defining digi-scrappin' styles
Collage
Collage, from the french ‘coller’ to glue, an artistic composition made of various materials (as paper, cloth, or wood) glued on a surface (Merriam-Webster online)
A long-time staple of paper artists, think altered paint cans (altered anything, actually) and lots of embellishments. A staple for heritage layouts. Lots of ribbons and buttons and ephemera. Stand-out designers in this style: Mo Jackson, Ronna Penner, Maya. I really suck at this, I cannot make 'messy' layouts.
Montage
Montage, a literary, musical, or artistic composite of juxtaposed more or less heterogeneous elements; a composite picture made by combining several separate pictures (Merriam-Webster online)
So much more achievable with digi. Lots of blending and images fading into one another. Designers in this style: Neicey, Anna Aspnes (although she crosses over to graphic style often too). Examples, Carver, Anna, Neicey, cardee. While I love this style, I'm not much good at doing it, and don't know even if I want to.
Artsy
Think lots of free-form, swirls, creative blending, overlays, black line-work and brushes. Designers: Rhonna Farrer, Carrie Stephens, Dianne Rigdon Just check out Rhonna's gallery, or Carrie's, for some inspiration. Love to look at these, but can't do 'em.
Clean and Simple
See the Queen of Clean&Simple, Cathy Zielske. Not many designers cater to this, as most ‘kits’ would be simple colour and fontwork. I think Dawn Stocstill's kits and layouts often fit the bill here. And Daniela Peuss has recently begun designing, and I think her kits fit this style - she is one of my favourite scrappers too!
Graphic
Lots of bold design features, almost like advertisements at times. Anna Aspnes is my favourite designer and scrapper in this style.
Traditional paper style
Attempting to emulate paper scrapping, inked edges, stitching, patterned paper, etc. Within this category falls most others to some degree, as well as shabby, etc. Gina Cabrera and Kristie David are stand-out designers for this style, although probably the majority of kit designers are aiming for this "feel" to their work.
I dunno if that achieved anything, and I hope none of these fine scrappers would be offended that I have tried to categorise them in this way - it's understood that they are all versatile in their approaches to scrapping, just that there is an overall trend that I detect that makes me assign a style label. Lots of inspiring stuff in those galleries!



5 Comments:
deb - I can't believe that I'm mentioned in a "line" together with all these outstanding scrappers...!! you really made my day!! :)
Interesting reading Deb :)
Mmm, now what category would I be in........I think I must be a traditional paper look scrapper.......I dunno.......lol
Great sum up Deb!
Great summary, Deb. It is so hard to categorize all those styles, but you did a great job. ;)
I'm reading your blog and I'm loving it. I especially enjoyed the "defining digi-scrappin' styles" article. I've never thought of it that way, but boy is that article a keeper.
I don't blog myself, so I chose Anonymous here. But I am Stella aka Starling at DSP and Digiscrapdivas.
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