SB: What is your "style"??

[Pam]

When scrapbooking do you adhere to a certain style - are all of your pages similar? I can't really say that I do but I never do quality work like those featured in Creating Keepsakes magazine. I really, really admire them - but I'm too lazy and not talented enough to turn our masterpieces like those!

I have done 8 1/2 X 11 and 12 X 12 albums and now strictly do 12 X 12s. I do a combination of colored card stock pages, the fancy printed paper. I've also done paper piecing, torn paper, and I must confess that I ike die-cuts and stickers to enhance my pages. I do all the journaling in my own, messy handwriting - although I did print our a caption for the DS's Klondike Derby page the other day and really liked the results. I also use the alphabet stickers for the titles or I use the alphabet templates and more often than not I will stencil them right onto the page and use metallic gel markers to color the letters in.

What do you do?
Pam

 

[yummy72]

Pam-

I guess my style is pretty "whimsical". I usually use bright colors, lots of photos, paper piecings, silly, catchy titles, etc...Most of my albums are of my DD who is now 8, so I guess everything is geared with her in mind. I have done a couple of albums of other subjects, including one of DH's Air Force career after he got out. It was a nice break from usual style to do something in classic colors, and not a lot of "whimsy" I do find myself getting "lazy" and sticking with one technique for awhile on several pages. I really enjoy paper piecing, in fact my whole business is devoted to it, so I do use a lot of those since I have access to lots of themes. In fact I find myself not knowing what to do with a page if I don't have a paper piecing that goes with it. Sometimes I print out my titles. I have a couple of those CK journaling CD's. I'm always pleased with the result, but don't use them too often. Usually I journal by hand too, but occasionally I will print out my journaling. Especially if there is a lot to say and not a lot of space to say it or I'm too lazy to write it all out. I'm always open to learning and trying new styles and techniques, but I guess in the end, I always go back to my usual styles! My 15yr old nephew just made the golf team at his highschool and I am about to start scrapbooking for him, so I'm thinking I will get the best of both worlds. I'll have a male teeager style of scrapbooking and a female child style of scrapbooking!

Happy Scrapping,
Candi

PS--Sounds like you have gotten lots of pages done this week! Great Job!

 

[Olaf]

? I can't really say that I do but I never do quality work like those featured in Creating Keepsakes magazine.

Pam, I find most of the stuff in that mag way too fussy and "perfect". Honestly, it looks like advertising art. I call them cookie cutter pages--everything starts looking as if they were created by the same person. Several years, I toured Hammersmith Farm (Newport, RI), and they had a copy of a scrapbook that Jackie Kennedy gave her mother after she (Jackie) and her sisiter made a trip to Europe. It was so cool! Hand drawn doodles, mess ups, and lots of journaling. It looked real.

I subscribe to the magazine just to lift little ideas. I rarely recreate a page just as it is in the magazine or an idea book.

Make it your own--it will be "perfect".

 

[AmySIAS]

What is my scrapping style? I think it's different depending on the event.

For Disney scrapping, I use lots of bright red, yellow, black, and white. Lots of other colors, too. But everything is bright, bright, bright.

I like page embellishments like paper piecing, borders, toppers, titles, etc. I don't like little stickers, unless they're grouped together to make a larger object (like the toppers, etc.). I like some of the newer page elements: eyelets, etc. None of my pages are too elaborate, though. I keep the embellishments fairly simple.

I like to be creative and use lots of color and accents, but I don't want to spend 10 hours or more on my pages. Some people do and create absolutely wonderful, fabulous pages that way. I'd probably do more like that if I had the time, but I don't. Each 2-page layout usually takes no more than an hour max, and maybe as little as 20 minutes. Just depends on what I'm doing.

 

[Tiger Fan]

I have to say my style is simple. I like to use shortcuts and triangles and diecuts and premade borders (homemade or preprinted). I often get ideas from those "fancy" pages, but never duplicate a page. I have no problem with white showing and never "wallpaper".

Lisa

 

[BevS97]

not sure if I have a style, but if I do then it's not the fancy CK style. Although I do like the Becky Higgins Scrapbooking Secrets and have tried a few ideas from there.

