Scrapping the unfamiliar...please post some examples!

That page is really cool, @kikkipea! Can't go wrong with stars and the word Dude on a boy page! And I love the perspective of the photo, really gets you wondering what that little mind is thinking!

I grew up with 4 brothers, raised 4 sons and a daughter, and now have 7 dgs's and just 4dgd's, so masculine cards and pages are something I do a LOT of. In a way, I find them easier than feminine pages. A few strong colours, some clear icons, a few arrows &/or stars and a guy page is well on its way. When my dgs's look at my albums, they look for photos of themselves and love to read or have read to them the stories about themselves. So easy to please.

My dgd's are more artsy and their skills in that area are beyond mine, so I often feel challenged when I create pages about them or cards for them. When they look at their pages, they are interested in how they are made, what I used to get that colour or that effect. So I feel like I need to pay attention to every detail with their LO's. And girls' interests and colour preferences are way broader than boys', I find. Also the icons they may like are wide ranging as well. So too many choices for my pages sometimes.

Too many choices is not good for me. I look for options anyway. So whatever choices I have, I will look for additional ones. And for feminine pages, I don't really know when to stop piling on the layers and embellishments.

Good question. Interested to see everyone's answers.

I'm not good at scrapping feelings or moments. I'm much more of an event scrapper and even better if there's a theme. Also sad things. I have numerous sheet protectors with a funeral program inserted and nothing scrapped. The only one I've followed through with is my grandma's, probably because she was 99 when she died and I was prepared for her death.

Scrapthology

The layering on your layout is phenomenal! Truly awesome layout.

KikiPea I love your layout, too. The photo is priceless.

Scrapthology You made my day with your zombie hamster. I'm going to be laughing inside all day. Awesome! And, great layout, too.

Isn't that what scrapbooking is about, documenting what we want to capture. If it means something to us; good, bad, silly, or whatever; then we can document whatever/however we want. Especially zombie hamsters.

I have no kids, no pets, 3 nephews and 1 niece. I don't like pink myself, but when my niece was little, I did tons of layouts of her with pink. Now that she is older, she says her favorite color is green. I still use pink sometimes when I scrapbook her, and she doesn't care because it is my book. My memory of her. If I was making layouts for her, for her book, I would use the colors and such that she likes.

I love scrapbooking because there are no rules!!!

I have an 8x10 portrait of DH that I had trouble scrapping. It's a photo he had done for work, but it looks nice enough to include in my book. (He's a handsome guy!) The trouble is, it's boring, and the "fun" papers look out of place and forced. I ended up using mostly boring browns, but if I can find some decent navy stripes, I'll add to it. It still feels unfinished.

I was creating a gift album for my mil for her birthday (65), the year she retired. We threw a party, and I had a page for each guest in attendance. But I also created some pages about her life before the party. A double page spread which included baby and youth photos, and a page for her and my fil. Well that last one, almost made the book not happen. It got put off until the end, and then the whole book got postponed as I tried to create a page about love for 2 people that I knew weren't really "IN" love. They had a long life together, they stayed together for the kids, they cared for each other, but there was no LOVE. It was the hardest page I ever hadto create. She left fil a year later. I guess having to stay home with him 24/7 was too much for the loveless marriage. In the end, the page fit perfectly in with the album and turned out nice.

The next hardest page was done this month. It is one of many future pages that tell the story of my dd's health issues through the last few years. I know I want to tell the story, but as we're still trying to find an answer to her health issues and are still in the middle of it, I find it difficult to address right now. We're going to the Mayo in August and that has been weighing on her and my mind. The digital press had a journaling challenge about penning a letter to someone and letting the words and feelings flow so this was a natural topic for my mind to immediately go to. I wanted it to be a bit uplifting at the end to make her smile, but I still cry when I read the journaling. I love how the page turned out.
dGH_MayoBravery by Lisa Davolt, on Flickr