How exciting to be asked to contribute articles to a papercrafting magazine. I used to make lots of cards, too. I love punches and still have most of mine.
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Were you a paper scrapper......................
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I'm right there with you on not throwing away my paper. I loved BG and still have lots of it. Digi scrapping is sure a lot cheaper than paper.
AK_Tracy
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Not for me!!!! I knew hubs would see whatever I brought home in paper form. And he would see the ever growing bucket of supplies. For me digital is way way way more speedy! No one sees, it takes less space, impulse buys are WAY easier. I dont have to get dressed or leave my house! Yeah, not good for me LOL But oh so fun!
Well, for me it is. I was lucky that I was on so many CT's (We called them Design Teams back in the horse and buggy days). I used to get boxes of goodies every month. My DD quit scrapping because she said she couldn't afford to get $20 tied up in a page. I guess I always wanted the whole" enchilada" - the whole kit - lots of goodies and I rememer all of the designers who offered paper, plus all of the other matching goodies.
AK_Tracy
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Horse and buggy days
I too want ALL of it but not being on CT means it gets expensive. Need a pay raise LOL
How fun reading about how everyone got into digital scrapbooking! I used to paper scrap years and years ago and I remember having to 'smuggle' in my scrapbook supplies into the house, using 'grocery branded bags' so hubby wouldn't see EVERYTHING I bought!!! When I look back on that now I do believe that I just loved the 'buying and hoarding' part, taking out and looking at those precious papers to simply look at them as I was NEVER going to cut into them!!!!!!!
I have fond memories of going on weekend trips with my sister, visiting every craft or quilting shop we could find!! 
Around 2008 I was creating training manuals at work and was using PSP and Microsoft Publisher and really enjoyed the process of designing them and then a close friend of mine asked me to design a CD cover for her niece who was a singer who had just created her first CD to sell (privately, no record company). I had this image in my head of how I wanted it to look and spent hours on the internet (at work mind you as our internet at home was dial up and way too slow!!!) and lo! and behold!!!! I found digital scrapbooking!!! 
Have never looked back since then!!! STILL love it, and I DO need to do it everyday, it's such such a wonderful refuge from all of the worries of the world!
I kept all my paper stuff until we moved down here to Tassie in 2018, and then gave everything away to my then daughter in law for her and the kids to use but then I regretted giving away some of the things as I really got into art journaling down here so I am back to buying supplies again!! But I don't think I will be giving away my digital art, you will most probably see me in years to come in the old people's home, while everyone else is playing bingo I will be scrapping!
When I look back on that now I do believe that I just loved the 'buying and hoarding' part, taking out and looking at those precious papers to simply look at them as I was NEVER going to cut into them!!!!!!!I have fond memories of going on weekend trips with my sister, visiting every craft or quilting shop we could find!! Around 2008 I was creating training manuals at work and was using PSP and Microsoft Publisher and really enjoyed the process of designing them and then a close friend of mine asked me to design a CD cover for her niece who was a singer who had just created her first CD to sell (privately, no record company). I had this image in my head of how I wanted it to look and spent hours on the internet (at work mind you as our internet at home was dial up and way too slow!!!
) and lo! and behold!!!! I found digital scrapbooking!!! Have never looked back since then!!! STILL love it, and I DO need to do it everyday, it's such such a wonderful refuge from all of the worries of the world!I kept all my paper stuff until we moved down here to Tassie in 2018, and then gave everything away to my then daughter in law for her and the kids to use but then I regretted giving away some of the things as I really got into art journaling down here so I am back to buying supplies again!!
But I don't think I will be giving away my digital art, you will most probably see me in years to come in the old people's home, while everyone else is playing bingo I will be scrapping!
Oh, Ona you just made me 
- you were in the horse and buggy days, too. It seems SO long ago, but also seems like yesterday. Dang, did I HATE to cut into that precious paper and still have a whole box full of it. I just can't part with it!! I can also relate to just handling and loving all of my "stuff". I still love doing that and have way more of it than I'll ever use, but I just can't part with it. I've pared it down quite a bit, but some of it I'll never get rid of.
I'll bet you do regret giving your stuff to your then DIL. ACK! Oh well, you did what you thought was the thing to do at the time. I also remember going to every scrapbooking store everywhere I went and to all the other craft stores. I still love and have quite a bit of Tim Holtz stuff - I think that's when i got the "messy art" bug even before digi. One of my favorite quotes is "II can buy all of the scrapbooking supplies that I can hide from my husband" - something like that. Mine never really cared, but i always felt a little guilty about all the money I spent - I was doing a lot of altered art back in the old days, too. I was even making my own books. it got pricey.
