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Breaking Away from Templates

Angie4b1g said:
I have no desire to break away from templates. :giggle
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THIS!
Honestly, I'm totally fine with using them. I like blocked layouts, and templates make it easier to get started. I then totally alter them and put elements of all kinds into all sorts of places, delete some features, rotate others, but they make the starting easy, and I'm not ashamed for using them. After all, this scrapping thing is about documenting my story and creating something I find beautiful- I don't have to prove anything, but can do whatever feels right.
 
Templates...no templates....there are no rules. If you're comfortable with templates, use them. Try moving things around, try adding more or less to them, the sky's the limit. Scraplifting is kind of like using a template too. Start off duplicating a page you admire and I bet you'll be surprised how much it becomes "yours". You'll be interpreting the design to suit you.
 
Crutch away, my friend!

When I use a template, I remove all the pieces until I get down to the paper blocks/pieces and the photo blocks, so my pages never look like the temps they're based off of.

You could try that as a nice middle ground.
 
i was going to say what anne said. if you really feel like doing a page without a template, use someone else's page as a guide. find a page you really like, and emulate it... it could be the photo arrangement or the way they used frames or paint or whatever else. anyhow, you'll find that as you play with it and tweak it a bit, your page will begin to come together, and it will be something your own. that's actually how i learned to scrap. and i still do this if i'm feeling in a rut.
 
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