by Cheri Barlow
At the end of the year, I like to make interesting scrapbooking gifts as holiday presents for all of my friends and family (like personalized calendars, puzzles, coffee mugs, aprons, or photo/digital scrapbooking albums). It’s around that time that I receive emailed-coupons from many online printing companies offering huge discounts on the exact items I had been hoping to create and buy for others! However, most of the time I end up missing these incredible online printing discounts for two unfortunate reasons: First, these personalized gifts require a finished digital scrapbooking page in order to personalize the calendar, mug, or gift that is being so heavily discounted; and many times I just don’t have any new digital scrapbooking pages ready! These special holiday discounts usually expire that very same day, or just a few days later; which sometimes is not nearly enough time to pull all the pictures together and digitally scrap! The second reason is that when the deals show-up in my email inbox, it is usually the busiest time of year (with the holidays, family, friends, dinner parties, work parties, cooking this, eating that, and always being on-the-go!), and I am not always on my computer checking my email with everything I have going on! Sometimes I feel so rushed to participate in a spectacular online printing deal, and it’s so frustrating to be overwhelmed at such an already busy (and sometimes stressful) time of year!
The bottom line is that if I had some pre-made digital scrapbooking pages that were already ready-to-go, then when those wonderful sales showed up in my inbox, I could take full-advantage of them without feeling rushed, or without skipping the opportunity all-together!
So, that said, here is my New Year’s Resolution: I WILL SCRAP ONE DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING PAGE PER MONTH (and more than one page if I have time… but I can at least scrap one page!) It doesn’t take much time to scrap one page. I usually take new digital photos every month, so it’s not like I don’t have new pictures that need to be scrapped! Not to mention, at the end of the month, last month’s digital scrapbooking supplies are often discounted; so I could buy them at a discounted rate and then scrap them each month. Another good reason to do one each month is so that I don’t have to wait until the busiest time of the year (the end of the year) to scrap all of my digital photos from a busy and eventful year! Scrapping one page per month will give me time to relax and enjoy the holidays, instead of procrastinating and waiting until the last month to scrap all of that year’s activities.
And last, but not least, by scrapping one page per month I can always take advantage of the fabulous discounts on gifts made from my scrapbooking pages at the end of the year, now that I will be prepared with plenty of great digitally scrapped projects!
And why not take a few, helpful short-cuts along the way! For example, I can get special monthly-themed Quick Pages, and just slip my photos into them in order to save a lot of time! Quick Pages are so easy to use, and help complete a project so quickly, that it will be a cinch to keep my New Year’s Resolution! Using Quick Pages, I can make beautiful pages quickly each month, and be prepared when discounts arrive on calendars or other special, personalized gifts!
If YOU haven’t tried using Quick Pages, then you are really missing out. Quick Pages are named Quick Pages for a reason. Why? Because they are QUICK! Someone has basically done all the work of creating a beautiful layout of papers, frames, ribbons, and embellishments! All you have to do is add photos! Easy, right? It’s simple enough, there can be absolutely no excuse for not keeping my resolution this year of completing one digital scrapbooking page per month.
This is one New Year’s Resolution I CAN KEEP!
Have a Happy New Year,
Cheri
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