Email to Karen

Karen gave me some advice on the boards and asked me to show her those layouts I had picked which I did like. I sent her the following:

 

I for the life of me could not see similarities at all. But Karen came back with so many observations! (I have written my thoughts in italics)

• You like long titles and often use questions; they are the focus of your page and are big in size. (I never realised they asked questions. I am experimenting with titles at the moment to try different things (none, one word, sentence etc) so I will be interested on how this experiment pans out.)
• You use plainer background and then mount square/rectangle of pattern paper on it so it looks like the cardstock creates an outer frame.
• You do a lot of layering of strips, and use strips of paper in general (I never thought I was a layering kind of girl I think it may be because when I first started scrapbooking layering meant LOTS of paper and embellishments and really bulky pages.)
• You prefer 4x6 or bigger photos (I do mainly get this size printed and thinking about it this is the size I do normally feel comfortable scrapbooking with.) 
• Mostly single photos but even when more, generally bigger photos not tiny (I didn’t think about this before but it is so true. Where I scrapbook multiple photos I still tend to cut down 4x6 photos rather than use smaller photos – even where I have had them printed in both sizes) 
• Mostly asymmetrical (Asymmetrical? Wow that’s a real shocker to me. I always considered myself a symmetrical person needing things to be mirrored for them to look balanced to me.) 
• Flowers appear in many layouts and so do ribbons (Now if someone said I used and liked flowers I would automatically say “No I’m not a flower kind of girl”. But relooking at my layouts I can see how flowers crop up so many times in my layouts. As for ribbon, I have stacks of ribbons which I never thought I used as I still have stacks. Guess that means I really had lots and lots and lots of ribbons to start with!) 
• Layouts are definitely story focused (Totally agree with this one, the photos always have to have a story of some sort related to them for me to consider scrapbooking them).