This was a great video. My main problem is I get decision fatigue. I have so many unused kits from my CTMH days and now I am starting to have unused products from SU. I also have YEARS of photos that I need to document. I may try to start with paper first, that is a great idea. When I was taught scrapbooking 20ish years ago, the person I learned from was strictly photos first. Another interesting thing I learned from your video is to NOT use that matching color for a photo mat. That is interesting to me. I was always taught to find the most vibrant color in your photo and match that for your mats. You used that bright pink example and it was an "ah ha" moment for me. I never thought about it actually taking away from the photo. I spend most of my crafty time organizing and repackaging all of the SU products into a system that works in my craft room because I just can't seem to get started. I may just now find time to sit down and attempt to scrapbook again. Thank you for your tips.
I totally understand the decision fatigue, Patti! It’s actually one of my biggest struggles and why it takes me days to do a layout! I have to keep walking away and coming back to it fresh. Creating the kits like this is so helpful because a lot of the decisions are made and you don’t have to feel like you’re creating a LO start to finish with all the decisions that come with it. Of course everyone is different and some people can make quick decisions (my sister being one of those types of people!) But try this out and see if it helps! I think a lot of people have that same theory of choosing the brightest color for the mats. There’s not a hard and fast rule for selecting colors and paper but when you actually hold the papers up I think more often than not you’ll see that that way of doing it doesn’t always work to make the photos pop. Instead, try using that color maybe as a mat around the entire LO, as a frame style layout. Then add just small pops of it in clusters. Depends on the photos and paper and what the color is, etc. So many factors… 😂
Oh My Gosh! Make your own kits! Of course, how have I not thought of this in 20 years! ! That is so fabulous and also will be fun to put together. The Winter Meadow is so beautiful, I am using it to make my thank you cards for Christmas.
The Winter Meadow is soooo pretty! That’s a perfect one for Christmas thank-yous. I hope you enjoy making kits. I wish I started doing it sooner. It’s been a game-changer for sure.
Loved this video! I would like to see more of these. I do very similar to you. I always make kits and then work off of the kits whether it’s at home or pulling them for a retreat. I love seeing how others do it so I can hone my process. The only thing I do different is I choose the pictures first as I’m sure most do. I can kind of see why you do it this way now. It enables you to make use of the new papers right away rather than putting them away and forgetting about them. I may just try this. I have a retreat in February that we do every year and I want to start getting some packets together. What I would love to see if how you get the embellishments ready for a kit or do you not add those. For a retreat I try to add my embellishments to the kits as well since I won’t be in my scrap room. Great video!
Thank you for this detailed process. Very inspiring for me. I get so overwhelmed and end up not scrapbooking but taking it one day at a time to pick things seems much more manageable for me. Awesome video and Happy New Year.
Thank you so much for the tips for manipulating photos on the iPhone. Just these were so helpful. I’m going to be saving and watching this video several times.
I’ve been more of a photo first person as I’m new to scrapbooking and also trying to organise thousands of old photos so get inspired as I sort it. However I think paper first will also be more fun as I can prioritise my favourite papers too. Preparing kits really helps me as I’m a lone parent so getting time to scrapbook is limited. But I can easily do prep work like this for half an hour or so after my son is asleep, and then when I do get some childfree hours I can go straight to creating the layouts. I’ve just created a paper first kit tonight after seeing this video and it was fun to do.
This video is amazing. How you sort your photos is so so great. I do the album separation but I’m taking it to the next level with your method. Thank you for sharing your ideas.
Oh Jayma! I love your idea of making multiple kits so that when I have time to scrapbook, I can just grab a kit and all the prep work has been done before! Thanks so much for such a wonderful idea! Happy New Year!
Awesome tips. I really like the phone tips too. You know so much more about this stuff than I do. It’s quite amazing. Thank you. I think picking your paper first is a brilliant idea. We always picked our pictures and then had to find paper to go along with them, which is harder I think. I’ll have to give scrapbooking a try your way and see how I like the difference. I think I will like it a lot.
It makes a difference for sure! I used to start with photos first too and I find it so much easier to start with paper now. Have fun and hope this helps your flow!
