What challenge makes you....

Photo-less pages filled with journaling! EEk!

 

I am here to be challenged and learn new things. I have started to develop what I feel is a storytelling style by using one-photo pages with either a big, beautiful photo. Or, if my photo taking is not so hot, a smaller photo with a longer journal entry to support it. Then, I fill in the details with a pocket page to follow. That is my ideal 2pg. spread.Throw in a title page (for events), or an index/agenda style page to keep it organized. That said there are still a few things I need to work on. I'm not scared, but acknowledge I have a lot to learn.
- Shadowing
- Multi-photo layouts that are not pocket-styled.
- layering lots of papers.

 

Usually the 1 photo or the introspective type things make me cringe. I'm more about scrapping particular memories, and I generally have several photos I want to get on the page.

But lately, I'm so tired of scrapping the same ol' thing: Oh, it's more pictures I took at a very familiar and already well documented nature area near our home .... blah blah blah

So, I'm actually enjoying getting outside my box a little. I'm trying to be a bit more open to different scrapping prompts.

 

For challenges.....
I'm not a fan of art journaling...I love looking at it, but I couldn't do it if my life depended on it!
I'm not a fan of a lot of journaling...I am a simple sentence or two and that's it.
I'm not a fan of black/white photos or circle photos...I prefer color and rectangle/square photos. There are so many times I will do both...I will have a b/w photo for a challenge but save a colored version for my scrapbook!!!

Oh...and I am definitely not a fan of All About Me pages...I do not scrap about myself...ever!!!!

 

I feel the exact same way. Not a big art journal fan.

 

You should try some of Just Jaimee's A Stacked Mess -- always love using them to help my clustering

 

My first MOC is was the clean and simple that seemed to take me forever, until we had the double page. It turned out that C&S was my favorite layout and I keep trying to do more of them, but they are still not as simple for me. But, double page layouts still have me panicking (mostly because I just don't have that many photos of a single theme, or it's harder to think of a theme to pull it together).

 

It isn't a style so much as my brain hitting a brick wall on a challenge. Like @AnneofAlamo mentioned about the "photos to tell a story" page giving her a tough time, I had a tough time with the Double Exposure challenge. I loved the idea of a double exposure, and I'd done it before, but for some reason I couldn't get the pics I wanted to use to look the way my brain told me they could look. So it wasn't the challenge itself but my inability to make PS do what I wanted it to do. Anyway, I ended up loving the page I created!

 

Art Journal makes me cringe....

 

I'm with you there!

Art journaling is still a stretch for me. I'm just not super comfortable with throwing stuff all over the page. What i dread the most is a technique challenge that's geared for Photoshop users. Using different software, I'm not always sure that I can reproduce the effect the challenge is calling for.

 

I don't know that any of them really make me cringe, but some take a lot longer than others (art journaling, blending, and double exposure come to mind). I do like that I'm learning new things, even though I will likely never use some of them again!

 

I'm not too keen on photoless (about me) or one-photo pages, but I make them work or stick them in my Others folder. Art journalling and big cluster pages scare me, but I just try my hardest.

I just LOVE how MOC pushes us to try something new. It's tricky a lot of the time, but it is usually something we would just skip past in any other situation.

 

Quite a few now you ask
Clean and Simple
Pocket Pages
Art Journaling
Extractions
Double Pages ... although last year I did several even for challenges when double pages were not required so perhaps I'm not as scared of these any more!

 

Oh and, actually, all of what you just wrote!

 

I struggled with this, until I went and looked at the speed scrap instructions. I didn't follow them, but I looked at how the speed scrap instructions were inspired by the board, and I ended up coming away with 7 or 8 inspirations from the board. At first glance, I totally felt like you did. I thought it might be the challenge I was finishing up at midnight January 31.

For me, I used to dislike anything that didn't fit my definition of scrapping. But I stopped and looked back at the pages I made my first MOC, and realized there were a lot that I loved that were outside my current style. And then I remembered - it's supposed to be a challenge! If all 31 were easy for me, that means all 31 would be hard for someone else with a different style. So I'm embracing the challenges this year, and just accepting that all I need to do is my best. It won't be an amazing art journal page, but it's my best.

And I reserve the right to add more journaling after the fact.

 

The clean and simple. I am a fill it up scrapper!

 

Did you look at the speed scrap instructions? That broke it down and made it so doable for me.

 

No, I forgot all about the speed scrap by the time I actually did it today, but... I finally worked through my block and did it.