Out of curiosity-What made you start scrapbooking?

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:blink:I kept telling myself that I did not need another hobby. I resisted. I found myself quite often browsing through the local scrapbook stores and was so drawn to the papers, embellishments and etc. I visited the internet scrapbook sites. I do not know "why" I never intended to ever buy anything to start it. I thought about it (often) and again resisted. Then, I got a photo--of my new grandaughter, Madilyn Rose-those sweet cheeks, fluffy lips and blue eyes with long eyelashes. That sweet little expression on her face--dang--that it was it--it drew me in--it deserved a 12X12 lsyout with a sweet little quote-a heart embellishment and all. This is how I got started. Now she is 3 1/2 and is quite excited about her special album--all about her. That one picture captured me, I do love my new hobby! dang
 
I swore I'd never scrapbook because the only kind I'd ever seen was Creative Memories kind of scrapbooking (think pictures cut into odd shapes on white backgrounds with sticker sneeze). That was until I saw a CM scrapper who had stepped outside of the CM box to create some really great pages. This came along at the same time that I began noticing a small memory lapse in me that we'd been seeing in my mom. She remembered so little of my childhood, and when I'd finally had kids, she couldn't remember much.

I was fearful, being an older mom, that by the time time the boys were old enough to care about the stories of their childhood, I'd be just like my mom, and have forgotten so many. Since I'm not really a journaler in book form, I combined a bit of hobby with journaling and jumped right in. Now the boys will be saddled with album upon album of their childhoods...but that's okay - when I'm dead, they can do whatever with them they want! LOL
 
I branched out from signature making. A friend told me that my sigs looked like mini-scrapbook pages, so I just started making them bigger. That was in 2003. :thumbup:
 
I was home for a weekend a few months after graduating college and "officially" moving out on my own here in MD. I had a full time job, and a new pet dog that I loved to take pictures of. I wasn't quite satisfied with just taking pictures and letting them sit on my hard drive, but scrapbooking hadn't really entered my mind either. While I was home my mom was going to go to her favorite little scrapbook store, so I figured I would tag along and we could have a little bonding time.
And the rest is history, lol. I've always had a love affair with paper and books and notebooks etc, so scrapbooking was a natural progression for me. She bought me my first album and supplies, and away I went. About a year after that I discovered digital, and now I rarely do any REAL paper scrapbooking. My supply stash is almost sickening, but I do dig into it for special albums and altered projects and stuff. I'll never get rid of it and I always want to buy more, but I know that digi is for me now, so I try and maintain a little willpower, lol.
 
After my son was born in 2005 I went to a paper scrap store and bought about 100 dollars worth of supplies to make him a baby book. I did a total of 1 page..hated the mess..packed up all that stuff and never touched it again lol. I discovered digi at the end of 2005 and never looked back. No mess, WAYY cheaper and just my style :) Since 2005 I've scrapped over 1300 pages! No way could I have done that with paper lol.
 
In 2000, Through work I was given a short term assignment in the UK... it was my first time out of the US and my step-dad let me borrow his new digital camera... remember those that took 3.25 disks???!!! I took over 300 photos and didn't know what to do with them and wanted a way to show them off. Like Darcy, I only saw the CM way and wasn't impressed... then I saw a snip it on HGTV... went to the craft store and was hooked. Then two years ago, my mom complained that she didn't know how to match papers and wished there was something that would do it for her. So I bought Memory Mixer off QVC and gave it to her for her birthday... she didn't understand how to use the software so the next year I installed it to see if I could learn it and teach her. I, being a die hard traditional scrapper thought Digi was below me... boy, was I wrong... I didn't like the limitations of MM, so I searched for other options in software and also found SSD... I do get out the traditional supplies to do hybrid... or create pre-made albums, which I sell in my business. But all my memories are scrapped digi.
 
I also made signatures, and while playing with that, a few of my friends that I met started digiscrapping. Mainly Vanessa and Katrina come to mind. They kept telling me to try it, so I hoarded kits for a few months, then finally I started to do it. I figured if I was spending all of this time in Photoshop working on signatures for others, I may as well take that time and make something for me and my family instead.
 
