Anyone else scrapbook?

[OCLittleFlower]

Well, do ya fishies?

Personally I'm so (as in over a year) behind on printing out pictures and actually getting the scrapbooking done -- I've been mostly a card maker for the last year or so.  I need to fix that.  Heck, I still need to take the after pictures of our house.  As in, after paint, carpet, our stuff -- as in I've had since August to do this.  Yipes.

Anyway -- encouragement and inspiration, anyone?  Even demands for me to do some layouts to photograph for yall?   

[Spooky]

I love the idea of scrapbooking. I buy papers and books and stencils and markers and just love all that stuff. But when it comes down to actually doing anything, I get all Ms. Perfectionist and afraid of making a "mistake".

[OCLittleFlower]

Do what I do with the first draft of a novel -- tell yourself that no one will see it.  Then, if you like what you've done, you're free to change your mind (or, in the case of the novel, after you fix it lol).  Another trick is to not worry about centering things.  Off center on purpose = cool.  Just barely off center = you messed up. 

There's also the fact that it's a form of self-expression.  It isn't like there's one right and holy way to scrapbook -- play around, enjoy the process.  There is no "scrap police" about to jump out of the closet and send you to jail. 

Everything is a process.  No one cooks a Julia Child-worthy masterpiece on their first try -- you get to be a better cook as you learn and play around with it and take what you learn and apply it to the next thing.  Everyone was a beginner once.  Even Peggy Fleming fell learning how to skate backwards -- as my coach used to point out.

[Melanie01]

I love the idea of scrapbooking. I buy papers and books and stencils and markers and just love all that stuff. But when it comes down to actually doing anything, I get all Ms. Perfectionist and afraid of making a "mistake".

That sounds so ME.....I find journalling hard......to overwrite that white page!!!

[Joamy]

I love the idea of scrapbooking. I buy papers and books and stencils and markers and just love all that stuff. But when it comes down to actually doing anything, I get all Ms. Perfectionist and afraid of making a "mistake".

That sounds so ME.....I find journalling hard......to overwrite that white page!!!

That would be me, too.  I love the idea of a lot of things, but the reality scares me.

[jen51]

Well, do ya fishies?

Personally I'm so (as in over a year) behind on printing out pictures and actually getting the scrapbooking done -- I've been mostly a card maker for the last year or so.  I need to fix that.  Heck, I still need to take the after pictures of our house.  As in, after paint, carpet, our stuff -- as in I've had since August to do this.  Yipes.

Anyway -- encouragement and inspiration, anyone?  Even demands for me to do some layouts to photograph for yall?   

Yeah! Let's see some layouts! Pics?

I would really like to start scrapbooking. I have a ridiculosly hard time sitting down to to crafty stuff, but once I do I pleasently suprise myself, and I have a lot of fun. Joamy, perhaps this is the same for you?

Perhaps my first page should be my confirmation day! My mom got a lot of good pics of that.

[Joamy]

Yeah, it is.  I have to say -I like card making better than scrapbooks.  I don't have a lot of pics and stuff for the  scrapbook type thing. 

[OCLittleFlower]

I will post some pics tomorrow -- I need day light to get true to color shots. 

[Serva_Ancillae]

I made a card for DH for our fourth anniversary coming up on Saturday. With a lot of help from the assistant (owner) at the papercraft store. That's about the extent of my experience. Another perfectionist over here <--- But it also takes money. And sometimes the results seem rather cheesy, although I'm getting more mushy in my old age

[JoniCath]

I love the idea of scrapbooking. I buy papers and books and stencils and markers and just love all that stuff. But when it comes down to actually doing anything, I get all Ms. Perfectionist and afraid of making a "mistake".

After I closed my store, (I retired from that early), I went to work for MIchaels Arts & Crafts as their florist. They have a large scrapbooking dept. & it looked like it could be so fun, but it also looked EXPENSIVE. Is it?