Sadly, I've been known to create more than one project that rarely, if ever, got used. I thought I'd share an update on my DIY SMASH notebook, which I use several times a week. It's turned out to be quite a wonderful resource.
I added a pocket to the inside front cover where I stick clippings and ideas if I don't have time to get them in the right place, or I'm unsure how I want to "file" them.
As I'm reading blogs, I jot down ideas and sketch out cards or layouts I might want to make. I have a whole page now of color combinations to try, and a list of card sentiments I loved.
These are cards I liked from a Stampin Up catalog I received at CKC this year. I don't do a lot of clipping any more, but I'm much more likely to see it here than in the notebooks I have created in the past for such things. Most of my inspiration comes from the internet now, and I keep it organized in Evernote or on Vi.Sualize.us. I'm thinking of dismantling my notebooks, but it's a big project which needs to wait until the first of the year. Way too much going on here right now.
Photo tips from blogs. Often I "save" the whole blog post to an Evernote notebook, but if it's just a short reminder I add it here.
A book site I want to investigate, and some music I want to check out.
And a couple of things that were on my Wish List at the time. I can cross one out now as I received something very similar from another company from Scrap-Mart. It's interesting to me that a project I resisited for quite some time has turned out to be one of the most useful of the last several years.
