Your history....digi scrapping? [Archive]

Nicole P

01-02-2010, 12:20 AM

So I am just curious. How did you get started with digi scrapping?
Did you do paper scrapping first? Or start straight with digi? Do you still do paper/hybrid or are your strictly a digi girl?

I started a long long time ago with paper scrapbooking. But back then, my scrapbooks did not actually have photos in them. They had memoriabilia type stuff in them and my photos were in photo albums.
When my 7 yr old was a baby, I was sitting up at night watching QVC and one of the scrapbook specials was on. I ended up buying an all inclusive kit that night. Looking back, it really was a horrible tacky kit, LOL. But that is how I got started with this type of scrapbooking in the first place.
In 2008, I bought PSE. At the time, I had intended to use it for photo editing and making collages for my paper layouts. Holy geez. I had a whole room dedicated to the stuff at that point. A whole stinking room, full of paper scrapbooking supplies.
I downloaded a couple of digi freebies and tried my hand at making a digital layout.....I was hooked. I have done maybe 5 paper layouts since. I have gotten rid of that scrapbooking room and now we have an extra bedroom. I kept a lot of things, like the really expensive stuff (stamps, cricut, cuttlebug, paper trimmer, bind it all, etc) but I put it in storage. I sold all of my paper and embellishments at a yard sale. I kept maybe an inch of the good stuff (basic grey, bazzill, etc).
So I am strictly digi now. A couple of weeks ago, I had this weird urge to play with real paper. I got out my little box of paper and started leafing through it. I picked out a few sheets and thought that I might make a card. Then I started thinking about all the other stuff I would need to get out, my paper trimmer, stamps, ink, markers, probably some ribbons....ack. I started to have anxiety cause I knew I would have to put it all away when I was done. So I just put the paper back in the box. :loudlaff:
Most of my friends are still paper scrappers. I get a mixed response from them. About half of them are very supportive. The often call on me for things like making collages, watermarking photos, etc. Then I have a few friends who really seem to look down on digi like it isn't really scrapbooking. Booooo on them. I don't really care. I love digi and am soooooo much better at it than I ever was with paper. I love the clean up....."save as" and x it out.

ANyways, so how did you get started? What's your story?

PhoebeJo

01-02-2010, 03:29 AM

Hey, Nicole!!! :hapydancsmil: I started with paper scrapping, too. And I used Photoshop a lot for my pictures...I think my first version was actually PSE2...eep! I had seen the Memory Mixer CD advertised on QVC...imagine that! LOL!! Grabbed those...they were my introduction into digi scrapping but that didn't last long. I started dabbling more with Photoshop and brushes...checking out blogs like Misty Cato's and Amanda Taylor's for instructions and...somehow...I ended up on a hybrid CT, which is how I met you! Yay! Added another hybrid CT to my list...then came the digi CT's and it has actually been a year since I've made a paper LO. I got hooked, too. I love the endless possibilities of digi. And even though I miss getting my hands dirty, I love that I don't have to clean up after digi scrapping!! :giggle: Isn't it funny how some paper scrappers look down on digi scrappers?? Can't we all just get along?? :loudlaff:

scrapwithnikki

01-02-2010, 03:33 AM

I was a hardcore paper scrapper but as soon as I was introduced to digi, 2004 I think, I was hooked! I was using Paint Shop Pro and making website graphics so creating digi elements came next. I was designing in 2006 and moved up to Photoshop CS2. I still have a bit of paper scrap supplies but my kids use them more than I do lol.

Bren Boone

01-02-2010, 03:41 AM

Well I was a die hard paper scrapper. I mean crazy hooked on scrapbooking. I was on design teams and went to retreats...the whole nine. I'd been scraping for about 10 years prior to digi scrapping.