Mostly I just mat, double mat, even triple mat the pictures, shuffle them around until they look right and the add a few embellishments - I don't do paper piecing because I haven't the patience or the talent, but I like to use some stickers (mainly MAMBI - in fact only MAMBI although I have bought loads of others)

For titles, I either uses sticker letters, or else I print out in reverse and cut out the title and then mat it - I prefer this look but it depends on my patience at the time.

It's a pretty simple look really.
Bev

 

[chessie]

I am not sure what you might call my style but I like texture and I do a lot of mixing of prints and color. Mounting and double mounting my photographs. I could never seem to get the hang of a white background. My first few pages were worse than awful. I kept staring at that white page and couldn't do a thing. Once I discovered that I didn't have to use white I was off and running.

I like Becky Higgens' style. She is probably the greatest influence to me out of all the idea books I have seen.

I like to use journaling boxes. Depending on how much I have to say I might journal by hand or use the computer.

I seldom use stickers and if I do I mount them on card stock and cut around them, often pop dotting them. I have been trying not to buy too many punches but I enjoy combining them to make page embellishments.

I enjoy seeing other scrappers styles. Each one is uniquely them.

 

[DiznEeyore]

Originally posted by BevS97
Mostly I just mat, double mat, even triple mat the pictures, shuffle them around until they look right and the add a few embellishments - I don't do paper piecing because I haven't the patience or the talent, but I like to use some stickers (mainly MAMBI - in fact only MAMBI although I have bought loads of others)

It's a pretty simple look really.
Bev

Bev, that sounds a lot like what I do. I guess it's pretty simple, too. I do find that when I'm working on a page, the embellishment sort of "grows" as I go along.

The one thing I sort of worry about is that my pages would be considered "boring". Maybe that's silly -- I've probably read too many articles in Creating Keepsakes about "fixing" "boring" layouts. LOL Maybe "boring" is OK, huh?

 

[ScrappinBear]

I started out complex and then turned simple.... I like the way the pages look better I love useing textured paper as a background and have started embellishing with paper punches ! I am hooked on E-bay for buying them !!

 

[BevS97]

DiznEeyore -

have you seen the new magazine Simple Scrapbooks? I really like it, it is much more my style - classy pages rather than fussy. I was getting all the magazines, but some of them, like Ivy Cottage, are more about the embellishments than the photo's and I don't like that at all.

These are my favorite layouts (that I've done) and neither of them are too fussy.

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Bev

 

[DiznEeyore]

Bev:

Those layouts are both darling! And as I suspected, you are the Bev from my DisneyScrappers list! I recognize the sleeping sweetie from one you posted a while back!

Yes, I'm excited about the Simple Scrapbooks magazine. I've subscribed, and am anxiously awaiting my second issue (heard that it's being received by some folks already). I liked the first issue quite a bit, and hope they stay "simple" rather than becoming "simply" extravagant! LOL

 

[BevS97]

Yes - I'm in the DisneyScrappers group too, although I don't contribute very often -

I have just signed up for the ABC swap and am rather starting to panic - I haven't done any paper piecing before, so I hope my contributions are up to scratch!

I got 'X' - so am thinking of doing a wand for pi"x"ie dust = if I can find a pattern. I've found a tinkerbell pattern, but I don't think I could do the face on tinkerbell, so am looking for an easier option.

Bev

 

[lisaschu]

I guess I'm pretty plain jane. I am all about borders and that's about it. I've got a nice border...either sticker or PMP, some matted photos and my title. For me it's more about the journaling than having a pretty page. I keep thinking that 100 years from now my descendants aren't going to give a rat's patootie about the design and that my words will have more meaning. Plus, I hate to spend too much time on a page. I'm too far behind to dilly dally with complicated stuff.

 

[MiknMinMouse]

I'm all about stickers ~ I LOVE STICKERS . Seriously though I do simple pages because I'm not terribly creative. I have found that when I want to do something a little more creative and I'm stuck I use my Creative Memories fast formulas book. I used it last night while working on my son's album. I think they've got great ideas that are simple but really make a page look nice. In the end though I like to have more pictures on a page than anything else, because really isn't it all about the pictures

 

[DiznEeyore]

I totally agree about the Fast Formulas book. I love mine! In fact, I just had them out the other night trying to jump-start some ideas for our December trip album. I've been trying to do a layout a day....I want to finish it before the end of this month.