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Post by warrior1991 on Jan 10, 2017 14:29:05 GMT
I don't know if this is allowed, but I have cardstock die cut words listed for sale on my Etsy shop. Words like: snort, crazy, wild, cry, sneaky, etc. I am going to add more like snarky and blah. www.etsy.com/shop/mouseprintcreations
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jan 10, 2017 14:41:29 GMT
I'm with those talking about adoption story supplies. Same for the baby book section: there's little choice for adoptive parents to fill in. Anyhoo, on a more selfish note: - supplies aimed towards people who don't have children - stuff about the modern urban life (going out, happy hour, brunch, public transport commuting, etc.) - less generic sentiments - neutrals because dayum, they work with everything! - enough with the motivational quotes - more with the literary quotes (and please use a decent fact-checker to avoid all the fake quote attributions) - and less US-centric/English language culture fixation (I don't mind them but if 90% of hypothetical literary quote cards are from US and British authors, I'm not going to buy them, let's be honest) - less US-centric when it comes to sports stuff (seriously, a lot of the terms used just are not applicable to sports overall, especially outside of North America) - more branching out in different languages (I don't necessarily mean fully translating product but adding in little easy-to-understand winks to other languages) - more modern designs, sorry but most die-cut packs that are very much specific to a certain life event look very outdated to me - less pink, less flowers (I'm cool with florals and flowers BUT I'm never going to use little flower stickers, chipboard flowers, flower die-cuts) - up the sarcasm volume just a little bit - I just want funny/twisted swear words and I'm willing to spend full price on a set of stamps that includes "Fork it!" or "What the fork!" (and "Bullshirt" just watch The Good Place, scrap product design peeps!) There's a niche for a PL kit sub geared towards younger city-minded women with the rise of the millenial women in the workforce. They're willing to document, simple to understand, have spending money to use on themselves solely, are easily FOMO-triggered. Just sayin'...
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jan 10, 2017 14:58:41 GMT
stuff for springs and waterfalls and trails and lakes and ponds...not just beaches and skiing...there's a lot of nature in the middle I could so use those items! Canoes and kayaks. Fishing. But I don't want cutesy/cartoony. I hear you on the lake stuff. We have a lake cabin. But to be really honest we have a canoe we never use, DD and I almost never actually fish (although DH does), and mice chewed a hole in the kayak, LOL. What I could use for my cabin photos is stuff with a pontoon boat (EVERYBODY uses their pontoons all.the.time. on our lake). General swimming but not "beach." Our lakeshore is mucky and we don't swim at the town beach. We swim out in the middle off the pontoon, so no sand castles are made, no diving board, etc. The kids go tubing or waterskiing or jet skiing. And all the kids wear life jackets even when we swim. We sit around the firepit and sometimes make s'mores. The kids catch frogs and tadpoles. We BBQ and have potlucks. The neighbor guy gives out freezer pops like a dealer, LOL.
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Post by loco coco on Jan 10, 2017 15:25:46 GMT
Im totally opposite, Im finally loving and using pink! I didnt use it at all the last 5+ years scrapbooking.
Was silver ever a trend? I have a few silver things but NOTHING like the overwhelming gold that is on everything! If gold goes away, I bet we see some rose gold come into play
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Post by epeanymous on Jan 10, 2017 15:42:10 GMT
As a second thought, I was talking to DH over the weekend about craft stores and trends, and about the fact that the yarn stores in my area (Seattle) persevere, and that we've even had a few new ones open, while all of the scrapbooking stores have gone under. And that when I go to the knitting events, the crowd is all-ages, generally very trendy and diverse, and has a lot of people dropping $500 at a booth for extra-special bison yarn hand-dyed by fairies in a cave in Iceland, while when I go to scrapbooking events, there is a smaller crowd, most of the people are middle-aged and white, and the crowds are at the $1 discount table. So we started thinking about -- well, what is it that makes it so that knitting is hot and attracts a diverse group of people who are willing to support bricks-and-mortar stores rather than seek out the cheapest prices at big-box stores, while scrapbooking has been to all appearances dying a slow death. One thing that I know has been talked about a ton has been how digital photo sharing and social media has cut back on the appeal of printing out photos and putting them in a book, and I am sure that is a big part of it; people under the age of 25 have all come of age using their phones as cameras and sharing their photos immediately. But I think another big piece of it is that the scrapbooking industry has been dominated by people who are pretty homogenous in terms of race, class, religion, and world view. We're all correct here -- there aren't a lot of mass products for single parents, or same-sex couples, or working women (other than the "OMG I have the starter job I have while I am looking for a hubby!" occasional products), or adoptive parents, or people who are Jewish or Muslim. When you have items with people on them, they are often stereotyped and outdated, as people have said, and they are also white. And they assume that your family does the things that they think families do -- travel to the beach, having "so much fun!" -- when maybe you're like my family, and mostly you go to the ballet and to museums and the library with occasional political organizing actions thrown in. I often feel like the designers envision 1950s stereotypical America but with more Instagram filters, and that isn't the America that many of us live in, at all.
