I am more of a one kit scrapper so I do not normally pull items from other places when I do a layout. I have only been scrapping HERE since July (I think...have been a member way longer than that though) so all of my KITS are current.

Putting the photos that I want to use in a folder would not work for me because I tend to choose photos that go along with the theme and kit I am using at the time. Basically, I will not know what photos I am going to use until I see the challenge theme or instructions.

The hardest part for me will be deciding what kit to use!

AND I just finished setting up an Excel Spreadsheet to record what I use on each layout and their link to the store. I am hoping that will make the posting process quicker for me.
 
I wing it, lol. I can't prepare kits etc. because I go with what mood strikes me at certain times. Sometimes I will do a challenge a day and other times I will play catch up or scrap what comes easiest to me at that moment. That being said, I can't have my thread out of order, lol.
 
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