How did you find scrapbooking?

[LivyBug]

I don't think I'm alone in having been a scrapbooker or crafter in some fashion since I was a kiddo.

How did you find scrapbooking? Friend or family member? Google search? Social media? Craft store? I'd love to hear some stories.

My mom is a scrapbooker, used to do paper back in the day. When she started learning how to digi scrap I was all over it (I was about 11). Rest is history, with a little pause in the middle. I feel like I've just always known scrapbooking! As a kid I had sticker books and paper scrapbooks (with random photos or extras my mom printed).

 

[Grace.]

Hi Olivia! I did paper scrapbooking when teen, but later I left it. In 2013 or 2014, I had a friend that was tagger, and she gifted me some tags for fb, I became interested and searching scrap kits I found digital scrapbooking, and one of the first designers that I "discovered" was your mom. From 2014 digital scrapbooking has been my passion.

 

[zippyoh]

I started off with paper scrapping in the 90's. I loved reading the magazines, like Creating Keepsakes. It was there that I discovered digi. Went to one of the CKUs (Creating Keepsakes University) in 2007, where one of the classes was digi. And continued to learn more by taking a couple of online classes after that and finding stores online, like Scrap Matters. It's all just snowballed from there!

 

[AJsRandom]

I also started with paper scrapping in '96 or '97. My church had a crafting day and a CM consultant came and taught us about scrapping. But had I experimented with stamping and other papercrafts before that. I discovered digi in 2006, took a break in 2012, and came back in 2017. Don't plan on stopping anytime soon.

 

[LilyAnn]

History here: I always loved looking at paper. Staples was my favorite store as a child. Back to school shopping was bliss! I was a teacher too with lots of papers around.
Once I got a computer, the first program I bought was a graphics program. I LOVED messing around and learning what the program can do. I always tried to see if one program would work with another and try to import graphics from one to the other as I bought more programs. I fiddled with the program and put pictures and graphics together learning to use the program. (One day when life settles down for me with the remodeling, I'll share what I did while I learned to use the programs.) I guess you can call it scrapbooking but it was like a kid throwing pictures and stickers in a book. LOL!
Going forward, I was a Creative Memories Consultant for a few months before I realized I was spending more on supplies than actually selling. I did make an album of random paper scrap pages, some of which I like better than some of my digital layouts.
Than while searching on line for scrapbooking ideas, I came across free digital designs which I started using. My digital programs I bought started getting better.
I started grabbing the freebies and started using them. I did my first speed scrap at Stuff to Scrap (now closed). Meet wonderful people. Joined my second forum Scraps N Pieces (now closed). Started dabbling in designing. Got a spot as designer at SNP thanks to Lori and Heidi for seeing my potential! Designed at GoDigital Scrapbooking for a while. Than I retired from designing.

Sorry for the book... I can't wait to get back to scrapping when things settle down. I may sneak in a few minutes here and there because I got that itch!

 

[bcgal00]

I used to buy yarn at the hobby store and would drool over the scrap supplies but was stumped as to what to do with it all. I met a rep for Close To My Heart and went to a party and was hooked. We played with stamps and created some cards. I ended up being a consultant for years and then with Stampin’ Up. When I injured my shoulder about 8 yrs ago I couldn’t use my arm much for months so one handed I started to do a bit of digi scrapping after watching a bunch of videos. I ended up going back to card making for a few yrs but eventually gave it up altogether and stuck with digi scrapping.

 

[LivyBug]

Hi Olivia! I did paper scrapbooking when teen, but later I left it. In 2013 or 2014, I had a friend that was tagger, and she gifted me some tags for fb, I became interested and searching scrap kits I found digital scrapbooking, and one of the first designers that I "discovered" was your mom. From 2014 digital scrapbooking has been my passion.

Hey Grace! What exactly is tagging? I see stuff about it but I've never understood what it is!

I started off with paper scrapping in the 90's. I loved reading the magazines, like Creating Keepsakes. It was there that I discovered digi. Went to one of the CKUs (Creating Keepsakes University) in 2007, where one of the classes was digi. And continued to learn more by taking a couple of online classes after that and finding stores online, like Scrap Matters. It's all just snowballed from there!

It's so sad how so many places we started at have closed. I love that GS is an oldie but goodie I remember downloading freebies from Ginger back in 08/09. My first couple original scrap spots, Faith Sisters and The Digichick, are long gone.

I also started with paper scrapping in '96 or '97. My church had a crafting day and a CM consultant came and taught us about scrapping. But had I experimented with stamping and other papercrafts before that. I discovered digi in 2006, took a break in 2012, and came back in 2017. Don't plan on stopping anytime soon.

I took a break about that same timeframe! '15-'19. No stopping us! Just pausing.

