what do you hate about scrapping?

[Pammy jo]

In no particular order:

1. Putting refills in albums!!! It doesn't matter what type, they are all a pain the the *&*.

2. Feeling overwhelmed - like ya gotta get caught up and so you don't really enjoy your work.

3. When you have almost completed a page and you are missing one element, like you only have 3 red brads and you need 4. UGH!

Pammyjo

[Alice28]

The mess! I cannot seem to scrap even one page without making a mess. :confused3

[soccerchick]

Cleaning up the mess!!


ETA ~ Alice28 - I haven't seen your countdown ticker before. Glad to see your DH will be home soon! My best friend's DH got home in August.

[American Scrapper]

I ditto the mess!

[Alice28]

Cleaning up the mess!!


ETA ~ Alice28 - I haven't seen your countdown ticker before. Glad to see your DH will be home soon! My best friend's DH got home in August.

I finally felt it was close enough to the time to have a ticker....any longer than this and it would just be depressing to me to be reminded almost daily that he wouldn't be home for months and months. :sunny: So.....is it January yet? :hourglass :teeth:

[Spinning]

For me I hate the mess and not being able to find what I need in the mess!

[TPCShauna]

I'm still fairly new so I hate that I have no way to organize my stuff yet. I'm working on it but I also have no space!

[Twigs]

Putting something down, then putting papers on top of that, and not finding the first thing for days!

Alice 28 you must be getting soo excited. How is the baby?

[scrapperjill]

Loosing things in the mess...then the clean up of the mess when I'm done. I also hate dragging things out...but that's mainly because what comes out must go back...so that goes along with the "cleaning up of the mess"

[msbegin]

That I don't have enough time to do it!

[Disneyland_emily]

Journaling

I hate it

[rsjj]

having to take "everything" out!! then, i feel like i need to do a marathon scrapping...since i've got everything out. and then, i get "overwhelmed". :flower:

[goofymom/pop]

filing away all the stuff I get out....scraps of paper etc.

not enough time or money to do it.

putting page protectors on my CM albums

when I do a page I couldn't wait to do and then I hate it when its done :guilty:

[pjlla]

when I do a page I couldn't wait to do and then I hate it when its done :guilty:


I'm so with you on this!! So many times I have a great event/parade whatever to scrap and I'm so SURE that the pages will be phenomenal... and then they suck!! (Oops, can I say that?) I mean STINK. That is the most frustrating part of scrapping.... things not coming out the way I want them to. Second worst part is having severe scrappers block. I find this happens most when I have been doing LOTS of scrapping. I need to take a few days or even weeks off when this happens. Otherwise I just end up with a bunch of pages I hate...................P

[onedisneylover]

i have not been liking scrapping lately...

i have too much stuff and can't ever seem to get organized. with that in mind, i can't find anything. then when i have the time to scrap, i am out buying more stuff to scrap with...

then when i actually sit down to scrap...even if it is a scraplift, it takes me forever to do...i will sit there for days pushing stuff around the page before adhering it. i am a pathetically slow scrapper!!! on a weekend crop, i am lucky if i get 2 pages done!!!

karen

[New England Eeyore]

1. The mess. I use mounting squares as adhesive so I especially hate the little blue squares all over the place when I'm done!

2. Even though I have a fairly large section of a room devoted to scrapbooking, there's still never enough room and it explodes all over the rest of the room.

3. My own crazy mentality about not wanting to waste anything. For example - when I want to reprint pictures, I don't want to print one 4 x 6 picture on an 8.5 x 11 page because then I'd be wasting the rest of the page. So then I agonize about which other pictures to print with it. The same thing can apply to cardstock or patterened pape. I go crazy sometimes!

4. Never having enough time!

[WDWMom]

Not enough money and not enough time.

The mess is a pain too.

Not having the perfect color of card stock and then having to wait to finish the page.

[Queenie]

The mess and making a page for a really special event/day/parade and having it look awful. I have actually cried over these in the past, silly hormones!!!!

[Grumpy's Gal]

being right in the middle of a great project and then hearing, "MAMA? Can you.........(fill in any number of things here.)"

Anyone with me on this? And of course, I stop scrapping and I'm pretty much not going to get back to it at that time............as I find a new, more enjoyable project waiting for me like gum in the hair.......... :flower:

[becky7953]

Getting out all my stuff, just to start! This curbs alot of my scrapping. I just don't want to lug it out :(

:)

[hopemax]

Figuring out what to scrap, and how to scrap it. It takes me forever to come up with a page idea, once I know what I want to do, actually doing it is no problem. I also have like 10 Disney trips to do, but all my photos are digital, so first I have to figure out which pictures to print, edit them, print them. So I guess, getting organized!

