1 post tagged “rusty pickle”

I've written a couple of posts that aren't public yet; they're hanging around waiting for me to finish them. Mostly book reviews. Actual content! Imagine that. But I've been busy with lots of other stuff, and Vox rarely behaves completely well for me (it's slightly over-scripted for dial-up internet).

The good news is that I won't be on dial-up after Saturday. We're finally getting a high-speed connection. On the bad side, we don't have wireless internet yet, so it won't reach up to the computer I'm using at the moment for a while (I ordinarily use the one downstairs, but the one up here in my room is a better computer). I might just pick up a wifi card for it this week and see if I can piggyback on a neighbor's connection for a while. Can't do anything secure from there, but I can browse....

Anyway, I have spent a truly obscene amount of money on scrapbooking supplies in the last week or so (like, enough for the router and the wifi card, actually). I was telling my friend R. about it, and she was jealous and wanted good pictures of some of it. This is the punky/gothy edition, since it appeals most to her interests. (Me and R, we both like to listen to Nick Cave a lot.) Actually, it's a first installment. What I have here does not equal an "obscene amount of money" spent on scrapbooking - this is more like $12 or so, except for the stamps I bought.

I bought a lot of Rusty Pickle stuff at one store. This is from their Addams Family collection. I bought two sheets of the Uncle Fester paper, since I liked both sides so much: one is a purple harlequin pattern with black cats, the other is pinwheel rounds made with stylized skeletons. I like Morticia's bats a lot too. You can't see them, but the corners of the checkerboard side of the Gomez paper have spiderwebs (click for a better view).

Gomez and Wednesday

 

 

 

I also bought stuff from the Pirate Princess collection. These are, top to bottom, Lane de Belleville (this one is particularly pretty - see the closeup), Mary Read, Grace O'Malley (the icons are really cool) and Elizabeth Swan (sic):

 

 

 

 

 

They make some other Pirate Princess supplies... some papers and tags I didn't like as much, one paper called Rachel Wall that I tried really hard to buy (but every sheet they had was a mess - take a look at the larger version and see what the "flowers" actually are), and some stickers and stamps that I didn't see. These are definitely on my personal wishlist:

 

I don't think I'd actually use those stickers, from the center sheet, in scrapbooking, though.

I also saw the Creative Imaginations / Marah Whatsherface (Johnson?) "Caution! Girl" collection. There's something about it, to be honest, that rubs me the wrong way... the chipboard stickers are glitter-encrusted (something I'd prefer to do myself, if I want it at all), the epoxy stickers have silly slogans like "bad hair day" and stuff about messy rooms. It seems like something a mom who didn't quite "get it" would buy to make layouts about her daughter, the Avril Lavigne fan. It just feels off. (I don't even like or buy epoxy stickers: I'm always seeing ones in packages that have warped in on themselves.)

However, they have some really cool brads that I almost bought, and that wouldn't be a bad fit tucked away somewhere on a Pirate Princess page. I promised R. I'd find a picture of these for her, and here they are, only a tiny bit bigger than life-size. Yes, they have pink rhinestones for eyes:

 

 

I also bought these "Roxie Gothic" alphabet stamps from the Love, Elsie collection. There are also "Roxie Gothic Dots" stamps, which are the outlined letterforms filled with little polka dots. (Gothic is a misnomer here, though: this isn't what a "gothic" font looks like. Those are very plain and simple, check out "Franklin Gothic" for an example. This is an Old English/Blackletter/Fraktur/German style, with a twist.) There are these bright, jelly colors on the package, but the stamps themselves are clear, the kind made to cling to an acrylic block.

 

That's all for now. I'll try to get those reviews up soon. And maybe Supply Haul Installment #2, for anyone who's curious.