artbabe
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Post by artbabe on Jun 19, 2022 17:33:29 GMT
Once again, I got the idea from another thread.
I have to admit I'm a trendy scrapper. If you look through my 20 years of scrapbook pages you can definitely identify what year I made them from what supplies and techniques I used. You can see my transition from 2 page layouts to one page layouts. You can see my transition from one product to the next. You can tell by the amount of photos I used and how I laid them out. You can tell by how much product I use. You can tell by how much mixed media I used.
I will admit to going back to some of my earlier pages and adding stuff to them to make them more current. For example, in the beginning I used to use mostly cardstock and I've gone back and added some patterned paper, washi tape, and enamel dots to those pages.
My newer pages are a mix of new and old trends.
Are you a trendy scrapper or do you do your own thing?
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Post by refugeepea on Jun 19, 2022 17:45:33 GMT
I wouldn't mind being a trendy scrapper, but I'm a cheap scrapper who has an abundance of supplies because I've been scrapping for so long. I organize by theme, so it's a mix of the old and the new.
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kitbop
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Post by kitbop on Jun 19, 2022 18:13:08 GMT
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.
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Post by Linda on Jun 19, 2022 18:39:06 GMT
I would say no - I have a simple linear style that has evolved over time as I've tried new products and techniques but my current pages don't look out of place in albums that have a mix of pages from several years.
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Post by kmage on Jun 19, 2022 19:36:55 GMT
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.
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paget
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Post by paget on Jun 19, 2022 19:55:43 GMT
I think I used to be back in the day when I was doing 12x12 and it was the era of scrap magazines. Not really so much because I wanted to be trendy but because those are the things I saw, thought looked cool, and wanted to try. Or those were the types of supplies available.
Now Iād say mostly no. I do pocket pages and I love to use my old PL stash I bought when I made an brief 6 month return to scrapping before bowing out again until this year. Lol I will mix my rounded corner stuff with current things which seems to be super UN-trendy. š I donāt care.
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Post by sarahbee on Jun 19, 2022 20:59:41 GMT
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 Iām jonesing for a very specific item.
I very rarely follow a sketch and never really got into things like embroidery, eyelets etc. Iām just marching to the beat of my own little drum I guess!
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Elsabelle
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Post by Elsabelle on Jun 19, 2022 21:21:47 GMT
Yes and no. I do try trendy things but sometimes it takes me a while to actually try them. It took me forever to try a brush script font and then I didn't use one ever again. I don't try every trend - some I just pin on Pinterest and that's where they stay. A lot of the time I stick to my personal style and I'm happy with that.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Jun 19, 2022 21:24:19 GMT
I think I used to be back in the day when I was doing 12x12 and it was the era of scrap magazines. Not really so much because I wanted to be trendy but because those are the things I saw, thought looked cool, and wanted to try. Or those were the types of supplies available. Now Iād say mostly no. I do pocket pages and I love to use my old PL stash I bought when I made an brief 6 month return to scrapping before bowing out again until this year. Lol I will mix my rounded corner stuff with current things which seems to be super UN-trendy. š I donāt care. 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.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Jun 19, 2022 21:25:53 GMT
I wouldnāt say Iām a trendy scrapper, but I do like to try new techniques, which tend be be ātrendyā. Once Iāve done a new thing, if I like it, it goes into my repertoire. If I donāt, or if itās not worth the effort, I leave it behind. Looking through my albums, you can see trends with techniques or products, but I think thatās true of most people doing a long-term creative hobby.
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Post by stormsts on Jun 19, 2022 21:38:49 GMT
I donāt 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. Iāve 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.
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PaperAngel
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Post by PaperAngel on Jun 19, 2022 21:57:28 GMT
While I experiment/incorporate trends that I like or pique my interest, my style is/has always been simple, clean, linear, modern, & minimalist. It is usually referred to as boring (although I prefer "magazine-ish," as aptly described by joblackford in this thread) & not often found in this product-driven industry.
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scrapnnana
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Post by scrapnnana on Jun 19, 2022 22:23:30 GMT
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 āclean & classicā 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 donāt 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 donāt 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.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jun 19, 2022 22:34:48 GMT
Trend-driven? Probably not much. But my overall look is definitely contemporary and minimalist-ish.
I've discarded certain trends that were big when I got into scrapbooking (through PL) and years later, I realise I've stuck to my guns on these particular matters. My PL albums are quite consistent and not too anchored in the trend waves we've experienced over the past decade.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jun 19, 2022 22:37:05 GMT
Lol I will mix my rounded corner stuff with current things which seems to be super UN-trendy. š I donāt care. 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!
