Tigger1221
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 27, 2004
I like the new list. I really like using specialty paper but it is hard to embellish it even more sometimes. Now it won't be as hard. You hostess do an amazing job! Thanks!
Jill
Jill
Do any of the other sites people swap on have guidelines? Do you think we can do some research to see what other groups do?
Maybe I'll have the guts to do a completed page swap one day...maybe!
Do any of the other sites people swap on have guidelines? Do you think we can do some research to see what other groups do?
Another question here- when I was putting together the list from what we said- I offered to (over time) add links- video or others- explaining how to do each of the techniques and showing examples of them. Would that be helpful to anyone or would I be wasting my time? The thought was this would be a glossary of swap embellishing - like our glossary of elements. I know when I started I didn't know what many of the embellishments were.
Rebecca
This would be very helpful to those who swap and to those who just scrapbook and don't swap.I did say yesterday that I would work on getting a thread together showing examples of these embellishments and explaining (or linking to an explaination) of how to do them. I know when I started I didn't know how to do many of these things- I didn't even know what many of the words meant.
Another question here- when I was putting together the list from what we said- I offered to (over time) add links- video or others- explaining how to do each of the techniques and showing examples of them. Would that be helpful to anyone or would I be wasting my time? The thought was this would be a glossary of swap embellishing - like our glossary of elements. I know when I started I didn't know what many of the embellishments were.
Rebecca
I think that would be great - I lived at the swap glossary section for my first swap and after all this talk I have been googling different techniques to see the best way to do them.
Maybe people could split up the instructions so it doesn't all fall on you?
Rebecca --
Not a technique but maybe it fits here.
I have photos of things bagged properly and not bagged properly. It seems like a petty thing, but as a hostess, when things are not bagged up right, it just causes so much more work. Harder to sort, and a nightmare when something falls out of the bag. It is easier for me to make a mistake when it is not bagged right.
I will second that as a hostess of a few swaps (Ok both Susan and Hope are shaking their heads because I just sharpied my bags as fast as possible to get them out but this time I had a real reason for last minuteness)
I never realized how important it was to put the group letter on the bag until I sorted a big swap. Now I put the group letter on the bag!
Susan - if your photos of not bagged properly are of any of my items please feel free to use them as an example and I won't be offended!
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