As usual, I always learn something new from you! I like the idea of making kits to work more efficiently when I scrapbook. I have tried the apps you recommended to print different size photos and it has been a game changer ( especially for my December Daily book)! Looking forward to trying new things soon and look forward to the new items coming out next week! Thanks Jayma!😊
I really need to discipline myself with photos. I just dump everything but I can see how selecting ❤ would streamline the process. Always picking up great tips from you. Thanks and Happy New Year!
Loved watching your process and how your brain works with putting papers with photos. I need to get back to the "power sort" days when I go on retreats and workshops. Makes everything so much quicker.
This is how I scrap too, except that I start with my photos and usually do a months of photos at a time. Probably because I’m a chronological Scrapbooker. Thanks for the tips and tricks and reaffirming my process too.
Good for you for scrapping chronologically! It sure would make it easier to actually finish an album. 🤣 I bounce all over the place, but I enjoy working with what inspires me at the time. Great to hear that these methods have been working for you, too!
Thank you for all the tips. I’ve recently been creating kits with paper, photos and sketches. One thing I do like is, I can put the kit away and come back to it later. Sometimes deciding on papers can be the longest part 😂. I’ll be re watching this video on the iPhone tips!
This vid was sooooo helpful!!! I have struggled to make kits from SU paper packs as I think they have been designed for card making more and the scale isn’t diverse enough for scrapbooking. Thank you for showing your problem solving process eg bringing in another paper pack that is more generic ❤that. Oh and I ❤ the photo selection process too, soooo very helpful. Tricks I didn’t know you could do eg: the swipe to return to previous view etc.
So glad you found this helpful! It has been tough to get a good mix for scrapbooking with one SU pack, but there is definitely enough variety when you mix packs. It takes a little extra thinking but has been fun. Especially making the kits. I am so glad they’re bringing in more scrapbook kits to help, though!
Hello Jayma. How did you guess that my resolution was to do more scrapbooking this year? I too have been thinking of making it a set time each week or fortnight. I also picked up on your great tip to "heart" your favourite photos so you don't have to keep picking through them for printing. Excellent tip thank you!
I started making kits after watching one of Erin’s videos recently. It has made such a difference especially at the moment. I’m doing a 40 pages in 49 days challenge.
I have so many layouts I made from “teaching” a class once a month…first with CTMH and now SU…..I’m going to use them like you do….find photos to match the layouts.
Great video Jayma!! I will be scrapbooking next week and started to do this. Then I’m like, I don’t know if I have enough paper, so I started putting in a bunch of paper that might go, but now it’s getting too heavy. So I’m gonna unpack and start again😂🤦🏻♀️.
Hahahaha don’t worry, Judy, I know the feeling! 😂 It’s so hard when you’ll be away from home because you don’t want to overpack but you don’t want to be without something you need! 🤣 Good luck and glad this came at a good time for you!
So interesting to see how other people plan! It looks like it's a great system that works for you. I don't know if I could ever plan that far ahead but I sure would like to try some day lol! Thank you for sharing!
That is wonderful that you can do that! I enjoy every part of the process too. I’m still enjoying it, just batching the planning part. Like I said, everyone’s brain works differently and you get to choose to scrapbook the way you enjoy it most. 😊
@@JaymaMalmeI’m like you. I still enjoy it but I’m always so behind. I’m still working on 2011 but I skip around. At some point, I just want to finish a year so it’s complete.
I love making page kits and I do it the same way by choosing my papers first. They’re fun to make and I get so much more done when I go to a crop! Love your videos. Do you choose stamps and dies when you make your page kits or do you wait until you’re ready to scrapbook? 💕
It makes it so much easier to get things done when you pre-plan! I don’t add stamps or dies or embellishments to my kit but typically I’ll have an idea in mind of what I want to use when I’m making the kit. If I’m planning for a crop, I will pull the stamps/dies/embellishmnets when I put the kit together but I keep them separate. I will also try to plan kits that have overlapping stamps and dies so I don’t have to pack as many.
