| |
LynnGhahary
PeaAddict
PeaNut 34,449
March 2002
Posts: 1,283
Layouts: 336
 |  Posted: 12/14/2012 6:32:17 AM
Thought we'd do something a little fun this morning to kick off the weekend. Share your deepest, darkest, dirtiest (or not! LOL) scrapbook confessions. I'll start ...
I have an alphabet sticker obsession. I have no less than 300 (that is three zero zero!) different types of alphabet stickers, chipboard, etc. in my scrapbook stash. And I keep buying them, always in search of the perfect alphabet sticker. You can never have enough, right? 
Okay, who's next? |
|
|
Creating
Make a Wish!
PeaNut 254,376
March 2006
Posts: 149
Layouts: 0
Loc: Australia
 | Posted: 12/14/2012 7:31:22 AM
Good post Lynn. My obsession is machines - I have a Klic n Cut Element,a Cameo,a Slice, a Big Shot, Xyron digital printer (used it twice), I have a sewing machine but also an embroidery machine, all big ticket items - the list goes on. I'd be lovin your alphabets though!!
I am proud that I didn't buy the stamp maker and always wish I had bought the laser cutter!! | |
|
MrsKLewis
Will I ever get to Buckethead?!
PeaNut 530,601
November 2011
Posts: 491
Layouts: 0
Loc: Crimson Tide Country
 | Posted: 12/14/2012 8:01:33 AM
I spend more time shopping for scrappy stuff than actually scrapping 
I do have a two year old though, so most of the time the choice is sleep or scrap  and sleep wins usually. I keep telling myself its ok, that ill get more scrapping done when my baby gets older |
| "Blessed are the children of Scrapbookers, for they shall inherit the Scrapbooks." | |
|
|
tinkgumby
StuckOnPeas
PeaNut 281,136
October 2006
Posts: 2,262
Layouts: 6
Loc: DFW, TX
 | Posted: 12/14/2012 8:04:08 AM
I could do one about my stash or buying habits, but I've done that before.
So today my confession is that I'm much more of a starter than a finisher. I have - let me count - 14 unfinished albums (though a few are ongoing), not counting the ones I WANT to do and haven't started. 
In my defense, though, I have finished a whole lot of others. |
|
|
KBPea
Ancient Ancestor of Pea
PeaNut 395,153
October 2008
Posts: 9,916
Layouts: 135
Loc: Here
 | Posted: 12/14/2012 8:19:17 AM
Mine is that occasionally my motivation for hosting or attending an event or activity is that it will make a nice scrapbook page. Hey, if it gets me out to see people and try new things that isn't so bad, right?
I also sometimes plan my outfits accordingly. I'll think to myself "Oh, there is a photo of me wearing this same sweater on my 2011 Thanksgiving layout, I'd better wear something different this year."
I know I cannot be the only Pea out there who is guilty of either of these! | |
|
grakka
PeaNut
PeaNut 397,370
October 2008
Posts: 388
Layouts: 0
| Posted: 12/14/2012 8:20:57 AM
Stamps and more stamps! I own tons and hardly ever use them and guess what I ask for more for Christmas! | |
|
MerryMom937
PeaFixture
PeaNut 472,567
June 2010
Posts: 3,085
Layouts: 0
 | Posted: 12/14/2012 8:24:17 AM
I love the roller date stamps. I have bought nearly everything released since the late 1980's from office supply stores and scrapping stores. | |
|
arelys1228
PeaFixture
PeaNut 422,247
May 2009
Posts: 3,234
Layouts: 161
Loc: Queens NYC
| Posted: 12/14/2012 8:25:42 AM
i have 42 12x12 iris boxes on the overhead closet in my bedroom talk about dusty LOL |
| Love Peace Health and Happiness to you...Rosey | |
|
|
Gnakersten
PeaNut
PeaNut 522,298
September 2011
Posts: 84
Layouts: 0
| Posted: 12/14/2012 9:03:06 AM
I totally plan events with scrapbooking in mind....and it's getting worse.
I confess that I have a shopping problem....I get truly depressed if I don't get a scrappy package everyday...even if its adhesive...I need to get something in my mail box. I need to attend a support group. | |
|
SDeven
Love Letters Pea
PeaNut 65,852
January 2003
Posts: 28,212
Layouts: 380
Loc: Nashville, TN!
 | Posted: 12/14/2012 9:26:03 AM
|
|
|
bgwaltne
PeaNut
PeaNut 248,801
February 2006
Posts: 96
Layouts: 0
Loc: Southern Indiana
|  Posted: 12/14/2012 9:55:09 AM
"i have 42 12x12 iris boxes on the overhead closet in my bedroom talk about dusty LOL"
Love Peace Health and Happiness to you...Rosey
*********************************************************************
This squared...oh my!
