Plan With Stacy: Making The Most of A Seasonal Collection
The “ber” months have arrived, September, October, November December and oh what fun we will have! With each new season I love to plan what I will do with my albums and layouts, all too often we can get so overwhelmed in a project that we just give up. I find that to be successful in anything, the best process is to plan it out. Sure you can jump right in and wing it but how many projects are left unfinished because you aren't exactly sure where you were going with it or what you were doing– or you forgot exactly what you wanted to use?
A series of questions I like to ask myself before I start a project:
What program are you using?
What size album are you using?
Digital or hybrid?
Bucket list or prompts?
What Designer/Collection?
What months are you covering:
Notes and ephemera:
With that thought in your mind lets take a look at great digital collection from Traci, Hocus Pocus. Sometimes you need to figure out how to take a solid collection and make it come alive in your album.
One of the first things I do when I look at a kit is figure out what about it works for me, a lot of people are motivated only by colors... they assume that it has to fit in a certain color scheme or it won’t be the proper kit for their holiday needs– with hybrid that isn’t what you need to focus on.
For my digital scrapbooking I have worked with Photoshop and Canva but have recently switched to working with Microsoft Publisher, It’s very easy to manipulate and so user friendly when I want to alter digital files ... let me show you what I mean.
I really love the idea of using pink and orange for some Halloween and fall layouts this year and the Hocus Pocus is perfect for that! Working with this plan I have sketched out a few ideas using this fab collection!
For this sketch my thoughts are to print the hat on canvas or cloth paper and then put in-between laminate sheet so that you can see through the page and be able to look through on both sides. Having the laminate will make it very cool when added to the cloth of the hat, and will give it a “mixed media” feel.
So as I hope you can see, the ideas are endless and the things you can do with a collection go on and on if you just take the time to plan. I normally sit down and write myself a list of things I want to do for the season, and then put it in a calendar and list of events. Then I will grab a notebook and list a group of things I would like to include and with off that for my journaling prompts.
For a quick list of fall ideas, think about:
Pumpkin Patches
Pumpkin Festivals
Fall Candles
.Football Games
Fall Decorations
Trick or Treating
Candy Buying
Fall Recipes
Craft Fairs
Hay Rides
For journaling prompts:
Think about all things fall, you could also put together a jar with slips of paper that have all kinds of fall things. Each day, you draw one out and make that your focus if you need to be more spontaneous (myself, I need to be more planned).
You can talk about the scents of the season or the way the weather makes you feel, memories from childhood or even just focus on your family this is all up to you!
