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Do you ever make bad layouts???

you know something hilarious? I will make a page and go well crap, I am done, save it and upload and it will be smothered with love and accolades and people from all over will make a comment about it, and I am going, dang, I didn't like it , but now that you point it out, hee hee, I guess I like it!
 
I make them all the time. lol Some I post because I have to (like a couple I did for the month of challenges) and some I delete and start over.
 
this is such a subjective question (for me). i believe scrapbooking is art, and while my idea of art may not be someone else's idea of art, it is ALL art. There is no good, and no bad, there is just wonderful, thought-filled art and when that art includes memories, then it's ALWAYS a winner. :heartlub
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oh, amber! there is no "wrong" in art, right? ;)

YES - i have a folder filled called "ick" where i put those that really hurt my senses on many levels! i look at it once in a while thinking...what the heck was i doing and why did i waste my time on those? but, they are all an expression of whatever was going on at the moment - maybe that's why i keep them. maybe.
 
Definitely.

But, I remind myself that in 30 years Ella (most likely) will have all of these albums. And she will love every single page. She won't think that my shadowing sucks or that I hated the composition. She'll just love that I preserved her memories this way.

My boys aren't going to care either way. :rofl
 
Yep! All the time. Sometimes I post them in galleries and sometimes I don't. If they've documented an event or something important, then I keep them and print and put in my albums. If it happens to be a page that just scraps a pretty picture that doesn't document any memory whatsoever, then I usually just delete.
 
i most definitely make bad layouts! often. and sometimes i keep them anyway just for the sake of having the layout finished. maybe someday i'll go back and redo, but maybe not. i just go with it and move on.
 
First of all, I have to say I haven't read the replies so maybe someone has said this, or maybe you are gonna hate me - if you can survive to the end of the post LOL)
Lili, you know I love you and your pages are absolutely amazing...now, as to the question....
I think of scrapbooking as an art...I dont see the difference between art & craft in my world/mind
and my belief, a very strong one I have carried all my life is that in any art, like in many other things in life....
is the truth is
beauty is on the eye of the beholder.

I know am not one of those -jaw dropper every time- scrapper, but I know something I may be doing "right" even though I dont think there is right or wrong beyond some basic color management....
but when one wants to talk about "bad" LOs....well, I have seen many, many pages in my life that are admired by people who are kinda ,erm how do you say , above the average...and I really did not like those pages, not a bit.

When one talks about things like this, which applies to the work of a designer too....
it maybe to my liking, whislt other hate the stuff....
you know what I mean?
none of those people arte wrong ...or right.

I know some people pay USA$ 400000 for a Jackson Pollock painting... I find my daughter's year 2's paint play a lot more valuable and pleasing to my eye...
and I know I listen to a kind of Brazilian music (and love it= yes, am a self confessed lover of sertanejo, country Brazilian music) which 80% of my friends hate with a passion...
so, thing is....
it depends who is asking, who is looking, who is judging.
I know there is a reasonable parameter, but I think if someone is doing this art/craft whatever you wanna call it, and thinks his/her work/play/scrap again, whatever you wanna call it, is 100% right every time...well....
there is no room for growing and the person is delusional
:rofl
 
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