2016 is finally over. It was a pretty brutal year for many of us for many reasons. What are your 2017 crafting resolutions? Mine is to use more of my stash and buy less.
I got a few crafting goodies for Christmas including a MISTI, a 132 set of Prismas and some Tim Holtz dies. How about you guys?
Please feel free to let me know in the comments what kinds of things you'd like to see discussed here, I am always listening!
CHA around the corner. Amy Tangerine line looks like all her other lines. Still loving Prima. I am doing more mixed media scrapbooking instead of traditional. Anybody else incorporate some mixed media art journal/scrapbookng into their art life....?????
ReplyDeleteI love mixed media but it now seems an excuse for product vomit by Design teams rather than meaningful art or pieces folks can make and use.
DeleteI do, and I love Prima! I agree with Amy Tangerine. Project Life is getting old too, all the card sets are starting to look alike!
ReplyDeletePrima is overpriced and way too fussy for me. Everything their DT makes looks like overstuffed French candy boxes. Frank Garcia's brown-toned vintage collections dominate the product lines and they're very monotonous.
DeleteBecky is pushing the Project Life App and now their own Photobooks, the physical PL is taking a backseat. I have way too much physical product to ever go digital.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading comments on here I had to go look at 2peas refugees - 18 people viewing scrapbooking, 284 viewing NSBR - I had to google the acronym first! And a great crafting haul Admin - I got a whole load of Couture du Jour from Trimcraft for my cardmaking as the local "shabby chic" women love it, a set of non branded alcohol markers to pad out my ageing promakers, a digi set from Font Bundles and a PArtridge in a Pear Tree .... Happy 2017 folks.
ReplyDeleteQuestion, I see that Richard Garay has products for sale at Simon Says Stamp (including his own die cutting machine!) but it looks like he is still with Fun Stampers Journey. If you were a member of FSJ, wouldn't you feel like his products at SSS and anywhere else compete?
ReplyDeleteNotice Scrapbook and Cards Magazine is just like Creating Keepsakes. Same old boring designers!
ReplyDeleteHmmmmm... PTI re-releasing "limited edition" kits???
ReplyDeleteI have never cared for PTI's stamps and I've heard horror stories about their customer service.
DeleteDoes anyone know who is filming/making videos for Creativation?
ReplyDeleteScrap Time has good videos
ReplyDeleteI thought craft test dummies were also filming. I have been seeing Ellen Hudson put up mini videos on Instagram
ReplyDeleteI've been watching Scrapbook.com CHA videos today. Just when I think I don't need any more scrap crap they pull me back in...
ReplyDeleteElennah keeps posting about a spending freeze/use your stash but I saw her post she bought the entire Doodlebug Cream & Sugar collection "for her planner". What a wacko.
ReplyDeleteUm I order it and haven't paid for it yet. *Reading is fundamental. I will pay for it in March. Thanks for keeping track of me, though.
DeleteLOL
DeleteTrue, 7:03 AM.
DeleteReading is fundamental for me too! I orderED it. Proofreading is not a skill I have mastered apparently.
ReplyDeleteHow are you going to use that whole collection in a planner?
DeleteI will use a lot of it. I use my planning supplies a fair amount. I use washi, stickers, I have made laminated dividers and things. I haven't stamped and I am bad for not doing that yet. I intend to do that, too. I switch out my inserts, do journaling (it is very therapeutic), keep a food journal (not faithfully), balance a chequebook and if I got motivated keep up with my exercise inserts. At the rate I am going I will not make it very far, but the fact is I use the planners all the time. They are just fun.
DeleteDoes anyone have the scoop on My Minds Eye. Are they circling the toilet? MME hasn't updated their blog since December and no word on any new releases...What's the scoop?????
ReplyDeleteMME has been posting on Twitter.
ReplyDeleteand Instagram
DeleteAnother LSS, Stampers Corner in Elk Grove CA, is closing soon. A snotty staff, poor customer service and overpriced classes did it in. Adding mail order last year couldn't save the business.
ReplyDeleteReportedly, over 1,200 LSS's have closed in the US.
In scrapbooking's peak in the early 2000's I had 6 scrapbook stores nearby. The last one closed 3 years ago, now there are none. I just have Hobby Lobby, Michael's and JoAnns but they aren't the same.
ReplyDeleteAgreed about the big boxes 12:20 AM, but here aren't even any of those where I live. However, there are plenty of them in the region where Stampers Corner was. They closed today after only a week or so notice that they were going out of business. In desperation, final markdowns were lowered to 80% and their microwave was sold for $20. Pathetic because they'd been in business for years.
ReplyDeleteA lot of the LSS closures can't be blamed on Web stores. Ripoff classes taught by no-name crafters, snotty sales clerks and bad customer service are what did them in. There were high hopes for a LSS less than 10 minutes from my house, but it folded in under a year because of its unbearable staff.