What's your scrapbooking STYLE?

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scraplady4life said:
F... that would be the grade for that answer lol lol

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evespassion said:
Thanks so much for the feedback. I LOVED ALL of your responses.
My three words are 'Colorful, fun, embellisher'

After I posted this question I went to google and searched on the question, LO and behold there was a DUMMIES book (Scrapbooking for Dummies) that described a variety of styles and the attributes that make up that particular style. Here are some excerpts from the chapter on the styles and some of the key attributes that make up that style.

1. Adjusting your focus: A spotlight on the photographer
You can tell by glancing at their albums that the photos are what matter to them. Their pages prioritize the photo or photos, and they tend to accessorize minimally — if at all.

2. Analyzing the artist
Looking through a scrapbook artist's albums is like taking a stroll through a museum. Artistry, and not mere handicraft, is predominant on the pages. Scrapbookers often use tools and techniques that artists use, including acrylic paints and even watercolors.

3. Creating classics
As is true in other classical forms, the classical scrapbook style exudes timelessness, aims for a clean, uncluttered look, and uses traditional design elements, such as straight, balanced photo mats and frames (rather than playful, tilted ones), a minimum of accessories, fewer stickers, and often more journaling in black rather than colored inks and in an unpretentious rather than a busy font (if typed) or in clear, precise handwriting.

4. Cropping with the crafty
Craft-oriented scrapbookers typically include crafting mediums such as wooden charms, yarns, and fabrics on their pages, and they like to use traditional craft techniques such as stitching, paper weaving, and stenciling.

5. Doing shabby chic
Shabby-chic albums feel comfortable, cozy, and homey. Shabby-chic pages are eclectic and fun. As you can see, the shabby-chic style often features journaling tags, eyelets and laces, chalk techniques, and crumpled papers.

6. Handling the heritage style
Personal-history (featuring one person) and family-history albums are considered heritage albums and make use of the design elements typically used in the heritage scrapbook style. Colors tend to be muted rather than bright, and designs include crinkled papers, pieces of lace, and other materials that suggest age and historical context.

7. Making it modern
Albums in the modern style often demonstrate interesting uses of lines and shapes.
The modern look in scrapbooking tends to include geometric shapes, angular lines, and bold colors.

8. Playing with pop
Pop style is what you might expect — edgy, fun, contemporary, with plenty of little metal doodads (like eyelets and brads) punched through the papers.

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Funny, I came across this same question a few weeks ago. And, after reading the above, I've confirmed how I define my style - DABBLER. Yup, that's me. I've dabbled in almost all, if not all, of the above styles in one layout or another. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!