Is "your" style recognizable?

[Mary Rogers]

this is a spin off of Cassie's thread....

do you find that overall your pages have some consistantly in design, style or elements?

do you wish you could step out of your comfort zone and try something new?
if so what is holding you back?

do you find that when something works for you, you stick with it? be it elements, color or placement....or stitching, lol.

I had a few minutes in the gallery tonight (when I should be packing for hockey games out of town tomorrow) and found that I can recognize the style of so many contributors without even looking at their name (Kayleigh, Kelly, Denise Patricia)...

so I was wondering, do you think your style is recognizable?

[HeatherPrins]

no and i struggled with this in paper scrapping too. I never stick with "what I know" i try to "reinvent the wheel" as Ali calls it with every layout. I am all over the map when it comes to creating!

[Joey_M]

Great thread, Mary!
I find that 90% of my LOs have to have an edge going around them. Weird. I guess that I feel like my photos & elements are going to fall off of the page without an edge!

I would love to try new things, but time is a real issue with homeschooling 3 kids. I could spend my days (make that weeks!) doing LOs, but family duties get in the way! I dream of taking photoshop classes, photography classes, doing internet research on PS ideas & techniques...someday....

[Mary Rogers]

time is an issue with me as well Joey! I find that I do stick with what I know and am comfortable with...I would love to try new things, learn more about PSE and create a better organization system....

for me it isn't done until there are brushes....lots of brush work for me : )

[kathie02]

I don't know if my style is recognizable but I think my dog (okay my mom's) is

[digigrandma]

Originally Posted by kathie02

I don't know if my style is recognizable but I think my dog (okay my mom's) is

LOL, yes, Kathie, I always recognize Buddy on your pages!!

However, having said that, your classic, simple, clean, elegant, beautiful style is recognizable even without Buddy!

[Steph]

Um, yeah. I think I'm simply always going to be clean and simple. No matter what. It's just me. And adding Cathy Zielske and her templates is a scrapping heavenly match for me.

[HeatherPrins]

And Kathie that Happy x 4 picture is so fantastic it should be used to sell dog food or something in mags!

[HeatherPrins]

there's nothing wrong with that Steph, i am envious actually! Templates scare me,lol. I don't know how to make them my own, they seem too perfect of something. I love your style!

[Steph]

Originally Posted by HeatherPrins

there's nothing wrong with that Steph, i am envious actually! Templates scare me,lol. I don't know how to make them my own, they seem too perfect of something. I love your style!

Well, thank you very much, Heather! And, oh my gosh, we need to talk about templates sometime! They are soooooooo wonderful and so incredibly useful! You will love them - and I think word on the street says that you ought to check out the chats tomorrow.

[katrinak]

well...kraft and Ian...definitely noticeable I think. And when I do something different it just feels like I'm not been me

[esther_a]

It's an interesting question! One thing I learned from Cassie's thread is that I'm all over the shop with my style. For a while there I was doing more consistent pages, and then I got worried that I was stuck in a rut!! Some people are never happy, are they?! I just can't resist trying new things!!
But the one thing that IS consistent is that I don't embellish heavily or use a lot of patterned papers. I DO like to try to focus on the photo and story.

[anke]

hmm, I have no idea, I don't think I have a consistent style, I love Anna's blended stuff and I love Katie's stuff, I love it all and want to try it all. Sometimes I like to do weird stuff, other times I do something plain. Right now I like bright colors and borders and stitching but who knows what tomorrow brings. I like diversity in scrapping

[Mary Rogers]

Heather,

don't be afraid of templates....you can totally make them their own. I am known to never use a template as planned, lol. I like to resize them, flip them, and sometimes I just borrow elements from them...

I so wish I could chat tomorrow - I might make the last one if we get home in time....but being in the stands at Hayden's hockey games is more important right now - being a part of the memory rather than taking about preserving it.

[mugsbigsis]

I don't like making the same quilt twice, my taste in music is extremely eclectic and I have a problem making the same things for dinner. I'm thinking I don't have a style with scrapping either. My pages just kind of create themselves. :O\ My comments, on the other hand are probably recognizable. (I run out of descriptive words for what I want to express) lol :O)

[Heidi2008]

hmmm...not sure? I think if you see a photo of Lana, it's pretty obvious but otherwise I don't know?
I know what you mean though Mary, cause when I look in the gallery I can tell right away it's Kayleigh, Kirsty, PatriciaZ, etc.....even Mary, you definitely have your style down packed

[lkvanderveen]

No... I mean, I have certain themes. I like linear pages. I like 2 page LOs w/ lots of photos. But I also love trying new things (lately, extraction) and trying different styles. I had this same problem as a paper scrapper. For awhile (2004-2006) I knew I was a shabby scrapper. Then I couldn't handle all the work anymore (the sewing, painting, sanding, etc.) and I found myself going super simple. Ever since, I'd say I'm prety clean. Pretty simple. But with a lot of variation...

[rsowers]

Gosh, I WISH my style was recognizable. I teach my students that what separates good writing from great writing is style, yet I have trouble achieving that in my scrapping. I can spot a Kayleigh, Particia, Erin, Tara, Aino, etc. (yours, too, Mary) LO in the gallery without even seeing their names underneath. I'm still trying to find my style. You'd think after doing this for almost 2 years, I'd have it by now, but no....still workin' on it. Actually, never mind...I do have a style; it's called lift or template. That's what I do. What a fun thread.

[ValerieP]

I know that I am really challenged to have things clean and simple on a page-I love to have things scattered about and grunged up! I also love to start with a template and go from there. I also love the idea of borrowing items from a template-I hadn't really thought about doing that and I will have to give that a try!
Great thread

[BrittanyLane]

I don't think I have but I WANT one really bad! I would love for my pages to look cohesive in an album because I rarely do two-pagers. I like to look through the gallery and I'm drawn to so many different types of scrappers I feel like I can't decide on a style... maybe one day it'll click!

[rsowers]

I think you have a definite style, Brittany. In fact, I love your style.

[Aino]

I am also a bit of an eclectic I think - and my pages do develop by themselves. It usually depends on the photos - what "they" call for and what I feel like doing. It being graphic, monochrome, colorful, whimsical or "scrapbooky".

I like the element of surprise- and I am actually a fond believer in books that reflect this diversity. I don't think I could make a book that matched even if I tried.

But even so, I do think that I put certain touches to my pages that are recognizable to others from a distance.

[carollee]

I'm all over the place I think too, I don't think I have a style, although I find myself always wanting to put a border around my pages. Just seems kinda more finished with one.

[Cassie Jones (1gr8muggle)]

First, I just want to clarify that it was Debbie's thread. She's the clever one here.

I never thought I had a style. I just liked to try new stuff. However, many people tell me that I definitely do and they can spot my pages (of course, I think that has a lot to do with Jack & Ellie!)

[oldvwblues]

I would have to so no...

[Aino]

Originally Posted by oldvwblues

I would have to so no...

I beg to differ, Vicki !! I think your creative touches are very recognizable. And we all love them!

[carollee]

Maybe that's the thing, we don't recognise the style we have ourselves, but others can pick it. That's interesting.

[muddygirl]

I have kinda borrowed a style and made it mine. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Kayleigh's work and I have found myself lately using alot of stitching and really working with layering elements together, and patchworking patterned papers. I havent been posting alot lately (I'm lazy about keeping track of credits, and I know there are lots of ways to do this, I just get into periods of not wanting to, just wanting to create without worrying about it), But i have just finished my DS's first book. I found I went back to lots of old and unfinished pages and added stitching and extra elements, or changed around some compositions, and I was so much happier with them. I really feel comfortable with what i'm producing now, so I guess that is my style now, even though it was borrowed to begin with . All my pages have a border of some kind too so that there is nothing lost in trimming by shutterfly!

[muddygirl]

Vicki, I agree with Aino. I can always pick your pages in the gallery.

[maureenreynolds]

I tend to agree that a personal style is something others recognize in us better than we do ourselves.

I know what I like to do - which is clean and orderly, with a good story told. Once I hit 3 embellishments I get antsy. Now for a challenge or when the mood strikes me, I'm happy to go out on a creative limb. Some of Anna's things are sitting in my digi stash waiting for that mood. It's one of the reasons I'm taking her upcoming class.