Free Stuff Friday!!
February 19, 2010 5:40 am Allie Contests, Free Stuff Friday!!, Scrapbooking
Happy Friday! Kick off your weekend and enter to win this 60 Minute Family Scrapbooker Kit from Autumn Leaves.
If you have photos piling up, think you don’t have time or simply want lasting memories for your friends and family to cherish, then Autumn Leaves Scrapbooker Kits are just for you. The 60 Minute Family Scrapbooker Kit comes with 1 album, 10 page protectors, 92 adhesive embellishments, 10 glittered layout pages, 10 base pages, 10 chipboard stickers, 35 alpha stickers and an idea booklet.  Pages are pre-finished with embellishments or glitter, and the kit contains 159 pieces.
Every Friday we’re posting a giveaway on Think Crafts. All you have to do to enter is comment on the blog post answering the question of the week. We’ll pick the winners and contact them via email. One entry per person please.
Question of the Week: What was the hardest skill for you to learn?
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Marissa M. :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 7:01 AM
I think if we are talking about crafting, I had the hardest time learning the traditional start of the beading stitch Ndbele/Herringbone. It took me SO many tries. I would get frustrated and my boyfriend sitting nearby said “I can’t believe you enjoy something so much that you swear at so often.” I just smiled and tried again.
Christine P :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 8:43 AM
The hardest skill to learn was project time management. I always have several craft projects going at once. But since having children, I have very limited free time. I’ve had to learn how to work on craft projects in shorter bursts of time and also how to limit the number of project I take on at once. Now I always have a backlog of projects I’m excited to start so it motivates me to finish the ones I’m currently working on!
Larisa Steele :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 8:44 AM
This is silly, but in scrapbooking I had the hardest time with matting my pictures. It seemed like such a waste of paper!
Margaret Wetterling :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 8:49 AM
In the little quilting I have done the hardest thing is getting the corners of 4 squares to come together completely even. I’ve seen quilts that aren’t done right and it is so noticeable.
Debbie :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 8:50 AM
The hardest skill for me to learn has been needle felting. I can’t tell you how many needles I have broken or how many times I have stabbed myself! I’m not giving up though, lol!
Marie :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 9:02 AM
So far I must say it was knitting. I am teaching myself how to knit by watching you-tube and reading blogs.
Judy Wright :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 9:31 AM
I have to say the hardest skill i have learned thus far is embossing …but now I love it…
allie :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 9:44 AM
The most frustrating skill that I had to learn was driving a stick shift! The hardest skill I got to learn was embroidery.
Susan :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 9:58 AM
The hardest craft skill for me to learn is definitely scrapbooking. I have all of these wonderful photos of my grandson and images of a well put together page, but I can NEVER get the color combinations to look right. I love these premade kids…they take all the guess work out of it for me. Thank you for the opportunity to enter this giveaway…Susan
Amy :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 11:12 AM
Patience with any craft I’m doing. I get frustrated and just put it down and never come back. I’m learning to live with the little imperfections.
Allyson dubuque :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 11:33 AM
The hardest skill I have ever faced in crafting has been sewing. There is just something about using a machine to make something useful that is way beyond my learning curve….oh wait…what learning curve!
Carol :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 11:34 AM
For me, the hardest skill is learning not to be so hard on myself and demanding perfection every single time. Now that I’m learning this, I enjoy my crafting and sewing so much more!
April Linnell :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 11:38 AM
Cross stitching was the hardest most frustrating craft skill I have ever had to learn. Learning the different stitches, keeping track of the counting, holy cow. The bigger the project the harder it is. The other skill that was hardest to for me to learn was parenting and i am still working on that skill everyday I still have a lot to learn.
