Common Abbreviations Used on Rubberstamp & Scrapbook Lists
ADDY - Address (either snail or e-mail)
ADM - Administrative Message
AF/LF - Acid-Free/Lignin-Free
BF - Boy Friend
BFFL - Best Friends For Life
BFN - Bye For Now
BG - Big Grin
BIL - Brother-In-Law
BTW - By The Way
BW - Beautiful Wife
CAYA - Come as you are swap. You sign up for the swap before knowing the theme. When the theme is announced, you're on your honor to use the stamps that you had on hand when you signed up for the swap.
CH - Cropper Hopper
CIS - Crop-In-Style
CK - Creating Keepsakes
CMC - Creative Memories Consultant
COMM or ADV - Commercial or advertising from Vendors
CONMAIL - Conventional Mail
CROP - A scrapbooking party, named for cropping/cutting photos
CRS - Can't remember s***
CUBES - Wire rack system from Target, Costco and other places to store paper
DD - Dearest/Darling Daughter
DF - Darling/Dear/Darn Fiance
DH - Dearest/Darling Husband
DOTS/CTMH - Dozens of Terrific Stamps/Close to My Heart
DS - Darling/Dear son
DS - Dearest/Darling Son
DW - Dearest/Darling Wife
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
FIBER - Yarn, string, cording or other stringy type stuff for scrapbooking
FIL - Father-In-Law
GF - Girl Friend
GLUE DOTS - Gluey dots- adhesive dots .Great for sticking fibers and other lumpy embellishments down.
HALOS - Hook and Loop Over Stamps (use a clear acrylic block with Velcro-type strips, and the Ums have the opposite Velcro-type material on their backs.
IMHO - In my honest opinion or In my humble opinion
IRC - internet relay chat
ISP - Internet Service Provider
KIT - Keep in Touch
LMAO - Laughing my a** off
LOL - Laugh out Loud or Lots of Love or Lots of Laughs
LOLWS - Laughing out loud with snorts
LSS - Local Stamp or Scrapbook Store
LUMPY SCRAPBOOKING - Use of textural and dimensional items like pop dots, fiber, eyelets, brads, foam tape, buttons and more to give the page a dimensional look
MIL - Mother-In-Law
MM - Memory Makers magazine
OM - Old Man (husband, boyfriend)
OS - Off Subject
OT - Off Topic
PA - Punch art
PAGE KIT BINDER - A 3 ring binder or PSB where you store up to 20 or 30 page kits and take to a crop so you don't have to haul everything but the kitchen sink with you.
PAGE KIT - Page protector or zip lock bag with the photos and items like page and page additions that you need just to do that ONE page.
POTW - Project of the Week
PP - Paper piecing or page protector depending on the context in sentence
PSB - Paper sticker binder (storage) aprox. 14x14 size 3 ring binder for stickers and page additions or page kits
RAK - Random Act of Kindness/Kardness (a randomly sent stamped item)
ROFL - Rolling on the floor laughing
ROTFL - Rolling on the floor laughing (you'll see variations on this, such as ROTFLMAO, which is rolling on the floor laughing my ass off)
RR or Round Robin - all items are sent to the hostess then are mailed out with a list of all participants. The person will receive the package, go through it, pick out some stuff, send it on and it goes around like that.
RS - Rubber Stamping related
RSM - RubberStampMadness Magazine
SAL - Self Addressed Label
SASE - Self Addressed Stamped Envelope
SBing - Scrapbooking
SIL - Sister/Son-In-Law
slip in sleeves - Photo album pages that you just slip in the photo into a clear page with slots for 2 to 4 photos.
SNAIL MAIL - Conventional Mail
SNAIL - Regular Postal Service
SO - Significant Other
SOS - Same Old Story/Someone Special
SS - Secret Stamper
SSS - Secret Stamper Swap
SWAP - The exchange of cards, usually hosted by a stamper who sets the theme/date/postage, etc., receives the cards, and redistributes them. A theme is decided on by the hostess of the swap.
TAL - Thanks a lot
TAN - Tangent (not related to the subject at hand)
TIA - Thanks in advance
TILT BIN - Product for storing small items or hardware. clear acrylic bins that tilt out
TOTE - Big suitcase box on wheels to take items to cropping parties in
TOTW - Topic of the Week
TSIN - The Scrapbooking Idea Network
TTFN - TA TA For Now
TTPO - Torture the Post Office or Tickle the Post Office - Sending unusual items through the mail unpackaged- like plastic soda bottles, a mini toilet plunger, etc.
UMS - Unmounted rubber (not on blocks or foam)
VBG - Very Big Grin
VEG - Very Evil Grin
YL - Young Lady
