Good morning to you all and a very warm welcome to my fab4 workshop!

I am thrilled that you joined this adventure and am looking forward to work with you all! This is so exciting! wooot!

I figured that most of you that participate are from the US so I thought it would be best to work with your time, rather than mine – I have sunday morning already

Everybody that has signed up for the workshop should have received an invitation to a Yahoo Group called fab4 workshop. Please be so kind and join. Should I have forgotten you or you haven’t received an invitation, please give me a shout!

Shouldn’t you have signed up by now but would really like to join, please do so! There is still plenty of time!

In this group we can contemplate themes, what project you want to do, ask questions, give tips, and post our goals.

Our first check in will be next week, Saturday 10th – only the first time we have this check in after a week, all others will be two weeks apart. I think, we can all manage our first goal within a week.

So all you have to do for this week is to think about what project, what theme you want to do. If it is going to be a photo book, think of how many pages it will contain. What I like to do – and this is my tip, you don;t have to do it this way – is to create a folder, let me call it “fab4_project1″. In this folder I would then create another folder, called “photos”, in which I would copy the photos I want to work with. This way, you don’t work with the originals. I don’t know about you but I like to have a unified look which means that I mainly use same papers and elements over and over again. This doesn’t need to be one specific kit but it makes it easier of course If you are like me you like to mix and match from several kits, paper packs, element packs and alphas. That makes working on a project like this difficult if you have to find those items every time you work on the project. What I like to do is, create another folder underneath my “fab4_project1″ folder and call it “supplies” Now I would go and copy all the kits and elements that I think I am going to use in here. Now you have everything you need on hand at once. After you have finished your project you can delete the photo and the supplies folder as these are copies of the originals.

Should you be an ACDSee Photo Manager user, you don’t have to create an extra folder for your supplies; SImply create a category “fab4″ e.g. and tag your items you want to use.

Allright, so now you should have your theme, the photos and the supplies you are going to scrap with along with the number of layouts/pages you need to scrap. All left to do is, to divide the layouts between the weeks beginning from the 10th of January and ending 21st of March. These are 10 weeks and the check ins where I check if you have reached your set goal are bi-weekly. So for example if you plan to do a 20 page photo book you have to create 2 layouts a week. That sounds more managable than having to do 20 pages at once, doesn’t it?

I think that is it for now – should you have questions, please post them in the Yahoo Group for all to see. Feel free to chime in if you have tips and answers.

Check In is 10th of January, please post proof of your project planning (screenshot of your folder, black out the rest for safety reasons! Theme, how many pages in total and how many layouts a week, etc) in our group.

After I have checked you off you will receive your REWARD!

Now let’s go planning ladies, see and talk to you in the group!

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