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Post by crazy4scraps on Sept 29, 2016 5:31:03 GMT
I can't believe no one said Paperkins! For me, it's the classes at my LSS. They had such a talented design team, and the owners were so creative and friendly. I learned a lot and always had tons of fun. Unfortunately, it was at the same time that my kids were young and very busy, so I wasn't able to participate much. I would live there if they were still open now. I have every one of them hoarded in their cute little binders, sitting on my shelf! And I bought all the punches to make the tiny ones too.
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Post by FurryP on Sept 29, 2016 5:54:08 GMT
You peas mentioning the magazines, Archivers, the CHAs and the "Hey Day" are making me so sad. How about the vendor packed Expos where tons of bargains could be had on brand name crafty stuff?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2016 7:56:36 GMT
Scrapbook magazines Coluzzle- Yes, I love my Coluzzle Sassafrass Lass
I miss K&Co ephemera lines. If I see them I always snag them up. I know they are still around but Simplicity doesn't release things very much.
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Post by impearia on Sept 29, 2016 9:10:03 GMT
I would bring back Sass a Frass Lass little alphabet letters! Hands down, those are my favorite ever! I have a MASSIVE pile of these that I hoard and occasionally let myself use. When Sass was shutting shop they had a number of box sales...let's just say I bought enough boxes to have quite the stash of Sass alphas. They were the best and I wish someone else would re-do them. I especially loved the glitter ones...the glitter NEVER sheds. If I could bring back one thing...it would probably be Sassafras Lass. They were my favourite company ever. I just love everything they did...so innovative and unique. I find myself reaching for Sass still because it was so ahead of its time. I would LOVE to see what they could come up with now... Save
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Post by iheartpaper on Sept 29, 2016 9:46:23 GMT
I would bring back Sass a Frass Lass little alphabet letters! Hands down, those are my favorite ever! I have a MASSIVE pile of these that I hoard and occasionally let myself use. When Sass was shutting shop they had a number of box sales...let's just say I bought enough boxes to have quite the stash of Sass alphas. They were the best and I wish someone else would re-do them. I especially loved the glitter ones...the glitter NEVER sheds. If I could bring back one thing...it would probably be Sassafras Lass. They were my favourite company ever. I just love everything they did...so innovative and unique. I find myself reaching for Sass still because it was so ahead of its time. I would LOVE to see what they could come up with now... SaveI've managed to pick up a few pieces of Sassafras Lass at scrapbook yardsales and I really noticed how ahead of their time they were! If only those box sales were going on now...dang! I'm sure I'm not the only one who would admit to how jealous I am of your MASSIVE pile of those awesome alphas! They look perfect. I miss finding the albums I want in the box stores. 12x12 WeR, 8x8 (many brands)and the latest are 6x8 faux leather project life albums from Michael's. Each time I find some I love they up and disappear out of the stores!
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Post by msliz on Sept 29, 2016 10:16:32 GMT
I miss having others to scrap with too. When I was a young mom, it seemed like all of us were scrapping. A few of my neighbors and I got together once a week in the evening and opened a bottle of wine and had a really nice time. One of my DDs told me it was even one of *her* favorite memories when she was growing up. For all of you who have anything like that going on, cherish it. It's something special.
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Post by myboysnme on Sept 29, 2016 12:29:50 GMT
I miss Recollections. I never had an Archivers. I miss magazines I miss WRMK 8.5 x 11 albums in the colors I need for cheap prices. These only recently got hard to get but I miss them a lot! I miss Karen Foster and Creative Imaginations and even Reminisce theme paper and stickers. I'm presuming recollections was another brand other than the one that Michael's carries? Reminisce still does those kinds of papers and stickers. ACOT carries them. Recollections was owned by Michaels but it was a big scrapbook store like Archivers.
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Post by pelirroja on Sept 29, 2016 12:48:18 GMT
There are sooo many products I miss but the thing I miss the most of all was something called the "Paper Chase". During the week of National Scrapbook Day, all SEVEN of the area's scrapbook stores had a punch card passport. As you visited each store they punched your card, and when the card was full, you turned it in at whatever LSS you were in and you got a decent prize. Every LSS gave the same prize as all the stores decided in advance what they would give. It usually was a good sized tote bag filled with a magazine, buttons, fibers, stickers, tags and embellies.
