The Odds Are Against You

So you’ve started a couple scrapbooking projects a while back and right now, you’re out looking for layout ideas so you can jumpstart your creativity and get back to those projects. First, I’ll give you 3 main reasons why you won’t complete your scrapbook projects. Then I’ll explain how you can overcome these huge obstacles painlessly to help you love scrapbooking again.

1. You’re Just Too Busy

Scrapbooking is a lot of fun! When you don’t have kids screaming, laundry piling up, mouths to feed, and don’t forget the job! Right now, you probably think that in order to get any real progress made on a scrapping project, you need a big chunk of time where you can sit down, uninterrupted, and work on just that. Like there is such a thing… You’re just too busy! Later, I’ll tell you why you don’t need huge blocks of time to finish a scrapbook.

2. Scrapper’s Block

The second reason why you never finish a scrapbook is because you run out of layouts and design ideas. You may have already run out of layouts and design ideas. That’s how you found this site in the first place! Let me tell you from experience, it doesn’t matter how creative you are, everyone experiences scrapper’s block. It’s okay. You just need some assistance jumpstarting your creativity.

3. It takes too long

The third reason why you don’t finish a scrapbooking project is because it takes a very long time to complete. So let’s say you have 20 pages in your book and you’re trying to fill them all. If it takes you 2 hours to do a page, it’ll take you 40 hours to get the whole book filled. 40 Hours?! But I have a job! I have kids! I have to run errands, clean the house, and make dinner! I don’t have 40 hours to spare!

Don’t quit just yet!

So you agree with me now. You’ll never complete your scrapbook. WRONG! All you need is some encouragement and some really superb scrapbooking layout ideas. Really good scrappers (the kind that do it for a living and pretty much always complete their projects) use what are called sketches. A sketch is like having a scrapbook pattern. It’s a drawing of a scrapbook page with placements allocated for pictures, trim, embellishments, titles, journal sections, and so on. The best sketches can be used several times in the same scrapbook without anyone ever noticing that it’s the same layout, just with different paper, colors, trim, and other embellishments.

Maximize your time

Scrapbook sketches help you to get the most out of the little time that you have. You don’t have to waste your time pushing around paper trying to find the best layout. Just choose your pictures and embellishments, pick a layout, and set your page according to the drawing. You could cut your time by up to 75% just by using the sketches! So now instead of 2 hours per page, you’re spending 30 minutes!

No more scrapper’s block!

When you use scrapbooking sketches to design your scrapbooks, you don’t have to worry about coming up with a new design every time you start a new page. I used to spend most of my time staring at a blank page trying to get ideas to come to me. I don’t have that problem anymore. I can sort my pictures ahead of time and when I get a free moment, I open up an ebook I bought called 500 Scrapbooking Sketches. The book is sorted by number of pictures. So if I have 3 pictures in my set, I just go to the section of the book that contains layout sketches for 3 pictures. I usually don’t spend very much time staring at them. They’re just black and white drawings. Until you put them together with pretty paper, stickers, rub-ons, titles, and of course, the pictures, they’re not much to look at. But once you get it all together, it just comes to life! The pages look very professional.

You don’t have to have huge chunks of time

When you’re using a sketch, you don’t need to do the whole page in the same block of time. When I choose a sketch, I just leave it up on my computer screen. Then I can come and go frequently. As long as I have the sketch to go off of, I can’t lose my place or my train of thought. It’s very easy to leave the room, go run an errand, come back, and pick up right where you left off.

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