What causes you to set some photos aside?
May 7, 2017 15:59:31 GMT
LavenderLayoutLady, Frazzled Mom, and 1 more like this
Post by grammadee on May 7, 2017 15:59:31 GMT
I don't think it is just me. I think we all have those stashes of photos that have never been scrapped for some reason. Mine are already printed, but I am sure some of you have those pix on your computers or phones, but for some reason--although you really want to tell that story--those photos have never been put on a scrapbook page...
After an LSS crop a couple of weeks ago, and one in my scraproom this weekend, I am "caught up" on all recent photos I intended to scrap. So I am flipping through the sets of photos I have in a box on my desk. They are sorted by topic. I have had a list of titles for them for months. But for some reason, until today, they have not received the love and attention they deserve.
I know what my reasons are, I think:
SO DONE WITH THAT: I just scrapped some photos from Christmas this morning. They were still in the pile because I remember feeling that I "had to draw the line somewhere" and end my Christmas album so I could put away all the Christmas scrappy mess that had taken over my scraproom. Today I scrapped those photos with non Christmas supplies, (except for a couple of small embellies I liberated from the Christmas cupboard without too much difficulty) and they look just fine.
MAKING A MOUNTAIN OUT OF A MOLE HILL: Sometimes I make a spread just too difficult in my head. I want to make it really special, or really fun. I want to try some new techniques with this particular topic, but I don't have the skill. Or I want to use materials I don't own, and haven't even been manufactured yet? I want to make some complicated embellishments, but I need just that perfect punch or die or... I realize that the other two pages I did today were in that category. I had wanted to create some kind of fun background for the photos I had of the race trax the boys got for Christmas. But today I realized I have so many photos, who needs to fuss with the background! Large matts, title, journaling block, a race car embelly, and BOOM! Done!
SHOULDING ON MYSELF: There are some photos in that pile that are not that good. They don't tell much of a story. And they don't show much of the emotion &/or action most of my scrapped photos do. But they still remain in my "need to scrap these" box is because I want to be "fair". If I have a page about X dgk doing Activity A, then I "should" include a page about Y dgk doing Activity A, B, or C. But I was ruthless this morning and actually pulled a couple of sets from the box. No one will care if that mundane page gets created. And I have decided I won't care either!
TOO HEAVY AN EMOTIONAL LOAD: The photos of us at my brother's funeral, although good, and the people in them are smiling, were just too painful to scrap right then. Don't know if I will do them today? I will pull them out and look at them and decide. Since I rushed home from my cruise in the fall to attend my brother's funeral, for some reason all the holiday photos fall into that same category. I can't seem to think about the vacation without thinking about how it ended, and that, in the past, has killed the buzz before I even start on those photos. I won't be doing those this weekend either. Maybe when justjac comes here to scrap this summer, but not then either if I have more new and exciting pages to scrap.
What is the reason that you procrastinate about some sets of photos? Would love to hear about it.
After an LSS crop a couple of weeks ago, and one in my scraproom this weekend, I am "caught up" on all recent photos I intended to scrap. So I am flipping through the sets of photos I have in a box on my desk. They are sorted by topic. I have had a list of titles for them for months. But for some reason, until today, they have not received the love and attention they deserve.
I know what my reasons are, I think:
SO DONE WITH THAT: I just scrapped some photos from Christmas this morning. They were still in the pile because I remember feeling that I "had to draw the line somewhere" and end my Christmas album so I could put away all the Christmas scrappy mess that had taken over my scraproom. Today I scrapped those photos with non Christmas supplies, (except for a couple of small embellies I liberated from the Christmas cupboard without too much difficulty) and they look just fine.
MAKING A MOUNTAIN OUT OF A MOLE HILL: Sometimes I make a spread just too difficult in my head. I want to make it really special, or really fun. I want to try some new techniques with this particular topic, but I don't have the skill. Or I want to use materials I don't own, and haven't even been manufactured yet? I want to make some complicated embellishments, but I need just that perfect punch or die or... I realize that the other two pages I did today were in that category. I had wanted to create some kind of fun background for the photos I had of the race trax the boys got for Christmas. But today I realized I have so many photos, who needs to fuss with the background! Large matts, title, journaling block, a race car embelly, and BOOM! Done!
SHOULDING ON MYSELF: There are some photos in that pile that are not that good. They don't tell much of a story. And they don't show much of the emotion &/or action most of my scrapped photos do. But they still remain in my "need to scrap these" box is because I want to be "fair". If I have a page about X dgk doing Activity A, then I "should" include a page about Y dgk doing Activity A, B, or C. But I was ruthless this morning and actually pulled a couple of sets from the box. No one will care if that mundane page gets created. And I have decided I won't care either!
TOO HEAVY AN EMOTIONAL LOAD: The photos of us at my brother's funeral, although good, and the people in them are smiling, were just too painful to scrap right then. Don't know if I will do them today? I will pull them out and look at them and decide. Since I rushed home from my cruise in the fall to attend my brother's funeral, for some reason all the holiday photos fall into that same category. I can't seem to think about the vacation without thinking about how it ended, and that, in the past, has killed the buzz before I even start on those photos. I won't be doing those this weekend either. Maybe when justjac comes here to scrap this summer, but not then either if I have more new and exciting pages to scrap.
What is the reason that you procrastinate about some sets of photos? Would love to hear about it.