I remember being in Wal-Mart one day and picking up a magazine with a GORGEOUS layout on it. I didn't really pay it any attention, just threw it in my cart and kept on walking. When I got home and actually LOOKED at the magazine I realized ...oh... digital scrapbooking? What's this? And read every single page and looked at every singe layout and was just AMAZED. So I went out and bought pse3 the very next day and downloaded the freebie from Scrapbook Bytes that was featured in the mag.

What I was even more intrigued with was how in the world were they making this stuff and if I could do it. So I started playing around in pse and hunting for tutorials and started designing shortly after that and sold my kits on ebay. They were horrible! LOL! And I had NO customers at all! So I took the plunge and bought Photoshop CS, worked up my bravery and applied at a digital store and starting my designing adventure. I even went to college and got my bachelors degree in graphic design. I wanted to know everything I possibly could about design...everything. That was 4 years ago and I guess you could say the rest is history. Wow I've been designing for 4 bleaping years. Holy cow.

Jenn Barrette

01-02-2010, 05:36 AM

I didn't get far with paper scrapbooking. I was expecting my first child, and started to pick up a bunch of paper supplies. My mom is a paper scrapper, and sent me a bunch of paper goodies, and I am a magazine fiend, so I started buying a bunch of scrapbooking mags. Well, one of them came with a free digital scrapbooking program (very very basic program) and I started to play with it...and was hooked! After my daughter was born, I was glued to my computer during her naps. It wasn't long before I picked up Photoshop (started with PS7) and a manual...LOL. I am a very matchy scrapper and wanted kits to match my daughter's clothes, and just like that I started to design!

I still have that neglected pile of paper stuff...and am just now starting to use it for hybrid projects!

Sokee

01-02-2010, 06:04 AM

Nice topic!!

I was pulled by my teeth to a CM party in 1991 and was hooked right away. Then last Christmas {2008} I ended up buying PSE7 at a great deal at Costco. I was seeing these layouts in gallery's that just blew me away, and wanted to give it a try. IN LOVE!! BUT I still do paper as I love to get my hands 'dirty' you know all the Tim Holtzs products ect..... I've also done hybrid projects which are fun! The latest one is designing layouts to print off onto fabric which I then sew into bags. FUN!

Jakajer

01-02-2010, 08:26 AM

Hi Nicole!! K.. you look totally familiar.. and I should probably know you from somewhere in the scrapworld, but just can't put my finger on it!
.. total paper scrapper here. We are building a house and had to downsize to a condo which left ALL of my paper in a storage bin. (sad story.. I know.:giggle:) Naturally.. I turned to digi. And let me tell you.. ONE bedroom condo.. THREE kids.. NO paper mess??!!! *sigh*, what a relief!! I'm sure I'll turn back to paper when we move into our new house.. but now I've totally got a soft spot for digi!! :sillylove:

mrshobbes

01-02-2010, 09:09 AM

Unlike many of you I've never paper scrapped. I am totally NOT craftsy at all (passed my Home Ec classes by the skin of my teeth, very sad). I found digi layouts on a friend's blog and asked her a ton of questions on how to do it. My siblings are both graphic artists, so I had a working knowledge of Photoshop and um, opening photos with it :25r30wi: I started out with PS 7 in Dec 2006, spent 2007 hunting down any freebies and tutorials I could find, and in 2008 jumped into my first community (MSA). May of that year I got into my first CT, and the rest has been a blur! I upgraded to CS2 some time in 2008 and still use it. Am toying with getting CS4, but I see no real need for it--YET. lol.

I didn't even realize til I read some threads in DST or MSA about the paper scrapbookers "looking down" on digi. I find that very sad--aren't we all here to have fun AND preserve our memories?

libbysmommy

01-02-2010, 01:32 PM

Like most of you, I started out as a paper scrapbooker. I was invited to a CM party, a friend of a friend became a consultant so I went to a few of them. I enjoyed paper scrapping, but once kids came along struggled with finding the time and space to get all my stuff out. I can't remember how I came to hear about digital scrapbooking, but thankfully it was just after I had my first DD. I started out with a very basic program (SBM), but soon realized the limitations of it. My DH got me CS3 and LR for Christmas one year (I must had been a very good girl..haha!). Once I got over the fear of playing with CS3 (it scared me at first), the rest is history. I love digital and even gave away most of my paper supplies since they were just sitting around.

