Scrapbook Critic

No one is reading….

scrapbookcritic — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:04:54 +0000

but it’s ok… I still love the idea of ranting about the digiscrapbook community. I think there are some sites that need to really improve on the quality of their products…. I don’t know…. I wish we can post anonymous reviews on them or something. And really what’s with designers requiring 2 LO’s for every kit…. that’s just really really difficult to do! Especially when their kit is not the kind you can really stretch your brains on… sometimes you just get scrapper’s block and you can’t really use the same thing allover again… bleh. Sometimes I also hate how some designers are just snobbish… I posted a comment on someone’s blog once (she posted about her problemos) and my comment got axed!! Sheesh,… I wasn’t even flaming her…. just trying to make me feel better and all…. and last but not last,…. what’s with the cliquey community? Some posts gets all the crazy and stupid comments just because it’s some big designer writing em… are we sucking up to them or what?

Annoying threads

scrapbookcritic — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 22:04:21 +0000

I’m so sick of threads with titles like “[designer], I have a problem with you” and it’s about them creating nice stuff….. ALL THE TIME. Kinda like a teaser for something you think would be a start of a catfight but you know they’re just ended up praising each other. It’s so old now!

It’s been a while

scrapbookcritic — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 21:05:58 +0000

I did plan on writing more on this blog since it’s such a sensitive topic — but I guess I’m not really on google or anything of the sort just yet. Which sucked. Anyways, I really want to say something about how it ticks me off that the same people kept joining those big big scrap stores as CT. Come on, give us at least a fair chance to try for that position! We know you’re good, we can tell just by looking at the 20 teams you’re ALREADY on.

An Introduction

scrapbookcritic — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:05:10 +0000

First of all, I realized I’m going to sound like I’m a scrapbookcritic.blogspot.com wannabe. As a matter of fact, upon reading the now almost-blank blog, I felt like I should have started this a while ago. It’s really something to be annonymous — makes you more open and free to voice the opinions you’ve harbored for a long long time. I think the scrapbooking community are nice people. A lot nicer than any kind of virtual society found around the net that is.

If you ever participated in forums like Craigslist, Imdb.com for example — now that’s a whole set of different people. They’re more vulgar, more opinionated, they’re more than likely to bash you and be a troll. Maybe we need to tell ourselves that. It’s not possible that everyone likes everything. I have never come across any negative feedbacks on somebody’s layout — in the digiscrapping community at least. I felt like I’m under the pressure to only say good things, to not even consider voicing how I really feel about a layout. It makes me feel like the lack of comments might just mean the layout is mediocre (or lost in the sea of layouts).

And so, maybe that’s why it’s so difficult to read the blog I mentioned above. I’m not justifying the person’s way of expressing herself but I guess I’m just trying to decode this whole issue of criticism in the scrapbooking world.

Anybody else with a different point of view? Did you ever find yourself wanting to criticize somebody else’s layout but feels bad about telling the truth? I’d love to hear what you think.