Lazy Scrapbooker

Don't feel bad you guys. I think sometimes we just over stress ourselve... there is SOOOOO MUCH out there to do with scrapbooking and we all try to keep up with it all and do amazing layouts.. that at times.. we just get burned out. So what if they are stickers instead of die cut letters - at least your layout is done and great and the memory is preserved! I went through a time when I couldn't make myself do another layout! So I sat there literally all one weekend obessed with punching! At that time I created punch art items. so I just punched a bunch of the common shapes and created a stock of punchies! While later when I was ready to work again... I had the punchies ready and was able to do things quicker and kind of just got caught up. I also found if you give yourself a break..you won't get burn out and be seemingly lazy... don't worry.. you'll pick up again!

I was off from work a few weeks ago and when I felt a bit better I did do some scrapping...and the cricut machine was just a few feet from me and I never even set it up....I used stickers like you...mostly because I was trying to get caught up on one book and finish off another....so I could move on! LOL...so yes...sometimes I can be a lazy scrapper too!

I get that way sometimes, too. I just get lazy and don't do things that I know I should do. Even things I want to do! What's funny is that when I read Cricut machine, my eyes saw "circuit" and I wondered why you would need a circuit machine when scrapbooking!

My thing is that I am the type that will get an idea to do something that involves very detailed finishes and I'll get partially through it and ask myself "why am I doing this again?" LOL

I think this is probably the reason why I don't have a lot of fancy gadgets, it takes to much time and effort to drag it all out, and it's much easier to do it myself than to rely on those machines...lazy? cheap? I don't know, but it is definitely easier.

I don't know if I would say that I am a lazy scrapbooker. I have a lot of tools that I rarely use. I am a very simple scrapbooker and focus on most of the time just focus on getting the pictures on the page. I crop my pictures into different shapes, (mainly ovals and squares) but I hardly ever use any of my shape cutters anymore. I like the idea of pre cutting them. Another idea that I know some of my friends do is use pre made borders. Make a bunch of borders for different holidays and seasons and then when you are working on a page they are ready to go. It makes putting pages together quick.