Anyhow, I am just thinking out loud. I started knitting, quilting, and scrapbooking all around the same time in the late 90s (while in law school, ha ha), and watching the different directions those hobbies have taken has been interesting.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2017 15:54:32 GMT
As a second thought, I was talking to DH over the weekend about craft stores and trends, and about the fact that the yarn stores in my area (Seattle) persevere, and that we've even had a few new ones open, while all of the scrapbooking stores have gone under. And that when I go to the knitting events, the crowd is all-ages, generally very trendy and diverse, and has a lot of people dropping $500 at a booth for extra-special bison yarn hand-dyed by fairies in a cave in Iceland, while when I go to scrapbooking events, there is a smaller crowd, most of the people are middle-aged and white, and the crowds are at the $1 discount table. So we started thinking about -- well, what is it that makes it so that knitting is hot and attracts a diverse group of people who are willing to support bricks-and-mortar stores rather than seek out the cheapest prices at big-box stores, while scrapbooking has been to all appearances dying a slow death. One thing that I know has been talked about a ton has been how digital photo sharing and social media has cut back on the appeal of printing out photos and putting them in a book, and I am sure that is a big part of it; people under the age of 25 have all come of age using their phones as cameras and sharing their photos immediately. But I think another big piece of it is that the scrapbooking industry has been dominated by people who are pretty homogenous in terms of race, class, religion, and world view. We're all correct here -- there aren't a lot of mass products for single parents, or same-sex couples, or working women (other than the "OMG I have the starter job I have while I am looking for a hubby!" occasional products), or adoptive parents, or people who are Jewish or Muslim. When you have items with people on them, they are often stereotyped and outdated, as people have said, and they are also white. And they assume that your family does the things that they think families do -- travel to the beach, having "so much fun!" -- when maybe you're like my family, and mostly you go to the ballet and to museums and the library with occasional political organizing actions thrown in. I often feel like the designers envision 1950s stereotypical America but with more Instagram filters, and that isn't the America that many of us live in, at all. Anyhow, I am just thinking out loud. I started knitting, quilting, and scrapbooking all around the same time in the late 90s (while in law school, ha ha), and watching the different directions those hobbies have taken has been interesting.Very good points!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2017 16:02:50 GMT
As a second thought, I was talking to DH over the weekend about craft stores and trends, and about the fact that the yarn stores in my area (Seattle) persevere, and that we've even had a few new ones open, while all of the scrapbooking stores have gone under. And that when I go to the knitting events, the crowd is all-ages, generally very trendy and diverse, and has a lot of people dropping $500 at a booth for extra-special bison yarn hand-dyed by fairies in a cave in Iceland, while when I go to scrapbooking events, there is a smaller crowd, most of the people are middle-aged and white, and the crowds are at the $1 discount table. So we started thinking about -- well, what is it that makes it so that knitting is hot and attracts a diverse group of people who are willing to support bricks-and-mortar stores rather than seek out the cheapest prices at big-box stores, while scrapbooking has been to all appearances dying a slow death. One thing that I know has been talked about a ton has been how digital photo sharing and social media has cut back on the appeal of printing out photos and putting them in a book, and I am sure that is a big part of it; people under the age of 25 have all come of age using their phones as cameras and sharing their photos immediately. But I think another big piece of it is that the scrapbooking industry has been dominated by people who are pretty homogenous in terms of race, class, religion, and world view. We're all correct here -- there aren't a lot of mass products for single parents, or same-sex couples, or working women (other than the "OMG I have the starter job I have while I am looking for a hubby!" occasional products), or adoptive parents, or people who are Jewish or Muslim. When you have items with people on them, they are often stereotyped and outdated, as people have said, and they are also white. And they assume that your family does the things that they think families do -- travel to the beach, having "so much fun!" -- when maybe you're like my family, and mostly you go to the ballet and to museums and the library with occasional political organizing actions thrown in. I often feel like the designers envision 1950s stereotypical America but with more Instagram filters, and that isn't the America that many of us live in, at all. Anyhow, I am just thinking out loud. I started knitting, quilting, and scrapbooking all around the same time in the late 90s (while in law school, ha ha), and watching the different directions those hobbies have taken has been interesting.Very good points! Knitting is pretty welcoming to new ideas and good at adapting to younger audiences. Scrapbooking COULD make putting stuff in albums cool, especially with how many pictures are being taken these days, but they seem to be missing the mark. SaveSave