Debbie DeDecker :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 11:42 AM
The hardest craft skill for me to learn how to pick paper colors and designs in scrapbooking. I have all of these wonderful photos but I can NEVER get the color combination’s to look right. I love these pre-made kits…they take all the guess work out of it for me. Thank you for the opportunity to enter this giveaway…Debbie
gill :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 11:47 AM
oh my goodness!!!! definitely needleturn applique is so tricky
gill
Chris Steele :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 11:58 AM
Hardest skill…not controlling everything? Not bossing everybody? Playing guitar? So, so many…
Jessica Ubel :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 1:50 PM
Ugh–painting straight edges. Oh wait, I think I’m still in the process of mastering that skill!
trish :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 2:40 PM
The hardest has been to allow myself to make mistakes yet continue with the artistic process.
Kim McMichael :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 5:05 PM
Where do you come up with these questions? Always a puzzle… hmmm…. well, sewing is something that doesn’t come naturally to me, for sure. In fact, I would have graduated from high school with honors, but got an incomplete in SEWING class, so no honors for me. Yes, I mastered geometry and college-level English glasses, but sewing tripped me up. So, that’s my answer.
Greg DeYoung :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 5:16 PM
Riding a Bull
Jenny :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 5:29 PM
Sewing a straight line. It’s harder than it looks!
Tina Gostling :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 6:31 PM
Just four short years ago, I lost my mother to colon cancer. She was an amazing mother! She loved to make crafts, sew, cook, gardening and hunting. She did it all! Every year at the major holidays, our family had the luxury of Mom’s homemade chicken & dumplings along with our traditional meal. The year she passed away, Thanksgiving was just a few short months away. Being the oldest daughter, it was brought to my attention that I was the new chicken & dumpling maker. I will never forget the feeling that rushed through me because I had never learned the skill of making Mom’s famous dumplings. Tears rolled down my cheeks with every roll of the pin, trying my best to flatten the dough out just like Mom had done so many times before. I think my family thought I was losing my wits because I would talk to Mom telling her to help me with the dumplings and that I couldn’t do it. After about and hour of mixing dough, flattening it out, cutting the strips, and gently placing them into the broth, a warm feeling came over me and I knew then that Mom was there with me and she was just letting me know that everything would be fine. Just as she always would do when life was rough and it seemed like the day was never going to end. So, you ask what is the hardest skill for me to learn, it has to be stepping into the shoes of a woman that could never be replace.
AK Donna M. :
Date: February 19, 2010 @ 10:27 PM
Tina, wonderful story and so true. My mom died 5 years ago & with her it was chicken & homemade noodles. That dough was everywhere. She means everything to me as I’m sure does your mom.
As to crafting….I find quilting quite difficult and my mom was the knitter…I don’t have the patience.
Pam Negulis :
Date: February 20, 2010 @ 10:46 AM
The hardest thing I learned was the correct way to knit. I needed to “unlearn” the backward way my Mom taught me 40+ years ago.
laura stewart :
Date: February 20, 2010 @ 11:07 AM
I still struggle with collage – I like everything all lined up and straight!
Mimi Renault :
Date: February 21, 2010 @ 9:04 PM
The hardest thing in life to do is letting go. It’s very hard when you’ve been doing something for so long and now you’re not needed anymore to learn to let go. In crafting I think the hardest thing for me was trying to learn all the products that are to help you make things easier (i.e. cricut,stamping,cuttin,etc.). It’s not easy to think of something and then put it down on paper.
Lo :
Date: February 22, 2010 @ 9:41 PM
In the world of crafts – definately knitting was the hardest for me…I still get tempted when I see neat projects, but need to remind myself of the skill needed and the frustration I endured before!!
Ginger C. :
Date: February 23, 2010 @ 9:59 PM
The hardest skill for me to learn was weeding. No, not the kind in your yard. My husband and I have coordinating hobbies. I love to scrapbook and he loves photography. It was so hard for me to weed through the pictures and only use a few really good ones, since I thought they were all good. I have gotten much better at it and now I can fit a whole year into two albums.
CraftMelisa21 :
Date: June 18, 2010 @ 10:15 AM
I received 1 st personal loans when I was 20 and this helped me very much. However, I need the collateral loan as well.