I learned yesterday that there is an A side and a B side to scrapbook paper - all of it. One is meant as the star - think the reason you bought the little 45 of a record single - and then the B side - the song few knew. So the theory is if you use the B side, then you are using the "background/simpler" side. The A side is the "star". I never knew that !!!
Anyone else enlightened by this? I feel stupid
Cherry Jubilee
Cherry Addict
Not really, but I figured. It is very interesting. A star! lol
Bibi
Cherry Crush
I never thought of it that way. LOL! However, it drives me nuts when I pay for 2-sided paper and only use one side, so I either try to scrap a series of photos and use both sides, or I cut it and flip it around so both sides show.
Laura
A Cherry on Top
Yeah, you can tell by how it is shown on the product page as which side the company feels is the A side. You can also tell with many companies as to which side they put the printing on the info strip. For me, I may dislike the A side but love the B side, in which case I buy it and for me the B side IS the A side lol.
Cherry Addict
I never thought of it that way... in fact when I go to my local lss, they shelf the pp showing both sides (I guess they really don't havve that much product and this is their way of making it look like they have more)
Ann ~ Life is always better at the beach!
view my blog (new) https://ourhideawayparadise.blogspot.com/
view my blog (new) https://ourhideawayparadise.blogspot.com/
Chocolate Covered Cherry
I've always known there was a 'preferred' side. I had no idea it was called 'A' or 'B' side. It's a whole lot easier to say A or B side, LOL!
I have noticed here over time more and more companies supply ACOT a picture of both sides of a paper and more recently single photos of each side. It is in the interest of the manufacture to do so for the reasons ya'll have stated. We all have purchased a paper because of one side and never used the side we didn't care for. I know of three LSS's now that shelve paper by racking the same paper showing the opposite side. Drives me nuts because I'm so use to picking it up and and flipping it. At least now I do not have to in those stores. One of the stores who does this on newly released lines is Archivers. They don't do it when your looking at older lines.
The only downside to racking paper this way is you can't keep a larger inventory. I think this is why Archiver's racks only their newest lines this way!
I have noticed here over time more and more companies supply ACOT a picture of both sides of a paper and more recently single photos of each side. It is in the interest of the manufacture to do so for the reasons ya'll have stated. We all have purchased a paper because of one side and never used the side we didn't care for. I know of three LSS's now that shelve paper by racking the same paper showing the opposite side. Drives me nuts because I'm so use to picking it up and and flipping it. At least now I do not have to in those stores. One of the stores who does this on newly released lines is Archivers. They don't do it when your looking at older lines.
The only downside to racking paper this way is you can't keep a larger inventory. I think this is why Archiver's racks only their newest lines this way!
Cherry Berry
If Im buying a double sided page I will buy 2 sheets of it but if I can only get 1 sheet I am known to measure out where the paper is going to go then cut the paper away that is hidden.
This works great for photo matting.
This works great for photo matting.
Chocolate Covered Cherry
I wonder who decides which side is A and which is B. I do my own deciding, anyhow.
[font=Arial:ohrhf522]Pages completed in 2010: 179
Pages completed in 2011: 121
An ideologue knows he's right. A person of faith knows only that he doesn't know. ----Walter Gustafson, Everett. From Seattle Times, Letters to the Editor, 26 Mar 2007.[/font:ohrhf522][/size:ohrhf522][/font]
Pages completed in 2011: 121
An ideologue knows he's right. A person of faith knows only that he doesn't know. ----Walter Gustafson, Everett. From Seattle Times, Letters to the Editor, 26 Mar 2007.[/font:ohrhf522][/size:ohrhf522][/font]
Cherry Addict
I do this too. There are many times when I don't like the "A" side, but buy it for the "B" side!pawprints wrote:Yeah, you can tell by how it is shown on the product page as which side the company feels is the A side. You can also tell with many companies as to which side they put the printing on the info strip. For me, I may dislike the A side but love the B side, in which case I buy it and for me the B side IS the A side lol.
You don't quit playing because you grow old....you grow old because you quit playing.
Wild Cherry
YEp same for me, it is a bonus if I like both sides then I usually buy 2 sheets! LOL:winkb:Ayla wrote:I do this too. There are many times when I don't like the "A" side, but buy it for the "B" side!pawprints wrote:Yeah, you can tell by how it is shown on the product page as which side the company feels is the A side. You can also tell with many companies as to which side they put the printing on the info strip. For me, I may dislike the A side but love the B side, in which case I buy it and for me the B side IS the A side lol.
Susan
Cherry Jubilee
And that is their goal - to make you not to be able to live without BOTH sides. 
Cherry Bing
pawprints wrote:Yeah, you can tell by how it is shown on the product page as which side the company feels is the A side. You can also tell with many companies as to which side they put the printing on the info strip. For me, I may dislike the A side but love the B side, in which case I buy it and for me the B side IS the A side lol.
Ditto. I'm glad they make double sided, but not thrilled at the paper pricing.
*** Christi ***
Love to scrap - Need to scrap - Not enough time to scrap!!!
Love to scrap - Need to scrap - Not enough time to scrap!!!
Cherry Jubilee
And so many challenges and ideas now tell you to use double sided paper - and if you are stuck with ONE sided paper - you really ARE STUCK. The Phillies mini album in my gallery said "double sided paper" - I wanted to make the baseball album - and the Phillies "Kit" that I bought only had single sided logo paper. Swell. And that red stripe was single sided and the backside of the blue dots had BEES on them. Oh well. A lot of covering up was necessary to do it.
Information
Moderators
