Scrappy QOTD: Page Design

bcgal00

bcgal00

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Do you have a style or create many different styles of page design? Are there products you use often? Are there products you almost never use?
 
I started off as a minimalist scrapper yrs ago but once I started clustering, it became my favorite thing. Now I tend to fill up a lot of the page, combining papers and elements to create at least one cluster. I love brushes, overlays, doodles, paint, etc. I also love buttons/flairs and they are on almost every page I create. I also love greenery - flowers, vines, leaves, etc. I take a lot of animal, landscape and macro photography so those types of products work well with my photos.

Almost never use....templates. So now I am trying to push myself out of my comfort zone and use templates more b/c there are a lot of amazing ones here at GS.
 
Hmmm...schizophrenic?

I am drawn to two distinct styles: "Clean and simple, graphic" and "artsy blendy, paint splotchy, art journaly".

What I wind up doing is too messy for clean and too clean for artsy...so I always feel like I haven't "accomplished" a goal on my pages.

HOWEVER...

The hysterical thing for me is that every single time - my pages that I think are amazing and people will go crazy over them bomb, and those that I don't feel like they're all that great get all the accolades. It's like I don't know what is "good" in the eyes of scrappers, so I have to just do what I want to do, and be happy with what I do.

A kit isn't a kit without foliage of some kind. I really hate it when I adore a kit and it has some beautiful, realistic flowers, and there's not a branch, a spray of leaves, or ivy. I typically like to use one kit for one page, but there are days when I will use 10 million pieces from different kits.

I like stitches, buttons, paint splotches, and realistic elements. I hardly ever use guitar picks, journal cards, stickers for journaling, and I typically don't like frames.

Since my Mom died, any family page I do, I try to add a butterfly to include her somehow.
 
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I'm with Susan - I'm drawn to two different styles. I tend to do one or the other. I rarely do the "heavy" layouts with big clusters, lots of images . . . I lose control when I try these.

But I do agree with Rae - use templates! If I get a template like that, then I can usually pull it off - I just have to stick to the design.
 
I love love minimalistic style BUT my LOs always turn out to be full of elements and bits and bobs, they might start out in my head as minimal but I cannot stop myself from adding this and adding that...it is of course the fault of the GS designers...if they didn't put so much fantastic stuff in their kits I wouldn't be confronted with the desire to use everything in a kit!!!
 
I can relate to all of you.

Susan - I'm with you on the foliage thing....greenery is a must-have for me too.

Lori - I used to be like you, didn't use more than 1 photo, not a lot of clustering and no "big" clustering and then somewhere along the way I started experimenting and decided I liked it. But....I pretty much have grown to like all styles, even pocket pages (as long as I dress them up with clustering).

Jill - me too. I start out with a design thought in my head, then I just keep adding "just a little bit more" lol and then somehow the page fills up :)
 
Jill said:
I love love minimalistic style BUT my LOs always turn out to be full of elements and bits and bobs, they might start out in my head as minimal but I cannot stop myself from adding this and adding that...it is of course the fault of the GS designers...if they didn't put so much fantastic stuff in their kits I wouldn't be confronted with the desire to use everything in a kit!!!
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Jill - Your layouts are AMAZING! You know how to use the bits and bobs so well!!
 
I love watercolour elements. I buy loads of templates, alphas, brag books, all kinds of stuff I think I will use, then I never do.

I prefer created elements to extracted elements, drawn flowers to extracted flowers and I really am not a fan of real leaves that look a bit threadbare. I use them, but I love hand drawn or watercolour leaves.

I am a fan of splatters and scatters. I like thin, flat frames, but not raised frames and certainly not fat raised frames.

I don't have a style, and I am typically not thrilled with my layouts.
 
Same for me. I started as a paper scrapper and I make sure to do a minimalist's approach. But when I started doing digital scrapbooking, I have loved clustering that it made it hard to go back to being a minimalist for me hehe Oh and I am so deep into collection Harry Potter themed kits too.
 
I'm all over the place. It depends on the photos and how I wish them to be portrayed. And the kit has a lot to do with it as well.
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I like to think I can pull off anything, but realistically simple pages with lots of white space are where I struggle. I’ve always been a clusterer and often called the cluster queen by fellow scrapping friends. Pockets are my favorite though most likely because I can whip them out very fast. I use templates but also make my own in both pocket and standard layout form. I can art journal but it’s honestly just not my thing, but if a layout calls for it it is within my comfort zone.
 
bcgal00 said:
Do you have a style or create many different styles of page design?
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That is a tough question as my "style" changes with the type of page. I usually start off with a template and sometimes I stay pretty close to it and other times it morphs into something quite different. I started off as a paper scrapper so my pages usually tend to stay pretty much like that. I would love to do a artsy one but just have no idea how to go about it. I love paint splatters, grungy backgrounds and the like but just can't get the artsy look I see in the gallery.
 
Heidi1472 said:
That is a tough question as my "style" changes with the type of page. I usually start off with a template and sometimes I stay pretty close to it and other times it morphs into something quite different. I started off as a paper scrapper so my pages usually tend to stay pretty much like that. I would love to do a artsy one but just have no idea how to go about it. I love paint splatters, grungy backgrounds and the like but just can't get the artsy look I see in the gallery.
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Heidi - I totally get it....I too was a paper scrapper for years before going digi. It was awhile before I started dabbling in more "artsy" type pages. I think my artsy pages are a hybrid of traditional and artsy sometimes. I never create a typical art journal type page, so it's a hybrid of sorts, but I'm ok with that. I always think, do what you love, what you have fun with and if you aren't having fun with it or struggle with it, then don't do it. But....try to be open to experimenting and trying new techniques and styles. I love that digi can go in so many ways and there is no "right" way...just what pleases the creator.
 
I don’t have one style I stick to. I like white space and minimalism pages but I love to cluster and as Jill says I tend to have a picture in mind when I start but then I always think, just this one more ellie and then it’s another one and another one. In the end the page is filled up and the white space is gone! I also love artsy, grunge papers and edgers. But I don’t like art journal pages, I am no good at that and always struggle to do when a challenge calls for that type of page, so now I just don’t do those challenges because scrapping should be a joy not an agony. I have tons of templates that I bought when I started digiscrapping and freebies that I have collected but hardly ever use them because I start off with good intentions of sticking to the template but then I alter it so much that in the end it isn’t even recognizable.
 
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