Something in scrapbooking that you just don't "get"?

Clothespins. It's to hang your laundry out to dry. Not paper. Ugh!

Clothespins: I put minis on s page for my daughter as a baby 18 years ago and they fell off. So never again.

Flair I struggle with. I have about 30 pieces from kits and stuff and I try to use them but they aren't a priority for me.

Buttons. Buttons bug me if they aren't seen on and I'm way over sewing on my pages! Lol

I've never even attempted to use any of these on my pages.

The bulk factor bothers me a bit. And I don't really like using metal or wood on my pages. And by the time I heard about rubber embellishments, I also heard that some leave a grease mark on the pages. No thanks.




I don't know if this qualifies, but I don't get why companies that make embellishments (I'm looking at you, Thickers) can't put decent adhesive on them.

My "I don't get it" is more of a style issue. I get a daily email from scrapbook.com with their 9 favorite layouts of the day. So many of them I feel I have to hunt in the layout to find the photo! There is way too much going on.

Icons on sticker sheets and in die cuts that are anachronistic. I get that some people scrap "heritage" albums, and I think there are great collections for that, but I wish manufacturers wouldn't put so many random anachronistic pieces in modern collections. Like skeleton key icons for example. When was the last time I used a skeleton key?!??! NEVER. But they regularly pop up in my collections. And I don't even like them for my heritage pages because they're an odd shape and hard, for me, to work with.

But I know there are LOTS of icons that we all love and hate. And I know it must be hard to fill a sticker sheet or die cut pack w/o any "misses". I've gotten so I just throw away icons I know I hate or can't use. Then I don't have to see them over and over.

Printing pics in b&w "so they don't clash with the colours on the page". How about use different papers, then?

Flowers on:
Outdoor layouts - like hunting or fishing
Kids playing on the beach

This too:
One or two tiny pictures on a layout. Especially 12x12 layouts. There is so much room on the page so why the tiny pictures? None of us is getting any younger with better eyesight. I wouldn't want to have to pull out a magnifying glass to look at my scrapbooks someday.

Yes, yes, yes to these replies! The tiny photo, the "one" photo per layout (or using the same photo twice next to each other), the hugely bulky items like the clothespins, the odd items that keep appearing (yes, that skeleton key, the "best day ever", and the pineapple of course), the bad memories layouts (who has time for that? Or the need to remember?).

One photo pages with tiny photos. I like one photo pages and feel you don't need a bunch of them to tell a story sometimes, but I like the photo to be the focal point. One exception, it it's about an item and there's a close up shot. I normally like to look at all the details of the person.

Color photos that are changed to black and white, if it's not a close up of someone. I love to look at my childhood photos of my 1970's home and my 80's and 90's wardrobe.

I used to feel that way about inking and ripping and distressing edges:  why buy new paper and then work so hard to make it look OLD?

I never could get the distressing properly, but have truly adopted the torn inked edge:  who knew I would learn to love the look?

Brush lettering. I don't really like the way it looks and I find it hard to read.

And I won't even start on planners. I don't get it at all. But I do like some of the tiny stickers that they make for planners so They can hang around for a while.

I love bulk and texture - if I could mail all my cards in little boxes instead of envelopes, I'd be a happy camper.

I have a long list of things I didn't get, but now espouse wholeheartedly. I didn't get the whole "messy background" thing, but now I love it. I never used to color stamped images, either - now I love my Prismacolor pencils and watercoloring with Distress inks. I used to laugh (LAUGH, I tell you!) at people who fussy cut images - now I happily do it myself. And yes, it takes me forever.

Maybe I could count digi scrapping as something I don't get - for me, so much of the pleasure is in touching the stuff during the creative process - plus, as I said above, I love lumpy bumpy finished products. I can understand how someone else might prefer the tidiness of digi scrapping and the flatness of the finished product, though.

Sheepishly admitting this is me too.



This is one I don't get.


It was quite a trendy thing for a while but what changed my mind completely on it was looking through some photos of my Dad's childhood with him. He pulled out a photo of the family standing in front of the car and told me all about this yellow and coral car(!). I realised then how it important it was to me to have my photos in colour.

Acrylic. I think the pieces are lovely, but there HAS to be a way to make them thinner. They are like the thickness of 2 quarters stacked together from EVERY company, so I think there is a reason for it, but I can't believe someone out there hasn't at least tried to find a way to make them thinner...they did it with wood veneer!! They are also sharper edged, so unlike wood veneer (even the thicker ones) they poke and permanently mark page protectors. I hardly ever use them because they just add too much bulk.