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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2015 2:31:37 GMT
We had an LLS in the strip mall next to my neighborhood, so I'd see all this complicated looking stuff. (Mind you, we're talking 2000.) A lady at my church invited me to a crop and said she'd show me how easy it all really was. So I showed up with just my pictures and she loaned me a cutter and some paper. One of the other gals at the crop showed me her album, and all the mats were darkened around the edges. I loved this burnt look, so I came home and struck a match and started burning the edges of my cardstock mats over the bathroom sink to get that look.
Yah, I needed a few more crops to learn about distress ink.
These days, I'm always introducing Marti to new stuff in the craft. She laughs at how I've gotten way more involved in design and layering than she ever dreamed -- and I own all the tools, too.
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Post by camanddanismom on Jul 22, 2015 11:56:43 GMT
I spent a lot of time on Baby Center while expecting my first child in 2003. That's where I first heard about scrapbooking! A lot else was happening in my life. My dh purchased his own business, so when we left the hospital with our new baby, I left my job of 15 years and moved to a new state. It all happened fast so we moved into an apartment. My dh was busy opening his new business, I was learning how to take care of a baby and trying to find us a house. We also shared a car so I spent a lot of time on my own, close to home and on the computer. Once life settled s bit, I got bored. I decided to give this scrapbooking a try! I walked with baby to the nearest store (a drug store!) and tried to find the things I might need...pickings were slim, but they did have s post-bound album, card stock, vellum and some ribbon and glue. What more does a girl need? My results were pathetic and I gave up!! Within a year though, things changed. We found a house and were expecting baby #2. We were settling in to our new neighborhood and one of my new neighbors invited me to a CM party at her house. Another neighbor was a consultant. Honestly, this changed everything! Just this tiniest bit of instruction, and the purchase of the right tools sent me on my way! Plus, we realized that almost every mom in our neighborhood play group was a scrapper. We started cropping at each other's homes and we discovered our LSS and cropped there too. My new friends were helpful and lent me books by Cathy Z, Becky H and Ali. And then I discovered 2peas...I was thoroughly hooked!!
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Post by jcm28 on Jul 24, 2015 16:49:15 GMT
I don't remember the exact year but it was between 1993 (when dd got married) and 1998 (when dgs was born). I worked with a girl who was having a "home party" that was something "new". It had to do with scrapbooking your photos. I wasn't into photography, just had a point and shoot, but I had a stack of very expensive wedding photos and lots of memorabilia. I went to my first CM party and about flipped out! I sew and quilt but this was a whole new ball of wax. I think I spent over $300 and haven't looked back.
I still avidly scrapbook and have spent thousands on supplies and, like most on here, could scrapbook 'til the cows come home (or I die, whichever comes first). If I had an endless supply of adhesive, I could scrapbook for the next twenty years!
I belong to a wonderful group of scrapbookers here in Orlando, The Sunshine Scrappers. I can't go as often as I'd like because I work night shift and I often can't get the schedule I'd like but we scrap once a month, have two 2 day crops a year and an annual 3 day retreat.
Lately I have been having fun making cards (a great way to use up scraps)!
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Post by mikklynn on Jul 24, 2015 19:04:08 GMT
abr79 Welcome to the group! don - I love your reference to "the mother ship"!
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Post by scrapbookwriter on Jul 24, 2015 23:31:30 GMT
In 1987, just after my daughter was born, a friend showed me the albums she made for her kids. I loved the concept. She told me where she had gotten her supplies: a store called the Annex in Spanish Fork, Utah, about an hour's drive from our home in West Jordan.
I drove to The Annex and stocked up on their supplies:
1. a variety pack of 8.5x11 cardstock (I could choose pastel or brights; I chose pastel)
2. clear adhesive-backed corner mounts
3. page protectors
I really wanted to buy an album, too, but they just didn't fit in the budget. Instead I used plain white binders from Costco.
My first layout was the story of my daughter's birth. I printed the journaling on my husband's computer printer - the paper had those tear-off strips with holes on the side where it fed through the printer. I used pink paper. No titles. I did not trim the photos. The pages could not be more plain, but you know what? I told the story.
I have been scrapbooking ever since.
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Post by FurryP on Jul 25, 2015 0:47:06 GMT
My hairstylist was running late, and while I waited I looked the through the magazines. There was a CK magzine and I looked through it. I have always loved to do arts and crafts, but really didn't even know Michaels existed. It was fate! I found 2 LSS's, one was even less than a mile from my house. I found the CK message board and hung out there for a while. They mentioned the "veggie" board quite often. I went and looked but did not stay. Eventually the CK board format changed and I wandered back to the veggie board. I never looked back. Two Peas was my home! My first scrapbook page consisted of one photo...cut up into an oval shape...on a 12x12 patterned paper!  |
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Post by Lori McMud on Jul 25, 2015 15:51:53 GMT
April or May of 2002 my neighbor invited me to a CM party at her house - I only went to be polite. I did not have time to waste on scrapbooking. I went and was hooked - a few day later I driving over flooded roads to the closest LSS, which was about 20 miles from where I live. I still have that first page I made at my neighbor's house. Scrapping has led me to meet a great group of women. We have laughed together and cried together when one of our group died suddenly. We still get together (not as frequently) and go to retreats 2-4 times a year. I have a mini store in my basement, but do not get to scrap as much as I would like to (for some reason my DH thinks I should spend some evenings with him ) |
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Post by rainangel on Jul 25, 2015 17:08:45 GMT
Reading this thread makes me think back. And you know what? I think my whole life was just a build up to me scrapbooking. I remember getting planners in about 7th grade, and every schoolyear since. They were hardcover planners, aimed at Junior High and High School students. And all the girls had one! We filled them with jokes, quotes, stickers, photos, homework, important tv-shows, postcards, cut out pictures of our favourite bands and moviestars.... It really was the beginning of my scrapbookingcareer. I still have all the planners, and the oldest one is for the schoolyear 92/93. I have always loved stationary, and my body just gravitate towards the stationarysection in any store that has one. I just love paper, envelopes, post-its, paperclips, stickers, pens and everything else stationary! The start of my ACTUAL scrapbookingcareer was in 2004, when I was pregnant with my first child. I decided to make a babybook. My parents had those babybooks for me and my siblings where you just fill out the blanks like 'My christening and Godparents' and add pictures. But I wanted to make my own babybook somehow. So I went online and tried to search up what kind of pages was in the babybooks my parents had, but all I found was this 'scrapbooking' thing, but THAT WAS NOT WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR!! So annoying! Because I had to scroll and scroll through this scrapbooking to find the babybooks I was searching for. Finally I gave up and thought 'FINE! I will look at this stupid scrapbooking thing to see what the hell it is, and why I keep seeing it when I search for 'Babybook''. And that's when I saw the light. It was like all my love for stationary and planners just exploded into this heaven of paper and embellishments. Then I find out there is a LSS about 100 yards away from my house! How quickly do you think I RAN down there I took a beginner's class there, but quickly discovered that they wanted me to scrapbook THEIR way, and I was all rebellious refusing to matt my photos. Been hooked ever since. I was a cardmaker mostly for the last 7 years, but I am making an effort to produce more layouts with pictures of my children this year. |
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Post by cmpeter on Jul 26, 2015 23:41:57 GMT
It was 1994. My husband was being recruited for a job in SLC. I went with him to check out the city. I had a day on my own and ended up at the Quilted Bear Craft Mall. Saw a booth there from Pebbles in My Pocket. I was hooked...bought some shape templates, cardstock, 8 1/2 3 ring binders, clip art books and a tub of Yes glue. I was immediately hooked.
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