Moving On

why I took to digital scrapping so fast!

I started an online class yesterday and already I am behind. We were to download these papers, print them out and create a notebook. Its a journaling class by Jessica Sprague. I’m sure I am going to love it after I get past this paper creating business.

The downloading was not quite the snap it should have been for me. Somewhere between clicking on the thrid pdf and the fourth, I left a printer message window open and after that no pdf would open. They would not open in firefox or IE so I just knew it had to be the website and not me. WRONG. When closing everything for lunch I discovered that little messge window open and was able to open the pdfs again. That was the first obstacle.

After finding the old pack of cardstock I had purchased for last Christmas, I started printing away and haveing a moment of notaglia. It was just a moment though. Then I realized that the sizes on these things could get confusing if I did not pay attention. Plus I just could not stop and do it the generic way in the instructions. Hey, I wanted something that had a little ME in it. But, I perservered. I was real proud of how it was coming out, until looking in the class gallery and seeing this other lady’s work. She not only  personalized a little, she redid the whole thing! Geez, someone always has to show off. After thinking about it for a few minutes I realized that I just could not justifiy the time to do the same. Though, I really was tempted!

So, this notebook is not all the way done. It is usuable but not done. One of the flowers on the front keeps falling off, the back is still bare and the insides of the binder covers are bare. I may or may not redo one or two of the tab pages as they don’t show up right along the side and the holes in the tab pages really are messy.

Here are some things I just forgot about having to do when paper scrapping:

• digging in the trash for things that got thrown away because the desk just go sooo messy
• Having to start over from scratch on something that got messed up because there are no do-overs in paper scrapping
• refilling your glue applicator since you run though so much of it just for one project
• taking 25 minutes to find a tool that you just used a few minutes ago
• taking 45 minutes to find a tool that you know you have but have not seen in three months
• pulling paper pieces out of your hair because it popped up there when you used the corner rounder
• chasing the cat to get that piece of pink strip pull off that she just loves to chew on
• getting a rub on rubbon onto your finger instead of the paper and not being able to wash it off
• hating your work when done because you can see all the flaws in it that you thought you had hidden
• having to put all that stuff you dragged out away and vacuming the pieces of papers off the floor

But, like I said it is almost done. Here is a photo of it. The title work is done by Jessica Sprague, the teacher of the onine class.