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!!!!!