What got you started in scrapbooking?

EvelynD2

EvelynD2

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I got started in scrapbooking the year my son was going to graduate. The school he was attending would have a reception after graduation and each parent decorated a table for their child and had a scrapbook of the graduate on the table. Before that my photos were just kept in photo albums. That was about 27 years ago. :)
 
Actual paper scrapbooking I’m not sure I started sometime in middle or high school. So somewhere in the mid 90s.

I feel like I’ve always had scrapbooks.

Digital, I started in the summer of 2006, I’d been making signatures at one of the mommy forums and my daughter needed pictures for daycare.

She was about 15 months old, and I used a digital kit from the shabby princess to make something and printed it out.

After that I was hooked, I wasn’t able to keep up with paper scrapping when she was a baby. Digi was perfect. Almost 20 years later, still going strong!
 
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What we think of as scrapbooking... around 1999 after going to a Creative Memories party.

But I actually kept scrapbooks long before that. I would buy photo albums (type with paper pages that had a string tie holding them together) or artist tablets and glue newspaper articles on to the pages. I had an artist tablet full of articles about a cousin's college football career. I also had one of the photo albums full of engagement and wedding announcements from the newspaper. And, I would put the wedding bulletin in there if I had one from attending the wedding. I had memorabilia from high school in another photo album.

Then there were the photo albums with journaling that my mother made for me from birth to high school graduation. Those 2 albums were falling apart so I transferred them to black pages and put them in page protectors in CM coversets about 10 years ago.

As for digital, I started learning Paint Shop Pro around 1996. First learned how to do siggies for an online forum about learning the program. I used it as the software to scan photos as well. Around Christmas 2007 I happened upon a website about digital scrapbooking. I played with it using PSP and immediately got hooked. I continued with paper scrapping somewhat along with digital but went completely digital by the end of 2008.

I do still have some paper supplies (see above about transferring baby albums) and have done some paper scrapping for specific projects but digital is where I'm at these days.
 
Frames. I think it was Paint Shop Pro that had, was it, tubes? Whatever they were called, I liked putting frames around my photos. I was looking for more frames and found digital scrapbooking. That was in 2006.
 
I kept a scrapbook in Middle School. In High School, my mom and I found Creative Memories. We started paper scrapping using them! In 2006 we bought our 1st digital camera. It was too expensive to print photos and then paper scrap them. Plus I had 4 littles, making it also difficult to find time to scrap. Creative Memories came out with their digital program, and I tried that. It was ok, but seemed expensive to print. My friend introduced me to digital scrapbooking, had me join a scrapbook site (Gotta Pixel was my 1st one, it has since closed). From there I was hooked! I have been to wayyyyyy too many different sites that I called home, but now SSD is stuck with me!
 
I started when I was in university. Just little cut and paste albums for trips and stuff. I look back and think it was a different time. I really do prefer digital. But Now with digital supplies I really love how hybrid layouts look. Just don't have patience and time for all that. I started digital in 2012ish just before my son was born. I wanted to be able to quickly catch up on my photos that were piling up.
 
I started paper scrapbooking in HS. Then my college dorm roomie and I continued. mixing photos and ephemera like movie tickets, etc.
 
aussiegirl said:
I kept a scrapbook in Middle School. In High School, my mom and I found Creative Memories. We started paper scrapping using them! In 2006 we bought our 1st digital camera. It was too expensive to print photos and then paper scrap them. Plus I had 4 littles, making it also difficult to find time to scrap. Creative Memories came out with their digital program, and I tried that. It was ok, but seemed expensive to print. My friend introduced me to digital scrapbooking, had me join a scrapbook site (Gotta Pixel was my 1st one, it has since closed). From there I was hooked! I have been to wayyyyyy too many different sites that I called home, but now SSD is stuck with me!
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I always kept photo albums as a kid, with both photos and newspaper clippings. I remember making albums about horse racing, since I was obsessed with horses as a young girl... loved watching the Triple Crown races and was so excited when Seattle Slew won! Come to think of it... I don't know what ever happened to those albums....

Anyway, I started paper scrapbooking with friends in my 20's and we went to some in person scrapbook conventions that Becky Higgins was the headliner for. So fun! I never really found my niche though until I got a digital camera for my 40th birthday in 2005. I don't remember what led me to search for digital scrapbooking.... but I found it and have never looked back. I still make the occasional cards, but I don't do paper scrapbook pages anymore. Wayyyyy too time consuming (and messy!)
 
lorigaud said:
I always kept photo albums as a kid, with both photos and newspaper clippings. I remember making albums about horse racing, since I was obsessed with horses as a young girl... loved watching the Triple Crown races and was so excited when Seattle Slew won! Come to think of it... I don't know what ever happened to those albums....

Anyway, I started paper scrapbooking with friends in my 20's and we went to some in person scrapbook conventions that Becky Higgins was the headliner for. So fun! I never really found my niche though until I got a digital camera for my 40th birthday in 2005. I don't remember what led me to search for digital scrapbooking.... but I found it and have never looked back. I still make the occasional cards, but I don't do paper scrapbook pages anymore. Wayyyyy too time consuming (and messy!)
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I used to love to go to scrapbook conventions with my friends! We would shop and find the newest thing to use to make our pages! You are right about the mess! Little scraps of paper everywhere. :). Then came the clean up to put everything back. :). I love the clean up after digs-scrapping! I just shut my computer! :)
 
LynnZant said:
Frames. I think it was Paint Shop Pro that had, was it, tubes? Whatever they were called, I liked putting frames around my photos. I was looking for more frames and found digital scrapbooking. That was in 2006.
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Paint Shop Pro still has picture tubes. I don't use them much but some of them are great for creating scatters. I even experimented with making my own tube from elements from a kit.
 
