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WOOHOO! Sailing through our 2009 Scrappin' Goal Challenge! We sure completed an AWESOME number of pages together in January, February, March , April, May & June! I'm looking forward to MORE Scrap pages together this month!
It was SO fun to see everyone's goals and ideas for completing LOTS of scrapbook pages last month! Many had a common theme - get more pages done, use what's in our stash, meet new scrapping friends, plan time/crops...
With that in mind, I thought I would invite all of you to July Scrapbook Challenge! Oh what fun we'll have sharing ideas, cheering success, keeping the motivation and making new friends.
Here's the CHALLENGE. Each person will post what their scrapbook page goal is for July. We will have a better shot at meeting our yearly goal if we break it down by month. Along with the scrapbook page goal for July if you'd like to play along with the "Using Stash Crew" decide what your scrapping budget will be for that month.
You choose your own scrapbook page goal and monthly spend goal. You may select 2, 3, 5, 50 pages....you choose. The idea is to be flexible so if you know you're going to be really busy, you can reduce the number one month or if you're going to a couple crops or scrap weekends, up the number. This also works for the budget. Each month, you can change your goals depending on your calendar!
The whole goal of the challenge is to get lots of pages done, use more in our stash before buying new (well at least keep track) and if you want to play along w/ saving --- save $$ at the same time which becomes scrapping budget $ for next year -- or vacation money or Holiday fund!
Money spent on Adhesive and Printing Pictures is not included in the monthly scrapping budget. We'll count pages 7x7 & up = 1 page for 1 page completed, 6x6 & smaller = 2 pages for 1 page completed.
Are you UP for the CHALLENGE? Come and Play in the 2009 Scrapbook Challenge! Woohoo for July!! Here's to Meeting our Scrapping Goals & Meeting New Friends!
**To make it easier for everyone to "oohh" and "aahh" over your pages, please upload your pages to SBC09JUL. **
__________________ Lela -- Scrap Blog -- Come Scrap With Us ---- YTD 87 / 300 Pages 2023 -- 64 / 252 Cards 2023
I'm SURE you will all agree that we need to go back and add in our focus on our scrapping budgets! It's a good time of the year to start as we'll all want extra $$ for the holidays. Some of us have been using the "budget" idea since we started, others not so much. I decided it would be easier to split from the page goal posts. There are several ways to do this:
1. Set a $$ spending budget for the month & track your expenditures against budget set.
2. Match your scrapbook/stamping spending by putting the same amount away in savings that you spend on scrapbook/stamp stuff. This gives you extra $$ for either more scrap/stamp spending or something fun
3. Set a "Scrap to Spend" page goal. Come up with a goal to complete before you spend more $$ (for instance, "complete 25 pages before spending"
4. Do a combination or all of them!
Many times scrapping and stamping supply purchases are "impulse" buys. We want to encourage not only LOTS of Pages completed but creative, productive use of our STASH. Let's see if together we can be "CREATORS" and not just "COLLECTORS". (Thanks MP )
You do NOT have to set a budget to play along with Scrappin' Goal Challenge. This is only for those of us who would like to play
I will post our Scrap Budgets here...let's see if we can band together and encourage everybody to keep on goal
We're going to launch a NEW Thursday Challenge for 2009! I'm so excited!!
SCS 52 Week Thursday Goal Challenge!
This year on Thursdays you'll be invited to join us for our 52 Week Scrap Challenge. These challenges will be PERFECT whether you're working on your kids albums, 2009 Family Album, Daily Life Album or a "BOM" (Book of Me).
We have 4 SPECIAL Hostesses and each week they will post a challenge that goes with their theme for the year! By the end of the year, you'll have some GREAT pages or a complete 2009 Scrapbook...OR BOTH! :mrgreen:
Our Themes will be:
Week 1 - Quotes (Cassie)
These challenges will offer us inspiration to create a page/pages based on the quotes shared.
Week 2 - Recipes (Anavon)
Anavon will be encouraging us to scrap favorite family recipes or food moments based on colors or ingredients...
Week 3 - Theme (Valerie)
Our 3rd week challenges will be a mix of themes, events, or calendar pages...
Week 4 - Idea/ Inspiration (Kirsten)
4th week challenge will motivate us to scrap an important belief, idea, thought, inspiration...
And Occasional Week 5 - Hodge Podge (Guest Hostess)
This week will be an ecletic mix of page motivating ideas to round out our 52 scrap challenge weeks!