I loved going to NSD crops and scrapping for twelve hours at a time. So much fun. I miss the camaraderie at the crops, the shopping trips, and spending hours looking thru the paper racks, selectively picking beloved papers out two and three sheets at a time.
Even after all these years, when I go thru my hoarded patterned paper stash, I can usually remember what store it came from even if I can't remember the manu of the paper without flipping it over.
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Post by maryjo on Sept 29, 2016 13:17:31 GMT
Can't pick just one:
My LSS The magazines And Two Peas in a Bucket with different owners
Would be my top three.
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Post by scrapaddict702 on Sept 29, 2016 14:31:25 GMT
I'm presuming recollections was another brand other than the one that Michael's carries? Reminisce still does those kinds of papers and stickers. ACOT carries them. Recollections was owned by Michaels but it was a big scrapbook store like Archivers. Oh, cool!! I didn't know that. It must not have been here or was before I started scrapbooking. Recollections didn't start taking over everything at M's until the past few years (when I first started scrapbooking, the organizational cubes were JetMax...I also worked at M's when they were first released and we couldn't keep them in stock...I bought a couple because I had to have what everyone else had even though I didn't scrapbook at the time...used them a junk spot for mail and whatnot by the front door until I confiscated them when I did start scrapbooking) and I think it's kind of interesting that they are trying to have multiple house brands. Craft Smith even has an online presence different than Michael's and whoever runs it behaves like any other scrapbooking company would. Learn something new every day.
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Post by moraie on Sept 29, 2016 15:40:54 GMT
Ahh, Archiver's. That place was my Cheers. Mine too. It had that feel-good atmosphere, and even though it didn't have all the quirky unique stuff you could find as LSSs. It was clean, neat, great color scheme and lighting, best public bathrooms in town, and the staff was always perfect--happy, cheerful, helpful. It was an exceptional retail model. The LSS we're left with charges $1.00 over suggested retail (or more) on everything, has limited stock, the staff isn't great, and they don't carry all that cool, quirky stuff that used to make it worth going to. Anymore if I want more than 3 items I'm better off ordering online because that extra $1.00 per item covers my shipping from a store where I can find all the stuff I want that they don't carry. And I really miss magazines and the good WRMK albums, too. The other thing I miss is Little Yellow Bicycle's full lines. They were always my absolute favorite brand because they had such a great variety of textures--fabric, thermographic printing, embossed and vellum stickers, chipboard and clear frames and die-cuts that were all actually usable, PLUS all the smaller embellies. That is what I miss the most.
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Post by natlhol on Sept 30, 2016 0:40:14 GMT
I would bring back Sass a Frass Lass little alphabet letters! Hands down, those are my favorite ever! I would bring back some of the embellies HS did with advantus. obviously not those awful rubons, but the ghost shapes and alphas especially. she had other fun, different-from-everyone-else stuff. I just found a pack of the HS flower ghost shapes in my stash! Forgot I still had them. :-) SaveSave
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Post by lisae on Sept 30, 2016 1:59:59 GMT
All things Basic Grey
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Post by canadianscrappergirl on Sept 30, 2016 3:08:48 GMT
Chatterbox had some great masculine papers. I wish my LSS was still open man I miss it and I miss the 2peas store too.
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Post by peanutterbutter on Sept 30, 2016 4:44:24 GMT
Magazines also here.... and coluzzles!
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Post by camcas on Sept 30, 2016 12:36:59 GMT
I miss variety......when every new paper line was NOT a variation of pink turquoise and gold.........
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Post by Night Owl on Sept 30, 2016 14:54:38 GMT
What about 24hr Scrapbooking and Craft Days on QVC? The number of posts about people buying everything under the sun! It was awesome! Especially the shows with Lisa Bearnson and David Venable. Also I miss the days on Two Peas when QK would do their monthly reveal and we would discuss it.
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Post by Delta Dawn on Sept 30, 2016 14:57:00 GMT
Especially the shows with Lisa Bearnson and David Venable. Also I miss the days on Two Peas when QK would do their monthly reveal and we would discuss it. I had a spy and she would feed me information what the new QK release was going to be. I would leak the information to 2 Peas because I am generous like that and I wasn't sworn to secrecy. It was awesome! Lisa and David were awesome together, too!
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Post by cupcakepeddler on Sept 30, 2016 15:09:12 GMT
There is so much that I miss, I never really did the crop/class thing so I really looked to the magazines, blogs and forums for my scrap talk/fix.
