Do you love.....

[momtutu]

every page you scrap? Or do you dread doing some pages but do them because you have to? I'm trying to finish out a couple more lo's of my son's karate belt graduation and I'm at the point where I'm just like, blah..blah...blah.

I just can't seem to get motivated to get these like, two last pages done -ugh!!

[jessica31876]

yes sometimes I feel like that. Usually if I have no motivation I will just quit for a little while.

[Nikki Epperson]

If I have a page I HAVE to do, like for a family member it's hard to motivate but if I'm just doing them for myself - I am usually ok

[amystoffel]

I am trying hard to go back and scrap from 2004 to now and I have no motivation for some pages! But I want them in my book....

[heatherdumas]

Just a suggestion, have someone else do it. (If you hate it, you can just not print it)

[ColleenSwerb]

Well first, I'd say how many pages of his karate graduation do you REALLY need to do?? LOL!

Otherwise, I use a template, power through, and call it good enough.

[momtutu]

I know Col, right? LOL!! I took so many darn pictures that day because there are so many different things that go into that day. It was a really important day for DS. It's going in an album but I swear, I'm getting to the point where if I see one more karate picture, I'm going to karate chop them all up!!!! :-)

[rach3975]

There are some pages I dread working on. I like scrapping everyday moments. I want the birthdays and holidays in our albums, but I always put them off as long as possible. There are soooo many photos, and even narrowing it down to the best/most important leaves me with 10-15.

One thing I do is limit the number of LOs for each event. So a birthday party will get 1 or 2 LOs, and that's it. They'll be multi-multi-photo LOs and won't be my best work, but the memories get into the album and I can move on to scrapping something I enjoy more. (Then, of course, there are the periods like I'm in now, when I finally have to tackle all the event LOs I've put off so I can finish an album. Aaaargh! I just want them over with already!)

[momtutu]

Yes Rachel - you summed it up perfectly..It seems to be those everyday moments that I'm enjoying but the events are dragging me down. I just couldn't pinpoint it. Wow - you only do one or 2 lo's for birthdays? I think I did about 8 for DD's 6th birthday party and that was cramming a bunch of pictures into them as well! :-)

[ColleenSwerb]

Kelli, you're doing too many! LOL! You're making it to hard on yourself, lol. 2 pages for every birthday is PLENTY. And it adds up pretty quickly, lol.

[lovely1m]

No, lots of times I don't love them, but frankly you can't be spot on every time, sometimes they are just ok LOs.

[rach3975]

Originally Posted by momtutu

Wow - you only do one or 2 lo's for birthdays? I think I did about 8 for DD's 6th birthday party and that was cramming a bunch of pictures into them as well! :-)

I agree with Col--you're making it too hard on yourself trying to scrap every decent picture! No wonder you're burned out on karate LOs! I just don't have the patience to spend that long on one event. The way I look at it, if I spend 2 weeks scrapping 7 LOs of 1 party how many other memories will never make it into the album that otherwise could be scrapped during that 2 weeks? I end up with more than 1 LO per birthday (there's the day itself, the party, and the school party) but only 1 or 2 for the party.

[~Julie~]

I don't love every page I have done but just because I do it doesn't mean I have to print it. But sometimes I scrap some pictures a few times so if I do make an album I can pick the one I like the best.

[momtutu]

I can't do just 2!!!! My gosh woman - how do you pick??? LOL

Look at my gallery - I just finished my 4th karate lo. lol!!! I could do one more page but I'm going to stop with 4 because Col said it was ok. I am sitting here just cracking up.

Oh yeah, I was going to finish up all of DD's dance recital pictures next - I've got 2 done and I could probably do another one or 2 more of those as well.

What...are you saying less is more???

[ColleenSwerb]

I'm saying that in the future, your kids won't want to see 859402 birthday party layouts, or karate graduation lo's. I think they'll much prefer seeing the everyday moments that made up their childhood

[momtutu]

Ack!! I'm such a scrappy loser!! You're right - I just have to change my mindset I think. I tend to take more picture of events and my brain tells me that I can't waste any pics. It's also hard for me to scrap just one pic on a page even though I really REALLY like those looks. I'll get there one day. Thanks for the input!

[ColleenSwerb]

Originally Posted by momtutu

Ack!! I'm such a scrappy loser!! You're right - I just have to change my mindset I think. I tend to take more picture of events and my brain tells me that I can't waste any pics. It's also hard for me to scrap just one pic on a page even though I really REALLY like those looks. I'll get there one day. Thanks for the input!

No worries hon The more you scrap, the more you find your own style and tastes. I don't have kids, so I think I'm at an advantage, lol. I don't feel the need to document every little thing. And I'm sure that when I finally have kids of my own, my mindset on will change again, lol.

[Alinalitas]

There are some I don't even finish cause they're not turning out good. there are some I finish because I'm tired of trying and then I still don't love the result.

[rach3975]

Originally Posted by momtutu

I tend to take more picture of events and my brain tells me that I can't waste any pics. It's also hard for me to scrap just one pic on a page even though I really REALLY like those looks. I'll get there one day.

I've been digiscrapping for 4.5 years, and I'm still not there. I let a lot more photos go unscrapped now that I'm scrapping 2 kids, and I'm sure I'll get even more picky once DD is born. But I still can't bring myself to do too many single photo LOs. I love the look, but I can't usually narrow it down to just 1 photo knowing the other great ones from that photo session will probably never make it into the album.

[scarletsierra]

Errr...no.

I always try to create something that I'm happy with, but sometimes my mojo feels forced and I don't like it. There are a handful of pages I almost wish weren't in my gallery I feel they are so awful, lol. But in the end I think my family will treasure them and that's the most important thing.

[rach3975]

Originally Posted by scarletsierra

There are a handful of pages I almost wish weren't in my gallery I feel they are so awful, lol. But in the end I think my family will treasure them and that's the most important thing.

I second that! I have some pages that I don't love, ones that just didn't click. But no one in my family is a graphic designer or a scrapper, and they don't know the difference between the great pages and the mediocre ones. Their favorites are usually not the ones that I'm most proud of.

[Megan Turnidge]

Originally Posted by scarletsierra

Errr...no.

I always try to create something that I'm happy with, but sometimes my mojo feels forced and I don't like it. There are a handful of pages I almost wish weren't in my gallery I feel they are so awful, lol. But in the end I think my family will treasure them and that's the most important thing.

SHUT. UP. Seriously, your whole gallery is stunning. I wish I could scrap like that!

And I don't love all my pages. I tend to redo a lot of them... but partly because I think I've drastically improved over the last six months... and I only have one baby so I can still stay up-to-date. It can be hard sometimes being on CTs and you're just not feelin' a certain kit, but you HAVE to make a page. That's always a little rough.

[DawnMarch]

For events, I usually just make a 2 page layout - I make the first page my best page and spend a lot of time on it, using the best 1-3 photos. Then I make the second page more basic and use it to just get in a lot of photos -- typically it's a grid format (sort of Ali Edwards style) or collage to fit in a lot. So long as you repeat some of the same papers and elements, the pages will work together.