My goal for 2010 is to step up my digi layouts, I've been pretty basic in my approach to most of my LOs. And hopefully there will be a CT spot in my future.

Fun thread, it's been interesting to read about how everyone discovered digital. I also have a couple of girl friends who paper scrap and one has commented that digital scrapbooking doesn't seem like "real" scrapbooking. I politely told her, it's "real" to me since it is helping me to preserve my families memories. We all have the same goal in mind, just choose to use different tools to make that happen.

mrshobbes

01-02-2010, 03:56 PM

one has commented that digital scrapbooking doesn't seem like "real" scrapbooking. I politely told her, it's "real" to me since it is helping me to preserve my families memories. We all have the same goal in mind, just choose to use different tools to make that happen.

Exactly. I'm bugged at how some people distinguish "real" scrapbooking from digital. It's like when people talk about online friends and their friends "in real life." Er, so who have I been chatting with all this time--figments of my imagination? :giggle:

(I refer to my friends who aren't online as my offline friends, lol)

Nicole P

01-02-2010, 04:03 PM

libbysmommy

01-02-2010, 04:05 PM

Exactly. I'm bugged at how some people distinguish "real" scrapbooking from digital. It's like when people talk about online friends and their friends "in real life." Er, so who have I been chatting with all this time--figments of my imagination? :giggle:

(I refer to my friends who aren't online as my offline friends, lol)

Haha! I know what you mean. I couldn't go without my online friends. Thanks to a shared interest, I've made some great connections with people from all over the world, who I otherwise would have never "met" or gotten to know. I like that - "offline friends"... :haha:

Sophie

01-02-2010, 04:10 PM

I'm another oddity I never really paper scrapped. I bought some cheap paper sets but me and glue don't work well together so I gave up :P I started out making signatures at an ivillage parenting board I co-led and then was introduced to digiscrapping by a friend :D I entered a competition in January 2009 as a beginner and did quite well and had a blast so I stuck with it. I just started learning to design this past few months :) xxx

gonewiththewind

01-02-2010, 04:38 PM

I love this thread!

I started paper scrapping in 1996 when I was pregnant with my daughter. My mom bought me a 8 1/2 x 11 album and scrapbooking set. It was hideous. But there wasn't much going on then, so I was happy with it. I paper scrapped for 10 years.

I was actually introduced to digi scrapping by Creating Keepsakes Magazine. Jessica Sprague had a tutorial about adding brushes to a photo and then I think another one was a circular photo collage. I downloaded PSE 5.0 in Nov 2006 and loved it so much I got it for Christmas. For 8 months, I used PSE to enhance photos, make collages, titles, etc. And then I stumbled upon a digi scrapping site (I can't even remember which one) and I was completely hooked. I had a 2 year old at the time, so it was great not to have any supplies out.

I have gotten rid of a lot of my paper supplies, but have also kept a lot for cards, school projects, etc. I've only paper scrapped once since I started digi scrapping just to prove to some of my friends that live in my computer that I CAN still paper scrap. :haha: It was a miserable experience, but I did it.

I just love digi ~ all the different styles I can explore ~ all the different goodies that are available. Mostly, I love the no mess, ease, and efficient use of time that digi scrapping affords!