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Post by scrapaddict702 on Jan 10, 2017 16:09:06 GMT
As a second thought, I was talking to DH over the weekend about craft stores and trends, and about the fact that the yarn stores in my area (Seattle) persevere, and that we've even had a few new ones open, while all of the scrapbooking stores have gone under. And that when I go to the knitting events, the crowd is all-ages, generally very trendy and diverse, and has a lot of people dropping $500 at a booth for extra-special bison yarn hand-dyed by fairies in a cave in Iceland, while when I go to scrapbooking events, there is a smaller crowd, most of the people are middle-aged and white, and the crowds are at the $1 discount table. So we started thinking about -- well, what is it that makes it so that knitting is hot and attracts a diverse group of people who are willing to support bricks-and-mortar stores rather than seek out the cheapest prices at big-box stores, while scrapbooking has been to all appearances dying a slow death. One thing that I know has been talked about a ton has been how digital photo sharing and social media has cut back on the appeal of printing out photos and putting them in a book, and I am sure that is a big part of it; people under the age of 25 have all come of age using their phones as cameras and sharing their photos immediately. But I think another big piece of it is that the scrapbooking industry has been dominated by people who are pretty homogenous in terms of race, class, religion, and world view. We're all correct here -- there aren't a lot of mass products for single parents, or same-sex couples, or working women (other than the "OMG I have the starter job I have while I am looking for a hubby!" occasional products), or adoptive parents, or people who are Jewish or Muslim. When you have items with people on them, they are often stereotyped and outdated, as people have said, and they are also white. And they assume that your family does the things that they think families do -- travel to the beach, having "so much fun!" -- when maybe you're like my family, and mostly you go to the ballet and to museums and the library with occasional political organizing actions thrown in. I often feel like the designers envision 1950s stereotypical America but with more Instagram filters, and that isn't the America that many of us live in, at all. Anyhow, I am just thinking out loud. I started knitting, quilting, and scrapbooking all around the same time in the late 90s (while in law school, ha ha), and watching the different directions those hobbies have taken has been interesting. I agree with most things except the homogeneous part. If you look outside of the USA, scrapbooking is picking up at a pretty steady rate. You can find scrap stuff at their discount stores that we'd never see in ours in the US. World view to me feels like a political statement and that's also shifted significantly...when I joined the scrappy world a few years ago, it felt very Republican, religious (Mormon in particular), and anything but me...with the influx of mixed media and project life, we've seen a diversification in the scrapbooking world that actually has shifted much more to the left side of things...more art driven people, hipster, post college aged, without kids, etc. I think part of the problem may not be that there isn't diverse groups of people that scrapbook but more that there aren't big companies out there appealing to those broader markets...they dug their claws into holding onto a demographic that is shrinking or not there anymore. American Crafts is trying to reach more of those markets (Dear Lizzy, Amy Tan, 1Canoe or whatever the official name of the new brand is), but they have the same people designing everything, so it still comes out same-y. Plus, most of the bigger companies are still IN the demographic they aren't appealing to as much (Utah is still scrapbook central for the biggest companies out there). I wouldn't be shocked if a big part of the appeal of Studio Calico back before they started to crash and burn was because they weren't the ordinary idea of what scrapbooking was supposed to be and gave options to people who didn't feel like any other part of the industry was there to appeal to them. Thankfully, there are lots of small businesses out there starting to blossom that appeal to the rest of us...kit clubs are a good option when they offer a few exclusive pieces. Those exclusive offerings tend to have more variety...yes they have the cliches but they also have options that aren't as easy to find (snark and swearing, for example). People are willing to spend more to get things from those small businesses because they are the ones who truly are listening.