I started paper scrapping when I was still in high school, I just loved doing little crafty things and it looked like fun. Then I first saw digi in 2005, I wanted to do it right away. I got PSP for Christmas, but I had to update my puter before I could use it. By May of 2006, I was scrapping away. :thumbup:
 
I started when I was on bed rest for my youngest back in 2000 and paper scrapped for 3 years. I was just looking at my old books over the weekend and am soooo happy that I did. Our family had a blast looking back at some of our pages with the girls as babies. I hated my handwriting and used to journal on MS word and then edit my photos on PSE. II thought I would never do digi - just seemed wrong to not be able to touch and feel the layout. But I as soon as I saw how easy it was and faster - I was hooked.
 
I started paper scrapping forever ago. I started with CM stuff and quickly had to branch out. I still paper scrap about once a month--I wish I could give it up, but just can't. I moved on to digi about a year or so ago, sporadically at first. Then addiction set in and here I am! I AM one of those that misses my paper albums and that bothers me sometimes. Digi is just way faster, tons less messy, and just easier to deal with than paper. For me, that's enough to make digi my primary means of scrapping now.
 
I found out about digi scrapbooking when I was very pregnant with my second daughter and I knew I'd want to preserve memories of her life (& my oldest daughter) & I wanted a creative outlet, so after Halloween 2005 (2 months after she was born) I made my first page and haven't looked back!
 
I was trying to find a special gift I could give my daughter for her sweet 16 gift. I came up with the idea of making a book with memories of her and having her friends and teachers and family write notes I would include with the book. I never stopped though and two almost three years later I now scrap for creative release, to scrap memories and jsut because I enjoy it
 
I've always kept a diary & when I was in high school I started to add mementos to what I was writing, then I started making memory books with those sticky page photo albums. Then 20 years passed. Then I had the boys. I was making sigs & blinkies on a mommy board in 2005 and one of my friends discovered a site about digital scrapbooking. I loved her pages & she pointed me to some tutorials for PSP and I ran with it from there
 
I started paper-scrapping forever ago. My parents bought me a bound-book and some scrapbook stuff when I was 12 and I started & got into it. I was a paper-scrapper up until I switched to all-digital 3 years ago. I couldn't take the mess of supplies everywhere huge bulky albums. I've been scrapping for so long now I feel like it's all I do! lol! Especially since I have my own shop!
 
We moved across the continent and took over 2000 pictures along the way. I wanted some way to preserve them and digi-scrapping (I was introduced to it by Kresta) offered more creative control than plain old photobooks. Did the moving book and was hooked.

(Oh, and that first book is soooooo bad...I've learned so much since then!)
 
I started when I was young (like end of elementary school) with this obsession with keeping all the memorabilia of things that I did. And one day I just came up with the idea of making my own scrapbook album. I used heavy cardboard filled it with thick cardstock paper...punched holes and tied it all together. I wrapped the covers in the comics from the newspaper. I was little, what can I say? LOL! So...after I grew up some I started taking my own photos at highschool and what-not eventually started scrapping them too.

Then it burst into a huge hobby when I about 23 and went to my first Creative Memories Scrapbook Party thingy. OMG. I bought the "huge" kit that came with everything you needed to start scrapping and it was an addiction from that point on.

Now I'm even more addicted to digi-scrapping. Less mess, less time, less space taken up, etc.
 
I have paper scrapped since I was in junior high and made several albums for my nephews before my own son was born. But after having a baby in the house I found it very hard to keep all the stuff out and find the time to make a page...plus it was SOOOOO expensive. Before L.J.'s first birthday I saw an invitation on my Babycenter board that someone had made in Photoshop with pics from each month. I researched how to do it and started playing around in PS. I made my first page shortly after and I still have his 1st year paper book sitting in the office waiting to be finished.
 
I was making signatures like Jamie said, we all hung out together on ivillage and when my daughter was 18 months old her daycare class wanted some family photos and I had some scrapping stuff I'd been using for signatures. I printed the 8x10 page and fell in love with it.

Stopped making signatures and started scrapping. That was in 2006.

I did some paper scrapping, but it wasn't nice, just stickers and funky cut pictures.
 
I started paper scrappin in 1996 :blink: and digi scrappin in 2006! I took 3 years of art in high school and being creative was just one of those outlets that I always loved! I still paper scrap and actually just finished a Seaworld Universal studios album {that tags along with a Disneyland album which is 48 pages front and back}....I am one of those CM girls that play way OUTSIDE the box...I pretty much just use their albums and page protectors! and I probably have $3000 OR MORE IN PAPER STUFF:blink:

but I also LOVE digi because my didi skills just seem to be way better than my paper skills! and my sister should me acherryontop digi stuff and I was hooked and have never looked back...and I LOVE the gallery here for insipration :)
 
I read a parody blog about Twilight in which Edward scrapbooked. Then I went to Shappy Princess and downloaded everything she had for free. Hahaha.
 