Bonnie | |
|
KBPea
Ancient Ancestor of Pea
PeaNut 395,153
October 2008
Posts: 9,916
Layouts: 135
Loc: Here
| Posted: 12/14/2012 10:17:23 AM
SDeven, that link you posted is hilarious. The last one is so me.
I can't get a direct link, but it says "I <3 to scrap and I post my LOs online for others to see, but I don't talk about it to my non-scrapping friends, and I hide it from my co-workers."
LOL. I've always been "in the closet" when it comes to scrapbooking, except to my immediate family and boyfriend. I don't have an "interests" section on my resume because scrapbooking is my main hobby and I don't want to talk about it at job interviews. I'm trying to work on that (I'll still leave it off my resume though). | |
|
journey fan
"Rome! By all means, Rome."
PeaNut 308,186
April 2007
Posts: 11,528
Layouts: 0
Loc: California Coast
| Posted: 12/14/2012 10:23:09 AM
My lack of photo/memory organization keeps me from scrapbooking many times |
|
|
northcarmen
StuckOnPeas
PeaNut 37,419
May 2002
Posts: 2,013
Layouts: 65
Loc: La Ronge, Saskatchewan, Canada
|  Posted: 12/14/2012 10:57:31 AM
The existence of scrapbooking stores and a community of like-minded crafters was a deciding factor for me in choosing a foreign missions field, and it made me feel much more warmly toward our future supervisor when he asked me to please bring my Project Life albums with me to share with the staff....
Carmen. |
| "Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past." - James Joyce | |
|
|
Shih Tzu Mommy
Million dollar camera, 10 dollar lock!
PeaNut 224,352
September 2005
Posts: 23,525
Layouts: 0
Loc: Right here
| Posted: 12/14/2012 11:17:04 AM
I buy EVERY SINGLE MS PATP. It is almost a sickness. But I do use them and not just squirrel them away. |
Dog people are a special breed! | |
|
|
nancyscrappin
PeaNut
PeaNut 559,204
June 2012
Posts: 48
Layouts: 0
Loc: Kentucky
| Posted: 12/14/2012 11:22:59 AM
I buy a lot of supplies, but never seem to use them. I don't have a two year old to blame it on! waiting for Monday's Santa sack 5!! | |
|
woodysbetty
BucketHead
PeaNut 363,998
February 2008
Posts: 814
Layouts: 1
Loc: Maryland
 | Posted: 12/14/2012 11:23:40 AM
Good grief everything I must have everything Tim Holtz puts out.....even the scary stuff!!!! Crazy!!! |
|
|
Doe-Doe
Georgia Peach
PeaNut 12,636
March 2001
Posts: 5,078
Layouts: 0
Loc: Somewhere in Grandma Land!
 | Posted: 12/14/2012 11:35:18 AM
I am a procrastinator. I'll start something, then I'll stop before I'm finished. I'm really trying to get better. Plus I really needed to organize my photos.
That feels better getting it off my chest. |
|
|
silvercamaro77
PeaNut
PeaNut 556,424
June 2012
Posts: 76
Layouts: 0
| Posted: 12/14/2012 11:48:46 AM
I'm not sure I like Kraft colored anything. I want to like it but everytime I've considered using it or buying it I always pass. maybe it's just not for me | |
|
luv my son
PeaAddict
PeaNut 95,467
July 2003
Posts: 1,262
Layouts: 0
Loc: N. Cal
 | Posted: 12/14/2012 11:59:10 AM
I'm obsessed with shopping. I am home with a neck injury and I've been a shopping (online) fool. It's an addiction. There should be a 12 step program for scrapbook shopping. | |
|
asmart99
PeaAddict
PeaNut 294,784
February 2007
Posts: 1,383
Layouts: 9
Loc: California dreamin'
| Posted: 12/14/2012 12:37:04 PM
I can relate to ALL of these confessions! Although I don't have 300 alphabets. Only 100+...
Since 7/14 I have placed 18 orders with 2 peas. 18!!! I have a shopping addiction. I could scrap for a long time and never need paper or embellishments, or stamps, or ink, or mist, or washi, or wood veneers, or stickers, or cricut carts (I have a 100 or so and never use them), or sketch books, or buttons, or brads.... You get the idea! |
|
|
2bzdinks
PeaNut
PeaNut 461,731
March 2010
Posts: 223
Layouts: 0
Loc: SF Bay Area
 | Posted: 12/14/2012 12:55:42 PM
I keep an emergency scrapbook tool kit in the trunk of my car. 
