A scrapbook career in shreds - Los Angeles Times

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:33 AM EST

Article Source: The L.A. Times

The trouble in the land of foam stickers and glossy glitter glue all started in February, after Contes won a contest sponsored by one of the industry's most popular magazines, Creating Keepsakes. Her winning pages featured photos of her feet and her hairless terrier, Chloe. Her name went into the magazine's Hall of Fame and her work was published in a book of the top 2007 entries.

But Contes -- inadvertently -- had cheated.

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Chris Casciano

One person condemned Contes' lack of shame, admitting that she, too, had entered a contest once, and later realized she had broken the rules. "For about 10 minutes I kept thinking 'Don't worry about it, nobody's gonna know,' " she wrote. "But then I thought 'You and GOD are going to know.' " She withdrew from the contest so her children would still be able to look her in the eye, and then "proceeded to cry for about 3 days."

I think the person quoted here needs a more, um, professional outlet then scrap booking provides.

To all those upset I just want to tell them to get a grip, but I also know that there can be total DRAMEH in any kinda community like this - be it scrapbooking, web designers or people playing WoW - so I can't say the internet "outrage" is a shock. But the quote above is just way overboard.

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#1 - Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:57 PM EST

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Chris Casciano

Though this being the internets that totally could be the joker in the "group" making a satirical post that an outsider / journalist wouldn't have easily picked up on.

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#1.1 - Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:01 PM EST

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