Hello gang! It's Allison, affectionately referred to as "Alien" for reasons I'm not going to get into right now, but NONE of which have anything to do with UFO's, science-fiction, or extra-terrestrials. At some point, I'll explain all of it (and it's not even remotely interesting or creative), but for now, let's move on to what I came here for.
I've been on Jen's team for almost a year now. I'm still convinced that the only reason I'm even on her team is because the rest of them figured I'd be an easy target to make fun of and laugh about behind my back. So they get a few laughs at my expense and I get to scrap with Jen's awesome designs. See? We all win. <grins>
So with that being said, I decided to embrace my role of "Team Idiot" and write a silly little post just to (hopefully) make you laugh a little. During my one-hour commute to work this morning, I made the long, boring ride a little less painful by compiling a Top 10 List. And this, my friends, was the result. Enjoy!
10 Signs You May Be Scrapping Too Much...
1. You buy and dress yourself and your children in similar colored clothing so that you already have your basic color pallette when you go to scrap the photos later.
2. You can look at the color of a shirt or dress in real life and immediately match it up to a specific piece of digital paper in your stash that is the exact same color.
3. While snapping photos, you're thinking to yourself, "Oh my god, these will look PERFECT with the Vinnie paper pack from Jen's Laundry Line!!" (And you're damn excited about it.)
4. You stay up until midnight the night before a designer's new release is due out because there's that little part of you that hopes that maybe the designer set up the store so that the new release is automatically there at midnight EST on that date.
5. You go out in search of very specific photo opportunities, and take pictures of things you normally wouldn't, just so you can use a particular element, paper or journaling card that you just love that's in your stash, but that you haven't had the right photos for yet. (Chicken wire anyone?)
6. You start skipping social events and ditching important functions and obligations because you don't want to miss out on a designer's chat or challenge that night.
7. You study (closely) the shadows of random people and objects in real life, wherever you go, just so you can perfectly recreate those shadows in Photoshop when you're back at your computer. (Am I the only one that does this? I really do need to get over this obsession with drop shadows. It's getting a little weird.)
8. You start using scrapping terms in place of the correct words in real life situations without thinking about it...
"Hey hon, can you crop the kids' chicken up for them while I get them their drinks?"
"Hey, can you do me a favor and clone those documents so I can drop them in the mail tomorrow?"
9. When talking about the people in your life, more of them have online user names (and you don't know their real names) than have actual, real live birth names given to them by their parents.
"Oh hon, Skraprbabe said the funniest thing today!"
"You should see the cool new camera that momto4kids got! It's to DIE for!"
10. You look in the mirror in the morning and notice a large zit on your face. For a few fuzzy moments, the line between real life and the scrapping world blurs, and in a still half-asleep stupor, you casually reach for your handy dandy Spot Healing Brush to zap that sucker away before you leave for work.
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If you've found yourself guilty of any of the above items, you may want to re-evaluate your life. And if you're like me er... [ahem], those other people that have found themselves guilty of all 10, then you really need to take a day and just spend it outside or something. Because those people are weird. Yup. They sure are...
