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by hilari ford | |
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Stampers vs. Scrappers
Attention All Stampers And Scrapbookers: Can’t We All Just Get Along? |
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Disclaimer: Expression is not planning to become a scrapbooking magazine.
Please! Put down your pitchforks and torches and step away from the magazine ... |
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| Want to start an argument? Get a room full of die-hard rubber stampers together — and mention scrapbooking. The fur will fly and it will get ugly pretty quick. And typically for me, I’ve been right there in the thick of things, wondering how this world of ducks-with-hats and letters-with-dots-on-the-ends got to be so dang popular. So I thought I’d take a hard look at scrapbooking and see what all the fuss is about. Round One I started with my scrapbooking friend. I attended her late crop-party at her home that she advertised on the Internet. Similar to my experiences with stampers, scrapbookers are eager to open their homes and share their knowledge with complete strangers. Also similar to stampers, scrapbookers arrive with stuff. It’s pretty much all stuff we recognize: scissors, punches, papers (tons of papers!) and more. It seems to me that the scrapbookers are a tad more organized. Those little cropper-hoppers have a place for everything and everything is most-assuredly in its place. Where’s a stamper to put the Barbie shoes, eucalyptus tree bark, the jar of wheat paste for making paste paper and the ball of twine? Our hopper is really more of a junk trunk. We spent the evening experimenting with different pages and talking. I found it interesting one woman wanted to duplicate the pages in one of the magazines, right down to the colors. Her friend, though, just wanted to get her pictures in an album before her kid graduated from college. She wasn’t worried if her cutting was a bit lopsided or her pages lacked embellishment. It was fun seeing two totally different approaches to creating. |
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| There is more Art-Full Life in the November/December issue...
• Bacic Technique |
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