What's your scrapping style?

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  1. tanteva

    tanteva Even the professionals are bewildered

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    Been scrapping like mad these last few days to catch up with challenges, and it got me thinking - I have absolutely no common thread with my layouts. I'm all over the place - pocket pages, c&s, graphic, artsy, whatever. If I were to print books it would be hilarious!:rollin

    Do you have a specific style and keep to it?

    I know of some artists that I can immediately tell who made the layout when I see it.

    I'm must a messy ADHD brain roaming free at 2653 m/h .....:driving
     
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  2. dawnmarch

    dawnmarch Actually, no. You are not funny!

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    There are definitely some scrappers here that I immediately recognize their amazing pages (@SeattleSheri and @EllenT come to mind). I think I might be one of the few people here who does planner pages and memory planner pages so if they are those pages, I suppose they all have a similar "style" since I start with the same format. But, for just off-the-cuff scrapbook pages, I am more like you in that I'm all over the place.
     
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  3. littlekiwi

    littlekiwi I charge by the hour for anything before noon

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    I'd like to say clean & simple with an artsy edge but truthfully it's whatever style works for that layout. For me I tend to experiment a fair bit, sometimes it works/I like it & other times thank goodness for CTRL+Z!

    Like you have all mentioned, I also find I recognize scrappers work easily as well, @*sylvia* is one I can recognize instantly
     
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  4. HavaDrPepper

    HavaDrPepper Space. The final frontier

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    Depends on what I'm doing. The 2 styles that I don't do though are pocket pages and mixed media.

    When I first started digi scrapping and found SWL templates, they were so much like my paper scrapping that I ended up loving them. Been a fan for a long time. So in the beginning more clean & simple but with multiple photos (have a hard time scrapping one small photo on a page). Then I learned how to cluster from FDD templates. So now I like to add small clusters to those clean & simple pages. I admire the layouts with lots of clusters but seldom make any myself.

    So basically I do layouts that highlight my photos using paper layers and small clusters.
     
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  5. bcgal00

    bcgal00 Say, "birdseed!"

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    I have an eclectic style with grunge, mixed media, stamping, lots of clustering and I fill up the page a lot more than I used to but I also like clean designs with white space, so mix things up. I used to hate templates but grew to love them.
     
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  6. jk703

    jk703 CEO of Anything and Everything, Everywhere

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    I would say I'm a clean scrapper with a little extra at times.

    I occasionally am heavy handed with paint/layers/blend modes, but it usually ends up as a clean painted page, lol! I think two of my favorite layouts are mostly paint and a photo - with like 3 elements.
     
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  7. jagruti patel

    jagruti patel Now where did I put that artifact?

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    I am all over the place also! I just do whatever my mood strikes while I scrap. Sometimes I find myself liking a certain way I did a page and my next few pages end up being similar. Or I will use a certain type of element over and over again. Like thread or something.
     
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  8. mcurtt

    mcurtt give me all the paleo brownies

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    Well, 100% of my layouts are in rectangular format. That is pretty identifying.
    I tend toward artsy, art journal pages, and fill the page. But can also do minimalist, those are a bit harder for me.
     
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  9. StefanieS

    StefanieS Think it over, think it under

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    I find pocket style layouts quite easy to create and love to break the boundaries of them. I tend to create multi-photo layouts and usually my photos have a white stroke added to them. I like the more traditional paper look, but also enjoy playing with paints and artsy layers. I seldom create photoless pages, but have on occasion. I almost always create a floral cluster or two.
     
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  10. kendrawalter

    kendrawalter Well-Known Member

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    I'm like you @tanteva in that my layouts hit on all different styles. That really stems from all the challenges I've done throughout the years, but I actually really like the variety and the printed book is just that much more fun! I actually try to avoid having facing pages match styles unless they are related. Like, if one side is a pocket page, the other might be clean and simple or something!
     
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  11. dotcomkari

    dotcomkari The Deaf Superstar

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    I'm all over the place depending on my mood.. but normally I like messy. I love love me some paints and color
     
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  12. Aerobigirl

    Aerobigirl Well-Known Member

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    When I'm doing challenges, I try to scrapbook differently than normal as a "break" from my regular style. When I'm not doing challenges, I tend to scrap multi-photo, clean lines, big shadows on a few things to emphasize, and context journaling.

    My daughter loves nothing more than seeing pictures of herself. I use scrapbook pages to get her to read and learn about time (beginning, middle, end.... before, after). So, lots of pictures of her and lots of journaling about her. Sneaky mom, double duty.
     
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  13. michelepixels

    michelepixels A pun is not fully matured until it is full groan.

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    I'm eclectic and have changed over the years. Nowadays the important thing to me is making sure I print some photos. And I've been more attracted to paint and stamps I can splash all over the page and less attracted to stuff you'd find on paper pages like ribbons and frames. I've never cared much for flowers, especially big ones, nor other big 3D stuff.
     
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  14. Karen

    Karen Wiggle it, just a little bit!

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    I've dabbled in lots of different styles over the years and still mix and match all over the place, but I definitely lean towards messy and full pages most of the time. I want to use ALL the photos. :giggle
     
  15. tanteva

    tanteva Even the professionals are bewildered

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    Good to hear I'm not the only one that's all over the place.
     
  16. cfile

    cfile My bags are packed for Platform 9 3/4

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    I like to scrap as to my mood.. if I am being creative it is more artsy. I can also clean scrap. I think most peoples pages are identifiable. It may also be an identifying factor by the fonts you choose to use :)
     
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  17. tanteva

    tanteva Even the professionals are bewildered

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    XBAND Rough, VT Portable Remington & Traveling Typewriter ... that's me. :agree
     
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  18. scribler

    scribler Blanket? Check! Slippers? Check! Sweater? Che

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    I am all over the place. The only thing I don't do often is white space layouts (even though I am hosting the Style Challenge this month and it's "white space"). One thing I am kind of consistent on is that my photo pages usually have patterned or artsy paper backgrounds as opposed to solids.
     
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  19. flowersgal

    flowersgal I have big ears and wide arms

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    I'm a story teller scrapper. The story (my journaling) is as important to me as the photos. Having said that, I'm one who likes to keep the focus on those two things. I like neutrals as backgrounds and few elements -- just enough to add a touch of color and interest without detracting from the story.

    There are times this manifests itself in a pocket page and TLP challenges often have requirement that make us clean and simple gals cringe!! (You know who you are pollys who host the challenges) But occasionally I like to do an artsy page or a whimsical one just for the fun of it.
     
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  20. Kiana

    Kiana I'm a poet, and everyone knows it!

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    All the styles!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Wherever my creativity and mood takes me.
     
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