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Post by breetheflea on Jan 10, 2017 16:39:51 GMT
Knitting is pretty welcoming to new ideas and good at adapting to younger audiences. Scrapbooking COULD make putting stuff in albums cool, especially with how many pictures are being taken these days, but they seem to be missing the mark. SaveSaveKnitting is also portable, and except for yarn (which you can be pretty cheap or $50 a foot depending on your budget), once you have needles there really aren't any "must have now before it's gone forever" knitting supplies... Sometimes people post pictures of their yarn hoards and being a scrapbooker (and knitter) I expect rooms filled with yarn and needles everywhere and am not impressed when it all fits in one Rubbermaid container
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Post by epeanymous on Jan 10, 2017 19:48:57 GMT
Knitting is pretty welcoming to new ideas and good at adapting to younger audiences. Scrapbooking COULD make putting stuff in albums cool, especially with how many pictures are being taken these days, but they seem to be missing the mark. SaveSaveKnitting is also portable, and except for yarn (which you can be pretty cheap or $50 a foot depending on your budget), once you have needles there really aren't any "must have now before it's gone forever" knitting supplies... Sometimes people post pictures of their yarn hoards and being a scrapbooker (and knitter) I expect rooms filled with yarn and needles everywhere and am not impressed when it all fits in one Rubbermaid container Mine ... doesn't .
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Post by LisaDV on Jan 10, 2017 20:10:55 GMT
I could so use those items! Canoes and kayaks. Fishing. But I don't want cutesy/cartoony. I hear you on the lake stuff. We have a lake cabin. But to be really honest we have a canoe we never use, DD and I almost never actually fish (although DH does), and mice chewed a hole in the kayak, LOL. What I could use for my cabin photos is stuff with a pontoon boat (EVERYBODY uses their pontoons all.the.time. on our lake). General swimming but not "beach." Our lakeshore is mucky and we don't swim at the town beach. We swim out in the middle off the pontoon, so no sand castles are made, no diving board, etc. The kids go tubing or waterskiing or jet skiing. And all the kids wear life jackets even when we swim. We sit around the firepit and sometimes make s'mores. The kids catch frogs and tadpoles. We BBQ and have potlucks. The neighbor guy gives out freezer pops like a dealer, LOL. I could use a pontoon boat too. And one of those lake docks that float in the middle of the lake. And the tubing stuff. Our firepits are not cutesy suburban firepits, we tend to do bonfires. My dh has a bit of pyro. lol.
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Post by LisaDV on Jan 10, 2017 20:49:22 GMT
We aren't a "joyful" family -- we are a dry witted snarky sort of family -- which doesn't mean that we aren't nice, just that we are a bit more sarcastic, more ironic, sassier about most everything. So -- more ... snark! Yes, us too. I would like a birthday line with phrases that says "my birthday" on it, instead of "your birthday" so I can make birthday layouts about myself... Also to do from the birthday person's perspective and add their own journaling points. Anything geeky,science related (Star Trek, Star Wars, Lego, Mythbusters, science anything) would be awesome. Add video games and Dr. Who and I need those too. scrapaddict702 rat's ass is one of my favorite sayings. Maybe just putting that in stamp form without words would be nice. Rat Bastard. A friend of ours use to say this all the time and I picked it up. I still occasionally say it when the kids aren't around. I homeschool. So I don't need the everyday school items or terms. I need homeschool ones. Like, "first warm day break" instead of snow day. Library books in a wagon images, because every time you go, there is way too many to carry and then one with them finished and piled on the floor and the sentiment "Let's make another library trip!" which would be like 3 days later. "A perfect pajama day ruined by a field trip." "What grade am I?" (because many homeschoolers don't know, our will tell you "8th for English, 6th for math, 5th for..." lol)
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Post by Linda on Jan 10, 2017 21:00:03 GMT
and I'll add in...while I'm thinking about photos I've scrapped in the past year and ones I have waiting in the wings...
