How long?

[kendallt]

I know this has been asked before, but humor me. How long does it take you to complete a layout, on average? I'm convinced I'm the slowest scrapper ever! It usually takes me about 2-3 hours to complete a "normal" page (Don't get me started on my weekly Project Life spreads!).

I've tried so hard to be faster, but I nitpick and obsess about the details far too much! Do you have any tips for speeding up the process?

[Traci Reed]

a half hour..longer if I'm using a template.

[Gemma]

Around 30-45 mins I think.

Or hours and hours if one of the kids wants my attention lol.

[hollyxann]

Depends. Sometimes half hour, other times it seems like all day...Kennedy tends to play a role in how long it takes me to do a page lately.

[Valgal]

ABout an hour. I'm like Traci, though. If I'm using a template it seems to take longer.

[nietis]

30-45 minutes without templates.


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[ellasspace]

Anywhere from 30 min to an hour depending on the detail

[Kjersti]

Forever....days....I am the slowest scraper in the world. I swap out papers, flowers, greenery, papers again, photos, sheesh. It's a wonder I have any finished layouts at all.

[britaneejean]

a whole week right now. ah! i hate it. it used to take me about 1 hour but now it seems like PS is open all week long.

[LeeAndra]

It probably takes me 60-90 minutes to do a page depending on whether I need to choose photos/kit, if I have a complicated template to use, etc.

I sometimes speed up the process by going through my photos of a particular day or event and putting them into their own folder in my 'To Be Scrapped' folder. I also might include a Notepad file for journaling or even the template or kit I am thinking abt using with the photos. Then when I actually have free time to scrap, I can just go into my 'To Be Scrapped' folder and at least have my photo selection narrowed down if not also my journaling and kit/template.

[kristalund]

45 min to an hour

[YepBrook]

I'd say 30 minutes for a simple page, 1-2 hours for something complicated.

[Lyd]

Way way way too long these days.


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[jak]

From the point where I have my photo and kit selected, minimum an hour... sometimes 2+ because I tend to fiddle with elements alot. I'm quicker with a template but I don't like using templates much.

[rach3975]

Originally Posted by kendallt

I know this has been asked before, but humor me. How long does it take you to complete a layout, on average? I'm convinced I'm the slowest scrapper ever! It usually takes me about 2-3 hours to complete a "normal" page (Don't get me started on my weekly Project Life spreads!).

I've tried so hard to be faster, but I nitpick and obsess about the details far too much! Do you have any tips for speeding up the process?

I'm right there with you, Kendall! An average page is 2-3 hours, and the more photos I use, the longer it takes. It got to the point that I was spending a full week on each Project Life layout, and I didn't think I'd ever catch up. Once in a while a 1-photo layout will come together in an hour, but I don't do too many of those. (They're faster to scrap, but printing gets too expensive if I scrap each photo on its own page.) I've tried to be faster, but then scrapping becomes stressful instead of fun.

My one tip, and I don't know if this is something that you'd be interested in doing or not, is the Project Life App. I use it with my regular digital papers and cards, especially Traci's Pocket Life Collections. Because it's more basic and you can't do much more than put a photo or card in each space, pages really do come together much more quickly. After I finish my page in the app I bring it into PS to add a few embellishments for dimension, but I don't let myself spend too much time on it. (I either add text in an app like Over before pulling a card into the PL App or I wait and do it in PS, since the Project Life App doesn't allow you to write on cards that don't come in the App-my SSD supplies are treated like photos, which you can't write on in the app.)

Nothing I tried before this sped up my PL pages; with all the capabilities of PS, I just can't keep my pages fast and simple. Since the PL App released for Android in late Feb, I've finished about 16 weeks of PL pages and a 20-page vacation album (vacation album not embellished in PS). I've been completing about 3x more pages using the app than just PS. That doesn't do a thing to speed up my non-PL pages, but at least I have more time to spend on them when the PL pages are coming together quickly, LOL!

[icindi]

About an hour. Sometimes much more, sometimes less.

[nesser1981]

half hour, maybe an hour at the very most.

[Sweeet]

Originally Posted by hollyxann

Depends. Sometimes half hour, other times it seems like all day....

This is exactly how I am....depends. . . .

[JennNtheBoys]

It really depends on the layout... if it's photos I can't wait to scrap and have the idea for I can do it in under an hour.... but other pages that I'm scrapping just because they need to get done it could take me 2 to 5 hours.

[jacinda]

On average, 2-3 hours. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Occasionally I can get one done in an hour if the mojo is flowing, but that's rare.

[biancka]

30 to 45 minutes......usually. If I have a bad day.........2 hours for sure before I give up and re-start the layout

[crystalbella77]

UGH! Lately with Jasper it has taken me a day or two lol! In general..if I can just sit and scrap uninterrupted (ahahah! Right!) it is about an hour

[KingsQueen82]

Usually an hour if I have my photos already picked out. My photos are a hot mess though so sometimes I spend more time digging for "the perfect one" than I do actual scrapping.

[SeattleSheri]

For me it's kind of hard to say because I don't usually do a page all in one sitting. I have gotten faster with time. If I have a lot of mojo, it's PDK ... but if not, it takes forever! I'm almost always multi-tasking when I scrap. Yesterday, I got about 95% of a page done in about 30 minutes (with a template) ... but then didn't finish it up until today.

[bcgal00]

Sometimes a design comes to me quickly and I can get a page done in 30-40 minutes but other times I want to keep tweaking it so it might take me a few hours.

[jumbbumble]

most of my layouts take about 30-45 minutes but in periodes i have no mojo or are to self critics and i delete one layout after a nother and can spend all day on a layout

[mrsashbaugh]

Like many have said, it varies. If uninterrupted and I have pics ready I can do it in an hour or less. I have spent days on some layouts when I have to scrap some here and some there.

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[Jennifer]

Between an hour and forever.

[~Cindy~]

45 minutes to an hour. Sometimes all day depends on if I wait until my kids are in bed or if they're using their torture techniques, so that I can't sit down for an hour lol!

[stormchaser]

I can usually get one done in 2-3 hours if I don't have any distractions. I usually have a few distractions so I like to scrap during my sons nap time. My husband hates me scrapping when he comes home he likes me to give him all my attention so I will make a deal and let him choose a movie to watch usually some action, shoot em up movie that I have zero interest in and I will scrap on my laptop while I "watch" the movie with him! Lol..... hey its a win win.

[kendallt]

I'm glad to know there are at least a few turtle-esque scrappers like myself out there!

[eve11ne]

usually around 2 hours for me for a layout, including template/photo/kit choosing...
and i always finish the layout in one sitting, if i didn't finish it, most likely i won't finish it so it'll be deleted and i'll start a new one

i'd love to scrap faster but i don't think it'll ever happen

[navaja77]

Between 30 mins to an hour.

[clucaswvu04]

It really depends for me too...on occasion it's 30-45 minutes. That's usually when inspiration has struck at some other point though before I sit down on the computer. Other times, I feel like it takes me forever and a day and I don't finish it in one sitting or even sometimes 2. I'm all over the map time wise.