Are you like me and have an excess amount of crafty supplies dragging you down? I'm sure there are a great deal of scrapbookers out there that own more than they produce. YouTube has become an epicenter of haul videos. You can see what someone has bought just about everyday of the week. Now, I've never made a haul video, it's not my style, but I have watched some and thought, I could really use that tool or oh, I love that new collection. But I've come to realization that I need to quit buying. I need to focus on what made scrapbooking special to me. If you ask my friends, most would say that I don't really have a huge stash, but to me it is. I want to make 2015 the year of more creating. I like to think of myself as a prolific scrapbooker. I have more layouts than I can count in only a short 5.5 years scrapbooking. But in 2014 I lost my mojo. I was bored with my project life. I was bored with 12x12 layouts. I was bored with my style. I tried a few new things, some that I have grown to love and would now distinguish as my style. So I'm making 2015 all about exploring those and more new things, while using up all those purchases.
The biggest challenge for me is that we are SO CLOSE TO CHA!! I am a sucker for the latest and greatest. So I'm going to use that as an incentive to keep going and work fast!
I've created a chart to check off my progress, on this chart Ryan and I came up with some benchmark or checkpoint prizes for myself, as motivation to keep it going.
At 10 layouts completed I can spend $10. After completing 25 layouts I can buy myself a new tool, like a punch. When I have 50 layouts complete I can spend $15 on embellishments of my choice (this is important, because I don't keep a lot of embellishments, so I'm sure after 50 layouts I will be desperate for some). And finally I can spend freely again after I have finished 75 layouts. I'm hoping that I've found a dent in my paper and a new joy for challenges and scrapbooking that I've lost over the years. I'm hoping that I'm still inspired to control my spending and limit what I'm buying to only what I know I will use in a timely manner.
I hope you find some inspiration in this challenge and I hope you join me on it. You'll find my chart at the end of the post, you can download and print it so you can check off your layouts too!
The biggest challenge for me is that we are SO CLOSE TO CHA!! I am a sucker for the latest and greatest. So I'm going to use that as an incentive to keep going and work fast!
I've created a chart to check off my progress, on this chart Ryan and I came up with some benchmark or checkpoint prizes for myself, as motivation to keep it going.
At 10 layouts completed I can spend $10. After completing 25 layouts I can buy myself a new tool, like a punch. When I have 50 layouts complete I can spend $15 on embellishments of my choice (this is important, because I don't keep a lot of embellishments, so I'm sure after 50 layouts I will be desperate for some). And finally I can spend freely again after I have finished 75 layouts. I'm hoping that I've found a dent in my paper and a new joy for challenges and scrapbooking that I've lost over the years. I'm hoping that I'm still inspired to control my spending and limit what I'm buying to only what I know I will use in a timely manner.
I hope you find some inspiration in this challenge and I hope you join me on it. You'll find my chart at the end of the post, you can download and print it so you can check off your layouts too!
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