B & B Review: The Everyday Scrapper

Every Thursday, I will post a review of either a scrapbooking related blog or book. Please comment below with suggestions for blogs and books I should review. Thanks for all of your suggestions!

The Everyday Scrapper lives up to its name. I reviewed their posts from September 25, 2010 to October 25, 2010. During this one month of time, they had 23 posts. They didn’t post everyday, but you rarely went more than a day between posts.

There was also only giveaway the entire month. I am a fan of fewer giveaways. What I see happen on giveaway-happy blogs is that one post is soliciting entries to the giveaway. The next is a post announcing the winner. If a blogger only posts three times a week, then two of the posts are about giveaways and the third post might actually have useful content. Again, the giveaways help keep the blog running, but giveaways must be balanced with content.

This blog is also for the everyday scrapper or special occasion scrapper. For me everyday scrapbooking has to do with scrapbooking the ordinary parts of life in addition to the extraordinary. On this blog, the focus is on making scrapbooking accessible to everyday people. For instance on Frugal Friday posts, Christine takes a product sold as scrapbook supplies and figures out a more affordable option. I can’t wait to try to make my own homemade transparencies.

The Everyday Scrapper is has several people providing content: seven contributors and five sketch team members. On their home page you can click on each contributors name to be taken to their personal blogs. And if they have personal blogs, guess what that means?!? The Everyday Scrapper is not all about them, but is actually about scrapbooking. I love my scrapbooking celebrities as much as the next person, but at some point they must start providing content about scrapbooking beyond their own products in order to keep me as a reader. There was only one post specifically about one of the contributors in the entire month. Occasionally, their personal lives will be discussed in a post but the post is rarely explicitly about their personal lives.

Each day of the week is devoted to a different task: Sketch Sunday, Funday Monday, Tutorial Tuesday, What’s Up Wednesday, Teaching Thursday, and Frugal Friday. Saturday does not seem to have a specific theme. With each day having a theme, you quickly know whether or not you might want to visit the blog on that day. Personally, I am a big fan of Frugal Friday. The other days have good content, too, but if I only have time to visit once a week, I would definitely make it Friday.

My main criticism of The Everyday Scrapper is that most of the tutorials were about how to make flowers. Granted they were cute flowers and were made in ways I had never imagined. My problem is that I am kind of sick of flowers. If every scrapbook page has a flower on it, what makes it special? My other criticism is that they do not have a collective about page. To learn more about the women behind the blog requires the reader to visit each contributor’s personal blog and dig through the content there to find out what makes this particular women qualified to contribute to this blog. This is a minor detail, but one I think they should correct.

Overall, most scrapbookers would find useful material on The Everyday Scrapper.

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