Wow!!! This video is fantastic and I know I am going to go back and refer to it many times!!! I love the kit ideas but do you always only do a 2 page layout with kits? For example, if you find you have many many photos that you want to use, too many for a 2 pg. layout, do you go ahead and make your kit a 4 or 6 pg. layout? And if you do, do you do different layouts for each 2 pg. one or make them all the same? Would you use all the same papers and mix them up between these layouts or just go completely different for each one? When you scrapbooking and do kits or just page layouts, do you make these with a particular album in mind and start putting them in the album or just stack up a lot of finished layouts and worry about the album later? Also, how to you do your albums, by year or event or person??? Sorry so many questions but I’ve been out of scrapbooking for long time and really want to get back into it as I have tons of photos. Your video makes me think of stuff you did in it and then I have a question about it!
Glad you like them! Sorry, the link to the sketchbooks can be hard to find in the description. Here you go! I hope you love them. They are so helpful! www.cdtcreatives.com
What do you do if you aren’t very good at selecting which papers to use? Are there any hard and fast rules I should use?? Thank you sooo much for doing videos like this - now I n eyed to watch the photo printing collage one and get a new photo printer to begin.
I don’t think there are really hard and fast rules, it depends on your photos and paper and embellishments and style. 🤣 But I try to talk thru my decisions in most of my process videos. Here are some videos I’ve done that go into more detail about selecting papers: ua-cam.com/video/mjmdJy768gI/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/8LqYOHBsa9U/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/XyJqeqEl9WI/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/sH3omba4fp4/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/OZRaNwlMWqU/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/BhaNaTcCJs0/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/cAG94LmFoqU/v-deo.html I hope they’re helpful for you!
Hi there. I just downloaded the pic frame app to use with my epson printer and I was wondering why the name picframe comes up in my photos? Thanks for your help.
It now requires a subscription to remove the watermark. Sorry! It didn’t have that when I got it. Here is a tutorial for using Canva and Project Life which are both totally free if you didn’t want any fees. They are both great I just prefer picframe since I have it. ua-cam.com/video/tQxPv-J725k/v-deo.html
Hi Donna - I print them at home on my Epson PM-400. It’s the BEST! Here’s a video all about the printer… Unboxing and full review of the Epson Picturemate PM-400 Photo Printer | Day 6 ua-cam.com/video/xlpY7fDIXxY/v-deo.html
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i've been using this system of kit making for years but didn't know that it was a "thing". great tutorial about photo selection and sizing! thank you!
This was a great video. My main problem is I get decision fatigue. I have so many unused kits from my CTMH days and now I am starting to have unused products from SU. I also have YEARS of photos that I need to document. I may try to start with paper first, that is a great idea. When I was taught scrapbooking 20ish years ago, the person I learned from was strictly photos first. Another interesting thing I learned from your video is to NOT use that matching color for a photo mat. That is interesting to me. I was always taught to find the most vibrant color in your photo and match that for your mats. You used that bright pink example and it was an "ah ha" moment for me. I never thought about it actually taking away from the photo. I spend most of my crafty time organizing and repackaging all of the SU products into a system that works in my craft room because I just can't seem to get started. I may just now find time to sit down and attempt to scrapbook again. Thank you for your tips.
I totally understand the decision fatigue, Patti! It’s actually one of my biggest struggles and why it takes me days to do a layout! I have to keep walking away and coming back to it fresh. Creating the kits like this is so helpful because a lot of the decisions are made and you don’t have to feel like you’re creating a LO start to finish with all the decisions that come with it. Of course everyone is different and some people can make quick decisions (my sister being one of those types of people!) But try this out and see if it helps!
I think a lot of people have that same theory of choosing the brightest color for the mats. There’s not a hard and fast rule for selecting colors and paper but when you actually hold the papers up I think more often than not you’ll see that that way of doing it doesn’t always work to make the photos pop. Instead, try using that color maybe as a mat around the entire LO, as a frame style layout. Then add just small pops of it in clusters. Depends on the photos and paper and what the color is, etc. So many factors… 😂
Oh My Gosh! Make your own kits! Of course, how have I not thought of this in 20 years! ! That is so fabulous and also will be fun to put together. The Winter Meadow is so beautiful, I am using it to make my thank you cards for Christmas.
