Not quite happy with how I am scrapping

[arenee]

I use my gallery as a place to kinda glance at my pages to see if they click.
I do the quick glance thing to see if I need to move something away from the edge for printing in a book, if something gets lost on the page, if the scrapping over powers the page...... you get the idea.

Well looking a the last 6 things I have scrapped, I am not feeling it...I love the photos. I love the kit but I am not sure what I am missing. When I look at them full page they seem ok (not pow but ok) but the thumbnail seems off.

Sweet Baby girl is a great example of what I am talking about. The thumbnail looks blah but when I open it up the detail really make the photo shine-at least for me.

Any ideas would be great!
Thanks

[amystoffel]

I looked at your gallery. I love your composition, I love your photos. Maybe some deeper shadowing? A little more journaling? Otherwise your pages are lovely! And Swet baby Girl is precious.

[melmos75]

You have some great pages in your gallery. I don't consider myself the best scrapper in the world, so not sure how qualified I am to give advice, but like Amy said, maybe bump up the shadowing to give your pages some depth or possibly add more layers behind and on top of the photos. (Did any of that make sense?)

Your doing a great job - remember you are your own worst critic!

[meems]

I think we all go through spurts of scrapping dissatisfaction.

I suggest playing around with tilting photos/papers and using diff shapes (circles, brackets, curves, etc.). Your gallery looks great but I do see a lot of straight lines, kwim? Also try more layering and clustering and adding more embellies. Which may not be your style at all but sometimes fun to play around with something different.

Hang in there. If you're like me, one day you hate your gallery. A few days later you love it .

eta: Also wanted to suggest adding big titles.

[Teresa]

I think your gallery is beautiful. I definitely go through this too, though...in fact, right now more than normal! LOL I find the best thing to do is look through your favorites or at the galleries of scrappers whose style you admire and write down what you like most about those pages, you'll probably find themes that start to emerge (scraplifting does wonders for me) and you'll be well on your way to loving your style again.

[scrapperjade]

I think your pages are beautiful too! But the first thing I thought when I looked at your pages was "There are no titles!". Personally, I don't feel my pages are complete without a title or something bold to draw the eye. Maybe that helps?

[cheltzey]

I'm kinda in a funk as well, but we all go through that. I think Mimi's right--try playing around with new shapes and bigger titles. That might shake things up a bit and give you the change you're looking for.

[arenee]

Thanks for the ideas, ladies. I see what you mean about titles. If I use big ones on the pages that can take it, it will balance out the ones that won't.

I think the shadow comment is spot on. I cant see the shadows when I print black and white so I will drag out the color printer and experiment. I just dont want to have aliens. You know those elements that seem to hover off the page. =}

Thanks for the help and support

[scrapmonkey]

I thought your gallery is great, but I think I know what's different about your Sweet Baby Girl LO - it's very monochromatic compare to your other LO's. Your other ones included just a touch of multicolored patterned paper, but that one sticks to the same color set. That might be why you think it looks "blah" from the thumbnail. Nothing wrong with the LO, but it just veers from your usual "style"...