When did you start scrapping?

[MirandaB]

I was wondering if you are a long term scrapper or a newbie?

I started in 2006..I never heared of digital scrapbooking before and I was soo happy with my first pages

When I look at them now, okay..never mind, you have to start somewhere.

I had a scrap-break from a few years but now fully back again.

Here is my first page, don't laugh



I dare you to show me yours

[jacinda]

I started back in 2003 or thereabouts, when my first daughter was born. I didn't know about digital scrapping, so started with paper, then swapped to digi a few years later. Importing paper scrap products to NZ made them really expensive, so it was a no brainer to eventually go digi.

This isn't my very first layout, but it's the first layout I posted here at SSD. All the other galleries I used to post at have long gone now.

[MamaBee]

I don't have my very first layout as I used Memory maker... but this is my very first one at Sweet shoppe. I remember I did it for a template challenge - never used templates before... and was the first time using Photoshop Elements. LOL! I never have been so frustrated! haha



2008

[KingsQueen82]

2013: This is actually the 2nd layout I'd ever created. I'd used quick pages before and was taking a digital scrapbooking course with Jessica Sprague so I knew a little about digiland/designers/CT's etc but clearly not a whole lot more! Crazy 4 Monograms had posted on her FB fan page that the first x number of people to reply would be gifted this kit and then people could vote on their favorite layout. The winner was offered a CT spot. I won and thus began my journey to becoming a SugarBabe!

[SweetChar]

This is the oldest one I have access to right now. From 2007. I may have been digi-scrapping for a year or half a year at that point.
I was sooo proud of myself for "splitting" that star so the little stars could pour out. lol And, goodness, I didn't recall being so flowery with words.

Dang I looked so young!

[erica zane]

I want to say around 2005-ish for me...? I sadly seem to have lost all of my earliest pages to a HD crash...but I found this gem of a collage with some on it

[MirandaB]

It is funny to see that we all had the same style when ee started. We have learned soo much in all these years!

[aussiegirl]

I started paper scrapping when I was a teenager (Creative Memories Albums). In 2006, we purchased our 1st Digital camera. Now, I am 100% digital. We still have some paper supplies and even a few CM albums that haven't been used. My oldest 3 girls still have paper photos that need to eventually be scrapped, and 2 of them have shown an interest in scrapping those photos themselves to preserve the memories...we will see how that goes!

My 1st Digital layouts were at another site that has since closed, but this is my oldest layout here at SSD:

[JillW]

I started back in 2006 - and boy (!) has the industry evolved! Thankfully, so has my scrapping ability - lol. I no longer have pages I created back then, but I do remember sitting at my computer in tears because I'd get so frustrated trying to figure things out in Paint Shop Pro. I don't recall finding many tutorials back then either.

[laurabobaura]

this is my first layout in the SSD gallery from 2009:



using product from traci reed and KCB xo

[TraceyM]

I probably began my scrapping journey in August or September of 2000 because I remember my daughter being 8 months old. As with many others, I started with paper layouts. Already I was also doing titles and journaling on the computer and printing them out. Before long I landed myself onto a digital CT and within 6 months of that, I was designing. This layout was one of my starting layouts.

[nesser1981]

Paper scrapping, or my best attempt at it, back when I was in high school in the 90's.

Digi in the summer 2006 when my oldest was about 15 months old.

Even back this I was a chronological scrapper! LOL! This was my first layout.