So, I was browsing my gallery..

Pachimac

Pachimac

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and I realized that I don't break out of my mold as much as I *Think* I do!!! I just looked at all of my layouts I've posted here, and while I think they're all a bit different, my color palette is pretty much the same thing all the time and I never do cutesy whimsy bright layouts.

If you were to say something about YOUR gallery, what would it be? How would you like to see it change? What do you think you need some work on?

For me, I thought my break out this Summer was going to be artsy messy, journal-y type layouts, but guess I need to get COLORFUL and BRIGHT...something I don't ever do! I'm muted earth tones type gal! LOL
 
The past few months, I feel like I have learned so much that I am loving how my layouts are turning out. So, right now, I wouldn't really change anything. I have been digi scraping for about 10 years and I look back at my original layouts and see just how far I have come. I definitely have my own style.
I know that I really don't do white space, so you rarely see those.
I don't really do artsy.
I love bright colors or earthy tones, so there are rarely pastels.
I am still amazed at others layouts that incorporate more patterns and I want to try that more. I tend to do solids more (not just in my layouts, but in my home decor, and even my clothing).

I mainly hope that I continue to learn more every day!
 
Me too!! I started out at Two Peas in a Bucket and then most of my time was spent at DigiShopTalk, and I ran a Scraplift blog for a while back about 10 years ago as well! I look back on my first pages and cringe. LOL However, like with any craft, we grow and change. I am finding that the things I like to see aren't necessarily the designs that work out to arrive in my layouts, and I don't know quite why. I'll keep stretching until I find my groove thing...Then stretch again when the need for change comes up. I feel more accomplished somehow when I do something out of my "norm", even if no one notices. It's weird to not see much praise on layouts anymore. I used to LIVE for them. Now I realize that I have to like my layouts for me and no one else. It's hard to see no comments on something we work so hard on, but in the end, they are really for us and our loved ones, right?
 
I don't know if I'd say I'd "change" anything about my layouts. What's in my gallery is a very small portion of my layouts but it’s a good representation. But I do learn all the time and what I scrap now shows more style than when I first started.

I like my style. It’s eclectic, different from mainstream in many ways, often wordy, very tongue in cheek and definitely a little bit grown up tomboy, just like me. When I look at other scrappers’ galleries their style says something about them; girly and flourish, natural and down to earth or a little wild and free-spirited…there are a ton of styles because there are a ton of scrappers and those styles define us as artists. But we should always feel free to mix it up and stretch into new ideas too. Picasso had many periods of different styles even if he is most known for his cubist work; there was a time when the eyes were both above the nose! LOL
 
I think as scrapping goes, we all change over time. I can definitely see how I have changed from when I first started, but I also have a certain style of scrapping that I like. Comments to me are like icing on the cake. If I get them great! If I don't, it's okay because my LO's are for me. How I scrap is how I like my book to look. Even today when I went through my LOs, I saw that I have grown as a scrapper. As with any page, there are some that I love, and some that I do because I need to document it. But, either way, however the scrapping turns out, it is better than it was sitting on the flash drive. I am sure that your style says a lot about you and your personality, and I think that is awesome!
 
Oooh interesting question! I think the only consistent thing in my gallery is inconsistency. I like simple pages, I like big clustery pages, I like themey pages, I like neutral pages. I like artsy pages, though I'm not very good at them. (I think because I suck at blending). I just like all the pages!

I do a lot of journaling though. I have some pages without journaling, but that's only because I know they're going in an album next to a page with lots of words. I always use dates because it drives me crazy to put pages in albums and not know where they belong chronologically. I forget to put titles on my page a lot.

I'd like to do better at blendy artistic things. I feel like that's one area that paper scrappers can't really emulate, and some digi people do it so beautifully. (anyone have a good tutorial for me?)

I'd also like to put titles on more. That way if someone doesn't want to read my long rambling journaling they can get the gist of my page.

There was a PRT episode recently about different journaling techniques that I want to try out.

