S/O CM thread. Anyone make you feel like you scrap wrong?

No I don't recall anyone ever making me feel like I wasn't scrapbooking correctly, but once at a crop a fellow scrapper sitting across from me asked why I leave my photos so big? I wanted to ask her why she cropped the heck out of her 4x6 photos, but I'm pretty sure I just smiled and told her I was just crazy like that lol.

No I don't recall anything like that, but the number of crops I've actually attended is pretty small.

I once showed a layout to a small lss owner who had previously shown interest in my work. She glanced at it and said something like it looked like I had too much time on my hands, something to that effect. I was surprised at her reaction, but I never showed her another layout.

I never have anyone making me feel like I scrap wrong, but certainly tons of people who make comments that make it seem like I'm wrong to scrap.

When I first discovered product other than CM, I started using it, along with my CM product. I went to a big "Croptoberfest" sponsored by all the CMC's in the area.

It was the first time my CMC saw me scrap as I had not been to one of her crops, just bought product. She saw me using some "contraband" product, and though she did not say so, you could tell she wanted to tell me how bad that stuff was!! I was a bad influence to all those other CM scrappers. She walked by several times, and just gave me the "look". Well, now 14+ years later that LO looks as good as it did the day I made it using all that bad product.

Shortly after that I discovered the LLS and went to a crop put on by someone who didn't sell product, or work for the LSS, I just saw the ad there. Well now, she and a few ladies I met at her crop are some of my best friends!! And we still scrap together.

I do it to myself sometimes, lol.  I have a pal who, while she'll branch out on occasion, still mainly scraps the CM way.  She's able to get lots more photos on her pages and blaze thru her layouts a lot quicker than I do and sometimes when we're scrapping together I wonder . . .  Then I get a grip and realize I'm being silly and keep on w/my less-photos-more-embellished pages and I'm fine.

I did have someone 'shame me' about my adhesive choice at a crop once.  Back before I discovered my beloved Glue Glider Pro, I had become disenchanted w/my Tombow runner (things were falling off my pages), so I went back to photo squares (or photo splits).  A woman walked by my table and said something like, "Oh, you're still using those?".  Whatever . . .

I have never been called out for scrapbooking wrong but I was questioned on why and what I scrapbooked seeing as I was young, single and had no children.

Once upon a time before our kids were born, we hosted a dinner party and a friend brought one of her friends. The 'new' friend was really into scrapbooking and took out my album from the shelf, quickly leafed through it without really looking and said, "is this all you've done?" Her baby grabbed and crunched a few pages, too before she took it from the little one's reach.

My co-irker used to be a CM rep and she was a PITA. Her scrapbooks followed all the CM rules and were, also, very very plain (two papers per page with borders and a journaling spot next to a photo). No themed pages ever.

There used to be a quite a few people who scrapbooked in our office and none of them did it the "right" way (according to the CM rulebook). Someone would bring in a scrapbook, all excited and she'd always ruin the moment. She'd always make comments about how our pages were going to get dents from the embellishments or that some real items someone used (say a movie ticket stub or a newborn's hospital bracelet) were not acid free and were going to make the pages "rot" in the future and what's the point of doing a scrapbook if it's not going to last forever? Why are you all wasting your time? 

I finally had it one day and told her that the odds were that NONE of our scrapbooks, including hers, were going to last forever. I pointed out that I'd had a flood in my house, so and so moved and the movers lost several of her boxes, and another person lost a box due to mice getting into it and eating it -- and any of those situations could have resulted in ruined scrapbooks and those were just the people sitting around the table having bad luck. What about great grandkids that don't give a rip? So from my pov, it would be a rarity for any of our scrapbooks to survive longer than 50 years, so I'm not worried about forever. 

I also pointed out that if the most important thing was having the pages utterly flat, then why not just go completely digital and print up books -- which is a service CM provided? 

In fact, she ended up doing just that -- she switched almost entirely to digital and prints up books. Interestingly enough, her digital scrapbooks are just as simple as her regular scrapbooks -- very plain, no fun effects, basically papers with borders and photos plopped on with a journaling spot next to them.  And that's fine for her, but none of us are saying what we think of them. Because we have, you know, manners. 

She didn't make any of us feel like we were doing it "wrong", but she sure irritated the snot out of everyone and turned everyone off of CM, that is for SURE.  She lost a lot of business she could have made. 

Wow. That was an incredibly dumb business move on her part.

And a shitty thing to say, besides.

Wrong way, no. Wrong products, definitely. When I would encounter that (which was pretty rare), I would take it with a grain of salt and let it roll off. Since I owned an LSS back in the day, part of my "job" was to be as informed as I could be about what made things "safe" or "unsafe" to use with photos, so I had at least as much (if not more) knowledge as the average CMC. I was lucky that most of the CMC's I personally knew were not the militant type.

And you can bet that when I taught the classes in my store, I did everything I could to encourage people and cheer them on. Hey, they were getting their photos into albums and getting their stories down! It wasn't my place to judge what they wanted to do with their projects. I would just share what I knew and let them feel free to do their own thing, whatever that was. LOL, I went to art school with people who glued road kill birds onto their artwork, so by then I had seen it all!

Stamps don't take lots of money...LOL That's so funny, I dug in my heels for a very long time when it came to stamping because they can be so expensive.  Well, I guess they wouldn't if she worked for them and had enough people in her downline to help offset the costs.  But it sounds like it's all friendly with your group!!

I went to one crop where a lady used the original CM tape runner where the empty paper spilled over the top.  She let that pile up on the floor for the entire weekend and it could only be because she wanted everyone to see how many pages she completed.  I can't think of any reason to let a chair sized pile of garbage collect on the floor.  

I have never been made to feel that way except by my own self.  I know that my early years of scrapping I was doing it wrong.  I was hacking up photos, using inferior supplies and not using any design sense on my pages.  

I wish I had someone to teach me very early on.  But as I said on another thread, I was self taught trying to mimic what I saw in CM.