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Experimenting with Styles?

I am still new and experimenting with style. Do you guys try to make stylistic choices for a particular book or series and then switch? Just throw it all together?
 
mcurtt said:
@carilyne Have you watched any of @gonewiththewind videos, Watch Cheryl Scrap on YouTube? They are awesome, I started watching them, and I can't stop! Cheryl's clusters are to die for, she definitely has a talent and her own style. And like Cheryl, I've been trying to add a few word strips onto my layouts. So cute!
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Glad you are enjoying them and getting inspiration! It does take time and effort to do them, so it always makes me super happy to find that they are being watched. LOL :love
 
Juliestcyr said:
I am still new and experimenting with style. Do you guys try to make stylistic choices for a particular book or series and then switch? Just throw it all together?
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I did a homecoming album using some of my templates, so they were in the same artsy style . . . but most of the time my layouts are different and all thrown in together!
 
@Juliestcyr Most of my books are 12x12 and I always have a theme and usually a collection of templates that are for that album. I've done a lot of them combining templates from Anna Aspnes and @LynnG - their products seem to give me a good balance of simple and not so simple. I do a good bit of journaling on them (usually copied from my blogposts) e.g. I just finished a 60+page book of a two week river cruise. I take a long time doing something like this because the artsy part is not the easiest for me but gives me a balance from simpler Project Life week by week layouts.

On the other hand, I just did a 35 page Paris album for my granddaughter's photos in 3 days including making about 10 templates since the book was a Mixbook 8x6. I used a lot of 6x8 templates that I altered a bit and added key lines. I would have put embellishments (a postmark and a label) on each page but I was working against a deadline last night for a sale. LOL. Many of us get our act together because of sale deadlines.:circles So it's really a book of photos, much like one I did when she went fishing in Alaska with my husband. Photos that were not taken by me.

imho, both printing pages for a binder and/or books are too expensive to just throw it together. There are some good videos out there about how to go about planning an album. Those designers gave me a foundation to make my own plans with wiggle room to still play while scrapping what sometimes seems to be an endless project!
 
I feel like the photo albums are overall just too expensive! I am saving them onto USB keys so we can view them on the digital frame/a laptop, and then with Google Photos so I can share them with family. I agree if I was doing a print album, I'd be much more cautious. But the whole reason I scrap digital is to eliminate the physical "stuff" taking up room in our house.
 
Juliestcyr said:
I feel like the photo albums are overall just too expensive! I am saving them onto USB keys so we can view them on the digital frame/a laptop, and then with Google Photos so I can share them with family. I agree if I was doing a print album, I'd be much more cautious. But the whole reason I scrap digital is to eliminate the physical "stuff" taking up room in our house.
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That's why I like photo books and I just incorporate it into budget. I like that they are pretty slim even with a 100 pages. The digital frame is a great idea too.
 
mcurtt said:
When I first started digital scrapbooking in 2006, I was dealing with vintage photos. I didn't want to go through creating a layout with teeny photos, I wanted to see those forgotten relatives up close, and so I enlarged them as best I could, depending on condition, etc. I found that this "style" if you want to call it that, has continued with me thru the years, but I really didn't think much about it. So generally now, if I scrap with a photo, 9 times out of 10, it is going to be large. And the rest of the time, I do art journal layouts, my preference. I love clutter, I love blending. I really and truly admire those who do minimal layouts that are so stunning. But when I try that approach, I always feel like something is missing and it just isn't me.

@carilyne Have you watched any of @gonewiththewind videos, Watch Cheryl Scrap on YouTube? They are awesome, I started watching them, and I can't stop! Cheryl's clusters are to die for, she definitely has a talent and her own style. And like Cheryl, I've been trying to add a few word strips onto my layouts. So cute!
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I need to do some vintage ones. I don't know stories unfortunately as my mom passed away before the pictures were passed on. But I still know some or at least can pick out someone I know.
I have watched some of Cheryl's videos, but not enough. I need to bookmark that channel. Problem is I see the link when I'm looking for something else so I forget.
 
gonewiththewind said:
Glad you are enjoying them and getting inspiration! It does take time and effort to do them, so it always makes me super happy to find that they are being watched. LOL :love
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I need to bookmark them. I see the link every newsletter but then forget. This next book will be less artsy and more storytelling, so you templates will be awesome. And I need to learn to cluster bigger (that sounds funny -- bigger clusters?)
 
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