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Archive through May 29, 2003
Kearie | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 01:25 pm     I've just recently started this hobby and am finding I enjoy it very much. Was hoping there were others here so we could share ideas and perhaps teach each other techniques. I'm new to this and hoping to get ideas. I want to know about embossing. Does anyone here do their own? |
Katlady53 | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 01:46 pm     Hi Kearie, we meet again! Lol! Are you talking about dry embossing with brass templates? If so, what do you need to know about it? Like I said on the other thread, I can give you the names of some good online SB sites and message boards, if you are interested. Do you buy any of the SB magazines, like Creating Keepsakes? |
Kearie | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 01:52 pm     Yes, that dry embossing stuff. (I never new it was dry) I've seen the templates you can buy, but never asked about them. I'd think you would rip the paper??? So I guess I need to know everything about it. I've never bought any magazine about it. I'm a newbie. I guess as I mentioned in the CC threads, I kinda jump in head first and learn from error. I want the fast, furious easy way to do the best job....until I burn out. UGH! Guess I could try slowing down. |
Meggieprice | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 02:39 pm     Kat-can you post the links here? I am a wedding photographer and would love to give tips to our brides about ways to do their own albums. (Ours are expensive) |
Katlady53 | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 06:01 pm     Here's a good place to learn basics: www.gracefulbee.com. They have a newbie section there, as well as sections on techniques. These sites have galleries where you can look at layouts done by the members: www.twopeasinabucket.com www.scrapjazz.com www.cropperscottage.com www.scrapbookaddict.com is a good message board where the girls also post their layouts. If you want to see wedding layouts, all you have to do is ask them to post some wedding layouts. I'm sure someone would accomodate you! There are lots of other scrapbooking sites, but these are the biggies that first come to mind. The major scrapbooking magazines are: Creating Keepsakes Simple Scrapbooks Making Memories Paperkuts Ivy Cottage Creations They all have websites. Most of the mags are available at Borders, Barnes & Noble, Michaels, etc. Creating Keepsakes is the leader with the most innovative techniques, but for beginners I'd suggest Simple Scrapbooks by the same publisher. |
Mamaanja | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 08:18 pm     Oh yeah! I'm a fairly new scrapper. Thanks for the links! I started out with Creative Memories products, but have ventured out into our local scrapbooking store and craft stores. I love the CM albums, but they are so expensive. Has anyone found another album brand to be of equal quality? |
Ladytex | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 08:53 pm     You can find pretty good stuff through the Stampin' Up or the Close to My Heart stamping catalogs. The lady I know that sells Stampin' Up also does little workshops on scrapping, so that is a route you might want to look at. As far as embossing, I do both dry embossing, with the stencils and light box, and the embossing with ink, powder, and heat. |
Bigfan | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 09:03 pm     Oh Ladies, the tvclub goes scrapbooking...another one of my pastimes! Of course this summer when I was going to have lots of time to work on them, I was glued to my computer watching live feeds of BigBrother! Katlady, thanks for posting the websites, I haven't been to all of them. I'm gonna have to go check them out. Mamaanja, I too started out with Creative Memories. I have bought strap hinged albums at Hobby Lobby and the refill pages are thinner paper than CM but I put so much paper on the page that it doesn't matter and the protective pages are not seamed on the edges and I like them better. Hobby Lobby puts almost all of there scrapbook items on sale from time to time so the price is soooooo good, its hard to beat. I do have 10 books of CM and will continue to fill them up. |
Kearie | Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 09:35 pm     How cool. Lots of scrapbookers in here. I need all the ideas I can get. and lessons in scrapbooking. Thanks Kat |
Pagal | Monday, October 14, 2002 - 06:09 am     I've been scrapbooking for about 5 years and am part of a group of 20 scrappers from across the United States who get together once a year for vacation. I mostly work on layouts of my dear granddaughter but am way behind right now! LOL |
Whit4you | Monday, November 25, 2002 - 06:39 pm     I was hoping this little thread would take off - I think in the next year or two I'm going to get hooked on this |
Yuhuru | Monday, November 25, 2002 - 06:46 pm     I do a little scrapbooking. I would love to do more, but I don't have the time. A have a few CM and 1 I bought at Joann's etc. and one Walmart. I love the creative memories, but hate the $$. |
Sia | Monday, November 25, 2002 - 09:12 pm     I have been making scrapbooks/memory books for my kids since they were little, but am I going to be sorry that I used the regular peel-back plastic photo album pages instead of acid-free everything that you hear about these days? My old photos are also stored in the old-fashioned albums and are behind the peel-back pages. Only a few of my scrapbooks are made the REALLY old-fashioned way, meaning gluing or stapling things to large pages made of construction paper. All advice welcome. Thanks. |
