We just received the Totally Me: It’s a Girls Life scrapbook kit today, and while I love the designs and components (the product picture is pretty accurate), the plant in China that manufactured the product must not have any quality control standards whatsoever. The cover (thank goodness it’s laminated) had 1.5-inch-wide smears of glue (thank goodness it’s water-based) all over: along the bottom edge, and in swatches 3 to 5 inches long above and below the frame in the middle of the cover. It took 3 damp paper towels to clean it all up.

Also, about 60%-70% of the punches that came with the kit are unusable — it looked like whoever packed it just took a handful of those babies and forcibly shoved them into a flat 60mm x 90mm bag, crumpling the majority. For those seasoned scrappers who have the speech balloon (these were the best), butterfly, splat, square, circle, flower, star, starburst, and heart punches, this might not be a big deal, but it’s definitely not fun to explain how some people don’t do their jobs to the best of their ability to a young girl who’s so excited about having her very own scrapbook goodies and whose mom doesn’t have the aforementioned punches to replace the ones that are too creased to be used.

Here’s a list of the contents from the box:
- 1 12″ x 12″ acid free postbound scrapbook
- 15 12″ x 12″ white paper
- 10 12″ x 12″ colored paper (5 pink + 5 purple in the page protectors, but the kit we got also had 1 each of yellow, pastel blue, and pastel green plus an additional pink)
- 6 12″ x 12″ patterned paper (all great contemporary girly designs)
- 24 die cut accents (cute designs; coordinates well with the patterned paper)
- 100 punches (about 150 were actually crammed in that bag, but only about 40-50 were usable)
- 720 stickers (the sticker sheet we got actually had 900 (30 across and 30 down) 7-8mm stickers)
- 24 die cut photo frames (they’re actually the leftover paper that’s around the 24 die cut accents above)
- 1 template (not rigid, more like those frosted plastic report covers, but has great patterns)
- 35 colored borders (on 1 sheet, 8 different colors in 2 designs, pre-perfed, separates easily, each one 6mm wide, except the die didn’t exactly match up to the print)
- 10 title diecuts (Celebrate, Friends, Happy Birthday, Happy Holidays, My Family, Pary, School Days, Special Times, Vacation (x2) in different fonts; wonderful color mix)
- 50 captions (speech balloon punches, some on heavier paper — included in the packet of punches above)
- 25 page protectors
- 1 deckle edge scissors (we received pinking shears instead)
- 1 acid free glue stick
- 1 acid free gel pen (we got a medium point gel pen with indigo ink that writes really smooth!)
- lettering guide (most likely the 8″ x 11″ sheet of purple letter stickers)
- instruction sheet

Overall a wonderfully designed product but woefully manufactured and packed.
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