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Post by jeremysgirl on Apr 4, 2022 12:44:10 GMT
I was curious what was the weirdest thing you've seen in scrapbooking...Share here.
I'll tell you mine. This scrapbooking outside of the page protector seems to be the new hot trend. I don't do it because I prefer my layouts be protected by the page protector. But I keep seeing people's layouts on Facebook and Instagram and the rings are going through them at the weirdest spots. Some go right through text. I've seen this a million times and last week, I saw a layout where the ring was going through a person's head on a photo! Why would you do that?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2022 14:10:05 GMT
I was curious what was the weirdest thing you've seen in scrapbooking...Share here. I'll tell you mine. This scrapbooking outside of the page protector seems to be the new hot trend. I don't do it because I prefer my layouts be protected by the page protector. But I keep seeing people's layouts on Facebook and Instagram and the rings are going through them at the weirdest spots. Some go right through text. I've seen this a million times and last week, I saw a layout where the ring was going through a person's head on a photo! Why would you do that? Thank you for a good Monday morning laugh. Oh boy. Well that is one way to keep the photo original but take out the person you don't like. 😆 |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2022 14:14:52 GMT
When I made my DD I added items on top of the pocket pages. Journaling, flips, stickers, numbers, chipboard. It was fun to be able to be completely free for scrapbook norms.
To me it's an art form and I have never really followed scrapbook rules. I have always done my thing.
I appreciate when others do as well. So many follow X person (Ali mainly for PL) and it gets boring. Show me something new. Do something unique to make your project stand out.
Back in the early 2000s I was part of a group with my lss and we made our albums. Many of us used chipboard and bound them with fabric or rings and everything was out of page protectors. It was super fun.
We passed our album around and each week had a theme and who ever had your album made a layout about that and shared who they were.
So really this isn't anything new. And is just another way to create.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Apr 4, 2022 14:20:00 GMT
Thank you for a good Monday morning laugh. Oh boy. Well that is one way to keep the photo original but take out the person you don't like. I'm glad I made you laugh, but you made me laugh too. |
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Post by jeremysgirl on Apr 4, 2022 14:21:59 GMT
No, I'm not judging. I don't care how you want to scrap, outside the page protector is fine if that's your thing. I just want mine as protected as they can be. I just think you ought to think hard about where that ring is actually going to go. LOL!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2022 14:26:35 GMT
No, I'm not judging. I don't care how you want to scrap, outside the page protector is fine if that's your thing. I just want mine as protected as they can be. I just think you ought to think hard about where that ring is actually going to go. LOL! Yes 😆🤪🤣🤣🤣 |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2022 14:27:59 GMT
I wonder if part of it is poor planning. Some just fly by the seat of their pants and don't plan out their "page". When all is said and done they can't move stuff around and then oops there goes Bobby's face. Oh well. I don't like him anyways.
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Post by refugeepea on Apr 4, 2022 14:39:16 GMT
I've seen this be a thing for a long time. I do prefer to have my photos protected and scrap mostly with divided sheet protectors. I also DO scrap on the outside of protectors. Things like stamped images and diecuts because I don't want them directly on the photos.  |
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Post by grammadee on Apr 4, 2022 14:45:09 GMT
I have seen a few two page spreads with a photo spread across both pages and the cut line going through someone's face! Maybe it would be okay in a digi LO where the two pages can be seamless, or even in a strap album where the pages actually do end up side by side, but in a 3-ring album, the two parts of that person's head are pretty far apart!
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Post by kmage on Apr 4, 2022 14:47:15 GMT
I was curious what was the weirdest thing you've seen in scrapbooking...Share here. A friend of a friend of mine came scrapping with us one time, ages ago. She was appalled at the cost of all the stuff but especially adhesive. She whipped out a bottle of Elmer's glue and starts gluing her photos to the paper with it. I was like, "noooooo....." Honestly, I could not stand her. She complained constantly about how expensive all this stuff was and that she could not believe the amount of money we spent on this hobby just to "put some pictures in a book." I was glad she did not return. |
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Post by jeremysgirl on Apr 4, 2022 14:48:44 GMT
I have seen a few two page spreads with a photo spread across both pages and the cut line going through someone's face! Maybe it would be okay in a digi LO where the two pages can be seamless, or even in a strap album where the pages actually do end up side by side, but in a 3-ring album, the two parts of that person's head are pretty far apart! LOL! This would be weird too. |
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Post by jeremysgirl on Apr 4, 2022 14:51:22 GMT
A friend of a friend of mine came scrapping with us one time, ages ago. She was appalled at the cost of all the stuff but especially adhesive. She whipped out a bottle of Elmer's glue and starts gluing her photos to the paper with it. I was like, "noooooo....." This is a funny one too. I can't believe anyone would use Elmer's glue in their books. |
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Post by breetheflea on Apr 4, 2022 15:35:03 GMT
A friend of a friend of mine came scrapping with us one time, ages ago. She was appalled at the cost of all the stuff but especially adhesive. She whipped out a bottle of Elmer's glue and starts gluing her photos to the paper with it. I was like, "noooooo....." This is a funny one too. I can't believe anyone would use Elmer's glue in their books. At least it's acid-free... |
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Post by kitbop on Apr 4, 2022 16:18:25 GMT
I was just thinking this today.
