PRT069 – Everything Could Use a Rhinestone

When ever I see Anna is on it makes me So happy… I love you Anna, and yes, in the creepy stoker way… ;P

Great show! I have a generally rule that the per item price of an embellishment should be under $0.25. I rarely spend more than that on a package of embellishments and try to really keep it under $0.10/item. I will whip out my phone in the scrapbook store to see how much each embellishment will actually cost before putting it in my cart. I want to have the freedom to use a lot of embellishments on a page if I want, but I don’t want it to cost me a fortune either.

My go to embellishment is ribbon. I use ribbon on almost every layout.

I think Ana mentioned using her Xyron machine on embellishments and I really do not understand the point of a Xyron. I just use glue dots or glue lines for most of my embellishments. I have a Xyron, but never use it but instead just reach for the glue dots. Can someone enlighten me, please? (Of course, I’ll probably learn that the Xyron will cost me less money than glue dots, in which case, I could then spend more on embellishments and less on adhesive!).

Oh yeah, I think you’re right. I still would end up just sticking glue dots in each corner and elsewhere (depending on how large the piece was). :)

I love talking and hearing about embellishments. I would say my go-to is brads as well, although that doesn’t stop me from buying everything else, too!!! I am a bit like Ana! Thanks for another great show!

The shows are always super-fun when Ana is a guest!  I too am a sucker for the sparkly.

But did you really go the entire show without mentioning ribbon?  It’s such a staple embellishment.  (Remember when fibers were so popular?)  And please don’t tease… Noell: “Do I have time for another question? No? Okay.”  You totally left us hanging….  I neeeeeeed to know what that question was!

An idea on how to use up your numbers is to do a month in review page.  Have items like “7 = number of wine bottles we drank, 1 = number of flat tires, 10 = how many lunch picnics we enjoyed, 22 = how many minutes we were stuck in traffic going to the zoo, 56 = how many lattes we had at starbucks”

Hello all!  I have been listening to the podcasts for a few weeks now.  This comment isn’t in response to any recent podcast – I have been kind of hopping around listening to the podcast out of order.  Let me say first off that I have enjoyed listening – it makes my workouts more enjoyable and go by faster. I have gotten so many new ideas!  But let me ask this – your panel seems to be very diverse – creative, business, all different aspects of the industry are represented so I felt this would be a good place to ask.   Why do I feel that the industry in general is “down” on Creative Memories?  The company has been around for a very long time and a lot of the most influential scrapbookers out there started scrapbooking with Creative Memories consultants and their products.  A paperclipping episode I just listened to (one of the first few, I think) said the DigiShow called it “the company who shall not be named” or something to that effect.  I am really curious as to why it seems to have such an unfavorable reputation.

Thanks so much!  

I enjoyed this episode very much, and it wasn’t just that I was scrapping at the same time.  I like that each of you are comfortable with your own style – and the variety among you is helpful to your listeners.  Here’s a link to my blog post where I show the layout I completed and how it relates to what each of you shared on the show.

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hay… happy day… promise not to hide in the bushes out side your house anymore… xoxo

I agree—the xyron doesn’t make sense to me. A friend gave me hers when she got a larger one and I’ve never used it. I could see using it to put a small handcut letter through (if it wasn’t thick enough for small glue dots)…but I never print & cut out titles.

Can you tell I’m waiting for the new roundtable to be posted?! Hopefully it will post soon so I can start cooking dinner and stop commenting:)
I don’t know what Noell’s answer would be, but I think the phrase “the company who shall not be named” came as a result of actually not wanting to publicly criticize CM. It has some negative connotations just because many people associate it with their very first ventures into scrapbooking (ie: styles that would now be called “sticker sneezes”) and layouts that they now don’t necessarily like. I also associate CM with many of the “rules” for scrapbooking the “right way” that have now been debunked (like using ONLY CM products).
All that said, they do have very high quality products, are responsible for introducing so many to the craft, and always emphasized journaling.

Great question, Kendra. We’ll read your comment over the air next week and
clear all that up! :)

hee hee!

Yeah, I realized that AFTER the show. Makes sense to me. I might register
for the site myself! Looks interesting!

I was the one who commented about “The Scrapbook Company that Shall Not be Named.”  I used to be a consultant with this company and frankly, although it got me scrapbooking, I also was quite negatively impacted in a variety of ways.  It might have been due to the director that I joined under, but nevertheless, that’s what happened.  The emphasis was never on scrapbooking my stories, but rather using the “right” product.  Anything not archival, anything “bumpy”, anything not CM, was frowned on.  In fact, at crops, other companies’ products were prohibited; you could use ONLY CM’s supplies. 
As a consultant, I could NEVER have any other products in my albums.  Which, from a business standpoint, I understand.  But, as a crafter, I found it stifling.  This was at the time that scrapbooking really began to take off with all sorts of lovely embellishments, like brads, buttons, ribbons, etc.  None of which I could use, if I wanted to share my albums. 
Please understand, I like their products.  I still have loads of albums, and I think they are a wonderful product.  I wouldn’t want to use any other. 
This company just loomed so large in my mind and in my scrapping,  I started using that phrase to make it a little lighter.  And, I didn’t want to name the company, but it’s part of my story.
I’m sorry if I sound so negative; this was just MY experience.  Your mileage may vary!  And, if so, then I’m very, very happy for you.  And, like Dierdre mentioned, it is an introduction to scrapping for many, who might not have the courage or encouragement to begin on their own.  It was for me, and for that, I’m grateful.

Oh, so sorry.  I didn’t know whether this would really be of interest.  It’s a bit hard to describe in words, but I’ll try.  If it’s unclear, I can “draw” it and send via fax or snail.
Measurements are based on your particular page protector that you are “replacing.”
Measure the width of the “binding” area of the protector (the part wtih punched holes). 
Double that measurement and add 1/2″  (E.g. width = 1/2″, double = 1″, add 1/2″ = 1 1/2″)
Cut a good quality paper measuring the width computed above and as high as the page protector (e.g, 12″)
Fold the strip in half length-wise.  Adhere 1/4″ of each long side of the strip to the first 1/4″ of the side of a 12X12 page (or the size of the page you want to work on).  Punch holes to match the protector holes.  Viola! a page ready to insert into the binder and able to be decorated at will!
See what I mean by hard to describe.  It sounds like a lot, but you can do this in an assembly line and get a lot of pages done quickly.  You miss out on 1/4″ of your 12X12 because it’s adhered to the “binding,” but that’s not much.  You can do this with any size page protector, too.
Sorry you asked???!!!

I’ve had an idea before about the page protectors and embellishments, but no funds to develop it, so I’m putting this out here so someone ‘in the know’ can make them so I can buy them.  We need a page protector with accordion fold sides to accommodate more embellished works of art.  

I’m trying to understand this…so what you do is cut off the binding edge of the page protector and adhere the long side of the strip to the first 1/4″ of the side of the trimmed 12×12 page protector?

No, but that’s a really good idea!  I just use the page protector for the measurements so that they will fit in a particular album since sometimes page protector bindings are different sizes.  If you’re really interested, Betsye, I’d be happy to send you a mini sample.

Yes, this is true! It’s so funny to look back at photos from two years ago
and realize that many of the photos that seemed so important for me to scrap
at the time no longer mean that much to me!

When I first started scrapbooking (industry-style) I felt that writing
anything on the page would mess up the look of it. Of course, back then in
the 90′s I don’t remember knowing anyone else who wrote on them either!