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Archive through September 30, 2003
Sia | Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 10:28 am     Thanks, Curious1. Boy, I really need to get the kids' scrapbooks out and work on them. And, more importantly, I have never finished their BABY BOOKS!! Bad mommy!! |
Curious1 | Sunday, August 03, 2003 - 10:03 pm     Anyone found any new products out there that they really like lately? There are so many new embellishments that it gets overwhelming sometimes. I just learned how to do eyelets though and now I love using them with vellum. I was intimadated at first but I'm glad I tried them now. Has anyone discovered other products out there that you were afraid to try but are glad you finally did? |
Sia | Sunday, August 03, 2003 - 11:00 pm     Curious, I just found something called "Easy-Stick" at Wal-mart; it came in a four-pack of tape dispensers. It is an adhesive that is quick and simple to use. It applies like tape in that it's sticky like tape, but doesn't require that you pull it out or remove a backing, etc. The small, easily-palmed dispenser just lets you zip a strip of adhesive where you want it. It's great for affixing things to a page so your goodies won't move!
Description: Faster than tape, cleaner than glue. Roll a strip of double-sided, invisible adhesive film on anything you want to stick somewhere. Permanent film has permanent adhesive on both sides and is ideal for gift wrapping, envelope sealing and mounting. Removable film has permanent adhesive on one side, removable adhesive on the other and is perfect for creating your own self stick notes of any size. Both are acid free, archival safe and bond instantly. Dimensions: 1/3"x474". I think I paid $8.88 for the four-pack. I wouldn't have bought four rolls at once, but I didn't see individual rolls for sale. |
Gigglesalot | Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 08:41 am     I take a LOT of photographs – I call myself a “photo-documenter”, documenting my life with photography. My family and friends don’t understand me. I think it’s a by-product of having a declining memory as I get older and more stressed in life. I love being able to ‘remember’ the past years by looking at all the photos I’ve taken. The result of taking so many photos however, is how to organize them. All the pictures I’ve taken aren’t worthy of the time and expense of creative scrapbooking but there are events and photos that are. My solution was to combine all my photos together in a homemade album (over-sized binder with a pretty design on the cover or to cover the album with fabric and then topped with a cross-stitch design or scrap booking design) with the so-so photos in photo-safe photo sleeves and my creative scrapbook photos as well. I also keep mementos from the year in photo-safe sleeves in the albums. I keep all the photos from a year together this way and don’t have to go a separate album for each event or for only a certain time period. As I get more time (ha!) I go back through the photos and create scrapbook pages for certain events or great pictures from the ones in the sleeves and then put them in photo-safe 8½ x 11” sleeve and then insert them in the album in order. I have a LOT of albums (one for each year I’ve had a camera) but this is by far the easiest way (for me) to keep things organized and usable. Plus, it’s a nice surprise when going through the albums to find the scrapbook pages for special events yet see my life as a whole. I admire and appreciate ideas from others and would love to hear more about everyone’s current ideas. I too started with Creative Memories products but found the cost to be too much. I do review their website for ideas and occasionally buy from a local consultant but mainly find the supplies I need from local craft stores. I did, however, splurge on the cutting mats and templates from Creative Memories because they are of good quality and can be used so much whereas stickers, etc are one-time use items. I hope this ‘bumps’ this thread up and gets some attention to others out there to keep this thread active – I will try to do my part. Sometimes it’s nice to have knowledge of fellow scrapbookers out there and their experiences – Hello to all! |