I hope you will join us for a GREAT 2009 Thursday Scrap Challenge Year!
__________________ Lela -- Scrap Blog -- Come Scrap With Us ---- YTD 87 / 300 Pages 2023 -- 64 / 252 Cards 2023
Looking for a little momentum or challenge to get a page or two done? Always some GREAT challenges here on SCS! What a FUN Place to Play! To Make it EASY to Find them, I have posted Links to the Challenges HERE! Scrap On!
Sign me up for another 12 pages for July. No trips are planned and I just got my Disney pics in the mail today, so there will be plenty to scrap. Who knows? Maybe I'll have time to catch up on all the pages I missed out on the other months.
__________________ --Liz
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Sign me up for another 12 pages for July. No trips are planned and I just got my Disney pics in the mail today, so there will be plenty to scrap. Who knows? Maybe I'll have time to catch up on all the pages I missed out on the other months.
I love Disney can't wait to see your pages!
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Scrapbook goal: April 7/10 MAY /5 YTD 32
Hey friends, I'll shoot for 4 pages with less than $10 however this $10 cant be spent on paper but for embellies only...I'm hoping to Scrap the 2 wedding couples and I don't have any embellies for wedding stuff and I don't even have a cricut cart for wedding stuff so I hope to not spend over $10.
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I'm not doing so well with my pages... making some cute cards. So put me at 5 for July--now that our homeschool is done, maybe I can sneak some time during the day to scrap. July's budget is $0!
I was at a crop tonight and got about 5 pages sort of done...I have to journal and embellish so they are a long ways from complete. My July goal will be to complete those and post them. Hubby is buying me a new camera since we can't find the charging cord for my old one...it was a "casualty of relocation"
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I'm going to set my July goal for 8 again. (which will consist of 6 new and 2 extra to meet my unmet June goal :(....) I'm going to set a budget of $50. Need to replenish some things in my stash.
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I haven't set a scrapping goal since early 2008 so I think it's time to start again! I am going to set a goal of 7 pages and a budget of zero dollars. While I haven't really been scrapping I have still been spending! I really need to use what I have!
__________________ August 2009: 0/12 12x12 pages complete 12x12 pages completed in 2009- 12 Andrea (Mom of 3- Aiden 6, Annabella 4 and Anderson 4/16/2009)
I missed my June goal by one page (half finished on my work table!) Please put me down for 10 again. Glad to see your computer's up and running again, Lela!
Anyone know if Valerie (fresshe) is OK?--no digi challenge was posted yesterday. :( Hope everything's alright.
morning , happy July!
i was thinking after a couple of rough weeks, i need to get back in the scrappy mindset. i have 348 pages done so far. i had a goal 365 for the year, not bad huh. Well i think i want to hit that 365 for July. i am going to shoot for the 17 pages needed to meet that 365 in 1/2 the time. would not have done this with out all of you here an this thread. i am inspired and grateful for you all. THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!scrappy friends.
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Even though I didn't reach my goal last month, I've got a lot of chances to scrap this month...soooo, put me down for 22 pages.
I want to try & reach 115 completed pages for the year by the end of this month. *crossing fingers* :-D
I uploaded 18, with 2 left to upload, in june that makes 20, 5 shy of my goal. I will lower my goal for July to 10, I've got visiting GK's and am going on vacation too. Happy July everybody.
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We're only 12 hours into july and i just finished my first two pages! i won't brag too loudly since it was just a repeat of the halloween page i posted earlier this week! it is amazing how quickly you can put together a page you have already done once :-D
2 down 18 to go ;)
have a great day guys! i hope to be back later with two more pages! off to watch tennis for awhile--GO ROGER!
I am in for another month-actually will be going a bit over the 1 a day-but will still keep the goal at 31. So when I get ahead it feels good! I am going to try out a photo book place that is just adding photo books to their line up-I offered to have about 30 pages done in 10 days-hmmm can I do it for a great deal?
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I am in again, even though I way missed my goal... bad(?) thing about it, I am not bothered by not meeting my goal from last month.
I would have never made as many as I have already this year, then several of the past years if it weren't for friends and inspiration like everyone here
Count me in again for 10 still. I need to do 10 each month to reach my yearly goal. I only did 9 in June, but had done extra early so I'm right on track for the year at 60 LO's!
