artbabe
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Post by artbabe on May 10, 2020 17:07:51 GMT
I'm trying to get this board moving a little faster by starting a few threads.
My next topic: scrapbooking boys and men.
In an an overly pink scrapbook world it is sometimes difficult to find the right papers and embellishments to scrapbook boys and men.
What tips do you have for that? What paper lines do you use? What embellishments?
My ideas:
I have found that I buy camping and fishing lines although no one in my family camps or fishes anymore. The b-sides are often great for masculine layouts and I can often use parts of a-sides for zoo layouts.
American Crafts is notoriously bad for making supplies for boy layouts- they are way too in love with pink and flowers. Except for Shimelle, of course, and you know what has happened with that.
I've had to go to some Australian and Canadian scrapbook lines to find papers that are more male friendly.
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artbabe
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Post by artbabe on May 10, 2020 17:14:13 GMT
 Sneaking doilies on a boy layout. |
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Post by 950nancy on May 10, 2020 17:19:49 GMT
We frequently go on vacation to the Caribbean, so all of those bright papers (with flamingos) work well. I also find that Simple Stories, PhotoPlay, and Echo Park are lines that carry more masculine themes or colors for guys. I like bright colors as well as more natural tones.
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Post by Jessica on May 10, 2020 17:25:26 GMT
I use a lot of neutrals in my scrapping regardless of subject, using the color as a bright pop of contrast. Obviously, with scrapping boys and men, I find myself focusing on blues and greens, but I have found myself choosing bright oranges and reds mixed in with my kraft/gray/black/white backgrounds. I'm a big proponent of kraft for everything.  |
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breetheflea
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Post by breetheflea on May 10, 2020 17:27:29 GMT
DH doesn't wear ties, play golf, carry a pocketwatch, drive a expensive old car, he isn't my hero or anything you would call dapper... Neither is my dad, or my father-in-law... who designs this stuff? He does bbq, so at least those papers sort of work sometimes.
I use a lot of plaid, brown (it fits all DH's repulsed by anything with color wardrobe) and navy paper I can get my hands on.
We camp so I already have camping papers in my stash and use a lot of those. Once in a while a paper line with castles and knights on it comes out and the color scheme works well (burgundy, forest green, dark blue...)
I have also bought files to die cut from Etsy for my Silhouette for DH favorite sports team logos.
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Post by 950nancy on May 10, 2020 17:31:35 GMT
DH doesn't wear ties, play golf, carry a pocketwatch, drive a expensive old car, he isn't my hero or anything you would call dapper... Neither is my dad, or my father-in-law... who designs this stuff? He does bbq, so at least those papers sort of work sometimes. I use a lot of plaid, brown (it fits all DH's repulsed by anything with color wardrobe) and navy paper I can get my hands on. We camp so I already have camping papers in my stash and use a lot of those. Once in a while a paper line with castles and knights on it comes out and the color scheme works well (burgundy, forest green, dark blue...) I have also bought files to die cut from Etsy for my Silhouette for DH favorite sports team logos. I don't know any husbands like that really. I think that paper must be used for a much older generation or old photos. I have seen them used in genealogy books or pages though. I also have seen parts of them used on birthday cards. It must sell because those lines keep coming out. My boys both love to golf and when they do, they try to outdo each other on the most obnoxious colors they can find. I need to get more pictures of them doing that. |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on May 10, 2020 18:13:41 GMT
I use blues, greens, kraft, browns, white, some orange, red, and some yellow.
I tend to use more generic shapes. Hexagon (it's why i bought the punch), stars, circles, triangles.
Enamel dots
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Post by lisacharlotte on May 10, 2020 19:32:13 GMT
Echo Park seems to have good masculine color schemes.
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Post by mikklynn on May 10, 2020 19:49:30 GMT
Like you, I bought some camping lines. I also will pick up bright geometric patterns for my tween grandson.
Thanks for posting some great discussions!
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Post by huskermom98 on May 10, 2020 20:11:27 GMT
I look for PP by looking at the B sides--my LSS once had a good sale on single sheets in an aisle of older PP and I went through that entire aisle looking at the B sides for patterns/colors I could use for my boys' pages.
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Post by BSnyder on May 10, 2020 20:13:35 GMT
I tend to use a lot more mixed media on pages that soft, princessy, florals don’t cut it, whether the subject is male or female.
