If you've ever taken a sick day in honor of An Official Scrap Day holiday
If you've ever organized your embellishments 'just for the fun of it
If you've ever written to the friendly folks at Cropper Hopper , to suggest a 2000 square foot tote, transportable only by tractor trailer
If you've ever tried to bribe the school principal to let your unborn child have a graduation diploma early because you've found the best page embellishments on sale this week
If you think that you must take your scrapbooking supplies with you on a romantic weekend get-away
If the only recipes that you shop for anymore are based on what would make a great Crop Night scrap snack
If you own 8 different tools that cut a perfect circle....
If you refuse to take your child to the emergency room without grabbing your camera first
If you carry one camera for black & white photos, one for panoramic, one for 3-D photos, and one for color close-ups, to the grocery store
If you are now wondering why you don't have a 3-D camera
If your idea of A Dream Man is a man who loves to hammer all your eyelets for you
If you've ever tried to glue your child’s tooth back into his mouth because you want a better "before & after" page
If you refuse to take anymore pictures, even at your daughter's wedding because you first need to catch up on all the pages you already have at home first
If you keep over half of your scrapbooking supplies hidden in the trunk of your car, while simultaneously hiding the keys from your husband
If you have maybe figured out how to scrapbook while driving in the car
If you carry your camera everywhere (even when there’s little chance of a photo op)
If your dream weekend plans include sitting at a desk with a rainbow of papers spread before you
If you force all 45 members of your extended family to sit on Santa's lap at the mall because it would make a great holiday scrapbook page
If you are considering hiring professional writers to your page journaling
If you ever buy your kids clothes to coordinate with your scrapbook paper
If you've went down to the police station to ask them if they would print off digitally-enhanced photos of your child, just so that you could see how your child might look ten years from now
If your husband has put you on a scrapbooking budget
You have & keep Scrapbooking Magazines in your bathroom!
You keep a 'Directory of Scrapbooking Stores & Numbers' in your glove box while traveling around town!
You make your DH turn hot dogs on the grill numerous times when it's 99 degrees outside so you can be sure to capture the perfect picture on July 4th!
If you ever buy your kids clothes to coordinate with your scrapbook paper
If you find yourself posing people with lay outs in mind...
If you have your favorite scrapbooking posts directly sent to your blackberry
You think of L.O's while trying to fall asleep
If you take more than 40 pictures in a day
You arrive at your LSS an hour before opening just so you can get free stuff for being one of the first people signed up for their big crop!
If you tell your hubby you won a "contest" every time you come home with a big bag of scrapping goodies!!
If you have to stop and think if a picture is inappropriate to scrap or not
If you are on a vacation and you just keep thinking about how fun it is going to be to get home and scrap the pictures and mementos from your trip.
You compliment someone by saying their dress looks like scrapbook paper.
You keep a pad of paper on your nightstand in case some journaling or LO inspiration strikes you at night
Your in a store and see the pattern of something and it gives you a LO idea
You take pics of other kids at your DH's company picnic because the stuff they are doing will make great LOs.
You leave work in the middle of the day to hit a really good sale at LLS.
You save the umbrellas, coasters and 'swords' that you get with your drinks when you go to lunch with a friend!!
You have over 1,000 sheets of Paper and can name manufacturer and line of any random piece.
You antique the box your antiquing kit came in.
It's not even 7am and you already have paint & glitter in your hair (or hands or shirt or pants or on the floor...whichever!)
You just cleaned out your car and somehow found a yard of yellow ribbon in your glove box!
You constantly think of these kinds of posts as you scrap along!
If you hear the words "Cricut, die, crop..." and automatically think scrapbooking.
If you find yourself yelling at your kids for using the "good scrapbook scissors" when making their foam airplanes instead of the "other" scissors...
Your sister saves her old pink lace shirt that doesn't fit anymore for you because you're constantly telling everyone not to throw out old buttons and fabrics. BTW it's a really pretty lace and I know I will use it one day!
You pass up the opportunity to go to a GREAT free entertainment opportunity (baseball game, theater, movies, and concert) just so you can stay home and scrap.
If you've dressed your whole family in colors at photo-shoots that match with the pp scheme you need.
If you have to remind yourself to 'go out and have fun with your family so as to create more pics for LO’s
Before you throw anything away, you wonder if it could be used on a LO or for holding embellies!
Every time a friend or relative comes over you say "I made a new layout!" as you shove your scrapbook at them.