Some stand out products were the Heidi Grace chipboard alphas, Sasafrass Lass Foldies, Sticko Tile up squares (think monochromatic square enamel dots) and anything KI Memories.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Sept 30, 2016 16:59:32 GMT
Close to my Heart 9x9 albums real Bazzill, not AC Bazzill cardstock LSS crops MAGAZINES I love turning real paper pages!
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Post by kiwigirl on Sept 30, 2016 20:05:58 GMT
I would bring back some of the embellies HS did with advantus. obviously not those awful rubons, but the ghost shapes and alphas especially. she had other fun, different-from-everyone-else stuff. I totally agree! The first thing I would bring back is Heidi Swapp Chipboard Hearts, those ones that were pink, red & white. I LOVE those! Such cool shapes and the colours were lush. But she had some cool embellishments, the ghost shapes, the Schizophrenic Alphabets, the jewels. I'd buy up so many packs of those chipboard hearts if I ever found them for sale lol!
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Post by angel97701 on Sept 30, 2016 23:48:53 GMT
Another vote for Basic Grey here! Oh and the packed vendor faires with fun crops!
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Post by giatocj on Oct 1, 2016 1:09:33 GMT
Deluxe Cuts templates, idea books and die cuts! Coluzzle (I still have an use mine often) I think they were called fairytale templates? They were like borders that you could chalk...I love the few that I have.
And for old times sake, I would love an instant replay of the Slap Heard 'Round the World (Lisa Bearnson slapping David Venable on live TV)...classic stuff!!
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Post by Delta Dawn on Oct 1, 2016 1:19:37 GMT
And for old times sake, I would love an instant replay of the Slap Heard 'Round the World (Lisa Bearnson slapping David Venable on live TV)...classic stuff!! Just for you ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-18040
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Post by smginaz Suzy on Oct 1, 2016 1:55:49 GMT
Imagination Project - Gin-X - eXpress-ons rub-ons set - Kellerman Type
Any time a new brand of rubons was released, we would open them to smell them. All the rubons that smelled like buttered popcorn were all the ones that worked really well. Maybe they were all made in the same plant, but that smell was the trigger to buy.
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Post by giatocj on Oct 1, 2016 11:37:37 GMT
And for old times sake, I would love an instant replay of the Slap Heard 'Round the World (Lisa Bearnson slapping David Venable on live TV)...classic stuff!! Just for you ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-18040Ahhhhhh!!! The good old days!! 😄😄!! How the heck did I miss this gem the first time around?? Such a clever way to immortalize the "event"...lol!
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Post by scrapaddie on Oct 1, 2016 20:53:00 GMT
My lss and stamp stores!!
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Post by hoopsfn on Oct 2, 2016 4:53:26 GMT
Oh yes to bringing back the lss, with crops and the wonderful folks who worked there. I miss that so much. And Archivers for seeing and touching the new products and their classes. And CKC which no longer comes to our area. And the 2 Peas community, boards, classes, and warehouse walks with Kitty. Product wise, so many of the companies that have been eaten up by larger corporations or disappeared after being "absorbed": like Making Memories, WRMK, Bazzill, K&CO, Creative Imaginations. Well, that was way more than 1 thing, wasn't it? Thanks for the interesting question OP. Maria
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Post by mikklynn on Oct 2, 2016 11:42:35 GMT
Oh yes to bringing back the lss, with crops and the wonderful folks who worked there. I miss that so much. And Archivers for seeing and touching the new products and their classes. And CKC which no longer comes to our area. And the 2 Peas community, boards, classes, and warehouse walks with Kitty. Product wise, so many of the companies that have been eaten up by larger corporations or disappeared after being "absorbed": like Making Memories, WRMK, Bazzill, K&CO, Creative Imaginations. Well, that was way more than 1 thing, wasn't it? Thanks for the interesting question OP. Maria Oh, I forgot about the warehouse walks! I loved those. It was almost like seeing the product in real life.
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Post by artisticscrapper on Oct 6, 2016 1:45:46 GMT
i loved going to my favorite LSS to see what was new. Shopping online just isn't the same. At one point I had FIVE stores within a 20 minute drive. Loved the magazines, busy forums, and the variety of paper and embellishment styles.
Product wise I'd love to see the full line of Cropper Hopper paper holders come back. QVC scrapbook kits were the best. You even got the matching 12x12 album. Sigh.
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