I am by no means a speed scrapper 
In fact, I may well be the slowest scrapper alive. My layouts usually take me between 3 and 5 hours to finish, which includes playing around with my photographs. I work on my layouts in basically the same way. When I have five minutes to spare I select my photos (in case they only need slight adjustments I select them unaltered, if not I leave them for another time to play around with), place them in a template that I like, type in a title and journaling and then close it till further notice…
Once I have enough time to actually scrap this page, I open it up again, load up (to many) papers, place (to many) elements, pick an alpha for my title, adjust the type for my journaling and then work on my shadows and/or start brushing. I love working with a bunch of different papers because you never know what they look like together. I end up deleting more than half of the papers and elements before the layout looks OK to me. Since I love the ‘cluttered’ look there are still a LOT of elements left 😉
I had these pictures all set up to star in a layout; I altered the template (Scrapping with Liz) to match my pictures, put the speechbubbles (Misstiina’s hihellopatts) behind them… and then put it away in wait of the perfect kit to go with them. For weeks…
And then I found the Pixelscrapper Bedouin Nights kit! I recolored some of the teal papers to match my daughters blue shirt. The orange, purples and yellows of the Pixelscrapper kit matched perfectly with the pictures of my little girl chatting away…
So, how do you scrap? Do you have a method? How quickly (or slowly) do you create a layout?
