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[1grandma]

 I am very blessed in that I have a lot of time to scrap.  My problem is that I can't think of a lo idea on my own.  I need to look at mags, and galleries to get ideas, then I take ideas from about 3-4 lo and meld them into mine.  It doesn't usually look like any of the lo that I used, either.  In any event, I am not happy with my lack of individual style.

[lilkoala3]

 I love my layouts the way they are!  I know that sounds conceited, but it's true!  The one thing that I would change about my scrapbooking process, however, is that I wish I was FASTER!  Oh, and I wish I had more self-control when it comes to buying supplies.  Oh, who am I kidding?  If I really wanted to stop buying new supplies, I would. 

[Jeanne Marie's Scraps]

 Other than having more time to do it... I wish I could ust get past the..."I'll save that paper for another layout" stage.  I always feel like I'll have a better layout for my favorite paper that I can't bear to use.

Me tooo I have a hard time cutting my prettiest papers i guess thats why i like digi so much you can use the same papers over and over

[pawprints]

 I wish I had more time to scrap. I have so so many pages and ideas in my head that I want to scrap, and a huge stash of scrappy supplies for all of them (like the rest of you I am totally obsessed), but I am not one to just sit and knock a page out in an hour. I'm extremely fussy and it takes me a while to get a page exactly how I want it. I think better when I'm not rushed or under pressure, so I like to know I have an entire afternoon ahead of me to sit and scrap. So like many of you have said, I just never get that chance to get started. I am really hoping to get many of these pages that are in my head out there on paper! It's a yearning I have every day.

[Rici76]

 I would definitely like to get better at journaling as well as using more of the hot products out like Tim Holtz, masks and glimmer mist.

[Sus79]

 I would like to be better at doing journaling and getting the cluster-technique down to perfection

[beachlover]

 I need to add more depth to my LO's definitely!  they are so bland and boring, but I think I need to journal more; the problem Is I hate my writing, its scratchy and looks like an old lady's shaky skeleton.....  EEEEWWWWW!!!!! 

[mysunshine]

 I wish I could scrap much faster.  I went to a crop last night and only did 3 pages in 6 hours.

[jiffy]

 I also would like to scrap faster.    Yesterday I spent the entire afternoon mulling over one little page LO!   Can u believe it??   And I still haven't yet completed the page.    The ideas just are not coming ....    Also, I would like to choose co-ordinating papers, etc more easily.

[emarie803]

 I need to journal more.

[Tuesday]

 SCRAP MORE!!!!

[SusieKing]

 there are so many things i want to change about my style.  be faster, for one thing.  it takes me a whole day to do a single layout.  so that means i don't many done.

i also feel like all my layouts look the same.  i can look at them when i'm thru and see the same basic format/blueprint for all of them.  talk about being in a rut?!?  drives me crazy.

sometimes i wish i could do the clean, graphic style.  there is an art to that style that i envy.  if you really look at the published ones they have a lot going on without looking like it. 

and i'm also guilty of saving paper because i have this stupid theory that if i use it then it will be all gone and what will i do?  so instead i hoard and end up with a crazy room full of papers i hate to part with.  stupid!  lol.

[pawprints]

 i'm also guilty of saving paper because i have this stupid theory that if i use it then it will be all gone and what will i do?  so instead i hoard and end up with a crazy room full of papers i hate to part with.  stupid!  lol.

Not stupid at all! I totally get it! I always have to buy at least two of a pp, and if I have a paper that I really love, then I must buy more of it to be sure to never run out! It's an obsession!

[Sandi770]

 I want unique ideas FASTER!  It sometimes takes too long to come up with something really cool...

[TraciL]

 I would like to just do it - I haven't scrapped since I moved -

[bluetulip]

 I want to learn more about digital scrapbooking.  I could also use help with journaling.

[deerewife]

 For me it's the procrastination aspect.  I hate dragging everything out and then having to put it away.  I'm hoping a permanent space will solve that.

I'm a little like Leslie - I usually like what I do, maybe not always LOVE it, but I almost always like it.  Plus, I'm big on journaling at least the basics everytime.  But, I also don't have any of that info from my childhood.  Just stacks of pictures with no years, names, locations.  I want to at least leave my kids that much.

[PezKat]

 I think I fall in that category too. I've been doing this for a decade now and I still feel like my work is crap. It's never good enough, never the right style, never quite measures up to... what? Measures up to whom? I don't know. But I think that's just my personality. I'm never satisfied with my own self but I would love to get to the point where I just liked something I did for what it was.

Are you serious?  M'Lee your work is FANTASTIC!!  

And Leslie, no, you don't sound conceited!

1grandma, as long as you like how your pages turn out I think you should be happy!  It *is* your individual style to take a little of this, a little of that, and put them together (I do that too) instead of completely copying another layout (not that there's anything wrong w/that either). 

For those that don't like your handwriting, have you tried computer journaling &/or using alpha letters?  I go through so many of those it's not even funny, and now I'm hooked on the tiny ones too....

For me it's time I think, I enjoy the process but I'd like to be faster so that I could catch up.  One that that helps a bit is I usually try to plan several layouts at once - I'm the type that likes to go through allllll my supplies to make sure I have what I want for a layout.  So, I decide what my next 3 or 4 layouts will be and pick out paper & supplies for all of them at once.  That cuts down on time a little bit, anyway! 

[MiasMommy]

 If I had to say one it would be using more than 1 pattern paper at once.  I cant do it.  Of the 100+ layouts I have done i have probably only 4 layouts that i used more than 1 pattern paper on them.  My other would be using only 1 picture and that my pictures dont have to be layed out so evenly on the page.  All my layouts look the same and thats how I like it but I look at all the wonderful layouts in the gallery and they are so nice.

[jaziscrapper]

 Not be so hard on myself when it comes to trying something new.