Tess | Monday, November 25, 2002 - 10:16 pm     I started scrapbooking April of last year and have been having a ball. I take photos contantly so I do one album for each year with everything Christmas in a separate Christmas album. This year, since we've started Kindergarten, I've also started a school album. I meet with a group of fellow scrapbookers once or twice a month at our CM lady's house and we either work from 6pm-midnight or 1pm to 1am. Two weekends ago we had an "in-house retreat" from 1pm Friday to 4pm Sunday, just going home to sleep. We're having a contest this year and everyone who completes 202 pages in the year 2002 will receive a CM album for free. Our consultant also has an open house where you can get album kits at a discount along with coupons for workshop time, stickers, paper, and other supplies. Once in awhile I venture out to a store here called Archivers for different sized or colored alphabet stickers but that's about it. The past couple weeks I've even been using my scrap paper and some stickers to make new bookmarkers for the kids at my daughter's school. (I work as a library volunteer.) Sia, with time, those photos and things in the peel back albums are going to be a bit on the ruined side I fear. That has happened to me. I haven't tried tackling any of the really old stuff I have because they are all packed away right now. If you are going to keep a photo album as opposed to a scrapbook you need to look for the ones with acid free sleeves instead of the peel back. The glue on construction paper will eventually come through the photos also. Depending upon how old things are I bet you can rescue them, though. There are probably several people who know alot more about that part than I do. Good luck! |
Sia | Monday, November 25, 2002 - 10:33 pm     Thanks, Tess. Once the label has been removed from an album (photo album), is there a way to tell if the plastic used for the photo sleeves is safe for photos or not? I have been looking for the "safe" photo albums since I heard about this problem. I'm using the type that hold 4x6 photos and have individual pockets for each photo; each album is 4x6 inches big and holds 100 photos. Thanks, scrapbookers! Tess, you're really organized! Come and get me organized. I do have a great start, as I have all my negatives cataloged and photos all in albums--all of them that I've taken since I was eight years old!! |
Tess | Monday, November 25, 2002 - 11:19 pm     Wow, Sia! That is organized! I still have to put back the photos I didn't use in the scrap books. I've got all these mostly-empty photo albums sitting on the shelf now. As for the albums themselves, I checked inside several of mine and unless the info page is still in there I don't see any other indication of whether the sleeves are "safe" or not. Nothing is stamped on the album itself. On the "up" side, I think most photo albums these days are "safe" unless they are very, very cheap. If you are buying a new photo album you want to look for one that says the pages are acid-free, lignin-free and PVC-free. That also holds true for anything you put in your scrapbooks. There's one more "something-free" that's new (I think) but I forget what it is. I'll have to ask my scrapbook lady. If you put things in your scrapbook that would be classified as memorabilia rather than photographs, they can be put in a little separate safe envelope to keep it from coming into contact with your photos. |
Sia | Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 11:48 pm     Thanks, Tess, for the pointers!! I do have to admit to being guilty of buying some inexpensive photo albums from time to time, especially the little 99-cent brag-books. One time-saver for me has been getting my negatives (from my 35mm film) put onto a floppy diskette when getting the film developed. It costs an extra $5, but I don't have time to scan photos. It's worth the money, in my opinion. Photography is sort of my hobby. That and needlework. Oh, and reading...and music.... |
Tess | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 01:12 am     Hahahah Sia! We have much the same hobbies. I knew I liked you! I've bought the cheapo albums in the past also. That's' one reason why I'm trying to work as rapidly as I can to get the most treasured photos into scrapbooks for Sarah to inherit and put the rest of the photos into "safe" albums. One tremendously important thing to remember with the scrapbooks is to journal whenever possible. When my dad and my aunt (his sister) died they both had a treasure trove of beautiful old photos. The big problem was that the two people who could indentify everyone in those photos was gone. Another thing I get with the CD every time I have a roll of film developed is a free duplicate set. So, not only is there a back up set of prints for sending to relatives, using for school projects or in case I make a mistake in the scrapbook , there is the additional back up of having the CDs just in case of disaster. When Sarah goes off to college (she swears right now she's going to live with me forever....I'm predicting that will change) I plan to give her a composite album which will contain professional copies of the best 2 or 3 pages from each of her albums up to that time. By that time I will have 18 albums of her life plus school and Christmas albums and perhaps more. In the meantime, I take my 13 favorite photos of the year and take them to Kinko's around this time and have them make up calendars for me with one photo for every month and one for the cover. I then give one to my mom, one to my sister and we keep one for ourselves. It's a can't miss gift in my family.  |
