Scrapping Weird Stuff

CristyK

CristyK

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I just realized as I was looking through the GingerScrap store that I must scrap weird things.

I've been trying to find some kits (perferably from what I own already) to scrap the pictures I have. Pictures like my son during his Lifesaving training (think CPR, AED, Lifeguard water rescue, and first aid), pictures of silver dishes from the museum or pictures of rocks. I can't find anything. There are some really cute "medical" kits but they are all geared toward kids or towards hospital visits (non of which have a wheel chair which sucks since I have pictures of my son doing all sorts of cool things in a wheelchair and wanted to do a layout on seeing the world on wheels).

I was really hoping there would be more geared towards auto racing (NASCAR) since I take tons and tons of pictures at the NASCAR races and I scrap them. I've got 3 paper albums all over 100 pages each.

I scrap a lot of Boy Scout and Order of the Arrow pictures. The only scouting kit is really to kiddish and has mostly cub scout stuff. Nothing really for Eagle Scouts or older Boy Scouts. I know I have to scrap my son's entire journey to Eagle still. I wish there was something Native American themed too. With Order of the Arrow being so steeped in Native American Ceromonies it would be really useful. But we've also got a lot of pictures from various museums we've been to and nothing to scrap them with.

So I guess I just take pictures of weird things since I can't ever find anything to go with them. Sorry for the rant.

What weird things do ya'll scrap?
 
For the aed CPR training (thank him for getting trained by the way, I am a cardiac arrest survivor), check out JoCee Designs February Heartfelt. Lots of things in that kit would apply to training as it is an awareness kit for the heart.

I agree that finding stuff to scrap my car interests is hard, nascar, NHRA, cruise ins all hard.
 
I know it's hard sometimes to find kits that work with our various interests...also I'm sure from a designer's standpoint they have to be able to sell more than a couple kits to make it worthwhile.

I have a difficult time scrapping my daughter's dance photos. I tend to use more generic kits, color-based. She dances competitively and the kiddish-ballet types don't really fit. She does a lot of hip-hop so I tend to lean toward more grungy kits. I don't get as much scrapped as I would like, but I get them done :)

I think sometimes you have to think a little outside the box...go a little off-themed when selecting kits...start with a color scheme and start mixing and matching kits to achieve the look you're going for. Using photographs and extracting them for useful elements instead of relying on kit elements. I take so many photos of random stuff with titles and elements in mind.
 
I am a lover of NASCAR too! I find if you do like Cindy says above and find a kit that has colours and generic elements, you can make several layouts with those!!! I love a good off theme kit to do some fun stuff with.

I'm sure there are some racing kits in the store that will work for the NASCAR pages! Even if you just take a few elements from a few designers' kits and combine them!
 
I am a big fan of out of the box scrapping. I am grateful kits have a variety of products like flowers, tags, buttons, etc.. If it was something specific and I can't find it, I would take a picture of it and use that for a title or something. Or mix/match kits.

Like I did the Hot Chocolate run.. I would combine a hot chocolate kit + a race-type kit.

But I agree with Michelle, the Suggestion Box could be helpful, too :)
 
MSPeeler said:
Do you ever list anything in the Suggestion Box when needing a specific kit that doesn't exist?

https://forums.gingerscraps.net/forumdisplay.php?30-Suggestion-Box

I don't know if it ever gets picked up, but it's worth trying!!! (Maybe posting a couple pictures you're trying to use too so they get an idea of what you need?)

I did once, many moons ago, and still use that kit to this day!
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I've posted several times there. I'm thinking that there's just no real demand for a Remembrance Day kit or a Canadian military kit. It's too bad that there don't seem to be any Canadian designers, or at least none who think such kits might actually sell. Makes me wish I had the talent and the time to design!

As for choosing a kit based on colour, I can't seem to find any with quite the right colours to do with the Canadian military uniforms. Yes, I could make the photos black and white or sepia, but then they lose something.

I am going to see if I can scrap any of my military photos with this month's Free With Purchase kit. I won't use any of the U.S. stuff in it, or the reds and blues, but I may be able to make use of some of it. If only it included a gold maple leaf, a gold beaver, and a Canadian flag, along with all those USA elements!
 
I am constantly on the look out for kits for my "weird" photos. Sometimes, I scrap off theme for the hard ones, but really I just keep begging designers. Every time one has a suggestion thread /contest, I throw mine in. Until then, I wait
 
Caylynn said:
I've posted several times there. I'm thinking that there's just no real demand for a Remembrance Day kit or a Canadian military kit. It's too bad that there don't seem to be any Canadian designers, or at least none who think such kits might actually sell. Makes me wish I had the talent and the time to design!

As for choosing a kit based on colour, I can't seem to find any with quite the right colours to do with the Canadian military uniforms. Yes, I could make the photos black and white or sepia, but then they lose something.

I am going to see if I can scrap any of my military photos with this month's Free With Purchase kit. I won't use any of the U.S. stuff in it, or the reds and blues, but I may be able to make use of some of it. If only it included a gold maple leaf, a gold beaver, and a Canadian flag, along with all those USA elements!
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No, Caylynn!! Your request is ALWAYS in the back of my mind! I got behind in a BUNCH of projects that I started last year and one of my goals this year is to FINISH all the projects that I started last year, but got distracted. I have four, maybe five more projects that I'm working through. But I am ALWAYS thinking about yours and the migraine kit. Generally if I respond, something has peaked my interest. I just don't have enough time in the day to get done what I want to get done, be a mother, teacher, wife, etc.
 
