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Post by Neisey on Jan 3, 2021 19:25:26 GMT
I’m going to jump in and share my experience as a scrapbooker with regards to DT members and other magazine and online SBers being young moms often “scrapping young kids” and people looking for a wider variety of subject matter.
When I look to others for ideas, I am looking at photo placement, colour combos, title work, techniques, etc. These things inspire me and therefore I couldn’t care less what the actual subject is.
My kids are 19 and 21 so my scrapping now focuses more on travel, nature, new photography techniques, etc. and I am still pinning tons of young kid pages to pull elements from.
I do agree that DTs could use a breath of fresh air. I love Missy Whidden’s style but her LOs (imho) are very formulaic (but hey, I like her formula!)
What say the Pea scrappers?
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Post by 950nancy on Jan 3, 2021 22:50:22 GMT
I seem to watch every Missy Whidden video. She certainly has a specific style and her photos are very similar. I usually start the video about 1/2 way through though because watching someone use watercolor to make a background looks pretty, but it takes too much time to watch someone create. I want to see what she puts on top of the paper.
I scrap adult children, but still have 7 years of their growing up to scrap, so really anything works for me.
My favorite thing is to find someone scrapping who is using paper I already have. Several scrappers did multiple layouts of Snow and Cocoa papers and I pinned all of them.
My favorite DT person creates with flowers, cute creatures, and pink. I don't use many flowers, hate pink, but love, love, love her creations.
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Post by camcas on Jan 4, 2021 2:02:33 GMT
ITA about Missy
I love seeing her layouts for placement,use of white space HD colour combos but I also skip to about 1/2way first!
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Post by hop2 on Jan 4, 2021 13:54:51 GMT
When I say I want more diversity on DT it is because I want more diversity of product. More kinds of people means more ideas should/hopefully mean different kinds of products
Then maybe I’m not getting all pink. All floral. All kid stuff. All feminine stuff.
I expect a wider variety of views on DT would hopefully mean a more broad scope of products to choose from.
Yes I can get inspiration from a 1000 young moms with babies but that’s not going to crack the door on more varied products.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Jan 4, 2021 14:23:56 GMT
When I say I want more diversity on DT it is because I want more diversity of product. More kinds of people means more ideas should/hopefully mean different kinds of products Then maybe I’m not getting all pink. All floral. All kid stuff. All feminine stuff. I expect a wider variety of views on DT would hopefully mean a more broad scope of products to choose from. Yes I can get inspiration from a 1000 young moms with babies but that’s not going to crack the door on more varied products. I agree with hop. I can look at any layout and take some inspiration from it. I follow very few designers actually and get most of my inspiration just here. But what I want is product that is more varied. |
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Post by needtime2scrap on Jan 4, 2021 15:23:08 GMT
I'd just settle for more color variations! I notice that I fall in love with collections that have non-typical color combos. Things that aren't saturated with pink, teal, darker pink. A good example was Amy Tan's last collection...normally I don't love her stuff but the color combos of darker blue, orange, yellow, green and white totally caught my eye! It was a great fall color combo.
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Post by scrappyem on Jan 4, 2021 15:44:39 GMT
I love watching Missy's videos too. I actually enjoy watching her mixed media process even though I almost never add mixed media to my pages. I find her videos soothing & love the way she layers up all the bits and pieces. My style is pretty clean and simple and hers is the opposite but I enjoy watching her create.
I'd love to see more diversity in types of scrappers represented too and the colors/products/style used. I'm feel a little board with everything right now. I'd also love to see some curvy ladies, single ladies, women without children, and some more women who work full-time outside the home represented. But of course, as discussed on the other thread, often DT are like second jobs (and often unpaid at that), so those of us that work full-time are less likely to even apply, let alone get choose or have huge social media followings. I'd also like to see more work related products. Pinkfresh had a line a couple of years back but it was mostly geared toward entrepreneurs and less for a more traditional day-job. I bought some of it but didn't end up using all that much.
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Post by mom on Jan 4, 2021 19:08:08 GMT
I’m going to jump in and share my experience as a scrapbooker with regards to DT members and other magazine and online SBers being young moms often “scrapping young kids” and people looking for a wider variety of subject matter. When I look to others for ideas, I am looking at photo placement, colour combos, title work, techniques, etc. These things inspire me and therefore I couldn’t care less what the actual subject is. My kids are 19 and 21 so my scrapping now focuses more on travel, nature, new photography techniques, etc. and I am still pinning tons of young kid pages to pull elements from. I do agree that DTs could use a breath of fresh air. I love Missy Whidden’s style but her LOs (imho) are very formulaic (but hey, I like her formula!) What say the Pea scrappers? I made this comment yesterday on the "DT so white" thread. I get what you are saying. I do. But you are assuming everyone just wants design ideas. I don't. I made that comment because when I look for inspiration I want to see what others are documenting. What events are they covering and what 'every day' things have they included. I don't care what their techniques are usually. I have my own style + what I like to do. I want to see the topics others are including for their older kids. Sure, I can find travel inspiration, etc but I am looking for the little details to document that I wouldn't think of myself. For instance, recently I stumbled across a layout on an instastory that was about how a scrappers son was into vinyl records instead of just iTunes or Spotify. It struck a chord with me because my 19 year old hates iTunes and buys vinyls all the time. I had not thought about the 'why he did this' and hadn't thought about it being something I would want later down the road. But it is. Because his 'why' is very much who he is and it is a theme I would not have thought of myself. So now that layout is in the works. |
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Post by MerryMom on Jan 5, 2021 4:20:50 GMT
I have to admit that as I read this thread I thought “Donald Trump is going to have a magazine and wants to be a social media inspiration”? My God is that man infiltrating crafting?
Then I figured out the DT was Design Team.
15 more days!!!!!
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Post by steakgoddess on Jan 5, 2021 7:41:54 GMT
I watch people for a variety of reasons
-I like their style.
-They do something cool that I also do.
-They do something cool that I do not do.
-They post long videos do I can scrap and watch/listen.
-They post shorter videos do I can catch a quick peek.
-They’re my friends.
-I’m not a fan and I want to hear which next psychotic thing comes out of their mouth.
I can’t say I ever watch anyone to specifically get inspired for something. If I catch something awesome and I want to do it, great! But just seeing and hearing scrappy talk gets me inspired. I don’t need a THING. I guess I’m evolving in my process because I’m not even all that big on challenges anymore except sketches. I just want to play with the things and have fun doing it my way.
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