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Post by cannmom on Nov 19, 2016 18:52:36 GMT
This is slightly a spin-off from my thread about single page layouts. I have noticed with the last bunch of photos I have been scrapping that I'm doing mostly single pages. Partly because I'm taking Shimelle's class and she does a lot of singles, but I think it's more because I'm delving deeper into the story of these photos. The photos are from a 500 mile bicycle race my husband just finished that took 3 and a half days. He actually wrote a report of the entire race that was really honest and open about how he felt along this journey. Now, I could have done a couple of double page layouts and given a general sense of the race, but I'm having fun scrapping a photo or two at a time and really telling the whole story. We were able to track his progress through a website and I took some photos of the screen shots and I just finished a layout about waiting for him to finish. He took photos of the massive amounts of food he ordered at a diner during the race and I scrapped that story and how the cashier told him " that's a lot of food". I know in the past I have really neglected the story part of scrapbooking because I enjoy the design process more. I'm really enjoying telling the smaller stories with these photos. That's my convoluted explanation of why I'm scrapping more single pages.  |
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Post by grammadee on Nov 19, 2016 19:29:35 GMT
Bet you--and your dh--will love looking back on these pages! I love how you have the photos of the tracking and of the details--like the food!
Storytelling has always been a big part of my scrapbooking. I like 2 pagers, which let me play with design and embellies on one page, then leaves me the facing page for actually telling the story with journaling and extra photos.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2016 21:53:22 GMT
I've been a single photo per page girl for years, despite everyone saying it's wasteful. To me it's not wasteful--I'm telling stories that go with the pictures!
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Post by 950nancy on Nov 19, 2016 22:56:24 GMT
I've been a single photo per page girl for years, despite everyone saying it's wasteful. To me it's not wasteful--I'm telling stories that go with the pictures! I put more on a page, but I would never say one is wasteful. I think we all scrap for different reasons and we do what works best for our need. Some do it for artistic reasons, some the story, some the pictures, some to document, some a combination. I think we just feel like we have to defend why we do what we do. We really shouldn't have to. It is our hobby (or craft) and that should be reason enough. |
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Post by carolynhasacat on Nov 20, 2016 2:55:59 GMT
My favorite pages are single pagers with a long, detailed story, even though they tend to be less embellished. I think those really stand the test of time.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Nov 20, 2016 12:21:27 GMT
cannmom I love how you just described how you are telling the stories. For me, on many of my layouts, storytelling outweighs design perfection. Sometimes I feel like I could make the page more like a professional one if I just cut the jounalling to a few sentences, perfectly typed on an antique typewriter, inked edges, and slid in among $25 of embellishments. But I love the stories of what happened that made us laugh, cry, smile. And sometimes, most times, they take a lot of writing. I still love my expensively embellished, minimally journaled pages.... but I save them for school photos where there wasn't much story to tell other than the name and date. Small Stories Matter 
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Post by sueg on Nov 20, 2016 13:10:10 GMT
I am finding I am doing more of the 'small story' layouts. Most of my scrapbooking these days is travel related - we are older empty-nesters, living away from our home country, so that is the greater part of our lives.
At first, I was making 'location' layouts - places we went, etc. Now I am more drawn to the little details - the coffee shop we found near our hotel where we ate breakfast every day, the trip where my son wore mad sunglasses (lime green, day-glo orange) every day, the time at Oktoberfest when we met the mascot of our football team - because they are fun. Mostly, I only have one or two photos of these, so one page LOs make sense.
I am also finding that making two or 3 single page LOs sometimes fits my photos better than trying to cram everything onto one double page.
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Post by epeanymous on Nov 20, 2016 16:49:42 GMT
For me, as a person who writes for a living and isn't particularly artistic, the stories are most of the design process--I'm not that great at the rest of it anyway. Even so, I do tend to have 3-4 pictures on a page, or one giant picture--there just isn't necessarily much else  . |
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Post by mikklynn on Nov 21, 2016 16:15:08 GMT
I am finding I am doing more of the 'small story' layouts. Most of my scrapbooking these days is travel related - we are older empty-nesters, living away from our home country, so that is the greater part of our lives. At first, I was making 'location' layouts - places we went, etc. Now I am more drawn to the little details - the coffee shop we found near our hotel where we ate breakfast every day, the trip where my son wore mad sunglasses (lime green, day-glo orange) every day, the time at Oktoberfest when we met the mascot of our football team - because they are fun. Mostly, I only have one or two photos of these, so one page LOs make sense. I am also finding that making two or 3 single page LOs sometimes fits my photos better than trying to cram everything onto one double page. I love this. The small stories are great. |
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Post by LisaDV on Nov 21, 2016 19:09:22 GMT
Period. Small Stories, Big Stories. cannmom, you and dh will treasure these pages. |
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