Anyone use the binders by Crop in Style PSB. I have ? about the pocket pages (m)

[OurDogCisco]

I bought the binder at my LSS last night during a crop because I got 50% off. Anyways, I need something to hold my stickers and die cuts because my old method was causing some of the stuff to get bent, etc.... and I was buying duplicates because I didn't realize I had it. Anyways, I am disappointed with the pockets that come with binder and I bought extras too. I love the design idea behind them that you can get different design pockets like a full sheet, half sheets, quarter sheets, CM sticker sheet size, etc... The only thing disappointing is the plastic is flimzy (spelling?). I already ripped two of them and I can see in the future more will rip. I really like the quality of the CM's pockets but they limited because they made them for their products only. Does anyone know of product that I could try similar to CM's?

I probably throughly confused everyone but I stayed up way too late last night at a crop until midnight and then, drove home and stayed up until 2 am finishing my pages....

Tina

 

[dahirsh]

I wonder if the quality has gone down lately? I have two PSB's. One for a couple of years now. I'm not especially gentle with them and I haven't even come close to tearing a page.

Deb

 

[mommie2angels]

I am wondering the same thing about the quality going down. I have had my sticker binder for about 2-3 years. I use it almost everyday. It's packed full and I am not at all easy with it. Never have ripped a page or pocket yet. Knock on wood! Watch, now tomorrow it will happen. LOL!!! I do need to buy some quarter pages for my paper piecings so I will see if they are different quality.

I don't know about CM having different varieties of sizes. I hope you find something that works for you. I absolutely love my binders.

 

[ToDisney]

Like the 2 previous posters, I have 2 that I bought maybe 2 years ago. Like them, I've got those babies stuffed and I am NOT gentle. I haven't had one rip yet. Maybe you should contact the company??

 

[Spinning]

same here. My book is bulging and I haven't ripped anything. If I were you I would tell your LLS Maybe it was a bad batch or something. I have only had mine about a year or less.

 

[pattyT]

Mine has been overflowing for 3 or 4 years with no probs - only complaint I have way to many little size pockets - need to get more larger ones!

I will be downloading a great sticker storage idea that is cheap to the disney scrapbook site in the beginning of the week - I haven't yet done it - but I will - much easier to find the sticker you need -
look for it there

 

[RRBB]

I've only had my PSBs for a few months and one of them is stuffed with stickers. I pack those pockets so full the flap doesn't really close. I've worried about tearing the pockets but so far all have held just fine. I just have the problem of pages coming of the rings when flipping through the book. It's rather annoying but I deal...

 

[aurora19]

The pockets to mine have "unzipped" a little at the openings but have generally held up. I'm more frustrated because I have some stickers etc that don't really fit.

I also have thought of buying the CM sticker sheets. (CM sheets are based on size - 1 sheet for page long stickers, another for the large block, and third for the narrow blocks - hope that makes sense)

 

[kittychatalot]

ALl her plastic pages in that binder were splitting and bending so she bought the CM one with tons o pages and I helped her organize her stickers and diecuts in it. The CM pages are thicker and perfectly fit the binder so she's a lot neeter. She's one of those kind of scrappers who needs everything to be organized before she can start. I just kind of pile everything into teh middle of teh table and dig in, lol.

 

[OurDogCisco]

Update: I went back to my LSS and return the torn pages. They went through their pile of pages and half of them ripped. Definitely poor product design. We found some that didn't and I replaced them with my ripped ones. You could easily tell which ones were going to rip because the stitching on the side was very small compared to the ones that weren't going to rip. Anyways, the LSS was quite upset the company sent them so many defective pages....

tina