Are you a trendy scrapper?

I think I would fall into this category

BUT

I don't try to be trendy. I take what I like and I add it to my layouts.
For example, I generally stayed away from the "one small photo on a 12x12 layout" trend. I will use multiple small photos, but more commonly you'll see 4x6 and 5x7 on mine.
For example, I still enjoy inked edges even though they are off trend.

Some trendiness is actually growth of techniques and skills.
Mixed media backgrounds: I think they are gorgeous and love buying the pp that is a watercolour look, or vicki b's backgrounds.
But, it's kinda fun to do them myself, and I've learned a lot now so that it looks like I'm "on trend" but really I'm just enjoying myself.
Oh - and new and improved tools (stamping platforms, blending brushes) has made some mixed media easier to approach.

Going back 5 years, I really can't see much change overall in my layouts. Maybe more white backgrounds. Maybe more mixed media.
I feel like my style is fairly established now.

Do you think covid affected "trends"? I feel like there has been a REGRESSION in scrapbook trends which I think is a GOOD thing - dust off the good old ideas! - mainly because the disruption in shopping and supply chains has forced some influencers to look at old supplies again.

Sort of? I like to try new things...so the new things are usually the trendy things and I end up trying them. But I have an abundance of supplies (and now two new ink pads lol) so I do have a mix of old and new.

I love this question. I can answer with confidence, no. Most of my stash is 10+ years old. Probably 80% or more. I usually shop on eBay and Etsy for discontinued lines, as well as asking on the FSOT if I’m jonesing for a very specific item.

I very rarely follow a sketch and never really got into things like embroidery, eyelets etc. I’m just marching to the beat of my own little drum I guess!

I could agree with this word for word.

Back in the day I was trendy. Now I just don't feel like it. For me simple is better.

I don’t consider myself a trendy scrapper. I like to try new techniques but I rarely stick with them. I just made a layout last week that had paper and embellishments from 2013 to current. I’ve always scrapped 12x12 for my everyday books. I venture into other sizes for special projects. If I tried to keep up with all the trends I would never get anything accomplished.

I prefer to do my own thing. I want the focus to be on my photos. I use embellishments to help tell the story, and my style tends to be more “clean & classic” as one person described it. Not like the old CM layouts, not at all, but the photos definitely take center stage. I love patterned papers and stamped images. I like layers. I mat my photos and keep them full sized, sometimes enlarging one. I don’t crop them down, and I refuse to crowd them with a bunch of embellishments. I love color. White backgrounds are rare in my albums.

I browsed the latest issue of Scrapbook & Cards Today. I definitely don’t follow the trends. I used to teach and work for the LSS, and I had to follow the trends. I can see the evolution of the scrapbook world through my older albums. Now I get to do my layouts my way.

You'd be surprised. Using hoarded rounded corner PL cards mixed with straight corner photos and cards is actually pretty trendy in the more nonchalant an innovative niche side of PL! 

Yes and no.

If I like a new trend and it looks fun, I will try it. If it IS fun and I like the results of my efforts, I will keep doing it.

But I don't TRY to be trendy. I try to tell stories with photos and paper, so I don't use a trend JUST to be trendy. And I keep using supplies and techniques that worked for me in the past, often blending the old with the new.

I was just looking through an album from 2011 and the pages there look much like the ones I made last week. Lots of torn edges, layering, bold titles and a spin on the story. if now some of the layers may be stenciled inks or splatters where before they were papers, the look is still basically the same.  Some one photo pages/some with a bunch. The only real change is the pages I am looking at are about young grand DAUGHTERS, rather than young grand SONS, so the pages are more feminine than my recent ones.

So I guess I do have my own style and follow the trends only when those trends help me be ME.

Add me to the "sort of?" category too. I like to try new things, but I don't want to blow my budget on anything new or trendy. So I have a few pages with purchased foiled elements, but I never bought the rolls of pretty foil or specialized tools to make anything myself. I have a few oxide inks for mixed media backgrounds, but not every color. And though my cutting system is old school Sizzix, I've still managed to get my hands on a couple of pre-cut cut files to back so I could play along with that trend too. 

But I will admit to having about 30 or so bottles of Nuvo drops, lol 

So, just sort of trendy, in my own small way.

To an extent because often times whatever the manufacturers decided was trendy was really all they produced. So, for a certain time period in my albums everything has a little bit of metallic gold. There's an overwhelming influence of pink and aqua. I also went through an edge inking and die cut title phase. I don't follow any famous scrapbookers though so whether or not what I have done in the last five years is trendy I really don't know.

I think I used to be more trendy than I am now. I haven't been exploring new techniques and really cut back on shopping so my stash is feeling a little stale lately.

Like Angela Chase after she dyed her hair red! 

I think this sums up me. I would say I'm typically late to the trends, I remember when fussy cutting was becoming huge and thinking I would never have the patience to do that but of course now I do. White cardstock backgrounds were around for quite a while before I hopped onto that bandwagon, and I still love them. You can definitely see phases of my style through my albums, particularly as so much of what I scrap is time specific, a PL album completed in the current year or a travel album that has a lot of pages created in the few months following the trip, but I also feel like I could put layouts I made five years ago next to ones created this month, and they'd still both be undeniably mine.

sarahbee it’s funny you mention both Smashbooks and Project Life, because that was entry back to paper crafting. I still have empty Smashbooks waiting for me to fill!!