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Now that the holiday season has past, what projects are you working on: purging and organization, craft room overhaul, Spring cards, or just playing with all the goodies you received as gifts or purchased from great sales during the holiday season?
As for myself, I need to clean up my holiday crafty mess and re-organize my storage shelves, organize my small stash of 12 x 12 papers. I've been looking at Totally Tiffany videos for ideas and organization products.
I've made some alcohol ink backgrounds and a few using acrylics with the gel plate. in addition to die cutting and coloring them for future use. I made a few Spring cards which I'll post later.
I'm retiring in April and I feel a need to do a total craft room overhaul, condensing and purging again for the umpteenth time.
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Now that the holiday season has past, what projects are you working on: purging and organization, craft room overhaul, Spring cards, or just playing with all the goodies you received as gifts or purchased from great sales during the holiday season?
As for myself, I need to clean up my holiday crafty mess and re-organize my storage shelves, organize my small stash of 12 x 12 papers. I've been looking at Totally Tiffany videos for ideas and organization products.
I've made some alcohol ink backgrounds and a few using acrylics with the gel plate. in addition to die cutting and coloring them for future use. I made a few Spring cards which I'll post later.
I'm retiring in April and I feel a need to do a total craft room overhaul, condensing and purging again for the umpteenth time.
My free time has been limited due to life events and work. I did get away for a girls' trip on MLK weekend. Worked on 100+ cards for a charity event's goody bags. All that's left is putting embellishments on. I just need a full free day to sit down and finish them Yesterday was my birthday and, after dealing with some errands, I was able to make a card for a gf that's dealing with a serious illness. The idea for it had been rolling around in my head for a week or so, but didn't have time to put the wheels in motion.
I'm hoping that I can get a free day or two in the next couple weeks that I can start shoveling out my craft room.
I have one more valentine card to stamp then it is back to some scrapbooking and a bit more sorting to get some more stuff ready for a crafty stuff garage sale at my LSS.
I'm working on my grandkids valentines that they hand out at daycare. I've actually started working on next years Christmas cards. Last year was so last minute, I'm determined for it not to be that way this year! I also need to work on making tags.
I also need to organize more. We moved last spring and I still haven't put everything in its place!
Hi all, Happy New Year. I've been getting into drawing - after years of believing that I could not draw (thanks to my school art teacher telling me I couldn't!), I'm delighted to discover that actually I can make a good attempt at it if I practise... also making some notebooks out of Amazon packaging and kicking around ideas for my husband's Valentine card.
Working on Christmas cards for this year, making a few a month. Plus Hubbys Valentines card, and youngest sons birthday card, as his birthday is Valentines day.
Finished up Valentine cards (34 of them---I love a lot of people!) and have 6 of the 15 St. Pat's cards done. (two of our kids married into Irish families) So I need to finish those up before we leave next month for a two week trip. I just finished teaching my technique class that I do each month and need to think about next month as we will have just returned from our trip. I usually make 6-9 samples to put out on the tables, so must do that, too. Need my idea first! That might come to me at any time of the day or night.
I have been using up pre-stamped images, DSP, ribbon, other embellishments and making lots of cards. USEIT2020 challenge has inspired me to dive into my stash and USE IT!! I have made 50 Christmas cards this month (most are posted in my gallery, but I have more to post when SCS gets the issues resolved.) It feels good to use up stuff that has been in my stash for years. I have 2 -11x14x6 totes full of stuff that needs to be used. Hopefully, I can accomplish this in 2020. I have found that a few things are not my style and I won't use so those items are being given away or put into recycle.
I have 4 birthday cards that I need to make for February and I am working on other card needs as well. I have fallen in love with a lot of my stash and have thoroughly enjoyed putting it all to good use. I have no desire to shop for anything as I have uncovered these treasures.
I might note that when making my cards, I finish them - sentiments and decorated inside and envelopes decorated as well. It makes card sending so much easier when I pull out a card with it's envelope and I only need to sign (add a note if needed), address it, stamp it and put in the mail. No more stressing on finishing the insides or feeling that the cards are half done.
A couple of friends order some Valentine cards from me so I'm working on them. Also tidying up from all the Christmas card making. And going right back into making Christmas cards as I do it year round to end up with 100 ready to sell in my fundraiser in November, and about 40 more for me to mail out!
__________________ Susan
My SCS gallery is here should you care to look! Or please visit my blog, Cardmaker's Garret.
2020 is the year of the craft room. Its been a hoarder's paradise for seven years. SEVEN YEARS. I have a path from the door to the window so the cat can get to her window seat. This year every last pencil and enamel dot will be removed, sorted, and organized. The room will be painted and some new storage furniture will go in. Then it all goes back and I can actually use the room to craft. That's the plan, anyway. ;)
2020 is the year of the craft room. Its been a hoarder's paradise for seven years. SEVEN YEARS. I have a path from the door to the window so the cat can get to her window seat. This year every last pencil and enamel dot will be removed, sorted, and organized. The room will be painted and some new storage furniture will go in. Then it all goes back and I can actually use the room to craft. That's the plan, anyway. ;)
Good luck! Sounds like a great project. I love organizing!!!