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paget
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Post by paget on Jun 19, 2022 22:48:42 GMT
Lol I will mix my rounded corner stuff with current things which seems to be super UN-trendy. š I donāt care. 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!Ā Are you telling me that I am so cool that even when I am trying to be actively untrendy and not give a crap Iām trendy anyway? š Haha
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Post by grammadee on Jun 20, 2022 0:41:32 GMT
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.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jun 20, 2022 1:11:28 GMT
I don't think I am. I buy new releases every months, but I also buy old products when they're on sale. I recently bought some kits from 2015 that were being retired. (In my mind, 2015 only seems like yesterday, but it's seven years ago!) You wouldn't see the transition of styles and products in my albums either, because I am not a chronological scrapper. Today I am scrapping a photo from this week, and tomorrow I might be scrapping a photo from 2003. I do pocket pages and I love to use my old PL stash..... I will mix my rounded corner stuff with current things which seems to be super UN-trendy. š I donāt care. I agonised over that when I was deciding on a format for my 2022 PL. I made up some pages using both straight and rounded corners, and in the end I decided that I really liked the look of the rounded corners! The only people who would know that rounded corners are off-trend and a bit daggy are other scrappers, and I don't know any other scrappers IRL. So anyone looking at my album will have no idea that I am several years out of date!
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msliz
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Post by msliz on Jun 20, 2022 1:21:21 GMT
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. 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.
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Post by grammadee on Jun 20, 2022 2:05:52 GMT
msliz, you mentioned foil. In my 2011 album, there are purchased foiled elements and big diecut circles (also purchased that way). Haven't looked recently at albums between then and now, but I know if I did I would find items punched out of foiled cs and maybe some things that were stamped and foiled with embossing powder. Then maybe some Minc'd elements. My 2022 cards and pages will sport some foiled elements I produce with my Spellbinders Glimmer system. And the circles I have on my pages today are probably cut on Silhouette or with another cutting system. So HOW I get a look may be trendy, but the look has stayed pretty much the same...
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Post by chaosisapony on Jun 20, 2022 2:21:26 GMT
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.
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Post by grammadee on Jun 20, 2022 2:54:26 GMT
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. But you see if you buy enough of each of those trends and never throw anything away, you can spread them out over YEARS of scrapping! Don't ask me how I know...
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christinec68
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Post by christinec68 on Jun 20, 2022 3:37:49 GMT
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.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Jun 20, 2022 5:46:02 GMT
I do my own thing.
I've never followed trends, I just use what I like. I have purchased the latest and greatest or the "in thing", but not because I was jumping on "in thing" bandwagon. My purchase was because it was cute and I had to have it. I mix new stuff and old stuff.
My style is what some might call older scrapbook style. Stickers, matted photos or frames. patterned paper, usually but not always...multiple photos on one page. I scrapbook for me. I don't worry about what anyone else thinks.
I am a firm believer in "to each, their own". What I like or love, another may not, and vice-versa.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jun 20, 2022 9:17:25 GMT
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! Are you telling me that I am so cool that even when I am trying to be actively untrendy and not give a crap Iām trendy anyway? š Haha Like Angela Chase after she dyed her hair red!
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Post by mikklynn on Jun 20, 2022 10:48:25 GMT
I'm not trendy, but my style does evolve. I never embraced foiling or mixed media. I've tried mixed media a few times and it looks like a hot mess!
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Chinagirl828
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Jun 21, 2022 9:34:02 GMT
I wouldnāt say Iām a trendy scrapper, but I do like to try new techniques, which tend be be ātrendyā. Once Iāve done a new thing, if I like it, it goes into my repertoire. If I donāt, or if itās not worth the effort, I leave it behind. Looking through my albums, you can see trends with techniques or products, but I think thatās true of most people doing a long-term creative hobby. 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.
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Post by sarahbee on Jun 21, 2022 12:23:24 GMT
Iāve thought about this question a bit more and Iām going to amend my previous answer. Iāve thought of some trends that I did try in the past. Remember the Smashbooks from K&Company? I was into those for awhile around 2011/2012. And then around 2017 or so I tried out the Project Life format for awhile. I still like PL as a quick way to get a lot of photos scrapped. And of course I still have a hefty case of PL cards waiting to be used So Iām going to say that I have dipped into trends here and there over the years but tend to gravitate back towards my āgrooveā where Iām comfortable.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Jun 21, 2022 13:02:32 GMT
sarahbee itās 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!!
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artbabe
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Post by artbabe on Jun 21, 2022 15:37:08 GMT
I loved Smashbooks. I know I have a few laying around here.
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