How often do you scraplift a layout?

I don't think that I have looked at other layouts for inspiration but maybe I should. I was just looking at my scrapbook and all my pages are the same, or basically the same. So you have been my inspiration to go get a magizne or check some layouts online!

Gosh it has been awhile since I last made a page but that is exactly what I always do as well . I seem to go through spells where I can't seem to stop scrapbooking and then end up putting it away for awhile for whatever reason and then it takes me awhile to get back into it again but it is something I enjoy doing very much when I am doing it . I just find it hard to do with the little one's around and would love to have a room in my house just for scrapbooking , maybe someday !! So many of my ideas have come from the inspiration of others but when I have a completed page it is my own idea added into it making it my page .

I do that sometimes too. Only thing is when I get an idea off someone's layouts and try to do it the same way it never looks like theirs. I always end up doing it different then how I first started out. But I always end up liking my finished layout.

I do that sometimes also. Normally I look at the layouts at scrapbook.com and I find layouts that I like an element about, will add some of my own elements to it and come up with a new layout. Most of the time I come up with layouts when I'm not scrapbooking, so I have a small notebook I make sketches in and notes. All I have to do is flip through my notebook while I'm scrappin.

I Have done this many different times. I took a layout from a magazine or one that I saw on a show and did it on my own and added my own ideas with embellishments and maybe even alter the layout slightly. LIke if they have a picture in one spot i'll move to another.

Great minds think alike! I do this as well Essie119. Often others' great work is a wonderful "jump off point" for me. However, I tend to fall in love with the colour scheme and go from there.

lol...I have never heard of being referred to as "scrap-lifting" I do get ideas from other pages often, but I will usually change it to my own creation. Sometimes we just need to be inspired and looking at others ideas does that for me!