mallie
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Post by mallie on Mar 28, 2015 13:57:33 GMT
95% of my pages are double pagers with a minimum of 2 photos per page.
My pages are generally visually complicated. When they are simple it's because I am using one photo -- in a minimum of a 5x7" size and I want to emphasize that photo for a storytelling purpose.
I use a lot of patterned paper. I use paper from paperpacks all the time. If the patterned paper is thin, I glue it down to another piece of thin patterned paper I don't like and voila, thick enough now.
I still use stickers some times. I love my Jolees and Paper House. I use PL and journal card/inserts on my 12x12 pages.
Although I've gotten faster over time, it's exceedingly rare that I spend less than an hour per page.
99% of my scrapbook pages are event related. have no interest in scrapping everyday life -- I tried it and got bored soooo fast.
I tried switching to the D-ring binders and do not like them because I like my two page spreads to be seamless, more or less.
I do not doodle. I seldom handwrite. I do not own any cutting machine other than my Sizzix and a Vagabond.
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Post by mallie on Mar 28, 2015 14:02:47 GMT
Stef, I think your style is unique, inspiring and very beautiful, but you must know that you have a lot of talent and a skill set that not a lot of people possess. I have owned no less than four versions of PSE and also an earlier version of PS, and the learning curve to do what you do is pretty daunting. Some things I can quickly learn by picking up a book, that I can not. Believe me, I've tried. At this point for me it's all about the economy of time spent on a task vs. time spent trying to just get up to speed to do it and have an acceptable outcome. I can appreciate that you want the things you use to be truly unique to your layouts and you have done a fantastic job with that as anyone can see. But for the average scrapbooker they really just want to get their stuff DONE. It doesn't matter if a thousand other people are also using the same digital kit on their pages, it's no different from all of the thousands of people that use the same Thickers, papers, flowers or whatever in the traditional scrapping world. If they can come up with a finished page that showcases their photo(s) and tells the story they wanted to tell, it's all good no matter how it was accomplished. I don't disagree with a lot of your points! However, although many scrappers just 'want to get their pages done', many scrappers also want each page to say something personal about them and their story. So, especially for digital scrappers (I think traditional scrapping 'from scratch' would be very difficult to do), if you spend an hour searching for just the right kit, embellishments and alphas, spending that same hour to put together a quick digital page wouldn't take any more time. (Most of my layouts are very simple, just a bunch of photos on a blended background with maybe a drop shadow and a little brush work). So, although I do occasionally create a complicated, time-consuming digital page, more often than not, it's a simple page. I suppose it's just perception, after all! But not hard to do! Thanks for your point of view, I appreciate your thoughts! I think the difference for me is that I enjoy the process of searching for the right kit, embellishments, and alphas in my stash. It's visually stimulating, I like touching and seeing my stuff, it can inspire me to a different idea/direction (or give me an idea for another page I intend to do later), etc. Learning PS and futzing around on the computer sounds like what I do at work, plus I don't enjoy that PROCESS. It frustrates me in a way that searching my stash never does. That's one reason why I like this hobby -- so many different ways and it doesn't matter what anyone does as long as it works for them. |
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Post by jamh on Mar 31, 2015 13:31:34 GMT
I'm a two-page spread gal, and I rarely scrap less than 5 photos per those two pages. This is me, too. I like to take lots of pics, and I just like the way two-pagers look in an album. I scrap with a group of close friends, and they all scrap two-pagers,too.
One of the great things about scrapping is that there are no right and wrongs--everybody can do what works for them!
Jamh
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Post by RoselynR on Apr 6, 2015 0:04:59 GMT
Two pagers are such a struggle for me. I've done less than 10 in my life and I hate them all. So yeah..one page scrapper here all the way.
Most scrappers I see in real life are doing 2 pagers with a very simple style. All I can say is I am thankful for mags and the internet to inspire me to do more, because if I had only been exposed to the simple, photo heavy, two page scrapbooking style I would have stopped years ago. I'm here for the creative outlet first and foremost.
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Post by kristenf on Apr 7, 2015 18:28:15 GMT
This is a cool thread  When I started scrapping at the turn of the century, I was obsessed with 2-page spreads-I could not scrap if two facing pages were not one cohesive layout. It was very limiting and sometimes pretty stressful for me, which totally defeats the purpose! I find so much freedom and creativity in having permission from myself to scrap whatever and however I feel like at the moment! I'm a total mixed bag. I couldn't tell you the ratio, or even which I do more of, but I really love both 2-pagers and singletons. Both have challenges and advantages for me, so I don't really lean toward one over the other... I get bored doing the same thing, so I do like to mix it up in terms of what I'm scrapping at the time, but in the end I've got lots of everything! It comes down to how many photos I have-everything starts with the photos. I print them at home, and print in all different sizes, so I can stay true to my desire to scrap all the photos I wish to for a given layout. Some of my single-pages have more photos than some 2-pagers, but I like single-photo pages too. I'm sure it's a smaller portion of my single pages that only have 1 photo, just because I have so. many. photos... but I love those 1-photo pages - there's so much space to work with to create something! Also, I use D-ring albums-I scrap out of order, but I store chronologically, so D-ring is an absolute must! It doesn't bother me that the 2-pagers don't sit flush to one another. It's pretty obvious that it's a 2-page layout, and I can count on one hand the number of times I've sliced a photo in half in the middle of a 2-pager (and never through anyone!) so there's nothing really eyebrow-raising. |
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Post by kimberlyr on Apr 7, 2015 18:50:23 GMT
I do a mix of both single and double page layouts. It all depends on the photos I'm working with at the time.
I often feel I spend too much time getting the colors and patterns just right. I hope to get a little faster with picking everything so I can get more scrapping done. |
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Post by stefdesign on Apr 8, 2015 17:07:06 GMT
As for the question of single vs. double pagers, I do about 1:4 double to single. I tend to be an event scrapper, so when we travel or go to special events, I take lots of photos. Nothing short of a two pager will do. Since I'm digi, and I've pretty much given up on printing my layouts, I don't even care anymore if my page breaks perfectly. I just like the large, horizontal format.
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Rainbow
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Post by Rainbow on Apr 10, 2015 22:32:55 GMT
My layouts are as many pages it takes to use the photos I want. Sometimes all the pages match. Sometimes they don't. I do a lot of single page layouts because I scrap many moments as opposed to events. Funny thing said - single page layout Christmas - could be five layout pages I just scrap what I want, and don't worry about trendy. |
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Post by darkchami on Apr 12, 2015 20:37:07 GMT
I am a single page scrapper. My mind just can't plan out a 2 page spread and make it look right. When I have a large number of photos, I am more likely to put them on one page in a creative way. I have used a couple of Shimelle's 4x6 photo love ideas to fit 6-8 photos on one page. Most of the time I just use 1-3 photos on a page.
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