find your scrapbook style

One great way to determine your own scrapbooking style is to look at the work of others. Most Scrapbookers I know started out as “scraplifters.” A scraplifter is one who sees a great technique or layout design in another scrapper’s album, in a magazine, or online (e. g. the Scrapbook.com Layout Gallery) and copies it using their own materials and photos. An interesting thing happens when this approach is taken. I call it “style discovery and imprinting.” The Scrapbooker admires layouts, mimics their designs, and ends up completing layouts that she learns from. The more she does this, the more her confidence grows, and the more apt she is to break out, have confidence and find her own style. Before introducing a new clothing line, many fashion designers give their buyers and suppliers an overall impression of the image they want to portray. They often do this through a collage method called “mood boards.” A fashion mood board may contain cutouts from books or magazines, key words or phases, fabric swatches, music selections, and much more. Any sensory item that gives the viewer an idea of the designer’s direction is attached to the mood board. In scrapbooking, you can use this same image-collage technique to determine your own style which will help you design and construct your layouts