Rounded Or Square?

I haven't had a ton of time to catch up (no guilt about this) on Project Life® recently but I did print out a bunch of photos from some of our adventures last week. I've been trying to print them out at the same time as I edit the photos for my blog posts - you know, that whole "one touch" thing (vs. doing one thing now and then having to come back to them all over again to print).

Which brought me to this thought: all along I've been rounding the corners. I like the look of rounded corners. 

But I might be tired or rounding them. I'm thinking about not caring about that anymore (or doing it sometimes and not other times) and wondering if I can be cool with a mix of rounded cards and square photos and REALLY who cares if they are rounded or not or a mix. 

So today's question to you: square, rounded, or a mix? 

Hope you have an awesome weekend. I'm super excited that the Story Stamps™ will start shipping next week and I can't wait to start telling stories with many of you in the member community. 

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  1. kristymakes says…
    09/12/2014

    I lamented this for about a minute when I first started project life 3 years ago. I felt like it would look "off" if I didn't round them, but I was really inspired by Marcy Penner to start, and she was just slapping white borders on her photos, and I really liked the way that looked.. so that's what I did. The mix has never really bothered me. This year, I went to a smaller album & dropped the white borders to mix it up, renew my interest, & cut myself some slack since I'm in school full time + raising a family + taking care of my household responsibilities. Sometimes I miss the white borders, but I can still say the corners don't bug me. If anything, I wished that the kits came with square edges, because my brain seems to miss that little edge of real-estate on the corner :) I liked what Jamaica Edgell did though, she stuck a piece of similarly colored card stock behind her studio calico cards because she was bugged by the rounded corners... When I find myself struggling over little details, like a card not coming together the way I want it too, I just remind myself that the story is the most important part, and to embrace the imperfection, something I learned from you! :)

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  2. MelissaL88 says…
    09/12/2014

    Whatever is easiest...so a mix, I guess. I'm just lazy. LOL! I got tired of bringing out the corner rounder, so I just stopped. And you know what? No one has even noticed that some of the cards are rounded and some aren't. I don't even mind if there is a rounded card on one side and a straight-edged card on the other. I'm all about trying to simplify. I would rather spend the time stamping or hand writing the journaling.

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  3. Taryn411 says…
    09/12/2014

    Definitely a mix....just because I was weary of rounding all the corners. Good thing I bought the non-rounded corner 3x4 punch (which, I have to say, is totally on "the tools I can't do without list"). I like the look of a full page of 4x6 square corner photos.

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  4. pierek14 says…
    09/12/2014

    I started out rounding all my corners and then I did a page when I was away from home and didn't have my corner rounder and decided I liked that look also. So now I do both and mix them and it doesn't bother me that they are not all the same. And I quite like being unpredictable.

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  5. Cookingmylife says…
    09/12/2014

    As all mine are digital, it makes no nevermind to me if there's a mix but more often than not I'm using rounded because I have a mask that all my photos go to usually. A click of the mouse and rounded they are. I also often have one full page layout opposite the traditional PL layout. The full page may have anything that goes with that week - it's a page where I get to do more playing.

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  6. amorton63 says…
    09/12/2014

    I like to round my corners. It's just a personal choice of mine to have the cards and pictures all uniform. I can't wait to get my first stamp. I'm so excited for you!

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  7. KimberLeigh says…
    09/12/2014

    i prefer all straight corners but due to cards with rounded corners, i use a mix of both!

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  8. kellyxenos says…
    09/12/2014

    I always round the corners because I don't like the look of the cards being rounded and my photos not being rounded. I really wish everyone would sell the cards not rounded so you can have the choice of rounding them yourself.

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  9. jendcnguyen says…
    09/12/2014

    I actually don't round my corners at all for the last 3 years. It's easier to cut (since I print my photos at home), quicker to get it done, and it's more appealing to me. The only time I use rounded corner cards is when I get a kit. But i'm not picky. As long it's in my album I am happy.

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  10. Kimmie3233 says…
    09/12/2014

    I never round my corners so I have a huge mish-mash of corners between cards & pictures. It totally doensn't bother me :)

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  11. mpcapistran says…
    09/12/2014

    Personally, I don't mind having it mixed up. Genrally, my photos and cards are rounded, but sometimes it happens that I don't round the corner of I photo that has a white border, or a beautiful card that came with square corners. The ephemera pieces also, are never rounded. I don't mind the mix. My moto is: it's good enough. Just like you thought me. ;)

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  12. pmmessner says…
    09/12/2014

    BOTH is totally fine by me!

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  13. Bookworm says…
    09/12/2014

    I started doing "Project Life" with my own stash, not a kit (although I do use some of the page protectors.) So all of my pockets have things with square corners. I've toyed with picking up a branded PL kit but the mix of rounded and square corners would bug me. (See also: Virgo -- ha, ha) If I ever do switch to rounded corners, I'd have to switch at the beginning of the year and do it that way the whole year.

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  14. sunnyb64 says…
    09/12/2014

    I have 2 PL kits, but I also have a habit of using paper scraps (or entire pieces of paper from my stash)to make my own cards if the colors aren't what I want to use in a particular layout. And I also mix in traditional pages, since I take more of a by-the-month approach and just use however many page protectors I need. So I do a mix of square and rounded, mostly because I'm also too lazy to round the corners on all of my photos and homemade cards as well!

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  15. vicki_dalton says…
    09/12/2014

    BOTH
    It depends on the project that I'm doing
    (I don't do PL--but if I did I would go square because that's the way the page protectors are made)

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  16. avillagomez says…
    09/12/2014

    The one year that I did the paper version of PL, I rounded them almost the full year until I saw someone who did not round them and really liked the look. As a result, some of my last pages were squared. With digital project life, I mainly use the templates, which are automatically rounded. Sometimes I insert some of your grid templates though, so the squared look is mixed in.

    I really like both.

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  17. Clynnann says…
    09/12/2014

    Mix and no fix.

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  18. karenhamad says…
    09/12/2014

    Funny how I start each week's layout thinking, No rounding this time...and as the layout progresses, I find myself reaching for the corner rounder and rounding everything...creature of habit I guess...might have to break out of that mold this week! lol

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  19. anikalacerte says…
    09/12/2014

    Square.

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  20. Dcorder says…
    09/12/2014

    Square...I don't have time to round every corner. Yikes...seems like a huge time suck over the course of a year.

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  21. Janet_White says…
    09/12/2014

    Square. Definitely square.

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  22. erikadesigns says…
    09/12/2014

    Square. All square, all the time.

    But I do 100% digital, so that's a lot easier for me than for someone doing traditional PL.

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  23. Tootles1108 says…
    09/12/2014

    I round my corners, but I absolutely HATE taking the time to round them! It also doesn't allow me to use the white border around pictures. I like the softness it adds with the corners of the PL corners rounded.

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  24. tsangelini says…
    09/12/2014

    I do both and the only time I notice an issue for me is if I have a round edge card on one side and try to put a square edge on the other side. Then I just bust out my corner rounder and round that card/photo.

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  25. crazystampwoman says…
    09/12/2014

    I do a mix. Sometimes, I like the look of the rounded edges, to soften things, but other times, I like to leave the photos and cards (I don't use just BH products) as they come. Variety is okay/good!

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