That's so interesting how you got the digi bug. I remember back in the old days how excited I was to find an online scrapping site. Haha "dial up internet" - that horrible noise!!!! Then, "You've Got Mail". You can still hear that noise online - EEKKKKK!!
- you were in the horse and buggy days, too. It seems SO long ago, but also seems like yesterday. Dang, did I HATE to cut into that precious paper and still have a whole box full of it. I just can't part with it!! I can also relate to just handling and loving all of my "stuff". I still love doing that and have way more of it than I'll ever use, but I just can't part with it. I've pared it down quite a bit, but some of it I'll never get rid of. I'll bet you do regret giving your stuff to your then DIL. ACK! Oh well, you did what you thought was the thing to do at the time. I also remember going to every scrapbooking store everywhere I went and to all the other craft stores. I still love and have quite a bit of Tim Holtz stuff - I think that's when i got the "messy art" bug even before digi. One of my favorite quotes is "II can buy all of the scrapbooking supplies that I can hide from my husband" - something like that.
Mine never really cared, but i always felt a little guilty about all the money I spent - I was doing a lot of altered art back in the old days, too. I was even making my own books. it got pricey.That's so interesting how you got the digi bug. I remember back in the old days how excited I was to find an online scrapping site. Haha "dial up internet" - that horrible noise!!!! Then, "You've Got Mail". You can still hear that noise online - EEKKKKK!!
ahhh the good ol' days!!!!
good grief!! I had forgotten about that sound!! Makes you wonder what it will be like in another 10 years time ..................... we might just have plug something into our head and just tell the program what we want it to do!!!!!
I knew you'd love this, Ona! Brings back (screaming) memories. We just might have to plug into our heads.
I was a paper scrapper staring in 1995, just as scrapbooking was taking off again. In 1998 the Arkansas-Oklahoma (AOK) Division of The Salvation Army (many Americans don't know The Army is a church and as officers we were the pastors at our assigned location. First Tulsa, then Norman, Oklahoma) started a women's retreat called Scrap 'N' Praise. We would scrap a while and had some super classes - all included in the cost of the weekend - then we would have sing-alongs and other praise meetings in between. It was a wonderful 4 day weekend and, as a staff member, mine was all paid for. I learned so much and did some Creative Memories, too, but really wanted to make scrapbooks like my friend, Annette. Hers are drop dead gorgeous, so swoon-worthy. But they were expensive and with 2 young children took a huge amount of time. I did some pages with Microsoft Publisher but it was quite limited so I kept mostly with paper but did some hybrid stuff until 2004 when I was looking for an inexpensive craft for my ladies group at the church and ran across a hybrid project on RAKScraps. We made some darling paper Easter treat baskets with my scrapbooking supplies.
Shortly thereafter, I was hooked on digi! I used Microsoft Digital Image Pro until they discontinued it then converted, kicking and screaming to PSCC. I am happy with that now, but I sure wasn't at first. I bought my first kit, a family family history kit, from E-Scape and Scrap and have never looked back. It is totally AMAZING what I can do with digi and I don't know more than a third of what PSCC will do.
Paper scrapping does affect my digi scrapping. I can create pages just like Annette's at a fraction of the cost and can add all the wonderful hybrid elements like real lace and stuff when I print. I look at paper sites all the time for ideas. That said, even though my boys used tons of my supplies for school projects and I donated a boatload of them for silent auction band fund raisers, I still have a couple $1000 dollars of supplies in storage. When I get them here, I may see if any of the divisions are still doing retreats like Scrap 'N' Praise and donate them.
Shortly thereafter, I was hooked on digi! I used Microsoft Digital Image Pro until they discontinued it then converted, kicking and screaming to PSCC. I am happy with that now, but I sure wasn't at first. I bought my first kit, a family family history kit, from E-Scape and Scrap and have never looked back. It is totally AMAZING what I can do with digi and I don't know more than a third of what PSCC will do.
Paper scrapping does affect my digi scrapping. I can create pages just like Annette's at a fraction of the cost and can add all the wonderful hybrid elements like real lace and stuff when I print. I look at paper sites all the time for ideas. That said, even though my boys used tons of my supplies for school projects and I donated a boatload of them for silent auction band fund raisers, I still have a couple $1000 dollars of supplies in storage. When I get them here, I may see if any of the divisions are still doing retreats like Scrap 'N' Praise and donate them.