I started out making siggies for myself on a mommy board. I also wanted to preserve my family's moments and while I had dabbled in paper scrapping I never really liked that end product. I grew up in an artistic house ( my mom was an art teacher, need I say more?!?), so I always figured I would end up with an artistic hobby. I started doing challenges on a different board. From there the obsession grew to what it is today which includes 2 CTs and doing challenges on at 2 boards. Digi is my life and I am slowly getting myself sucked into hybrid which I am totally digging!
 
back in junior high and high school I was on the yearbook staff and then editor. That was back before digital pictures and editing on a computer. LOL I loved it and made nearly all the yearbook layouts. I never got into paper scrapping though because I knew I'd want to pile on the embellishments and that was too expensive! So, when some friends introduced me to digital scrapbooking, I was hooked immediately!
 
Jennifer said:
I started paper scrapping forever ago. I started with CM stuff and quickly had to branch out. I still paper scrap about once a month--I wish I could give it up, but just can't. I moved on to digi about a year or so ago, sporadically at first. Then addiction set in and here I am! I AM one of those that misses my paper albums and that bothers me sometimes. Digi is just way faster, tons less messy, and just easier to deal with than paper. For me, that's enough to make digi my primary means of scrapping now.
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Yep, this is me in a nutshell!
 
I've never paper scrapped. I didn't really like the look of what I was seing, and I am not a crafty person. It wasn't for me, but i still had lots of pics and did not know what to do with them.

In 2006, I was on some Quebec boards, and in October, many were showing off their calendars that were about to be printed. I decided to make my own, so I started to dowload. My first calendar has a lot of Atomic Cupcake stuff in it, when they were making kits. :p
 
I had a bunch of boxes of memorobilia from growing up and decided I wanted to get them into a book so I could actually look at them. My friend was really into scrapbooking, so I agreed to go to a scrapbook night with her. Originally, I really just wanted to paste my stuff into a big scrapbook with very little embellishment and when I looked through her CK magazine, I honestly thought those people were NUTS for spending so much time, money and effort on it!

I never got very far on my scrapbook, but when we adopted my DD, I decided to make a nicer book for her telling her adoption story and that was when the bug really bit me. a few years later, I made the move to digi.
 
I tried paper scrapping after my first wedding in 2004. I did a total of 2 pages. I am too much of a perfectionist for paper scrapping to ever work for me.

Then, last year I got married again and all that happiness got me really excited about memory keeping. My memories of how I fell into digi are totally fuzzy, but I know I got my first peeks at Shabby Princess and Two Peas. I was thrilled to see that you could scrapbook in a way that wasn't ugly!
 
When my first child was born, I wanted a way to remember the stories behind the photos. I found myself adding captions like, "First tooth" to every photo. When I moved from a word or two to wishing I could add a few sentences, I knew I had to do something beyond just a photo album.

That was in March 2004. I researched paper and digi scrapbooking and thought paper was for me. (Um, do I know myself at all? What was I thinking!) My first paper page was 90% paper, but I used the computer for the title and photo editing. My second page I made my own paper, frames, wordart, etc. on the computer. I cut it all apart, glued it together, and added a few premade paper accents. By my 3rd page I threw in the towel and went 100% digi.
 
Darcy Baldwin said:
I swore I'd never scrapbook because the only kind I'd ever seen was Creative Memories kind of scrapbooking (think pictures cut into odd shapes on white backgrounds with sticker sneeze).
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Bwahaha, Darcy! That's exactly the kinda scrapping I started with. It was kinda forced upon me for a project in my church's young women group. We had to choose a theme for our scrapbook, and I went with Suzy's Zoo ... I wouldn't use any other kind of stickers, lol!

I was never really happy with my paper pages, even as they years went on and scrapping styles evolved. And then suddenly people were adding buttons and ribbons and metal embellies that you need a special hammer and tools for. I was still stuck on stickers! I couldn't imagine adding more mess, lolol.

So glad I stumbled across digital. :D
 
I started out making siggies for people at a Mommy board I was on. One of the girls there started to branch out and make layouts and I just sort of took off from there. I've never paper scrapped in my life. Too much mess for me! :thumbdown:
 
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