After the mojo gets flowing...

I normally do one layout in one sitting. Sometimes it takes 5 hours, sometimes 30 minutes. But I need to do the entire process at once from start to finish, including cleaning up at the end. Bigger projects like WITL take longer and I will leave that out and come back to it over several weekends usually. I have trouble doing more than one LO per sitting, even if I do it quickly. I need time between LOs to recharge my creative energy.

I'm slow as a turtle as well. It takes me forever to decide what I'm going to. I've never scrap lifted before. Maybe that could speed up the process some. I'm crazy over things being perfectly centered or straight. I'll measure and keep on repositioning things until it's just right. I've moved onto cards now. It's quicker.

Depends on the project. Some pages come together quickly. I call them "Grab glue & Go pages. They have lots of photos, or a large photo and a big title block. I decide to forego inking, and outline elements in pen instead. No mixed media and very few embellies. These are the types of pages I might do on an afternoon at the LSS while I am waiting for my vehicle to be repaired. These pages will all be created with products from the same collection or colour pallet or theme, and I will have collected the elements I need and printed the photos beforehand. I can do 6 to 8 of those in a half day. And often I will add something to one or more of those pages when I get home.

At home my average "production" would be one 2-page LO in a day. I might multi task, working on layers of media on a different project, or collecting elements for a 3rd, I have a space I can work in and leave unfinished projects, so my modus operandi is to select photos, papers and elements in the evening, maybe make a few notes. Then the next day I do the construction.

I used to worry about getting everything square and perfect, but then I realized that the effort to do that was destroying my mojo. Now I tear edges, put photos at wonky angles on purpose, use tipped stacked matts, or tucked in clusters of stuff. If I'm having fun and telling the story, anything goes!

I don't think it matters how fast pages come together if you are enjoying the process.  pas2 you should check out linkthe monthly Pokey Peas challenge. nylene hosts and the goal is no matter how slow, just keep going. We have a turtle as our emblem, so you will fit right in!

If my family leaves me alone and doesn't need to fed or settle disputes over silly things? In an entire day I can get about 5 or 6 done. Although I tend to put together semi page kits. Basically I take pattern papers and match them with cardstock. Sometimes it will be between 2 to 10 pieces of pp with about 3-5 pieces of matching cardstock, stick them into a storage bag, then get the next set and each set of pp is divided by cardstock. So then I just grabbed out a set and get photos and just add embellishments from my stash. This seems to streamline my process.

I'm pretty slow too and if I'm scrapping away from home I'll usually not get anything totally *done* while I'm there. I usually either forget something, need a photo in a different size, or think of the perfect thing for the page that's at home that I didn't think of bringing when I was packing up. 

I recently went to a one day fundraiser crop and got three 2-page layouts and a 1 pager (mostly) done while I was there. Every layout was missing something, and I won't get around to finishing those pages anytime soon. I guess you could say it takes me six months to complete three layouts, LOL, which probably makes me the all time slowest scrapper on record.

I do this too... especially when im too tired to scrap but want to play with paper. I grab them and start right up. it really helps speeding up my production.

I am happy to finish a PL spread in under a week so I can start a new one and begin to make headway on past weeks. Average weekly spread for me is 4 to 6 pages. I haven't done more than 1 12x12 page at once in a loooong time. I am slow. But when truly inspired I can get 1 a day done...or mayyyybeee 1 during the day and another that evening.

I don't know the last time I've had a whole day to spend on a project. I usually get 5 minutes here, 15 minutes there.

But in a couple of hours, I could crank out at least 2 digital pages. That's because I always start with a template and a kit or two, probably averaging 45 minutes per page. I don't do a lot of digital and I'm always tweaking the templates to fit what I want to do.

For traditional pages, I'm a slow scrapper. I like to put it down without glue and move it around and change pieces out. It makes me happy. My "pick and stick" pages which are grammadee 's grab glue and go pages are probably still 45 minutes do one. You'd think it should be quicker but not with me hemming and hawing. But most pages take me 1.5 - 2 hours. If I have a day for those pages, I'm still only going to get 4-8 pages finished.



Me too, for both of these.

I'm slow too, but once I get going I can do up to 4 pages a day.

I have done anywhere between 5-15 in a single day. I remember several years ago I was involved in an online crop and did 40 pages in about a week.

if I can just hit that sweet spot, I crank them out left and right.

today, not so much. I did my first page in months and it was very painful. felt like it took me forever and a day, and that was using a sketch!

I never get long at one sitting to get much done. I can usually finish a layout once I sit down to start. Probably in 1 or 2 hours. But I never get to do more than one at a time.

Scraplifting and sketches always help speed things up a bit. Even if your LO ends up looking nothing like it, it gives your brain a good jumping off point, getting things rolling.

Measuring slows things WAY down. I don't measure anything, ever.

I'm epically slow. When I used to go to crops, I might get 2-3 done in a day if I was lucky, and I can do a layout in an evening, but by evening I mean from 4-5 pm to 1-2 am, and often I get done and I'm still looking at it going hm... and I tweak it a few days later when I'm fresh.

I'm actually freaking out a bit right now, because I had someone ask me to make them a book, which will be about 50 layouts, in a month, and for the last 3 days, I've just been looking at their stuff completely uninspired. And...knowing how slowly I work, that worries me tremendously! (50 in a month is already almost 2 a day!!)

I don't have blocks of uninterrupted time, so it takes me a half day to get a layout done from start to finish. Wish I were faster, though!