A facebook group I belong to
several PROUDLY presented scrapbook layouts
featuring a toddler fussy cut from her photographs, removing all background and context
Same thing yesterday - someone did it with a baby.
WHO IS STILL FUSSY CUTTING PEOPLE OUT OF PHOTOGRAPHS???
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Post by refugeepea on Apr 4, 2022 17:09:15 GMT
I wonder if part of it is poor planning. Some just fly by the seat of their pants and don't plan out their "page". When all is said and done they can't move stuff around and then oops there goes Bobby's face. Oh well. I don't like him anyways. Something to make a mental note of when I scrap the family photos from my husband's side of the family.  |
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Post by Elsabelle on Apr 4, 2022 20:01:47 GMT
I was curious what was the weirdest thing you've seen in scrapbooking...Share here. A friend of a friend of mine came scrapping with us one time, ages ago. She was appalled at the cost of all the stuff but especially adhesive. She whipped out a bottle of Elmer's glue and starts gluing her photos to the paper with it. I was like, "noooooo....." Honestly, I could not stand her. She complained constantly about how expensive all this stuff was and that she could not believe the amount of money we spent on this hobby just to "put some pictures in a book." I was glad she did not return. I know someone that scrapped with copy paper and a few stickers and said she wanted it to be as cheap as possible. Ok, fine. It’s not my album so I don’t care. You do you. She showed me her album and I looked through it. Then when she came to my house I wanted to show her one of my albums. She opened it and then slammed it shut. She said she didn’t want to see all the stuff I bought and used. |
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Post by kmage on Apr 4, 2022 20:24:59 GMT
She opened it and then slammed it shut. She said she didn’t want to see all the stuff I bought and used. Whoa. Do we know the same person, lol??? That was uncalled for. We all make choices on how to spend our disposable income. |
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Post by AussieMeg on Apr 5, 2022 7:49:30 GMT
I have seen a few two page spreads with a photo spread across both pages and the cut line going through someone's face! Maybe it would be okay in a digi LO where the two pages can be seamless, or even in a strap album where the pages actually do end up side by side, but in a 3-ring album, the two parts of that person's head are pretty far apart! If I ever get a full year scrapped, and am at the point where I make a phonebook for my layouts, this is what I am going to face. I would love to buy the lay-flat photo books, but they are SO EXPENSIVE! I was just thinking this today. A facebook group I belong to several PROUDLY presented scrapbook layouts featuring a toddler fussy cut from her photographs, removing all background and context Same thing yesterday - someone did it with a baby. WHO IS STILL FUSSY CUTTING PEOPLE OUT OF PHOTOGRAPHS??? Oh dear! My biggest regret from my early scrapping days, pre-digital camera, is all the fussy cutting and shapes I cut my photos into. I see a few digital layouts where they have extracted the person (the digital version of fussy cutting!) but at least they still have the original photo. And it's way more artistic than what I was doing in the late 90s! |
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Post by artbabe on Apr 5, 2022 11:26:15 GMT
I was just thinking this today. A facebook group I belong to several PROUDLY presented scrapbook layouts featuring a toddler fussy cut from her photographs, removing all background and context Same thing yesterday - someone did it with a baby. WHO IS STILL FUSSY CUTTING PEOPLE OUT OF PHOTOGRAPHS??? I did it on one of my layouts. The picture of my nephew was really fun (eyes crossed, weird face) but the restaurant background was really distracting. So I cut him out and put him on a paper background that was 4x6, the same size as the original photo. I then scrapped it like it was a regular photo. I think it is one of my favorite layouts I've ever scrapped. I'll try to remember to post it here after work today. But yes, most of the time when I see people do this it looks pretty bad. Except mine, of course.  I have seen a few two page spreads with a photo spread across both pages and the cut line going through someone's face! Maybe it would be okay in a digi LO where the two pages can be seamless, or even in a strap album where the pages actually do end up side by side, but in a 3-ring album, the two parts of that person's head are pretty far apart! I've seen this too. I don't quite understand splitting a photo across two pages. And on another note, the weirdest product I've ever seen for scrapping was a zipper. I guess someone thought it was a natural progression from buttons, but it still seems weird to me. |
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Post by jeremysgirl on Apr 5, 2022 11:44:13 GMT
WHO IS STILL FUSSY CUTTING PEOPLE OUT OF PHOTOGRAPHS??? I guess this is just another way to deal with people you don't like...cut them right out. Or put a ring through their head. LOL! But yes, most of the time when I see people do this it looks pretty bad. Except mine, of course.  Hahahaha... |