Curious1 | Thursday, January 09, 2003 - 11:23 pm     I just recently found this thread (thanks to Wargod) and I am so happy! Even though I've noticed that nobody has posted in here for awhile? Time off for the holidays maybe? Anyway, we have a scrapbooking club here and we get together every other week and just go to town on our books. It can get to be an expensive hobby though so I did something brave recently and signed up to be a Creative Memories Consultant! Mainly just did it for the discount but who knows maybe it will turn into something. My friends in our group like my discount too, so this ensures that I'll still get invited to the scrapbooking nights! hehe! |
Tess | Friday, January 10, 2003 - 01:51 am     Yay for you, Curious! |
Dipo | Saturday, February 08, 2003 - 11:01 am     One thing you might watch for is the craft days on QVC. That is how I got started. I just happened on it and got a kit for like $50-$60 that had the album, paper stickers etc. This was a few years ago, so it might be more expensive now. The QVC is really a good deal, I have compared their prices to my local craft store, much higher. |
Curious1 | Sunday, March 30, 2003 - 10:35 am     To all of you who are interested in this hobby. Today (sunday) on QVC they are having a special on scrapbooking at 4pm (until 6pm) eastern time. They have been doing a few other scrapbooking shows the past few days and following Dipo's advice above, I did get alot of supplies really cheaply. If you don't want to buy anything just record the show and it will give you alot of ideas because they show hundreds of page layouts. Also you can purchase most of the things they had on previous days shows at their website. |
Skymarigold | Tuesday, April 29, 2003 - 04:01 pm     I never considered myself as the creative type...a couple of years ago, however, I was inspired by a little girl from Cuba with whom I correspond. I'd always send cards for her birthdays & holidays & cute little note cards, just because...all from Hallmark. The inspiration: she made a birhtday card especially for me, I was so touched by her thoughtfulness--she said that it wasn't as pretty as the ones I sent her, but she made it with love, well, this brought tears to my eyes...I showed the card to my mom & my best friend--they both found it pretty. So I started making cards from construction paper, stickers, coloring pencils...then I decided to cut pictures from catalogs & magazines...then I discovered the craft store & decided to use stamps, scrapbooking paper & really neat pre-scored paper : Step Saving Card Stack paper by Nancy (Perfect for all your custom card making products) & Mat Stacks: border & matting paper, & a whole bunch of cool thingies & doodads you can get at the store...I've even ordered cool Mulberry paper & pretty stickers from the internet. One of my cousins came over one day & I showed her some of my creations, my brother was here too, & he goes "YOU made these?" & I answered yes, then he goes "You actually made these from scratch? YOU????" & I kept saying yes! Then he said, "You're a regular Martha Stewart"...I could not help but laugh... A few weeks ago, I gave a whole bunch of them to a friend, & this is so funny, she actually needed them to write thank you notes. (She'd had surgery recently). Now I give them out to my friends & relatives. They all find them neat. I watched QVC for a little while last month, trying to find ideas I could adapt to my card-making.  |
Sia | Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 04:40 am     Skymarigold, I, too, scrapbook and enjoy it, although I don't buy scrapbooking materials. I would spend too much money if I did that, probably, so I stick to the things my kids make in StoryTime at the library and the artwork my son brings home from Kindergarten and the things they make at the kitchen table. I would love to see some of your cards. Can you scan one to share with us? They sound delightful. I'm also intrigued that you correspond with a girl from Cuba. How old is she? I ask her age because if she's really young or if she has very young siblings, she'd get a kick out of something I used to do for my niece and nephews: I used to cut pages from coloring books and color them and mail them when the kids were small. They loved getting mail--and they couldn't really read yet, so it was cute for them. I also colored paper dolls and covered them with clear Con-tact for my niece; they were the only paper dolls which survived her younger brothers' abuse! I really admire that you make your own cards. I must confess to buying packages of pre-fab cards because it saves time and my kids are young, so I feel like all I have time for is housework and cooking! As they get older and their skills have improved, though, I've been having the kids make cards more often. What's a good resource for plain card-stock? Thanks for any ideas!
Above is an example of something that will end up in my son's scrapbook. (Yarn on construction paper turkey for last Thanksgiving, a HOMEWORK assignment, believe it or not!) |
Curious1 | Thursday, May 29, 2003 - 08:23 pm     Sia, I recently bought a package of plain card-stock for my son's birthday invitations at Wal-Mart in the stationery dept (near all the computer paper). I can't remember exactly what is cost but I think it was only like $4.00 |
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