Scrapbooking Group ~ How you all doing??

[Janice]

Hello - long time no post! LOL

Just checking in to see how everyone is - how the layouts are coming along?

I havent done any for a while because of moving, but am raring to go. Everytime I go out now I take my camera just in case --- as you do!

I have just been on the phone to Mark at Scraptastic confirming my latest order for magazines and books --- why is it I never can stop at what was on my list? I started off at £23 and have just okay'd the final bill of £55! Is it just me or do you all have the same problem?

What has everyone been upto - any layouts to see? Can anyone post any here?

 

[Fiona R from UK]

Hi there Janice

I'm still here, scrapping away at last!! But you know all my frustrating problems with attachments.....

I dare not start an order, you know how one thing leads to another.......... it's the way us scrappers operate, and I'm not a pro shopper like you Janice!!

I am going to do a few Disney layouts soon, as soon as I've caught up with Face Painting and Sports Day ones!!

Where are the others Janice?

 

[Nick The Cat]

HI Janice and Fiona

I'm here, still scrapbooking away.

I've spent a fortune on stuff over the last couple of weeks and have just completed a layout for my Brownie Pack of our Jubilee party. I'm also in the middle of a school years book for DS and DD but give up every now and again as I'm fed up with scrapping with red and black heritage paper
Also on the go is my Disney album but have only completed 1996 - have DLP and 2 visits to WDW to do plus an entire album about DDs newest acquisition, a pony called Alfie.
I'll try and scan them sometime. I'm afraid they're not upto the standard of those on UKscappers but family and friends are impressed.lol

What are you all working on? Do you just pick out nice photos to scrap or try to do it logically/ chronologically?

Do you buy lots of stickers etc and then find you usually use mostly cardstock?

Anyone going to a crop soon? I'd love to but would need to work on a weekend pass.

 

[Sleepy Dragon]

Hi everyone, my layouts are coming on VERY slowly but I am quite pleased with the results so far.

I'm very excited though - we got a new PC for home last weekend with scanner and have subscribed for Virgin's internet use. I've been busy scanning everything (well almost) in sight and having great fun!!

Will have to try and scan a layout soon but not looking forward to stitching it togther or attaching it to an e-mail. Any pointers would be appreciated!!

Hope you're all well

Julie

 

[Janice]

Hi Julie, Christine and Fiona

First off Julie - let me give you this link which was posted on the UKScrappers some time back - it is where I scan my layouts into and then sort them out before posting on the site:

http://www.arcsoft.com/support/downloads/index.html

Just download the free Photo Studio package. If you need any other help with it, feel free to email me - I would be happy to "talk" you through it if you want.

Congratulations on the new PC - now there should be no stopping you!

I am not scrapping at the moment - what with moving and everything, my stuff is still all packed away, but I dont think it is going to stay there for much longer - I really need some therapy!!!

Up until we moved, I was just choosing my favourite photo's of my family and scrapping them - but I think once we have sorted out the office and I have my dedicated Scrapping area set up - I will get myself more organised and work out a logical system to work through.

I received my package from Mark yesterday - mainly all magazines and books - I'd missed quite a few editions of CK and Paperkuts - so now I have subscribed with him and will get them automatically. I got the new Becky Higgins Card Book as I make Cards as well and this is really good. I like it a lot, although it did get some bad (ish) reviews in one of the mags. I suppose though because there is a bigger market in the USA that there is probably a lot more of this type of thing on offer.

I am also working on putting all my layouts on a website, and on 2peas (eh Fiona? LOL) so as soon as they are up and running I will let you know.

We seem to have dwindled in numbers? Is Bev around?? Are you still with us Bev?

 

[caroley]

I'm still here. Not done much scrapping over the last couple of weeks. Too much else going on. I've got next week off before I start my new job so I'm going to sit and play with my photos and see what I can come up with. Now I've finally got some eyelets and tools, I'm having the urge to attack all my layouts with me 'ammer

I'd love to see what you've all been making.

 

[BevS97]

Hi Janice,

I just noticed the post- things have been a little hectic lately (to say the least).

I also have the shopping disease - in fact scarily I don't even look at the total anymore, just close my eyes and hope for the best.

I have been working on an album for my dad's 60th birthday, which I am planning on giving to him tonight - I was up until 1am the last 2 nights trying to finish it. It's not really done, but I am going to give it to him as it is, and then give him more layouts later. I am SO bored of scrapping with the same paper - the entire album uses the same range of paper (antique provocraft) in various patterns, and some of the patterns in the pack are a little hard to use - needlesstosay I am looking forward to scrapping something totally different for a while.

I've been setting up a scrapping area in our 'family room' which is probably the smallest room in the house, but is the area where we spend most of our time. We've got a sofa and tv in there, the computer, and now by scrapping area. The area isn't very big, just based around a folding table, but my supplies seem to spill over into all parts of the room - it seems Phil thinks that if I am going to scrap downstairs, then I should be tidy! Ha - I don't do tidy. I was thinking of using a computer desk that shut away into a wardrobe, so I could close the doors on the mess, but I thought the desk looked too small - looking at the mess I've generated over the last 2 evenings, it would have been way too small. I've got stuff all over the table, the sofa, the computer table, the bookcase.... not to mention scraps on the floor.


