01.15.08

Keeping Up With The Trends…

Posted in Uncategorized at 12:36 pm by PaperDesigns

This is a card I made for my Stampin Up demo class.  I’m so glad SU changed their angel policy!

 The blog question asks if I try to keep up with all the new trends in scrapbooking/paper crafting or do I just go with the flow?

A little of both, I guess, but I don’t buy anything I won’t use.  There have been ‘trends’ that I just didn’t like – certain patterns or themes, tools that don’t work or the task can be better accomplished with a different tool.  So I try hard to not waste money on trends.  There are, however, some things that are trendy – because they’re great, and people are talking about them – because they work well and have aided in the crafting.  Those are the kinds of trends I say I follow.  If something is going to do something that no other machine does, or a patterned paper that is so gorgeous I just have to use it – then, yes, I try to pick some up the next time I’m out.

But, that said, this brings me back to an idea that I’ve been working on since the New Year.  I want to have a Blog Challenge for “using your old stuff”.  I want to post articles (one a month?) on Paper Designs By Barbara about a tool or technique, and how I use it and why I bought it, and show projects - and then have people post their projects using the older stuff.  I still use punches, eyelet setters, paint, foam stamps, Sizzix, etc – every day.  Then I read posts about “is using rub ons still in?” – well it is at my house!  But maybe I have found other uses for them – maybe you have great projects that you’ve used them on.  I’d like to start singing the praises of the ‘old stuff’.  Please let me know if you have any ideas on how to put this together.

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