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Post by mikklynn on Apr 5, 2022 12:51:37 GMT
I was just thinking this today. A facebook group I belong to several PROUDLY presented scrapbook layouts featuring a toddler fussy cut from her photographs, removing all background and context Same thing yesterday - someone did it with a baby. WHO IS STILL FUSSY CUTTING PEOPLE OUT OF PHOTOGRAPHS??? Oh, I would shudder. The only time I did that was a really cute photo of my granddaughter with a creepy guy in the background. I can't remember what was creepy about him, but I tried painting over the background, hated that, so just cut her out. |
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Post by 950nancy on Apr 5, 2022 23:41:52 GMT
A friend of a friend of mine came scrapping with us one time, ages ago. She was appalled at the cost of all the stuff but especially adhesive. She whipped out a bottle of Elmer's glue and starts gluing her photos to the paper with it. I was like, "noooooo....." Honestly, I could not stand her. She complained constantly about how expensive all this stuff was and that she could not believe the amount of money we spent on this hobby just to "put some pictures in a book." I was glad she did not return. I know someone that scrapped with copy paper and a few stickers and said she wanted it to be as cheap as possible. Ok, fine. It’s not my album so I don’t care. You do you. She showed me her album and I looked through it. Then when she came to my house I wanted to show her one of my albums. She opened it and then slammed it shut. She said she didn’t want to see all the stuff I bought and used. One of my old coworkers lives a few blocks from me and she stopped by to see our new house. I was a little nervous about her response to my room. It's a lot for most people. She just laughed and then walked into my closet. She said, "I have to see one of your books." She was very sweet and said she had one box of stuff. She said that she felt like her kids were getting inferior stuff. Thankfully most people are nice about my books, but at crops, you do hear an occasional complaint about what people spend. It's a hobby. People are all over the place with what they spend. Kind of like a wedding. Some people head to the courthouse and others have a weeklong destination gathering. Who cares if people can afford it and want it. |
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Post by 950nancy on Apr 5, 2022 23:43:22 GMT
I was just thinking this today. A facebook group I belong to several PROUDLY presented scrapbook layouts featuring a toddler fussy cut from her photographs, removing all background and context Same thing yesterday - someone did it with a baby. WHO IS STILL FUSSY CUTTING PEOPLE OUT OF PHOTOGRAPHS??? Oh, I would shudder. The only time I did that was a really cute photo of my granddaughter with a creepy guy in the background. I can't remember what was creepy about him, but I tried painting over the background, hated that, so just cut her out. I still see this. I think some are old school scrappers and some are just getting into the craft and see someone else do it. It makes me do a double-take, but it really doesn't matter to me. |
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Post by joblackford on Apr 6, 2022 1:53:45 GMT
A friend of a friend of mine came scrapping with us one time, ages ago. She was appalled at the cost of all the stuff but especially adhesive. She whipped out a bottle of Elmer's glue and starts gluing her photos to the paper with it. I was like, "noooooo....." Honestly, I could not stand her. She complained constantly about how expensive all this stuff was and that she could not believe the amount of money we spent on this hobby just to "put some pictures in a book." I was glad she did not return. I know someone that scrapped with copy paper and a few stickers and said she wanted it to be as cheap as possible. Ok, fine. It’s not my album so I don’t care. You do you. She showed me her album and I looked through it. Then when she came to my house I wanted to show her one of my albums. She opened it and then slammed it shut. She said she didn’t want to see all the stuff I bought and used. That is very odd and pretty rude, I have to say. Why would she care about the money you spent on scrappy supplies? And the purpose of looking through an album isn't to notice the supplies but to enjoy the photos and stories artfully arranged. I guess a lot of people don't care about other people's albums, but if you're friendly enough to be in someone's house maybe just page through and nod and smile...? Especially if they've looked through your copy paper album. If she wanted to be so cheap why make an album at all? People are perplexing. |
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Post by joblackford on Apr 6, 2022 1:56:54 GMT
One of my relatives had saved tons of old black and white photos of family members, really neat stuff, but instead of noting the names and dates on the back he'd written them right on the front of the photo. I think this used to be a thing lots of people did, but I find it weird, especially in an age where getting another copy of the photo was expensive or difficult.
