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FarrahJobling

FarrahJobling

FarrahJobling
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How do you get ideas for LO's?

My main method of coming up with ideas for layouts is to scraplift or get inspiration from browsing the galleries and pinterest...am I alone? LOL How do you come up with ideas?
 
I just start out with a kit and then see what's in it... If I really love the papers I'll end up using multiple papers on there, and then just add elements as I go. I also sometimes change it up when I'm working on it, so although I started with a paper stack of 4 papers, I might end up using only 1. It all depends on the kit, where it takes me :)

ETA: I do also on occasion do scraplifts and templates too!
 
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I rarely have a plan when I start a page. A lot of the time I'm doing CT layouts, and so I have a specific kit or product to work with, then I'll just start opening things and playing. I pretty much put all of my fave papers from a kit down for the background (stacked up), and then throw all the ellies on there and then arrange. Finally find a pic that will go! At the end I go through my papers that I put down and decide which I like best :)
 
I think what sells a kit more for me is not necessarily seeing the papers and elements, but seeing potential uses...so I usually buy a kit based on the example LOs.
 
The challenges here have been inspiring me lately! I'm really pleased with the layouts i've been creating!

I love to browse the gallery too, and a good template is always a good start for me, even if I end up modifying it
 
VickyD said:
The challenges here have been inspiring me lately! I'm really pleased with the layouts i've been creating!

I love to browse the gallery too, and a good template is always a good start for me, even if I end up modifying it
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ITA! I am determined to participate in every challenge this month and it's been good to get me thinking =)
 
I keep a list of stories/ideas I want to tell.. and when just the right kit is released it inspires me to tell THAT story. I like to browse the galleries for L/O ideas too.
 
I used to just scrap a kit for a designer...creative team member. Then I stopped doing that due to life. lol
Now, I have a lists of memories I want to scrap for the year. LIke this:
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if you look at the bottom of the pic, it says 6/11 Water Park highlited in orange, that means I finished that memory (photos). The school lunch is not highlited, but I took the inspiration challenge from the January (big 7) Challenge here at the LIly Pad and made this layout:

When a challenge is made (like the 31 days here at TLP) I go thru my photos and think about which one would work for that challenge!
I do a book for each year, have 7 children and my camera with me always...so I once a month write out a 3x5 card!
I only do Jan thru NOv in the book, then a Christmas book. They go to the printer the 31st of Jan! lol (fingers crossed) lol
 
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I really love challenges for inspiration. I find that challenges often take me in scrapping directions I would have never gone if I hadn't done the challenge. I also use the occaissional template or scraplift (I just love browsing through the gallery here). I keep a list of stories I want to tell and I have a lot of pages that are product driven because of creative team work. I guess I just take inspiration from where I can. I scrap almost a page a day on a regular basis so I'm really, really, digging the month of challenges. They are really getting my creative juices flowing in a month that is usually a scrapping low point for me.
 
WOW! That is impressive! I have a sort of similar system...on a much smaller scale. I'm nearly complete with my 2012 album..which is Jan-Dec...but I also do 25 days of Christmas photos and made a separate book for those...even though I have a page for Christmas in my year album, but that's the more snapshot type pics.

I made a list and just do whatever I want...but getting down to the last of the LOs is harder...LOL

and also...7 kids- AWESOME and ummm...WOW. ;)

AnneofAlamo said:
I used to just scrap a kit for a designer...creative team member. Then I stopped doing that due to life. lol
Now, I have a lists of memories I want to scrap for the year. LIke this:
IMG_9445.jpg

if you look at the bottom of the pic, it says 6/11 Water Park highlited in orange, that means I finished that memory (photos). The school lunch is not highlited, but I took the inspiration challenge from the January (big 7) Challenge here at the LIly Pad and made this layout:

When a challenge is made (like the 31 days here at TLP) I go thru my photos and think about which one would work for that challenge!
I do a book for each year, have 7 children and my camera with me always...so I once a month write out a 3x5 card!
I only do Jan thru NOv in the book, then a Christmas book. They go to the printer the 31st of Jan! lol (fingers crossed) lol
Click to expand...
 
I'm also adding the PL this year and putting them into my regular album inbetween the full LOs...but my goal for this year is to document regular everyday moments.
 
since I do most of my scrapping as my creative team work I just stare at what I've been given until an idea comes to me. about 4 out of 5 times I can make whatever it is work for something recent that I want to scrap. sometimes I just open the papers I like the most, and a handful of elements I like the most then I just go and stare at my recent photos until I find someway to make them work together.
 
I've gone through so many phases of how I come up with ideas for pages, lol!

when I was on a lot of CTs, I scrapped what went with the kits that were out.

eventually i figured out that being on a lot of CTs wasn't for me and my schedule, as I was not getting the things scrapped that I needed/wanted to...

so now I pick the photos first (I generally try to work chronologicaly), edit them and all in Lightroom, then open them up onto a blank, brand-spankin' new 12x12 canvas in Photoshop :) then I look through kits I have (or more often, stuff in the SHOP!) and pick out stuff that works for the photos I want to get done.

It totally works - as I reward myself with a little purchase and I stay on track with what I want to scrap.

Now...if there were just more hours in the day!
 
I have a P365 blog, which is mainly for my out of state family members, but I post a photo every day with a little journaling about what happened, that way I won't forget and when I have a new kit I have tons of choices of what to scrap! Sometimes I make a list, but I almost never remember where I put it, lol!!

When I get a kit, I open it and pull all the papers I love into one canvas with the pictures and then I open the elements. As I'm dragging over stuff I love, I usually get the idea in my head what I want to scrap, but if I'm stuck then I love to look at Pinterest.
 
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