How happy are you with your layouts?

I work at it until I love it. I have taken a layout apart 3 times before. Now I don't stick anything down permanently until I am 100% happy with. Sometimes there is one layout, that while it is finished, balanced, etc it is just not 100% me and I am OK with those. The process is why I scrapbook, not the finished product.

But I know my style and that is a huge help as I get inspiration from layouts that are "my style" and I know I will love the finished product.

Overall I'm happy with my layouts even though they are much simpler and more 'boring' than the majority I see shared here and elsewhere. But they fit my style and my family likes them so...mostly so do I. There are always layouts that just don't feel like they came together and sometimes done needs to be good enough.

I do love SEEING the fancy, super embellished, artsy, mixed media etc... layouts everyone else seems to make but I'm almost never happy with the results when I push myself to attempt those.

I have found that the layouts I don’t like usually are because I pushed myself to use paper I don’t like. But generally I like all my layouts, and I don’t re-do any of them. I “love” maybe the top 15% of my layouts. I share most if not all of my layouts here, regardless of my feelings towards them. I only hold back on sharing layouts that are too personal, or some that I made for my nieces and nephews that I don’t want to censor out all the pics lol.

I'm probably happy with 85%, 10% go into the album even though I'm not totally happy with them and 5% get ripped apart and get a redo (after they sit in my unfinished bin for a while.)

I usually am more happy with the layouts I spent a little more time on. I'm never 100% happy with my journaling but I try to get it on every page.

Yup, this is pretty much me too, babylou ! Everything you wrote!

I also sometimes do what 950nancy does and add little bits here and there if I think it needs something else when I go back and do the journaling. 

I've only ripped apart one 2-page LO that I just couldn't get past and it made me cringe every time I looked at it. The redone LO now falls into the "love it" category! I can't say I love every single page I've ever done - I'm happy with nearly all though and I've enjoyed making them. There is a smaller percentage of the total that I really just love.   

ETA: great question, artbabe!

I would say about 95%.

Not a fan of some of the layouts in my very first scrapbook.
I cut photos with decorative scissors(I had a dozen-ish patterns), either around the person in the photo or around the edges of the photo itself.

It's kind of one those "it is what it is" things. I can't fix them and  I can't replace the photos.

I look back at my first scrapbook, and think my scrapbook style a improved immensely. Thankfully the improvement happened sooner, rather than later.

Most of the time I am happy with the layouts that I have posted. Every now and then I’m not happy with a page I’m working on, so I put it aside to look at later with fresh eyes. (And then I forget about it, which is why I have a lot of UFOs!)

A lot of the time I’m not happy with the title. I think to myself that I will change it before I print it.

I was looking for a particular layout on my Flickr account on the weekend, and saw some of my early digital layouts from when I first started digi scrapping in 2018. I am definitely going to make changes to some of those layouts before I print them in a photo book. It’s mainly the shadowing and clusters that I’m not happy with.


ETA: I forgot to mention that I am going to re-do every single layout in my first album, circa 1999. I HATE those layouts, they don’t give me any joy and I would not want anyone to see them.

I'm generally happy with them, but I just cringed yesterday at the first page of my daughter's high school album.

As the album "opener," I think I may re-do it. If it were buried on page 12, I probably wouldn't care!

I also found a photo-less layout in the album that I don't remember making. It has an obvious place to insert the photo, so I need to go searching.

This is exactly why I redid every single layout I did my first years of scrapping. Some people say, move on it's finished, some say look at your growth, some say because new products keep coming out you will always be unhappy. Here's the reality for me - a layout I am ashamed of, that makes me cringe, that doesn't tell my story and does not reflect me is not worth keeping for any reason. There was so little product out then that anything is better than what I had to work with. I also started scrapping special photos and memories, like my baby's first year. All the fabulous baby stuff that came out helped me redo the layouts easily and in a pleasing way.

Lastly, I developed a style that works for me. So redone layouts remain pleasing. Having a baby layout with a piece of pastel cardstock and sticker sneeze with wacky cut photos is no comparison to a thoughtfully laid out page with grounded photos and embellishments.

I would say I’m:

20% Meh
60% Fine
20% Amazing

I don’t redo pages. I scrapbook/make cards as a creative outlet. The memory keeping is secondary. I actually like looking back at where I started and how my layouts have changed over the years. I like seeing trends that I tried, and what I kept and what I abandoned. I have so many options to scrap that redoing something old feels like wasting the time I have for trying something new.

I also assume when I’m gone, my scrapbooks will eventually be trashed as well. I’m okay with that.

I'm happy with the majority of my pages. There may be a few that could have used a bit more something but overall I love my pages & albums. Like don I sometimes forget the journaling but that's ok. I try to at least have a date (even if it's just a year) on the page to give some type of reference. I don't re-do pages either.

Is it weird that I don't really feel any type of way about my finished work? 

I have made thousands and thousands of layouts since I started scrapping in 2003 so they all just blur together. I love looking through my finished albums, and I love being able to capture our stories forever (especially as now my memory is getting worse from PCOS and/or perimenopause and/or plain ol' old age). Yes, I want my pages to "look nice" (whatever that means) but all the scrap pretties are secondary to the photos and the words.

I just plug along and call it done and that's good enough for me. 

i'm happy with about 80% of my finished layouts, I'm not happy about the amount of time (excessive) I spend creating a layout I'm happy with.

Due to my perfectionist tendencies, I must be satisfied with each step in the process - & will rework/quit & restart as much as necessary - before proceeding. While it takes a ridiculous amount of time to complete a layout, I'm always content with the end results (& never redo a completed page).