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confused about what seems to be 3 different worlds

I went to my local scrapbooking store today....a non chain retailer to see if i could find a couple of items without waiting for shipping thru on-line stores.

They didn't know the brand name Scor-Tape, they had no idea what project life was, or who Becky Higgins is. They had very little in the was of destress inks, stains, or Tim Holtz's, had know idea what Dyllusion ink was by Ranger, and I saw no stickles at all.

This store opened around 1993, I ask. The staff on duty stated they had worked their 17 years.

SO, heres my confusion are there really 3 different scrapbooking worlds .... the retail market divided into ma and pa stores vs chain stores, and then the on-line market or am I just weird, crazy or both.

Will have to research this confusion further.....stay tuned.

FATHER"S DAY CARDS X 3ready to sell

Hi everyone,

Finished 3 cards with altered mailing envelopes, and they are up for sale. Had fun making these with stuff I found during my thrift store shopping adventures.
Each card is $8.00 to buy and 3.00 for me to ship it to you. Card will cost approx. 2.00 to mail in US. Leave me a comment if interested and I'll get back to you. All sales thru pay pal, I will send an invoice to your email address you give me.
Happy Crafting
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Pinkie peachy tag reads .... vintage classic auto. Color of tag match's variegated colors in trim. Right upper corner has a pinned on old key.

Pretty feathers borer the paper on the lower half.
Bottom of card has Asian money coins added for interest.



Card comes with 4 tags which you can write a love note on. Or each kid
can sign they name on a tag.
Tags fit inside in pockets around black area.



 Right side brown area reads.....YOU ARE LOVED which is stamped in gold ink. White area reads....i cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. --S.Freud

This card has an old fashion bike charm added plus 2 word charms "dream" and" hope".



Inside has hearts... cut out of traffic sign paper.

        I love shopping at thrift stores. I found some type of paper for under wallpaper which is heavy and stiff until you wet it then its soft and pliable. Then I found 6 old car molds. I really have know idea how these are meant to be used. However I put my wet paper over the top of the mold and then embrossed and de-brossed the car image onto the paper using embrossing tools of various sizes. Then using a heat gun I dried the paper while still sitting on the mold. After dry I took the paper off the mold and used current techniquies with distressing ink to bring out the highs and lows of the picture.Then I made greeting cards with the pictures on the front. Simple over all but really fun using found stuff from my shopping adventures.                    

a disappointment for sure.

You know the old saying ... measure twice and cut once.....well i didn't, and  in the final step of an important project, (oh, and of course at the final moment i had to work on the project before using it as a gift). I discovered my handmade scrapbook cover wasn't wide enough (left to right) for the project life pocket pages I had purchased for the album. I used Kathy Orta's hidden hinge system, attacked my pages to the binding using scor-tape and done. I WAS FEELING SO CRAFTY !!

Then I closed the scrapbook to admirer my work on the front one more time, and OH NO .... DA** IT !!!, the plastic pages were hanging out beyond the cover. It wasn't a lot but enough that I saw it for sure.

I normally believe there are no mistakes in crafting just surprises along the way, that make the project design more challenging. BUT this surprise caught me completely off guard and out of time.

If I had had more time I'm sure I could have met this surprise with a solution, but all I could do was bag it up and go.

A hard leason to learn again.

happy crafting.

Well I know I'm missing in action here on the oh blog, but I'm doing all kinds of crafting....pictures coming soon.

Went shopping a couple of times and found some great buys for future projects. In fact some will show up for father's day.

Hope you are all turning into the paperclipping round table at paperclipping.com. Noell and Nancy and guest make it an educational, and informative show, and IZZY makes it fun and exciting. Its a live radio type show, but on line, I LOVE listening while crafting. Podcast cast available on i tunes as well.

Summer CHA in Chicago is coming soon so that means MORE new products will be coming soon. heck, I haven't got everything I want from Jan CHA, but that's OK we always want more.... don't we crafters.

Happy Crafting All !!!!!

i'm still here...

hi
i haven't left the planet just been working on projects to post, so stay tuned more is coming soon.
got some great stuff at my local thrift store for projects.....just love shopping for surprises and cheap finds.
later
happy crafting

MY 3 DOGS !!!!!

Hiccup the 1st--boston mix
Koby-- yorkie mix



Griffin my mostly hairless ch crested and kerry blue terrior mix.



hi.
Its been a fun and productive day for me with my new venture. My son was here and helped a lot with computer stuff. (THANKS KIDDO)
My blog is here as you can see, so that was good.
And, ( drum roll please) I now have a You Tube Channel which is very exciting , and I made and post two videos.
yaaaa for me!!!!
My first video is a silent show of my 20 corsages I made for teacher appreciation day. The second video is set to music (I got braver), and shows the butterfly mini album I made for a dear friend.

PLEASE BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY I HAVEN'T A CLUE WHAT I'M DOING ON THE COMPUTER  BUT ITS WORKING AND I'M SHOCKED AS HECK.

My YOU TUBE SITE IS ccby3dogs....whole name was to long, but I'm OK with the abbreviated version.

well I've had such a great day I'm off to bed.
happy scraping !