POLL! Favorite SB Mag?

Hi everyone how about another poll? What are or is your favorite SB Magazine. I like Paperkuts the best so far.

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Grani-Apple
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Been there done that!

I like Creating Keepsakes.

Creating Keepsakes is the only one I have read. I will like to learn what others think is the best.

creating keepsakes all the way!

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Nicole, mom of Austin, 17 months
Scrap in a Snap Consultant...scrapping in a snap!

the CM Album Tote...I use it for everything scrapbooking or not. It's a great diaper bag. Textbook bag, etc.

CK, although PK runs a very close second!

I hadn't figured out what was bothering me lately about CK but GBS hit it perfectly - they are just putting in too much "over the top" stuff for my taste. I am warming up to PKs more all the time too - much more my style of layouts.

I still pick Creating Keepsakes as my favorite, with Memory Makers as a second (subscribe to both). PaperKuts and Ivy Cottage I pick up sometimes at my lss, and must confess am an idea book/magazine junkie. Love the ideas, but have yet to "scraplift" anything! Go figure. I think I like CK and MM mostly for the articles and lettering. Thanks for the poll!

Two months ago, I would have said Creating Keepsakes all the way...but now Paperkuts is a close second. The layoust in PK are more my style, but I love the articles in CK.

I have to agree with Melissa. *waving to you from BR*

I used to think CK was the best. But I think I have come to the point that I like PK more. Don't get me wrong, I still love CK, but I think the articles are better and more of what I will use in PK. There also is less "off the wall" stuff in PK. CK seems to keep trying to go "over the top" on new things.

Just my .02

GBS

Memory Makers first
Ivy Cottage second

ck
pk>tied for third

ck has gotten to over the top...they seem to have a few people that have stuff in every month so you see the same stuff over and over. seems that if your pages don't have ck journaling or lettering using ck cd rom they don't get in the magazine.

Each one has it's own style and I learn something from them all.

I still prefer CK the best - and actually I think I prefer Ivy Cottage to PaperKuts - but I subscribe to them all (even Snapshot Memories)! I think it is interesting to see people's different tastes!
JenB

PK all the way for me!! But I do really like CK too.

MM is alright but haven't really been able to get into Ivy cottage.

I just recently picked up my first issue of Better homes and gardens though and it seems nice.

Kelly

I subscribe to CK but occasionally pick up others. I really wish there was a magazine that focused more on stamping in scrapbooks. I never use stickers or computer generated lettering, so I would like to see more creative ideas using stamps.

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Bonnie Moe
Independent Close to My Heart® Consultant
Rochester, MN
http://members.aol.com/ctmhbonnie/index.html

I like things about all 3 that come to my house. CK, MM and PK

This month I just loved MM because it had so much variety in styles. It just depends on my moods and what I see and want to use.

I like Creating Keepsakes.

1. Making Memories
2. Creating Keepsakes
3. Paperkuts
4. Ivey Cottage

PaperKuts! If you have never seen the magazine, check out their website... http://www.paperkuts.com . They have some samples there.

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Stephanie Barnard
Laguna Niguel, CA

I have had subscribe to CK for about a year and a half now. I have only subscribe to PK for about 4 months. But I most confess PK is more my style. CK is great but most of the stuff they do is either too expensive or time consuming to even try. Plus, they are not a lot of instructions to go along with the difficult layouts. The problem with PK is it is an every other month mag. I wish it came out every month.

I love CK the best - I guess I am an expensive and complicated kind of girl though!

I used to read MM all the time, but lately they seem to have gone downhill. Hopefully it's just a slump they're having!

Amy

Creating Keepsakes

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Originally posted by stkjock:
ck has gotten to over the top... seems that if your pages don't have ck journaling or lettering using ck cd rom they don't get in the magazine.

Each one has it's own style and I learn something from them all.[/B]

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I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one who thinks this! I agree though that I always find something new or enjoyable in all of the magazines. I guess I am also in a minority in that I really enjoy a lot of the articles or tips in the magazines, and don't always want to see JUST layouts. I think CK and MM are good in that area.

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Bonnie Moe
Independent Close to My Heart® Consultant
Rochester, MN
http://members.aol.com/ctmhbonnie/index.html

I like Paperkuts the best. They have really started to improve upon themselves lately with bigger issues and some fanstastic layouts. What I have always loved about PK is how accessible it is - the lessons are easy to follow and call for ordinary scrapbooking supplies we all buy anyway. The layouts are plentiful and often lovely. I use PK ideas more than any of the other sb mags (I buy them all)

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I have just finished looking at my first issue of CK (haven't looked at any others yet - only to quickly flip through them) and after looking through it I think I'm deciding that I want to end up with more than 1 or 2 pictures on a page. Maybe what I'm really thinking of is more of a photo album than a scrapbook, but with 23 years worth of pictures to scrap, even by choosing only the best ones pictures I'd still have an unbelievable number of pages if each one only held 1-2 pictures.

Does anyone else look at it this same way?

First of all - I like Memory Makers and PaperKuts. I'd never seen PK until just recently, but I love it - and both of them are "my style."

Carriebeth - I have scrapped from one to ten pics on a single page, so I kinda understand what you're talking about. For example - I took 14 rolls of film from a 6-week trip to Scotland. Although I am working on a scrapbook for the trip, I am not going to use all my pics. SO - I am going to buy a binder (my fave type of book) and scrap the pics I want to, and just insert picture album pages for everything else. That way, you have them together, so you can tell your story the way you want to.....

What are you doing here--I thought you were on vacation! Hope it was a good one, and you came home armed with new pictures to scrap. I love both CK and Paperkuts. Sometimes Ivy Cottage.

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Nancy

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Originally posted by carriebeth:
Maybe what I'm really thinking of is more of a photo album than a scrapbook, but with 23 years worth of pictures to scrap, even by choosing only the best ones pictures I'd still have an unbelievable number of pages if each one only held 1-2 pictures.

Does anyone else look at it this same way?

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I agree with you, I take a lot of pictures and most of the time it's much too hard to make a 12x12 layout and only pick two pictures to tell the whole story.
As far as magazines go, I have to admit I don't buy any. I have two idea books (both bought for me by my mother) and I get most of my ideas from looking at stuff on the internet (artist of the day is great!) Mostly I just scrap from memory styles I've seen that I like.

My favorite is Making Memories. I am an idea book junkie too. Sometimes I think I spend too much time looking at the magazines and idea books and not enough time scrapping. I do attend Creative Memories crops...I have a fantastic consultant...and I have really used their "Fast Formulas" books as well as their design and lay-out idea books. My consultant does not mind if we use other products. Journaling is my weak area, so have been encouraged by a book entitled "Scrapbook Storytelling" by Joanna Campbell Slan. It is full of methods to make journaling easier. I highly recommend it to scrappers.

Carriebeth, I can sympathize with you having so many pictures. Two weeks ago, my Mother gave me a HUGE box of photos that date back to the late 1800's...probably 2000 or more. We spend days identifying people and writing stories about the photos. Hope I live long enough to get them all in albums!

CK for me!! I love CK. But that's proabably because I love to try new things and see how far I can take my layouts.

PK runs second for me.

And although I have a subscription to ICC it's just not my style. I cut up my mags after I've had them for a while and last night I started doing ICC and there were only a couple layouts per mag that I wanted to keep. JMHO...Brooke