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Post by alittleintrepid on Aug 15, 2015 14:19:04 GMT
I'm including this just because it always makes me laugh.... Even though we've done it before! Come and tell us what scrap trends you never understood! What current trends do you think have been overplayed or can you just not get into?
so, for me, I never understood the mustache thing and I also can't get into the Bokeh papers (although I like Bokeh photography!)
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Post by maribeth on Aug 15, 2015 14:24:43 GMT
ditto on the mustache!
and I really don't like the trend of always using the same technique - like always messy layers, or always the ink splotches all over, I think photos/subjects call for different techniques. I don't think everything has to be done artsy - some projects just need to be tackled with old fashion basic straight forward scapbooking style, and shouldn't be frowned upon for it.
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Post by ScrapsontheRocks on Aug 15, 2015 14:29:06 GMT
I understand banners. I embraced banners. I have pages that I love with banners. However, please, please, please no more banners for a couple of years. Overplayed for sure.
The current trend that I supported as a "gateway drug" to bring new blood into our hobby has already started to get a bit ridiculous IMHO: planners with more on each page than your average AJ page.
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Post by kaybree on Aug 15, 2015 15:09:11 GMT
Oh definitely moustaches. They're just weird. And anchors, I don't have much use for nautical imagery in my scrapbooks. And pineapples.
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Post by Loydene on Aug 15, 2015 15:12:30 GMT
Mustaches ... foxes ... any and all little faces on things ... the Eiffel tower for travel ... Parisian images = chic/mod/female ... I have a lot of "hot buttons"!! LOL!!
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Post by breetheflea on Aug 15, 2015 15:31:14 GMT
Paris and NYC on everything travel. There are other cities in the world and if I buy a travel line, how am I going use stuff from those cities when my trip wasn't to either of those places?
I don't get the planners, it's a calendar, why does it need to be decorated?
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Post by artbabe on Aug 15, 2015 16:03:43 GMT
Mustaches. I have no use for mustaches.
I've been through the deer, owl, fox, and whatever animal of the moment phases. I don't mind them.
Oh, I never was much into chandeliers. They are beautiful but I found them hard to scrap with.
Epoxy stickers because those darn things turned yellow.
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Post by leeny on Aug 15, 2015 16:04:45 GMT
I've said it before and I'll say it again - so much stuff on the page I can't see the one little photo! My layouts are about photos not to see how much stuff I can adhere to a page  But then I also like my embellishments and papers to match my photos. |
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Post by Skellinton on Aug 15, 2015 16:06:23 GMT
Planners for sure (I would much rather spend my time scrapbooking then making a planner cute-and my life isn't that confusing that I need a planner in the first place), but the main scrapbooking trend I don't get is the itsy blitsy, teeny tiny 1 inch by 2 inch photos on a layout covered with flowers, mists, gems, etc. Scrapbooking should be about the photos, not a challenge to see how much ephermera you can stick on a 12x12 piece of paper!
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Post by Skellinton on Aug 15, 2015 16:07:24 GMT
I've said it before and I'll say it again - so much stuff on the page I can't see the one little photo! My layouts are about photos not to see how much stuff I can adhere to a page But then I also like my embellishments and papers to match my photos. Great minds think alike, and I am a slow typist! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2015 16:36:26 GMT
Photo realistic papers and highly themed travel papers. I don't understand needing a 12x12 realistic photo of macaroni and cheese to scrap your toddler's favourite meal...
But, now that I've said that, I do like some cutesy, themed supplies, for pages on occasion.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 15, 2015 16:41:01 GMT
I have the hardest time with patterned paper that has a scenic design across the bottom or around the sides. Once you get a few photos on there, you can't see the scene and then what's the point? Or you work around the scene on the paper and then there's no room for photos. I just don't get it!
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Post by miominmio on Aug 15, 2015 16:41:03 GMT
I understand banners. I embraced banners. I have pages that I love with banners. However, please, please, please no more banners for a couple of years. Overplayed for sure. The current trend that I supported as a "gateway drug" to bring new blood into our hobby has already started to get a bit ridiculous IMHO: planners with more on each page than your average AJ page. I'm into planning, but I use my planners for PLANNING! I really don't understand how some of them can get any planning done with the amount of washi and stickers and paint they have on a page. |
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Post by miominmio on Aug 15, 2015 16:42:15 GMT
Epoxy stickers because those darn things turned yellow. And they fell off....... |
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Post by angee on Aug 15, 2015 16:49:00 GMT
Salvaged dolls! Just no!! Planners, mustaches, ink splatters dribbled all over the page and small photos surrounded by a ton of embellishments, where you have to look find the photo.
