How has your scrapbook style evolved?

[breoni]

Do you ever look back at your earlier pages? Can you see how your scrapbooking style evolved over time?

I started as a traditional scrapbooker and would attend all of the parties hosted by our local Creative Memories consultant. They taught a simple style using basic shapes and techniques. My first few pages look like I was holding a bunch of stickers and sneezed and that's where the stickers ended up on the page! HA!

After I transistioned to digital, my scrapbooking style started to really develop. But I can also see it was heavily influenced by all of the wonderful products offered by talented designers. The first time I used a photo mask, my scrapbooking world changed! LOL!

Now, I focus less on the elements, and do what I can to showcase my photos and the memories I'm wanting to document. I love challenging myself with new styles as I find other layouts in the gallery to "Admire and Acquire," or using new kits and templates from designers with different styles.

How has your scrapbook style evolved?

 

[FormbyGirl]

I started out with Creative Memories also. I actually used to sell it. I started in 1991. I thought I had invented digital scrapping all by myself when I got the first photos on my computer and added some clipart. At some point, we found that digital scrapping was a thing, and I hadn't actually invented it, lol. I attended a "laptop crop" and met a bunch of folks who were passionate digital scrappers and never looked back.

Here are some sample sof my early scrapping:

Weird masks and glowing edges to stuff - I extracted the 'small world" logo from something

I can't believe I put shadowing on the picture captions. Also, the weird glow around the pictures - it still remains one of my favourite pages. it was the first time I had met the crazy digital scrappers who won my heart.

I include this only because I think there is a Flat Grannie of our dear Jill in here. Can you spot her?

 

[Jill]

I can

 

[breoni]

Oh Lynnie! These early pages are awesome. Thank you for sharing! I love the line how you thought you invented digital scrapbooking! LOL!!!

I remember a time where so many of my pages were hybrid. This hobby is so much easier now that I've gone fully digital.

Here is a 2005 layout where I splurged on a massive sticker set:

This is when I got my first pad of ink and then I inked EVERYTHING.

My very first digital page, that I printed and cut down to fit in a Creative Memories album:

A sample of one of my layouts after I went completely digital:

 

[AJsRandom]

I also started with Creative Memories, back in 1997? That was when we lived in Virginia, my husband's first assignment. I graduated to Close to My Heart when we moved to our next assignment, in Florida. At our third assignment, I joined CTMH and was with them until we moved here, our last assignment. I found digital at our fourth assignment, in South Carolina. I dabbled with design for a few years, mostly while at our fifth assignment, in California, until the stores I sold at closed. I took a break from digiscrapping for about 5 years and returned when I joined GingerScraps. I've never looked back since, and I am happy here.

 

[demma_b13]

I first started paper scrapping with Creative Memories back in early 2000's. There was a lady in my church who sold the products and she would have get togethers to scrap. But one day I was looking at a magazine and in the back there was an advertisement
about digital scrapbooking. It was something Anna Aspnes had put out there. I started searching for the quick page she advertised but could not find it, so I asked my husband to help me see if I could imitate it. We sat for hours playing around, finding papers and such that matched her quick page. Here is her layout:

And here is my first digital layout:

I was so proud of my accomplishment that I started doing layouts of my kids. The photos back then were not as good as the ones today and my skills were less than great. I have always for the most part used Corel's Paint Shop Pro but over the years I have learned to use Photoshop a wee bit.

Over time my scrapbooking has evolved from plain and simple to works of art that I enjoy. Here is one of my more recent layouts in the gallery at Gingerscraps:

And one from the LAD Stormy Skies Challenge at the Studio:

I keep learning new techniques and am continually adding to my stash so that I can play and create til my heart is content!

 

[breoni]

Gorgeous, Deanna! Thank you for sharing!

 

[mywisecrafts]

I delayed entering the digital world because I was and still am a die hard paper crafter. I started with traditional scrapbooking. Early on my style was more pocket page. Then I evolved into using die cuts (I have the gadgets: cricut maker & joy; silhouette cameo & pro; brother, sizzix—yeah I’m a dork I know). Then digital designs evolved as well and started appealing to me. I definitely started digital more on the artsy grungy side. Now I truly pivot based on mood/ stress level etc. I’ve also started doing more hybrid projects as well as it has become a great outlet for me to touch the different textures and mediums. I feel my style has truly become well rounded.

 

[Kristi Martin]

This is a fun thread as my style has changed significantly over the years!
Like most of you I also started with Creative Memories when I went to a party at a friends, but didn't really get into it too much then and now I look back at that page with all of my photos cropped into stars and hearts and it makes me cringe. LOL!
Sometime after that I went to JoAnne's and bought a scrapbook kit and started to explore scrapbook ideas online which I liked much better than the crazy CM style and my hobby was truly born. I paper scrapped for years and continued to evolve, joined sites like 2 Peas (anyone else remember that site?), subscribed to Creating Keepsakes, Simple Scrapbooks magazines and all of the others and eventually invited to join a couple of different design teams and even got some of my layouts published in Hobby Lobby magazine and a couple special edition CK or SS magazines. What a thrill!
Digital scrapbooking started coming onto the scene and I couldn't EVER imagine doing such a thing, it just looked so fake and flat.
Life got busy and I was finding I had less and less time to scrapbook and couldn't deal with the time and mess it made to drag out all of those paper scrapbooking supplies, so ended up stepping away from it for a couple of years.
Then along came my first grandbaby and I couldn't imagine not scrapbooking those photos of him, but I still couldn't deal with the mess of paper scrapping so started looking into digital scrapbooking and discovered the Project Life app and it was the perfect transition for me from paper scrapping to digital, no mess, easy to do all right on my phone but after a time I realized that it wasn't really what a wanted... I needed more than just dropping photos and cards into pockets.
I missed layering paper and adding all of those other cute things to my pages. It was around that time that I discovered Gingerscraps and I started exploring other options for creating pages and tried out several other apps as I was determined to continue to scrap on my phone. I used Over/GoDaddy Studio for a while but then got invited to join the Guest Creative Team for Connie Prince and realized that the phone apps still weren't cutting it for me, so as much as I fought it that was when I started switching to scrapbooking on my lapttop but didn't want to get into something as complicated and expensive as Photoshop and ultimately ended up discovering Affinity which is (was) just as complicated to learn as Photoshop but much more affordable and here I am today! I am loving every minute of it! I am the head admin for a scrapbook group on FB App Scrappers … ANYTHING GOES! | Facebook, have been on a few Guest CTs and am full time with Chere Kaye and am a helper and designer for Blue Heart Scraps.
I love the creative process and learning new things and seeing everything that others do, but staying true to where I started I refuse to make my layouts all piles of elements that hide the photos. The photos have to remain the focus of my pages because after all what I am doing is memory keeping which is super important to me, I am not creating art just for the sake of creation.
Sorry that got so long! LOL!