What's your strategy for MOC 12?

Depends on the different challenges for me. With the theme being relationships I might struggle with current photos. So I will try and just go with the flow and not overthink things too much.

 

I really don't plan ahead at all! I just scrap what speaks to me at the time of each challenge. I may be scrapping Christmas or beach vacations or maybe even back-to-school photos.

 

My plan is to go with the flow. I’m terrible at scrapping while hosting so I only finished 7 challenges last year. :-/

 

I try to use MOC as an opportunity to "catch up"- which will never really happen, but as long as the challenge allows- I try to use my oldest photos first- right now I'm still working in 2017. Sometimes a challenge just calls for different pics or current stuff, so I try to have 'loose' guidelines for myself!

 

Honestly I'm just going to go with the flow and see what I manage to get done.

 

Nini, I just go with the flow. I am a bad example as I do not have a lot of daily things to take photos of so I just scrap what I want. Re the MOC I just am excited daily to check out the challenge and scrap the challenges!!! I have my MOC template (I use the one I made years ago) to showcase in thumbnails the 31 days of challenges, so everyday when I finish my page I pop a small one on the template

I say just scrap whatever pictures you want!!!

I also would say print out your FB 2023 album regardless of order and put the pages in the date order you scrapped them. I think even if you used old photos that do not correspond with 2023, when they are in a book, it is still wonderful to look at.

I usually only print our trip books. I keep all of my pages I make during the year on my EHD by year of making them. I can then do a slide show. I love looking back at them, however for me, I know that since I have no children, my nephew is not going to want a lot of my pages I made with people he does not know. Maybe one day I will go through and pull all the heritage pages I made over the years and put those all in to one book for him. I do have a book I would print out myself when I first started scrapping with the plastic sleeves, but because of the ink I quit printing the pages myself individually.

My trip books I love and look back at our UK/Ireland trips & our 20th Anniversary Vegas/California trip often and those are wonderful printed out.

Whatever you decide to do, just enjoy!!!

 

In my 7 years of MOC I've never planned ahead. I actually kind of scrap the same way I do all year. That is, mostly recent photos with occasional old photos thrown in. Whatever I feel like in the moment. The difference for me between January and the rest of the year is that in January I scrap every day, and most days I'm inspired by super creative challenges.

 

The only thing I do in preparation for MOC is that I make sure of the retired kits and take them out of my TLP directory. I like to do it organically and day by day - no plans.

 

I also just go with the flow. It is nice when a challenge also presents an opportunity to use a product for a designer I CT for which is a double win

 

I have a running google doc with every page I want to scrap for each year - Currently there are 252 pages still to do across 7 years . I add to it as the year goes on. When MOC rolls around, I try my best to find a page I want to scrap that fits the parameters of the challenge. I find that I tend to get about 25 usable pages out of MOC each year, and a few that won't go in the book because I couldn't fit the challenge to an event I want to scrap (like "About Me" pages etc)

 

The preparation I complete is making sure all things are unzipped and organized and that my photos are downloaded and into Lightroom. Right now all that is a complete mess. Then I just try to enjoy the challenges. With my mother’s health in such a precarious position, I don’t know how much I’ll be able to scrap on top of designing. I’m hopeful but giving myself grace.

 

I try to catch up on old pages if possible during MOC but I don't spend tooooo much time trying to figure out how to fit my pictures to a theme if it doesn't seem easy to do that.

 

I scrap in basically chronological order. So I just see what the challenge is and look at my list of photos to see what would work. I try to do each page same day if I can.

One year I used photos from a recent Disney trip and I loved how my book turned out. Got pages done, MOC done, I was a happy camper!

 

I'm a go with the flow kinda gal
I never plan ahead or prep anything really. I usually let the challenge inspire me and help me choose photos.

 

Last year I ended up in the hospital the last few days MOC11, so I did not finish, so my goal this year is just to finish!

 

I don't do a lot of prep. Though I haven't yet done so, I will make a folder for MOC 12. Whenever there's a challenge with a freebie (e.g., a template), I will unzip that free goodie into this folder. I will also make a subfolder of photos to scrap (but I never have enough photos, because I don't take enough photos, LOL).

My main preparation is probably mental/psychological, and it has to do with letting go of my usual scrapping mode:

Ordinarily, I am the very opposite of a speed scrapper. I am happy to spend hours on a layout (not all in one go, typically, but spread out over many days), switching out papers and elements, experimenting with font combinations, abandoning a page for a week or two and then returning to it with a fresh eye... Though I'm probably “wasting time” from a speed scrap perspective, it doesn't feel like a waste to me: it's part of the process, and I find it therapeutic.

But with MOC, I cannot do this, there's not enough time! I need to just get 'er done and post a completed layout to the gallery. Never mind endlessly switching out papers and elements, and forget about finding a fun new font duo: it's MOC, and I don't have time for that! This, for me, is the main challenge of MOC: I need to prepare to scrap outside my comfort zone!

Seriously excited about MOC 12.

 

My two goals are (1) finish the MOC and (2) try to stay on top of completing challenges daily.
I rarely find that the challenges can be shoehorned into whatever the next page is of a particular project.

 

This year I will be away for the first two weeks so if I want to finish (which I really do), I will need to do two challenges a day for the rest of the month. Other than that, I won't be doing any planning.