Are there any layouts in your albums that you would like to do over? Maybe you thought you were done with it, but when you looked at it later you weren’t thrilled. Or you put it aside unfinished because you just couldn’t make it come together to your liking.
I know I do.
And while I don’t think we should go through our albums and redo all the layouts on which we used older products or techniques that we’re no longer in love with (there are way too many new layouts to create), every so often I do think it’s worth pulling out an unsatisfactory page and “tweaking” it. Or outright starting over. In my mind, the ones that qualify for this treatment are the special photos—the one-time events and images of times past that can’t be recreated.
Version 1: Bleck!
Here is a layout I started a few years ago but never finished. It’s a 5×7 portrait of me from eighth grade, and nothing I was trying to do with it worked for me. So I set it aside thinking that I would pull it out on another day and that the best way to finish it would just occur to me. It never did.
This is my first try at a design with this photo. Wasn't working for me.
When I recently saw this sketch on the Designs by Ashley Rock blog, it made me think of my long-forgotten layout, and I decided to let my first version go into the darkness and start over with it.
Version 2: So much better!
This is the layout I came up with using the sketch. I’m so much happier with the final product than I would have been if I had insisted on finishing my first version!
I don't know about you, but I like this version a lot better!
So, what do you think? Should I have left well enough alone, or do you think my redo was worth it? Do you ever tweak or redo your pages?
Product/technique notes: Most of the papers and elements on this page came from the Simple Stories Elementary collection. I also used doily stamps from Studio Calico and Inkadinkado.
This is a great re-do, Janice! Love your take on the sketch <3
Thanks, Ashley! Your sketch really helped me make this work. 🙂
Yeah I just did that a couple of days ago! Great black & white 60’s photos taken of me and my brother in a Lei Day school pageant dance……I had markers and a beehive and buzzing bees stencil sitting out so I used that to decorate the white 12×12 paper (also just happened to be sitting there available) and scrapbooked the two together. Lol. Gotta change that for.sure. P.S. I haven’t scrapbooked in years due to illness and am just now organizing all my stuff. Its my only excuse. Love the final layout you did btw. Much better!