maaike

01-02-2010, 05:33 PM

wow, my scrappershistory pffffff, lot to tell!
I started paperscrapping 7 years ago because I thought it would be fun the be creative with paper.(and like you talk about paperscrappers looking down on digiscrappers, I don't find cardmaking that great)
I was on a lot of dutch scrappersforums and in 2006 I was asked if I wanted to work in Scrapland Amsterdam! I was totally exited and I worked there for a few months ,worked on scrapmarkets and had so much fun...but got exhausted and had to quit because of healthproblems!
Then Marloes from another scrapstore asked if I wanted to work in her store..same story but I still teach workshops there and make excamples so I am still a paperscrapper too!!! I even have plans to go to the CHA next year to help with the orders for the store!
Digiscrapping I started in March 2009!I had bought a hybridkit from Prima a year before but had no good program to work in and last year I got pse7 and lightroom and am hooked on digi too! I love the fact that it is less mess and less energy to start and finsih a digilayout and you never run out of an embellishment!
Sometimes I do some hybrid things for my ct work for Nicole(hi Nicole:meet-1:)and I am in a few more ct's!Love doing it all!!!:happy046:

PhoebeJo

01-02-2010, 08:21 PM

(psst...Amanda...we met Nicole at ACB, remember??) :biggrin8:

Jakajer

01-02-2010, 08:41 PM

(psst...Amanda...we met Nicole at ACB, remember??) :biggrin8:

Oh YA!!!! Hi Nicole!! :meet-1:

lilbluekitty

04-02-2010, 07:18 AM

Sorry if this is long, I'm a very wordy person! Haha. :gigglesmile:

I've always really been into all sorts of art. The first scrap-type art I did was cutting out pictures and words from magazines like Victoria & Country Living in my journals. Then I moved on to making collages. Then when I was thirteen my mother was the editor of her college's newspaper and let me use the computers. I think I started out using Photoshop 5 or something lol and just playing around with pictures to make them look better. I picked it up fast and once I discovered how layers worked I became a Photoshop addict. I wished we had Photoshop at home but alas, it was too expensive for us.

I took traditional/digital photography senior year of high school and we used Photoshop 6 then. The teacher was surprised how much I already knew and I had a lot of fun in that class. My grandfather bought me Photoshop 7 for my graduation present so I could finally get some real practice in. :) My first year of college I took a class called Desktop Publishing and used Photoshop on a Mac, which was definitely different but still fun. Then last year my sister got me Photoshop CS3 which I totally love.

I actually started paper-scrapping first, but it became frustrating because scrapbooking supplies are just so expensive & sometimes I wanted to use some of those elements again but that would mean buying them again. So I thought, what if I just make it look like it was a traditional scrapbook page? It wasn't until last year I realized there was such a thing as digi-scrapping! Now I'm constantly combing different blogs and sites for new scrap goodies, and, recently, I've started making my own.

A couple of months ago I made my first kit, and I've made a few others to share on my blog. I'm currently working on another kit now. I'm hoping eventually to be good enough so that I can sell my kits :winking0071: & to get myself known in the community because scrapping is my passion! :biggrinn:

scrappydonna

04-02-2010, 01:01 PM

hi all.. im also a paper scrapbooker at heart before i dabbled into digital. started scrapbooking around 2005 when my neice was born... i find it really weird when i hear some paper scrapbookers look "down" to digi scrappers? i mean, how can it not be REAL when you also spend so much time infront of your puter to perfect placements on your layouts :glis: but unlike other paper to digi gals, i never see myself giving up my scissors and have my remaining paper stuff into storage.. i still feel very excited at the sight and feel of new pattern papers and yummy embellishments.. lol! :biggrinn:
oh and im dreaming of designing someday... i started a few years ago but.. blech.. lol! now i love making my own masks.. sometimes i give away as freebie to friends who ask for dload links but i never really put it on my blog (too shy, lol!)

emmasmom

05-02-2010, 01:23 AM

I was a paper scrapper for a long time, just not a very good one..lol! I stumbled open digi scrapping late last summer and the rest is history..here I am! I did use photoshop for editing purposes so I wasn't unfamiliar with it...but I'm still very new to the digi scrapping world :)

Davita

05-02-2010, 04:06 AM

I started as a paper scrapper too. Nicole, I also bought one of those semi-tacky, all inclusive kits from QVC. I thought it was beautiful at the time. :). I still have a room full of paper scrapping supplies. I had two problems with paper scrapping: 1) the paper was so gorgeous that I hated to cut it up and 2) my baby girl started to walk and I was so afraid that she would get hold of the paper cutter that I refused to leave anything out.

