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Post by cannmom on Jul 12, 2020 1:32:10 GMT
Completed an entire page with a sheet of patterned paper for the background and realized as I was putting it in my album that my background paper was not a full 12x12. Whoopsie! It was about 1/2 an inch short. Grabbed a sheet of cardstock and mounted it on that and moved on. Make me feel better, share any scrapping whoops you have had recently.
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Post by don on Jul 12, 2020 1:37:31 GMT
That's why I have a Scor-Board. I put my paper in the tray to see if it fits. Mostly it happens with discounted paper packs.
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Post by Linda on Jul 12, 2020 1:42:31 GMT
great save!
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Post by curiouscrafter on Jul 12, 2020 1:45:19 GMT
Yep - done that. I now try really hard to store my 12x12 cardstock paper together, and then any paper smaller than that is automatic scrap. So if I take a full sheet and then take a 1 inch strip off of it, the 12x11 paper now becomes scrap and doesn't get to hang out with 12x12 paper anymore. Unless its a patterned paper of a full paperline, then it goes back in the pack with the rest.
Otherwise that is what happens to me too.
A whoops lately - yep, too many to list here! That's the nice thing about paper crafting, 99% of the time, its fixable!
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Post by cannmom on Jul 12, 2020 1:48:54 GMT
That's why I have a Scor-Board. I put my paper in the tray to see if it fits. Mostly it happens with discounted paper packs. It wasn’t a manufacturer’s error. I had cut a strip off at some point and just didn’t realize it when I decided to use it for my background. All me, I’m telling you, all me! Lol!
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Post by cannmom on Jul 12, 2020 1:55:10 GMT
Yep - done that. I now try really hard to store my 12x12 cardstock paper together, and then any paper smaller than that is automatic scrap. So if I take a full sheet and then take a 1 inch strip off of it, the 12x11 paper now becomes scrap and doesn't get to hang out with 12x12 paper anymore. Unless its a patterned paper of a full paperline, then it goes back in the pack with the rest. Otherwise that is what happens to me too. A whoops lately - yep, too many to list here! That's the nice thing about paper crafting, 99% of the time, its fixable! It as a sheet from a collection and I keep them all together scraps and all until I have used it almost all up. Just didn’t realize it was a little short until I went to put it away.
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Post by curiouscrafter on Jul 12, 2020 2:00:59 GMT
Yep - done that. I now try really hard to store my 12x12 cardstock paper together, and then any paper smaller than that is automatic scrap. So if I take a full sheet and then take a 1 inch strip off of it, the 12x11 paper now becomes scrap and doesn't get to hang out with 12x12 paper anymore. Unless its a patterned paper of a full paperline, then it goes back in the pack with the rest. Otherwise that is what happens to me too. A whoops lately - yep, too many to list here! That's the nice thing about paper crafting, 99% of the time, its fixable! It as a sheet from a collection and I keep them all together scraps and all until I have used it almost all up. Just didn’t realize it was a little short until I went to put it away. Awh! Yep, that would get ya. Glad you were able to recover it though!
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msliz
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Post by msliz on Jul 12, 2020 3:44:19 GMT
I guess my most recent whoops was a few hours ago, but it wasn't a big one. I was adding layers behind two photos in an effort to use up some of my scraps, but by the time I was finished I saw that I'd added too much and now they wouldn't both fit comfortably on the same page. Easy fix though: each photo will get its own page.
The whoops I seem to do way too often is to print duplicates of photos after misplacing the first order.
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Post by grammadee on Jul 12, 2020 4:19:36 GMT
Better than what I have done sometimes, cannmom: forget to trim the branding strip and end up making a page too WIDE. You can’t always see the strip on the back side of card stock.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2020 5:01:50 GMT
I have a pretty small workspace and when I'm creating it can get fairly cluttered. While filming a layout the other week, in between filming I knocked over my jar of water & brushes all over my workspace and my layout...twice.
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Jul 12, 2020 5:25:36 GMT
Earlier today I was working on a LO and had 2 pads of photo mat patterned papers, one stack adhesive-backed, and the stack other not. I was going back and forth between 2 similar mats (1 in each paper pad) for a particular LO and finally settled on one, trimmed it, and started peeling the adhesive backing paper off so I could adhere it to the LO...except it was from the non-adhesive-backed stack - oops! I figured it out when the paper "backing" started tearing (aaarghhh)! I thought it was just old adhesive that was sticking too firmly. Of course it was unusable after I tore through the paper, at least not for that layout! I'm sure I'll be able to use it somewhere else though by cutting off or covering up the torn section. Luckily I had another piece of the chosen mat so I was able to use that.
