I have come to the realization that Scrapbooking and Stamping is overwhelming to me and there are several reasons for this.
1. Too many pictures.
2. Unorganized/cluttered area.
3. Lack of space for completed albums.
4. Lack of creativity.
5. Lack of confidence when it comes to embellishing, titling and journaling pages.
6. Too easily sidetracked by the lovely computer/internet/facebook.
7. Too many choices (ie stamps, papers, embellishments, tools, etc)
ok....now I'm starting to depress myself. :(
When I started scrapbooking I felt like I needed to scrap every single picture because I had paid for the film and processing of these photos and I had also taken the time to make these photos. Now with digital photography it's even worse. I take so many more pictures which means there are even more photos to be scrapped and narrowing down those choices is sometimes overwhelming.
It's almost Christmas 2010 and I still haven't finished scrappin' the picture from Christmas '09. Believe me I've tried, but when the photos are of the same people sitting in the same places every single year with the same decorations, etc and the only things that changes is the wrapping paper, clothes everyone is wearing and the gift itself, you kinda get tired of looking at them after a while. So much so, that I'm contemplating not even taking pictures this year. <gasp> I know.....can you even believe that I would think of doing such a thing?? It's just I don't know what/how to do it.
I guess what I'm looking for is ideas, thoughts, suggestions on how you guys handle your HUGE collection of photos. How do you decide which photos get scrapped?? What about your backlog of photos? (don't look at me like that....I know you have a backlog of photos....we all do!!! :) Where do you go for inspiration/ideas? How do you translate those ideas and inspiration into creating pages?