I got involved with digi-scrapping way back in 2005 when a bunch of us at 2peas decided that we wanted to learn. There were very few kits and only a few sites. Soon after Shannon formed DST and it seemed like digiscrapping took off like a rocket.

BBDesigns

07-02-2010, 04:17 PM

I started scrap booking at 7. I fell in love with stamps and post cards from around the world and skeleton keys. My family and relatives would travel and pick up all sorts of beautiful things and pictures for me. At Christmas time we would get together all 72 of us and look through the scrapbook I had made for the year.
When I got my first job, I blew 75% of my paycheck on scrapping supplies, thought about creating my own business lol. When I moved out at 18 and joined the real life, I scrapped but not as much. I barely had time and I loved to scrap but would almost hyperventilate at the thought that is was 2 in the morning and I had two jobs to work.
Than I had my son, became a home maker, I took pictures, but lost my spark, (we will sit and have some tea on that story). About 4 years ago I woke up and began a new chapter in my life, I started work in a coffee shop and I became passionate about it. I loved it so much that I began to paint and design store sales boards every month. I started taking pictures of regulars and events and scrapping them into two coffee table editions.
Than discovered I had cancer and while I was very enthusiastic on my new view of life, I was too sick to get out of bed most days. I had to move into my parents with my 4 year old son at the time. This meant I had to downsize and so I sold everything that was scrapbook related to a dear friend of my who hosted classes. My parents bought me a digital camera, my mother planted a beautiful garden.
I started taking pictures of the butterfly garden and there were these ginormous caterpillars, huge! I took pictures of them for two days and felt so happy. Well sure enough they built cocoons, and emerged as a variety of beautiful butterflies. I started feeling better. I bought a lap top so I could lay and play on the computer. That is when my aunt sent me some links, free digital scrap booking. 3 years later I am hooked.

monalisasmiles

07-02-2010, 04:35 PM

That's a real impressive story! I am glad you got over all you went through and have found scrapping again! Butterflies can be an inspiration, I think they are so beautiful!

BBDesigns

07-02-2010, 04:42 PM

That's a real impressive story! I am glad you got over all you went through and have found scrapping again! Butterflies can be an inspiration, I think they are so beautiful!

This would be the number one reason I went for Noticed and love love love the store collaboration kit. My favorite things are butterflies! The represent the best change, and wonderful connection with life!

monalisasmiles

07-02-2010, 04:47 PM

then i am glad we put them in!! :blunke:

sheana

08-02-2010, 12:59 AM

I was never a paper scrapper.. I just jumped straight into digi. Back when I started (late 2004/early 2005) I didn't realize that other people digi scrapped. I just knew that I loved photoshop and had a desire to create with it and so my love for digi began.

k23m

10-02-2010, 09:57 PM

fun topic!
I also started with paper scrapping - after I got married I wanted to make my parents and in-laws scrapbooks with our wedding photos. I got binders and page protectors (I was broke!) and all the cheap, tacky walmart supplies and went at it. After a couple of really AWFUL looking scrapbooks, I realized there had to be a better way. I got into paper scrapbooking through a kit club online, and someone there tuned me into digital. Then I was really hooked...I had a computer background already and so making the jump was pretty easy.
I still have a huge stack of paper supplies and play with them regularly, but I churn out WAY more digital layouts than paper. Its just so much faster.
Now I have a home business printing digital layouts so I have combined my love of scrapping with business and its the greatest!!