Christine - I have done both themed albums, and just pick the photo's that I fancy and scrap them. I prefer picking what ever I fancy, I think I do better layouts that way, and by the end of both my WDW album and Dads album I start to get bored and just do simple albums to get the books done. For this WDW trip I have bought 12x12 page protectors that actually hold 4x6 photo's, and I am planning on putting my photo's into the album, in there, unscrapped, so that I can share them with people, and then just scrap a few pages that take my fancy - if I could afford more page protectors then I might put all my photo's in them - but at £8 for 10 (each pp holds 10 pictures, so £8 for 100 pictures) -
Still, it's not a cheap option when I have 4 shoeboxes full of photo's!

As to the standard on UKScrappers- there are some 'professional' scrappers on there - Shimelle, Jane, MaryAnne are all published quite regularly. I know I can't hope to achieve that kind of level, I don't have the creativity or the patience, but I love seeing the 'advanced' layouts, so that I can maybe pick one or two ideas out of them to copy.

Julie, I use the same program that Janice has linked too - it's VERY easy to stitch using this program. there is a 'stitch' option, and it does all the work.


Fiona - you have convienently not mentioned your latest order! I love the punchkins. And your layouts on 2 peas are great - everyone should go have a look at themFiona's layouts Did you buy dog print paper, or stamp it, or draw them? They look great.

Carole - LOL at your 'ammer. I've gone right off eyelets, because I scrap late at night and the hammering is too noisy, but they do look cute - I'll have to do some daytime scrapping so I can use them.

Bev

 

[Fiona R from UK]

Bev,

You telltale!! Don't tell DH!! So now I can join in a swap as I have something a bit different, not just one papershaper daisy!!

My Punchkins are:
Body
Pyjamas (cuts down to make shirt, shorts, trousers, shoes, socks, and footless babygros too!!)
Dress (cuts down to make vest top, skirt and swimmimg costume)
Pigtail Hair (cuts down to plain boy/fringe)
Styled hair (trim to bobbed hair!!)
Boy tousled hair)

I just bought a paper shaper grass punch and it makes a great pony tail too!! A small heart punch cuts to make a round collar and sunglasses.

The children have had a great time playing with them too, I haven't had a good go yet, I need to make a full set of EPCOT International dolls!!

Has anyone else acquired any goodies?

I've forgotten about the fibres and buttons I bought from Jane Dean @ www.memorycrafts.com Great because not too much postage, I met Jane at a ScrapMagic crop in March. She goes to great lengths to make sure you are happy!! another UK supplier to add to our list!!

Bev, the paw print paper was from Wal Mart in Feb, in my big batch of "3 sheets for a $1."

Happy Scrapping everyone!

 

[Nick The Cat]

I'm afraid I went a bit mad last week and bought a Xyron 510, a new paper trimmer as the one I had bent 12" paper, footprint, flower and diamond punches plus more card etc. and loads of buttons (I love buttons on layouts)

Fiona, the punchkins sound wonderful, how big are they?

 

[Fiona R from UK]

Christine,

Thank goodness for that, off to tell DH how restrained I am with my purchases!! Having said that last week I bought fibres/buttons, Punchkins and Simple Scrapbooks, CK, MM Paper Doll Idea Book, a PS Grass punch, page protectors and a sheet of Fresh Cuts!!

I would have had a Crafts Beautiful subscription if the offer had been Xyron 510, like a few months ago, but now it's only the 500, which doesn't have the laminator. I have the 150 and find it very useful.

BTW the Punchkin body is 2", I was worried about how small they are but the children cope better than I, I have nearly made a Mexican Senorita this afternoon for my WS pages!!

 

[BevS97]

I'm hankering after a laminating zyron as well - I keep telling myself it would be really useful for other things too, to try and justify it - but haven't taken the plunge yet.

Which paper trimmer did you get Christine, my fiskers is hopeless - and that's my 2nd one, so I don't really want to get another one unless I'm sure it cuts straight.

Bev

 

[Nick The Cat]

Bev
Its a Fiskers one and it cuts a lot straighter that my last one (Maped) and when I was attempting to cut with scissors.

Fiona
I love the idea of all those dolls from different countries for WS layouts

 

[Janice]

I use a craft knife, a steel rule and a cutting mat, as well as my guillotine (which suddenly became the most valuable item of all my scrapbooking stuff! - cant believe I was considering throwing it out!)

Am I making hard work for myself by not having a Fiskars?

What does it do?

 

[BevS97]

Janice, if you have a guillotine then you are probably doing better than the rest of us.

A fiskars is just a paper trimmer, it is 'supposed' to cut straight lines like a guillotine, but it uses a small sliding blade, and it's possible to start in the center of the paper (like for cutting out the center of those mats), where as with a guillotine you have to start at the edge.

I have a very small CM guillotine, and I use that unless the paper is too big, or I need to cut the center - then it's back to the wonky fiskers (and I started with a Maped too...).
I have heard they have fixed the fiskars, but mine is just hopeless.

bev