So, in between some of my organizational posts, here’s a post about what has been going on with me around digiland.
I received a GSO at Digishoptalk for this layout using 10 Things About Her (Jenna Desai):
And my hybrid tutorial is in the Digital Artisan Notebook this month! I can’t post the actual project yet, but here is the sneak peek from the website!
My tutorial features the kit Affirmation by Elise’s Pieces and it describes how to create a card set and gift box for them.
If you want to find my previous post on the clean-a-thon, go here. Or click on the label – organization. If you would like to visit Nettio’s blog to find about more about the Spring Clean-a-thon, visit here.
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So I’m chipping away. Knowing that other people are also working on tackling similar cleaning tasks is motivating. Why do I want to get my digi stash more under control? Because although I still have 27 GB free on my external hard drive. I have more than that waiting on my internal hard drive, waiting to move so that all my supplies can live together in one place. And that just isn’t enough space! I also know that the kits that are on my internal drive are ones that I like more and are better quality than some of the kits on the external drive.
I will admit that I thought for a while to just get a bigger drive to hold all of my stash. But I stopped and realized that this is the time to get myself in control. I am an e-hoarder and I really want to do something about it so that it does not take me so long to get everything backed up (and in turn I believe that I will back up more often if it is not a several day adventure) and so that I can find my stuff that I love!
With that – how am I doing on my goals for this week so far?
1. My email inbox. I’ve gone through all the unread messages and unsubscribed from 3 mailing lists that had a lot of unread messages. I still have to go through the messages I’ve starred or marked to-do.
2. Backup. Hasn’t happened yet.
3. Get into a rhythm with organizing digi scrap supplies and photos. I’ve been working each day on my digi supplies. Moving some into an archive folder (I find it works better for me than if I straight delete). Haven’t worked on photos yet this week.
Stats:
Main folders: 257
Previews tagged: 933
Total space: 218 GB
Files: 214,238 Files
Folders: 15,801 Folders
Main folders: 227
Previews tagged: 959
Total space: 217 GB
Files: 213,467
Folders: 15,662
I’m doing pretty well on getting rid of extra folders and I have moved some kits. Problem is: I think they are older kits with lower quality, so maybe they really weren’t taking up that much space.
4. Post about my progress – that’s me right now!
I’m jumping on the bandwagon with Nettio this week to participate in the Nettio Designs Spring Clean-a-thon:
Since the challenge is only for a week, I don’t want to set my goals too high, but I also want to use this as a chance to kickstart myself again. I was doing well with my organizing until about February and then I got distracted.
- Clear my email inbox, to do and flagged emails
- Unsubscribe from some mailing lists so that I don’t get as much email everyday if I am not using the information
- Backup my current projects
- Get into a rhythm again with organizing digital scrapbook supplies and photos
- Post about my progress – midweek and at the end of the week
Lynnette mentioned some surprises for people who follow along on her blog, so I’m going to update my status there as well. Wishing myself luck!
I’m sharing a layout today about a bear. I used a FAVE-O-RITES template from vol. 5 by Nettio Designs to create this layout – (btw it makes a great layout out of anything!)
And I used this kit by Elise’s Pieces – “Love is All Around.” It has great colors with pink, red, green, blue. I think it could match a majority of themes and photos.
This little bear is turning five and it’s just crazy to look back at how much he and we have been through in that time.
Font: The Cutie Patootie by Heather Hess
Something I realized from this layout. This bear has three layouts to his name over several years. Why? Probably because he is a Valentine theme and lots of fabulous digi kits are love themed and he is a natural. As I thought about this though, I realized that I have other “things” in my life that are completely undocumented. That’s not fair. I’m realizing how many holes I have in my pages and how I have multiple pages on some common topics. I think I’m going to start working on a missed layout list to start and help this situation. Do you have holes in your collection of layouts that are missing some important parts of your life?
I’ve been working on writing more in a journal this year and so far succeeding. I feel like it has helped my journaling on my scrapbook pages as well by giving me ideas for pages, adapting words I have already written for my pages, or just made me less self conscious of what I write.
The gold member kit at DST for March 2012 is a fantastic kit. Full of fun elements that any digiscrapper will love. I mean - a tablet element? It rocks. Even though I made a layout about writing with this kit, I’m planning to make a digiscrapping one in addition. I like the scratchy look to all the pieces of this kit.
Extreme Digiscrapper by Dawn Inskip
The Architect Font by Heather Hess
Okay this may be one of my favorite hybrid projects ever. I used the Media Journalers by Kate Hadfield -
and the Spiral Bound Alpha to make this mini book. It was so easy to make. I just picked out some of the 3x4 journaling cards and placed some of the word art tags on each of the pages. Printed, cut, hole punched, and bound with a 1 inch binder ring. I made two of these and I liked the one that just had all of the cards facing front more than the one that was book style with two of the colored cards facing each other.
The best part? Filling it out! The pictures and words just brought to mind all of these fun memories. Lists, sentences, drawings? Whatever you want to write about the idea. And it was managable. I will treasure it forever.
A great idea is to print one out and give it to a friend or family member and have them fill out the same cards. It would be great to see all the different perspectives on the same theme.
LOVE IT! It has inspired me to do more projects like this. It also gave me an idea to jumpstart my travel and christmas journaling/pages.
Do you have any templates by Nettio? Or have you been thinking about using this free map template but just haven’t gotten around to it yet?
Announcing the:
Introducing the Show Off Your Awesomeness Contest
Here’s your chance to start embracing your scrapbooking awesomeness and show us what you’ve got by using any NettioDesigns template in a new, creative, awesome way. Shrink it, scale it, flip it, combine it – it’s totally up to you. What matters most is that you push yourself to step outside your box and create a layout that is awesomely YOU.
Here are the rules:
And look – I get to be one of the judges – that will be a first for me. I would love to have a gazillion entries to choose from. And there are prizes involved! Now the deadline is coming up fast – you only have until Sunday 9:00pm Pacific time to enter! So hurry up and get scrapping!