Oh my goodness, Susan, what an amazing legacy you've had with paper/didi scrapping. I think I KNEW that you were involved with The Army, but I apologize, I had forgotten. What a wonderful story and it made me gain a whole new respect for the Salvation Army. Those retreats must have been simply wonderful, and you started about the same time as I did. (I started paper scrapping in 1996). Tulsa and Norman are very close to where I live now.
I remember how expensive paper scrapping could be - especially if you did the "thick" pages like your friend did and like I did. ( started paper scrapping in 1996). My pages were so thick that I could only get a few of them in a 12x12 album without it being so cumbersome that you could hardly handle it. My DD, Adrienne, has my paper albums - she begged me for them, and she has treasured them and always will and I can look at them whenever i want to. I took pictures of a lot of my pages and as you know, the pictures don't take up the space that the real pages did.
I'm SO glad I started this thread - it has been so much fun to hear all of your stories. You probably remember the AOL dial-up sound. I posted it in a previous post - what a screeching but fun sound (we were going online) it was.
I remember how expensive paper scrapping could be - especially if you did the "thick" pages like your friend did and like I did. ( started paper scrapping in 1996). My pages were so thick that I could only get a few of them in a 12x12 album without it being so cumbersome that you could hardly handle it. My DD, Adrienne, has my paper albums - she begged me for them, and she has treasured them and always will and I can look at them whenever i want to. I took pictures of a lot of my pages and as you know, the pictures don't take up the space that the real pages did.
I'm SO glad I started this thread - it has been so much fun to hear all of your stories. You probably remember the AOL dial-up sound. I posted it in a previous post - what a screeching but fun sound (we were going online) it was.
Oh heavens, I'm a quilter and I smuggled in so much fabric and my sewing room looks like whatever the current hurricane is, is blowing through it. It's kinda, sorta, almost, not really organized and I get overwhelmed at the idea of cleaning it up. If I'd started another messy hobby like paper scrapping, I wouldn't have just celebrated my 46th wedding anniversary. Digital is waaaayyyyyy easier to smuggle in and I did some major smuggling when I came to the O. I'd become an expert smuggler at my old home, but I'm OOOOOOOOOOOOOO soooooooooooooooo happier here.
Haha - "smuggled" - There used to be a phrase with paper scrappers "I can buy ALL of the scrapbooking supplies that I can hide from my husband". You just made me remember that.
My husband didn't really care, but a lot of them did. I did used to "fudge" a little and tell him that I was receiving a lot of free product. I WAS, but not THAT much. I was on several CTs and DID get a lot but I bought a lot more, too. Yes, you're right about the mess that we make with our hobbies. We're SO happy that you're here, too!!!
Oh wow!!! You ladies are hysterical but I can soooo relate. I did paper crafts and scrapped FOREVER, since I was a kid, fussy cutting out birthday cards! all the way thru Creative Memories and going to Meijers grocery store and buying whatever I could afford at the time and if you lived in Michigan, Meijers was like mega grocery store like Walmart...also smuggling into the house. I ALSO quilted and did ALL kinds of crafts. And then we moved to Japan where there was NO scrap stores or places to get stuff and I found my digi people online: DigiChicks and DST and Mscraps of old!!! I am dating myself! And yes I still have my paper and fabric...my husband says if there is a housefire, it's my fault. He hopes that he will no longer have to haul around my boxes of craft stuff around the world as he had to do due to our moving around a lot...I told him, I will be gurneyed out of this house and buried with my stuff!!! LOL
Oh my gosh, Vivienne, how interesting. I wonder how many of us started with Creative Memories?? I KNOW I did - my DD "dragged" me to a CM party and I wanted NO part of it. SO, I caught "the scrapbooking bug" and she didn't. I remember all the fussy cutting and the actual cutting of my photographs.
How many of them I cut up with those "fancy scissors". YIKES~ I can't believe you mentioned Meijers - I used to LOVE to go there - like you said to "buy whatever they had". Then, Walmart, then some other big box stores. We ALL "smuggled" that's for sure. What a shock moving to Japan and having NO stores. Thank goodness you found some digi scrappers. Thanks for sharing some great memories and giggles with us.
I did paper scrapping for over 10 years, before I knew about it, I made my own primative scrapbooks. I tried to sell Stampin Up and messed around with Creative Memories and answered an ad on Digishoptalk in 2020 for advertising on a team- but didn't know it was digi and I had never done that. Her name was Jeanette de Ore (spelled) and she turned out to be the nicest person ever. She helped me so much. Then I found another designer who was a big help as well and more and more were helped me along the way, but they no longer design. The I was teaching myself PSE (with lots of help). I have been digi for 14 years now.
