Any scrappers around?

[Katherine Brengle]

That's my main hobby, though I dabble in painting and occasionally other little craft projects.

:D

[Gormy Cuss]

1. There's at least one over in the Ancestry/Genie group

fudge stripe cookays is her name. I don't know if she's wandered over here yet.
Do you use family history in your scrapping?


(I make scrappy quilts and at first thought that's what you meant. Scrapbooks don't exist in my craft vocabulary, LOL)

[Katherine Brengle]

2. I'm not really into genealogy, just me and my hubby and

our daughter, some old family photos but it's more about preserving our memories for when we're older, not digging back into the past.

:)

[fudge stripe cookays]

5. And here I am!

:hi:

Let's see some layouts ya'll!

[Katherine Brengle]

10. I almost forgot about this thread!

I have a bunch of layouts in a gallery on sb.com --

http://www.scrapbook.com/myplace/index.php?mod=galleries&u=130007

:D

[wavesofeuphoria]

3. I'm a scrapper

I make lots and lots of albums (and need to make even more .. so many photos!). It coincides with my photography addiction :) ... I mostly use CM albums and papers and such but also have a Wishblade and use it a good bit as well. My style is fairly clean ... not much into the lumpy bumpys or fibers and such ... instead make faux paper versions if I do want those. I like the Becky Higgins sketches and I'm a font fanatic :)

So far I've completed about 24 albums .. about 16 of those are family ones .. the rest have been gift albums.

I also like card making too ... dabble a little in watercolors and chalking and embossing.

[fudge stripe cookays]

9. Lumpy bumpys rule!

:headbang:

I loosened up so much when I started using fibers and fabric in my stuff. I was really uncomfortable with them at first-- feeling out of my element, but I had gotten into a rut, and wanted to try something new.

Now I LOVE fibers. I also love checking out antique stores when I travel. I look for old ephemera from the areas where our family lived, and incorporating them into my designs....postcards, sheet music, little boy scout booklets, covers from local maps, play programs ....all kids of other nostalgic doo-dads.

[Katherine Brengle]

14. I'm so bad...

I'll use almost anything. My most recent layout used duct tape... I'm not a real stickler about safety, but most of my stuff is a/l free.

Count me in as a member of the lumpy bumpy fan club lol.

[Katherine Brengle]

11. Wow!

I have... 7 or 8, all still currently being worked on lol. And a couple of empties waiting for pages when I come up with some ideas.

BUT - I've only been doing it for less than a year so, not too bad.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Just do scrapbooks from my vacations. They take sooo long.

[Katherine Brengle]

13. Yeah they do --

but I feel compelled to make them. I don't use every photo I take, but I try to cover time (in an everyday sense) and important events -- mostly because I have very little in the way of recorded memories from my childhood and it always made me sad, so I want to have record of the rest of my life, and I want my little girl to have what I didn't :D.

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. Here is one of my favorite layouts that I did...

This lady was a spinster who broke her hip when she was young (fell off a horse) and never walked again. She was an amazing seamstress and loved to crochet, embroider and tat. Her name was Clara, but they called her "Aunt Tat."







I thought the lace looked like her collar in the top photo, and had that crocheted look about it, so I tea-stained it to make it look old.

I LOVE figuring out how to make my stuff look old and nostalgic. Most of my stuff is all genealogy, but I have started a book about me-- year by year. I work on that when I feel like loosening up a bit.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Very nice.

[fudge stripe cookays]

8. Thanks!

I have 8 books from my Smith family. These babies go with me when I travel for my book so all the cousins can see how we're related. They've been really popular!

:D

[Katherine Brengle]

12. That's really pretty -

I suck with vintage photos, you did a really nice job here.

[eridani]

15. Hey, I get in fights on GD all the time!

Oh, you mean the other kind. :)

[fudge stripe cookays]

16. Ba DOOM chhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

:D

I'm depressed. Lately this has become the knitting forum. Very few scrappy sorts of threads. :-(

[Maine-ah]

17. ok, so a little late to the game here....

I just started my first scrapbook. I'll post the pics at some point.

What I would like to know is:

where are the best and cheapest supply places? Websites preferably since all I have around here is wally world. :hi:

[fudge stripe cookays]

18. I actually like...

the little local places, because they carry different fibers and little metal toys and doo-dads than some of the chains.

Jo-Ann Fabrics, Hobby Lobby, or Michael's usually have decent packages of multiple colors and types of paper. When Hobby Lobby and Jo-Anns discontinue stuff, you can get good sale prices on items like stamps.

If you get any of the scrapbook magazines (check the magazine rack at Borders or Barnes and Noble in the craft/sewing/knitting section), there are usually ads in the back for lots of local scrapbook shops.

Keep in mind that I usually stick withh earth tones and classic-flavored ephemera for all my family history stuff. Here is one of my favorite places for getting all kinds of nifty vintage flavored stuff:
http://www.artchixstudio.com/mall/shopindex.asp

Free fonts:
http://www.scrapvillage.com/fonts.htm

Lots of great stamps here:
http://www.stampfrancisco.com/Search.asp

http://www.rubbermonger.com/decoration.htm

http://www.stampersanonymous.com/ (and other goodies)

Have fun!
fsc :hi: