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<\/a><\/p>\nAnd, here’s an example of Jacinda stepping out of her comfort zone: “This next one is definitely freestyle for me. I started by just putting heaps of elements on the page without knowing what the end design would look like. I don’t have my usual visual triangle, or at least not an obvious one, and the elements are more scattered and random compared to the way I usually cluster them in groups. It took me ages to do, but I was really happy with the end result.”<\/p>\n
Next up, Designer Misty Cato shared these thoughts: “I consider myself a clean scrapper in the traditional style. Typically my pages are linear and very structured with the majority of the space filled with photos and\/or journaling. I tend to stick to subtle papers and minimal use of elements.”<\/p>\n “In the layout below, I scrapped photos of my daughter in her new dress-up wings. Her play was so full of a joy and imagination that I was inspired to try to add a sense of whimsicality to the page. The structure is still there, but I borrowed a bit from the art journal style and added playful elements and lots of brushwork. I extracted one of my photos and used more open space than my typical pages. I love the results.”<\/p>\n SugarBabe Lexi described her normal scrapping style in this way: “My style is really eclectic at best. BUT I’m most comfortable doing clusters. Anchoring my photos and elements to an area of the page is definitely very comfortable.”<\/p>\n And, here’s what Lexi says about stretching her boundaries: “I do do some art journal layouts, but I stress a lot more about them because there’s quite the amount of blending AND I feel like I want to fill the entire page, as opposed to just one area. So my art journal pages are definitely outside of how I usually scrap. For this layout, I also “cut out” portions of the silhouette and clipped papers to them–I’d never done that before.”<\/p>\n Here’s what SugarBabe Rebecca had to say: “Hmm . . . I think I’m a very traditional scrapper. I love to used themed kits to help tell the story of the photos and journaling. Straight lines and clustering . . . like I used to make my own paper pages.”<\/p>\n And, here’s a beautiful example of Rebecca trying something new: “This was really outside my comfort zone . . . paints and blended photo . . . white space.”<\/p>\n SugarBabe Tara says: “My typical style (which is ever changing! LOL) is lots of bold color and pattern papers with clustering. I tend to fill as much of the page as possible and not have a lot of white space.”<\/p>\n And, here’s what Tara came up with when she stepped outside her comfort zone: “This one was out of my comfort zone because I never write on a picture! It just seems so wrong to me but I always love it when other people do it. SO I gave it a try and loved it!”<\/p>\n Of course, I had to give this little experiment a whirl as well. I consider myself to be a “clustery” scrapper. I always have a lot of elements clustered around the page. Like Jacinda, I usually have a fairly obvious visual triangle somewhere on the page, and I like using bold patterned papers.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n