what are your favorite supplies?

topic posted Thu, April 14, 2005 - 3:29 PM by  Jill
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do you shop online? do you read scrapping magazines? I used to, but found that I couldn't do such fancy, coordinated work - I wanted to get through more photos fast.
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Jill
Kansas
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  • Re: what are your favorite supplies?

    Sat, April 16, 2005 - 2:39 AM
    My fav supplies.....glue dots (or as a friend calls them snot balls, lol), vellum, eyelets/brads, my pens (for making creative writing) and oh the list goes on.
    i haven't bought anything online, mostly cuz i am in canada and by the time i pay the price difference, and shipping it's usually not worth it.
    i buy magaziens every couple of months, i like to see the new stuff thats on the market and look at layout ideas. some layouts do seem fancy and coordinated, but some look simple and easy. i look to see just how they have things layed out on the page, then pick my own things that i want on the page.
  • Re: what are your favorite supplies?

    Fri, August 10, 2007 - 2:34 AM
    I do paper scrap but I find lately(with the speed that my 3 year old can mess up paper) my computer has become my favorite supply.I use the Photo Explosion program and they have a lot of pages already set up.
  • Re: what are your favorite supplies?

    Sat, April 19, 2008 - 6:02 AM
    I shop on eBay and at my local arts and craft store. Sadly the local store stocks very little scrapping stuff because I live in Barbados. However, I get pretty good deals on eBay. For me the cost of shipping etc. is irrelevant, because I cannot get this stuff here anyway.

    I love Queen & Co, K & Co, Daisy Ds, Pebbles Inc and a few others. The bulk of my stock is from these brands though.

    As I mentioned before, I almost never get scrapping magazines here, so I have to invent my own layouts or go online for inspiration.

    I actually enjoy the fancy coordinated work. I love the mixing and matching of colours and textures, but I take a long time on those... once I took a month to complete one layout, but don't blame complexity, I like with a two foot turbine engine who has a lightning bolt stuck in his butt. He is my offspring who answers to Dayo (sometimes). Doesn't leave much time for scrapping, but I force myself sometimes.

    My other problem is that its not easy to get printing in sizes I can comfortably work with, I just found a photo printers who will do custom sizes for me, so next pay day or so I'm going to get some photos developed and try to fill at least one of four mostly empty albums I have.

    The photo printing issues have forced me to focus more on cards and paper crafting more than album-based scrapbooking. But that's fine. I've been building up my stock of stuff and I'm once I get my photos I'm going to challenge myself to finish an album in a month. :D

    So officially, "Hello!"
    • Re: what are your favorite supplies?

      Sat, May 3, 2008 - 5:23 PM
      being a photographer, and a guy I tend to take the high tech approach, so I love my photo printers. I love the fact that I can print 12X12 pages, and then just add all the odds and ends, ( I am also a secret sticker freak) I buy them where ever I go, and postcards sometimes, the goofy kind, not the scenic kind, I just take those pictures my self, I sometimes use friends old clothes, and my own, things we find on our travels, my scrapbook pages tend to be NOTHING like my mothers, but I like them and I have fun, I even use food labels from time to time or wine bottle labels from a party.

      My other favorite is crazy scissors and things to cut with, always a fun time with those

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