Cristy, I keep meaning to do a scout kit and just haven't gotten to it yet. I got stuck between making it for cubs, older scouts or both, and then it seemed too big! My son recently quit scouts, so I guess I'd better get on that scouting kit, since I have all the photos I'm gonna have! If you have any suggestions or element requests, etc. feel free to PM me, and maybe I can get to it in the next few months.

Also, you might want to check out my Tribal Spirit collection if you haven't already seen it. It might work for some of your Order of the Arrow photos. :) here: https://store.gingerscraps.net/sear...=tribal+spirit&by_fulldescr=Y&by_shortdescr=Y
 
I think us Canadians get left out on many "themes". I've never found a scout or girl guide kit that includes the levels or names that Canadian troupes have.

The military and Remembrance Day.

Thanksgiving is is for us more celebrating harvest and family than it is a prelude to Christmas.

may long is Victoria Day, the start to summer, nothing to do with military like the states.

Canada Day July 1st. It's our 150th birthday this July.
 
Caylynn and Sherri---
is this what your uniform looks like?

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Neverland Scraps said:
Caylynn and Sherri---
is this what your uniform looks like?

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Yep! That's the army cadpat temperate pattern.

Desert pattern: https://gallery.gingerscraps.net/showphoto.php?photo=246178&title=dad-my-first-hero&cat=906 (hubby upon return from Kuwait)

Mess dress: https://gallery.gingerscraps.net/showphoto.php?photo=282011&title=my-love&cat=935

Haven't scrapped hubby in DEUs, but these are an example of army DEUs: https://www.google.ca/search?q=Cana...ei=dEXDWP7oAoi2jwTGzIt4#imgrc=W6SkBK1k_mWtoM:

Note that Canadian ribbons are only for actual decorations. Unlike in the U.S., Canadian Armed Forces members do not receive a new ribbon for every posting. So long-serving Canadians will not have a chest-full of ribbons, unlike their American counterparts. My husband had a ribbon for every tour he has done (peacekeeping, peacemaking, or combat), plus his Canadian decoration (originally awarded for 12 years service, plus a bar awarded for each additional 10 years), and the Peacekeeping medal, which was awarded to all Canadian military personnel who have served a minimum of a certain number of days in a U.N. peacekeeping mission). You can only wear one ribbon/medal per deployment. So, for example, my husband has medals from Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait for his service in the first Gulf War. He is only allowed to wear his Canadian medal/ribbon, however. The others stay in their boxes.
 
thanks for that information! I've spent the greater part of last year trying to narrow down colors. Recently I was told the above was not Canadian and I wanted to double check as they were the colors that I had down in the swatch.
 
Caylynn said:
I've posted several times there. I'm thinking that there's just no real demand for a Remembrance Day kit or a Canadian military kit. It's too bad that there don't seem to be any Canadian designers, or at least none who think such kits might actually sell. Makes me wish I had the talent and the time to design!

As for choosing a kit based on colour, I can't seem to find any with quite the right colours to do with the Canadian military uniforms. Yes, I could make the photos black and white or sepia, but then they lose something.

I am going to see if I can scrap any of my military photos with this month's Free With Purchase kit. I won't use any of the U.S. stuff in it, or the reds and blues, but I may be able to make use of some of it. If only it included a gold maple leaf, a gold beaver, and a Canadian flag, along with all those USA elements!
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I've seen kits in other stores where the designer does a small add-on pack for Canadian elements to go with a US themed kit - such as Canada Day elements to supplement a 4th of July kit, etc. I wonder if any of the designers here would be willing to do that?​


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mariewilcox said:
I've seen kits in other stores where the designer does a small add-on pack for Canadian elements to go with a US themed kit - such as Canada Day elements to supplement a 4th of July kit, etc. I wonder if any of the designers here would be willing to do that?​

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There is a thread about this. If you want to add to what Caylynn has suggested, please feel free. Unless another designer beats me to it, I've been planning this one since I opened my store last year.

Thank you Caylynn, that looks like my husband's uniform (well, the one they are phasing out) but in different colors. That's what I thought it was, but a couple of my Canadian friends who's husbands are serving showed me a different pattern/color.
 
Neverland Scraps said:
There is a thread about this. If you want to add to what Caylynn has suggested, please feel free. Unless another designer beats me to it, I've been planning this one since I opened my store last year.

Thank you Caylynn, that looks like my husband's uniform (well, the one they are phasing out) but in different colors. That's what I thought it was, but a couple of my Canadian friends who's husbands are serving showed me a different pattern/color.
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Well, that's the army temperate pattern, or basically what my husband wears to work every day. There is also the desert pattern, the arctic pattern (for operations up North), and the urban pattern (for operations in built up areas - i.e. cities). The Air Force has a different operational uniform - basically a solid green flying suit. The navy also has a different uniform - blue shirt and black pants. Although both Air Force and Navy will wear one of the CADPAT colours when appropriate (i.e. in Kuwait everyone wore the desert CADPAT pattern, except for the secret squirrely guys).

Military police, when on duty as police, have their own unique uniform that reflects their role.

So if any of your Canadian friends with serving husbands showed you a different uniform, they may be air force or navy, or they may be wearing DEUs (although most places have combats as standard dress, not DEUs. Ottawa used to be the exception, where everyone wore DEUs, but they've changed that in recent years), or they may be deployed and therefore wearing a different variation of CADPAT (if army).

You can see more photos here: https://www.combatcamera.forces.gc.ca/site/index-eng.asp

Thanks! :)
 
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