Scrapping Goals and Studio J Layout Share

I went over to scrapbook with my friend Heather on Wednesday and I finished up the last of my paper layouts for my 2009 family scrapbook. I'm so excited -- I am expecting my next Studio J layouts to arrive on the 22nd. Once they come, my 2009 family album will be complete! I will also get some of my daughter's school layouts (bringing me mostly up to date, except for the pictures I took today yesterday at the end of the year Mexican Fiesta and the ones I hope to take on the last day of school). So I think I can say that I've completed my goal to finish our 2009 album by the end of June. Yay! Moral of the story: it's good to set appointments to scrapbook and to scrapbook with a friend. Thanks Heather!

I also started on some 2008 layouts last Wednesday which makes me want to set a goal for completing my 2008 family scrapbook. I think many of my 2008 layouts might need to be "traditional" cut and adhere, paper layouts since I don't have all of the pictures stored digitally on our computer, so I wonder if it'll take me longer...and even though I'll be home more with no preschool teaching and less of a workload from my work at home job, I'll have the kids 24/7. I would love to finish this album by the end of summer. Maybe I can give myself until the end of September to finish our 2008 album...do you think I can do it?

Here's my scrapping "To Do" list:

• Clean and organize my scrapping area (the basement) -- I have oozed over into the living room due to a lack of open and clear horizontal space on my art table downstairs and I need to put an end to that!
• Work on as many paper 2008 layouts as possible -- my mini goal is to finish the January, February, and March 2008 layouts by mid or late July
• Keep working on one large (over 10 double layouts) monthly order of Studio J layouts to take advantage of the free shipping
• Work on 2011 layouts in Studio J
• Work on any 2008 layouts for which I have the digital photos on the computer (mostly the latter part of the year)
• Finish my daughter's school layouts for this year in Studio J (approximately 2-3 more layouts)
• Start on my son's school layouts for this year in Studio J

Whew! That's ambitious for me! Anyway, on to the layout share. Here's one of the school layouts for my daughter's album. My daughter will be attending a different school in the fall and one of the things I thought she would miss the most was her art class. Her art teacher was just wonderful. As it turns out, she is leaving at the end of this year too in order to work on a Masters degree in Art Therapy! So I like her even more now since that was my field of study and I don't feel so bad about my daughter going to a different school!

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Studio J Layouts -- Daydream, Class Act, Olivia

I've been really happy with the digital layouts I've completed through Studio J. I usually try to keep one album for my daughter's birthdays, one for my son's birthdays, one for my daughter's school events and photos, one for my son's school events and photos, and one family scrapbook per year or so. This is my intention...but I don't really have one scrapbook for each year for the family photos and there are empty spots in many of the other albums which I do have. I am 'caught up' (yes, I used the dreaded words!) with my daughter's birthday album with all traditional scrapbooking and almost 'caught up' with my son's birthday album (now with a great deal of digital scrapbooking). Using Studio J, I was able to scrapbook my daughter's entire school year for last year in the span of a couple of days. That was about eight double paged layouts. I can't believe it's finished!

Here's one of the layouts:

One thing that was neat for me, was being able to use, Daydream, a paper pack that I never bought (and one I never thought I would use) but I liked how it went with the photos I had. I was able to try them out with these photos on the computer without even having to commit to anything. It wasn't like I had to cut papers and then see how it looked. I think I worry too much about 'ruining' beautiful papers and that's where a lot of my hesitation about actually doing some scrapbooking comes from. So Studio J works for me. I can use it to make digital layouts but I can also use it to plan out layouts to a certain extent.

I also already started scrapping this school year for my daughter's album and inadvertently used the same layout as I used for her first day in first grade. But now I'm glad I did. I also really like this special member's only digital paper, Class Act:

Here's one more layout for you to see using the Olivia papers. I was able to include 15 photos on this layout. The pictures are from this past fall during a trip to one of the pumpkin patches in our area:

So my new goal is to finish my 2010 family album and I will make it mostly, if not all, with digital scrapbooking. Like I've mentioned before, I love the creative aspect of working with actual papers and embellishments in traditional scrapbooking, but it is nice to have a choice and with all the different projects I have going, it's a really nice feeling for me to have when an album is actually completed!

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