Fluff: What is the first step of your scrapping process?

1. Photos
2. Papers
3. Embellishments

I didn't use to use sketches but I find myself using them now just to add speed to the process.

I’ll start with just about anything.

1) Photos —> paper —> sketch (maybe) —> embellishments
2) papers —> sketch (maybe) —> photo —> embellishments
3) sketch —> photos —> paper —> embellishments
4) color palette —> papers —> photos —> embellishments
5) kit —> sketch (maybe) —> photos
6) challenge/class —> papers —> photos —> sketch (maybe) —> embellishments

So...unless I use a kit, embellishments are last. For a starting point, I’ll take inspiration from just about anywhere.

photos - (msot of the time) sketch - paper - embellishments - (sometimes) title - journalling

Like others, I start with photos and pull paper and embellies to use.

I sit down with what I have and decide what will go where and start cutting. I scrap 8.5x11 so I usually have to cut down 12x12 paper.

I have two ways to do it.
1) Paper line or kit, then photos
2) Photos, then paper line or kit

Occasionally I mix lines that are not in a kit but not often.

I usually get excited about a line (like any Vicki Boutin line, or any Simple Stories Vintage) and then go through all of my photos to find some that match in color or mood. I like to do several pages in a row with the same line- it makes the whole process go faster.

If I have a particular thing I want to scrap (like beach or graduation) I pick the photos first and then find paper that is on theme or matches the colors.

I flip flop between papers and pictures first. Sometimes I have a specific collection that I want to use and then I will find some photos to work with it that I want to scrap. For my yearly PL album this year I am using one paper line with some supplementary stuff from my stash, so that is a project that I would start with paper first.

Otherwise, I start with my pictures and then go and pull paper from my stash, usually a collection, so I pull all the coordinating embellishments and then go back to my stash if I need more. When I pull paper, I would also pull tools, stencils, stamps, etc.

I look at photos, but I don't often print them before I know what sketch I am going to use. The other day I was choosing photos for a trip we'd taken last month. I wrote down the activity we did for the day. I noticed that my son's fiancé wore a big sun hat in several of the pictures on different days and those pics will also be a layout. I ended up with 10-12 different themes for the trip.

I find other ideas for layouts and then put then each one a piece of printing paper with the number of the photo/who is in the photo/direction of the photo. Then I look through my sketches by number of photos and see if I have one that would work with that number. I draw out the sketch on the printing paper and put the photo numbers into the sketch. Then I go back and write the size I need of each photo next to the number of the photo. Then it all goes to a master list of photo numbers where I write the size I want for each photo and sit down and edit and order photos. I choose papers that I think will go well for each layout.

It's a process if I have a lot, but when I get the photos home, I toss them into their 12 x 12 baggie with the paper I chose for the layout and in an evening, I have a good 12-20 layouts planned and in kits. If I am going to a crop, I add all the embellishments, but since I've been cropping from home lately, I just pull the baggie/layout I want to work on and go.

1) clean house
2) clean desk
3) decide what kind of project i want to work on (chipboard album, fabric journal, junk journal,etc)
4) pull the papers
5) pull the embellishments

I start with photos.
Then I pull the 13 x 13 envelopes of products that relate to photo. 
Then I look through my "assorted" products binder and pull anything I might to use.
Then I look through the product that I have pulled out and select possibilities.
Then I pull coordinating paper possiblities.
Then I make piles ....photo and next to it what I might want to use with that particular photo. This with that, and that with this, then start shuffling and mixing and matching, etc...
Then assembly begins..... followed by detours of more sorting-reshuffling-mixing & matching.

During it all, I make a cup of tea(or two or three), argue with my cat about her nosy presence and her sense of entitlement to be in the middle of whatever I am doing, look through my product stash in case I missed something I might want to use, look on line to see if there any new products that I might want to order,  etc...

I am years behind. It will get done when it gets done.  

It depends on what it is that inspired me to create this page.

I usually start with the photos. That will give me ideas for the theme and colour scheme. So next would be pp and then cs. Then I can use a sketch (or find a pinned LO or one in the Gallery that I can attempt to lift) to figure out how to cut and arrange and layer the pp. The embellishments come last. I want the title and journaling in place before I start adding extras.

But sometimes I am inspired by a sketch or a LO I have seen and set out to recreate that look, or I am taking on a scrapbook challenge of some sort on line, so the photos come after I have collected some of the other elements.

Or I am excited to try out a new technique or tool, and then think, now what could I DO with this...?

I start with photo, then sketch, the cardstock, then patterned paper, then title, then embellishments...

I start with the photos or story I want to tell (if I don't have pics for that page).

Then I pull together elements, like paper and embellishments, to compliment it.

Generally I start with photos but sometimes I will be inspired by a LO, technique or embellishment..

Photos, papers, embellishments and I am now starting to use sketches.