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I've scrapped about everything already!

HavaDrPepper said:
@mcurtt Those are the types of projects that are fun to look back on. 14 years ago I started doing "A Week In My Life", taking at least one photo a day. I used the same template and kit for each layout, included a stamp of the monthly calendar and titled for the week. I did it for 18 months. On my way to work I would go by a gas station so I would try to get a photo of the gas prices at least once a week. I may not have included it every week depending on what else I had but it is interesting even now to go back and look at what my life was like during that time.

I've also done the DYD the last 5 years even though my life doesn't include a lot of Christmas activities (not a fan of the holiday anymore for multiple reasons). Plan on doing it again this year. I tend to do a lot of jigsaw puzzles during that month and those end up being quite a few pages. But again, it is fun to look at... especially the year we had zero temps for multiple days around Christmas.
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I can never keep up with a photo a day for some reason but I have recently been taking a photo inspiration kind of workshop so I've been shooting different things every week (one project a week) which give me plenty of photos to scrap. I just needed something to get me off my butt and out shooting stuff. There are similar ideas online, like: https://www.techradar.com/how-to/52...great-technique-to-try-every-week-of-the-year

I also tend to be a project life weekly scrapper so if I don't have great photos for a week, I'll scrap about the news. There's always new news! :lol
 
Well, I have never felt like I didn't have anything to scrap, but I certainly have less of the kinds of things I scrapped when I was a busy mom of 3 young homeschooling kids. I'm still doing things of my own though and also like to scrap about my thoughts, feelings, and ideas.

I'm going to look through my journal and see if I can give you some general, possibly inspiring ideas. Things I scrapped about in 2021 include:
grocery shopping
longing for warmer, brighter days (it was February)
clothes my Mom made for my children (with old photos of them)
my meals -- that's actually something I've gotten tired of and I've stopped doing!
the collapsing house about half a mile from my own house, abandoned over a decade, I walked there and took some pictures
ten year old photos that contained dishes I had; I journaled about how many of them I still have, and how times change
my thoughts about my job and the education system
quotes and lyrics I love
my podcasts
my music playlists (these change and I've done these a few times)
my workspace (also can be done repeatedly over various years)
several times, I've made layouts on which I place photos of my kids at the same age (like, "My Babies at Age 2")
every year I make a gratitude list
games
art journal with a bunch of word art because I love words
favorite recipes
my thoughts on current events and politics
trying out new techniques in photography or scrapping
humor (cartoons, bad photos that were funny, silly things people say, etc)
 
I do find that new photos give me so much more inspiration.
So I would suggest a walk around outside - your neighbourhood, places you love.
Things that spark joy for you.
 
My problem is that I have not been taking pictures very much for the last few years, and I have scrapped all the really good ones from the past. I have to take more pictures or find other old pictures to scrap. I have the mojo but no pictures I really want to scrap!

I tried doing picture swaps with friends, and I'm just not as motivated or creative with other people's pictures!
 
Pachimac said:
I'm just not as motivated or creative with other people's pictures!
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The only photos I like to scrap that aren't mine belong to close family and since they are from FB, the story of the photos is there as well. But otherwise I also don't get motivated to scrap with other's photos and I don't like using stock photos.
 
tanteva said:
Think I've figured it out - start a thread whining about having no mojo ... and ... SWOOOOSH! - You've made 3 layouts.
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:rofl You are a hoot!! I've loved reading through this thread so I'm glad you started it. I don't have anything new to contribute...I'm like Cindy (cinderella) this is one of my creative outlets. I just need a good kit and the page comes together....but that's not really scrapbooking, it's just creating. And then, I am also like Stephanie...just getting out and about (or placing pumpkins outdoors) provides inspiration.
 
tanteva said:
start a thread whining about having no mojo ... and ... SWOOOOSH! - You've made 3 layouts.
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LOL!! Well done, @tanteva

Like @Pachimac and @HavaDrPepper, I don't feel motivated to scrap with other people's photos, I just don't feel the spark of inspiration.

I do love to scrap photos of my little nephews, but that's family. (And at 8 and 10 years of age, I guess they're not so little anymore: soon enough, they'll be in that tween/teen phase where they're mortified to have their picture taken by their scrap-happy aunt, even as they obsessively post selfies to snapchat...!)
 
This is why I love art journaling and I why you often see me scrap the same photo more than once. (And I do a lot of dog layouts.) It's just me and my dh and our fur babies. We were never able to have children, so I don't have any kid photos to scrap. I just use whatever photo I want, even if I've used it before, or no photo at all. Whatever I want to do when the creative muse strikes.
 
Pachimac said:
I tried doing picture swaps with friends, and I'm just not as motivated or creative with other people's pictures!
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Although I haven't done a lot of photo swaps, in many ways I feel more creative with them... different people, places, experiences makes me think in new ways. It also narrows my focus; I just think about the small group of photos I'm scrapping, and don't worry about larger context (my weekly pages, a certain palette I'm using for a vacation album, etc.).
 
Here are a few random projects that might spark ideas for you.

"peak experiences" album - in process - an album of some of the most profound moments of my life. Some of them are obvious like wedding day, graduation. Others are less obvious, such as the feeling of hot sun on my face the first time I climbed into an open-topped jeep on safari, fulfilling a dream. The moment I decided that a career change was absolutely the right thing for me. The day we made our last mortgage payment and became debt-free. The time I woke up at 3:00am and realized that a bandaid had changed my life. Holding a human heart in my hand, with my anatomy lab partners circled around me in a safe hug as I cried over the death of my father.

"Precious things" album - in process, mostly finished - some of the normal things around our home, and why they're important in my life, irrespective of their monetary value. A glass bowl from my grandmother for microwave cooking when I moved out on my own. A piece of Christmas artwork my other grandmother made with pieces of inexpensive costume jewelry. A handful of rocks from places around the world that are special to me. My mom's crystal. A couple of my dad's funny hats. My first official business card, making me feel like an adult.

"Where in the world" I haven't started this one as I haven't collected all the pictures into the right places yet, but I'm planning it. One page for every country I've visited.

Our family language. We have abbreviations, slang, nicknames, and ways of speaking that are unique to our family.

Struggles - in process, no specific ending planned, pages as needed - The vast majority of my layouts are about happy things, or at least put a positive spin on how I made it through struggles to come out on the other side. However, I also have pages from some of the most difficult times in my life, that aren't filtered and don't have the happy ending. Some are paper. Some are digital. Very few are public. They were worth doing for me to process / emote.
 
I have a big folder on my EHD of "To Be Scrapped" photos that I can peruse whenever I feel like scrapping. That way, I know I won't leave anything unscrapped or (accidentally) scrap anything twice.

I also have a good old-fashioned paper list that I keep close to my work computer so I can jot down any ideas that come to mind for pages I want to do that may or may not have photos to go with them. Similarly, I sometimes scroll through my Google Photos to see if a photo (especially one that is just a random moment) sparks an idea for a page.

If all those ideas fail, I will sometimes do something scrap-adjacent while I'm thinking over what I want to scrap like place all my photos for an event in a template or match up my "To Be Scrapped" photos and "To Be Used" kits.
 
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