JROTC?
Militay but not the vehicles/formal uniforms/ranks but the every-day uniforms, the different bases, different ratings/MOS/job titles, stuff for boot camp/deployment is available but also for A-school, first duty station, home on leave, promotion, liberty, TDY...
science/STEM beyond the science fair and astronauts....
zoo stuff with a wider range of critters - how many elephants/giraffes/zebras/tigers/hippos/pandas do I need? We like other animals too
wild animals - and not cutesy ones and not hunting themed either - foxes, rabbits, deer, turkey, skunks, raccoons, opossums, armadillos, snakes, birds...
more destinations - Europe is more than Germany/France/UK, France is more than the Eiffel Tower, the UK is more than Big Ben and the Tower Bridge....and there are other places to visit than just Europe...
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Post by myboysnme on Jan 10, 2017 22:02:15 GMT
I hear you on the lake stuff. We have a lake cabin. But to be really honest we have a canoe we never use, DD and I almost never actually fish (although DH does), and mice chewed a hole in the kayak, LOL. What I could use for my cabin photos is stuff with a pontoon boat (EVERYBODY uses their pontoons all.the.time. on our lake). General swimming but not "beach." Our lakeshore is mucky and we don't swim at the town beach. We swim out in the middle off the pontoon, so no sand castles are made, no diving board, etc. The kids go tubing or waterskiing or jet skiing. And all the kids wear life jackets even when we swim. We sit around the firepit and sometimes make s'mores. The kids catch frogs and tadpoles. We BBQ and have potlucks. The neighbor guy gives out freezer pops like a dealer, LOL. I could use a pontoon boat too. And one of those lake docks that float in the middle of the lake. And the tubing stuff. Our firepits are not cutesy suburban firepits, we tend to do bonfires. My dh has a bit of pyro. lol. Sadly, I have all of that in my stash someplace. By the way, Scrapyourtrip.com sells Dr Who, Star Wars, Lego, etc and personalized paper. I've had college, ROTC, and many other papers made. Also Escape Scrapbooking which is only on Facebook but usually also at CKC will do personalized anything.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jan 10, 2017 22:30:34 GMT
Im totally opposite, Im finally loving and using pink! I didnt use it at all the last 5+ years scrapbooking. Was silver ever a trend? I have a few silver things but NOTHING like the overwhelming gold that is on everything! If gold goes away, I bet we see some rose gold come into play I had the hardest time finding silver when I was looking for stuff to use for my anniversary album. I ended up just buying a bunch of glittery silver paper and will have to make my own.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jan 10, 2017 23:00:37 GMT
As a second thought, I was talking to DH over the weekend about craft stores and trends, and about the fact that the yarn stores in my area (Seattle) persevere, and that we've even had a few new ones open, while all of the scrapbooking stores have gone under. And that when I go to the knitting events, the crowd is all-ages, generally very trendy and diverse, and has a lot of people dropping $500 at a booth for extra-special bison yarn hand-dyed by fairies in a cave in Iceland, while when I go to scrapbooking events, there is a smaller crowd, most of the people are middle-aged and white, and the crowds are at the $1 discount table. So we started thinking about -- well, what is it that makes it so that knitting is hot and attracts a diverse group of people who are willing to support bricks-and-mortar stores rather than seek out the cheapest prices at big-box stores, while scrapbooking has been to all appearances dying a slow death. One thing that I know has been talked about a ton has been how digital photo sharing and social media has cut back on the appeal of printing out photos and putting them in a book, and I am sure that is a big part of it; people under the age of 25 have all come of age using their phones as cameras and sharing their photos immediately. Do you think some of it might have to do with the fact that when a person knits, they typically create something that is primarily functional (hat, scarf, blanket, sweater, socks, shawl, etc.) and when a person scrapbooks it's primarily decorative (photos in an album) and the usefulness or value of it isn't readily apparent until possibly years or decades later? Then there is also the reality that knitted items can be given as gifts to pretty much anyone while most scrapbooking is done for the person themself or for their immediate family. I have an adult niece who up until adulthood never did anything crafty. She has dabbled in scrapbooking a bit, but has really taken off with sewing and more recently crocheting. She sews and crochets all kinds of stuff for her kids and her home. It's not that she doesn't see the value in scrapbooking per se, it's that she's on Facebook and her FB timeline is more or less all the 'scrapbook' she needs at this stage of her busy life with a full time job, a husband, a house and three kids under seven that she home schools. For her, what little discretionary time and money she has is better spent on something functional today vs. something she can do for free with virtually no effort online.