I need to challenge myself to do 10 LO's with blending, titles, and non-rambling journaling :)
 
That's me too, Jen! I really want to be better at the blended artistic layouts, as you put it, but they just look like my regular layouts with layered papers and lots of elements with paint backgrounds. LOL
 
For me, it all depends on the look I want for the LO. I take [and scrap] a lot of photos, so there won't be very many white space LO's unless it is for something specific.
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Good question - I don't tend to stray too far from my style either - I range color wise - but not a lot of pastels - except in the kids' books when they were babies. ANd I'm definitely a "the more pics the better" style scrapper!
 
Great question!
I've been thinking that I'm stuck in a bit of a rut...I really love clustering & do a lot of it. I have several scrappers that I really admire & their pages have clusters, but they are much looser - more scattered. I want to work on emulating and work on that style. I also would like to work on more journaling. I think 50 years from now, the journaling will be more important than all the flowers & stuff on my page.

I do have to say that looking through my gallery makes me smile...not because the pages are great, but because the memories are scrapped!
 
craftytam said:
Great question!
I've been thinking that I'm stuck in a bit of a rut...I really love clustering & do a lot of it. I have several scrappers that I really admire & their pages have clusters, but they are much looser - more scattered. I want to work on emulating and work on that style. I also would like to work on more journaling. I think 50 years from now, the journaling will be more important than all the flowers & stuff on my page.

I do have to say that looking through my gallery makes me smile...not because the pages are great, but because the memories are scrapped!
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It's funny - if I don't journal, I feel I've gyped the memory!! LOL
 
I journal "in the moment" a lot and use that when I scrap. I'm scraping our honeymoon right now and the journaling is pretty much verbatim what I wrote in my notebook that sat on the dashboard in the car. Now with the iPad, I hit the speech to text on the notepad and record my notes, easy peasy. Then I transfer the files to the folders with the photos. I remember things I want to journal from the little notes I save as things happen. I don't always jot down notes but it makes my journaling better when I do.
 
Nani said:
I journal "in the moment" a lot and use that when I scrap. I'm scraping our honeymoon right now and the journaling is pretty much verbatim what I wrote in my notebook that sat on the dashboard in the car. Now with the iPad, I hit the speech to text on the notepad and record my notes, easy peasy. Then I transfer the files to the folders with the photos. I remember things I want to journal from the little notes I save as things happen. I don't always jot down notes but it makes my journaling better when I do.
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I always feel my journaling is so jilted. I just need to let it fly. I'm a "grammar nazi" and I'm so concerned with correct grammar that I squelch myself. LOL
 
Pachimac said:
I always feel my journaling is so jilted. I just need to let it fly. I'm a "grammar nazi" and I'm so concerned with correct grammar that I squelch myself. LOL
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This is where I get lucky! I just journal conversationally (same way I blog; like I'm, sitting in a coffee shop telling a story.) But I married a newspaper writer and editor. He won't let me print my books until he proofreads all of my journaling. He's my grammar nazi so I don't have to worry about it. (Because when I see my own mistakes they make me cringe!)
 
Mine is that I haven't scrapped ENOUGH. I haven't done a lot of scrapping at all! :'(

That, and I don't do a lot of messy layouts. I tend to be more "exact", and use a lot of templates. I need to step away and remember my roots of going without, hehe
 
Interesting discussion.. I came straight to digi-scrapping without ever having done the 'real life' version. But having drawn and painted all my life, I do have a fairly well developed aesthetic sense. But I have done digi scrapping only for a year or so, I am still working at finding my niche..or maybe deciding whether I want to be in a niche or not. Looking at my gallery, I see an improvement in technique over time, which makes me happy enough. I have learnt a few things of what I like or do not like...I hate constraints - I did a short stint in a creative team for a very good designer, but being forced to do a layout with the constraints seems to block me terribly so I resigned. Also the ones I did in a hurry to finish a challenge or other..some are pitiable! On the whole, I see my layouts as being in three categories (1) Standard ones with or without a template. Some are good, others suck. (2) Blocked ones mainly for travel journaling. I am working towards pages for a printed album by year but doing pages randomly as the mood takes me. (3) Experiments with artsy layouts, some very successful (yay!) some not so well done.. I like working with artsy pages more and more but they take a lot more time for me..
 
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