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Pachimac

Pachimac

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When did you start digital scrapbooking?

For me, 2004 was the year. I started making siggies for my friends at a due date forum and I graduated to 8x10 scrapping.

My first digi site: 2 Peas in a Pod.

How about you?
 
Way back in 1992 I started cardmaking using rubber stamps and then started paper scrapbooking in 2006 with the birth of my first grandchild.
I started digitally in 2008 and the first site I was involved with was Nuts 4 Digi which was an Australian owned site with quite a few Aussie members so it was great that we were often online at the same time.
 
Gosh I paper scrapped from 1999 on to 2013(maybe), I was mainly at Scrapjazz and Two Peas.
After I was ill I could not do paper scrapping well, and quit after some very very frustrations.
Then my doctor told me to get a hobby, so I went back to scrapping but it was right when Becky Higgins came out with the project life app. I did that, and slowly evolved into more types of apps for scrapping. Which I still app scrap with Affinity Photo. I did some challenges for Dani at Just Because Studio in 2016 I think, and found gingerscraps. The rest is in my gallery. lol.

@susan are you at refu-peas? the site we went to after two peas so abruptly disappeared?
 
I have been paper scrapping since 1999 and discovered digital in 2005 but became predominantly digital when I moved to Australia in 2009. I even met Anne-Marie at Nuts4Digi :)
 
Ok I'm really dating myself here...I started paper scrapping back in 1975 long before anyone called it scrapbooking. I'd cut out letters, objects etc and glue them on poster boards, thick paper, etc. Still have some of them "gems" that I hung on the kid's bedroom walls...Garfield, Snoopy, or whoever was their favorite at the time. Did a huge one of Pete's Dragon and my daughter actually saved it and hung it on her college dorm wall.

Started digital scrapping around 2007 and got more serious about it once the kids were on their own and I had more than two nickels to spend on kits...somewhere around 2011.
 
I started paper scrapping in 1997, and continued that through about 2012 or so. I started digiscrapping in 2006 and dabbled in designing for a bit before I stopped in 2012. The first site I was active on was, I think, Gotta Pixel. I picked digiscrapping back up in 2017 and haven't looked back since. It's something I really enjoy and I'm glad I came back! :)
 
I started digiscrapping in about 2007, I think. Did some paper scrapping before that, but was never really good at it. I've been active at a lot of places, but I think the first place was Digitals. Hang around a lot at Gotta Pixel, Oscraps, DST and FaithSisters. Actually, was a bit sad to see that GP was gone, now that I returned after my 5 year hiatus.
 
I started paper scrapping around 2001 and was also active at ScrapJazz, 2 Peas, Praisebooking and a few other forums.
I was on a couple of different design teams and even had some of my paper layouts published in a couple of the Creating Keepsakes magazine and the Hobby Lobby magazine. I also worked for a small scrapbooking company and my best friend and I ran a booth for them at several midwest area scrapbook shows for a few years. Around 2011 I slowly stopped paper scrapping and didn't do it at all for a couple of years. I just couldn't find the time to drag out all of the supplies and deal with the mess that paper scrapping is.

I never thought I would do digital because in my opinion the digital layouts back then looked too "fake" to me and I wasn't a fan of it at all...how times change! :) However after my grandson was born in 2015 I wanted to get back into scrapping and started looking for an easy way to use my iPhone for scrapping and found the Project Life app and that is what got me back into scrapping. I evolved from there to using Over on my iPhone to just with in the last few months transitioning to Affinity of my laptop. I can't imagine not digital scrapbooking now... I love the fact that it can all be done on my phone or my laptop and there is no mess to clean up!

I mostly hang out at Gingerscraps and love the monthly challenges, but do peek into the other sites now and then. I am also an admin for the FB group App Scrappers - Over and Above Project Life. I am currently on the guest DT for Connie Prince and hope to get back on a DT full time soon.
 
I started scrapbooking when my oldest was a baby as a way to preserve memories and make it slightly easier to see him grow so fast. He's now 26 years old and I have 5 others I scrapbook for as well (plus family albums). I started digital scrapbooking 11 or 12 years ago to save space and money. I do print my pages so I have DOZENS of scrapbooks. Although 4 of my children are now grown up and moved out, none have taken their scrapbooks. I hope one day they mean something to them. I've now been designing scrapbook kits for nearly a decade as well.
 
Firstoscartgrouch said:
@susan are you at refu-peas? the site we went to after two peas so abruptly disappeared?
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No, I didn't know that they made a new site! When the digi gals got sick of being treated as the black sheep of the scrapping world, I went with Shannon and the girls to DigiShopTalk.
 
Tbear said:
Ok I'm really dating myself here...I started paper scrapping back in 1975 long before anyone called it scrapbooking. I'd cut out letters, objects etc and glue them on poster boards, thick paper, etc. Still have some of them "gems" that I hung on the kid's bedroom walls...Garfield, Snoopy, or whoever was their favorite at the time. Did a huge one of Pete's Dragon and my daughter actually saved it and hung it on her college dorm wall.

