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Post by lisacharlotte on Apr 2, 2017 1:35:29 GMT
I'm moving my scrappy space from our teeny 3rd bedroom in our sun room. Going through everything so i can toss/donate stuff i will not use. Found these in an accordion file. Now to read thru them. I feel 32 again. 😳😂  |
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Post by leeny on Apr 2, 2017 1:47:35 GMT
I still have all those Creative Memories idea books in a canvas binder somewhere in my stash in my garage! I'm moving my stuff from the garage to my newly finished craft room. I bet I have some of the MM & CK mags too.
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Post by carolynhasacat on Apr 2, 2017 1:49:50 GMT
State of the art scrapping 20 years ago! How do they hold up, do you think? Is everything old new again? I wonder what scrapping in 2037 will look like 20 years in the future? Will we look back in our albums and say "remember when photos were still 2D?" Or "what's with all the cactus?"  |
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Post by lisacharlotte on Apr 2, 2017 3:29:48 GMT
Patterned paper was becoming a thing. Also, digital was in its infancy. Acid and lignin free was getting a special sticker on products. Close To My Heart was just getting started and they were looking for people to join. Nice article on the dangers of cropping your photos. Cropper Hoppers were the ultimate in storage.
I bought my micron pens at this time. I still use them.
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Post by nicolep on Apr 2, 2017 3:53:56 GMT
Oh my! What a fun walk down memory lane!
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Post by mom on Apr 2, 2017 5:06:01 GMT
WOW!!  |
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Post by anniefb on Apr 2, 2017 6:37:08 GMT
Sounds like fun  |
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Post by myboysnme on Apr 2, 2017 11:13:39 GMT
I'm moving my scrappy space from our teeny 3rd bedroom in our sun room. Going through everything so i can toss/donate stuff i will not use. Found these in an accordion file. Now to read thru them. I feel 32 again. 😳😂 Oh wow! I didn't know there were magazines in 1997 - how I wish I had. I started around then but on my own. If you see anything interesting to share please come back to the thread and post! I love the title of that article - 'To Crop or Not?' What does it say because we were mutilating photos fro several years after that. Someone was already on the 'cutting' edge! |
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Post by LisaDV on Apr 2, 2017 11:51:16 GMT
Fun memories!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2017 12:40:17 GMT
"15 ways to conquer scrapbook clutter"!
One thing that hasn't changed.
When did you start? You started before me....1999 here.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Apr 2, 2017 13:05:01 GMT
I thought I started in 1998 but obviously I was earlier than that. These are from Fall 1997, so i must have gone to a creative memories party that summer.
My son turned 7 in Dec '07 and I had such plans. I completed one small scrapbook (totally CM!) and gave it to my in laws for Christmas that year.
I still have my 12x12 red CM post bound album that i started and never finished. It's full of cropped photos.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Apr 2, 2017 13:05:45 GMT
Those girls on the cover are probably the age i was when I bought these magazines (32).
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Post by lisacharlotte on Apr 2, 2017 13:07:12 GMT
Oh, and the 15 ways to corral your clutter involve a few drawer systems. Apparently scrap rooms were unheard of.
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Post by beachhappy22 on Apr 2, 2017 13:11:36 GMT
I love looking through all the old magazines! I found a few not to long ago, tossed all but 1 that had a bunch of baby boy layouts. That's how far behind I am-my baby boy is 14!
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Post by lisacharlotte on Apr 2, 2017 13:25:40 GMT
So from this issue is "Queen of the Crop" where Lisa Bearnson attends a crop and brings gifts to the host. This issue was Oy Shuler and she received a Cropper Hopper "filled with oodles of scrapbooking products: Fiskars corner edgers and decorative scissors, Hot Off The Press Paper Pizazz books, Frances Meyer and Mrs. Grossman's stickers, Sakura pens and The Paper Patch background papers." Retail value over $200 according to the form to sign up for Lisa to attend your all night crop.
