Customer Reviews

The Bad Girl's Scrappy Book

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

As an avid scrapbooker (you name it and I've probably made a scrapbook about it), I think this is a great book. Unlike some of the other people who reviewed this scrapbook -- who make a very valid point, by the way, to stay away if you're looking for something traditional -- I loved the fact that it is completely different from the other products out there. This is a must-own if you like Cameron Tuttle's "Bad Girls Guides." As with Vicki Iovine in her "Girlfriend's Guides", Tuttle's sense of humor is not for everyone. She espouses getting written up at work, earning speeding tickets, and coming up with aliases as part of the fun of being a woman -- not everyone finds things like that funny.

I particularly loved the lipstick page, where I could put on my favorite shades of lipstick and kiss the page to record the shades for posterity. I was amazed how the "bad fashion" page filled up more quickly than the "Beautiful me" page (1996 was a particularly bad year for me, apparently!). Most of all, I liked the irreverent, disorganized feel to the book. Like life, as you turn each page, you're never quite sure what's going to come next. Anyone can make a boring scrapbook chronicling a year in their lives (I've made plenty of those), but this one forces you to be creative and encourages you to find little ways to make the day more interesting, like collecting business cards from unsuspecting men, then pasting them into the section called "People I want to forget" or "People I don't remember".

Buy this scrapbook and have fun with it. I'm turning 30 this year and I've had a lot of fun selecting pictures from the last decade to include in it. There should be more products like The Bad Girl's Scrappy Book.

My older sister and I (both in our 20s) both bought a Scrappy Book upon finding them on-sale at a hip clothing store and we LOVE them! We are both also crazy into scrapbooking (in crafting terms), but we both are thoroughly enjoying these Scrappy Books still! True, they are different from what we crafters know as "Scrapbooking", but different is GOOD, especially considering that the very complicated and crafty art that we now know as "Scrapbooking" was originally spurred from "scrapbooking" in layman's terms, which is a much less complicated but fun way of recording memories, storing momentos, and journaling your experiences.
The Bad Girl's Scrappy Book is a rare treasure that is a blast both to work on completing and also to look back at later. Our personal favorites have been Personal Best and Worst, Worst Haircuts, Big Hair, and the People We Will Never Call sections. This Scrappy Book is the perfect edition to the Bad Girl series and any true-blue Bad Girl will love this Book. If nothing else, it aids a Bad Girl in effectively organizing a book in which to record and remember her Bad Girl memories and encounters and could be viewed as actual evidential proof of living a Bad Girl Lifestyle upon which to reflect and look back and laugh.
For the not-so-uptight Bad Girls that are avid fans of scrapbooking in crafting terms, you can always add in specialty papers, stickers, and the like for a very unique touch if you want to. My sister and I have done this and we have a blast combining the bad girl pages with additional Bad Girl-type specialty papers and stickers to embellish what is already there. This book is also a perfect addition to the Me and My Bad Girls Photo Album for those who have too many Bad Girl pictures for the book! :)

It's five stars when you live a five-star life! If you've ever looked for a scrap book that lets you to celebrate your single (bad) girl days, this is it! I laughed just flipping through the pages and imagining what I'll be pasting in (ridiculous notes on cocktail napkins, embarrassingly low balances on ATM receipts, found objects, souvenirs from late-night mischief, etc.). It's honest *and* hilarious. I never thought I'd want to scrap book before I found this! Great gift too.

I bought this at a store (not on Amazon) because it was on sale... and wasn't sure I'd ever use it. The truth is, I HATE scrapbooking. I'm not one for stamping borders and gluing photo frames and sticking stickers and all that. I liked this because it gave me a guideline for saving those little college keepsakes and put a funky, fun twist on it. I actually started looking for things to save just to put into the book. (Granted, I did it all with a Sharpie and some tape.) It never got me to start "real" scrapbooking though... I still can't stand that. :)

Today I'm buying one of these Scrappy books for my sister, who just started her freshman year in college... hopefully she'll love it as much as I did.

If you are a "scapbooker," don't get this scrap book, it isn't what you are looking for. It is a cute little book to store unconventional little mementos like parking tickets, fortunes from fortune cookies etc. Some of the pages might be a little too racy or grown-up for little girls, so save this for someone who is a teenager and can take it to college with her.This is a nice way to hold onto all the random things you've saved from dinners and dances and group dates, and not have agonize for hours over the perfect page arrangements and decorations. Who wants to spend their life perfectly arranging the "ideal" scrapbook? Try living a life instead.

This book is like a page by page scrapbooking template printed on pink patterned paper. The illustrations and designs are scrawly and gorgeous and the book is what it says it is: a perfect book for those who have lived a... full life. In some ways that's one of the drawbacks... to fill in every page of this book it seems you need to have a lot of bitchiness and hatred in you. One thing that might be useful for customers to know which isn't clear from the Amazon pic is that the scrapbook's cover is transparent matte plastic, which kind of cheapifies the book - but the book is spiral bound so the addition of stubs, papers and the link won't warp the spine of the book.

What a rip-off!!! I wouldn't even give this book one star, but it's the lowest rating Amazon offers.

I've recently become interested in "scrapbooking", which involves making creative, even artistic albums (of photos, ticket stubs, or any memorabilia). I have a few books which show examples of ideas used by other "scrappers", such as: mounting photos on different colors, patterns, and textures of paper, in contrasting/complementary combinations, or using fabric instead of paper; decorating pages with stickers, ribbons, glitter, pressed flowers, you name it; arranging photos and other embellishments on a page in a way that best creates the "feeling" of the theme (forget about those neat rectangular rows of pics!); and the ideas just keep coming.

From the description of this book, I expected ideas on how to assemble unconventional memorabilia (I believe parking tickets were mentioned) in a way that would give off a "bad girl" aura, the kind of ideas I wouldn't get in other scrapping books (which are focused on family).

Instead, it's nothing but empty pages, some with such titles as "the people I like best" or "the people I like least" (fifth grade flashback here), and a few pages for tickets and business cards (they suggest your hairdresser's) with gray squares arranged neatly (and boringly) down the page.

It's exactly like the baby book your mother kept for you, but instead of "the new words she said this week", it's "new cocktails I tried this weekend".

It's definitely a "scrappy" book.