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Post by MDscrapaholic on Aug 15, 2015 16:57:18 GMT
I never liked big patterned paper. Very hard to use. I want my paper to compliment my pictures, not overwhelm them.
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Post by pelirroja on Aug 15, 2015 18:57:16 GMT
Deer heads with antlers, chandeleirs, single feminine chair, mustaches, owls, and pineapples.
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Post by LisaDV on Aug 15, 2015 19:02:10 GMT
and I really don't like the trend of always using the same technique - like always messy layers, or always the ink splotches all over, I think photos/subjects call for different techniques. I don't think everything has to be done artsy - some projects just need to be tackled with old fashion basic straight forward scapbooking style, and shouldn't be frowned upon for it. 
(I think this is the 2nd time I've "Yeah That"ed you today. We must be scrapbooking sisters!
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Post by LisaDV on Aug 15, 2015 19:05:47 GMT
The current trend that I supported as a "gateway drug" to bring new blood into our hobby has already started to get a bit ridiculous IMHO: planners with more on each page than your average AJ page. Yeah, I wonder how they ever get any planning done. But if they're using it for their creative outlet, so be it.
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Post by anniefb on Aug 15, 2015 19:05:53 GMT
For me it would have to be moustaches. Just don't get it at all!
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Post by chances on Aug 15, 2015 19:45:52 GMT
I think I'm in the minority here, but I don't get "wonky" shapes. Why would I buy a stamp of a weird shaped circle or heart that I could draw? To me it just seems like a way to make money with no artistic skill. That's just my opinion though!
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Post by FurryP on Aug 15, 2015 20:44:17 GMT
CORK embellishments.
I try, but I just can't get myself to like them.
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Post by cannmom on Aug 15, 2015 20:55:55 GMT
Never liked the realistic photo papers and chandeliers. Funny thing my, husband bought me a pack of mustache embellishments last Christmas and I was able to use them because our son got a pack of stick on mustaches in his stocking. If not for that I have no idea what I would have used them on.
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Post by freeatlast on Aug 15, 2015 21:02:15 GMT
Remember bottlecaps? Never got that one.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2015 21:46:16 GMT
Oh, yah, bottlecaps were the worst. They created such lumpy pages, you couldn't store them. So, lumpy is my big "no no" over the years.
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Post by nylene on Aug 15, 2015 22:04:25 GMT
I don't "get" mustaches or foxes or chandeliers unless you are scrapping something related to mustaches or foxes or chandeliers.
I still love banners....sorry.
But I'm the first to say to each his own. I think you ought to scrap what and how you want and enjoy the creative outlet. I love looking at what other people make with things I don't use. That's the best part about this hobby...that and the fact that it's cheaper than therapy.
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Post by myboysnme on Aug 15, 2015 22:17:54 GMT
Loydene foxes were OK with me because my son was using the fox as a symbol for one of his activities, and owls were the mascot of my college, so those were OK in moderation, haha! There is really no trend that I think was worse than others that comes to mind. I didn't really use mustaches but I am so literal in my scrapping that I did use a mustache/beard paper for pictures of my son and his friends sporting their beards.
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Post by bethquiroz on Aug 15, 2015 22:44:28 GMT
I with you gals who hate the tiny-photo-over-embellished layout. Paige Evans is a great example. She does all this over the top stuff with cut files and little itty bitty scraps of paper. Finding the photos on her page is like a Where's Waldo book! I always thought that scrapbooking was supposed to be about the photos! To each his/her own, I guess.  |
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Post by oaksong on Aug 15, 2015 23:14:18 GMT
For me also, it's the tiny little photo hiding among layers upon layers of paper and embellishments.
I don't get the planner thing at all, either. I watched a YouTube video of one of the more popular planner people do her thing, and I literally think it killed a few brain cells. There are lots of interesting and personal art journals created out of a notebooks and planners, but washi and stickers to add "Do Laundry", "Go to the Grocery Store" to a calendar? To each her own...
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Post by PEArfect on Aug 15, 2015 23:22:30 GMT
Remember the 'sticker sneeze' trend?  |
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But then I also like my embellishments and papers to match my photos.
