On the edge of my seat reading this. I remember when you did it... I KNEW you would make a great page out of it and you did!!! Hilarious (cuz it wasn't my thumb).
WOW, what an amazing story, and what an amazing cut! It looks so painful! And of course, scrapping about it is perfect ;) I hope you like the colour blue...
Oh Wow!!! I have come close to cutting my finger with my knife but havn't done it. I'm sorry you got hurt. Fantastic Layout and great journaling. It was riveting.
OUCH!!!!! So sorry you hurt yourself scrapping. Great LO and your story is great, love the humor you added to a painful situation. Hope you're feeling better.
OMG, ouch!!! I've recieved paper cuts while scrapbooking, but nothing quite like this. Great LO - and story. Good lesson for us scrapbookers as well. Hope your lo's turned out like you wanted.
so how 'bout MY thumb is HURTING as I'm reading this!!! You are so brave! I probably would have taken one look and passed out for the next three days! Wonderful (though painful) story!
If it wouldnt be because of the grusome pictures I wouldnt believe!!!
Glad everything is better now... just think twice on everything you do that involves that finger!
ok, so I cut myself the very first week i ever had a job with a RETRACTABLE box knife, which isn't supposed to be possible and i had to get seven stitches in my right thumb...i took pics of those awhle back, and scrapped them but i don't like the page anymore, you have inspired me to do a new page!
OMG! I have to be extra careful now that I read your story (great way to journal by the way). I have bad hands due to two carpal tunnel surgeries going bad, so I do now not take them for granted and I am very careful but my God, I feel so bad for you. I hope it healed well and I have to say I felt your pain. Big Hug for you!
i love that you scrap this and that you had such a great since of humor doing it and your journaling was awesome , i was caught up in it ... also learned a good lesson. hope you heal really soon god bless
Crap-ola girl..Your thumb looks very Frankenstein-ish! lol You poor thing..
You did tell a great story tho', I was ok till you got to the needle part!! eeewwwwwww Hate needles!
Okay - I'm laughing now, but when I saw the photos and read your story, I was feeling weaked kneed. But OMG - how funny... a paper cut, yeah, but to cut your finger so bad you need stitches - that's too much! LOL - hope you're feeling better!!! (Great LO by the way - lol)
Wow, i tried to read your journaling but I'm really not good with blood and your description of events was just too realistic! Nice job on the layout, none-the-less :o)
Oh my goodness, thanks for the warning!!! Actually we do use some pretty sharp tools... Great story and layout. Gonna fave this one so I can show my friends!!!
OMG! I totally feel your pain! I cut the tip of my thumb almost completely off a couple years ago with one of those guillotine-style paper cutters. I only had 8 stitches, but it chipped the end of the bone off!. Hmm... I'll need to do a LO of that!!! :) Awesome job though! and cool blue stitches!
This is way too cool...I'm in the medical field and I know what you were going through!!We see it almost everyday at the clinic I work at.Great way to journal the trials of everyday life and IT IS FUNNY!!!Ilove the part about about your body trying to reject your thumb!Made me laugh in my soul!!
Oh man! I had a hard time looking at that layout long enough to see all the cool doodling you did! What an experience. Glad you are all healed up now and back to scrappin'. Great layout -- painful looking pix.
Eeeewwwwww.. I still have a hard time looking at those Pix..*shudder*.. excellent job on scrapping them, though.. that skull and crossbones is JUST perfect !! LOL
OUCH!!! Man looking at these pics again just makes me sick to my stomach. Glad you are better now! Great LO!! Love the colors, the title and the skull!!
I started reading it and look at the pics and read some more and look at the pics and I can see where it is going and I just can't read any more. But, because you're posting it I know you're alive and doing well, so I'm not going to finish reading it...today. Maybe I'll come back later to finish reading. Lesson to be learned for me...don't split stars with a razor. LOL. :0)
oh man, your story gave me chills! lol. your thumb looks awful! :( im glad youre healed though, and too funny you get to tell people this story, haha. great lo! :D
What a great story,when you think about it later it is kinda funny.I cut my thumb on a saran paper roll.Hope your thumb heals fast so you could get back to scrapbooking.I'll be praying for you.God Bless.
you are hillarious, I mean the whole body rejecting the thumb. This so sounds like a me episode. I think I will start being more careful. So at least all of this pain helped somebody. lol.
ouch!!!!! sorry you had to get maimed doing what you love!!! but I really love how you color coordinated the stitching on your thumb to the stitching on the lo!!!!!! balance is everything!!! even when it hurts!
I'm glad you have a sense of humor! I'd sure be careful - I hear 3rd time is charmed! Thanks for such a great layout but I'm sorry you had to face the loss of your thumb to do this. What happened to the los with blood all over them? I have some chipboard stars if you need them!
