Different styles of scrapbooking

breoni

breoni

GingerScraps Site Creative Team
Greetings, all! I've been told that my style of digi scrapbooking is very "traditional" (i.e. looks similar to what I used to create when I started my scrapbooking hobby with actual photos, papers, and tons of adhesive! LOL). I've been looking to push myself to try other styles. I see that there are some "artsy" styles with lots of texture and grunge. There's the journal style with pockets and lots of text. There's a minimal style with just a couple of perfectly placed elements to enhance a photo. I don't know all of the official names of the styles. Did I miss any?

Does anyone have advice of pushing oneself into trying different styles? :D
 
I have no advice Breoni other than have a go. My style is traditional as is yours even though I have never scrapped with "real" products. I am very drawn to artsy pages and white space/minimalism (you wouldnt believe it if you see my LOs though....I never know when to stop adding stuff) but havent mastered the skills thus far so I will be watching this thread for suggestions:)
 
I am a pretty traditional scrapper too. There are different types of artsy, though. I think there is art journaling, which is sort of out there and fascinating, sometimes very grungy. There is also a lot of artistic blending and effects that move the scrapping a little apart from the traditional.
 
Ha Jill... that's my problem exactly... I never know when to stop adding stuff to the pages! Ha!

Lynnie, I love the look of photo blends. I remember the day I figured out how to use the blending feature in Photoshop and Ive never looked back! LOL!!!
 
I’m traditional by choice. I have so many actually paper traditional pages I want my digital to look good beside them as I don’t scrap in order.
 
When I was first starting out in this wonderful hobby, I was taught to not create something that couldnt be done or that you wouldnt do on a traditional paper scrapbook page...ie dont let your elements to cross page edges, never do this or that, dont use big shadows etc...Those were the days when everything was aimed at being as paper realistic as possible. Now digi scrapping has moved into its own style of scrapping that allows us to do things simply because we CAN with digital product. Clever people have gone beyond realism and are creating the most wonderful arty, whimsical, magical projects with blends and masks and blend modes and whatever other things wonderful photoshop allows us to do...if only I were clever enough. I really would love to be more "arty"
 
The best way I know to try different scrapbooking styles is to scraplift using the exact same kit in the exact same way. In other words...copy.

I have done this method often and only after I have my other scrapbooking pages done for the month. That way I don't feel rushed and when I am finished with the copy, I say to myself...what if I.....

It takes a few tries with this method, but one learns a lot...helpful and not always an ego boost...just like anything else one tries outside their comfort zone. But it's a good beginning.
 
I'm pretty much all over the place. It depends on the kit I am using and which photos I wish to use along with the 'mood' I wish to create for the page.
Example- grandson's baseball pages are fairly traditional as a lot of our travel pages.
BUT... when it comes to a title page or a certain special moment, I tend to go more artsy.

Just make sure at the completion of your page, you smile and it makes you happy.
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