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Post by katieanna on Aug 11, 2015 19:20:18 GMT
I wasn't sure what to call this thread so I hope the peas don't overlook it as "boring."  I've been involved in the scrapbooking hobby since the late 1990s and I've seen A LOT of changes, fads, etc. over the years. I guess what surprises me the most about the trend that my personal scrapbooking tastes have taken is that I don't regularly scrapbook or make regular scrapbook albums at all anymore. I mean... I have an ongoing Christmas scrapbook that carries on from year-to-year - that's different. But I no longer take a regular 12 x 12 scrapbook and use it for my photos anymore. I find that I like smaller albums - especially 8 x 8 - or smashbook-type albums that I can make myself. I have about 3 smashbooks (the original K&Co) that I use mainly for journaling and keeping records rather than actual scrapbooking. And to tell the truth, I like that so much better than actually scrapbooking. In fact, my favorite type of albums are the ones I make myself, along with pocket pages that I think add a fun, fast and unique dimension to my pages. How has your scrapbooking changed over the years (if it has) and what do you enjoy doing now that we simply didn't do years ago? |
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Post by freeatlast on Aug 11, 2015 19:49:56 GMT
Your question made me think quite a bit, katieanna. I dabbled at scrapbooking 12x12 pages when I first started. The size seemed so big to me (I don't take a lot of photos and this was in the day when everyone was doing double paged spreads with many pictures). I probably don't have more than a dozen pages done in this format and they were likely part of a class. I tried 8-1/2 x 11 for a while. I found the format easier to work with but I still didn't have enough photos to fill the pages. I might have 2 dozen pages total in this format. Years go by and Project Life came along. Pictures and cards in a pocket? I can do that. And I did somewhat. I have 3 partial years of PL to my credit. Over those years, I've gone from lumpy, bumpy pages to clean, simple and pretty flat. 12 x 12 is my favorite. I have been taking pictures and notes for all of 2015. I have yet to start a single layout. Don't know why other than I'm still doing a massive clean out of my craft room and it's difficult to work in there now. I just started Ali's self-paced 31 Things class. The format focuses on stories and I like this a lot. One photo, one simple title/embellishment, maybe a bit of stamping and lots of words. I'm putting this in a 12 x 12 album. I may try a WITL next week - maybe it will jump start me back into PL. If i do, It will also be in a 12 x 12. As I am trying to reduce clutter, I just don't want all these album sizes. I can deal with a few 12 x 12 albums but that will be it for me. |
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Post by scrapnnana on Aug 11, 2015 19:54:10 GMT
I've been scrapping since 1996, and I still enjoy it sometimes, but lately I have spent far more time happily making cards and mini albums. I also am seriously considering photo books instead of scrapbooking. Not digital scrapping, just ordinary photo books, just to get my pictures and story up to date if possible. My grandkids want my story, and it will never get done if I continue with traditional scrapbooking.
I have seen a lot of trends in scrapping, have tried some of them, hated others. My style has changed somewhat over time, of course, but most things evolve one way or another.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 11, 2015 20:21:39 GMT
I'm a long time scrapper too. Some things haven't changed much, I still like bright colors and fun patterns (smaller is better to me) and I still want the focus to be on the photos and stories I want to tell. I still like two page layouts and I still like 12x12 pages. Other things have changed some, I think my style is somewhat more refined and cleaner now. I think back to the "olden days" when people would cut pictures into weird shapes or place them on the page at wonky angles and the thought of doing either of those things today makes me cringe!
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Post by Loydene on Aug 12, 2015 2:52:03 GMT
I still find 12x12 scrapbooking inherently satisfying. I started with CM albums, but moved pretty quickly to post bound, then ring bound -- but staying with the 12x12 size. I've done mini-books -- for a limited purpose -- in various sizes, but I find I enjoying the 12x12 ring bound albums more -- both for creating and later viewing. I usually now work on a "vacation" album -- or a project album.
I do still have some chronological albums to fiddle with .....
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Post by alittleintrepid on Aug 12, 2015 9:39:13 GMT
I started with postbound albums and photo mats. My first creations used that fiber paper (I can't remember what it was called!) and lots of matted photos. Now I do PL but will put multiple sizes of page protectors into my albums if I want to add other things. I will occasionally make photo books for events. I still love 12 by 12 (now in D ring albums) but use these mostly to play around and create stuff instead of feeling like it must be a complete chronological documentation of our lives.
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Post by scrappington on Aug 12, 2015 9:50:19 GMT
I refer to scrapbooking as in anything I use my supplies for. Layouts, cards, smash books, and art journaling.
I love how everything has changed and the change in product.
But I still love my product from 9 years ago when I started.
I miss the stores though.
