The SCRAPBOOK WORLD is awash in SCANDAL!

Kristina Contes was known in crafting circles for her avant-garde designs, celebrating Converse sneakers and her hairless terrier, Chloe. But with one mistake, her world turned on her.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-scrapper12jan12,0,2864452,full.story

who knew scrapbooking could be so cut throat? :shrug:

that was an entertaining and eye opening read.

:thumbsup:

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she belongs in that "rack" thread from earlier today.

but it does emphasize her rackage, so let's run it!

:shrug:

I would never have imagined that there was a $2.6 billion "scrapbooking world"... :wow:

There are fundraisers that are ALL DAY
they serve breakfast, lunch and dinner and for $50-75 you can sit at a table and scrap book, barter pieces and teach each other different things...
I hate to put my pictures in to photo albums......
let alone scrapbook


lost

If Dante had known about that, the Inferno would have had a whole additional chapter...

(mostly) in a safe environment.

Maybe if more people attempted to give their creativity an outlet, the world would be a lot more peaceful and loving.

The ridiculousness of life is starting to far outstrip imagination, satire, and fantasy.

They may have to go legit in order to keep sharp!

I am not surprised about the petty bickering though.

Who knew that something so obscure could be so serious to so many people?

need to get a life.

Holy crap - talk about taking something waaaaaaaaaay too seriously! Damn.

That it cannot be turned into a matter of life and death for some people.

Somehow, I find this comforting.

GOP'ers.

But then there's the women like me who aren't. We tend to do more of the artsy stuff.

..of extreme quilting.

"Cornered by the press in her squalid hideout, FloridaJudy confessed 'Yes, I fudged that appliqué - I used fray-check. But everybody deserves a second chance!' She shows little remorse for her unethical use of a banned substance. How many others have been lead down this twisted path by easy access to performance enhancing fabric supplies?"

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:yourock:

You've obviously never actually had to work with serious hobbiests, who enter competitions.

They are BRUTAL - I know from long experience. It ain't pretty.

:D

you are now free to move about the country.

Gee, never saw that happen before.

How dare she stray from the hyper-conservative world of warm and fuzzy scrapbooking! Nasty bunch of shrews.

:yourock:

I would bluntly describe the way I see them, but would probably inadvertently offend some here, so I won't go any further.

The article did hit their radar, though:

http://www.creatingkeepsakes.com/mb/viewtopic.php?t=84098

:toast:

wake me up when something exciting happens...

hahahaha. YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! :spray:

What were the others? Improper glue? Tawdry borders?

:scared: :spray:

:rofl:

mikey_the_rat

I didn't think it counted.

It is so hard to keep straight all of the National Competitive Scrapbooking scandals.

mikey_the_rat

:rofl:

Like many others, I was looking for The Onion logo

The romance world has been rocked in the last few days by a plagiarism scandal: http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2008/01/13/cassie-edwards-copies-words-from-pulitzer-prize-winning-novelist/

back in the day, they WERE about whatever the person wanted to put in them. Contes' style is in keeping with the original idea when they first became popular, before the "perfect housewife" industry hijacked them.

I'm a diehard scrapper. Most of my stuff is "heritage scrapbooking."

NONE of my photos were taken by me, since they're all at least 50 years old. So I guess that means I'd never be able to enter anyting of mine in a contest for fear a bunch of fundie bitches would ang up on me?

I'm a solitary scrapper for just this reason. I love to go find all the products, but I hate staying in the stores for very long because of the C/W and contemporary Christian music they usually play. And I NEVER go to group scraps, since I have nothing in common with these women. It's something I do for me and for the family genealogy book I'm writing. I use my books as advertising tools to interest cousins in the project.

The comments against her sound like the crap that Fundies or rightist pukes say about liberals, GLBTers, or any group that is "weird".

Sounds like a whole lotta JEALOUSY to me!

I don't even get what the bitch is, as she credited her friend - so what if a couple had made it? Would that be against the rules?

I think its just people who felt they shoulda won getting back at the winner by tearing her down.

Geeeez.

I'd hit it...

:evilgrin:

I was in a Michael's store the other day and found a huge display of "scrapbooking caddys". They were a plain plastic box about a foot square, priced $19.95. An identical "plastic box" two aisles away was $1.95. All products marked "scrapbooking" are anywheres from double to ten times the price of identical generic items.

damn you Testosterone-trans-4-n-butylcyclohexyl-carboxylate!

You see the same kind of shit here too. It's not just fundies.

Hmm.