Rounded Or Square?

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.

Mix and no fix.

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

Square.

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

Square. Definitely square.

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.

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.

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.

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!

I actually don't have a preference, but I do like to have my front and back match, so if I have a card in the pocket, I will round the corners on the photo if there is one on the opposite site of the page protector.

I started out rounding all of the corners. I batch order my photos and after a year of PL, I decided it was not worth my time to round the corners of my 4x6 photos. I then began ordering my photos with white borders as well. I still round the corners of the 3x4 journaling cards, since most of them come from BH. This year, however, I have gone to doing my PL digitally and I use the BH free digital templates that also have rounded corners. I like the look of Cathy Z.'s square corners though and thinking about using those for next year. We shall see.

I mix them up and let them party it out together ;)

I don't round my photos or the hybrid journaling cards I print out, but I use a lot of cards that I have purchased that are already rounded mixed in and I am totally fine with the look of both together.

Pushed to choose, I would say I prefer square corners. Day to day? Don't care. If it's stuck down and the story is captured, it's good.

Under no circumstances ever are Simon and Anna going to look at those albums and go "Geesh, Mom, did you just not care enough to make this uniform and perfect?" And if on that cold cold day that DID happen, you wouldn't care about the corners, you would be worried that they are putting too much on themselves in their own lives to be reflecting that kind of anxiety. Do what makes you happy for now and Go Ali Go :)

I live dangerously and mix them, sometimes even on the same page. I always put rounded back to back, but sometimes there is a mix of rounded and square in the same layout.

I feel like I'm majorly in the minority but I always round my corners. This perhaps has something to do with my slight OCD and everything needs to be the same. If I'm putting the pictures in the album, they are square for a while until I can go round them but the finished product must be rounded!

I literally had this conversation in my head yesterday as I was working on PL. And no guilt here either, btw. I am way behind. Hello week 3. Yeah that's right, I'm that far behind. I had laid out most of my spreads with photos through February and some of March and fell behind but rather than quit I decided I can do this and I want to. So my album will be a lovely mix of weekly spreads + monthly spreads in order to make it do-able for me. I love that I can adjust it to work for me and not feel like I'm doing it wrong. So all this to say, I started rounding my corners so everything was consistent but I want to do whatever and let go of everything having to 'match'. For me, it's a good practice of letting go of too much precision (perfectionism) and just going with whatever. And I'm totally ok with it. So now I have some square photos with rounded cards and it's perfectly fine. A mix of both.

I like having everything the same, but I create all of my own journal cards and print them when the photos get printed so I never have any purchased pre-rounded cards in my book. I like the clean lines that come from straight edges and i don't like the "windows" that rounded corners create, giving a glimpse to pages below. HOWEVER, if we could get past our own preferences, the truth is that our family and friends don't look at our books with judgement. They look at them with a welcoming, loving heart.