Poll: Do you use sketches?

I've been using them more often lately, mostly because I know I've been great at collecting and saving inspiration then never actually using it, so I'm trying to do more of the sketches I save, or scraplift the layouts I love. I think my go to designers are SG or page maps, probably out of convenience, but there are plenty of great sketch designers out there.

I use Scrapbook Generation sketches often. I’m taking the current class.

I LOVE sketches!! I struggle with page design and without sketches, all of my pages would have 3, maybe 4 different designs.

I either use a sketch or scraplift for 90% of my pages. The other 10% are either PL Pages 9% or totally winging it 1%.

For me the fun part is putting everything together and having it work with out too much fussing. That's also why I like to use mostly collections (or at least start there and add on) and print my photos to size.

I checked usually. Like Linda, I sometimes rely on sketches for every LO. That is especially true when I just starting back into scrapbooking after a break. Once I am on a roll, I am less dependent on them. I print off every Sketchy Saturday sketch and have them at the ready at the back of my scrap counter.

I also use Page Maps, Scrap Happy, The ScrapRoom blog, Pinterest, and other sources. If I see a sketch I like, here or on Pinterest, I usually go to the website to see what else that person has designed.

But I don't feel forced to do everything exactly like the sketch. I use the parts that appeal to me or that help me with a particular issue--arranging the photos, layering in an interesting manner, cluster creation--and then feel completely free to go on with my LO the way that best sets the mood and tells the story.

No, I do not. I do however usually see inspiration and will alter it to fit my needs/style. Like embellishments cluster or how they did the title or used washi or the paper combos.

Of course now that I am a pocket page scrapper, I get inspiration from cards/tags and embellishments.

Almost always and usually Scrapbook Generation sketches. I've used them so long that on the times I don't use them, they still look like them because I've absorbed so many of their design principles.

I have put myself down as a "sometimes" on this one. I find that sometimes my layouts all start to look the same in terms of how I lay things out and scrap, so I like to use sketches to shake things up a bit. I have taken both of the most recent Scrapbook Generation sketch classes, so I use those. I also use a variety of sketches that I find on Pinterest. I have a board and I will scroll through it until I am able to find something that works for the number/sizes of photos that I have and then I just make it work.

Sometimes. I have saved sketches and notes from several Glitter Girl videos and also from a few of Shimelle's classes that I've taken. I keep a binder of l/o's & ideas that I've collected over the years and refer to them once in awhile.

I checked "sometimes", as I don't use them very often but have been using them more now that I'm part of a challenge team and want to do the Sketchy Saturday challenges. Before that I rarely actually used the sketches the way they are intended - instead I just looked at them for inspiration and went from there with my own design, which was often an amalgam of ideas from several different sketches. Now I follow them more closely (as intended) when I'm using one for an SS challenge.

FWIW, I never use sketches for cards, only SB pages. (You didn't specify on the poll, so I just thought I'd add that info.)

My go to site for sketches is Pagemaps. I even use the archive to look at older sketches.

I use them as a jumping off point. Something caught my eye in it. 9/10 times my cards/layouts look nothing like the sketch in the end lol

Popping in to ask if any of you would like to play HOST for our upcoming SKETCHtember? We are just starting to gear up planning for this, and we need a few more Peas to help with that. Talkin' to YOU PaperAngel , hoopsfn , caangel , cannmom,  christinec68 , scrappinwithoutpeas , Elsabelle , mbanda , auntmimi , scrappyrabbit , infochick Details are HERE. You can sign up there.

And if you don't decide to volunteer to host, don't forget to watch for the 30 different sketch challenges that will be popping into the Challenges Board each day in September.