Tell us how YOU became a FLASS

We all started scrapbooking somewhere, because of someone. How did you become a FLASS??? We all want to know!

Hello my name is M-C and I AM A FLASS! But I wasn't always. When I first started scrapbooking, all I knew was Creative Memories (CM). I did buy lots of products to encourage my dear frind Kathy, but it wasn't until I walked into my Local Scrapbook Store (LSS) that I became compulsive. Now with all the scrapbook stores and new lines of products becoming available almost on a daily basis, I'm lost. I've got the "gots to have that paper, embellishment, tool, organizer disease now known as FLASS!

So that's my story! What's yours?

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Hello my name is Lynne and I am a Flass. I'm mostly a tool junky. I've got paper, but not so much as I need a special storage tower for it. Tools on the other hand are stored in a 5 drawer plastic tower I got at Costco. I haven't even gotten into things like Sizzix. I like templates, punches, exacto knives, pens, different adhesives by the millions, ribbon, eyelets, just to name a few. I also have one of those towers to house my rubber stamps and it's over flowing! Good news is my craft room is under construction as we speak. I'll have to get some pictures up on my web site to share the progress. In a few months I'll have a room to confine my craftiness. Bwah hahaha

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King's Crown

oh its confession day is it? Well mine started a few years ago when I saw that my oldest daughters pictures were beginning to yellow in their photo albums. I've always taken tons of pictures. I panicked and immediately had to find a way to save them.. I read about scrapbooking in my couponing/refunding magazine.. Jump forward to now.. I have a sticker binder that weighs as much as my 8 year old.. and that's all I'm going to confess to! lol..

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Michelle Shealy

Hey Lynne, do you have a prediction as to how long before you need to expand the craftroom again? M-C ducking and hiding behind Kenda... LOL

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M-C

Speaking of the doodle dies, they are great! I just used the Xmas ones to make a card. Cute...

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M-C

....threw my sandal ... bounced off Kenda (sorry Kenda) and hit M-C.... bite your tongue! hahaha

Lynne

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King's Crown

I successfully avoided the whole scrapbooking/rubberstamping culture for years. That is, until an old friend of mine invited me over for a day of scrapbooking & stamping. I figured since I hadn't seen her in a long time, it would be a good way to visit and get caught up in our lives. I figured to stay away from getting sucked it, I could scrapbook a few of her pictures, or frame my own page. But..she's a Close To My Heart consultant and gave me a bunch of free stuff, including a scrapbook. Hook. Line. And Sinker. I couldn't get enough! Now I'm hooked on Anna Griffin products. Besides AG products, I also have stamps, kits, cutting supplies, adhesive supplies, embellishments, etc. etc .etc. ~Peggy

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Peggy

Ouch... I hope you didn't need it back... you know what packrats we scrapbookers are!!!

M-C

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M-C

It didn't happen all at once for me. My first mission was to find something that easily cut circles (still looking as nothing has been completely satisfying in that regard). Then I got addicted to paper and cardstock. No matter how much I bought, I never had the perfect shade or perfect print and had to go buy more. Then I decided I needed punches and decorative scissors. I have perhaps 50 punches and other than an occasional set of stars and the square punches I don't use them. Same for the scissors, I have every single decorative scissor made by Provocraft and have never used even one pair on any of my layouts. I bought the making memories tool kit and then they came out with an expanded tool kit so I bought that one as well although I only use the hole punch, eyelet setter and hammer from either kit. I have over