Lisa was amazed at the stash Oy had, she obviously needed a scrap room! "Oy's scrapbooking supplies are almost beyond belief: sixteen reams of card stock (8,000 pieces). 250 different designs of colorful preprinted paper, four binders full of die-cuts shapes, 20 pairs of scissors and the list goes on. She figures she's spend close to $2,500 for her current scrapbooking supplies."
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Post by k8scraps on Apr 2, 2017 13:29:13 GMT
I have a couple of old CK's and a Memory Maker or 2...love to flip thru them occasionally. It's fun walking down scrapping memory lane. I sold my CM idea books years ago...
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Post by lisacharlotte on Apr 2, 2017 13:35:12 GMT
So from the "To Crop or Not..." article:
"Cutting today's photographs can be wrong too -- someday they will tell the story of our lives. When I was asked to write this article on cropping photos, I felt a bit uneasy. I don't do a great deal of cropping and feel it's an overused trend in scrapbooking. I don't mean to offend those who cut their photos -- only to give some helpful guidelines before you pick up the scissors."
The advice follows that you should only crop extra photos for an artistic accent or at least make sure you have multiple copies and don't ruin your only photo (save your negatives just in case!). You will want to see the background of pictures in the future, like the "old" 1997 Ford pickup or the dog running in the yard behind the kids, etc. All good advice. But she really tiptoed around the CM folks who were all about the cropping of photos.
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Post by Skellinton on Apr 2, 2017 14:42:14 GMT
So from this issue is "Queen of the Crop" where Lisa Bearnson attends a crop and brings gifts to the host. This issue was Oy Shuler and she received a Cropper Hopper "filled with oodles of scrapbooking products: Fiskars corner edgers and decorative scissors, Hot Off The Press Paper Pizazz books, Frances Meyer and Mrs. Grossman's stickers, Sakura pens and The Paper Patch background papers." Retail value over $200 according to the form to sign up for Lisa to attend your all night crop. Lisa was amazed at the stash Oy had, she obviously needed a scrap room! "Oy's scrapbooking supplies are almost beyond belief: sixteen reams of card stock (8,000 pieces). 250 different designs of colorful preprinted paper, four binders full of die-cuts shapes, 20 pairs of scissors and the list goes on. She figures she's spend close to $2,500 for her current scrapbooking supplies." I wonder where Oy is today and what her stash looks like now! |
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Post by myboysnme on Apr 2, 2017 15:29:03 GMT
So from the "To Crop or Not..." article: "Cutting today's photographs can be wrong too -- someday they will tell the story of our lives. When I was asked to write this article on cropping photos, I felt a bit uneasy. I don't do a great deal of cropping and feel it's an overused trend in scrapbooking. I don't mean to offend those who cut their photos -- only to give some helpful guidelines before you pick up the scissors." The advice follows that you should only crop extra photos for an artistic accent or at least make sure you have multiple copies and don't ruin your only photo (save your negatives just in case!). You will want to see the background of pictures in the future, like the "old" 1997 Ford pickup or the dog running in the yard behind the kids, etc. All good advice. But she really tiptoed around the CM folks who were all about the cropping of photos. I seriously wish I had read that and taken it to heart. I could have saved myself the ruination of countless photos and the redo of those early pages. Did the author of that article go on to be known in the scrap world? |
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Post by Really Red on Apr 2, 2017 15:43:16 GMT
Ugh. I cut pictures on one page (page 3 of my very first album) and hated it so much, I never cropped again, unless I was cropping out a blur. I look back now and see all sorts of things I didn't think I'd be interested in, like shoes and messes in the background!
