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Well, now that I've figured out how to add images in the forum - I feel so smart now.
Here's the image that I worked on and gave up - because I got frustrated. I underlined my choices - teehee. Boy, do I feel accomplished today.
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Ha ha - I'm reading all of the intros and mine reads like I was asked to write my biography!!! Sorry - I can get verbose!!!
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Love this thread!!!
Me - Mostly one kit scrapper LOVE me some templates, but you can't always see the template once I'm done with it lol And I throw everything at a page ... but still like some white space normally. But not 'white', like painty white. How's that for confusing?? lol! The important part for me is to tell my family's stories - I may grab a photo from google for a very rare page about a celebrity or TV show, but that's only when it's about the show or person, never just to create around a pretty picture - for me it's about the love and stories and my family.
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For my CT work, I go with one kit, use the template if supplied, etc. etc.
But if I'm doing something for me, here are my preferences. I'm on Mirjam's CT. She asked me at the end of 2017 and I had some personal issues to sort out. I became official in March 2018 and I'm proud to be one of her "Pink Ladies". I started digi scrapping in June 2006, but I never joined a forum until 2013. I have a real love for vintage/heritage photos. My second love is art journaling (digi-style). Although today I'm all over the place. I have no problems scrapping vacations, current photos, you name it. And I fell in love with pocket style pages a couple of years ago. I enjoy the challenge of making them a bit more artsy. Here's a pocket page layout I did for Mirjam's grand opening, using her kit Smitten (along with one of her Smitten templates). And the photo is of my uncle from 1947. Last edited by mcurtt; 02-03-2022 at 07:06 PM. |
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Mostly a one kit scrapper. I'm too lazy to go searching for stuff for a page and the kits now have so many goodies in them, I rarely need to go looking elsewhere.
Mostly a blank canvas scrapper. Creating the layout design is my favorite part of the process. I do use templates for pocket pages or layouts with lots of photos or if I find one with a really cool design. I'm an "add everything" scrapper for sure but I can't just pile it on willy nilly. Each piece has to be strategically placed. Consequently, I am a super slow scrapper! I admire the clean and simple, white space pages but can't seem to pull it off myself
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So fun to get to know everyone!
This is me! I used to only use one kit, but now I love to mix and match kits and designers. I will use templates for sure, but there's nothing like having a blank canvas to start from. I am DEFINITELY a clean and simple scrapper... but I am getting better at thinking outside the box and filling my page with goodies
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I love this!!!
On a CT team, I tend to be one kit and use the template and as many of the goodies as I can. In real life and for challenges and my personal layouts, I'm this: I feel like some of my best layouts have been the ones where I've used like 15 different kits to complete them. LOL. I've been one of the Pink Ladies for a little over a year. I focus primarily on blog tutorials/inspiration but help out with layouts and social media as needed. I'm super excited for Mirjam to be here at SSD as is a place I love to just hang out!
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I love being a Pink Lady (since 2015); Mirjam's designs are so easy to work with. I'm delighted to be here at SSD with her.
My style: I tend to be a single kit/collection scrapper as I've been a CT for the last 12 years. I usually start with the background paper, I'm particularly drawn to bold patterns. When I use templates I generally modify them in some way. My favorite elements are flowers. I've been known to buy a kit just for the flowers. You will find a cluster somewhere on my pages as I just can't stop making them.
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I love the look of combining multiple kits but usually don't have the time or energy to do so.
I almost always use a template when I am creating an event page as I have zero composition skills. My "free design" pages are usually a big cluster, one photo, and a bunch of words. I like to say that I'm a storyteller who makes pretty pages so people read my stories vs. an artist who makes art that happens to include stories. My pages reflect that. |
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Welcome, Mirjam and her CT ladies. So many good lines in this thread, LOL!
I'm a one kit scrapper. (Mostly--if I need to pull in things from other kits I will, but my preference is to work with one kit.) I love templates and usually start with one, but I often alter them. I make a lot of many-photo pages, and they're so much easier with a template. I'm halfway between clean and simple and throw all the things on it. My pages tend to be full because of photos and journaling with a few small clusters.
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It's been so much fun reading through everyone's replies.
I am usually a one kit girl. Kits these days have everything that I could ever want. Most of my layouts are for creative teams, so it's only that designer's goodies. I love templates but can rock a blank canvas too. I wish I could use more paper layers, that's something I can struggle with. I usually have multiple photos and like Amber, am a more is more gal. If it's clean and simple it's for a challenge. |
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Template- 100% of the time. Even if I make lots of changes, I always 'need' that starting point. Add pretty much everything- 95% of the time
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Mix & Match for the most part....I do often start with a single kit but then add bits and pieces as I go along
Template for sure, it may not look like the original template by the time I finish with it but it does start out as a template I promise!.....I struggle with my own composition Clean & simple mostly but with added paint and texture so probably I end up somewhere in the middle
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you guys this is so much fun! @susie Never apologize for being verbose. I think you may already have come to the conclusion we like it that way .
