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Step By Step Scrapbooking Get Moving With Some Quick Layouts by Sarah B. Carter Sometimes I'm not happy with what's happening on my scrapbook table. I admit it. It doesn't matter what music I have on. It doesn't matter if my friends are there hanging around or if it's just me alone. It doesn't matter if my magnificently inspiring sisters are in the house. It seems that nothing can get my head thinking in the right direction. It's like my brain has gone stale. And I HATE that! I hate that mostly because I hate wasting time. Who has time to waste? We're all doing all we can to save time so that we can spend it doing the things that we want to do like spend time with our friends, family and loved ones...so we can take pictures so that we can then...SCRAPBOOK! Am I right? So I've got a solution. When my brain is stale...I borrow someone else's ideas to get my own creative juices flowing. I try to start by getting ideas for a few quick layouts. Once I've finished a few quick layouts I typically have my own brain back. I gather ideas for quick layouts from a variety of sources: magazines, blogs, online forums, social media sites like Facebook, but my favorite place to find ideas for quick layouts is through video tutorials. The video tutorial is perfect for those times when you're sitting there with all your gorgeous supplies laid out all around you and an empty spot right there in the middle where you fabulous and amazing newest creation should be sitting. You can find quick layouts video tutorials online through kit club websites, manufacturer websites, YouTube, etc. I'm not saying that you'll get the best ideas that you've ever had from quick layouts video tutorials. I'm saying that they'll get your hands moving. And once your hands are moving...your brain will catch up. That's the point at which you'll start to feel like yourself. And that's the point at which you'll notice that you've got the beginnings of fabulous and amazing sitting there in that previously empty spot there in the middle of the table. And once you've got your video tutorial projects completed your brain will keep moving. And you are yourself again. And when you get there...share the love. Post pictures of your inspirational projects in some of the online forums and social media outlets that cater to scrappers like yourself. Who knows? Maybe you'll create the video tutorial that will be the creativity magnet for some other scrapper down the road? It's only fair. Contributed by Sarah Carter, scrapbook addict, layout lover and paper project enthusiast. She considers LBD Kit Club Video tutorials the best way to get the ideas flowing. And she's always looking for new ideas and project suggestions at the LBD Blog.

 

 

 

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