How long does it take you to scrap a layout?

[jaylensmom]

Some of you ladies are scrapping machines and I'm jealous How do you find the time to scrap so many pages? What's the method to your madness

[ZaCola3]

I would say anywhere from 30-90 Minutes...I get up early in the AM...and have a few hours at night after supper is cooked and the boys are playing...My dining room and living room open up and are really one big room so I am lucky that I can be on the computer and right in the middle of things too!

[ditzyscrap]

Depends for me on several factors, lol. Usually a couple hours, but sometimes a layout can take DAYS.

[Julie Billingsley]

I'd say my average is about 3 hours... but a few have taken days. My favorite layout took 4 days on and off.

[iJenny]

Mine take anywhere from 45 minutes to two hours for an average layout. But I'm also chatting on hello and watching tv on my slingbox so I'm a bit distracted. My favorite layout to date took me two days of work.
I scrap at night after my kids are in bed. My husband works nights to once the kids are in bed at 8pm, I have the rest of the night to scrap. Usually from 8pm-11ish.
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Rubbi

[newfiemountiewife]

2-3 hours each, some much much longer. A couple of weekends ago, I scrapped 5 pages in less than 24 hours, something I had never even come close to doing before, now my mojo is gone, so I guess I used it all up LOL

[my4boys]

I average about 2 hours and that is on the low side, I too can take days to do 1 page but it depends on what it is about!!!! I get up early too but at that point I am usually just checking e-mail and leaving LOVE for all you fabulous ladies!!! I scrap while my niece is napping and then after she goes home at 4 pm I get a little time before dinner a bit after and then at 9:30 I do the whole e-mail check and leavin love thing all over again. It is hard to keep up but I do my best.

[Paula]

Well, I am very fortunate in that all three of my kids are in school until 3:00. So, I get up early, do my housework and then scrap and praise the rest of the day.

[Valgal]

If I turned on my webcam and you could see the mess behind me you'd KNOW just how much time I spend Photoshopping, lol!

Seriously though, the amt. of pages I'm able to get done in a week has doubled sine we tripked our RAM (wait, shouldn't my output have tripled then too? Hmm...).

[scrapperjade]

Usually it takes me at least an hour... my last one took me 3 hours, but I love it, so it was worth it!

[Tracyfish]

I'm usually under an hour per LO, sometimes faster. I get up early and my son sleeps until usually 9am and then I scrap at his naptime and after he goes to bed at night sometimes.

[ColleenSwerb]

I take forever sometimes. Usually around 2.5 hours I'd guess, but some of those stinkers take MUCH longer, lol.

My new thing, is that I start a LO, and if I get stuck wtih it, I just go ahead and start a new one (something I NEVER used to do). Then once the mojo is flowing again, I'll go back and finish the other LO. I seem to be more productive that way.

[Joan]

I take forever. It's a good day if I get a layout done in one day. I'm one that needs to percolate and ruminate on something, so I'm finding setting something aside as soon as I'm stuck and starting on something else is the way to go for me. That could be another layout, or something else completely, like my neglected housework, lol.

I think if I could use ACDSee (they don't make it for Mac), I'd be a much faster scrapper. A lot of my time is spent wanting to find just the right thing. I don't always know exactly what it is, but I know I'll know it when I see it. I organize my supplies, but I really want to be able to search them by keyword. I've found Bridge kind of buggy when I've tried it, but I know it's worked for some people so maybe I'll try again.

[digi-gee]

I am usually done under an hour. If it gets much longer than that I lose interest and start on something else. Most times I will go back and finish the one I was struggling with but sometimes not.

[KristinCB]

I am the kind of person who seems to work on a layout throughout the course of a day (more or less). I have been using bree's templates lately and finding that helps - I love that even though you can start with a template you can still make it your own. For awhile I always felt like I was "cheating" when using templates but I'm slowly getting past that.. LOL!

[KristinCB]

Originally Posted by Joan

I think if I could use ACDSee (they don't make it for Mac), I'd be a much faster scrapper. A lot of my time is spent wanting to find just the right thing. I don't always know exactly what it is, but I know I'll know it when I see it. I organize my supplies, but I really want to be able to search them by keyword. I've found Bridge kind of buggy when I've tried it, but I know it's worked for some people so maybe I'll try again.

I don't use bridge on my mac (in fact I don't even have it installed because i found it slows down everything)

But the search feature in the mac on the top right is pretty good i think. I was always too lazy to tag things when I had my pc and acdsee anyways so as long as people are naming their stuff good its pretty easy to find things

[pbumbaca]

1/2 an hour to up to 2 hours. It depends on if I use a template or not!

[Libby Pritchett]

I'm in the 2-3 hr category, but I get distracted easily. I chat on hello or watch tv while I scrap. And it takes me forever to choose pictures/paper, etc. I'd love to be one who could knock out 6-7 layouts every week, but that just isn't possible when I only scrap on weekends.