The Winter Meadow is soooo pretty! That’s a perfect one for Christmas thank-yous. I hope you enjoy making kits. I wish I started doing it sooner. It’s been a game-changer for sure.
Loved this video! I would like to see more of these. I do very similar to you. I always make kits and then work off of the kits whether it’s at home or pulling them for a retreat. I love seeing how others do it so I can hone my process. The only thing I do different is I choose the pictures first as I’m sure most do. I can kind of see why you do it this way now. It enables you to make use of the new papers right away rather than putting them away and forgetting about them. I may just try this. I have a retreat in February that we do every year and I want to start getting some packets together. What I would love to see if how you get the embellishments ready for a kit or do you not add those. For a retreat I try to add my embellishments to the kits as well since I won’t be in my scrap room. Great video!
Thank you for this detailed process. Very inspiring for me. I get so overwhelmed and end up not scrapbooking but taking it one day at a time to pick things seems much more manageable for me. Awesome video and Happy New Year.
You are so welcome! I am so glad this was helpful for you. Happy stress-free scrapping! :)
Yes creating kits is a game changer. I find working in themes works for me. So many great ideas.
Thank you so much for the tips for manipulating photos on the iPhone. Just these were so helpful. I’m going to be saving and watching this video several times.
I am so glad you found them helpful!
I’ve been more of a photo first person as I’m new to scrapbooking and also trying to organise thousands of old photos so get inspired as I sort it. However I think paper first will also be more fun as I can prioritise my favourite papers too. Preparing kits really helps me as I’m a lone parent so getting time to scrapbook is limited. But I can easily do prep work like this for half an hour or so after my son is asleep, and then when I do get some childfree hours I can go straight to creating the layouts. I’ve just created a paper first kit tonight after seeing this video and it was fun to do.
This video is amazing. How you sort your photos is so so great. I do the album separation but I’m taking it to the next level with your method. Thank you for sharing your ideas.
I am so glad it was helpful for you! I hope it helps you get more of your photos into albums!
Oh Jayma! I love your idea of making multiple kits so that when I have time to scrapbook, I can just grab a kit and all the prep work has been done before! Thanks so much for such a wonderful idea! Happy New Year!
I am so glad you love the idea! I hope it really helps you to scrapbook more. 😊 Hope we get to scrap together again this year! 💗
Thank you! You always have the best tips in your videos and I get so much information from watching you!!
I am so glad you're finding the videos helpful!
Awesome tips. I really like the phone tips too. You know so much more about this stuff than I do. It’s quite amazing. Thank you. I think picking your paper first is a brilliant idea. We always picked our pictures and then had to find paper to go along with them, which is harder I think. I’ll have to give scrapbooking a try your way and see how I like the difference. I think I will like it a lot.
It makes a difference for sure! I used to start with photos first too and I find it so much easier to start with paper now. Have fun and hope this helps your flow!
As usual, I always learn something new from you! I like the idea of making kits to work more efficiently when I scrapbook. I have tried the apps you recommended to print different size photos and it has been a game changer ( especially for my December Daily book)! Looking forward to trying new things soon and look forward to the new items coming out next week! Thanks Jayma!😊
I'm so glad you're finding the apps helpful and have learned something new here. I’m so looking forward to playing with the new things soon!
This video was so fantastic! Love how you make the process of creating pages so much simpler when you match the photos to your papers with a sketch
It makes such a difference!
I really need to discipline myself with photos. I just dump everything but I can see how selecting ❤ would streamline the process. Always picking up great tips from you. Thanks and Happy New Year!
It definitely makes a difference! 😍
Loved watching your process and how your brain works with putting papers with photos. I need to get back to the "power sort" days when I go on retreats and workshops. Makes everything so much quicker.
It really is amazing how much easier it is when you get everything sorted first!
This was full of amazing tips Jayma! So many helpful ideas!
I’m so happy you liked it!
The iPhone tips portion of this video was soooo helpful so I had to save it. Thank you and your creativity is very good.
I am so glad you found it helpful!
