I had a comment the other day about how to get inspired to get back into scrapbooking. Now its been a long time since I had been scrapbooking… a few years to be precise. I must say, I’m only dabbling in it a little again. What actually started me back at it was a few articles I needed to write for Craft Critique. The companies that I was reveiwing, both were mainly scrapbooking companies and so, to be fair … I needed to try out a few layouts. I had a fabulous time with it again but I must say, my designing is going to remain predominantly card design and altered items. If this is what you are coming to see, don’t worry!
The biggest drawback I have with scrapbooking is time. Layouts DO take more time that cards. That’s a fact. The other thing is the thought that each page has to be perfect. It doesn’t. Just like life is a journey so is scrapbooking and designing…it all changes so don’t get caught up in that frame of mind. So…what inspires me to get started again…here is a short list…
- take photos or get out some great older ones
- go with a smaller format if 12×12 intimidates you – just bought some adorable Cosmo Cricket 8×8 that is absolutely darling and my fingers are itching to get to it, 6×6 is another great size…pages go together quickly and you can use one photo on a layout
- buy a scrapbooking kit … there are so many cool ones out there – they make it sooo easy to coordinate and take some of the stress off of you finding things to match
- buy or borrow a scrapbooking magazine…they are FULL of cool ideas
- take a scrapbooking challenge – they are always a great place to jump off from and there are lots of them on-line (I don’t have any links off-hand. Sorry! I do know that Splitcoaststampers has a scrapbook forum with challenges as well as Two Peas in a Bucket If you know of other linkes to challenges…be sure to share them in the comments and I’ll edit them in to this post.)
- buy plastic layout keepers – put paper, embellishments and photos together for a layout and then create it when you have the time
- journaling can be intimidating – hide it if you like behind an element or just keep it short and simple…whatever works best for you
- just get started – procrastination isn’t helping! Once you get at it, you’ll keep going
- just have some fun – every layout is NOT going to be perfect so just enjoy the process 🙂
I hope this helps! A lot of these tips work well for card designing and other papercraft projects also. I’m just home from the cottage last night so I’m anxious to get organized and get back to designing. Check back in later…I’ll be sure to have something to share with you. 🙂
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