It's a plastic pencil box filled with my basics along with an old Fiskars gray/orange trimmer. Both are hidden in a box beneath a spare jacket, tennis shoes, and an umbrella. I can't tell you how many times someone mentions "scrapping" and I'm there and ready to go!!! Then I get the strangest reaction, "I can't believe you carry scrapbook stuff in your car!!" |
|
|
KBPea
Ancient Ancestor of Pea
PeaNut 395,153
October 2008
Posts: 9,916
Layouts: 135
Loc: Here
| Posted: 12/14/2012 1:09:50 PM
I'm not sure I like Kraft colored anything. I want to like it but everytime I've considered using it or buying it I always pass. maybe it's just not for me
I keep an emergency scrapbook tool kit in the trunk of my car.
It's a plastic pencil box filled with my basics along with an old Fiskars gray/orange trimmer. Both are hidden in a box beneath a spare jacket, tennis shoes, and an umbrella. I can't tell you how many times someone mentions "scrapping" and I'm there and ready to go!!! Then I get the strangest reaction, "I can't believe you carry scrapbook stuff in your car!!"
This is awesome. I wish I had friends who scrapbook so I could also have a use for an emergency scrapbook kit. | |
|
danielle_the_bee
50 Peas in a pod.
PeaNut 546,965
March 2012
Posts: 50
Layouts: 10
| Posted: 12/14/2012 1:14:17 PM
I can't load my ATG. I bring it to my husband whenever it is empty and he does it. I don't know why but I ALWAYS put the tape roll in upside down, get confused, and then bring it to him. It's good to marry an engineer. |
|
|
zoeybug
BucketHead
PeaNut 425,771
June 2009
Posts: 686
Layouts: 7
Loc: Dallas
| Posted: 12/14/2012 1:15:56 PM
| |
|
2bzdinks
PeaNut
PeaNut 461,731
March 2010
Posts: 223
Layouts: 0
Loc: SF Bay Area
| Posted: 12/14/2012 1:22:39 PM
KBPea: My emergency SB toolkit has saved me many times when I attended a crop and I've forgotten my scrapbook tools! I'm loading up my car with my photos and supplies while I'm mentally checking off things in my head. Pillow-check, snacks-check, coffee-check, chalks-check, cellphone-check, special embellies, paper, a kit in case I run out of things to scrap and I can't forget to bring my checkbook, etc. When I arrive at the crop I remember my toolbag is sitting in the garage and it's too far to go back for it. | |
|
GRACIESCRAPS
PeaNut
PeaNut 543,634
February 2012
Posts: 143
Layouts: 22
Loc: San Antonio, Tx
| Posted: 12/14/2012 2:07:19 PM
I have scrapbook goodies shipped to my office, so my husband doesn't know how often I order, I feel guilty as to how often I'm ordering stuff. If I do order to the house it's usually a big package I can't sneak back in the house. Unless I can break it down and smugle in the scrapbook contraband | |
|
melonhead
BucketHead
PeaNut 224,298
September 2005
Posts: 948
Layouts: 18
Loc: Florida
| Posted: 12/14/2012 2:54:01 PM
All this crafting love and I don't even own a glue gun. |
"If you don't like your neck in photos, crop it out! Who needs to see all those chins anyway!"
Everyday Life in Florida
Ellen in sunny south Florida | |
|
|
cengland
AlienGreenPea
PeaNut 508,466
May 2011
Posts: 531
Layouts: 132
Loc: Sweden
| Posted: 12/14/2012 3:04:29 PM
Okay, my turn.
When I went to pick up my new Swedish ID card a few months ago, the girl was going to cut up my old one and I asked her if I could have the pieces back so I could scrapbook them.
But it gets better - turns out she's also a scrapbooker and totally understood and said I could have the old card intact for my LO! *LOL* I chuckled all the way home. | |
|
scrappycass
You Wanna Peas of Me?