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PaperAngel
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Post by PaperAngel on May 10, 2020 20:25:43 GMT
I typically use a neutral color palette (ie whites, grey, charcoal, black, navy, chocolate brown, kraft), sometimes with an accent color(s) (e.g. pinks, blues, greens, orange, red, dark purple) depending on how busy/colorful the photos are, & geometric shapes (e.g. circles, squares/grids, rectangles, triangles, hexagons, stars, hearts) via patterned papers, labels, enamel dots, punches, dies/diecuts, stencils, embossing folders, stamped images, etc.
In addition to camping/fishing lines, I find the reverse sides & non-themed embellishments from zoo, nautical, 4th of July, Halloween, & dog collections offer less traditionally feminine (e.g. florals, pastels) patterns & color palettes.
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Post by scrapnnana on May 10, 2020 22:51:51 GMT
I buy plaids, especially diagonal plaids, whenever I find them. Stripes and other geometric desigbs work, too, as long as the colors aren’t girly.
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Post by quietgirl on May 10, 2020 23:20:43 GMT
I use neutral, Kraft type backgrounds, blues, greens maybe. Great layout, artbabe , I really like that a lot. |
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Post by myboysnme on May 10, 2020 23:31:44 GMT
As a theme scrapper with a DH and 2 adult sons I haven't had a problem finding supplies to use. I even use pink sometimes! I use a lot of photo realistic paper as well when I can. I went to my sons' albums and grabbed a sample of some layouts I've done. I usually do a lot of grid layouts with more photos but these show a variety of papers. I'm going to post 2 posts and one has a picture of DGD I took today just to round out the collage!
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Post by mjmone on May 10, 2020 23:33:20 GMT
With 3 grandsons, I am always on the lookout for good boy/masculine papers. They are young, 3 thru 5 years of age, so I am having a lot of luck with Echo Park. Camping papers are good and the B side of pet papers!
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Post by myboysnme on May 10, 2020 23:35:28 GMT
I will say that I have never been one to embrace 'typical' masculine colors for my boys. It turns out many times the themes I use do seem more masculine, but I am not one who would only use blues, browns, greens. I love peach and various shades of red all the way to pink, yellows and flourescents like lime and magenta. No color is off limits for me to use if it works with telling my story, complimenting my photos and making me happy with the layout. I would use a 'typical girlie' palate if it works.
I find word papers work well with my boys many times. I used a few in my sample layouts.
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Post by camcas on May 11, 2020 1:19:34 GMT
DH doesn't wear ties, play golf, carry a pocketwatch, drive a expensive old car, he isn't my hero or anything you would call dapper... Neither is my dad, or my father-in-law... who designs this stuff? He does bbq, so at least those papers sort of work sometimes. I use a lot of plaid, brown (it fits all DH's repulsed by anything with color wardrobe) and navy paper I can get my hands on. We camp so I already have camping papers in my stash and use a lot of those. Once in a while a paper line with castles and knights on it comes out and the color scheme works well (burgundy, forest green, dark blue...) I have also bought files to die cut from Etsy for my Silhouette for DH favorite sports team logos. ITA🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I also find some less themed Christmas lines also work if you use the b side greens as an accent with kraft and black/white or the red with grey/white black carta bella and echo park both had checks and stripes in last years Christmas lines |
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Post by peasquared on May 11, 2020 1:31:46 GMT
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Post by grammadee on May 11, 2020 1:39:14 GMT
PhotoPlay, Echo Park, some Carta Bella. Cocoa Vanilla. Simple Stories. Wild Whisper. They all have bolder colours than most AC lines. For masculine LO's I like to use kraft or navy cs as a background and then use lots of primary colours &/or browns, woodgrains & metallics. B sides of summer & fall papers are best for neutral patterns. I like papers with gears and clocks, but plaids and stripes and stars work well, too.
If you are scrapping about a gamer, many of the teen boy lines work well for any gender.
And scrapping teams, I often use just card stock in team colours; no patterned papers. Some sports are easier to find images for, and Scrapbook Customs and Scrap Your Trip seem to have alot of the less common ones. When I find papers or diecuts for a sport my guys love, I tend to buy a LOT of it, cuz I don't always know when the next time will be that this is available. I also use Silhouette cut files, and sometimes find images on line, print them, and then fussy cut for my page or card.
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Post by kikitwo on May 11, 2020 2:06:27 GMT
Thanks for all of the info about scrapping masculine pages. I have only scrapbooked girls ( two daughters and two granddaughters). In August we’re getting a boy! We are so excited. Your ideas will be a big help for me.
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Post by refugeepea on May 11, 2020 2:41:29 GMT
Some B sides of Baby boy lines work for older ages too.