[Joan]

Originally Posted by KristinCB

I don't use bridge on my mac (in fact I don't even have it installed because i found it slows down everything)

But the search feature in the mac on the top right is pretty good i think. I was always too lazy to tag things when I had my pc and acdsee anyways so as long as people are naming their stuff good its pretty easy to find things

Yeah, I find Bridge just seems slow and clunky. I can't find it in me to embrace it.

I do use my search function, but I still find I'm wading through so much stuff. Keywords are a pain to get set up, but I just know the way my mind works and how much I'd love to be able to plug in: green ribbon; purple heart element; blue pattern paper; etc etc. I love this with Lightroom and my photos... I really wish LR would read pngs.

[Teresa]

Slow as molasses in January here.....usually takes me several hours, but I think it's more to do with my crazy perfectionist ways and organization (or rather "lack" of it!). I've been trying to get better and finally get a system working, but it's taking me forever with 3 years worth of goodies on my hard drive.

[mrs_jb]

A page takes me anywhere from 1-3 hours, depending on how focused and creative I am feeling.

I scrap a little through the day, between work and the kids, and then I do moe at night after I've finished up work for the day.

[Ana Amorim]

I never finish a layout on the same day I start. It tooks me FOREVER to finish, lol! I would say at least 4 hours for me!

[BrattyMeg]

Depends for me..If i have a great idea I'm quick lol...sometimes it takes me weeks. I haven't had a new LO now in almost a week though lol

I have about 30 in an "in progress" folder though

[nun69]

I'm usually in the 1-3 hour category...just depends...since I have my laptop, I'm usually sitting in the living room and I can keep an eye on Peyton and Abby, so that's when I scrap {and of coarse when they go to bed}....none of my LO's are very elaborate because once I start I usually HAVE to finish it because I just don't like to have anything unfinished...so sometimes I'm still up at midnight finishing a LO and then have to get up at 5:45 am for work...

[twentytinytoes]

It really varies for me sometimes i can do it in 20 mins and other times it will take me up to 3 hours. Usually i go back and forth working on it.

[chloe]

It varies. When I use a template or one of the sketch I prepared in advance (usually knowing already which stuff I'll use too), it can be less than an hour, but when I start from scratch, usually with just a subject or a prompt (like for some the challenges here), it can take 2/3 hours, sometimes days...

[meganmecrazy]

I'd say an average time is an hour a page sometimes more...all depends on a bunch of things. I usually get an hour or so in the morning to scrap. Then I get a couple hours at night and then 10-15 minutes here and there to sit at the computer throughout the day. I split a lot of my daily happenings up into 10-30 minute deals! LOL! I will do laundry for about 15 minutes. Clean the kids room for 15 minutes, get on the puter for 15 minutes, study for 1/2 hour, take 10-15 minutes to read a magazine or book, etc. LOLOL! The days that I don't split things up like that I feel way too over-stressed and never get anything accomplished!

[chloe]

Originally Posted by meganmecrazy

I'd say an average time is an hour a page sometimes more...all depends on a bunch of things. I usually get an hour or so in the morning to scrap. Then I get a couple hours at night and then 10-15 minutes here and there to sit at the computer throughout the day. I split a lot of my daily happenings up into 10-30 minute deals! LOL! I will do laundry for about 15 minutes. Clean the kids room for 15 minutes, get on the puter for 15 minutes, study for 1/2 hour, take 10-15 minutes to read a magazine or book, etc. LOLOL! The days that I don't split things up like that I feel way too over-stressed and never get anything accomplished!

That's totally the way I function when I don't work, I even set up a timer (Can you tell I'm a FlyLady fan? LOL) to make sure that I don't get overwhelmed by the household stuff or (more likely to happen) scrap for hours instead of cleaning!

[meems]

I've gotten a tad faster but it still takes me at least 2 hours, usually more. I'm always trying out different papers and elements until I am satisfied.

I hate to think how much longer it would take me if I didn't have ACDSee .

I am totally impressed by those of you who can scrap in under an hour!

[scarletheels]

Anywhere from two to four hours per layout. I get the laptop all to myself from 8 a.m. to about 2:30 p.m. while my girls are in school.

[Priscilla]

30 minutes to 3 weeks.....

If a LO is taking me that long it's also sitting until I get mojo for it while I work on others.

[Rae's World]

I can take me an average of 2hrs. I scrap mostly at night after the kids go to bed. DH watched his sports and I scrap.

[Aggie Aviso]

I get my mojo in doses (and I only get around 1-2 days to scrap freely, sometimes I need to do chores like do laundry so it gets shortened, LOL), so I do 6 layouts a day and do absolutely nothing for the next 6 days Hahaha. I do something creative once a day though like look through my kits, my pictures, jot ideas so when it's time to finally scrap, it all goes together really quickly.

[zakirahzakaria]

The fastest I've ever done was 1 hour. But usually it took me 2 hours or more. Some LOs took me daaaayyyysss to finish.

[scrappychic]

I'm lucky if I finish a page the same day I started it. I usually take a couple of days, mostly because I get tired of looking at it and whatever I do doesn't look right. One night's sleep and a fresh look the next day lets me finish it off.

I'm a lot faster than when I started, which took almost 5 days! It's a wonder how I got anything done.