Tabbyking | Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 09:31 am     this topic makes me laugh. we had tons of scrapbooks and photo albums and they were taking up the whole house. i did albums for years, with cute little stickers and writing under each photo...last year, i 'unscrapped' books and filed photos in boxes, divided by sections. they all fit neatly in 6 shoebox size photo boxes on my office shelf--and they used to fill 25 or 30 scrapbooks. we do have a scrapbook of my husband's military career and the kids made one each of their pets, but i was happy to be done with huge photo albums. a wedding scrap book or a baby scrap book is nice, but we were just being run out of the house! just be glad i only collected sports cards for a year! i have 4 underbed storage boxes, my closet floor is lined with more boxes, our trunk that doubles as a coffee table...(and my husband thought we stored blankets and sheets in it for the sofa bed.....NOT! qu'elle surprise, mon ami!) |
Gigglesalot | Friday, September 26, 2003 - 11:04 am     Tabbyking, I’m glad you’re happy with your photo storage. At first I took your post as a negative response to mine –and it still might be. However, I’ve just gotten back from reading the huge thread started by Whit4u about feeling ignored on TVCH and I decided to go back to this thread and restate my initial questions. To everyone enjoying scrapbooking, I admire and appreciate ideas from others and would love to hear more about everyone’s current ideas. Have you been using a new way to organize and ‘prettify’ your pictures? Have you tried and been successful with any new techniques? As I stated in the above post, I have been organizing my pictures in what I think is a good way for me, but I need inspiration for new ideas. Thanks in advance for your helpfulness!  |
Squaredsc | Friday, September 26, 2003 - 11:13 am     im not ignoring you giggles, i just don't scapbook so i personally don't have anything meaningful to add. |
Gigglesalot | Friday, September 26, 2003 - 11:30 am     Thanks Squaredsc for letting me know! I see your posts out there (in other forums) and always appreciate your comments and friendliness. I’ve been wondering for a while (I’m sure I just missed a previous post explaining this) but what is ‘aubergine’? I see it mentioned a lot but my handy dandy desk dictionary doesn’t define what it is. |
Squaredsc | Friday, September 26, 2003 - 11:38 am     ahh giggles, i could expound(sp) on the virtues of aubergine and wax poetic on a good day. unfortunately today ain't the day, just rl things and im a lil moody today. but i will say that aubergine is the color purple. anyone who knows me knows that i usually don't use the p-word but its easier to explain it by using that word, lol. i always use the color aubergine or a variation of it and i say it alot. its a mystique. and its me. |
Halfunit | Friday, September 26, 2003 - 12:03 pm     Square said purple. |
Squaredsc | Friday, September 26, 2003 - 12:04 pm     sshhhh... |
Strawberry | Friday, September 26, 2003 - 12:08 pm     Half...I heard it too  |
Gigglesalot | Friday, September 26, 2003 - 12:35 pm     Thanks for the explanation Squaredsc! Now I know. Hi Halfunit and Strawberry!
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Halfunit | Friday, September 26, 2003 - 12:43 pm     <...waves to Giggles...> Oh - I don't scrapbook. Not professionally anyway. |
Strawberry | Friday, September 26, 2003 - 12:48 pm     Hiya Giggles. I got all excited cuz Squared said the p word and I popped in here cuz Half made me do it...hehe, but Lori's innocent I used to keep a scrapbook, but it got so full that it busted the binding on the book and I never really got back into it. I do have a box tucked away in the closet that I keep all my stuff in though. I just get it out every once in awhile and rummage thru it. |
Gigglesalot | Friday, September 26, 2003 - 12:59 pm     <...waves back to Halfunit...and giggles at Strawberry....> I don't scrapbook professionally at all....I just enjoy having my photos organized in a "pretty" manner sometimes. And, scrapbooking isn't the only thing that I'm interested in. I'm trying to post more in other threads - this just happened to be a topic that I would enjoy talking about with others with similiar interests. Hope to see ya all in other threads!
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Ladytex | Friday, September 26, 2003 - 01:08 pm     I don't scrapbook, but I do stamp. And I cannot believe that the P-word was used in here by Ms. Squared ... |
Gigglesalot | Friday, September 26, 2003 - 02:01 pm     Ladytex, HI! I haven't stamped much although I do have some stamps from some projects from before. It's fun and very creative - I think the creativity part is what is my downfall at times. I only have so many ideas in my wee-brain - unlike so many others out there! I'd love to hear any novel ideas you have had in stamping! I'm leaving for the weekend so I'll quit asking questions of others for now! Have a great weekend everybody!
