Ever feel like this....

[ashleywb]

What a great thread. Diane, I feel like that all the time. I mean the level of talent here is AMAZING! But like so many of you have said what really keeps me scrapping is that I want to tell my family's stories. My kids love looking at our albums and so do I - there are so many fun little moments that I probably wouldn't remember had I not scrapped them. That's what it's all about for me.

There are definitely times that I look at the gallery and feel completely inferior. But - that is coming from someplace inside me. Funny how we do that to ourselves. I hate that my tendency is sometimes to compare so instead I think about how incredibly grateful I am to have found a community like TLP. So encouraging and positive - I have grown so much as a scrapper through my exposure to all of you amazing artists - whether learning new techniques, being challenged to try something outside my comfort zone, or just being inspired by a beautiful layout in the gallery.

 

[Dalis]

Sometimes when I finish a layout I think, "Wow, Diane you really did a nice job on this one!" THEN I look through the gallery at all the beautiful layouts and I think "Man, you just don't measure up, girl." Sounds like I need to do some art journaling, huh? Just wondering, am I the only one who thinks like that?

Yep, sounds like you need to AJ! I will take any excuse to make you AJ, I love your AJ pages!! (And regular ones)

 

[dvhoward]

Yep, sounds like you need to AJ! I will take any excuse to make you AJ, I love your AJ pages!! (And regular ones)

Thanks, YOU have really helped my AJ-ing.

 

[cfile]

I say do what makes you happy.. learn from what you see but you will never be truly happy unless you do art your own way. Never try and do to measure up to anyone else. We are always our worst critics and what we may not like others think is exquisite.. Vice versa too !! I just do what makes me happy and that is really how I go with it Diane, I love your pages. They express you and that is the most important part of art

 

[Nemla]

I used to feel like that a lot, but I don't anymore.
I can still see when my pages are not as good as someone else, or if I was having a bad month and every challenge page looks as if I have spent 10 min on it, when It has actually taken me something like 2 hours a page, but in all seriousness ,usually if it is a page I am super happy about, I will still love it whatever comparisons I make against it.
I have mostly stopped comparing, I do what I do because I like it ,or because I am experimenting, and that is what makes it fun and exciting.
The minute it becomes a chore or a competition where "performance " is everything I will quit.
Luckily the Lilypad is a fab place, where everyone does their own thing ,in the good company of each other, with the encouragement of each other ,and also the help of one another. So "onward and upward " .