Oh gosh - I totally feel that way ALL the time! There is crazy talent here, isn't there??
One thing that really helped me was to find my "style". There are lots out there. Because I was a paper scrapper first, I'm drawn to digi layouts that look like them. I also really like the clustered look because I know with paper a clustered page would cost approximately 18 gazillion dollars, and who can afford that?? LOL
So once I figured out my style preference, I found artists who scrapped that way and favorited them, so when they upload new stuff, it alerts me (you can do that in your gallery profile). I also started using templates that looked like that style too, to make it easier. I honest to goodness can NOT come up with a nice layout just out of my head, not even when I paper scrapped... I was a sketch user. Once I had my style picked, my templates picked, my layouts started to look better and better.
Another thing that helps is to working on shadows. That can make a page go from drab to super amazing, you know? It can make everything look super dimensional (you just have to make sure they aren't too big because everything will look like it's floating off the page). There are lots of great shadowing tutorials out there to look to!
One more thing that helps me is to STOP COMPARING. I used to do it all the time. I have to mentally remind myself to stop it... as long as I am happy with my layouts, it makes no difference if they are as good as so-and-so's. No matter how good you get, there will always be someone you feel is better than you... don't stress yourself out by comparing because you could end up getting discouraged! And that's no fun!
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