Top 10 worse scrapbooking purchases

You know, I think all of us in this journey swear that while we have so much fun crafting, cutting paper and drooling over lovely embellishments, at some point, we have made one wrong purchase too many.  I, for one, have multiple regrets over many items I've bought - either through believing in false reviews or just through sheer bad momentary taste. Only for that moment.  And then I go back, stare at it..and wonder what the hell I was thinking.

So, I thought I'll do a fun post to share my top 10 things I've regretted buying..and let's see if we concur.

1.  This horrible horrible glue pad.  Sigh. It's the most crappy of my purchases.  I bought it together with my heat gun and found it to be totally useless. Versamark is way better.

2.  Never never buy this white ink pad.  It's sticky, it's too viscous to handle.  We all love white ink pads. I know we do so please try Hero arts or Papertrey Ink instead.

3.  This is the pen that Ali Edwards swears by.  I think she was paid to promote it when she says it's the best in the market.  It really does not flow well.  I'm giving up on white pens.  Think I'll never find an awesome one. 

4.  I bought these in faith that I can happily stamp on my transparencies.  But little did i realise that if the ink would be so powerful to adhere to transparency, it would do likewise to your clear stamps.  Great.  And I like my clear stamps as clean as possible.  So I gave up stamping on transparencies.  And have 3 useless staz on ink pads lying around. :(

5. These are another big mistake in my scrapping journey.  I'm so sorry to diss the good people at Maya Road cos I do love their chipboard but they should really do something to improve the quality of their mists.  The nozzles clogs so easily and spraying becomes a real pain and mess.  I've given or thrown most of mine away.  I only go with Tattered Angels now!  And Mr Huey, of course!

6.  Another faux pas from the good people at Maya Road.  Ok, partly my fault for even buying them in the first place.  HOW COULD I EVEN THINK OF BUYING SUCH UGLY TREES???? And I still have 3 to 5 trees left.

7.  I think this is the paper cutter most scrappers start off with.  Big Mistake.  The only saving grace of this cutter is that the blade is sharp and lasts for a long time.  The main reason why I hate it is because it does not align straight.  Major Crime.  We buy paper trimmers so we can cut our papers straight, right?  This one has failed me one too many times. Abandon it if you have one!

 8.  You know how Tim Holtz comes out with these fantastic products once in a while and all the scrap ladies go gaga over them?  Well, when this product came out, everyone went 'WHOOOO' and rushed to snap them up. Why?  So we could see things crackling after we brush on this useless paint.  Sounds good on paper until I realised that the only thing I used them for were the Maya Road tree trunks. And then I gave up on the trees. So now this paint is a white elephant in my stash.

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9.  First generation of Prima Flowers
Let me first start by saying I love Prima flowers. But not the first few ones that look like these and came in a milk bottle:

Being a new scrapper way back then, u rush to buy these...sigh sigh sigh....complete waste of money!  If only I'd known that Prima would create more lovely flowers, I would never buy these. How do I get rid of 2 more bottles of these??

10. Thickers

I remember my first scrapbooking class where we get to pick a pack of thickers.  I think that's the beginning of a downhill spiral to a never ending abyss.  The abyss of evil and point of no return.  At my peak, I had 20 packs of thickers, some new, some half used, some disused (whatever this means!).  I have since given up on buying them.  Don't get me wrong - they are good and useful to have but I'm just not a thickers girl.  I don't even have titles for my layouts. Let me rephase that. I don't even do many layouts very often.

In the end, my thickers look like these -

And the only solution i have to finish using them is to give them to Kate so she can go around giving them to people as stickers.  She loves stickers and will heap them on you if you find favour with her. :)

P.S: I apologise if I offend anyone with my choices of Top 10 worse purchases..May I state categorically that these are only my opinion..and no offense to any of the maufacturers out there.

I will be back soon with a top 10 of my favourite purchases.  Till then..happy holidays!

Joanna