PeaNut 413,587
February 2009
Posts: 5,637
Layouts: 42
Loc: Western New York
| Posted: 12/14/2012 3:25:20 PM
buying more stamps and paper like there's no tomorrow. lol. |
Chocolate......who needs a reason?!
| |
|
|
saraheliza19
PeaNut
PeaNut 565,879
September 2012
Posts: 124
Layouts: 1
Loc: Michigan
| Posted: 12/14/2012 3:30:33 PM
I have never actually put a lo together. I have more than enough supplies, I plan the page out in my head, I know what the journaling will say. I have even gathered my supplies and was*ready*, but when the time comes to actually make the page I flake out. I think I am afraid of adhesive
I always find something that needs to be done right then. | |
|
FLCindy
Ancient Ancestor of Pea
PeaNut 154,236
June 2004
Posts: 5,089
Layouts: 0
Loc: South Florida
 | Posted: 12/14/2012 3:37:42 PM
i have 42 12x12 iris boxes on the overhead closet in my bedroom talk about dusty LOL
What we really want to know: Is there anything in them? |
Cheers from Southeast Sunny Florida!
Cindy
 | |
|
|
StayingFocused
StuckOnPeas
PeaNut 5,208
July 2000
Posts: 2,769
Layouts: 20
Loc: Midwest
| Posted: 12/14/2012 3:44:22 PM
Bonnie---surely you mean 42 doubled and not squared??????
I'm not confessing a thing ;P |
|
|
e_doe
PeaNut
PeaNut 525,528
October 2011
Posts: 306
Layouts: 0
| Posted: 12/14/2012 4:41:30 PM
Mine isn't really a secret, but it is embarrassing:
I have scrapbook performance anxiety. Sure, the first glance at a new paper pattern is exhilarating. Choosing what to go with that paper is absolutely intoxicating. But I get it all home and strip it all down, and...I just can't finish the act.
| |
|
ashazamm
BucketHead
PeaNut 217,769
August 2005
Posts: 575
Layouts: 18
Loc: NY
| Posted: 12/14/2012 5:00:33 PM
My confession: I didn't start my DD!!! I feel sick about it because I bought all the supplies and was ready to go. But then I got really sick with the flu. Everyday I mean to start it but never do. I have been taking pictures every day though. I'm thinking this weekend I want to try to get caught up. Wish me luck! | |
|
seasonscraps
PeaAddict
PeaNut 113,955
October 2003
Posts: 1,446
Layouts: 17
| Posted: 12/14/2012 5:44:34 PM
Right now, I think I have more supplies to donate or give away than I actually plan to use. |
|
|
NativeNewYorker
black eyed pea with soul!
PeaNut 15,878
May 2001
Posts: 24,966
Layouts: 70
Loc: LI, NY
| Posted: 12/14/2012 7:07:27 PM
I have never bought an entire collection of anything. I would rather hunt down various lines of papers from different companies that coordinate well. That makes me positively giddy. |
|
|
bgwaltne
PeaNut
PeaNut 248,801
February 2006
Posts: 96
Layouts: 0
Loc: Southern Indiana
| Posted: 12/14/2012 7:32:00 PM
StayingFocused, Okay. I fibbed just a little and it is more than doubled,not squared. But there is a whole former scrapbook room in those Iris boxes and it really seems like "42 squared" when I need to find something.
Bonnie | |
|
Just Me the Pea
PeaNut
PeaNut 468,574
May 2010
Posts: 379
Layouts: 0
| Posted: 12/14/2012 7:41:43 PM
I am an alphabet addict. I own about 30 Sizzix, QK, ZipeMate, and Cuttlebug alphabets. I have about 20 Cricut carts with fonts on them. Also have a huge Ziplok bag full of letter stickers and another huge Ziplok bag full of letter templates (remember those?). OY VEY! | |
|
~crisann~
AncestralPea
PeaNut 302,923
March 2007
Posts: 4,145
Layouts: 47
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA.
| Posted: 12/14/2012 7:47:04 PM
my input far exceeds my output. i like to start things - not so much finish them. i like to buy, but not use... |
organize your stuff challenge (master thread).
dysfunctionally-functional
and yes, he did use the ladder...
"some day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." -sigmund freud
there are some things that you should just not have to hear for the first time on facebook.
"our lives at times seem a study in contrast... love & hate, birth & death, right & wrong... everything seen in absolutes of black & white. too often we are not aware that it is the shades of grey that add depth & meaning to the starkness of those extremes" -ansel adams
crisann
| |
|
|
Miss Kathy
PeaNut
PeaNut 309,431
April 2007
Posts: 333
Layouts: 1
| Posted: 12/14/2012 7:54:53 PM
Other than having lots of machines...I think I have all the other "confession" listed here. I shop too much, have too many supplies, have hundreds of alphas, take forever to finish a layout and have more projects planned than I'll ever get done. But I do love this hobby. | |
|
IScrapCrap
PeaAddict
PeaNut 570,639
October 2012
Posts: 1,050
Layouts: 0
Loc: pea formerly known as GIPfunny
| Posted: 12/14/2012 8:12:14 PM
After I had my third child, I completely skipped a year of printing photos and scrapbooking without making the realization until months later.
