25 Things Every Scrapbooker Knows To Be True

    Success in life is measured only in terms of the number of embellishments that you own. #scrapbookthuglife.

    1. A craft store coupon, though common, is the only justification necessary for a shopping spree.

    2. It is totally a thing to prefer a tape runner over glue dots...

    Who the heck has time for all of that peeling?!

    3. ...And you will totally use anything else to avoid them completely.

    RT @clairenfreeby using modge podge for scrapbooking because i'm all out of double stick tape #thestruggle #scrapbookerprobs

    4. You have serious Silhouette envy, and the urge to spend an entire paycheck on one is such a constant internal battle.

    5. You get anxiety if you know you're going to be away from your craft supplies for a while.

    6. You have a loyalty to one craft store, and going anywhere else feels like cheating on a lover.

    7. You use your paper trimmer for completely unnecessary things because it's so fun to use.

    8. You feel like you could never own too many embellishments...

    9. ...Yet you stockpile all of them because you don't want to use the "good" ones.

    10. The same thing inevitably happens with your paper stash.

    11. You have been involved in a heated debate over square vs. rounded corners.

    12. You think about the way you take pictures in terms of how they'll look on a scrapbook page.

    13. You are totally content spending your weekend nights in to scrapbook.

    14. Your friends constantly ask, "If I print out all of these photos will you make a scrapbook for me?"

    15. All of your best jokes revolve around scrapbooking.

    16. Your friends know that their birthday and holiday gifts will probably include some kind of paper craft.

    17. Your most pinned to Pinterest board obviously revolves around craft room porn...

    18. ...But you don't have a craft room and achieving anything but piles and mess in your lack of space is impossible.

    19. You save literally every ticket/receipt/napkin/paper good that comes through your hands in the hope that you can use it in a spread.

    20. Forgetting where you put your ephemera and completing your page without it is a tragic event that is to be mourned.

    When you save real life scraps for a certain page but forget and make the page without them :( #scrapbookingproblems

    21. Having to run out for emergency supplies in the middle of a groove is the worst case scenario for any scrapbooking session.

    22. Well-executed layouts make your scrapbook hormones tingle. WARNING: the following photos may cause tension below the waist.

    23. There is no worse feeling than completing a book and then this happens:

    24. Thinking about all of the things that happened in your life before you started scrapbooking gives you anxiety.

    25. Finishing a book and going through it over and over is the best feeling in the world.