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I personally like Paper Crafts. I'm not sure if I'm going to subscribe again, since finding this place I'm not sure I need it. They post the directions for most everything here!!! Got to love that!
__________________ Hi..my name is Anne... I'm a stampaholic.
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When did you send in that subscription? I am curious..... I signed up as part of my son's school fundraiser in Oct and thought I might get the Feb issue but none have arrived yet.
I love Papercrafts!! Also Rubber Stamper, Stamp and Scrap and Scrapbooks ,ETC which is mainly scrapbooking but I love the product highlights, ideas and few card creations that are in it!
Stamper's Sampler is my all time fave. Great variety and # of cards shown. Their Taken Ten Special volumes (put out about once a year) are outstanding, IMHO, including vol. II, which wasn't as well received by the public as vol. I and III were . . .
If you're more of a scrapper/card maker than a stamper/card maker, you might take a look at Simply Sentiments. I've found their issues to be hit and miss, tho, and dropped my subscription . . .
Paper Crafts is good for eye candy, good technique articles, and more "involved" card projects, and seems to have a balance between using scrapping materials or art stamping? But a lot of ads . . .
Stamp It is good for stamped crafts, but not necessarily limited to cards, altho there's usually a nice variety of them in each issue, which comes out quarterly, no subscription available.
Somerset Studio is beautiful--lush photography and gorgeous projects, but many are too labor intensive for me or require unusual supplies/materials I'd have to hunt for . . . lots of collage, assemblage, and "artsy" style. IMHO they've kinda abandoned the typical stamper out there? Somerset is also about $2 more expensive per issue off newsstands than other mags.
Paper Works is new to the scene, and still developing and experimenting with vast range of styles in the types of projects presented, which range from cards to other paper crafts, with a minimal emphasis on but occasional scrapbooking project.
Scrap & Stamp Arts is also a lot like Paper Works, but hit and miss on the issues; let my subscription lapse on this one, too . . . just snag it at the newsstand if it has a high # of projects I'd be likely to try . . .
__________________ Julie Ebersole (JulieHRR once upon a time . . . )julieebersole.com"So shines a good deed in a weary world." -Willy Wonka
I also receive Paper Crafts - I like it but the projects are very involved. I just recently got a thing in the mail to subscribe to Creating Keepsakes. Does anyone know anything about this one? I want to start scrabbooking and wondered if this would be a good one to try.
Creating Keepsakes is full of lush, beautiful, time-consuming in many cases, layouts. Bonus: lots of cutting edge techniques, plenty of eye-candy and layouts to die for. Notorious for heavily embellished layouts, as well . . . Drawbacks: overwhelming for a newbie scrapper, IMHO.
If you are a beginning scrapper, I would actually suggest:
Simple Scrapbooks, published by same company as CK. You can subscribe to it. Fresh, great tips, "do-able" layouts, not embellishment heavy--more of a clean, classy look . . . my personal fave of all the scrapping related mags out on the market. I don't subscribe (I don't scrap), but did long ago and it has stayed true to the original concept of simplicity and getting scrapbooks DONE--but looking polished at same time.
HTH,
__________________ Julie Ebersole (JulieHRR once upon a time . . . )julieebersole.com"So shines a good deed in a weary world." -Willy Wonka
Paper Crafts is good for eye candy, good technique articles, and more "involved" card projects,
Buy the Feb. issue and see JulieHRR"s awesome project in there! Thanks so much for all your creativity efforts that get published Julie...you are truly an inspiration!!!!!!!!
I agree, Creating Keepsakes is full of "eye candy"!! I just love to look through it...one of my favorite treadmill magazines!
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