Who else struggles...

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Megan Turnidge

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...scrapping pics of you and your sweetie? I am pretty much up-to-date with scrapping pics of dd, so now I'm trying to scrap pics of DH and I when we were dating and from before DD... but I AGONIZE over these LOs!!! I just don't feel inspired. It's depressing. It's also hard becuase the pics were taken with an old camera and aren't nearly as good as pics my new camera takes... so that makes it even worse when I'm trying to scrap small, grainy photos!! :(
 
I know I do, but not because of pic quality. I'm just so much more inspired by my kiddos. But I scanned in some pics of my baby from 4 years ago that were taken with a throw away camera and I scrapped those last night. The pics were terrible...but the feeling was there. :)
 
For me, those types of photos (smaller, poorer quality) = white space layouts! Those pages are as WOW! to me as any of the Cindy-type pages...just completely different style...and can still tell a beautiful story!

Peppermint is one of my FAVORITE white space artists.
 
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Well, I guess I could say I struggle with this, mainly because I can count on my fingers the number of photos we have of the two of us, not counting wedding shots, that is.
 
I struggle terribly.. I think I have done 2 or 3 pages of us and they were wedding pictures. Unfortunately we don't have many pictures together. Actually there are a lot of pictures of him and practically none of me because I'm always behind the camera. My sons are going to wonder what I looked like because there is no proof I existed in pictures *lol*
 
I have done a few of my husband and I together. Not a whole lot. I seem to scrap more of my daughter which I have been trying to even out a little but its hard when most of my pictures are of her and my boys dont ever let me photograph them
 
I've done a couple, but not many. I actually just recently did this one. It's my favorite of us:

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I scrap mostly pictures of dh and I, only because we don't have any kids yet, so we take a lot of pictures of us (at least when we are doing more than just homework). Luckily he doesn't mind trying a thousand times to get a good picture, and sometimes we just set up the camera timer.

What's been helping me get over "uh...what should I scrap" was to find a theme for my scrapping. I had a good friend give me some board books ;) so I wanted something to put in them, and came up with the idea to scrap our honeymoon adventures, and it's been really easy to come up with inspiration since then and my pages come together so quickly.

The only thing I can think of would be to set up a theme like "dating, engaged, married, with kid" so that it can go chronologically describing events or fun memories that you do and don't have pictures of. Or you could try to document some fun dates that you guys have gone on. Having things to document seems to make up not having the best picture as long as you journal. The journaling will be so much fun that it'll make up for the not-so-great picture.

Just a couple ideas.
 
I don't struggle with them...only because we don't have that many photos of us pre-marriage...I guess it was just back before there was digital and for some reason we didn't take many photos...I've scrapped our honeymoon and some of our wedding...don't have many of just me and him since DS was born either. I need to make a point to take more pics of just us lol
 
Sometimes when I want to scrap something special but the picture isn't wonderful, I just try to adjust it as best I can, but then go with the feeling the picture gives me --especially older pictures
 
I'm not inspired to scrap pics of me and DH, either. I'll include those in family LOs (on the RARE occasion we get a decent one) because I want them in my kids' books. But even if I one day catch up on scrapping photos of my kids, I don't think I'll ever go back and scrap our wedding or other pre-kids photos. I'm lucky because I started digiscrapping when DS1 was only a few months old, so I don't have stacks of older photos of my kids waiting to be scrapped. If I did, I think I'd have a hard time going back and scrapping most of those, too.
 
I don't actually struggle with scrapping us...just don't have a lot of photos. Almost any photo you see of me is one of my kids behind the camera. This is one of my favorite layouts with Landon as the photographer (when he was 6)...

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I've only done 1 page of the 2 of us. We don't have a lot of pics together since I'm usually the photographer. This one was taken at a friend's wedding reception, it's really the only time we get one of both of us:

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I have that problem because neither Dh or I like to be in the picture... and I am usually the photographer anyway. I have done a few of us together, but not many. usually the same photo over and over to tell a different story, lol

here's a couple of mine

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Although I'm scrapping pictures of my nephew, future nephews, & stepson more often now that Jeff & I are engaged (and because, frankly, kid photos are what get the most comments and what most scrappers & designers look for in CT LOs)... I *love* the various self portraits I've gotten of the two of us in the last year and a half. I try to scrap a layout of the two of us at least every other week.

Jeff has now become so accustomed to the self portraits and my photography in general that he is seriously discussing and debating purchasing a Canon Rebel so that he can learn how to take pictures, too! :wub:
 
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I struggle terribly.. I think I have done 2 or 3 pages of us and they were wedding pictures. Unfortunately we don't have many pictures together. Actually there are a lot of pictures of him and practically none of me because I'm always behind the camera. My sons are going to wonder what I looked like because there is no proof I existed in pictures *lol*
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:) me too!!!
 
I have 8 shoe boxes full of pics that I have scanned in - I agree they are soooo hard to scrap - back in the days of really bad pictures - All the baby pics of my teens are old school and it just seems they are so hard to scrap
 
I can count on one hand (heck probably half a hand) how many photos I have of DH and I together that aren't wedding photos. I haven't scanned any older photos in but there may be more from way back when tho I seriously doubt it since we both hate being in front of the camera so I have no idea if I struggle or not! LOL!
 
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