I figured out years later my first ds has no scrapbook pages from age 2-3. Same year I had my dd. Hmmm. I see a pattern here.
I like to scrap by themes as much as possible. I don't like to put a lot of thought into the design of each page.
That being said, I have banned myself from Christmas and Halloween themed papers. | |
|
PinkIsMyFavColor
Loving Life
PeaNut 227,373
October 2005
Posts: 8,644
Layouts: 71
Loc: Utah
| Posted: 12/14/2012 9:21:10 PM
Paper, paper, and more paper. It is truly embarrassing how much paper I have.
As an example, I went through it a few months ago and got rid of....a stack over 4 ft. high. That was the paper I didn't want any more, and just a fraction of what I actually have.
On the flip side, I do actually use it. |
|
|
AshleyCrafty
BucketHead
PeaNut 558,537
June 2012
Posts: 678
Layouts: 20
Loc: Greenville, SC
| Posted: 12/14/2012 10:15:59 PM
OK. This is embarrassing.
I love to scrapbook but I don't take pictures. I bought a new camera when I got back into scrapbooking and maybe have 10 photos I would scrap. (it's been a year and a half)
Also...Me and my DH are Homebodies(?). We are very rarely around anybody, We spend most of our time @ home on he couch and have maybe three friends between the two of us. I am quickly running out of things to scrap.
(Told you it was embarrassing) |
Check out my blog Paper For People --I Love Visitors!!
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which
ones to keep." Scott Adams.
2013 Goals--
1)150 Layouts-- 28 Layouts completed
2)40 Cards-- 5 Card Completed
3)Update my Blog (at least) Weekly-- 10 weeks completed
| |
|
|
DebbiePierce
PeaNut
PeaNut 515,147
July 2011
Posts: 631
Layouts: 0
Loc: MS
| Posted: 12/14/2012 10:57:17 PM
I just cant get motivated to jump back in! I think if I had a scrappy friend to scrap with it would help me get stuff done. No one understands my scrapping. And the few people Ive met that scrap on their own are too weird for me (which is realllllly funny because Im weird enough all by myself) I own far too much paper, alpha stickers, glitter, and way too many photos.
I want to scrap soooo bad but then I have time to do it and suddenly the recliner looks *so* inviting. Someone should send me to my studio to punish me. |
|
|
Momma_Paparazzi
PeaNut
PeaNut 494,372
January 2011
Posts: 460
Layouts: 138
Loc: Wisconsin
| Posted: 12/14/2012 11:16:29 PM
Oh Lynn, I had to chuckle at the alpha thing. I too am addicted to them. Though, I don't think I have that many.
I have a box of unfinished LO's and more kits than I could ever finish up! Well, it is a lot for me. My 4 bins in the bottom of my expedit are full and they are now stacked in front of it. | |
|
VirginiaGomes
BucketHead
PeaNut 267,237
July 2006
Posts: 597
Layouts: 0
Loc: Easton, Massachusetts
| Posted: 12/15/2012 12:42:57 AM
About 6 years ago I spent over $8000.00 on scrapbooking supplies alone.
6 years later I only have a handful of layouts and I am still shopping. |
|
|
ElsaBelle
California Dreaming
PeaNut 153,156
June 2004
Posts: 11,991
Layouts: 39
Loc:
| Posted: 12/15/2012 1:00:00 AM
I spend more time pinning and looking for inspiration than actually scrapping. I'm hoping to work on that next year. |
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2012 layouts: 62
December 2012 layouts: 14
2012 mini albums: 4
January 2013 layouts: 23
April 2013 layouts: 8
May 2013: 19
2013 mini albums: 1 | |
|
|
msntlm
BucketHead
PeaNut 37,907
May 2002
Posts: 746
Layouts: 40
Loc: Texas
| Posted: 12/15/2012 2:06:45 AM
I have TWO huge Rubbermaid totes full of layouts that aren't in albums. I have the los standing up, in protectors, all the way across and tons laying flat on top. These are in the garage.
Don't know why I haven't just bought albums, but I keep putting it off. | |
|
giraffemom
StuckOnPeas
PeaNut 17,898
July 2001
Posts: 2,412
Layouts: 43
Loc: Microsoft Central
| Posted: 12/15/2012 3:20:39 AM
Uh, I rarely actually take photos
carol  |
|
|