WeeFaerie

17-02-2010, 08:35 PM

I was a paper scrapper for a month and really excited about it until I bought photoshop. I put a pair of faerie wings on my new baby and that was it. I was hooked and never looked back. I love everything about it.

christinap

18-02-2010, 03:14 AM

Great thread, I love reading all your stories! I was introduced to scrapbooking at a CM party, I thought it was a great idea but a little boring to me. Then I decided to look for a paper company to become a consultant with, so I have a closet full of paper kits that I love but will never use. I started playing with digital when the company started selling a digital scrapbook program. I found it frustrating because I knew Photoshop could do so much more. About 2.5 years I started searching for digital scrapbook stuff and was amazed at how much I found! I didn't really start scrapping until October 2007 but I have not looked back! I love creating pages, I love not making a mess or having glitter and glue for my boys to get into. I have started designing, I need to get myself more organized though!

sunnie2004

18-02-2010, 05:09 PM

Exactly. I'm bugged at how some people distinguish "real" scrapbooking from digital. It's like when people talk about online friends and their friends "in real life." Er, so who have I been chatting with all this time--figments of my imagination? :giggle:

(I refer to my friends who aren't online as my offline friends, lol)

I went across the USA to meet up with some old friends 2 times for 5 days each and met my bestest online/IRL buddy in the world through scrapping and digi art as I like to call it. I have also traveled across the state to meet up with people I know from online! I would do for my friends online the same things that have been offered to me and I can't imagine not having my online friends/IRL friends!! LOL

mrshobbes

19-02-2010, 04:44 PM

I went across the USA to meet up with some old friends 2 times for 5 days each and met my bestest online/IRL buddy in the world through scrapping and digi art as I like to call it. I have also traveled across the state to meet up with people I know from online! I would do for my friends online the same things that have been offered to me and I can't imagine not having my online friends/IRL friends!! LOL

WOW! I've only ever managed to do this once last year--met up with a digi friend in Florida. We both traveled two hours to see each other and it was one of the BEST two and half hours of talk I've had! :Cheerful:

BBDesigns

19-02-2010, 04:51 PM

See I love this people getting together, some of my closest friends are online! My dream is to have a bed and breakfast for digi friends to get together, and have craft meets I love it!

sunnie2004

20-02-2010, 12:52 AM

WOW! I've only ever managed to do this once last year--met up with a digi friend in Florida. We both traveled two hours to see each other and it was one of the BEST two and half hours of talk I've had! :Cheerful:

YOu have to do it more often!! truely is such a good time until it is time to go then I cry...they all know this about me and I try to say good bye real quick hugs and thank yous and hurry and leave without noone knowing so I can cry on the way home LO I am such a big boob!

I love meeting people! Sharing thoughts and all that good stuf that seem to be "possible in face".

:aeroplane:

Nicole P

20-02-2010, 04:13 AM

See I love this people getting together, some of my closest friends are online! My dream is to have a bed and breakfast for digi friends to get together, and have craft meets I love it!

I have met quite a few online friends IRL. In October, 8 of us are getting together in an Amish rental house in Lancaster PA for a weekend. I have met one of the ladies IRL before but the rest of them I will met face to face for the first time, yet I have chatted with them online for over two years. I cannot wait!!

sunnie2004

20-02-2010, 12:56 PM

Oh good for you Nicloe I hope you all have a blast!!!

ellasspace

22-02-2010, 03:36 PM

I'm Ella ...I have used PSP for almost two years now got started with it at Ivil doing signatures, having no clue where to start ..I searched tutorials and taught myself to use PSP..I am now trying to learn PS CS4 but having a hard time switching over to it (so use PSP ..the transition is tough)..I am just starting to get into scrap booking...thought it was about time I did something for ME with my love of digital art. I still have a lot to learn about scrap booking and hope to make new friends and learn new things..I have always been a fan of digital scrap booking but just got started at it recently. Before I was a paper scrapper...I love not having a paper mess anymore when I scrap! I hope to make new friends while doing this and learn new things from all the talented women I have seen here.