And @trina I am really looking forward to seeing that page about the Squirrels and Bulls documentary....hahahahahaha @Marilyn...when I saw your pocket page in the Pink Reptile forum I wanted to tell you already but I forgot. I didn't know it was your uncle in the picture but I could have sworn it was Marilyn Monroe next to him!!! @heather I am a slow scrapper too. And quite a slow designer as well for that matter. As Jenny said I approach my pages and designs like if I am putting together an outfit. And then an outfit for some important event. Everything has to match perfectly and no detail can be overlooked. When I create my elements I like to use the papers as a backdrop and then I start adding the elements on top of them while I create them. Like creating a layout from scratch. This way...when I am finished I also have my kit preview Last edited by mirjam; 02-04-2022 at 05:06 AM. |
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My turn !
I'm definitevely a blank canvas scrapper. My creative and crazy mind need blank canvas I love Clean and simple scrap, and I love mixed kits I do hybrid scrapbooking. You could see my hybrid projects each month, with Pink Reptile designs products. I'm so happy to be here |
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Hello again.
Even though most of you here know me, some of us have been friends for 10 years +, some of you know me as one of the oldest team in the GSO blog, some of you know me from 2020/21 when I had the time of my life here playing the challenges, discovered some out of this world talented designers and made some new friends.... There is something I would like to add for those who don't know me: I have some neurological issues that impair my reading and writing, so sometimes I need help to read even the shortest of paragraphs, so if I don't answer fast or you don't see me hanging out in the forums is because I can't, not by lack of interest Right, so, into my scrapping adventures: finding digi scrapping saved my life LITERALLY. I ll explain another day and it will make sense why (like my beautiful Emily aka Scrap Therapy well said) I tend to use everything but the kitchen sink .... I love full on pages, I will, if I can, use the whole elements pack (Mirjam is my hero, she gives me the cutest and most useful ones always!!!!!) I love scrapping with one kit when is for a CT, but mix & match is my heart's delight.... like Mirjam, I do a search for the element I need/want, sometimes I know exactly what I want and I know is in one of Mirjam's kits... if you know me from the challenges 2020 until summer last year, you know I love mixing .... Now templates.... when I was starting, I thought (and was being vocal about it) that templates was "cheating~" , having half of the page thought through.... until one of "my" designers then (one of the CTs I was IN) showed me that interpreting a template well is not easy.... then I fell in massive love with templates !!!!! It takes me a VERY LONG timer though, I was using a program from Serif, which is no longer made, that did all that PSE does, but easier, only thing was I had to drop PNGs one by one and couldn't use styles...now I lost that program, the one I am using is worse so having a nightmare in using them, but trying to get around the PSE use. As obviously explained above, I rather fill the page, but after 10+ years around amazing talents of the balanced, blank space elegance, even the minimalist swoon, many of them my sisters here from The Pink Ladies, I can venture into it with limited confidence Can't wait to see what you all create with Mir's marvellous creations, so glad we are here!!!!!!!
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be prepared to see the pages that come from me now!!!!!!
Nahia & Oihan featured!!!!!!!! on parle plus tard!!!!!!!!!
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@ Lorie...we will be scrapping our hearts out when we retire LOL
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LIke Lorie (and Mirjam, so it seems) I was spending so much time with work and designing and life that I hadn't scrapped a page in ages. I found I was losing my love for this genre and feeling uninspired to design.
I recently made a concerted effort to start scrapping again. I felt really rusty at first but I kept at it and now it's feeling comfortable and fun again. The bonus is that I'm loving my design work again and have all sorts of ideas. And I'm getting caught up on my weekly pages too! Win win! (LOL... I just typed win wine and then caught myself, but I think I like that one better!! ) |
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Welcome Mirjam and team. Happy to have you here.
I'm Corey and I'm a one kit, definitely using a template, not clean & simple, but not a use everything kind of scrapper. Most of my pages these days are pocket style. I'm more about preserving pictures and memories than making very ornate pages. Occasionally if I have a really special picture, or just want to play I'll make a more ornate layout. I love making floral clusters, but am working on using the other elements in kits to make things more interesting. I'm also a pretty slow scrapper, but this year, I'm adopting a more chronological style of scrapping to try to get more done. I often take too long to decide what to scrap and as a result don't get anything done. Hopefully it works because I would like to start printing photobooks rather than single pages. |
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Fun to see so many new faces!
I am a 1 kit scrapper, except my Disney pages, then I am mix & match. I am a template scrapper. My favorite is mixing 2 templates together for a challenge, I LOVE that! I am a clean and simple scrapper, but not a blank page scrapper. I like my pages to be full, but mostly with photos and a few clusters. It's great to "meet" many of you!
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I'm a one kit, always template scrapper. I will mix kits from the same designer if needed. I just can't get the mixing different designers to work for me.
