Establishing Your Own Enough

This honestly guts me. Because if we really asked ourselves that, I think a lot of us would face some tough answers. Or maybe it's just me. I love using PS to scrapbook! It's my therapy and one creative outlet. It's SO hard right now to get/make that time though. :( My husband knows I need it so that helps but gosh...time keeps getting taken for other (kid) things.

I used to be the scrapper that could make 5+ layouts a week. I used to make one a day and now it takes me so long that I can only make 1-2/week. I look up to those that have managed to keep that number because that's their creative time & memory keeping!
 
Great post, and so true! I've finally found my "enough" this year after struggling with it the last few years. I was spending too much time getting too few pages into our albums, and none of my attempts to simplify and speed up helped at all. It started sucking some of the joy out of scrapping for me. Now I'm using a combination of traditional digiscrapping for my best photos and stories and a scrapping app on my tablet for pages that I just want to get done. I'm finally feeling like I've found my scrapping sweet spot. I can spend lots of time and use the fantastic SSD kits and supplies for the pages that are most meaningful, and I can get everything else into albums quickly so I don't get overwhelmed and end up doing nothing!
 
rach3975 said:
Great post, and so true! I've finally found my "enough" this year after struggling with it the last few years. I was spending too much time getting too few pages into our albums, and none of my attempts to simplify and speed up helped at all. It started sucking some of the joy out of scrapping for me. Now I'm using a combination of traditional digiscrapping for my best photos and stories and a scrapping app on my tablet for pages that I just want to get done. I'm finally feeling like I've found my scrapping sweet spot. I can spend lots of time and use the fantastic SSD kits and supplies for the pages that are most meaningful, and I can get everything else into albums quickly so I don't get overwhelmed and end up doing nothing!
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I've wondered about this. I use the PL app for my day to day photos. BUT I put them in their own album. Do you have all of those pages in the same album(s)? And do the differences in the pages bug you or is the happiness of having them done & printed more than enough? I've been tempted to mix all of my pages (no matter the style) together into 1 album.
 
Yep! I get this! Aly is so smart!!! LOL

Scrapbooking is a FUN hobby and creative outlet for me, no guilt here to scrap allll the pictures and use allll the kits I buy. I decided that years ago when I realized I was in a totally different place in life than I was when I first started scrapping. I now use a combo of 'easy' non-creative ways to capture our memories and stories (like a regular ol' journal and pen, and automatic monthly chatbooks that pull from my Instagram) and a fun dose of traditional layout scrapbooking.
 
Honestly, when I started doing PL for our everyday moments, mixing in digital layouts as inserts, that was my "enough". I really loved doing that, but in order to do that, I had to quit almost all of my creative teams. When there are new goodies every. single. week. I want to scrap with ALL OF THE GOODIES.

My struggle is not with the style as much as I struggle with WANTING to use new products; I love all the things so much, but I don't have enough pictures to scrap in order to use all the things. And since Ariana cut her hair off last spring, even the pictures I do take don't really inspire me. So pocket scrapping would be enough for me, if only I didn't love making digital layouts and using digital supplies!
 
This article resonated powerfully with me. I find myself often asking "what is enough?" when it comes to readying albums for printing. For example, 2015's family album has 150 pages... have I genuinely captured all of the memories that I want to? What if I think of something else after it's already printed on my bookshelf at home? And then I overthink and don't print, when really that's what needs to happen to provide closure and move on with documenting life!
 
britaneejean said:
I've wondered about this. I use the PL app for my day to day photos. BUT I put them in their own album. Do you have all of those pages in the same album(s)? And do the differences in the pages bug you or is the happiness of having them done & printed more than enough? I've been tempted to mix all of my pages (no matter the style) together into 1 album.
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I keep them all together and arranged by month (first all the PL pages for the month, then all the digi pages. I would like to arrange by week, but it's too hard to always have an even number of digi layouts so the 2 page PL spreads stay on facing pages). The way I see it, both types of pages tell the story of our lives, and that story is more complete with both types mixed.

To my family they're all just scrapbook pages; we scrappers are the only ones who see them as different. To help them flow, I've been pulling my app pages into PS and adding Traci's stitched grids and a few embellishments to each one. I like the look, but I may let it go and embrace the flat look for 2017 to save time. We'll see.



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This article is interesting to me as well. I've realized in the last 2 years probably that I need to scrapbook for me and what works for me. When I finally found ssd and started following the designers here it seemed that my goal was to be "good enough" to finally get on a creative team. I was a sahm at the time and I had time to concentrate on the craft and I did finally get "good enough" to make some teams. After a while I realized that I wasn't really cut out for teams because I want to scrap what I want, not what I need to scrap to fit a kit or template for someone. I eventually quit all my teams, but I'm still not as prolific as I would like. I've gone to a PL style because when I look through my albums, what's important are the pictures. I still embellish and would save lots of time if I didn't but I enjoy that and feel like my pages feel empty if I don't. I don't post as much to the gallery even though it is fun to see comments because it takes time and it seems there are much fewer people participating in the galleries.

I recently went through and purged a bunch of stuff. It's a bit liberating to get rid of something you know you won't use. I finally let go of some old kits that were cute at the time, but that I know I wouldn't use now. I'm also doing a few different things with my templates to try to help my workflow. I prefer using 2 page templates so I'm going through on a lot of the mix and match type templates and saving them as 2 pagers with the number of photo spots. I'm hoping this will help my productivity and keep me scrapping. Once I get going on a layout, I'm fine, but finding the template to go with the pictures is a pain for me. I'm hoping this new method will help and will allow me to find my "enough."
 
Such a great article! I think since I started doing pocket pages for the random moments, but traditional digi pages for the big stuff, I'm happier, I'm not forgetting as much & I'm actually scrapping more, because I don't feel that burden to create a page for every photo. I also use my phone more, even if the pics aren't perfect, it's real.


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kristalund said:
loved this...my "enough" is just to keep taking photos and scrapbooking when i can.
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This, this, this!!! Sorry for sounding so excited, but this is completely how I feel. I figure that something is better than nothing and if I start to feel pressured then it will no longer come from the heart. So if layouts happen, they happen. If they don't, they don't. It's better than nothing for my family and at least I know that when I do scrap, it involves my entire heart and soul.
 
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