DH would say, that everytime I start a new page, I have to buy something new! :)

[Stephres]

This is a cute thread:

1) Thinking of an idea for a page. I gather all the pictures and then flip through magazines or Becky Higgins' Sketchbook and wait for inspiration to hit. Sometimes it never does!

2) Journaling. I hate to journal and I hate my handwriting even more. I hate having to go across the house to the computer to print it out, but I can't stand the way my handwriting looks on the page.

3) Interrruptions. I hate when I get everything out and actually think of an idea and then the kids start screaming. Once I get started I need to finish!

[pattyT]

Putting something down, then putting papers on top of that, and not finding the first thing for days!


ya what she said -
I do that WAY 2 much

[Alice28]

being right in the middle of a great project and then hearing, "MAMA? Can you.........(fill in any number of things here.)"

Anyone with me on this? And of course, I stop scrapping and I'm pretty much not going to get back to it at that time............as I find a new, more enjoyable project waiting for me like gum in the hair.......... :flower:

UGH-----------totally with you on that one! Or the baby wakes up from her nap 60-90 minutes before I expect her to!!! :rolleyes:

[pattyT]

UGH-----------totally with you on that one! Or the baby wakes up from her nap 60-90 minutes before I expect her to!!! :rolleyes:

60 or 90 mintes BEFORE :earseek:
60 or 90 and I am doing good :rotfl:

she is sooo cute by the way!

[Linnie The Pooh]

I am new to this board. I usually hang out at the Community board but thought this sounded like a nice place so...I'll chime in.

1. The mess definitely-I can't stand it and neither can DH

2. The expense-I spent nearly $200 on our WDW book last year. Shh... don't tell DH, he hangs out at the Dis too!

3. Taking the plunge and actually starting on a project-it can be so overwhelming in the beginning. I am 2 books behind right now.

4. Having the perfect idea in my head, but can't find the materials to match my idea and have to go with something else

[JulianneCP]

Lack of time Lack of time
Feeling overwhelmed and far behind
Lack of time Lack of time

[PaulaSue]

The price for all the cool stuff.

I don't have much, I FINALLY got the CM cutting systems and I have been doing it for over 10 years.

[SplshMtn99]

Starting a page. It's like writers block every time looking at a blank page. That is my biggest problem. I'm just not creative in designing & picking colors. I'm a crafter that does better assembling kits.

Sometimes I wonder what was I thinking by starting to scrapbook.

[GoofyGirlnPrincessV]

1. Putting refills in albums..UGH!
2. Never being able to find the embellishments I need (problem recently solved)
3. Never having the "right" color card stock (always one or 2 shades wrong)
4. uploading my pages to a site and getting no feedback/comments because I like doing very simple pages. Those really elaborated layouts are just not me.

I recently took over our spare bedroom/office and have made it into my office/scraproom and it is about 75% finished. It has made my life so much easier. I just need to get some shelves to help with my organization! Feel free to peek at my space: NEW SCRAPROOM (http://www.lynntabor.com/office.htm)

[Spinning]

Lynn, Just checked out your scrap room! What a nice change! Became very chipper and probably more creative for you now with the colors And what a fantastic idea to use vanity bottoms! I would have never thought to do that! Did you have to custom order the top? or was that stock too?

[GoofyGirlnPrincessV]

Lynn, Just checked out your scrap room! What a nice change! Became very chipper and probably more creative for you now with the colors And what a fantastic idea to use vanity bottoms! I would have never thought to do that! Did you have to custom order the top? or was that stock too?

At first I wanted a 9 foot top in a certain color and got a quote on it from Home Depot and they wanted about 500! ACK that wasn't in the budget so I waited. I went to Lowes to use up a gift card and happend to see they had stock tops. I ended up getting a 10 foot one for $90.00. The color is close to what I want so we bought it.

I got the idea for the vanities from a scrap magazine last year.

It has made cropping so much easier and I am pretty much organized and can find my supplies! :banana:

[MazdaUK]

I LOVE your scrap room! At the moment I'm just starting - I signed a CMC agreement last week so I'm waiting for my new toys to arrive. In the meantime I cleared half of one shelf in the utility room next to the computer - I know it won't be enough - and part of a shelf in the garage (where my Pampered Chef stuff used to be) to placate DH. he doesn't know about the e-bay grab bags and the Heritage album kit and pages in the cupboard where we keep our photo albums ;-)

[GoofyGirlnPrincessV]

I have waited many years to finally move to a bigger house so I could have my own room and I can leave it messy and just close the door...LOL