I have gathered a few new goodies that are testing my card making abilities. This interactive card really tested my patience as I did not have the exact die set for the parts and had to fashion some out of what I had on hand. In the end, it turned out well enough to mail to a friend and I learned a lot about what to do and what NOT to do! 😜
P.S. It wouldn’t allow me to add images from my phone.😕
rearranging and reframing my 96 yr old WWII veteran dads military ribbons and medals in order of importance and significance...
doing a painting (from photographs) of my great aunts homestead farmhouse!
Both are fairly large projects and are taking a considerable amount of time.
Making beautiful cards for friends and family as needed.
Love that you are putting those memories together of your dad’s military service! I need to do the same for my son who we lost. I have wanted to put a shadow box together of of several items of his that I never want to misplace.
Now that the holiday season has past, what projects are you working on: purging and organization, craft room overhaul, Spring cards, or just playing with all the goodies you received as gifts or purchased from great sales during the holiday season?
As for myself, I need to clean up my holiday crafty mess and re-organize my storage shelves, organize my small stash of 12 x 12 papers. I've been looking at Totally Tiffany videos for ideas and organization products.
I've made some alcohol ink backgrounds and a few using acrylics with the gel plate. in addition to die cutting and coloring them for future use. I made a few Spring cards which I'll post later.
I'm retiring in April and I feel a need to do a total craft room overhaul, condensing and purging again for the umpteenth time.
I love Stamp-n-storage for paper organization! Do you know them?
I have gathered a few new goodies that are testing my card making abilities. This interactive card really tested my patience as I did not have the exact die set for the parts and had to fashion some out of what I had on hand. In the end, it turned out well enough to mail to a friend and I learned a lot about what to do and what NOT to do! 😜
P.S. It wouldn’t allow me to add images from my phone.😕
Love that you are putting those memories together of your dad’s military service! I need to do the same for my son who we lost. I have wanted to put a shadow box together of of several items of his that I never want to misplace.
Mine is a long overdue labor of love. I cant imagine the tremendous loss you have endured...your son is a national hero and we can never do enough to repay the debt we owe to them.
I will be happy to share my project/ideas/suggestions with you if that would be helpful.
January is usually spent cleaning up my Christmas card making mess, feeling sad about the Christmas card ideas and new sets I never even used, deciding I need to reorganize and purge (again) and watching lots of YouTube videos. So, I’ve been doing all that but also surprised myself by actually feeling some mojo to make Valentines! I “case-d” the first two then actually started playing with my own ideas! I put my two “originals” in my gallery yesterday!
I’m going to get back to purging and I really want to unmount the six or so background stamps I have and love from SU. It’s always been a struggle to get a good stamped impression and I’d rather have them as bare rubber and use them in my MISTI. So much easier to repeat stamp that way to get a good image.
My sister wants to come over and make some cards for herself. I walked into my craft room and I AM Horrified! It's OK for me to work in because I know where everything is kept, having a visitor...OH MY! I need to get rid of some stuff!
It's also my office and I don't like filing, so office stuff has crept onto my tables. I work full time and avoid the 'work' at home in order to do fun stuff...like making valentines for at least 23 plus 6 grandkids.
Just finished making a whole stack of Valentine cards and small notebooks for a hospital donation, and started putting some of my Christmas supplies away to make room for Valentine and springtime instead. I work on Christmas cards all through the year so always keep my Christmas stamps and papers easy to access but it's getting so crowded in my craft area that I can't even work anymore. Some of that needs to be put aside in another area!
I've also been using up old patterned papers that I don't like anymore and turning them into envelopes. I don't have the Envelope punch board, but just use a scoring board and bone folder to fold them to fit my cards. When I donate cards, they usually request actual real envelopes, so I make them for my personal mailing and save the real ones for donations.
Also continuing going through drawers and boxes of extra stamped images and left over tags, punched and die cut shapes etc, and trying to use them up. Some of my stash are almost 20 years old..yikes!
rearranging and reframing my 96 yr old WWII veteran dads military ribbons and medals in order of importance and significance...
doing a painting (from photographs) of my great aunts homestead farmhouse!
Both are fairly large projects and are taking a considerable amount of time.
Making beautiful cards for friends and family as needed.
Those do sound like big projects but will give a real sense of accomplishment when you're done. In addition, I'm sure your family will really appreciate the completed documentation and memories. I inherited all of my mother's old albums and boxes of loose photos after she died. Many of the albums are falling apart and need to be redone but I don't want to tackle them until I have more time. As it is, my own albums are all in various stages of incompleteness already..argh.
