What part of your LOs do you struggle with?

SeattleSheri

SeattleSheri

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I imagine that everyone has a part of putting a layout together that they struggle with (unless you are extremely lucky/talented). For me, I am horrible at title work. I will usually finish a LO and just stare at it trying to decide what the title will be and where I'm going to place it. Most of the time, I end up with no titling or it's an after thought. I know I should probably come up with a title before I start, but it's just not my process.

So what (if anything) do you struggle with?
 
um all of it :D :D


photo placement (I tend to repeat........ a lot.. if you hadn't noticed :D :D for a while I was stuck on lower left corner, now I'm apparently stuck in a new location LOL).. um.. titles.... coming up with titles.. alphas/fonts/etc for them. I think that the people with magical title skills should just come finish all our pages for us :D
 
Photo placement gets me a lot...and title work...I will choose to leave a LO with no title just because it annoys me so much.
I am a one photo scrapper so coming up with places to place my pictures gets redundant, but I just keep plugging away!
 
Jamie, your LOs are awesome!

Megan, I'm horrible with journaling too. The only "journaling" I ever do are quotes.

La, you crack me up (in a very good way). Where are the scrap closers? If baseball can have 'em, why can't we?

Shannon, I'm mostly a one-photo gal too. Every once in a while, I get a wild hair to add more than one.
 
I think my biggest stuggle is with letting go of my need to be symetrical. I'm a very balance oriented person, but that does not make for the most creative layouts. Once I'm able to let go of that, I'm always happier with the finished product.

I have always had a hard time with using more than one photo, but that is something that I've been working on a lot lately and I'm much happier with the results.
 
pretty much everything! :) First, I tend to be very repetitive in placing the stuff -- I really have to look at other people's "sketches" or my layouts would all look the same. I can never think of good titles and I always feel like they don't fit right. Then, my journaling is often so superficial. UGH -- yes, I'm never satisfied!
 
Let's see...I usually have trouble with how I put the elements together and how to apply the right "effect" on a photo or a paper. I sit for days trying to figure out the overall flow of my page. I'm a lunatic, I swear. I'm the opposite on the titlework. Sometimes when I'm really unsatisified with a page, I just work on the titlework or put it on my journaling then I'm fine. :)
 
I am such a symmetrical person, so letting it all hang loose with no rhyme or reason is something that has been HARD for me.
 
I struggle with different things on different LOs... sometimes I have elements I want to use and I just can't figure out how to make it look right and it drives me batty! :blink:
 
I struggle with titles...what should the title be, where do I put it, how do I make it look good...

And journaling. My brain goes faster than I type...so I always have typos that I dont even notice for days after I've made the page. It makes me crazy! I proof read them and everything...and never notice!
 
i have a hard time with mulitple photos. I prefer to use one photo. I also struggle with journaling sometimes, so i don't always do it. if the title explains it enough, i don't bother with journaling. I'm struggling right now with not making my layouts all look the same. I'm stuck on white space, lol. its easy for me, but when i look at my gallery they all look the same to me. but i just go with the flow....
 
I love the look of los that have 3+ photos, but I can't usually get it where I like it, so when I have 3+ pics I wanna get in the same lo, I usually save those for a lift or SAL or p2d where I can find a good lo I like with multiple pics and go from that! (I'm horrible, I know!) I struggle a lot with journaling too. I want to add more to my pages, but it sounds dumb, or I don't like the placement, or it seems to mess up the look of the page.
 
I tend to do the same thing over and over....my gallery probably looks so boring. :( I struggle with placement of everything (which is why they all look the same...lol) where to put the pic...journaling....title...etc.
 
I am another one that struggles with the title. It is always the last thing I do! I also struggle with my shadows! I honestly about go into panic mode and want to pull my hair out when I get to that part! I think my WANT for them to look realistic and my actually ability to carry out don't line up so I am always driving myself nuts to perfect something I don't know how to do!
 
My biggest struggle is just getting started. That's why the majority of my pages are lifts or templates. If I have that base to start with, I can really crank out a page. Otherwise, I'll sit and stare at a blank screen trying to decide where to start.
 
Mine is def titles and journaling too, I drag my journaling everywhere as well LOL! I also tend to do a lot of one photo layouts!

As a whole I think I struggle with consistancy. I am hardly ever happy with my layouts and feel like I will finally think I hit a happy stride and then I will do about 10 or so I just cant stand to look at lol!
 
I have had problems with journalling lately....but I have good solution for it.
I have my DH help out. I am really loving that my pages are becoming more of our project. He also sees how much work it takes. I think he feels more connected.
 
I have a hard time thinking outside the box. I am really intimidated with multiple photos and titles. Titles, most of the time are an after thought and end up looking so. Looking at the layouts here I wouldn't of guessed some of you have the same problems.
 
Definitely title work. :blink: I can come up with wording for my titles but placement and getting them to look the way I picture them in my mind are two different things. I generally leave them until the very last thing and then I end up feeling like they look like they're just stuck on there. :thumbdown:
 
lauren grier said:
um all of it :D :D


photo placement (I tend to repeat........ a lot.. if you hadn't noticed :D :D for a while I was stuck on lower left corner, now I'm apparently stuck in a new location LOL).. um.. titles.... coming up with titles.. alphas/fonts/etc for them. I think that the people with magical title skills should just come finish all our pages for us :D
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We could call them the magical title fairies. (I could use one of those)
I get way more comments if I scraplift... so I guess I struggle with the whole thing.
 
honestly...everything! you have no idea how many times i throw layouts away at the very end, cause i just loathe them. i want to be better at shadowing, titles, layering, random placement, multi-pic designs, working in journaling and asymetrical designs! lol
 
Definitely the title. I really struggle to come up with a catchy phrase to add to my pages, and so many have had titles left out because of that. Lately I've been using more sketches and templates to help me with this.
 
I agree with Lizzy, everything gives me trouble, I have the hardest time with placement, I hardley every do a layout without a template or scraplifting! and I hate to journal and I try not to let the Title get me down. I try to keep it simple
 
I think it's so interesting to see that we all have the same problems! Even the insanely talented scrappers have "scrappers" block about the same stuff!!!
 
I struggle with thinking of titles but I usually really enjoy doing the titlework itself once I've thought of the title LOL. I really struggle the most with everything about journaling. I think my journaling always sounds cheesy, then I struggle to find a place to put it on the LO (I drag it all over my page as well LOL!) I really find using journaling strips or journaling blocks almost impossible because I can never find a place where they don't look bizarrely out of place. I also struggle with multi photo LOs. I never know how to place them and then I feel like my photos are generally too redundant to place a bunch of them on the page.
 
Ditto the title hatin'. I'm the same way when I write stories and po-ems, too. I think it's because I hate small talk, and titles smack of small talk to me. I just want to get to the important stuff!!

I also really struggle with using papers on my pages. Most end up being ONE background paper, ONE photo, & a bunch of elements. I just don't know how to incorporate the different shapes for mattes and things. *shrug*
 
I struggle with everything at times. Titlework, journaling, placement, feeling like I do the same thing over and over again, all of it. Sometimes it'll all come together, but more often I agonize about it all.
 
I just struggle making a page period. I redo everything 50 times, never sure if I like it or how I feel about it. I too feel like I do the same thing over and over. Ok I am a mess! LOL!
 
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