That's so interesting, Sharon. I too made my own books. I also taught myself PSE, with the help of lots of You Tube tutorials. I started dabbling in digi in about 2010/11. I held on to paper scrapping for a long time, but the digi bug finally bit me.
I was a paper scrapper too. I haven't get rid of scrapping tools. My daughters are using my supplies for their projects or cards.
Our tools and left over paper scrapping stuff really come in handy for things like this!
Oh how awesome! BG was one of my favorites and I still have some paper. I'm glad you found some paper stuff! I've never tried quilling, but think it's beautiful!Thanks to this topic i went to some old places and searched for example Basis Grey and bought some paper stuff!
I never quit drawing, painting (and mixed media!)
char8182
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OMG, you gals are bringing up so many memories! I started paper scrapping in 1998 with CM and did that until 2008-ish when I discovered digiscrapping and never looked back. The only thing I have left from paper scrapping is CM 12" trimmer! We did the scrap conventions, crop get-to-gethers, crop weekends, and one time we went on a scrap cruise...the funniest thing about it was, as I was watching people get on the boat, there was waaaaaay more scrap luggage than regular! It was definitely a fun weekend!
My 1st digi was with Scrappersguide/Digital Scrapper which lasted until 2015. What changed was a couple kits that Anna did for them, the last was 2015 "My Camera". I was getting bored with DS and looking for something new. I had already shopped on Oscraps 2-3 years prior but that was all. I started taking classes and buying more on Oscraps, but not getting active with posting any pages or getting more involved. That didn't happen until early 2022 and I have never looked back. I love the "O"!
I so identify with the "smuggling" of stuff into the house. I still do it with shopping and definitely with my scrapbooking supplies and classes! This has contributed to our credit card debt, oh well.
My 1st digi was with Scrappersguide/Digital Scrapper which lasted until 2015. What changed was a couple kits that Anna did for them, the last was 2015 "My Camera". I was getting bored with DS and looking for something new. I had already shopped on Oscraps 2-3 years prior but that was all. I started taking classes and buying more on Oscraps, but not getting active with posting any pages or getting more involved. That didn't happen until early 2022 and I have never looked back. I love the "O"!
I so identify with the "smuggling" of stuff into the house. I still do it with shopping and definitely with my scrapbooking supplies and classes! This has contributed to our credit card debt, oh well.
Yes, you were definitely there with some of us. I used to tell my husband "Oh, this was free - from one or another CT I was on. He always just smiled and said "that's nice, Honey".
We must have started paper scrapping at about the same time. I was a couple of years ahead of you. I started (with CM) after my first grand was born. I started making the switch in about 2011 when Becky Higgins rolled out her first app and it was for iPhone. That's about the time I switched from Android too so I could use her app.
Just saw this (how???) so a bit late to the party but couldn't resist adding my two cents...
I started as a paper scrapper, had a ton of supplies and all... but wasn't particularly good at it. I just don't 'see it' in my mind's eye. And, I'm not handy with scissors and glue. But for some unknown reason, I resisted switching to digital because someone had once told me it's not 'real' scrapbooking so I thought it was just to create beautiful artsy pages and not to document life.
I am so relieved I did take the plunge - finally - and I would never - NEVER - consider doing a paper or even a hybrid project. I need the safety net of being able to change my mind 17+ times while I decide what looks better.
I started as a paper scrapper, had a ton of supplies and all... but wasn't particularly good at it. I just don't 'see it' in my mind's eye. And, I'm not handy with scissors and glue. But for some unknown reason, I resisted switching to digital because someone had once told me it's not 'real' scrapbooking so I thought it was just to create beautiful artsy pages and not to document life.
I am so relieved I did take the plunge - finally - and I would never - NEVER - consider doing a paper or even a hybrid project. I need the safety net of being able to change my mind 17+ times while I decide what looks better.
I don't know if you could call my hobby paper scrapping. I've always loved taking photos. Whether at events at the tennis club or on vacation with friends. Sticking the photos in, labeling them and adding special accessories like drawings, tickets, memorabilia from the events and so on. Adding these special elements always made looking at the albums something special and a lot of fun for me! I think that was the precursor to my hobby in the digital world. Here it's much easier, nothing gets creased, doesn't turn yellow, can't break and doesn't become unsightly. That's what makes digital scrapping so attractive.