Rounded Or Square?

I have to admit to getting tired of rounding all the corners of my photos, especially when I have a lot to do at once. But I do like the look and like the front and back to match, within the same pocket. I finally bought the PL corner rounder and REALLY like that it contains the cut off pieces so I can empty it now and then and not have all these little bits falling to the floor and making a mess. I think whatever floats your boat, do it.

At first glance, the rounded version is more striking; especially allowing a bit more of a view through to underlying pages. However, your ability to just turn the corners loose, very admirable as well. So for looks, the rounded corners are my preference, but it's YOUR lifestyle. I guess that puts me on the fence for "a mix." ;)

I have been rounding because I do not like the look on the next page when I use a PL card that is rounded. Its a pain in the butt... If I saw a kit with square corners, I could totally get on board with no rounded but for me its either or, not a mix!

If I could have square all the way that would make me so happy. When I first started, I used to dread the task of going through and rounding all the corners. Then I started using a Polaroid look with white borders and it just looked better squared to me. Really wish there were more options for cards with squared corners. But, this year I have been doing better at incorporating more cards with rounded corners and I'm okay with it. Done is better than perfect. Seriously, I used to primarily get the digital versions just so when I trimmed out cards I would have them squared. Photos: love them squared. Cards: prefer squared in my layouts but I'm liking the rounded more as I use them. It's just so much easier to grab a card versus printing out and trimming and all that mess. I do try to match up the rounded ones but it doesn't always work. Please tell me your story kit will be squared! That would be perfect!

Sometimes I wonder if they had all started squared if it would be the "trend" to round them. I guess I'm weird but I think of things like that. Do I do it because I like it or just to be different? Or just b/c I'm lazy?

And by the way, your layouts are beautiful either way, so I say do what makes you happy! Try out the squared corners and then if in 6 months it is really bugging you, grab the corner rounder and have a party! Either way actually looks good to me although for me, I love it squared.

So funny that you should post on this today. I am also catching up on PL. This is my 5th year of it and I've NEVER rounded the corners; just didn't want to take the time. But on my album this year, I decided to do it and I'm loving it! I bought the Color Me kit from QVC and I think because it has so many smaller cards and there are SO many more rounded corners, it looks better with the pictures rounded. Will I do it in future years? probably not, but for this year it's a nice change.

Rounded. No thought-out reason, I just like the way it looks. I'm on year 5 of PL and I've rounded corners all the way along. Never thought about it much. No one will ever care--the vast majority of people who look at my albums (whether PL or the traditional pages) have never seen anyone else's scrapbook pages anyway, so it's all my decision. No peer pressure!

I dislike the rounded corners, which is why I've never bought any Becky Higgins products. I just don't get the reason for rounding them. But it's totally not an important issue, I think the person making the album should just do whatever they want and no one else is likely to even notice!

The 4th time my corner rounder broke - I gave up on the rounded corners and now they are mixed. Like it a little less, but not less enough to keep rounding. Life is too short.

this is a lightbulb moment for me!!!!! i am going to start mixing it up;)

Mix! Especially if the card on the other side is rounded - I do like those to line up. But otherwise my default for photos is unrounded.

Mix 'em up! I used to think everything had to be rounded, but I recently finished an album for my stepson's senior year. And it's totally mixed. Some round, some square, sometimes it depended what was going to be on the backside of the photo/journal card. It looks great and doesn't look so 'perfectly' done. Lovin' it!

This got me wondering...I do round but am also tired of spending the time doing it. Just went to Becky Higgin's site and looked at the post with all the team members' pages...I'm going to start not rounding my pictures and use everything as is! It looks just great!

Square. Which means I have to use digital product so I can print then square.

Square. I like the look of rounded corners but life is too busy to bother with it. And when I look through the albums & I read the stories & photos and I don't even notice whether the photos are square or rounded. Let it go. Go for square. :)

I like both of them depends on my mood ;)

I use mixed. Most of the time they are rounded but on occasion I just put them in straight out of the printer.

I did mixed (photos square, journaling cards rounded) on the project life album I used to get all of the pictures my mom had in Rubbermaid tubs under the bed organized(ish....I only got through half of the "floating" pics that weren't in albums.) For my personal pl album for this year I have rounded everything, because I just like how it looks. But I could see myself going back to mixed next year if there was more stuff going on and the time it took it do that became less satisfying.

I like the look of the square corners better it fills the pocket... a cleaner look to me. But I'm sure it's just a personal preference. The packaged PL & other sets are all pre rounded but when I take a sheet of patterned paper that's a bunch of cards you can cut up yourself I always don't round them

It depends on my mood... if I have a lot of photos to go through, then I live them square. What I like by doing that is that I always can go back and round the corners later.

I'm a mixed girl.. I don't go to all the trouble of rounding, but if cards come that way it's ok to add them to my album. I'm not going to stress over it.

I stopped rounding the corners of my photos about 2 years ago - it was one of things I hated doing most and I just didn't have that "extra" time available. I thought I would care & that it would bother me but for the most part it doesn't at all. The simplicity of not doing it far outweighs the occasional perfectionist in me. The most telling is that when I look back at say last years album I don't even notice rounded or not rounded or both. Go for it Ali!

I like the look of square. But I use a lot of cards from kits that are rounded........guess i am mixing them.....but wish the kits were square.

I prefer the squared look, but end up with a mix because some cards come pre-rounded. I wish there was a way to unround them!