You KNOW you're addicted to Stickles if when your boss asks you to make four letter-sized signs, you make them. Then you stand back to admire your work, **** your head to one side, and say....
wait for it...
"It needs Stickles."
If you walk into your LSS and not ONLY are you greeted by name, but you are also directed to see new colors of Stickles that just came in. And your five-year-old daughter clutches your fingers, looks up in awe, and asks how the lady knows her momma's name, as well as her name, and said to her “You’re just as cute in person.”
If you get to page 28 in the current Creating Keepsakes and get the urge to leave work to go home and scrapbook.
You bribe your children with "craft time" just so you can bring out the Cricut and scrappy toys and play.
If you tell your DH that the reason you are home late is because you had to work late, when really you were at your LLS.
If while your DH is on a business trip, you call him to ask him to stop at the near scrapbook store to bring you "souvenirs".
You leave this website connected all day at work and during the 20 minute commute home you go through withdraws and wonder what you missed.
You take pictures of your belongings for insurance as a hurricane approaches and when you go through the photos you find more than 75% of them are of your scrappy stuff.
When you clean your space and find $200 worth of purchases, still in the bag!!
When you clean your space and continue to find doubles (and triples) of things!! (Whether it be photos or supplies...you pick!)
If there's no more adhesive in your local scrapbooking aisle because you've purchased it all
When you've stayed up til 1am working on layouts and then just as you're starting to drift off you think of an awesome layout, design, motif, etc. and wake up immediately to go and make it happen
When you have a designated space for your drink cups - faaarrrrrr away from your scrapping area.
When you forget to put your coffee in that designated drink space and when you spill it you're happy that it only got on the light colored carpet and the vinyl case for your punches and not your paper, embellishes, photos, etc.
When you find creative ways to eek some extra funds out of the grocery budget to get more adhesive.
When you tear up when the Easter Bunny has Xyron refils in your basket
When you bought special paper from a paper boutique in Paris to use specifically for scrapbooking, but as its getting closer to that part of the trip that you're working on you don't want to use it. (It’s toooo pretty!)
When you try to bribe your mother-in-law and best friend (who are stampers - not scrapbookers) to come along on a scrappin'-retreat for "the getaway factor" just so you can make a party of 8 at the cabin. (because $75 each with 8 is better then $133 each with 6)
When you start planning how much you need to take out and save out of your weekly allowance to have some great spending money for the next Scrapbook Expo!
When you no longer hope for jewelry at Christmas but Cricut cartridges.
When you go to your crops and it takes four trips from the car to get all the stuff you've brought. As soon as I leave without something - I'll need it at the crop!
When you're the last one to leave the crop and you seriously think about just sleeping over so you can get more done.
You pull over on the road to take a pic of an awesome tree in full fall colors and before you get home you have the LO finished in your head!
You ask your hubby to go for a ride one evening with the secret intention of having him act as your passengers side/co-pilot photographer!
When you wake up on Christmas morning and your stocking is stuffed with new toys and embellies and that’s all you want to open cuz you’ve got a GREAT page that would those work with
If you can shop in your own craft room
If you have 5 people tell you about a bill board they saw for a scrapbook convention coming to town, (and you've known about it for 5 months already)
When you tell your DD that you love her more than scrapbooking and tears well up in her eyes.
When spending "only" $100 at a mfr's warehouse sale is getting away cheap!!!
You consider it a romantic gesture when your DH wants to scrap with you.
When you overhear a guy say, "What's the big deal? You just slap a couple of pictures in a book throw in a few stickers and you have a scrapbook. It's not that hard." while looking at SB supplies at the LSS and it takes ALL your self control not to go postal on him and jump into an hour long dissertation on the art and importance of SB’ing!
In the past you never use to have any interest to go to the hardware store...But, these days whenever your hubby announces, 'OK, I'm leaving for Home Depot or Lowe's'...There you are before he can finish his sentence, grabbing your purse & list, and you're already outside in the car!
You're trying to convince your friend to start scrapbooking so you can have a buddy. She says something like "I SHOULD start scrapbooking, I already have all the stuff". You just shake your head sadly at your poor, misinformed friend. Completely clueless!
You empty your pantry to fill it with scrap booking stuff because it is closer to your workstation which is your dining room table.
When it over flows past the pantry into three other kitchen cabinets
When you are looking to buy a new house you make sure you have a spare bedroom ... not for guests but for a scraping room.
You read this post and are actually getting good ideas!
