it's the one thing I obsess over...

[emmasmommy]

What's the one thing you spend waaaaaaayyyy too much time on when doing a layout?

For me, it's a background paper. I could try every paper in the pack and change them 25 times and STILL not be happy.

It's a problem.

really.

[jak]

Moving elements around. I spend ages doing that, and really, does a millimetre here or there make a difference to the end result... probably not!

[anelia]

Paper for me too. I LOVE busy patterned paper but I find it hard to use them on my pages for background paper without a neutral/plain mat. I almost always try out ALL the patterned paper from a kit I also sometimes spend way too much time on moving the photo(s) because I can't decide where exactly I like it better

[Valgal]

OMG, paper for me too. It's because I feel like I should use more patterned papers but it almost never looks right, so I almost always go back to a solid bg.

< Spongebob narrator > 2 years later... goes with original paper.

I also spend forever lining things up perfectly. I even double-check and correct designer templates.

[kendallt]

I really can't pinpoint just one thing that takes me the longest; I just know that I've never been and probably never will be someone who can scrap a page in less than two hours. I just fuss and nitpick over every little detail because I'm such a perfectionist. I'm envious of fast scrappers!

[nietis]

Thinking of a title.

[kendallt]

Originally Posted by nietis

Thinking of a title.

Ohhhh....good one, Sherly! That definitely takes a while for me too!

[MamaBee]

yes - background paper and the title.. for sure!

[kristalund]

yes the background papeR!!

[clucaswvu04]

Title would definitely be high on that list for me, and choosing fonts/alphas

[YepBrook]

The title always gets me!!! So, I usually skip it or use word art.

I also do a lot of switching papers around.

[emmasmommy]

Originally Posted by nietis

Thinking of a title.

haha! 95% of the time I don't even HAVE a title


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[Keely~B]

I tend to want to use all the patterned paper.

[jumbbumble]

i dont now anything that takes the longest but i have a bad habbit , when i almost finish a page and i don't like it i just delete it don't tosh things around no delete the complete page

[JennNtheBoys]

Originally Posted by YepBrook

The title always gets me!!! So, I usually skip it or use word art.

I also do a lot of switching papers around.

^^^ What Brook said.

Titles are my nemesis... I love making them, but coming up with them not so much, so I tend to skip it and use wordart or a card with a good phrase that can double as my title.

I VERY RARELY finish a page with the papers I started with. I will pick a paper I LOVE and build on that, and by the end I end up switching it out (even though it was the inspiration for the whole layout lol)

[cherrygutz]

Clusters, I'm really bad at cluster so I move the flowers, leaves and anything else I make into clusters, around much just so it would look realistic. Also the journaling. Sometimes I already wrote one and then I edit it a couple of times just so it wouldn't look like I was drunk or something

[dinahfig]

I usually have a hard time finding a template I like. I try to cram as many photos in there as I can usually. So it is hard to find two page templates that have the photo spots in the orientation needed. lol! I tend to take photos in landscape rather than portrait and a lot of the time, I cannot crop them to be portrait oriented.

I also have a lot of trouble with titles. I always feel like they should have clusters or something around them.

[bcgal00]

For me it's brushwork and paint/splats/overlays. I will keep moving them around, keep changing the color and then the blend modes. I can just keep going and going, and then finally have to tell myself "enough"...just save it and be done.

[bcgal00]

I just thought of one more thing I obsess about....resizing. I can't tell you how many times I use CTRL + T when creating a page.

[Kjersti]

Background and title! They take soooo long.

[fifilur]

Originally Posted by emmasmommy

haha! 95% of the time I don't even HAVE a title


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Me neither!

[rach3975]

For me it's the getting started stuff. Choosing which photo(s) and the template, the kit if it's not a CT page. After I finally make all those decisions, the rest of the layout comes together quickly. (But I'll admit that to me "quickly" means 2+ hours.)

[icindi]

Papers here, too. Especially if a template has a lot of them - I tend to try one after another on all those layers!

[Sweeet]

Papers for me too, I find myself wanting to use ALL of 'em when I know darned well I can't....drives me insane!!

[Nettio]

Papers are my fave. Clustering on the other hand drives me nuts.

But what I really obsessed over is templates. Everyone says they're faster but I swear it takes me three times as long because I'm trying to blend the designer's style with my own. This is also why I don't design templates anymore.

[NellahBean]

Oh my heavens! Definitely background papers and titles for me as well! I do not like coming up with titles, so I LOVE it when our designers include big word art I can use. I will look at the word art and then pick pictures to use for the kit based solely on the word art sometimes. LOL.

[jak]

Originally Posted by Nettio

But what I really obsessed over is templates. Everyone says they're faster but I swear it takes me three times as long because I'm trying to blend the designer's style with my own. This is also why I don't design templates anymore.

And this is why I rarely use templates! If I do, I often strip nearly all the elements and some paper strips/blocks, etc out of them!

[mrsashbaugh]

Papers are what get me all the time...I love layers but the deciding on what papers to use for all those layers gets me all the time!

[icindi]

I'm glad to hear others struggle with all those paper layers. Your layouts are beautiful and you make it look so effortless!

[GraceLee]

After my layout comes together, I spend a lot of time playing with each shadow.

[Tronesia]

Originally Posted by YepBrook

The title always gets me!!! So, I usually skip it or use word art.

I also do a lot of switching papers around.

This is me.

I started skipping the title when it just became more annoying to think of one. I love when there's some word art, word strip or a journal card that can take its place.

[anelia]

Originally Posted by Nettio

But what I really obsessed over is templates. Everyone says they're faster but I swear it takes me three times as long...

THIS! Whatsmore, I just can't take a template, open it, fill in all the "blanks" and call a page my own.
Sometimes, however, there's those elaborate templates which I really LOVE because they save so much time but even then, I twist them a bit

[Gemma]

Probably background paper for me too. I start off with a nice neutral one then swap it for all the patterned ones until I find one which fits! It can take a while sometimes