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Post by lisacharlotte on Apr 2, 2017 16:13:52 GMT
So from the "To Crop or Not..." article: "Cutting today's photographs can be wrong too -- someday they will tell the story of our lives. When I was asked to write this article on cropping photos, I felt a bit uneasy. I don't do a great deal of cropping and feel it's an overused trend in scrapbooking. I don't mean to offend those who cut their photos -- only to give some helpful guidelines before you pick up the scissors." The advice follows that you should only crop extra photos for an artistic accent or at least make sure you have multiple copies and don't ruin your only photo (save your negatives just in case!). You will want to see the background of pictures in the future, like the "old" 1997 Ford pickup or the dog running in the yard behind the kids, etc. All good advice. But she really tiptoed around the CM folks who were all about the cropping of photos. I seriously wish I had read that and taken it to heart. I could have saved myself the ruination of countless photos and the redo of those early pages. Did the author of that article go on to be known in the scrap world? The "Crop or Not" author is Brenda Birrell. Truthfully I didn't know any scrap celebrity names (including Lisa Bearenson) until about 2013 or so when got back into it. |
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Post by carolynhasacat on Apr 2, 2017 16:35:45 GMT
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Post by artisticscrapper on Apr 2, 2017 16:56:06 GMT
Makes me wish I'd saved a few of my old magazines. I started scrapping in late 2001 styles trends have changed so much. I wonder how many of those people featured in the mags still scrap.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2017 17:07:53 GMT
So from the "To Crop or Not..." article: "Cutting today's photographs can be wrong too -- someday they will tell the story of our lives. When I was asked to write this article on cropping photos, I felt a bit uneasy. I don't do a great deal of cropping and feel it's an overused trend in scrapbooking. I don't mean to offend those who cut their photos -- only to give some helpful guidelines before you pick up the scissors." The advice follows that you should only crop extra photos for an artistic accent or at least make sure you have multiple copies and don't ruin your only photo (save your negatives just in case!). You will want to see the background of pictures in the future, like the "old" 1997 Ford pickup or the dog running in the yard behind the kids, etc. All good advice. But she really tiptoed around the CM folks who were all about the cropping of photos. I seriously wish I had read that and taken it to heart. I could have saved myself the ruination of countless photos and the redo of those early pages. Did the author of that article go on to be known in the scrap world? Me, too. I read that same advice but ignored it. I was ignorant and arrogant! |
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Post by papersilly on Apr 3, 2017 1:01:43 GMT
I have a stack of SB mags on my desk that I can't bear to recycle but I know I should.
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Post by steakgoddess on Apr 3, 2017 19:59:12 GMT
I recycled all of my magazines years ago because I had subscriptions to at least 3 of them. I was being overrun and who know they would all stop printing. I still have some idea books. I flip through them and still find something to spark an idea. It may be some tiny little piece, but it works for me.
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Post by pas2 on Apr 4, 2017 9:20:19 GMT
Ugh. I cut pictures on one page (page 3 of my very first album) and hated it so much, I never cropped again, unless I was cropping out a blur. I look back now and see all sorts of things I didn't think I'd be interested in, like shoes and messes in the background! So true. I am so fascinated in what's in the background on all my parent's old photos that I decided not to crop my own. Some day my kids may find it equally fascinating. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2017 7:36:00 GMT
Nice article on the dangers of cropping your photos. I hope the author wrote about not cropping your photos into little shapes like stars, hearts. Cropping them with decorative scissors, lol. That was the worst scrapbooking trend ever. I remember I would not do that. My friends were like see my son is in a little star. I would tell them "Twenty years later your son would wish you to see stars doing that to him!" ROFL. I actually saw a scrapbooker on Instragram crop her photo of her little boy into a heart. I am like "Oh, honey don't go down that road!" ROFL! |
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Apr 6, 2017 18:58:48 GMT
lol about cropping your photos into shapes! It seems like everything old is new again, or what goes around comes around-- however you want to say it. I read the recent Scrapbook Update posts where she talked about the newest trends she saw at the 2017 international shows, and there was a lot of talk about seeing things like hand lettering, doodling, etc. and more types of things that I originally did back 20-25 years ago when I started out in scrapbooking! I even think I had, gave away, then RE-BOUGHT (re-bought at a Goodwill, though) the 12x12 templates called 'Border Buddies' that have decorative edges and different designs to use for tracing with markers. Since doodling and hand-lettering is coming back, I really should pull them out again and use them on a layout! And heck, some of the layered die-cuts you can make with a Silhouette or Cricut are similar to punch art and paper piecing, although they're a lot more sophisticated. I think someone needs to bring back the layered paper dolls!!  (just kidding, with that one!) |
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