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Post by michellegb on Jan 11, 2017 0:08:39 GMT
I'm with those talking about adoption story supplies. Same for the baby book section: there's little choice for adoptive parents to fill in. Anyhoo, on a more selfish note: - supplies aimed towards people who don't have children - stuff about the modern urban life (going out, happy hour, brunch, public transport commuting, etc.) - less generic sentiments - neutrals because dayum, they work with everything! - enough with the motivational quotes - more with the literary quotes (and please use a decent fact-checker to avoid all the fake quote attributions) - and less US-centric/English language culture fixation (I don't mind them but if 90% of hypothetical literary quote cards are from US and British authors, I'm not going to buy them, let's be honest) - less US-centric when it comes to sports stuff (seriously, a lot of the terms used just are not applicable to sports overall, especially outside of North America) - more branching out in different languages (I don't necessarily mean fully translating product but adding in little easy-to-understand winks to other languages) - more modern designs, sorry but most die-cut packs that are very much specific to a certain life event look very outdated to me - less pink, less flowers (I'm cool with florals and flowers BUT I'm never going to use little flower stickers, chipboard flowers, flower die-cuts) - up the sarcasm volume just a little bit - I just want funny/twisted swear words and I'm willing to spend full price on a set of stamps that includes "Fork it!" or "What the fork!" (and "Bullshirt" just watch The Good Place, scrap product design peeps!) There's a niche for a PL kit sub geared towards younger city-minded women with the rise of the millenial women in the workforce. They're willing to document, simple to understand, have spending money to use on themselves solely, are easily FOMO-triggered. Just sayin'... I think I love you. All of that. All of it! SaveSave
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Post by LisaDV on Jan 11, 2017 16:03:42 GMT
I could use a pontoon boat too. And one of those lake docks that float in the middle of the lake. And the tubing stuff. Our firepits are not cutesy suburban firepits, we tend to do bonfires. My dh has a bit of pyro. lol. Sadly, I have all of that in my stash someplace. By the way, Scrapyourtrip.com sells Dr Who, Star Wars, Lego, etc and personalized paper. I've had college, ROTC, and many other papers made. Also Escape Scrapbooking which is only on Facebook but usually also at CKC will do personalized anything. Thanks for the info, myboysnme! I'll have to check out Scrapyourtrip.com.
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Post by meridon on Jan 13, 2017 1:00:32 GMT
Especially since it's such a big deal to make "life books" for adoptive kids and many agencies have you make a scrapbook about your family that can be shown to prospective birth parents. In fact, that's what got me into scrapping in the first place! This is really kind of a niche in the market, but if anybody has an Etsy store, you need to get on this. People would totally buy it! When my brother and sister in law adopted their first- I helped them create a beautiful "life book" for birth parents. The birth mom of my nephew said she was drawn to them because of how the book looked. It was pretty with butterflies. I've always treasured that memory. There would definitely be a market for adoption supplies/life books. Yes, our birth mom loved our book...it was truly a labor of love. I took pics of the LOs as she got to keep the book. It was my first foray into scrapping and it was a little overwhelming to start with. How nice of you to use your scrappy skills to help them!
