Scrapbooking Gateway Drugs and Addictive Behavior Scrapbookers Gateway: a drug (cardstock) whose use is thought to lead to the use of and dependence on a harder drug (as double sided printed cardstock). HELLO, MY MAME IS CYNDI and I’m addicted to paper, glitter, and buttons. I’m on a crafting purchase “fast” and not doing well at all. I’m also sailing toward a crop addition. But there is nothing like an addition to paper. I recently went to a crop where we waited for almost over an hour in line in order to get a good seat. Obsession? Fun? What ever it was, it was FUN!! Once you are addicted, you will find yourself buying paper for an open van, in the middle of a parking lot with hundreds of witnesses. You throw caution to the wind; not caring who is looking or taking pictures of you feeding the paper beast inside of you heart and mind. And then, it hits you-the unmistakable smell ...