Great video. Love the idea of making kits ahead of time. Thank you for sharing 😊
You are so welcome! I hope it is helpful for you 😊
This is how I scrap too, except that I start with my photos and usually do a months of photos at a time. Probably because I’m a chronological Scrapbooker. Thanks for the tips and tricks and reaffirming my process too.
Good for you for scrapping chronologically! It sure would make it easier to actually finish an album. 🤣 I bounce all over the place, but I enjoy working with what inspires me at the time. Great to hear that these methods have been working for you, too!
Wow girl! So many great tips! I need to start putting kits together! I should write that in my planner!
It's such a game-changer!
Thank you for all the tips. I’ve recently been creating kits with paper, photos and sketches. One thing I do like is, I can put the kit away and come back to it later. Sometimes deciding on papers can be the longest part 😂. I’ll be re watching this video on the iPhone tips!
YES! Choosing paper can take me a long time too! I am glad this method works for you too!
I absolutely love the sketchbooks! I also use the 8.5 x 11 sketch book from the creative design team. Thank You for doing all that work!
I'm so glad you love the sketchbooks! They make it so much easier to get layouts done.
This vid was sooooo helpful!!! I have struggled to make kits from SU paper packs as I think they have been designed for card making more and the scale isn’t diverse enough for scrapbooking. Thank you for showing your problem solving process eg bringing in another paper pack that is more generic ❤that. Oh and I ❤ the photo selection process too, soooo very helpful. Tricks I didn’t know you could do eg: the swipe to return to previous view etc.
So glad you found this helpful! It has been tough to get a good mix for scrapbooking with one SU pack, but there is definitely enough variety when you mix packs. It takes a little extra thinking but has been fun. Especially making the kits. I am so glad they’re bringing in more scrapbook kits to help, though!
Hello Jayma. How did you guess that my resolution was to do more scrapbooking this year? I too have been thinking of making it a set time each week or fortnight. I also picked up on your great tip to "heart" your favourite photos so you don't have to keep picking through them for printing. Excellent tip thank you!
I’m so glad you found some helpful tips. It definitely helps me to have time set aside, I hope you find success with it. 💕
I started making kits after watching one of Erin’s videos recently. It has made such a difference especially at the moment. I’m doing a 40 pages in 49 days challenge.
It really is a game-changer! We were both so glad to have our kits at the retreat! Good luck with the challenge - you got this! 💗
Yes 🙌 I would love to learn more about putting page kits together
Thank you for all the great tips.
It’s definitely something I’ll be working on in the next year! I’ll try to include it in more videos.
The 'how to use your iphone' portion of this video is worth it's weight in gold. Thank you so much for sharing all these helpful tips.
I’m so glad you found it helpful!
I have so many layouts I made from “teaching” a class once a month…first with CTMH and now SU…..I’m going to use them like you do….find photos to match the layouts.
That is a great idea!
Great tips making kits and using the iPhone! Thank you for sharing 💕
I am so glad you found it helpful!
Great video Jayma!! I will be scrapbooking next week and started to do this. Then I’m like, I don’t know if I have enough paper, so I started putting in a bunch of paper that might go, but now it’s getting too heavy. So I’m gonna unpack and start again😂🤦🏻♀️.
Hahahaha don’t worry, Judy, I know the feeling! 😂 It’s so hard when you’ll be away from home because you don’t want to overpack but you don’t want to be without something you need! 🤣 Good luck and glad this came at a good time for you!
So interesting to see how other people plan! It looks like it's a great system that works for you. I don't know if I could ever plan that far ahead but I sure would like to try some day lol! Thank you for sharing!
I am not usually a planner, but this has helped a ton! I am positive I will still always be working behind though, but at least be prepared 😂
@@JaymaMalme I hear you! But I love the concept! And whatever helps right?
Lots of great tips in this video!
I am so glad you found it helpful!
I never want to do my crafts faster and more efficiently. Always take my time and just enjoy the process.
That is wonderful that you can do that! I enjoy every part of the process too. I’m still enjoying it, just batching the planning part. Like I said, everyone’s brain works differently and you get to choose to scrapbook the way you enjoy it most. 😊
@@JaymaMalmeI’m like you. I still enjoy it but I’m always so behind. I’m still working on 2011 but I skip around. At some point, I just want to finish a year so it’s complete.
