Scrapbooking |Phenomenon

February 6, 2004

"Scrapbooking conference sells out in 69 seconds
By Liesel Enke NewsNet Staff Writer - 7 Aug 2002"

  • Link to a class list being taught in Round Rock, Texas

  • Expo in March in Austin, Texas

  • Local Directory
  • Compare:

  • Comparison to Fine Book Arts (List of Classes at the San Francisco Center for Book Arts)
  • On the Business Side:

  • Interview with former Dir. of Memories Community

  • Paper Options

  • On Converting Anti-Crafters and using the computer:

    "I believe a lot of anti-crafters have tried a few projects on the sly and failed miserably. Somewhere along the line, they decide if you can't join them, beat them up."

    "Create and Print allows scrapbookers and others to design and print cards and do photo embellishment on their home computer. The annual fee is $19.95 for unlimited access to thousands of designs and layouts."

    "The designs are grouped by occasion to make it easier. Consumers can insert their photos in the computer or print out the design and paste them on the paper."

    "Landers, who scrapbooks herself, believes the advantages of using a computer to scrapbook are ease and simplicity."

  • From an Early Show Segment that aired Jan 2003

  • "All you need to know to scrapbook is what you learned in kindergarten: cut and paste," says scrapbook instructor Connors. "And now there's so many products around that are pre-done for you that you really don't even have to be that creative."

  • Interesting little bit from a bitter art student...found on the web doing a google search for "scrapbookers" art, degree. I took the liberty of bleeping out the naughty words of the author for the purpose of this family-friendly blog.

    2003/12/11

    "I’ve been making a lot of collages lately - I’ve used up a whole large glue stick in the space of probably under a month, and I wonder what sort of adult does this? Scrapbookers maybe; respectable artists I’m not so sure...


    ...at least scrapbooking is sincere – they’re not cliquey and they ‘re never just trying to look smart. These are probably the real cultural documents..."

    Posted by Amanda McCoy Bast at February 6, 2004 3:48 PM