Silly thread: scrappy rules

I can’t think of any rules I really have. I do have a strong aversion to butterflies and the color purple. I tend to be really annoyed by cult favorites and will stay away from products that have rabid fans (like Tim Holtz. The fandom just irks me 🤷🏻‍♀️) (I avoid AE’s groupie echo chambers to preserve my affinity for her for this reason (lol)).

I don't call them rules, per se, but...

I like "real" colours--the six in the traditional rainbow, plus brown, black, white. I don't use many pastel papers or cs, and of those, pink is my LEAST go-to colour.

I like new lines that I can see fitting in with the lines I already have. They don't have to repeat everything, but it is nice to see how they would work together. Or else, be REALLY different: surprise me! wake me up to the possibility of scrapping in a new way.

I will pay more for something that is offered at an LSS as opposed to on line or in a big box store. I believe that one of the reasons these are so few and far between is that their customers were pulled away by less expensive products.

I don't need to be smothered with attention, but I like to know there is someone in the store who can answer my questions. I don't mind one or two suggestions for some add on's, but I don't need to be snowed under b them.

I am more likely to buy something that is displayed in a pleasing manner and not stuffed into a narrow slot or shelf somewhere. I DO buy on line, and to follow this tenet through, the on-line display has to show me this product at its best.

I like to feel like I can breathe in the spaces between the shelves, and not be afraid that if I step back to look I will be knocking something down with my butt.....

Here in Alberta I am lucky enough to be able to meet these conditions in several different stores. I really hope we can keep them here.

This reminded me of some scrappers I can't follow because I can't relate to their perfect photos and amazing lives. I get it, most are trying to sell product, but it's the ones who look like they use stock photos or over saturated photos. I don't know, the perfectionism gets to be too much.

i love that part about encouraging manufacturers!! my aversion to buying cutesy-design is my signal to the companies not to crank out so much of it.  

i have a hard aversion to pastel colors and geometric designs.  

i don't like plastic embellishments.  

my love affair with 6x6 has ended even though i have a basket full of them.  what was i thinking??

I forgot about my don't touch my stuff at home scrappy rule. Even pens and the perfect sized post it notes with my supplies are off limits. No one but me understands what is and is not sharable. That beloved piece of pattern paper that is half gone and no longer manufactured, NO! Decorative brads? Sure, that's cool.

I never bought any 6x6 paper pads until I took Allison Davis’s 6x6 sketch class  (Scrapbook Generations). Then I was hooked.  She uses 6x6 pads in really creative ways.  And sometimes I actually prefer the designs on a smaller scale.

Weekend crops that don’t leave room for me to actually scrapbook. The ones where they have challenges and make n’takes and games etc. I never seem to get enough peace to get anything done. I’m off to a 4 day retreat next month. A retreat. Where I can do whatever I wish whenever I wish. No schedule.

These are some great "rules". I love a 6x8 paper pad but had also quit buying 6x6 until 2 days ago when I ordered one and broke my own rule and picked up Traci Reed's Echo Park line "New Day". I hate giant chipboard, die cuts, & ephemera (seriously, why is everything so big these days?). They rarely work for me so if that's all that's left, they get tossed in the donation box and I don't feel bad about it. If a pack is only larger die cuts I'll just skip it. If I'm buying a collection and it has puffy stickers, I always buy them. I can't help it.

Bolded the pertinent text...I don't know if you're a fan of 6"x6" paper, but Honey Bee Stamps has a paper pad called The Bee's Knees that I absolutely had to have. I now have 12 of the pads for a scrapbook for a trip we haven't even taken. (And, yes, I am fully aware of how insane that makes me sound.)

And you are right - that bee is TERRIFYING. Wtaf.

I make myself use some sort of embellishment on each layout. Doesn't matter if it is buttons, brads, beads, ribbon, washi tape, paper clips, or something else. Just have to use something. Gotta use up my stash somehow.

I am taking a photo(s) with my camera or phone. << This is non-negotiable. I don't care if your fancy camera is better than mine. I learned years ago, decades ago... "just let one person take the group photo(s) with their device and they can give everyone else a copy". The copy/copies NEVER are given to the others, no matter how many times one asks for them. Lesson learned.
The person in question can/will try to shame me, over-rule me, act superior, dictate, try to get their way....I am taking my own photos! The time we spend going back and forth about it, 50 photos could have been taken. 

If I love, love, love, something (a sheet of stickers, a piece of paper).....I buy more than one.

Check letter/alphabet stickers for the needed quantity of often used letters, then buy triple or quadruple what I think I'll need.

In one ear, out the other....with the comments >> "you must have too much time on your hands", "must be nice to have so much extra time to do that".

It will get done, when it gets done.

I constantly struggle with full set syndrome 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

This is a great thread!

I will only let myself buy embellishments if I know I will use enough of it to justify the price, which is usually 80% or more of the pack. There are times I literally count hos many pieces I would really use if I'm not sure.

I can only buy discounted paper if I would be willing to buy that same paper at full price. If I don't like it enough to pay full price, then I don't like it enough on sale to add to my stash.

If I find a paper I absolutely adore, that is something I can use on every other page, I can buy multiples. If I really love both sides of a paper (and will actually use both sides, vs just staring at the pretty side that is not my style) I can buy two of them.

I cannot buy new ink colours without determining if it fills a gap in my stash. It's ok if I buy something based on the images I see online and it turns out to be a closer than expected match to something I already own, but I cannot buy any more of the same shade of mint or pink just because I think they're pretty.

I'm another one not a fan of hexagons, triangles, and diamonds. Well shapes, I love diamonds, LOL.

I never buy thin paper or cheap paper pads.

My "rule" is, if there is one paper in a collection I know I'll never use, I immediately put it in a 12x12 pocket for using as a base for smaller pieces of paper that will be covered up or if it's white background, I'll use it to mat photos.