Cool News For Scrappers

It's been a really long time ... A lot has happened in the world ... Even more in our personal lfe ... But I just had to share this for any readers who scrap:

You know when people look at your scrap book pages and then comment on how they would "love a copy" of that photo that's been glued/adhered down?

Now at Archivers (check their website for your nearest location) you can get full sized 12 inch copies ... Yes you can get a copy of the entire page! You can even get it shrunk down to a smaller 8 inch size if you want to make a sort of "souvenir" album.

I called my local store and they said that copies start at $3.49 a sheet ... I would assume (but I could very well be wrong) that to shrink it might cost a tad more.

I can see where this would come in handy for weddings - one main album for the bride/groom, and copies for the parents and the people who stood up - maybe even the officiate if they are a personal friend ...

Maybe that favorite aunt who couldn't make it ...
One for each of the kids later in your life ...
Or grandiose ...

How about baby books? Make the main one for your family and copies for each set of grandparents ...
Ones for the Godparents ...

What about bridal/ baby showers? Same thing ... Main one for mom/dad/baby ... Some for the grandparents .... Maybe a book that not only has pictures of things like baby's sonogram but also photos of mom &dad as kids thru the years for comparison ... What a precious gift this would be! Just make copies of the parents baby pictures so that the grandparents can get their photos back ... Most grandparents will have them either loose, in some of those albums where the photos just slide in, or in one of those albums that had the tiny sticky dot pages ...

HINT: if you do have photos on those old photo books with the sticky dots,be very careful removing them ... after being there for 20-30 years we found that they will be PERMENATELY stck and maybe damaged while trying to remove them from the page.

Check at Archivers (sorry but they are the experts on this one) and see if they have a product to dissolve the glue without damaging the photos.

I mean I know there is something out there - it's like Goop-Off or lighter fluid ( BUT DON'T USE THOSE) but it's a liquid that comes in a nozzle bottle that you squeeze on and it will gently eat the glue but the photo has minimum damage to it.

Any how ...

Just wanted to share about the copies ...

I think it's a wonderful idea ... Even if it is expensive - you are probably only to need/want this type of service so price will be a smaller factor in the long run.

Review: Cropper Hopper Sticker Binder

Cropper Hopper sticker Binder
Herrschners Scrapbook Sale
$8.99 (plus free shipping)

This is the Cropper Hopper Sticker Binder ... I bought mine at Herrschner's for $8.99 - which is more than half the price of other places online that I've seen it.

As you can see the purpose of it is to hold stickers .... obviously the stickers shown are not included ... this is a stock photo that all the vendors use from the company ...

what is not said by anyone is that NONE of the POCKETS are sold with it either.

For the price, $25 at the highest, you get an EMPTY folder.

The binder itself is thin plastic with a nylon cover. It has a zippered closure so that if you have stickers slide out of their pocket they won't get all over. Inside there are two mesh pockets to hold any of those things you need to get to quickly, or instructions you want to keep on hand. Folder/holders, had they been included, are held in place by three large metal binder rings, but there is no pull-tab to open them so that after a while the rings will be pulled out of shape.

If it were not for the fact that I got this for half price, and free shipping, there is no way this would be worth the money ... it is about the size of, maybe a tad narrower, than a large cd/dvd holder .... which is cheaper than what some of the venders wanted.

The sticker pockets are available seperately in sets of 3 ... but that is a seperate review for later.

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Ratings

Cost: *** because I got it on sale with free shipping, for full price it would have only gotten one star

Use: *** because I got the extra pockets because I have so many stickers, otherwise this would have also gotten just a single star

Value: * even with the pockets I bought seperately - this is simply not worth the money they want for it.

Single word to describe? Rip-Off (oh wait, I guess that's two)