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Scandals, scandals everywhere! Even within the scrapbooking community.

Kristina Contes won a prestigious scrapbooking award and had her title revoked because the photo in the layout was taken by her friend. That’s not really the scandal, though. The work had to be completely your own and they have to stick to the rules. I completely understand that. What is so crazy about this whole thing is the way she was treated by the scrapbooking community.

Go read the article. It’s worth a good laugh, I promise.

Here’s some good quotes from it that gave me a little chuckle.

Disgruntled scrapbookers besieged the Creating Keepsakes chat room threatening to cancel subscriptions, boycott and sue. Scrapbooking bloggers called it “Hall of Fame-Gate,” naming it the top scrapbooking scandal of 2007. They compared it to the performance-enhancing-drug controversies involving major league baseball player Barry Bonds and Olympic track star Marion Jones. Someone wrote that Contes was as polarizing a figure as Martha Stewart.

“I, seriously, was like the Lindsay Lohan of scrapbooking,” Contes said. “I didn’t just sign a million-dollar movie contract. I’m not on a billboard on the side of the road. I’m just a scrapbooker

The Lindsay Lohan of scrapbooking? Come on now, that is funny stuff, peoples!

I have seen so many catfights on the internet so this really doesn’t surprise me. When I was making soap I visited soapmaking forums. Oh my, them girls can thrown down over a stinky bar of soap. Just rip each other to hell and back. Then I got involved in an American Idol fan forum and experienced first hand the drama that goes along with that. Backstabbing, gossip, name calling…you name it.

Now if you’re a scrapper don’t go gettin’ all upset with me. I’m not poking fun at scrapbooking. I truly admire the work that goes into creating this type of art. I just think the whole internet bully thing is getting out of hand here.

What do you think?