100 stamps and at least 50 stamp pads. I have never used a stamp on my layouts yet. I have 3 cases full of fibers, there has to be about 600 different ones yet when I needed a bright yellow fiber last week I didn't have one suitable for use. I have hundreds of stickers, I very rarely use a sticker on my layouts either. I buy things because I think they are pretty or may be useful although I rarely think past that and see myself actually using them. Case in point, a set of 3 crimpers two of which I know I will never use. I constantly buy things to organize my supplies yet the next week I will buy something different. The only saving grace is I have 4 teenage girls to share my stash with and they like the punches and scissors and stamps and use them.
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Scout Lady

ahem Hello, My Name is Sabrina and I became a Flass about four years ago. My DD got me into the CM and we scrapped together long distance. Then her friend Wendy (also a flass) got us into this group and ...well it just went like wild fire. Lori from this group came to see me and took me to her CM crop and I found I had to have everything I saw. This progressed to going to every LSS I could find.Soon, the shopping and aquiring of goodies was my focus in life. I have to get new paper whenever I pass a SB store and going on line......OMG. The one thing better than buyng new SB stuff is getting it in the mail! I have educated all of my family and friends on how to buy Mom ,Nana,Brie paper and embellishments. (CACKLE) help

Hugs, Sabrina in Kentucky

a good friend is a life long treasure

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Sabrina

First, I want to know what FLASS stands for (maybe I missed something?). I'll give ya my story even though I don't know what I'm admitting to being. LOL

I started scrapping in 7/00. There was a new sb shop in my little town and eventually curiosity won over. I'd also recently been to a high school reunion. Nostalgia was on my mind. Before I even left the store I finally knew how I was going to preserve all of those pics I'd taken since grade school. I got them out of those not so old (13/15 yrs) yellowing magnetic albums. My goal was to be finished w/ it by the next reunion. Well, it's next summer and I've still got a stack of pics waiting to be done. Can I help it if I got sidetracked w/ all of my other pics and starting new albums!?!

I like the shopping aspect of the hobby, but, believe it or not, I'm more of a browser. What I have on hand is nearly too much for me to pick from (color, emb., etc) when scrapping. I'm sure I have a small percentage of stock compared to some of you too.

Katrina in KS

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Katrina

You may just have me beat!!!

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M-C

Hi, I'm Judy and I'm a FLASS. It struck me fast and furious, like a thief in the night. Befor I even properly knew what vellum and cardstock was, I had sleepless nights dreaming and planning of LO's. I was so desperate to know more, that searched the internet, and thankfully found this group, and now satisfy my addiction on weekends :) My first LO is almost finished and I believe this addiction will keep me content for many years to come. To all out there... BEWARE....this is a very dangerous hobby! Every spare second of your day will be consumed once the scrapbook bug has bitten you!

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JK

A FL ASS or flass is a

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M-C

Hmmm that was weird... A FL ASS or flass is a floozie addicted to scrapbooking supplies.

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M-C

Hi, my name is Debbie, and I am a shameless FLASS. I wasn't always like this. I used to be a respectable SAHM. It all started when I got this idea to make DD a "picture book" for her 2nd b-day in 2000. I was so off track. LOL I had never heard of "acid free" & why read up on something? SO I jumped off the deap end of the gene pool and used Crayola brand markers, a "photo safe" GLUE STICK (ack!), and some plain colored cardstock. Oh it was awful. I never finished it and in 2001 I started a memory album for my dearly departed cat. By then I had learned some on my own and it's looking much better.

But then.....then I found RCS. Next thing I know, I'm hearing about embellishments, stickers, Jolee's, post-bound albums, background papers, and all kinds of neat sounding words! So I went to my LSS and fell in love. I fondled all kinds of neat & pretty things! Fondled in public even!! I became a shameless FLASS when I went to Memphis to meet other RCSers, who shall remain anonymous to protect the innocent. They rubbed off on me & I am now a proud member of FLASS Unanimous.

I've grown from Crayola markers, which now belong to DD, to stamps, stamp pads, gel pens, acid free archival quality markers, journaling pens, journaling markers, background papers, cardstock, vellum, mulberry paper, 2 paper cutters, decorative scissors, eyelets, buttons, fibers, stickers, die cut sheets, a Sizzix machine but no die cuts yet, 2 tool kits, templates, paper crimper, watercolor pencils, and I finally found my favorit adhesive. I now have 4 scrapbooks in the works....no scrapbooks complete as of yet.