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Post by cupcakepeddler on May 11, 2020 3:19:04 GMT
I actually haven't done a masculine page in a while but I generally gravitate to the B sides for use on masculine layouts.
I tend to use Kraft or white and lots of blues, yellow, orange, greens, I personally have a preference for bright colours but I have used more muted tones like sage greens and dusty blues.
I also struggle with the themes that they use for masculine lines, none of the men in my life are dapper so I don't use any of that themed stuff. Sometimes a collection or a pattern paper will come out that I can associate with a certain male in my life for example my dad surfs, my son is a gamer and my husband owns a boat and fishes so I grab the papers individually that I know I can use. The more generic prints tend to be lots of stripes, chevrons, dots, stars, plaid and textured looking.
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Post by Embri on May 11, 2020 3:45:28 GMT
It annoys me how much scrapbooking stuff is overly frilly, floral and/or pink, and I'm saying this as a uterus-owning, female-identifying person.
It's not uncommon to flip through a stack and be hard pressed to find a single piece of paper that doesn't fall into one of those three categories. Flowers are fine, but there's only so many things they're useful for. I'd love to see more neutral lines - the last paper stack I bought retail was from the dollar store of all places, and is an awesome set of water/geometric/abstract designs with foil. Not a drop of pink, frilly or floral in sight.
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Post by Kath on May 11, 2020 4:10:14 GMT
I don’t really take much notice of gender related to color in papers, can’t remember if I ever have. Maybe I started using pink more when my son playing lacrosse in 6th grade picked out the shiny pink cleats and all of his friends thought they were really cool or maybe it was because many of the men I knew and know now have worn pink shirts for years.
All colors are used for both genders of my family. If it’s flowers, it’s because there’s typically a nature theme going on in the background and has nothing to do with the person in it. Pink also signifies love to me and so I like to use it in that way as well. I love my sons and my husband and they love me. Justification right there for a pink page.
And who cares anyway? Is the pink police going to go through and judge my pages on whether a male should be on them or not? Haven’t we gotten past this whole pink thing yet? It’s hard to believe we’re still discussing colors as if they belong to one gender. Not in my books they don’t.
I use every color and I use them freely and if anyone has a problem with it, well, that’s just too bad. They’re my books and I can use whatever colors I want. If they don’t like it, they can go make their own pinkless male scrapbooks.
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Post by Embri on May 11, 2020 4:44:59 GMT
Colours and themes don't belong to one gender, but a given colour/theme isn't always appropriate for a specific individual or event. For example my favourite colour is blue, I don't much like flowers -"meh", and anything frilly or lacy makes me go "Ew, absolutely not!"
If the people in your life or you enjoy pink/floral, then great! You're in luck, because just about every paper collection is going to cater to you. For everyone else... well, not so much. I don't resent that pink/traditionally feminine collections exist. It'd just be nice to have more variety.
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Post by finaledition on May 11, 2020 6:30:15 GMT
I have 2 boys and a girl and even with my dd I rarely use girly colors. I’m drawn to the blues and tend to use colors that compliment it. I’m also more of a b side scrapper (the paper feel safe and easier to incorporate and plaids and polka dots work for me too. I love my hexagon punch and I also love the “placemats” that were out with the Jillianbean soup line.
I don’t like primary colors together, I think my pages feel more neutral and colorful.
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Post by mikklynn on May 11, 2020 12:32:57 GMT
I also use a lot of wood grain papers for my masculine layouts.
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artbabe
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Post by artbabe on May 11, 2020 16:31:46 GMT
I bought that line! I really like it. It will work really well for brewery photos, too. A lot of breweries have a very industrial look. I haven't scrapped with it yet. I'm trying to remember where I put it. Kaisercraft has some nice stuff, but again, they are an Australian company. As you can see from my shark page example, I do sneak doilies and flowers and pink on boy layouts. I'll try to find more examples of those. I like all of those things. I have no problem with using them. But I tend to match my color scheme to clothes in the picture so I do gravitate more to blues, reds, oranges, etc., the colors the boys wear. My dad wears a lot of darker green, tan, and blue, so I like papers with those colors, too. As far as American Crafts goes, I have been using Vicki Boutin for my boy pages. I really love her colors and patterns. I love the deep, rich, slightly distressed look to them. I love (Not) Just for Boys kits. I hate to recommend them, because they sell out so quickly and I want all of them to myself. I also like the Australian company Cocoa Vanilla and the Canadian company Wild Whisper. |
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