Woman unveils dark side of scrapbooking

NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- A 28-year-old New York woman's scrapbooking efforts have unveiled the dark side of the craft through a litany of negative online comments.

Kristina Contes said that after she accidentally placed another person's photographs into a scrapbooking project she had entered into a contest, she became the target of numerous harshly worded online messages, the Chicago Tribune reported Sunday.

By using another person's work in her project, Contes had broken one of the rules of the contest and she learned the hard way that some people take scrapbooking very seriously.

"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."

But her sudden online infamy was not entirely unexpected as Contes had already had several run-ins with more traditional scrapbookers who opposed her unusual take on their craft.

"They're from the Stepford wife kind of mind-set," Contes told the newspaper. "You're doing something different, you must be evil."