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Post by hop2 on Jul 12, 2020 13:21:18 GMT
I was doing December 2019 PL and using the pink fresh holiday paper that I got in my warehouse box. In order to get the 4 phrases on the dot paper that I wanted to show On my cards I had to cut my ‘cards’ slightly less than 3x4. I was really annoyed at pink fresh at that point because I only had one sheet of paper and they laid out the phrases in such a manner that it was1/8” off cutting them for cards. Yes, I know it wasn’t made for pocket cards but it was SO CLOSE it was annoying. Well I carefully cut and extracted what I wanted and the ones that were less than the right measurement I mounted them with a tiny rim of color around it. 👎🏻 Pink fresh, you were so close to a flexible use paper. On the other hand, when I wanted grids to match to write journaling on the packaging card of the pink fresh stickers was both the perfect green grid and a nice small grid so I cut 3x4 cards & also journaling tags from it. 👍🏻👍🏻 Pink fresh. I guess now they are net 👍🏻 From me 😁
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Post by artbabe on Jul 12, 2020 16:13:44 GMT
I don't scrap in chronological order, I just pick photos that I think are cool. Sometimes I order multiples of photos to use for other purposes (put in frames and hang, give to people, etc.) So many times over the last 20 years I've scrapped the same photo twice. It is kind of interesting to see how I scrapped something two different ways, sometimes many years apart.
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Post by 950nancy on Jul 12, 2020 17:16:10 GMT
I went looking for lids for my button containers. Three days later I have torn up 5 different closets in five different rooms. I still have one to go. My oops was looking for something I am certain that I tossed last year.
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Post by crabbybear on Jul 12, 2020 21:33:28 GMT
Better than what I have done sometimes, cannmom: forget to trim the branding strip and end up making a page too WIDE. You can’t always see the strip on the back side of card stock. 100% me.
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Post by myboysnme on Jul 12, 2020 21:36:03 GMT
Grabbed a sheet of cardstock and mounted it on that I use that technique often because I like the look with my patterned paper. Many times I do cut out the center to use it for matting photos. My whoops is I am going to a crop this weekend and am gathering my stuff. I was going to use the new Covid pack I got for my birthday in May. Can I find it? No I cannot. I am going to search again later. I had started organizational efforts in June and obviously it was absorbed into the chaos. I can move on to months and months worth of photos, but now that I can't find it I am focused on that.
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Post by cannmom on Jul 12, 2020 22:24:31 GMT
Grabbed a sheet of cardstock and mounted it on that I use that technique often because I like the look with my patterned paper. Many times I do cut out the center to use it for matting photos. My whoops is I am going to a crop this weekend and am gathering my stuff. I was going to use the new Covid pack I got for my birthday in May. Can I find it? No I cannot. I am going to search again later. I had started organizational efforts in June and obviously it was absorbed into the chaos. I can move on to months and months worth of photos, but now that I can't find it I am focused on that. Hope you find it! Sending you good luck vibes!
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Jul 13, 2020 3:56:29 GMT
Not recently....in the past.
If I like a paper or stickers, I will buy more than one.
I've made a page using the paper or stickers. Then a few more pages. Then take a couple month break from scrapbooking. Then I sit down to scrapbook a frequent topic/event, like a birthday. I will have photos, then choose stickers, frames, embellishments, etc..., then paper. Will begin a rough assembly of a page. Then I think this paper looks familiar. Look back through the most recent pages and realize I used that very same paper six pages ago.
I scrapbook in chronological order (Jan - Dec), one(or two) scrapbooks per year. I try to not use the same paper, stickers, embellishment more than once in any given year.
Over the years, several times I almost repeated a few pages apart. That's what happens when I takes breaks in-between.....I forget what I've done. Now, I try to remember to flip through an in progress scrapbook, to refresh my memory, especially if there been a couple month gap in working on it.
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Post by myboysnme on Jul 13, 2020 20:23:17 GMT
Hope you find it! Sending you good luck vibes! My friend told me she just gave me the Covid papers recently, not for my birthday. When she told me that I knew right where to look. So I found it!
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