How heavily do you rely on other scrappers' ideas?

Do you tend to use sketches, scraplift somewhat, or just get out your pictures, papers & embellishments, and do your own thing?  And how quickly do you turn out pages?

I design my own pages based on my pictures.  I can't seem to make a sketch work for me, no matter what.  Maybe it's because when I started scrapping back in the dark ages, there was nothing but Creative Memories. I had no LSS in my area, there were no magazines yet, and I didn't have internet, so I didn't have any other option except learn to make do with what I had, and I developed enough creativity that I could scrap on my own and be happy with the results. I still prefer my own style rather than try to adapt someone else's ideas to fit my pictures.

One of my scrapping friends, who started scrapping long after I did, just finds it easier to scraplift. She doesn't take a lot of pictures, so she just uses whatever photo she has.

For the record, I don't see anything wrong with scraplifting or using sketches. I just can't seem to make it work for me.  I often wonder if that is one reason I am such a slow scrapper, but it takes me even longer to try to find a sketch that will work, let alone a layout to scraplift.  My friend churns out pages all the time.

Of my friends who mostly do their own page designs, most of us struggle to scrapbook, due to the time factor.

So how do you scrap, and are you slow, quick, or kind of in the middle?  Are you a simple scrapper, or do you like lots of embellishments, layers, mists, etc., or somewhere in between?  What works for you?