LynnZant said:
Frames. I think it was Paint Shop Pro that had, was it, tubes? Whatever they were called, I liked putting frames around my photos. I was looking for more frames and found digital scrapbooking. That was in 2006.
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This!!! This is how I started as well...in 2006 :p tubes indeed, I used those half naked woman to make some sort of tags and when I started searching I found a mommy forum here in the Netherlands. I met Wendy (WendyP Designs) at that forum if I remember correctly and after that.....well here I am!! Hahaha
 
I think I've always done some sort of scrapbooking since I was little! Anyone remember Lisa Frank products? I LOVED them! All the cute stickers where so fun! I loved all kinds of paper products & making collages. I worked on taking yearbook pictures in middle school and high school.

When my daughter was just a baby, I bought my first Anna Griffin scrapbook collection and albums from the home shopping channel late one night while I was up feeding her in the middle of the night. I loved browsing the aisles of A.C.Moore for scrap supplies to use one day! I think I found digital around 2007 when my son was born. I bought a scrapbook program at a bargain outlet store, I can't remember what it was called, and just kind of stumbled upon digital while searching on the internet.
 
3BluEyedBabies said:
I think I've always done some sort of scrapbooking since I was little! Anyone remember Lisa Frank products? I LOVED them! All the cute stickers where so fun! I loved all kinds of paper products & making collages. I worked on taking yearbook pictures in middle school and high school.

When my daughter was just a baby, I bought my first Anna Griffin scrapbook collection and albums from the home shopping channel late one night while I was up feeding her in the middle of the night. I loved browsing the aisles of A.C.Moore for scrap supplies to use one day! I think I found digital around 2007 when my son was born. I bought a scrapbook program at a bargain outlet store, I can't remember what it was called, and just kind of stumbled upon digital while searching on the internet.
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I always loved Anna Griffin as well! I would buy so many scrapbook kits from QVC! I started out with the software Craft Artist and was on their website Daisy Trail but then it closed down.
 
EvelynD2 said:
I surre do! I got so sick of triangles! I also cut my photos into weird shapes like stars and hearts! What was I thinking?!!!
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I loved the triangles! Before I quit being a consultant I bought several packages of the triangles that were to be used in the home classes. I still have them! My paper pages were always very minimal so the triangles worked for me.

Any pages I do now definitely have strips and triangles on them. But not stickers. Got rid of those years ago by giving them to a 1st grade teacher. I saw her at a funeral in December and she said she still uses them and her kids love them!
 
I've always kept a journal. My 2nd grade school teacher had us write in our journals daily and that's when I remember I started. I liked writing my feelings down and recording my daily activities and I would always add some artwork on my pages. Sometimes I would draw and color it, other times I would cut a picture from a magazine and paste it in. That was my first approach to scrapbooking I would say. I'm now 63 years old and recording still. It just does something for my soul!

Do you remember the computer software "Print Shop?" I really enjoyed that when I was a school teacher. Then I got into "Elements."

I was thrilled when I learned Photoshop - it's so magical.
 
Kim Hansen said:
Do you remember the computer software "Print Shop?" I really enjoyed that when I was a school teacher. Then I got into "Elements."
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I do remember Print Shop. I used it with a dot matrix printer (remember those????) to make banners for my dad's retirement and a welcome home banner that I hung in the garage when my parents returned from their 3 months in Florida one year. I'm sure I made other things but those 2 are the ones I remember.
 
I actually have a scrapbook I made when I was 9 or something! But I really started around 2009- when I had my first son. I have forgotten what got me into the hobby, but my photography hobby is also as old as that same son :p
So I guess I just needed something to do with all the photos.
 
I started scrapbooking as a kid, the old black books tied with string and photo corners. I started 12x12 post bound style in 97 when my son was born. Back when 12x12 papers were rare and only die cuts and markers were common. I said I'D NEVER go digital but when we moved to Nevada I had to downsize and it was too hard to drag everything out.
 
Paper scrapbooking began in grade 4, in the clippings into book sense. High school for adding photos and journaling. Digital scrapbooking began when I was frustrated with the "help" my cat was giving, and went to 99% digital when I started dealing with chronic pain as it was something I could do even if I was stuck in bed. (although learned not to trust my journaling after a few incoherent ones!)
 
Kim Hansen said:
I've always kept a journal. My 2nd grade school teacher had us write in our journals daily and that's when I remember I started. I liked writing my feelings down and recording my daily activities and I would always add some artwork on my pages. Sometimes I would draw and color it, other times I would cut a picture from a magazine and paste it in. That was my first approach to scrapbooking I would say. I'm now 63 years old and recording still. It just does something for my soul!

Do you remember the computer software "Print Shop?" I really enjoyed that when I was a school teacher. Then I got into "Elements."

I was thrilled when I learned Photoshop - it's so magical.
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That's awesome, Kim! I didn't use Print Shop but started making teaching materials using PowerPoint so it was a bit easier for me to transition into Photoshop Elements but there is still so much still to learn!
 
bumblebeee said:
Paper scrapbooking began in grade 4, in the clippings into book sense. High school for adding photos and journaling. Digital scrapbooking began when I was frustrated with the "help" my cat was giving, and went to 99% digital when I started dealing with chronic pain as it was something I could do even if I was stuck in bed. (although learned not to trust my journaling after a few incoherent ones!)
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I used to paper scrapbook too and I sure don't miss the mess! :). I am so glad you can scrap now even if there are times you have to be in bed because you aren't feeling well.
 
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