__________________ CAROL "Come and hear all who fear God and I will tell what He has done for my soul." Ps.66:16
Well I met June's goal +1 last weekend. I'm so excited on how many pages I'm getting done this year! I'm absolutely amazed with you all that have hundreds of pages completed!!!!
I have blown my budget - with new SU catty and all....so will try to limit my spending to $50 this month.
I never made my May goal and did not set one for June but I think I can try to do 2 pages for July. I've got an idea for a dps but just have to find the time to work on it. Plus I am going to take the Jessica Sprague course that starts on Monday so maybe I'll be able to make some pages from that also...
Well, I'm sad. :( Valerie (fresshe) just announced that this is the last week she'll be hostessing the digi-challenge here on SCS. boo hoo :( She suggested someone else might want to take it over. I wouldn't mind being on a hostess rotation with 3 or 4 of the other digi-scrappers--are any of you digi gals interested in trying to work out a schedule?
Please PM me with your thoughts.
Boy, will we ever miss you as our hostess, Valerie!!
I never made my May goal and did not set one for June but I think I can try to do 2 pages for July. I've got an idea for a dps but just have to find the time to work on it. Plus I am going to take the Jessica Sprague course that starts on Monday so maybe I'll be able to make some pages from that also...
Terry what class are you taking? i keep wanting to take the beginners class for digi scrapping to learn pse program.
__________________ *tamcan *i think i can. i think i can. Goals for 2014
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Well ladies, I have everyone up to this posts July Goals and YTD numbers (if they were available in your msg or signature ;) )
Now that I have that done, just need to get a couple things done for work and then I'm going to put together the page that's laying on my scrap table. Might actually have 1 page done in July on the first day :rolleyes: hahaha
Been awhile since that's happened! Scrap on!
__________________ Lela -- Scrap Blog -- Come Scrap With Us ---- YTD 87 / 300 Pages 2023 -- 64 / 252 Cards 2023
I'm posting this a little early b/c of unexpected plans for tomorrow.
Independence Day for our Canada friends was today (I think) and for America it is Saturday. This got me to thinking about independece and freedom and what all they make me think about. Since this is about a quote (or two) and how it inspires you, I went on-line and looked up several. Here are the ones I choose:
HENRY DAVID THOREAU:
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
HODDING CARTER:
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings.
There are so many ideas I came up with about this topic, but one is my children. That said, I chose the second quote.
As an added challenge, try to get the colors of your country in the layout as well
Rats. Where did June go?? I only got 2 of 8 pages done for June.
I'm going to shoot for 8 this month too....
I have plenty of photos printed and many, many more to print. I guess we're just too busy making memories to bother scrapping them, haha!
So here's to another 8...!!!
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okay,i have several projects started, cards, layouts, gift holders. sad i haven't completed anything for 2 days. so i am going to bed. hope i wake up with a better vision. nightie night.
__________________ *tamcan *i think i can. i think i can. Goals for 2014
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didn't accomplish much at all in June. So July, I'm in for 10 pages - stash only.
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Well, I'm sad. :( Valerie (fresshe) just announced that this is the last week she'll be hostessing the digi-challenge here on SCS. boo hoo :( She suggested someone else might want to take it over. I wouldn't mind being on a hostess rotation with 3 or 4 of the other digi-scrappers--are any of you digi gals interested in trying to work out a schedule?
Please PM me with your thoughts.
Boy, will we ever miss you as our hostess, Valerie!!
WHAT????? why????? I am sad.... She has some great ideas and challenges. :(
Good Morning hope all is well.
question? what are your plans for the holiday weekend?
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SU! has been spending a lot of time lately talking and teaching us about drawing Inspiration from the world around us... In fact in the May 2009 "Stamping Success" they have a whole article with many great examples of Scrapbook pages being designed around ordinary products that we use on a daily bases, like granola bar boxes and hand cream jars.
I have really enjoyed Jenn's Inspirational Color challenges that she has been posting on Monday's and I have been looking at the world around me a little differently, both as I stamp my cards and also as I put my LO's together...
So I want to share with you what I have been working on this week. Last week our "Going Green" Recycle Challenge was to create a card using as many "Green" DPS as possible and I really liked the look of a White Cheddar Cracker Box that I had just bought. Then Jenn posted the color "GREEN" challenge this week and I knew that my card would make a great Inspirational piece for a LO...
So here is the card I came up with.... Summer Greens
July 2009 Scrappin' Goal Challenge
Thursday Scrap Challenge
