SB: How long per page?

[disneychrista]

I just started doing my very first scrapebook.

How long does it generally take you to complete on page, from picking the right pictures and accessories for the page to completion?

 

[Snow White]

It depends on what I'm putting on the page, if I do a paper piecing, then it could take like 3 hours or so to complete the page, if I'm just putting embellishements like ribbons, eyelets, jolees, etc with toppers and matting pics and journaling then around 1 to 2 hours per page. I'm pretty picky tho, I'm sure I could do it a lot faster. If I have a lot of pics of the same thing, I'll do a quick page with just matted pics on a background and that is pretty fast. Have fun!

 

[Tiger Fan]

Oh this will vary a great deal. I've spent all evening on one layout and I've finished up within a few minutes. I figure on average maybe an hour or so per layout if it's not very elaborate and pre-planned.
Lisa

 

[jimmytammy]

Most of my page layouts take an average of 30 minutes to an hour. I wish that I could move them along quicker, but I am pretty particular on the way I do them. I also can't usually get to many pages done without interruptions.

Tammy

 

[SplshMtn99]

I'm one of those "ALL NIGHT for a 2 page layout" type of people. LOL

If you look at my album in siggy, you'll see I'm no simple page person. God knows I wish I was!

I need to pick the pictures; THEN try to figure out what paper; a theme; what cute ideas; what embellishments. I do a sketch or lay it out. MAYBE sleep on it & modify in the a.m. Do whatever on the computer.........

OH --- and the more supplies you buy----the worse the decisions get. LOL Just warning you.

 

[BevS97]

well, my pages look pretty simple, but they still seem to take me hours - it's pretty rare for me to complete more than one layout in an evening - I just find it really hard to chose colors and also struggle with photo placement.

I've been doing the CK 1 sketch 3 looks layouts lately, and they have got me moving a bit faster, but then I feel like I have cheated a bit, so you can't really win....

Bev

 

[WDWMom]

I agree with everyone else. It takes me about an hour from start to finish for an average page. If it is a 2 page layout maybe less than 2 hours because all the paper and embellishements all go together.

 

[nicki dahling]

1 to 1 1/2 hours for each two pages and I haven't even started embellishing with eyelets and stuff yet ( I plan to add them this year ) ! If I'm doing pages for someone else even longer ( I'm in the process of starting my own business ) ! My dining room has turned into a organized mess !

 

[disneychrista]

I am glad I am not totally out of the ball park. It has been taking me an evening to complete one page. I am constantly having to redo things.

 

[bunnyfoo]

Its nice to know that I'm not the only one who spends a long time planning out my layouts Actually, sometimes I'm limited to a page or two a night because of time constraints....

 

[MICKEY M0USE]

Bev, do not feel like you're cheating! If I had to come up for an idea completely on my own for a page, I would be there all night looking at the pictures and a blank piece of paper! I almost always use some variation of something I've seen in a scrapbook magazine. So, I decide on the pictures, flip through some magazines, decide what I'm gonna do and do it. It sometimes takes me days to finish one page! Although it's stop and go a lot of the time, with the small kids running around underfoot. I tell myself I could be a lot more productive if I had two uninterrupted hours to work! Ha ha!

 

[chessie]

I haven't timed myself but it often takes days with a little here and there. I often work on several layouts at a time. I have the photos and the colors together and I often just go ahead and mat them without an exact layout in mind. I always use hermafix in case I change my mind. I have also learned to buy my paper in 3's. so that no matter which I decide to use as mats, background, border, accents or journaling boxes I usually have enough to switch the colors around.

 

[klmall]

Though I rarely post I couldn't resist this question. I have been making scrapbooks for about three years now and the time per page totally varies depending upon what kind of scrapbook I am creating.

My Disney trip pages take 10 minutes to an hour once I have selected and cropped the pics. I use alot of the pre-made background pages and match the pics to the pages with a few stickers sometimes and I don't add much journaling since the pics usually tell the story. Often I include a printed page listing our itinerary (day by day) and that provides either a good intro or summary. Receipts, maps (color copied to acid free paper) and other souvenirs are easy fillers.

And I've become known for creating wedding scrapbooks filled with the candids that my husband, son and I take at any wedding we attend. Since I usually pick one or two background papers based on a theme of the wedding (flowers etc.), use the wedding invitation, reception souvenirs etc. and buy lots of the pre-made scrapbook kit stuff for weddings these pages go ultra-fast! I can put a small one together in a weekend and the biggest one (for my sister's small informal wedding) took me three weekends. These pages take about 5 minutes to 20 minutes per.

BUT!!!! My most recent scrapbook is a totally different type that I have never seen discussed on any board I've read (which isn't too many I'll admit!). My son and I took a 2 week canoe trip with some of the older Scouts in his troop last summer and I wanted to "document" this trip from start to finish. It fills 2 huge books and has 299 very carefully selected and cropped pictures along with itineraries, color copied maps, hand drawn maps, daily journal entries and even an appendix. This effort took 5 months and while some pages are pics alone several took 6 - 8 hours each! Now that it's 98% done I actually miss not "creating" pages for this project!

I am not a perfectionist thank goodness and there are some minor errors! And I'm not completely done with the last 20 pages or so - they need something; I'm just not sure what to add that will not detract from the pictures.

Works of art my pages aren't but whether they are Dizney or camping and canoeing they are expressions of my heart!

Does anyone else make "documentary-style" scrapbooks?

(I also did a 2 scrapbook documentary of our three-week trip out west in 2000.)

 

[catwho]

I'm new to this board, but wanted to chime in. I would love to be able to get a page done in an hour. Man! It must take me 2-3 hours per page. That includes selecting pictures, paper, embellishements, titling, journalling and then sticking it all down! LOL! I tend to go in spurts and will sometimes do 2 LO a day and then go for a while and only do 1 page every other day. (sigh)



1 LO complete in 2003

 

[paulinewdw]

I have tried everything, but I can't seem to speed up. I have 65
pages pre-planned for a weekend crop Jan 24-26(Disney trip Feb 2001) All I need to do is crop mat and embellish, but I bet it still takes me one hour per layout.