tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188069197279101265.post-67179637814031538352007-11-30T04:46:00.000-08:002007-11-30T04:51:10.335-08:00<strong>Just 15 minutes a day of Scrapbooking!</strong> <br />Man you can accomplish so much!<br />So we took this challenge. You know 15 minutes a day will get you so much done. We weren't sure, it doesn't sound like it will get you much of anything done. Taking a shower can take that long and more, so how can 15 little minutes a day get your scrapbooking on its way to being caught up. The Challenge for the Design Team was to scrapbook for 15 minutes a day. It meant anything to do with Scrapbooking. Veronica, Debbie, and Trisha took this one on. Here is how their 15 minutes a day went.<br /><br /><br /><strong>Tricia scrapbook in small increments all of the time.</strong><br />I try to break down my projects into steps.<br />First day: sketch<br />Second day: pick out papers<br />3rd day: print out photos and crop.<br />4th day: find embellishments<br />5th and 6th day: jiggle the "jigsaw" together<br />7th day: adhere and journal<br /><br /><br /><strong>Veronica gave this one a try; Here is her weekDay<br /></strong>1* The first day I got to finish one easy and simple layout, but the15 minutes turned out to be 50 or 60. (which is good, because Ididn't know that I could scrap for that long with my baby on the side)<br />Day 2* The second day I selected my pictures and picked out paper. Ittook about 20 minutes.<br />Day 3* My third day I finish that layout, It took about 40 minutes tofinish it. But since I had everything out in my table, I could do 10or 15 minutes at a time during that day.<br />Day 4* I just cleaned up mess and selected my other pictures 15 mins<br />Day 5* I worked only 15 min. I had no more time. Didn't get much done<br />Day 6* I finished a nice layout. it took me 40 more min. But I did good<br /><br /><br /><strong>Debbie thinks this is A+ for productivity</strong><br />Well this went along great for me and I will say I give the idea a great big Thumbs up on this one. I have gotten more done in the last week than I have in the past few months. I can really see doing this one everyday. I woke up with the challenge in mind. Figured out Hey! I don't have to get a shower and dressed for this one, heck its 6 am. So I took my mug of coffee and set out for the scrap room. <br />My first day I worked arranging things to get them in order and cleaning that table up a bit, the next day I picked out some pictures and coordinated the papers for about 3 2-page layouts that I wanted to accomplish during this trial. <br />On the third day I did spend a little more time, but it was efficient time. I cropped and matted all the photos.<br />On my fourth day I laid those photos on the papers, created my backgrounds and arranged the photos, looked for some cool embellishments and left it right there. I did get a block and I walked away on the whole thing. <br />Now on the 5th day, I started out with coffee in hand and I finished up those 3 2-page layouts in no time. I got the embellishments right, took a few minutes and did the journaling, even entered one in a contest. I put them in their appropriate albums the next evening. There you have it a total of 6 pages totally done, just by giving myself the 15 minutes to arrange and do just a little at a time<br /><br /><br /><strong>Was this a success! We think so, give this one a try and see if it works for you</strong>.<br />**Remember organizing is scrapbooking without it you cant get anything done, so it does count as 15 minutes.<br />**Try just sorting out photos for layouts one day. <br />**Match up some papers and supplies for layouts you want to get done<br />**Do nothing but crop and mat your photos for layouts.<br />**Cleaning up! Great one! 15 minutes here and there will keep your area neat and tidy.<br />**Start at the beginning of a week, organize to finish a couple layouts by the weeks end.Accents 2 Scrapbookinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04919507458802497511noreply@blogger.com