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Deb in AR

Oh geez then I am definatley the FLASSY QUEEN!.... I have ordered over 14 auction from TXMADCRAFTER..... on ebay... tons of stuff. paper tools, embellishments,paper, stamps, inks, albums,and anything else scrapbooking related. I have over 350 punches, 2 huge nut and bolt organizers filled with embellishments, yarns and ribbons of every possible kind, buttons out the kazoo, templates,cutters, sissors...i could open a shop!@.... ask Ronni... her moth dropped to see what she did manage to see!. Dave too!.. this monday going thru another $1500 box of supplies!

Cowchipper . "M-C" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com... Hmmm that was weird... A FL ASS or flass is a floozie addicted to scrapbooking supplies.

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Cowchipper

Hi, I am Dave. (not going to SAY it after today's mouth mishaps!!) I got started thanks to my neice, Mariann in Mar of 03 after she moved back here from PA. She had been a CM rep for several years and is like April, Ronni, MC, Jessie, always making something out of nothing and had tons of - tools! Anyhow she knew I had TONS of pix that were in those wonderful, helpful magnetic albums as well as one of those OLE TIMEY scrapbooks we USEd to do made out of construction paper. It was about

10" thick, YES really!!

Anyhow I was pretty down and out after losing the job I had and loved with Scholastic, ANd WORST of all just got a NEW CC with a $2000 limit! She took me to HobLob and Michaels and TRIED to tell me the basics to get to start with.

I was familiar with the web, and decided to see what was OFFERED there - BIG, BIG, BIG mistake. i was worse than hooked, I was totally infatuated. Then I found THIS group, all the cotton pickin' people with THEIR wonderful ideas of shopping sites, then I started to meet people, April being the first who have stashes that only a tore would envy, then I thought there was a better way of seeing the country, getting NEW things, seeing new places, finding stores, so as I travel I HAVE to stop when I can, OMG, then I could not get enough things to organize the way I want, So I am now BUILDING not only my COLLECTION but things to put it in, but always wanting what is new, wanting to share it, CAN YA'll SEE WHAT THIS ADDICTION DOES? It makes you ramble on and on and on, and you want more and more, then there are those of you that come up with terms or words to match us with what we REALLY are and you get foot in mouth disease - SEE YA!!!

(hopeless in debt, love, and lost in time!)

183 for 04

P.S. When do I have time, desire, NEED to learn how to use the stuff that I have, or even use that stuff (not mentioning paper!) in a layout. I in fact am looking for something else to organize the stuff I have again EXCEPT paper. I totally LOVE my custom built paper cabinet, AND NO IT IS NOT FOR SALE!!!

OKC Dave

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SpikeToo

Hi. My name is Debbie and I've been a lurker for a few weeks now. I have a funny feeling that I just may be a FLASS!!

What got me started was my kids' grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary back in July. One of the gifts was a scrapbook and each of the families had to do

2 pages. Well I didn't have much of a clue how to do it so I googled some info. THAT was my first mistake!!

Now here it is October and I have stacks and stacks and more stacks of paper and cardstock, punches (regular, corner and border), scissors and edgers galore, lots of vellum and mulberry paper, at least 1000 eyelets, a few hundred brads, beads,buttons, ribbon, tons of other embellishments, tags, adhesives of every kind, 32 colours of chalk, stamps and inkpads, fiskars paper trimmer and shape cutter, 2 different size self healing mats, at least

4 templates up the wazoo, gel pens, zig writers, Undo, and 9 albums. I'm sure I've missed some stuff here!

Plus my Ebay purchases for the past 2 weeks include: 3 lots of Provocraft paper bundles (60 sheets of each of 12x12 and 6x6 Slab IV, 60 sheets of Princess and Kids Brights 6x6 - already have the 12x12 sizes of those), 500 brads and 3/16 eyelets, 3150 (yes, that's 3150) 1/16 Making Memories eyelets, 250 Making Memories snaps, a McGill Ribbon Stitch punch and a McGill Buttonhole Punch, and some ribbon charms.

And except for the grandparents' anniversary album, I have yet to scrap even

1 page!

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