Wow that cut is long it goes from one side to the other from the last pic on your Lo....OMG i am soo sorry.....I hope it gets better real soon, cause u are a wonderful scrapper. please take care of it.
oh no!!!! the bright blue stitches are pretty, though! i read a while ago about another scrap accident. a woman was doing a page and she placed her scissors in her lap and then clenched her legs together forgetting the scissors were there and the scissors went into her leg!!!! you're not the only one, so don't worry! scrapping is dangerous sometimes lol
OMGosh what an ordeal! Wonder when you will want to use stars on a lo again. Hope your body stops wanted to reject that thumb. Love the lo, it is great that you documented the story.
Last Tuesday night I got injured scrapbooking, yes, SCRAPBOOKING! I never thought of scrapping as a dangerous hobby until now that is! Here's what happened... I sat down like I do almost every night to scrap. I laid out 4 layouts that I just knew were going to be good. You guys know what I mean...that feeling you get before you do a great layout. Anyway's I start on my first layout and all is going well. I decide this layout definitely needs something....hmmm....oh I know! It needs a star! So I go to get these stars I got at walmart. They are wooden and I split them in half to make two of them. The way the star is made it is two pieces of really thin wood glued on top of one another. So I go to split them using a razor just like I have done several times before. I do all the points of the stars first to "loosen" the glue up. I am having some problems with one of the points so I gripe it really tight in between my thumb and first finger on my left hand and apply all the strength in my right hand with the razor. This was obviously too much for the wood to handle be cause it snaps causing the blade to slice though my thumb, yes right through it! Not panicking yet I feel a warn sensation come over my thumb. I very quickly realize that this is not a small cut. I wake up Jess who is napping on the couch telling him I cut my hand pretty bad and I think I needed to go to the ER. He goes to the kitchen to get some papertowels and by this time the blood is gushing from my thumb. He sees that and rushed me to the restroom to get a washcloth to cover my mutilated thumb. We wait a few seconds and try to take a peak to see how bad the damage is. This only angers the wound causing more blood to gush from it. By this time the pain is setting in (seeing the inside of my thumb didn't help) so I start to panic. Jess runs to get my shoes and off to the ER we go. We get there and the take me back right away. Jess has to fill out some paperwork so I am alone with the Dr's who are not helping my panicking any. They see the cut and start to say stuff like oh man that's deep. Before long my arm is laying in a pool of my own blood. The pain is so intense at this point so I am pretty hysteric. The Dr keeps telling me to take some deep breaths and remain calm. ummm...are you kidding me? My arm in literally in a pool of my blood! To make matter worse my Dr looks like a 12 year old! Paging Dr Doogie Houser. She gives me a motrin, I am thinking are you serious?? MOTRIN?? What is that going to do? They decide to numb it so they can get an xray to see exactly what damage I have caused. They numbed in between my first finger and my thumb and then on the outside of my thumb around the knuckle. I go get my xray and I managed to not hit my bone some how so they are going to stitch me up now. Big mistake! I don't injure myself often and I had no idea that my family has a very high tolerance to lidocaine and things of that nature. So around the site of the injection was numb but the cut was not. She starts to stitch and I freak out and scream. I felt everything! It was so horrible. So they give me two more shots around the same areas of the last. We wait a few minutes and try again. She does a few stitches and is working her way up and she gets a spot where it's not numb again. She just could not believe I was feeling pain and did another. At this point I am ready to suture her hand to her face! So they try another approach and gave me a shot directly in my wound. Still feeling some pain I bit down on my lip and let her finish. The stitching through the nail is what got me the most. i ended up with 15 stitches total! So most of the next few days are a blur. I was so messed up on pain med's I was sleeping around 17 hours a day. Between that and the antibiotics (which I have to take 4 times a day!!) I was feeling pretty bad. I was throwing up off and on Friday because of them. What a mess I have been. I have not been able to do much on my own. Well at first I could not. I did not realize how much I used my thumb and the muscles attached to it. I struggle to button my pants, hook my bra and open things. I also can not submerge my thumb so washing my hair, bathing and even washing my hands is pretty challenging. I am so mad at myself for being so careless but all I can do is laugh about it. I mean who hurts themselves scrapping? THIS GAL THAT'S WHO!!! I am sure this happened for a reason. I have to say I have developed a new appreciation of my thumb though. I think most of us may take it for granted. lol, maybe I am the person who is suppose to write a thumb appreciation book? OR Maybe my body does not want this left thumb and it's rejecting it. I nearly cut this thumb off in metal shop in 7th grade. Maybe my body will just go to any means necessary to get ride of it? Touche body, but you will have to try a lot harder then that.....
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