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Post by pelirroja on Aug 12, 2015 12:08:02 GMT
I still scrap in 12x12 post-bound style. I still use plenty of bright colors (love the Doodlebug colors) and I do many things the same way I have always done. My style hasn't changed much over the years: I do lots of layers, 5 or 6 patterned papers per page, handcut titles, and handwritten journaling. I don't do digi, PL, smash, or art journals. I've made only 4 mini books in my entire scrap career of 18-plus years.
I do buy some PL sheet protectors because I will mix in one or two of those in between a 2-page LO if I have a boatload of pix for a certain LO (like vacations or parties). My books contain lots of paper ephemera and souvenir programs, tickets, etc. and are quite lumpy and that's just how I like it. I do get lots of ideas from LOs that don't look anything like mine (I just translate them into my own color palette), sometimes use sketches, and have a tendency to think about a LO for awhile before I actually create it.
So I guess my evolution is not a rut but a comfortable style and way of doing things that works for me. I do try new things and work hard to not replicate the same LO format over and over. My scrap style really fits my personality and I think (and hope) that's what comes thru in my scrapbooks.
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Post by bklyngal62 on Aug 12, 2015 12:59:18 GMT
I still scrapbook 12 x 12 2 page layouts. My style is basically the same. I like using bold colors, some patterned paper and I don't like to clutter so much in a page. The only thing I have changed is going from post bound to ring bound. I have to be honest...as much as I enjoy filling my books with memories, I am running out of room to keep all these books in.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2015 13:24:34 GMT
I tell anyone who asks me about scrapping that if I was starting over I would make photo books on line. Last time I counted I had over 130 scrapbooks. Storage becomes a problem.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Aug 13, 2015 3:14:45 GMT
hmmm... I've thought about this question the last couple days, and I think my answer would be: most things are fads / trends that come and go, so I'm not counting those. So not too much has changed for me, except for one thing-- I no longer scrap chronologically, and I don't feel bound to scrap EVERY thing we do.
I started out (via Creative Memories) scrapping chronologically in strap-hinge albums, because that was the 'right' way to do it at that time. You (must) scrap in time order, and you don't get to move on until you scrap whatever came next on the calendar. I could never catch up and was always feeling like I 'had' to scrap something that didn't necessarily inspire me creatively. That was so creatively stifling to me that I actually stopped scrapping altogether for a few years.
Once I started looking at SB again, the Stacy Julian Library of Memories stuff had come around, and so had D-ring albums. Both of those things helped me to understand that you don't have to scrap only what comes next, and you can scrap whatever you want to and do it in whatever order you want. Other than that, my scrapping hasn't changed very much over the years. (besides not doing a sticker sneeze very often any more, lol!)
fyi, I started scrapping somewhere in the late 1990s or early 2000s, maybe?? I don't remember, exactly.
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Post by penny on Aug 13, 2015 19:36:38 GMT
Back when the only cameras were film and photos expensive and precious, I avoided anything that was distracting or trendy... I was documenting life and it was something to be taken seriously! I'd go a bit crazy and use photo corners or a tag, but that was it...
Scrapping wasn't a thing here then and so I approached it like a scientific/historical journal... I never saw anything special for scrapbooking until I stumbled into an Archivers in Chicago in 2004... I was stunned - I had been using art notebooks or newsprint books, rubber and cement, scotch tape... I love looking at those books with leaves and pennies, maps and tickets stuck in them...
Now I do 8x8 and PL formats... I also like trying out new trends and techniques... My scrapbooks aren't really how I document now - they're how I enjoy memories and playing in my art room...
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Post by tracyarts on Aug 14, 2015 15:54:36 GMT
I had been using art notebooks or newsprint books, rubber and cement, scotch tape... I love looking at those books with leaves and pennies, maps and tickets stuck in them... That's how I started scrapbooking when I was a kid at the end of the 1970's and continued on keeping "memory albums" that way through the 1990's. I started the arts and crafts version of scrapbooking around 1999, with the 12X12 format, mostly two page layouts, with multiple photos per page. I stuck with that style, but recently started cutting back on embellishments, and adding more journaling and memorabilia like ticket stubs and maps and things. Now my scrapbooking style is a hybrid of what I started doing way back in the day and what I got into when the arts and crafts version of scrapbooking really took off. Still 12X12, still mostly two page layouts, and still lots of photos. Just simpler and more "to the point". My scrapbooks aren't much more than glorified photo albums now. I do love all the embellishments, art techniques, and other fun stuff though. I just use them on cards, altered art, and other papercrafting projects. |
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Post by breetheflea on Aug 14, 2015 16:15:40 GMT
My first layout was in 2004 and was a two page 12 by 12 layout. I still scrap 12 by 12 but don't do a lot of two page layouts anymore. I have dabbled in 8.5 by 11 but 90% of my pages are 12 by 12. I haven't done project life (I did a blog version in 2010-2011 that I am trying to turn into a paper/scrap version) and haven't got into the planner thing and I make a few cards here and there. My style has stayed pretty consistent... several photos per page, patterned paper, a title, a few embellishments and some journaling (usually handwritten). I guess I'm boring  |
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Post by myboysnme on Aug 14, 2015 16:24:09 GMT
Things that I still do -
-- I may not scrap in order but I keep my albums chronological to a fault. If a page is out of order it bugs me.