Omg I hate it! No time to craft seems like I am always organizing. You can come here and organize to your hearts content!!( I wish)
I have helped 5 people organize their craft rooms. Some have taken longer than others, but I have enjoyed the process every time. I continually organize mine---just sections at a time, as it is pretty well organized, but now and then I will reorganize my animal stamps or purge some paper, for example. I usually drag that section of stuff to the great room and go through it while watching recorded programs. I ordinarily stamp during the day and organize in the evening.
Be careful what you ask for. If I knew where you lived, I just may show up on your doorstep!!!
Thanks, Jeanne! But I'm making cards on a desk that looked like a hurricane went through the room! So I do need to discipline myself a bit and get some tidying done!
__________________ Susan
My SCS gallery is here should you care to look! Or please visit my blog, Cardmaker's Garret.
I've been working on getting my supplies inventoried on Airtable, it's going to be a year long project, doing a little at a time. I am almost done with Valentine cards, and when they are done I'm going to IKEA to get myself a few things for my "craft room". I want the corner desk table and an additional table so I have more usable space. It gets old shuffling things around. I will be purging many of my color layering sets, I have tried for almost 3 years and something about I eyes doesn't allow me to line them up properly, I've tried all the tips and tricks.
I'm with you, dancingpurplecat - the layering stamps just don't work for me. But I'm keeping some of them, especially the Altenew flowers where I can just stamp the main image and watercolour it.
__________________ Susan
My SCS gallery is here should you care to look! Or please visit my blog, Cardmaker's Garret.
I've been working on getting my supplies inventoried on Airtable, it's going to be a year long project, doing a little at a time. I am almost done with Valentine cards, and when they are done I'm going to IKEA to get myself a few things for my "craft room". I want the corner desk table and an additional table so I have more usable space. It gets old shuffling things around. I will be purging many of my color layering sets, I have tried for almost 3 years and something about I eyes doesn't allow me to line them up properly, I've tried all the tips and tricks.
I have my office area set up with the corner unit and one table to the right, and the printer stand cabinet on the left side, plus I added a three drawer storage unit under the table. It's perfect for my needs. The corner unit makes a huge difference.
I have helped 5 people organize their craft rooms. Some have taken longer than others, but I have enjoyed the process every time. I continually organize mine---just sections at a time, as it is pretty well organized, but now and then I will reorganize my animal stamps or purge some paper, for example. I usually drag that section of stuff to the great room and go through it while watching recorded programs. I ordinarily stamp during the day and organize in the evening.
Be careful what you ask for. If I knew where you lived, I just may show up on your doorstep!!!
Omg I would pay to have someone help me I have so much I am not only in my craft room, but another bedroom and hall closet as well and I am overstuffed!! Don’t have anyone here that crafts much and the nearest local non big box store is an hour away. Btw where DO you live? Winter here is beautiful! I am just west of ft Lauderdale Fl.
I live in South Eastern Arizona south and east of Tucson nearly on the border. When I lived in Southern Oregon, we had a small group of stampers that got together and had a blast! Here, we have a 60 member club that meets once a month and also has several outside activities. I'm so lucky!
Just saw you are in Oregon so far boo hoo. Funny I craft opposite. I organize and get something accomplished during the day and relax and craft at night. Right now I have taken over the dining room to organize my 12x 12 paper and embellishments. Probably won’t need the room emptied until Mother’s Day. However I am going to scrapbook expo in Orlando in March so want to have at least that part done and put away by then. Can’t wait to go! Today was the first day to sign up for workshops , so of course I am all ready to go now. I keep having to stop sorting in order to buy supplies to put it all into. Slows me down quite a bit. I keep thinking I have enough to get organized but seems like I never do. Oh well, I just keep plugging through and one of 3 things will happen. 1. I will get it all done !!! I hope !! 2. Get rid of whatever I didn’t get to just through it away. or 3. Dump everything that is not organized yet put it back in my overstuffed craft room and start over again another time! Maybe I better work on this harder.
I live in South Eastern Arizona south and east of Tucson nearly on the border. When I lived in Southern Oregon, we had a small group of stampers that got together and had a blast! Here, we have a 60 member club that meets once a month and also has several outside activities. I'm so lucky!
That is so nice. No clubs or anything like that here. Surprising as it is a very well populated area. I have a quasi family member who was here for thanksgiving dinner, saw the decorations I made and bought herself a cricut. Came over and asked me
To teach her to use it. I have one but really don’t rely on it. Use it mostly for making tshirts and vinyl projects. So we did some crafting that day. Other than that. Not too many people I know are crafty
I’m continuing to work on the never ending task of organizing my craft room. I’m also trying to come up with a variety of swap ideas for several groups I’m in or run. Gonna be a busy year!!
PURGING BIG TIME! Have a whole box of new Stampin' UP supplies that arrived in December and it is my mission to get rid of stuff before I even try to get to that box to put away. (Did take the inks out to be sure they were packed flat or they tend to leak a bit.) My purge goes to my dear friend whose hubby thinks crafting is a waste of money and time, and is pretty stingy with receipt driven budgets, (unless it's some new game, or action figure he wants).
What are you working on?