As for clean/simple or everything under the sun, I'm in the middle. I do like small clusters on my layouts but the majority of my layouts have multiple photos that I want to be the focus of the layout. Every once in awhile a photo will scream out that it needs to be the only photo and I might use a bit more clustering/other stuff as long as it doesn't detract from the photo. I also have a thing for plaid papers. Must use them on every page in some form... paper blocks, matting photos, titles etc. Except my backgrounds must be plain. I tend to do my journaling directly on the background and I want to be able to read it! |
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Like Cynthia- I'm a kitchen sink scrapper. I LOVE ALL.THE.PRETTY.THINGS!!! I used to be completely template driven, but the last year or so have started dabbling in more blank canvas layouts. Despite loving ALL the things, I tend to stay within one kit for CT reasons, as well as time constraints. I have THE craziest hectic life between kiddos, dogs, work, etc etc so my scrappy time is my "me" time & I cherish what little I have!
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When I make pages for myself I am 100% a mix and matcher, though I usually at least keep within the same designer. But I also tend to make a lot of one kit pages too for CT stuff.
I am NOT a template scrapper and struggle hard with them. I usually end up flattening them and just using them as an inspirational starting point, more like a scraplift. And I am definitely an everything scrapper. The messier the page the better.
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Hi everyone, I'm Kayla.
I'm thrilled to be the newest pink lady. You'll see me in the gallery commenting on your layouts and chatting with you here in the forum. I'm also excited to be back at SSD where my digi scrappin journey started. I think some of the first digi layouts I ever posted are in the SSD gallery... oy, cringe! Thank goodness, I finally learned about shadows. I'm mostly a one kit scrapper because of my CT scrapping, but also because I'm too lazy to go hunting. I do love mixing and matching for challenges or when kits coordinate. I'm a template junkie... if a template's allowed, I'm gonna use it. I love, love, love templates and learned to cluster from Cheryl (gonewiththewind). I also use templates as a starting point and modify them to make them my own. I underlined both c&s scrapper and add everything scrapper because I do both depending on what I'm scrapping. Cynthia pointed out to me that she loves that I can do both but... shhhh ... don't tell her... the digi designer did all the work. I just added my photos and the digi goodies.
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Hi Mirjam - I just had to stop by! So nice to see some familiar faces and to meet some new friends!
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Hi, everyone! I'm Judy also known as bonnenuit. This is my first time ever in the SSD forums although I have shopped here before.
My scrapping style: I tend to be a mix and match scrapper unless a kit has everything I need in it. I also tend to use templates although once I get started on the page, it may look nothing like the template at the end. If I'm not allowed to use a template, my first instinct is to go for a clean and simple page. I remember when I first saw pages with lots of white space, one smallish photo, and just a few elements and thought what a waste of space! Now I love scrapping pages like that and giving careful consideration to exactly what few elements I will use. I will confess though that I also like big photo pages, blending masks, paints, splatters, and gesso. I'm part of Mirjam's team converting templates into PAGE files for Artisan software users. |
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What a fun thread it's so great to see familiar faces
I am a template, one kit and mostly add everything scrapper I'm super glad that you are here Mirjam, I adore your style for a long time So, you haven't scrapped for more than 2 years, maybe we should have a designers scrap challenge Oh, I love Kellie's reply - "put the things where Cindy tells me to." Nice to know you (again) ladies!
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Hi everybody, I have been on Mirjam's team since 2017 and am not scrapping that much anymore, but she lets me stay anyway, because she is the best ever. I started digiscrapping way back in 2004 when there was a place called Digital Scrapbook Place. I have been at SSD before (shopped here naturally) and have a few pages in the gallery from a few years ago. But now that Mir has moved, I have moved as well. So, I am happy to be here and meeting all of you (I know many faces already. After all, the digiscrapping community is a tight-knit one and I love that). As for my scrapping: *Absolutely mix & match, even though I sometimes like the challenge of only using one kit (or maybe even only a mini kit). *Blank canvas scrapper, even though I use a template once in a while, but then I usually strip it down to just the photo spot/s. *I like it clean and simple or add everything. But never clusters and stuff, but rather art journaling style with blending and lots of grunge. |
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I am an 'everything' scrapper....
I typically stay to one kit (truth be told it's mostly because I don't want to risk forgetting a kit when I go to give credits in the gallery).... but I get so inspired by seeing pages that others have posted when they mix and mash, so I have really been making an effort to try and mix things up more. I like both doing my own thing and working with templates. I find when I have lost my scrappy mojo, I have the best time getting it back by just doing my own thing..... but then when I do get my mojo back I want to get as much done as I possibly can while I'm feeling scrappy so I tend to just back to templates for help. and Lastly, I like both messy and clean pages, however, I like not having to be overly fussy with keeping things tidy so I like getting messy..... I can't resist a good stash of scribbles and if a kit includes paint splatters I'm definitely gonna use em.
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