My biggest scrap-peeve

[AmaG]

I can't seem to ever accept a layout as done. I'll love it one day and hate it the next and I'm always thinking about how I can perfect THAT page so I never move on. Does anyone else have this issue? What do you do about it?

Of course, it could also be scrap-envy when I see how great other people's work looks!

 

[lorryfach]

I used to do this but I gave myself a new mantra. We do this to preserve memories, not achieve perfection. It's more important to have all the memories scrapped than to have them scrapped perfectly. If you look at an old LO and think, "I wish I had..." then just remember that for next time. Your LOs will get better and better and you'll stop the madness, AND you'll have a pile of LOs behind you. Maybe not perfect ones but they still captured those moments!

 

[nun69]

my biggest problem is I just seem to keep adding and adding and adding and so I am never done, but once I START a L:O, I FINISH It!!!! on very rare occasion do I not finish what I start in 1 sitting. This helps me to get it done and not think about it

 

[Sherly]

I used to do this but I gave myself a new mantra. We do this to preserve memories, not achieve perfection. It's more important to have all the memories scrapped than to have them scrapped perfectly. If you look at an old LO and think, "I wish I had..." then just remember that for next time. Your LOs will get better and better and you'll stop the madness, AND you'll have a pile of LOs behind you. Maybe not perfect ones but they still captured those moments!

What Lorry said is perfect!!

 

[scrapweaver]

I used to do this but I gave myself a new mantra. We do this to preserve memories, not achieve perfection. It's more important to have all the memories scrapped than to have them scrapped perfectly. If you look at an old LO and think, "I wish I had..." then just remember that for next time. Your LOs will get better and better and you'll stop the madness, AND you'll have a pile of LOs behind you. Maybe not perfect ones but they still captured those moments!

Exactly! I also used to be worried about putting my LO's online, because they 'werent as good as everyone elses'. I dont know what happend, but I kinda realised that my kids and grandkids would not care if the pages were not 'perfect'.

I coudnt have said it better than Lorry:
"We do this to preserve memories, not achieve perfection" . .
I think this is a 'scrap-worthy' quote!!!

 

[Lindsay]

Practice definitely helps and theres nothing that says you can't return to a story. I've rescrapped pictures years later when I have new perspective on the subject, do then & now layouts, or just because the picture is that significant to me. I have plenty of layouts that make me cringe but nice to see my growth.

 

[AmaG]

Thank you. Great advice. I love Lindsay's idea of then and now pages. I'm going to try to keep all of this in mind!

 

[ChristyHC]

Ahh, this so use to be me. I wrote about it in my printing post for Kristin. However, once I got over it I feel so much better. I had to accept that the pages were a part of the journey or memory keeping as much as the pictures.

 

[lorigaud]

Perfect advice from Lorry and Christy... this is exactly how I've avoided being too critical of my pages these days. When I look back at my old LO's from when I first started, I still cringe a little though... LOL!

 

[marlathrall]

I sometimes get all my papers and elements placed and then stall out for a day or two until I decide to finish the journaling and title work. It drives me nuts and I've tried to stop doing that.

 

[Jengerbread88]

Every time I look through photobooks I already have printed, I have two thoughts.

1) I should never ever ever get an album printed again, because my style changes so drastically and I improve so much year-to-year that the older books look so outdated (and even some of my newer ones are getting that way because I grow and learn so much). It's a cringefest every time.

2) I need to print MORE photobooks. Just as I grow, and my son grows, and our life changes and improves and things go through stages, so does my style and my scrapping. I'd rather have outdated, but tangible, hold-in-my-hand albums, than a bunch of albums on a hard drive that no one ever sees because I worry they aren't good enough.

Do I want to go back and re-do them? Heck yes. Are some of them embarrassing? Oh, totally. I have an album from before I discovered drop shadowing, and I kind of want to cry over it. But they tell a story, and I had to eventually get past hiding them from the world and instead display them proudly on side tables.

I think it's a problem a lot of us experience. I look at my pages and think "I wish I would have embellished here... or added x title here... or done this... or dated that..." but I learn from it and just try to make sure I work harder on the newer albums.

It's a process.