Not to mention, when I find a really fun Quick Page to download, there they are again -- itty-bitty windows in the .PNG files where you can slide in a photo no bigger than thumbnail-size. Like this page:
{Quick Page by Creashens}
How CUTE is that page? And perfect for the sweet photo of my great-niece, Kayla. But, dang it, when I printed this out at 8"x8" for my family album, Kayla's picture came out measuring only 1.5" x 1.5". That's wayyy too small for me {when I have to get out my reading glasses to get a good look at the photo I get grumpy}.
Maybe it's just me but when I look at this page I see the focus as being on the elements - the owl, the button, the stitching, the patterned paper border - rather than on the photo. I like my pages to be the other way around - with my photos as the focus.
I've been waiting a long time for this trend to go away. And it's just not going away. I know there's this idea that all that "white space" (aka empty space) on the page is restful to the eyes, artsy, and modern but, in the long run, my goal is to get all my photos scrapbooked with a minimum of time and money spent. If I scrapbook just one photo per page it's going to take me a LONG time to make any headway, and it's going to cost me a LOT in ink and paper, too, and albums to put all the pages in and page refills, and bookshelves to hold all the albums . . . well, you get the idea.
Well, I never have followed the crowd, but it could be that my taste and/or style is just different. Like these pages that I did over the weekend:
{double-click any image for a larger view}
As you can see, my tendency is to FILL the page with photos - usually to the extent that there's no place for journaling {I'm working on that}. I haven't left much room for elements either, like buttons, ribbons, digi-stickers, etc., which is kind of a shame since I have an external hard drive literally stuffed with 'em.
But somehow I'm ok with that.
And I'm keeping Kayla's page, too, 'cuz it's just way too cute not to.
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