What Happens if I get stuck?

Hello and Good Morning!

I don't know about you, but sometimes scrapping about myself can be one of the hardest things to cover on a layout. I have so many things to scrap about, like my kids and hubby, life in general... but my kids alone hog my scrappy attention with the cute things they say and do, so they tend to be in my scrappy focus a lot of times.

This is why I appreciate this blog! It makes me try to reach out just a bit further and it requires some thinking! I have to admit, when I had to keep things positive ( I am my worse critic) it made me draw a blank. It caused a panic....so this leads me to the question: what happens if i get stuck?

How do I get to a finished layout from a blank?

Smile: You are Fabulous


color: I picked paper full of bright color, because my life's a colorful one!!!

symbolism: shoes, flowers, crown, pearls, mist, the word Cherish to symbolize that I don't take a moment for granted, and some distressing to show how frazzled I can be!

slogan: the words are accented in pink on the PP. I also listed them, ie, shoe fiend, daughter of the King, I love pretty and old things...and flowers. LOL (that's obvious, but sometimes it's great to go with what's obvious, or else you risk making it feel wrong!)

It starts with this one little notebook.

I take it everywhere I go. It's small enough to carry in my purse...so as the day goes on if an idea "hits me" while I'm driving, or at work, etc., I stop and get that purse out to jot it down before I forget!  <--- yes, you can laugh at that, I can't tell you how many great ideas I've had for a layout to then promptly forget it as I sit at my scrap table.

As you can see, I wanted to add more, but the papers I chose didn't allow for everything. That's the point of brainstorming, putting down those ideas that swirl around to kind of make sense of it all. If everything doesn't make it to the page, it's OK. At first I was a bit disappointed because I thought I was going to load it with a lot more. But a few days later I took another look and fell in love. I even expressed my uncertainty and Melissa said that it looked like something I would make. And it does....it looks true to me. :D




Here's an example of another layout I made just for fun using a beautiful color combo, with the notes I brain stormed...

These are the notes I jotted down just randomly one day:

you can certainly see that I didn't go with the tree theme....and this layout turned out to be one of my faves.
I hope that you can draw some inspiration from brainstorming when the idea quite doesn't hit you! You shouldn't shy away from a challenge because you draw a blank. You never know what you can end up with if you just push through!!!