Started digital scrapping around 2007 and got more serious about it once the kids were on their own and I had more than two nickels to spend on kits...somewhere around 2011.
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I found a scrapbook I made in 1973 when we went on a 3 week vacation of the west states in the US. Some of the entries were "Tonight Dad is going to make STEAKS - yum!!!!" but it's definitely a time capsule. I remember buying all my colored pens in anticipation for it and getting postcards and souvenirs to fill it with. I wish I could find it now. :(
 
AJsRandom said:
I started paper scrapping in 1997, and continued that through about 2012 or so. I started digiscrapping in 2006 and dabbled in designing for a bit before I stopped in 2012. The first site I was active on was, I think, Gotta Pixel. I picked digiscrapping back up in 2017 and haven't looked back since. It's something I really enjoy and I'm glad I came back! :)
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I have heard about Gotta Pixel and I know a lot of people went over there. I never did. I spent most of my time at DST.com, scrapbook-bytes.com and TLP in the early years. I didn't know about GS until I came back to the scrapping world in 2015.

Hey...this is my 6 year GS-a-versary!!! June of 2015!
 
tanteva said:
I started digiscrapping in about 2007, I think. Did some paper scrapping before that, but was never really good at it. I've been active at a lot of places, but I think the first place was Digitals. Hang around a lot at Gotta Pixel, Oscraps, DST and FaithSisters. Actually, was a bit sad to see that GP was gone, now that I returned after my 5 year hiatus.
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I am drawing a blank at all the names of other places that are now closed. I was at a ton of them!
 
Kristi Martin said:
I started paper scrapping around 2001 and was also active at ScrapJazz, 2 Peas, Praisebooking and a few other forums.
I was on a couple of different design teams and even had some of my paper layouts published in a couple of the Creating Keepsakes magazine and the Hobby Lobby magazine. I also worked for a small scrapbooking company and my best friend and I ran a booth for them at several midwest area scrapbook shows for a few years. Around 2011 I slowly stopped paper scrapping and didn't do it at all for a couple of years. I just couldn't find the time to drag out all of the supplies and deal with the mess that paper scrapping is.

I never thought I would do digital because in my opinion the digital layouts back then looked too "fake" to me and I wasn't a fan of it at all...how times change! :) However after my grandson was born in 2015 I wanted to get back into scrapping and started looking for an easy way to use my iPhone for scrapping and found the Project Life app and that is what got me back into scrapping. I evolved from there to using Over on my iPhone to just with in the last few months transitioning to Affinity of my laptop. I can't imagine not digital scrapbooking now... I love the fact that it can all be done on my phone or my laptop and there is no mess to clean up!

I mostly hang out at Gingerscraps and love the monthly challenges, but do peek into the other sites now and then. I am also an admin for the FB group App Scrappers - Over and Above Project Life. I am currently on the guest DT for Connie Prince and hope to get back on a DT full time soon.
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Congratulations on getting published!!! I was lucky enough to be published in Creating Keepsakes too!! It was the Top Ten Issue back in 2007 or 2008, I think? It was a digi page and I was so honored because at the time, digi was NOT really respected. I see it now because CK was also a company that sold scrapbook products and digi gave them nothing. That actually is one reason I started digi - you could buy one kit and use it an infinite amount of times. It's MUCH less expensive and much less messy!
 
BoomersGirl said:
I started scrapbooking when my oldest was a baby as a way to preserve memories and make it slightly easier to see him grow so fast. He's now 26 years old and I have 5 others I scrapbook for as well (plus family albums). I started digital scrapbooking 11 or 12 years ago to save space and money. I do print my pages so I have DOZENS of scrapbooks. Although 4 of my children are now grown up and moved out, none have taken their scrapbooks. I hope one day they mean something to them. I've now been designing scrapbook kits for nearly a decade as well.
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Those scrapbooks will be a GEM to them when they are older. I promise.
 
BoomersGirl said:
I hope one day they mean something to them. I've now been designing scrapbook kits for nearly a decade as well.
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I'm sure it will. I would have loved to have my mom saved memories from my childhoss, the same way I've scrapped about my son. Also, all the memories preserved about our relatives and family history. I think it comes to you when you get older and beginning to think more about your history. They will be so grateful later in life!
 
No matter how sad it may be, families are different and the relationships in them often leave much to be desired. I hope that you are doing well and your children and grandchildren will remember you with warmth.


I can't say anything good about my grandmother. She did not want grandchildren; she treated her daughter as free labor. A year ago, my grandmother died, and I still can't say anything good about her, and I don't want to.
 
So funny to see you all started with paper scrapping. I never did. I started scrapbooking in Paint Shop Pro in 2006. The site I posted on was Digital Scrap café and an Australian site, I don't remember what it was called. They both don't exist anymore. In 2009 I schwitched to Photoshop.
 
Pachimac said:
No, I didn't know that they made a new site! When the digi gals got sick of being treated as the black sheep of the scrapping world, I went with Shannon and the girls to DigiShopTalk.
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many of the same people migrated to the scrapping forum, it is very active. and of course the not scrapping related is the biggest part, but mainly nice now. which is a great improvement.
 
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