-- I started 8.5x11 and switched back to 8.5x11 about 5 years ago, so I have about 5 or 6 years of 12 x 12 chrono albums
-- I still scrap in such a way as to keep my pictures safe and preserve my memorabilia. I use lots of memorabilia
-- I was slow to get on the lumpy stuff bandwagon, but I still do include lumpy stuff if I want to.
-- I still use lots of stickers but in a different way
-- I have always used 3 ring binders with a few exceptions
-- I have always theme scrapbooked
Things I did but no longer do:
-- I no longer crop my photos into wonky shapes, or really any shape at all. I will still cut down a photo if I need to but not because it is a trend but because the photo doesn't fit so I take off some extraneous top, bottom or sides.
-- I don't place any photos on the page in a wonkified manner. I am a pretty linear scrapbooker and except for the occasional 'cocked' photo I scrap straight and balanced
-- I don't pursue trends. I never was a trend scrapbooker but now I don't even try. I have my style and rarely try new techniques, especially anything messy. I scrap quickly so I don't want to wait for stuff to dry.
-- Before digital scrapping I scrapped everything because generally if I took a photo with film and it was blurry, that was the only photo I had. Now that I can choose from many good photos, I can leave some photos unprinted or unscrapped
--I rarely use titles. I never was a big title user but I'm more likely to use word stickers on the page rather than put an actual title.
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Post by myboysnme on Aug 14, 2015 16:28:59 GMT
- I had been using art notebooks or newsprint books, rubber and cement, scotch tape... I love looking at those books with leaves and pennies, maps and tickets stuck in them... I also kept scrapbooks since childhood and I now incorporate all that memorabilia into my scrapbooks along with any related photos. I used to have photo albums and scrapbooks- now they are all in one.
when I scrapped my teen years recently I had all kinds of treasures from my early scrapbooks - pay stubs, tickets, brochures, menus, everything I saved back then.
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Post by nitad on Aug 15, 2015 0:20:10 GMT
I have always "scrapbooked" in some way - I just didn't know it was "a thing" back then. HAHA. I would say I started "real" scrapbooking in 2005 after my Dad passed and I was handed all his photo's (dating back to the early 1900's!). I had to do something with them and tell the family history so my kids would always have that. I discovered a LSS near me and took some classes and that was that - I was off and running. I still love scrapbooking - all sizes, all types. I mix it up quite a bit and like others have mentioned I no longer work chronologically. I found that got old pretty fast. My style has changed from a little over the top to cleaner and simpler and I'm not afraid to scrap just one picture. I do and use what makes me happy instead of what's trending. I still love my hobby and looking back at everything I have completed from cards to mini-books to huge 12x12 albums.
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Post by doesitmatter on Aug 15, 2015 0:39:41 GMT
I went from 12x12, 8 1/2 x11, to the mini albums... now I've circled back around to 12x12 and I prefer these.
I do have some 6x8s which I love, and some 8x8s that I have done for trips and events that have more pics ...
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Post by eastcoastpea on Aug 15, 2015 1:19:12 GMT
This is definitely not a boring thread. I'm enjoying it and I'm glad you started it KatieAnna.
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Post by cannmom on Aug 15, 2015 5:04:35 GMT
I started out doing 8.5x11 in the 90s. I swithced at some point to 12x12 and can't imagine ever changing back. I have never scrapped chronologically. My scrapbooks are a hodge-podge mess and would probably make some of you break out into hives.  I do have some theme albums like my son's school album and Boy Scout album. I enjoy doing mini-albums, but don't have ton of them. I really like 8x8 size. That size always seems to come together easily for me. Not really a messy scrapper. I don't do much with paint or mists. I have started incorporating more stamping and I am enjoying that. What a fun topic. I have enjoyed reading everyone's responses. |
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I do have some theme albums like my son's school album and Boy Scout album. I enjoy doing mini-albums, but don't have ton of them. I really like 8x8 size. That size always seems to come together easily for me. Not really a messy scrapper. I don't do much with paint or mists. I have started incorporating more stamping and I am enjoying that.