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Tag Archive: digital scrapbooking

I’m So Sorry, I Have A Confession…

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I hate to admit this, but I have strayed. I have not been very loyal. I don’t know what got into me. I tried to stick with it for the sake of the kids, but I just needed a break. I know that I should have just continued to work at it and pretend I was having fun, but I just didn’t have it in me. Sorry, scrapbooks, I gave up on my digital scrapbooking for a while, but guess what? I’m BACK!!

The Beginning

I started scrapbooking when my oldest was just a few months old, so it’s been 13+ years. As with all of my hobbies and projects, I go into it with full force with an all or nothing attitude. I paper scrapped until I was on bed rest at the end of my fourth pregnancy when I found digital scrapbooking. I was immediately hooked and once again, put everything I had into digital scrapbooking to the point of scrapbooking exhaustion.

For the last year, I have scrapped, maybe 5 pages. Don’t get me wrong, I wanted to scrap. Every time I sat at my computer to do a layout, my mojo was nowhere to be found. I really really wanted to scrap, but finally I just gave up. I was really sad. I felt like part of me was missing, like I wasn’t complete. Yeah, I know that sounds silly and all sappy, but it’s true.

Getting Lost

So, what got me all sidetracked? My blog! I know my blog is SCRAPS of My Geek Life, so I should be all about the scrapbooking. I let the numbers, perfection, SEO, keywords, niches and a whole bunch of other details get in the way of the reason I started to blog. To share my geek filled, scrapbook loving life with all of you.

In the past year, I’ve attended 4 conferences and each time I had hoped I would figure out exactly what my niche was and how to make 6 figures on my blog using the perfect SEO formula. I didn’t find those answers. Big surprise? Nope! I came back from each conference energized and filled with lots of new information, but I really wasn’t sure what to do with that energy and info.

Finding My Mojo

This past week I attended Mom 2.0 and once again I had hoped to find all the answers there. I didn’t find the answers to those questions, but what I did find was much more important to me. My mojo! My digital scrapbooking mojo. Maybe it was having Stacy Julian in the same room as me (wonder if mojo can rub off of someone? If so, maybe I can bottle that and make my 6 figures!) Regardless of how, I’m glad to have it back. I’m going to go create a new layout now.

What are your hobbies? Have you ever lost interest in your hobby and what did you do (if anything) to get it back?

Post inspired by Wetfish Designs’s mojo post. Stock image from stock.xchng, author is svilen001

Mom 2.0 Recovery, Stacy Julian and a Layout

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I’ve had a few questions about the livestreaming from Mom 2.0. We tried to livestream the keynote on Friday and a few of the sessions and the internet was not cooperating. We spent more time trying to keep the video/audio going and were not able to really listen and participate in the sessions, so we made an executive decision. We listened and recorded as many of the sessions as we could, but we stopped livestreaming. Fiona was live blogging the sessions we were in so head to Bantering Blonde to read all the Mom 2.0 notes.

This week I am going to put a lot of the videos together into one big recap of the conference. I am also working on some recap posts. It was such an awesome conference. I have spent the last 2 days recuperating. My brain is overflowing with a ton of information and ideas. I’m not sure if I’m getting sick or just really exhausted. Either way, I’ve had to make another executive decision…. REST!

I did create a layout for my ADSR5 scrapbook challenge. The challenge was to do selective coloring, add a date element and have at least 20 words of journaling. Orange is my favorite color and when I got my picture taken with Stacy Julian, we both had on orange.

Credits:

  • Date me by SuzyQ Scraps
  • orange background – Tracy Reed Flabulous
  • Dani Alencar, A Whole Year, January
  • 2010 – lgrier Lets Make Resolutions
  • Date element – Weeds & Wildflowers Hodge Podge #14
  • font – CK Ali’s Hand Official
  • Kristin Cronin Barrow – moment word Scrappin & Snappin

Journaling Reads:

At a recent social media conference, I had the pleasure of meeting one of my scrapbooking heroes, Stacy Julian. Stacy was speaking at the conference about marketing with your right brain. I was thrilled to meet her and I had the opportunity to interview her for my blog. She is as sweet in person as she is on her blog. It was as if my two online worlds, social media/blogging and scrapbooking were merging. It was exciting to have a scrapbooking and crafting presence at the moms’ social media conference.

Have you ever met one of your idols or heroes? Tell me about the meeting.


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Calling All Digi Scrappers: Join the Amazing Digi Scrapping Race 5 (ADSR5)

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Jen Caputo - Digital Sketch
Image by ScrappinMichele via Flickr

This is the 3rd or 4th year I’ve participated in this really fun race. Basically you have a partner and participate in 2 challenges each week for 6 weeks. Each challenge is sponsored by a different store/website. If you complete both the challenges correctly (there are usually specific tasks you have to complete when doing your layout), you move onto the next week/round. No judging, no getting kicked out. If you complete it correctly, you move on. You will also receive a prize when you complete each challenge. It can be whatever the store chooses. Often it’s a coupon or a free kit.

At the end there is a huge prize where they randomly pick people to win. I don’t even care so much about the prize. I participate because it stretches my creativity and I do things I would never have done before. It also gets me in the swing of scrapping again every year. I love scrapping, but when things get busy, it’s the first thing that seems to get pushed to the bottom of my list of things to do.

So go the ADSR5 blog, find a partner and join us. I’ll be posting all my layouts on my blog.

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Casual Friday Vlog, My Office/Scrapbook Haven

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The post below this includes a video and I’ve gotten quite a few questions about my scrapbook room. I think I’ve posted some video of it before, but this is a more formal tour of my scrapbook space.

I really wish I could say that I use the scrapbook part of my office every day, but the reality of it is that I do a lot more digital scrapbooking being the geek that I am. I don’t have the heart to get rid of a lot of this stuff and now my daughters are starting to use it. It’s also great for that late night before a project is due and your kid tells you at 8pm that they need construction paper in fuchsia because that is what the teacher said.

Where do you scrapbook?

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Let's Celebrate National Digital Scrapbooking Day Today! Add Your Link!

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In case you were not aware, today is National Digital Scrapbooking Day. What does that mean for most of us? Well, it definitely isn’t a day off of work or school, but rather a day to remember that we haven’t scrapped a page in months and that it’s time to just DO IT!! To celebrate I’m scrapping a page today (or maybe even 2).

I’m going to check out all the sales and freebies out there and share what I find. I’ll be Tweeting with #DSD (hashtag), so be sure to follow me, @ScrappinMichele and tweet me your deals, freebies and blog posts about Digital Scrapbooking.

mileycyrusconcertwebKit used – Freebie Superstar by bisonline, After 5 Designs, Font is SBC Jazzed

If you do a layout or have a freebie or a sale or anything related to Digital Scrapbooking, add your link to the MckLinky below.

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