History here: I always loved looking at paper. Staples was my favorite store as a child. Back to school shopping was bliss! I was a teacher too with lots of papers around.
Once I got a computer, the first program I bought was a graphics program. I LOVED messing around and learning what the program can do. I always tried to see if one program would work with another and try to import graphics from one to the other as I bought more programs. I fiddled with the program and put pictures and graphics together learning to use the program. (One day when life settles down for me with the remodeling, I'll share what I did while I learned to use the programs.) I guess you can call it scrapbooking but it was like a kid throwing pictures and stickers in a book. LOL!
Going forward, I was a Creative Memories Consultant for a few months before I realized I was spending more on supplies than actually selling. I did make an album of random paper scrap pages, some of which I like better than some of my digital layouts.
Than while searching on line for scrapbooking ideas, I came across free digital designs which I started using. My digital programs I bought started getting better.
I started grabbing the freebies and started using them. I did my first speed scrap at Stuff to Scrap (now closed). Meet wonderful people. Joined my second forum Scraps N Pieces (now closed). Started dabbling in designing. Got a spot as designer at SNP thanks to Lori and Heidi for seeing my potential! Designed at GoDigital Scrapbooking for a while. Than I retired from designing.

Sorry for the book... I can't wait to get back to scrapping when things settle down. I may sneak in a few minutes here and there because I got that itch!

Thank you for the book! lol. I love that you were so into the computer programs! They've come a long way, huh? I started in PSE 10 or 11.

I used to buy yarn at the hobby store and would drool over the scrap supplies but was stumped as to what to do with it all. I met a rep for Close To My Heart and went to a party and was hooked. We played with stamps and created some cards. I ended up being a consultant for years and then with Stampin’ Up. When I injured my shoulder about 8 yrs ago I couldn’t use my arm much for months so one handed I started to do a bit of digi scrapping after watching a bunch of videos. I ended up going back to card making for a few yrs but eventually gave it up altogether and stuck with digi scrapping.

I'm sorry that your shoulder hinders your paper crafting but so glad you found digi!

 

[Grace.]

Olivia dear, basically is to create a layout with a imaginative landscape or situation, but instead of photos, you use a tube or poser (an art doll, the most famous are made by Alex Prihodko and Verymany, but some designers are creating kits and adding some kind of tubes, like Bel Scrap or Natalia NZ). Usually the tag isn't required shadows, although some taggers add them. And usually the tagger create a tag, and only change the name and many women treasure them. In fb., there are some groups that have thousands of followers, women that collect them, and designers that create a tag or set and gift them to these women, because they use them as profile pictures and covers, at the same time are promoting the kit.
Usually the tags are used as profile picture in fb, instagram or pinterest, and some people create a set (cover and profile picture), Some persons dislike tags because some posers and tubes are about women half naked or trying to be quite sexy, although not all the tubes and posers are created on the same line. I own a huge collection of posers, tubes and tags, actually when I started to scrap, I included some of them on my layouts. Please don't laugh, lol, this is one of my very, very first layouts, the tube and the kit are from Bel Scrap. But this is not a tag and not a layout.

but my fb profile picture is pretty often a tag, like this one

 

[Route66]

I started officially scrapbooking somewhere around the early 80's when I wanted to make my Grandmother a book for her birthday. I was introduced to Creative Memories at a local place and Mom and I would gather our photos and supplies (simple back then) and go to monthly crops. We met so many wonderful ladies along the way who remain good friends. I did some CT work for a paper crafting forum and even hosted some monthly projects, that was fun and my first time joining ladies around the world that did paper scrapping or card making.

I slowly moved to digital when I purchased a digital software program (My Memories). My first digi home was at Scrap n Pieces but I dabbled in some other forums too. When SNP closed I found Ginger scraps (lucky me) and made this my home. I was happy when Lori & Heidi opened their shop here, I have so many of their kits and they are wonderful designers.

Funny, now I taking all those books apart and digi scrapping them...

My dream for the future is to teach myself Photoshop and be able to design for myself although I am not sure I want to sell.

 

[breoni]

I was always collecting photos and ephemera since I was in grade school. However, I didn't truly start scrapping until I was out of college and working my first professional job. A friend invited me to a Creating Keepsakes party and whoa nellie.... I had found my passion and my people! Ha! While I loved traditional scrapping and even dedicated a room in my house as my personal scrap space, I transitioned to digi scrapping around 2009 and have loved it!

 

[A-M]

With the birth of my first grandchild in 2006 I decided to take up the hobby of scrapbooking ( paper not digi) which was just an extension of my cardmaking I had been doing since 1992. I joined an online forum - Faith Sisters in 2007 and in 2008 through one of the owners on that site doing digital scrapbooking, I decided to give it a try and at first did not like it but a few weeks later gave in another try and was hooked! In 2009 I started to dabble in designing which I still do for a monthly blog train.

I still have a lot of scrapbook cardstock and papers which I use for my card making.