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Post by stefdesign on Jan 13, 2017 5:37:49 GMT
I wasn't planning on joining this conversation at all, because I don't use "product"- I'm a digital scrapper, and I don't even use digital product. I just use my own photos and skill with Photoshop to make my layouts personal. The reason I'm adding my voice to this, is because I realized a side-benefit to my style of scrapping: I can do anything I want. I can create in any color, and I don't have to worry about the latest trends in scrapping, and the popular styles, accents, themes, embellishments, word art, etc. So, for me, I am never frustrated by what's going on in the industry. I'm sure this isn't going to convince anyone who is a dyed-in-the-wool glue and scissors gal to try digital scrapbooking, but perhaps a little hybrid scrapping might be in order for some of you who are really frustrated. It would be easy to create and print out cards for your PL layouts with the kinds of phrases and colors you like, etc.
I've been thinking of doing some design work for some of the scrapping companies, and if I ever do, I'll certainly pass along your thoughts! Lots of great ideas!
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Post by scrapaddict702 on Jan 13, 2017 15:40:25 GMT
I wasn't planning on joining this conversation at all, because I don't use "product"- I'm a digital scrapper, and I don't even use digital product. I just use my own photos and skill with Photoshop to make my layouts personal. The reason I'm adding my voice to this, is because I realized a side-benefit to my style of scrapping: I can do anything I want. I can create in any color, and I don't have to worry about the latest trends in scrapping, and the popular styles, accents, themes, embellishments, word art, etc. So, for me, I am never frustrated by what's going on in the industry. I'm sure this isn't going to convince anyone who is a dyed-in-the-wool glue and scissors gal to try digital scrapbooking, but perhaps a little hybrid scrapping might be in order for some of you who are really frustrated. It would be easy to create and print out cards for your PL layouts with the kinds of phrases and colors you like, etc. I've been thinking of doing some design work for some of the scrapping companies, and if I ever do, I'll certainly pass along your thoughts! Lots of great ideas! I actually made a few digital PL cards for myself the other day!! I was bored and wanted to play with pretty fonts and ended up taking a popular trend and making my own sentiments and tailoring it to how I wanted it to look. I think I'm going to keep trying this periodically, even if it's just for title and ending pages for the time being (IN my actual PL albums, my goal is to make more cards using my stamps, which is in effect the same thing as making my own digi cards, only I have to have the right stamp (I have hundreds, so hopefully there will be something to use frequently enough, lol).
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Post by mikklynn on Jan 14, 2017 14:26:00 GMT
I could so use those items! Canoes and kayaks. Fishing. But I don't want cutesy/cartoony. I hear you on the lake stuff. We have a lake cabin. But to be really honest we have a canoe we never use, DD and I almost never actually fish (although DH does), and mice chewed a hole in the kayak, LOL. What I could use for my cabin photos is stuff with a pontoon boat (EVERYBODY uses their pontoons all.the.time. on our lake). General swimming but not "beach." Our lakeshore is mucky and we don't swim at the town beach. We swim out in the middle off the pontoon, so no sand castles are made, no diving board, etc. The kids go tubing or waterskiing or jet skiing. And all the kids wear life jackets even when we swim. We sit around the firepit and sometimes make s'mores. The kids catch frogs and tadpoles. We BBQ and have potlucks. The neighbor guy gives out freezer pops like a dealer, LOL. You must have a cabin in Minnesota. You just described our life, except we can swim in front. Our neighbor took the grands tubing and then fed them ice cream in his hot tub! I'd buy those type of embellishments!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jan 14, 2017 15:02:21 GMT
I hear you on the lake stuff. We have a lake cabin. But to be really honest we have a canoe we never use, DD and I almost never actually fish (although DH does), and mice chewed a hole in the kayak, LOL. What I could use for my cabin photos is stuff with a pontoon boat (EVERYBODY uses their pontoons all.the.time. on our lake). General swimming but not "beach." Our lakeshore is mucky and we don't swim at the town beach. We swim out in the middle off the pontoon, so no sand castles are made, no diving board, etc. The kids go tubing or waterskiing or jet skiing. And all the kids wear life jackets even when we swim. We sit around the firepit and sometimes make s'mores. The kids catch frogs and tadpoles. We BBQ and have potlucks. The neighbor guy gives out freezer pops like a dealer, LOL. You must have a cabin in Minnesota. You just described our life, except we can swim in front. Our neighbor took the grands tubing and then fed them ice cream in his hot tub! I'd buy those type of embellishments! Close, western Wisconsin! DH said when he was little they used to be able to swim in front. Now it's all choked up with weeds and muck.
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