New pocket scrappers?

luckyme

luckyme

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Hope you're all having a great NSD weekend! I'm scrapbooking up a storm! :)

I thought that some of you might take advantage of the big sale to get supplies and start pocket scrapbooking. (You should! It's hands-down my favourite way to scrap!)



If you want to start, check out the Long-Term Projects Gallery. And please share your pages there! I love being inspired by the amazing scrappers here. :) You can also share your pages in the Long-Term Projects forum. There are monthly threads to share your pages and a master album thread here. SSD even has a pocket page Pinterest board that is full of inspiration from our community.

Don't think you need to wait for January 1st to start a pocket album! I started in October 2012 and I am so happy that I just jumped in!
 
I had lost my love for scrapping about a year ago...just struggled to keep going. I tried this out earlier this year and fell in love again! I did an entire year in just a few weeks, and I only wish I could go back and to the years before in this style! I love love it!
 
I woke up this morning thinking how much I truly love pocket scrapping and how you can make it anything you want to make it. Like Darcy, I had lost my joy in scrapbooking before I found pocket scrapbooking. When I first started with the pockets, I went very clean and simple and my focus was on getting photos in albums (from about a year ago):

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and now that I've found my groove again, I'm really enjoying going all out and adding lots of little details (from this weekend):

 
Digital Pocket SCrapbooking has allowed me to find the joy in scrapbooking again and actually SCRAP!! love love love!
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I feel the same way. Actually I could say the same for just digital scrapbooking in general. I paper scrapbooked for many years. I have an art studio filled with supplies! Then scrapbooking morphed into a love of all paper crafts, I especially got heavily into rubber stamping. Even going as far as to start my own rubber stamp company.

When it was time to start a family all crafting went by the wayside while we were TTC. Two years went by and we got pregnant with twins. From pregnancy till now my heart was just not in it anymore ( even though I still took tons and tons of photos). The early years raising my girls I barely stepped foot in my art studio. I couldn't go in there anyway since we decided to turn my current studio into a family room and I am moving the current studio into a much smaller room (half the size). Remodeling has been going on well over a year now. A few months ago I discovered digital scrapbooking AND project life and it got me excited all over again!

I have a closet filled with project life kits, albums and a small amount of embellishments and a hard drive filled with digital kits. The thing I love most about digital scrapbooking is that I can watch my kids and scrapbook. They don't get into my supplies and I can spend all my time actually creating and not pulling supplies out. I am so happy to be crafting again!

Even though I have tons of project life products I still haven't found the dedicated time to make a single page. But so far I have made exactly 50 digital pages and even have more than half of them printed already. I am waiting for a decent print sale to get the next batch printed. A couple of weeks ago I got my second batch of pages printed then two days later the printing site I used put their prints on sale for .99 a print! I can't stand when that happens. If anyone has a recommendation for nice prints at a great price please share the info!
 
to be quite honest, I don't really understand pocket scrapping. It just doesn't click as something that I could get into. I do enjoy looking through everyone else's pages though!
 
adi&co. said:
to be quite honest, I don't really understand pocket scrapping. It just doesn't click as something that I could get into. I do enjoy looking through everyone else's pages though!
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For me, it's about time and making sure our stories and pictures actually make it into albums. I don't prefer pocket scrapping to regular scrapping; I like my traditional pages more. But I LOVE that the years I've done PL I have a manageable list of pages I want to make in addition, and I will finish those years. I also love that my traditional pages for those years can have 1-3 photos rather than being crammed full (since some of the photos from a big event or photo session are on the PL page). I'm making about the same number of pages per year as before I started PL, but the years before PL still have an overwhelming number of photos left in my To Scrap folders. Last year only has about 15-20 traditional pages still waiting to be done.
 
sastampink said:
Oh Marla!
I really enjoyed going thru your album. Your dog sure sleeps a whole lot LOL. I love all the wheat and corn photos and just seeing your everyday life was so interesting. Thank you for sharing.
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Thank you so much!! :) I love looking at other people's completed books so I try to share, too.
 
adi&co. said:
to be quite honest, I don't really understand pocket scrapping. It just doesn't click as something that I could get into. I do enjoy looking through everyone else's pages though!
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For me, the beauty of Project Life is in the details. The little things are captured in my PL album, where they don't always get a spot in my regular layouts. I love both methods - I still love to create "traditional" digi pages, but my storytelling heart goes pitter patter when I get to share all of the little stories & things that happen to us each week. One is not greater or less, I love them both equally and together I love that they paint a really comprehensive picture of our lives for us to look back on later.

Plus it's a fun way for me personally to play with paper - since I do my album hybrid. :)
 
Oh Marla I love that you have your PL pages and traditional pages all mixed together. is that how everybody does it? it seems more appealing to me to have them all together in chronological order rather than two separate books for each kind.
 
I keep mine in separate albums. Only because Project Life is obviously very chronological. And when I scrap regular pages...I don't go in ANY order whatsoever. I don't keep track of what pictures need to be scrapped, what stories need to be told, I rarely even date my layouts. Even when I print my regular pages, I don't put them into the album in order because it would seriously take me a decade to sort them out by what date they are from.

I'll sit back and watch everyone on this site collectively twitch now. ;)
 
adi&co. said:
Oh Marla I love that you have your PL pages and traditional pages all mixed together. is that how everybody does it? it seems more appealing to me to have them all together in chronological order rather than two separate books for each kind.
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I keep mine together. I put all of the month's PL pages first, then the same month's traditional pages.
 
Oh man sara I could never do that. all of my pictures are organized and i keep close track of what needs to be scrapped etc. all pages are put into chronological order before going into the books! haha! scrapbooking is where my OCD comes out big time
 
Yes- I print them together in one book. I have several other projects going on at the same time (vacations, books for my nephews, etc) and sometimes go back and scrap older pictures, but I've kept up with each year since we've been married. It's easy to stay up to date when you don't have kids.
 
I decided to give PL a try at the beginning of this year. (I've had lots of digi supplies for it already and have done a PL page every once in a while in the past, so this year I decided to actually give it a try.) Then a couple of weeks ago I switched gears and thought about whether I would keep it up if I went all hybrid. And I've had a ton of fun. I redid my first pages from earlier this year, and now I'm only like 2-3 weeks behind or so (which for me is totally acceptable, lol!).

I just haven't uploaded those hybrid pages to the gallery yet because I hate the lighting in my apartment and getting decent shots of those pages is a struggle. But I love being able to play with my sewing machine, some roller date stamps, and the ton of digital supplies I have.

Here's the spread I made for Traci's new release last week:



Now I only need to figure out how to get decent quality shots and then I can start uploading my spreads to the galleries ...
 
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