Are you a cutting-edge designer scrapbooker? Someone who strives to do the latest/greatest designs, use the latest tools? Actually copies sketches from magazines? Maybe you even do your own sketches! Is scrapbooking about the ART of it for you?
Or do you scrapbook with the main purpose being to get your photos into albums so they are safe and attractively displayed? Are you happy if you use a few ready-made embellishments, paper and write down a few comments on the page?
My friend Angie Pedersen commented on a post done by chocoholic in a forum of designers about the difference between what designer scrapbookers want vs what regular scrapbookers want. It is a very interesting subject to me. Well worth thinking about. [Read Angie’s post here. And chocoholic’s here.]
I must confess. I am a “regular” scrapbooker. Here are some of the characteristics of what I believe make me a “regular” and not a designer.
I do not make my own embellishments.
If it is not already made why would I spend hours doing it? That will just slow me down and I won’t get as many pages done.
I put way more than one photo on a page.
Geez, I took at least 20-30 pictures of any particular event I am scrapping. Why would I put just one measly photo on the page? Where would the rest of them go?
Usually, I do not make my scrapbook pages lumpy.
How on earth do you close your scrapbook when it is 3D like that?
Never once in my life have I used walnut ink.
While the whole concept of the rugged look appeals to me, I cannot conceive that I would want something messy in my scrapbook for all eternity.
It has never once occured to me to sort my scrapbooking supplies by brand name.
What? The first time I saw this in a magazine I thought the person writing it was JOKING. I mean really, does that mean that your blue paper from XYZ company is not stored next to your blue paper by ABC company? So when I would look for blue paper I would need to remember that XYZ company makes the shade of blue I like? No way, Jose.
I may come back and post more on this subject. This could be why I am so disenchanted lately with my scrabooking magazines. They are simply not for us “regulars.”
What about you? Are you a regular or a designer? What makes you so?
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November 9th, 2005 at 1:10 pm - Edit
I think you’ve confused having a certain style with having a different approach. You can be a regular scrapper and use only one photo on a LO. You can be a regular scrapper and use dimesional items. You can be a regular scrapper and enjoy inking. Regular scrappers can make their own embellishments…actually I think most regular scrappers actually do make most of their own embellishments rather than pay a premium price for premade items.
I would say that anyone who has a blog dedicated to scrapbooking has probably passed from being a regular scrapper.
November 9th, 2005 at 7:12 pm - Edit
Sarah:
LOL! OK, I’m busted. =:)
Thank you for your interesting comment. It seems the things I find that make someone a “designer” scrapper are quite “regular” to you.
So what do you think is the distinction between designers and regulars? Is it being published? Is it being paid in some way for scrapping? Or is is something else? Is there a distinction at all or is all about just having different styles?
November 9th, 2005 at 7:59 pm - Edit
To me a regular scrapper is someone who is not concerned with trends, the newest/latest/greatest/most cutting edge products and industry *it girls*…someone who scraps for personal enjoyment without the obsession. I don’t think regular scrappers could list 42 of the most popular sb websites, tell you who won Masters in 2004 or Hall of Fame in 2001, how many kid(s) BH has or probably even who BH is. Well, maybe they know who BH is…she’s a pretty big deal.
I think regular scrappers scrap-lift regularly without feeling guilty about it. Regular scrappers are people who generally can’t name 96% of the Bazzill colors on sight. (snort) They don’t have rooms dedicated to the production of scrapbooks. In short (yeah right), they are just a more casual breed of scrapbooker.
November 9th, 2005 at 9:30 pm - Edit
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Posted at 9:29 pm by Kim.
A recent post here at ScrappinCabinet about regular vs designer scrapbookers has got me thinking about scrapbook styles. […]