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Tabbyking | Sunday, September 28, 2003 - 10:37 am     giggles, why would you think my post was a negative response? and still 'might be'? i do remember your posts somewhere else about negative posters and perhaps that's where your mindset was. nope, i was adding to your thread. for me, scrapbooking for special events was great, but too much for every day photos. i take loads of pictures and it wasn't practical at all to 'scrapbook til i dropped' and the books were taking up way too much time and room. so most of my albums went back into manageable boxes and special things have their own albums. i was just relating how it was for me. it also got very expensive to go to creative memories parties, etc., and i found it better to buy things on eBay or at garage sales! my daughter and i just made a special book for a young cousin we don't get to see much. we mailed it to massachusetts and he has it right by his bed. his mom says he looks at it every day and talks about his cousins in california. |
Tabbyking | Sunday, September 28, 2003 - 10:40 am     and squared could use the word 'eggplant' to describe aubergine, too, if she wants to avoid the 'p' word! aubergine is a very lovely shade of 'p'. the word that starts with 'p', i mean! |
Sia | Monday, September 29, 2003 - 10:12 pm     Giggles-A-Lot, I need to scan a couple of pages from my kids' scrapbooks that I think turned out pretty nicely so I can share them with you. I don't buy professional scrapbooking supplies, but I would love to do so! I'm afraid that if I started doing that, however, it would become a very expensive hobby for me. After all, I'm the woman who took two lousy quilting classes and then purchased some really neat quilting supplies which I've still never used!! I just don't have the time. I am not organized enough! Well, I hope to get things in better shape before Christmas. This is the first time I've said that, and it's the first time I've actually thought that, but I'm saying it out loud and I'm posting that statement here in public. Okay? So you check on me and motivate me to keep my promise!! Please just keep me on-track and moving towards achieving order in my home, my mind and in my life. Thanks, friend.
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Sia | Monday, September 29, 2003 - 10:16 pm     Speaking of scrapbooking with photos, I haven't been able to find a way to print my digital photos so that they are as good a quality as the prints that I get when I have 35mm film developed. I hate my printer, as it chews up just plain paper when I'm simply printing documents. It is just awful with the slick 4 x 6 glossy print paper. Does anyone have a resource for printing digital pics, please? Thanks. I've tried Wal-mart.com's photo upload but can't figure out how to get past their ignorant "terms of use" screen and have called and e-mailed them to no avail. I'm just too dense to figure it out. Any help appreciated. |
Gigglesalot | Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 08:52 am     Tabbyking, I’m sorry if I took your post negatively. The way I originally read it was as a flippant response to what I had written about my own way of trying to be organized with my photos. Thank you for clearing my mind up about it and thank you for being patient with me. |
Gigglesalot | Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 08:53 am     Sia- I would love to see any pages that you’ve completed. I have done a few pages for special events, etc but always need inspiration and new ideas for other pages. I’ve found supplies at Wal-Mart, Hobby Lobby, and Jo-Ann’s Crafts that are fairly economical and make for a fun time! I know exactly what you mean by saying you don’t have enough time. When I was in college I had enough spare time that I made log cabin baby quilts for colleagues and friends and still have supplies for doing more but I haven’t started a quilt block in probably 8 years now. I don’t have a lot of space in my apartment to spread out either, so I don’t feel organized enough to start anything either. What kind of quilt would you like to make? I feel like quilting is part of my genes since both of my grandmothers were excellent quilters and also my mom, sister, and three aunts participate in it when they can. It’s just a matter of having time – which others have told me is all relative. Do you have the color scheme for your quilt picked out? Do you have the pattern? The key to organization is go with the flow. Organize one part or area at a time. It will all come together ‘piece by piece’ (pun intended!). I will try to do what I can to help – and in the process we both can learn and grow! |
Gigglesalot | Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 08:59 am     Also, Sia, I don't have a digital camera so I personally am at a loss as to how to help you. Sorry - wish I could help! |
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