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Post by wendifful on Apr 6, 2022 2:16:38 GMT
One of my relatives had saved tons of old black and white photos of family members, really neat stuff, but instead of noting the names and dates on the back he'd written them right on the front of the photo. I think this used to be a thing lots of people did, but I find it weird, especially in an age where getting another copy of the photo was expensive or difficult. Good point. I have the opposite grievance (well, as much as this can be called a grievance lol). With my childhood pictures, my mom was usually pretty good at writing the month and year on the back, along with names if it wasn't obvious who the subject was. However, when we hit the digital age, my parents paid my brother to scan them all (as a sort of chore). He did a great job, no complaints, but the issue is that for each picture, we then have the back scanned as well with the info and it gets very unwieldy! I don't know that I have a better solution (other than adding it into the metadata when scanned, but this was also probably 15+ years ago, so that kind of thing was much more rare), it's just frustrating to be going through photos and every other one is a scanned blank back with a small date written. Like I said, not much of a grievance, more of a small annoyance. I've made some efforts to organize family photos with Lightroom, adding metadata and person tags, but we took a lot of photos and it's a lot of work, so I doubt I will ever finish it, especially because I think I'm the only one in the family that care enough to do it. I know I'm fortunate to even have family photos and the dates in the first place, so I do try to count my blessings! |
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Post by Elsabelle on Apr 6, 2022 5:41:23 GMT
I know someone that scrapped with copy paper and a few stickers and said she wanted it to be as cheap as possible. Ok, fine. It’s not my album so I don’t care. You do you. She showed me her album and I looked through it. Then when she came to my house I wanted to show her one of my albums. She opened it and then slammed it shut. She said she didn’t want to see all the stuff I bought and used. That is very odd and pretty rude, I have to say. Why would she care about the money you spent on scrappy supplies? And the purpose of looking through an album isn't to notice the supplies but to enjoy the photos and stories artfully arranged. I guess a lot of people don't care about other people's albums, but if you're friendly enough to be in someone's house maybe just page through and nod and smile...? Especially if they've looked through your copy paper album. If she wanted to be so cheap why make an album at all? People are perplexing. It was odd and rude but then I remember that she would also go to a cosmetology school to get her hair colored and then complain that her hair looked terrible. There is definitely a pattern with her. |
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Post by jediannie on Apr 6, 2022 16:43:52 GMT
So many follow X person (Ali mainly for PL) and it gets boring. I feel this way too, I've actually unfollowed people on Instagram and stopped watching some Youtube videos because all they post are layouts using AE stuff and it gets so repetitive. Show me something new! WHO IS STILL FUSSY CUTTING PEOPLE OUT OF PHOTOGRAPHS??? I've seen some people do this but in their smaller, more personal albums, not in like big 12x12 layouts. I think Heba (My Little Journal) does this quite a bit in her traveler's notebooks. That's the beauty of scrapbooking, what seems strange to one person is not strange to another. I love seeing how there really are no rules anymore and people are doing more with their supplies. |
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Post by myboysnme on Apr 6, 2022 22:29:27 GMT
This scrapbooking outside of the page protector This is like wearing your bra on top of your shirt. Strap hinge albums used to be without page protectors back in the day. Personally I will not do it for any reason I can see now. The strangest thing I saw I did to my earliest efforts of scrapbooking an that was randomly cut photos into completely whack shapes, cutting off parts of the photo willy nilly. Why in the world did I think that was scrapbooking? The second weird thing I also did, and that was use a coluzzle for nearly every photo, and if something extended beyond the circumference I silhouette cut it so it stuck out like an appendage. I am not a no rules for scrapbooking person. I cannot accept it. To me it's like taking any other craft and just dropping stitches while knitting, leaving out ingredients while cooking, or any other hobby just doing whatever the heck you want. Seeing people hack up original old photos of which there is no way to make copies is horrifying to me. I have inherited a few photos that someone cut to fit into an oval frame or some such. I don't care who does what except when it comes to the photos that there are no copies of. For those I am a preservationist purist. When I see them I have to walk away and distract myself from the mutilation of that which cannot be replaced. |
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Post by kelly8875 on Apr 7, 2022 14:15:07 GMT
I am personally not a fan of not using page protectors on my stuff. But, I do like it when other people do it. I just want my stuff protected, it's a personal preference.
When I go to larger crops/retreats, there is always a small group of people who only use brand new items. Always the newest products and lines. They will actually tell other people "you can't use that, it so old" I finally stood up to them once when they said it to the sweetest lady...and said "isn't that the point of all of this, some day it will ALL be old" People clapped. These are the same ladies that complain about not having money or how expensive stuff is. I'm not sure why it's a competition to them, so that is the weird thing to me. Maybe if you didn't get rid of your old stuff all the time, you wouldn't spend so much money on new stuff.
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