Jayma, I love your nails! Do you do them yourself or do you have them done professionally?
Thank you! I have great luck with press-ons! 😊
I started planning my pages the same way about three years ago and I am so efficient at crops. I wish I started years ago.
Awesome! I wish I had started sooner too!
I love making page kits and I do it the same way by choosing my papers first. They’re fun to make and I get so much more done when I go to a crop! Love your videos. Do you choose stamps and dies when you make your page kits or do you wait until you’re ready to scrapbook? 💕
It makes it so much easier to get things done when you pre-plan! I don’t add stamps or dies or embellishments to my kit but typically I’ll have an idea in mind of what I want to use when I’m making the kit. If I’m planning for a crop, I will pull the stamps/dies/embellishmnets when I put the kit together but I keep them separate. I will also try to plan kits that have overlapping stamps and dies so I don’t have to pack as many.
Wow!!! This video is fantastic and I know I am going to go back and refer to it many times!!! I love the kit ideas but do you always only do a 2 page layout with kits? For example, if you find you have many many photos that you want to use, too many for a 2 pg. layout, do you go ahead and make your kit a 4 or 6 pg. layout? And if you do, do you do different layouts for each 2 pg. one or make them all the same? Would you use all the same papers and mix them up between these layouts or just go completely different for each one? When you scrapbooking and do kits or just page layouts, do you make these with a particular album in mind and start putting them in the album or just stack up a lot of finished layouts and worry about the album later? Also, how to you do your albums, by year or event or person??? Sorry so many questions but I’ve been out of scrapbooking for long time and really want to get back into it as I have tons of photos. Your video makes me think of stuff you did in it and then I have a question about it!
What wonderful tips! Thank you. Where can I get sketchbooks? Am constantly stumped for ideas.
Glad you like them! Sorry, the link to the sketchbooks can be hard to find in the description. Here you go! I hope you love them. They are so helpful! www.cdtcreatives.com
@JaymaMalme Thank you so much!
Very helpful, thanks!😊
You are so welcome! Glad it was helpful 😊
Great tips!
Glad it was helpful!
Great idea to schedule a set time
It really does make a difference. It’s so easy to get distracted by other things!
What do you do if you aren’t very good at selecting which papers to use? Are there any hard and fast rules I should use?? Thank you sooo much for doing videos like this - now I n eyed to watch the photo printing collage one and get a new photo printer to begin.
I don’t think there are really hard and fast rules, it depends on your photos and paper and embellishments and style. 🤣 But I try to talk thru my decisions in most of my process videos. Here are some videos I’ve done that go into more detail about selecting papers:
ua-cam.com/video/mjmdJy768gI/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/8LqYOHBsa9U/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/XyJqeqEl9WI/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/sH3omba4fp4/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/OZRaNwlMWqU/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/BhaNaTcCJs0/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/cAG94LmFoqU/v-deo.html
I hope they’re helpful for you!
Hello.. what is the birthday paper pack with the gold foiling called im obsessed!
Isn’t it gorgeous? It’s called Wildflower Birthday and releases in the new mini catalog on January 7.
Hi there. I just downloaded the pic frame app to use with my epson printer and I was wondering why the name picframe comes up in my photos? Thanks for your help.
It now requires a subscription to remove the watermark. Sorry! It didn’t have that when I got it. Here is a tutorial for using Canva and Project Life which are both totally free if you didn’t want any fees. They are both great I just prefer picframe since I have it. ua-cam.com/video/tQxPv-J725k/v-deo.html
@ thanks so much
Where do you print you photos?
Hi Donna - I print them at home on my Epson PM-400. It’s the BEST! Here’s a video all about the printer… Unboxing and full review of the Epson Picturemate PM-400 Photo Printer | Day 6
ua-cam.com/video/xlpY7fDIXxY/v-deo.html
I am a paper first person too!
Yay! Makes it so much easier!
Where do you get the sketches.
Hello! Sorry, the link can be hard to find in the description. They are at www.cdtcreatives.com
I want to learn to do kits
I think I will do more videos on kits!