Scrappy Question #1 {Print It, Frame It, or Leave It Digital?}

[Daydreamer]

I've printed a few photo books as gifts for my kids 21st, for 50th birthdays in the family, and other big milestones. I regularly make slideshows including scrapped layouts for special birthdays and generally share my layouts digitally with family and friends, and whoever is in the layout. I use to be very good about backing my kits up on hard drives, until maybe 2 years ago. These days, since thungs are so nicely inter-connected, I've started backing my completed layouts up to the cloud with my photographs.

 

[Kristi Martin]

I am ALL Digital. When I first switched to digital scrapbooking I did get a few pages printed as it seemed the natural thing to do after years of paper scrapbooking but then it started to dawn on me that I have all of these physical scrapbook albums and pages and they rarely get looked at. Physical pages aren't easy to share. The only ones looking at them are once in a great while were my kids. But what about wanting to share with other family and friends? Even if they came to my house, are they really going to sit down and want to look through all of my albums and pages? Probably not!
So I went all digital, sharing my pages on a dedicated Instagram page and creating a shared album on my iPhone where I share all of my pages with my other family members who also have iPhones (which is most of them.) Now my friends and family can look at my pages any time they want and also have them to look back on later if they desire.