Every month I prepare to take full advantage of 6 hours of uninterrupted scrapping time.
Every month I print dozens of new photos.
Every month I take along my latest Counterfeit Kit (& often the remains of the previous kit too).
Every month I spend the first hour or so unpacking, admiring pages & purchases ... and chatting.
Every month I spend the next hour or so pushing paper around, eating cake ... and chatting.
Every month I spend the final hour or so wondering where the time's gone, sticking stuff down ...
... and (you guessed it!) chatting!
Every month I come home with two 90% complete pages & at least a dozen un-scrapped photos!
Sometimes I use the photos during the month, sometimes they get taken (along with the newly printed photos) to the next month's crop. I have had some ready-trimmed photos from a March trip, to Orvieto Cathedral, sitting in my crop bag since May or June ... and despite printing new photos for last Saturday's crop, I decided enough was enough and these pics deserved to make it onto a page!
The weekly challenge over at UKScrappers provided a lovely sketch from
Do you have photos that keep getting neglected when you are choosing what to scrap with? Have you made a start with September's Counterfeit Kit? Do you have a better crop chatting to scrapping ratio than me?
25 comments:
I've never been to a crop. But I'm sure I would spend quite a bit of time chatting because I simple couldn't scrap for six hours. After an hour my concentration goes and I have to walk away.
That big middle photo in your layout is wonderful. Very striking, and you have found the perfect place to put it
Love this layout - everything about it.
Like Sian I've never been to a crop and can't imagine scrapping for 6 hours without plenty of breaks
Lol I know exactly what you mean about going to crops, I'm going on sunday and If I complete 2 pages I'll be happy. Just so you know it was Cathy Zielske not Ali Edwards who did the sketch.
Love your page, might have to have a go myself
I have a myriad of photo printed and discarded, either not used at all or reprinted a different size. I chat more than scrap usually but I do as a rule get at least one page done. though last crop I didn't.
Oops meant to say Lovely LO and the stitching really sets it off.
That's a perfect page. I haven't been going to crops very long but I generally get four LOs done (except for last time when I took 7yo DD - I did one, she did 2 and then said I could help her with her third!)
I find this helps with productivity:
1. Take a LO you've started and know where you're going, to get a off to a flying start.
2. Take photos and papers pre-sorted for pages.
I think it helps that we have a sheet of optional challenges too.
Our crop is usually before 5th so no good for the counterfeit challenge, although I am trying it this month for LSNED. Kit is photographed and waiting to post.
Like the way u have interpreted the sketch to get horse format photo in born right. Also nice detail shots of pillar.
NB horse format is clearly predictive text for horizontal.
I can usually get 4-5 done, sometimes with a teeny bit to add but it has taken practise and I do tend to make page kits. Once every 3 months we crop 10-10 and I am always completely wiped out the next day! Great fun though.
LOL! I know exactly what you mean. I went to a two day crop over the weekend,and I have enough stuff packed and prep for three more of those probably.
Rinda
Such a great page - well chosen colours too. I'd be in the chatting cohort - though I can't seem to do that and scrap at the same time!
How did you get into my brain? I was just thinking about all the 90%pages I need to complete from a crop 2 weeks ago. Alright, alright, I'll get them done!!!!hahaha
Great page - really like the grid pattern look - may have to scraplift :).
i go to a crop once or twice a year so it's pretty exciting for me to be around real live scrappers and I spend so much time chatting that it's hard for me to finish anything at all :-) but that's all part of the fun, right? Your layout is just lovely - the MME papers are perfect for the photos. looks so great
Great sketch and LO; really focuses on the photos. I have never been to a crop since all I would do is chat, although that would be fun anyway!
Fabulous LO! I LOVE your great intentions at your scrap. :) 2 90% pages are MUCH better than the none I'm currently achieving! :) More power to you! :)
oh my goodness- your 'every month' comments made me chuckle out loud, sooooo familiar! fab layouts x
Sounds a bit like me when I get the chance to go to a crop. Love your page.
No crop for me - but if I did have one I'd be chatting too! Love your grid layout - and the stitching too!
I love your lo. It looks like an ad.
Your photos are amazing and I love the pattern paper you chose to accent them with. I've never been to a crop before, but I know I would not get anything done.
I only crop with friends once or twice a year, so for me it's all about visiting really. My friends work and have small children, so I spend time helping them with layouts, teaching a pre-teen how to scrap, cutting things with the Cricut for them . . . and chatting and eating and loving every minute of it. I can scrap anytime, but cropping with friends is special.
I love this layout Jemma, perfect for those photos. I'm not a crop attendee but I think I'd be the same if I were lol
I love the clean lines of this, perfect for those amazing photos!
Love this page!!!
Great layout and photos. I've just recently met a new friend who is diligently trying to get me to go to crops - which I haven't done for awhile. Now that I always have a kit ready to go, it should be lots of fun, and productive too.
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