Erica67

22-02-2010, 04:47 PM

I have a really different background story.
Seven years ago I became fan of a Dutch singer and came on this forum where other fans made wallpapers of his pictures. I was in awe and wanted to know HOW they made them?
I started with PSP in 2005 and tried to make wallpapers, avatars/icons and signatures myself. They were horrible LOL but I was hooked. In 2007 I made about 300 signatures of Take That (most on request) but I decided to stop making them and take part in challenges of wallpapers of famous people in 2008. I didn't even know what digiscrapping was at that time, until one of the other fanartists made a layout of her own pictures. It looked so real that I asked her if it was a picture of a paperscrap or pure digital. She gave me the link to some freebies and I was amazed by this other world of digital creativity. I started making digiscraps in 2009 -with photoshop- but sometimes I feel the need to make a scrap of a singer/actor/movie/tv show. So I do. I believe I can put more drama and coolness in those scraps and I love that. Preserving memories comes on second place for me, creative outlet is my number one. I always loved making collages, working with colours and lyrics when I was young. With this hobby it all comes together.
My next step is to become a designer next april, I'm very excited I got this opportunity and I hope I can add something special to my designs.

edit: I've arranged a meeting for Dutch digiscrappers and we will meet each other in april. Very exciting to meet those online friends IRL! If anybody's interested, just pm me for further details.

mrshobbes

24-02-2010, 02:06 AM

I'm kind of the same way, Erica, in that for me digiscrapping is usually a creative outlet more than memory preserving. But I suspect that will change once I have kids, lol. :D

Jenny79

26-02-2010, 08:39 AM

The first time when i have internet, i have look in the www and i found many children pages. I think *wow* this is sooooo sweet and a wonderful memories page for my daughter. I have beginn the homepage for she and while i look for examples pages i found wonderful collagen with blendings. I found this so fantastic and I have think who become I the many elements *flowers, buttons* i have search with google and found a freebie side. I have downloading this and i have many days working with this. After days i have found a scrapforum in german, i have register me and now I´m a scrapper ;)
I have work for 5 years with paperscrapping (Birthdaycards) but it was to viscous *lol* and now i scrapping since 4 1/2 years
The homepage from my daughter i have not any more:biggrin8:

alice

26-02-2010, 09:08 AM

I'm kind of the same way, Erica, in that for me digiscrapping is usually a creative outlet more than memory preserving. But I suspect that will change once I have kids, lol. :D

Yes! That's exactly how I view it.

jewelscraps

28-02-2010, 10:26 AM

i've been doing paper scrapbooking. Then when I was pregnant with my son, I joined a parenting board that had beautiful siggies. I started creating my own siggies and used freebie kits to make them. I one day figured I would try to make a LO, but I still preferred my paper scrapbooking. There's something about the 3d/pop out effect that paper gives you that I love (and still do but I love the easiness of digital more!).

I joined a CT back in spring 2009, and had fun. I also started designing my own kits. Now I'm hooked to both, oh and i still enjoy making siggies from time to time. In other words, I spend too much time at the computer :lol:

Sokee

01-03-2010, 06:21 PM

dansch

01-03-2010, 08:52 PM

first i make only collagen with photos, and then i saw so many wonderful digi-layouts and i would learn it too. This is 5 or 6 years ago. and i love it always.

talivstouwe

02-03-2010, 03:28 AM

I started paper scrapping in 2005 when our daughter was 8 months old. Loved it, loved it! Kept it up until I became pregnant with our twins in 2007 and we had complications and I was unable to keep it up. Then after the boys came home from the NICU in August I wanted to start up again but just didn't have time with a 2 year old daughter and infant twins. In October I remembered that I had Photoshop Elements 4 on my computer and decided to finally try it out. I had seen some stuff about digiscrapping in a scrapping mag. Anyway, it was pretty much all downhill from there. ;) I started digi full force in November 2007.

I don't paper scrap anymore although I still have a decent stash. Sometimes I go through it and drool over my old beautiful papers. :25r30wi: