When You Started Scrapping...

Pachimac

Pachimac

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were you a paper gal or a digi gal?

I came to scrapping via the Due Date Forums on Delphi back in the early 2000's. We all had siggies, and usually it was of a picture of our child or our tummy and a due date or birthday. I started using Shabby Princess's freebies to make siggies for myself and for others in the forum. I found "Two Peas in a Pod" Scrapping forum and soon found out that the Digi Gals were NOT welcomed. I used to make it a goal to make a page where the snobs there couldn't tell I was a digi girl. LOL

How did you get to digi?
 
Oh my goodness! I started paper scrapping in 1997 (if not 1996- I'd just had a baby and my memory is hazy). Somehow I found digi in 2006. I started out with freebies, of course, until I was led to various forums- GP being the most memorable. I still paperscrapped until 2012 because I sold paper scrapping products until then. By 2012, I'd been a designer in a couple of not-well-known stores and I was working for a couple of designers. Then the stores went out of business and one of the designers retired. I took a break from all of it until 2017, when I looked up Connie Prince again and found out she was here. I've been here ever since and I love it. I think I've created more pages in 3.5 years than I did in the previous 6 I was active. :)
 
I'm in awe of paper scrappers. I really am. I can't even cut a straight line with a ruler and my hand lettering - ew!! I love seeing what paper scrappers do, but I knew my limits. Digi it was for me!

My friend is addicted to Creative Memories and she's always complaining about how expensive the hobby is. I keep telling her that with digi, you buy one kit and get unlimited use out of it! I understand though - she loves the feel of the materials in her hands. Me? I couldn't care less. It's much less messy and easy to clean up with digi!

AJsRandom said:
Oh my goodness! I started paper scrapping in 1997 (if not 1996- I'd just had a baby and my memory is hazy). Somehow I found digi in 2006. I started out with freebies, of course, until I was led to various forums- GP being the most memorable. I still paperscrapped until 2012 because I sold paper scrapping products until then. By 2012, I'd been a designer in a couple of not-well-known stores and I was working for a couple of designers. Then the stores went out of business and one of the designers retired. I took a break from all of it until 2017, when I looked up Connie Prince again and found out she was here. I've been here ever since and I love it. I think I've created more pages in 3.5 years than I did in the previous 6 I was active. :)
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I was an "OK" paper scrapper. But you are very limited because you can't resize photos, etc without a reprint (which adds up). I found digital a little over 20 years ago and my first pages were ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE. But I found a great group of ladies who helped me out (the ol' yahoo groups) and found myself loving my pages!
Plus, when I did paper, I had to do 4 books every year (one for each set of Grands and one for us). It was sooooo time consuming. Now, I just go to shutterfly and order 4, LOL.
I started out with Microsoft Digital Image Pro an quickly progressed to PSE. Then I began design and never looked back!
 
Lisa Minor said:
I was an "OK" paper scrapper. But you are very limited because you can't resize photos, etc without a reprint (which adds up). I found digital a little over 20 years ago and my first pages were ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE. But I found a great group of ladies who helped me out (the ol' yahoo groups) and found myself loving my pages!
Plus, when I did paper, I had to do 4 books every year (one for each set of Grands and one for us). It was sooooo time consuming. Now, I just go to shutterfly and order 4, LOL.
I started out with Microsoft Digital Image Pro an quickly progressed to PSE. Then I began design and never looked back!
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Where did you spend. your digi time online? There were so many places to hang our hats back then! I had chosen DST as my home and posted everything there, but they've changed hands so many times and changed the format that my early pages (which sucked LOL ) are all gone. I lost a hard drive way back and lost the originals. Then I mosied on over to Scrapbook Bytes until they went dead, and then I left the community for a while. I came back in 2015 to GingerScraps and have been here ever since.
 
I was never a paper scrapper, but I definitely admire their ability to cut straight lines and figure out how to make their journaling fit into a tag or whatever... way past anything I could do, LOL.

I came to Digi in a very roundabout way. So back in the mid 2000's when everyone had a LiveJournal blog, there was this community of people who would make, basically profile pictures? Some looked like memes, with just a picture and some funny saying. And some were heavily edited, using lots of layers and digital brushes and texture. So I wanted to learn how to do that.

And looking for tutorials, I found Digi scrapping (and Shabby Princess!!!) So I had a few years of freebie hoarding and store hopping... Brownie Scraps, Scrapbook Bytes, Inspiration Lane. I found my home at Scrappity Doo Dah and worked my way up through praise team, creative team, and eventually an Admin. Then they closed and I eventually found my way to GS.

The friendliness, especially of the Cookies, won me over. It was so so nice, after working at my horrible soul sucking job, to come to GS at the end of the day and have everyone be nice. And positive. And encouraging. People have no idea how much a few kind words on a LO can make someone's day.

I've heard stories about how awful Two Peas could be to Digi scrappers, so I avoided them, LOL.
 
I started a very long time ago with Creative Memories (the old company before it sold). I love lots of paper scrapbooks with the triangle corners and oval shapes. I did that for a few years and than stumbled on to the digifiles ( I think that's what it was called). Where you paid a monthly fee and got a few kits. It was my first intro to digi scrap and I haven't looked back. I love not having all the supplies to pull out and put back. Downside I take forever to print actual pages.
 
I started paper scrapping in 1998 when I was pregnant with my first baby. I scrapped all the time because I had a room in my house that I could just have everything set up. But when we moved in 2004 I didn't really have the right space for crafting, so I kinda fell off the scrapping bandwagon until my sister hooked me up with digital scrapbooking in 2009.
 
I have been a card maker using rubber stamps since 1992 and when my first grandchild was born in 2006 I started doing paper scrapbooking. In 2008 joined the forum of Faith Sisters and was taking part in a scripture challenge creating little scripture artwork each week ( paper versions) and on this site someone was doing digital scrapbooking. I discovered I had Photoshop Elements bundled with the software for my scanners. It was possibly the earliest version of PSE. I gave it a try and did not really like it but a few weeks later I tried again and became hooked once I bought a newer version PSE6 . In 2009 I bought Photoshop CS3 as I started to dabble in designing. The very first digi site I joined was an Australian site which was great for me being an Aussie - Nuts 4 Digi. It closed up quite some years ago and the owner was just about to invite me to be a designer there as I had been designing the mini kits for challenges prizes. For personal reasons she closed the site. I did do some paid designing for Ivy Scraps but that was just before they closed. I did not look for anywhere else to be a designer as I found that design work was taking away too much of my own memory page creating.
 
I love hearing y'all's stories! Like many of you, I started with paper scrapping back in the 90's. I even owned a scrapbook supply store for quite a few years. (So fun!!) I started digi-scrapping when I had just a few short months to throw together some books before my oldest daughter graduated.

I dabbled for a few years until one day, while lurking in a digi-site somewhere, I came across a creative team call for The Nifty Pixel. I applied and met my friend Em! She was selling at the Digichick at the time and very shortly after I joined her team, one of the Digichicks (another dear friend Bea!) approached me to join the store team. My time at the Digichick was so wonderful, and sad at the same time when we lost of our fearless leader, Kim.

After Kim's passing and the closing of her store, some of us lost chicks found our way here. I gotta say, best thing ever!! Ginger and y'all are the absolute BESTest, sweetest group of ladies anywhere in digi-land!!
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LOVE THIS THREAD!

I actually started paper scrapbooking in around 1960. Mama said I need to start a hobby. I had learned to sew a bit and liked to collect buttons. So I would glue them onto cut up manila folder tied with yarn [to look like a book]. I decorated around the buttons into pictures with crayons.....

Then in teen years collected more stuff and put into my book creations.
Mama encouraged me to write about what I was saving and why.

When my daughter was born [1984], I had the old magnetic albums. I added her pictures and cut out word strips about the photos on the pages.

About 1995 ish or 1996, I was invited to a Creative Memories party. I was instantly hooked! The brain washing at the time was only "CM products were real and good enough... I then ventured out to local scrapbooking stores- ended up with those frequent shopper cards in 11 different states! Hubby said I could sniff out 'acid free'. LOL.

Received my first digital camera in 2002. I would print the pictures and then scrap them. Hubby purchased the first Adobe [well that I had] along with journaling genie. Basically it was text paths one could edit then print. Still printed both and paper scrapped.

Attended an Adobe class for beginners. At that time it was for photographers not scrappers, but I started putting 2+2 together and figured out it could work.
I asked a lot of questions.
This was before digi kits [or at least I didn't know of any]...The first forum I can recall was Photoshop Elements 'something'. They had lovely people who wrote tutorials for Adobe. In this elements forum group, we made all our own stuff for pages.

Again, I asked a lot of questions..............so many that I was invited to test tutorials for the writers and even beta tested a bit for Adobe.

I guess they figured if I could do it, anyone could. LOL

I think the first site with a kit was Linda Sattgast. Again mostly tutorials.

By about 2007 I was mostly done with part paper and part digi and totally switched.
As I was working on my part digi, part paper Alaska cruise book [bought the album on the ship], I attended a paper crop and was laughed at because "digi would never catch on".

Happy as can be with digi!!!! I've worn a lot of hats in the digi world.

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PS. I still have a lot of paper stuff if anyone really wants to inquire.
 
msbrad said:
LOVE THIS THREAD!

Received my first digital camera in 2002. I would print the pictures and then scrap them. Hubby purchased the first Adobe [well that I had] along with journaling genie. Basically it was text paths one could edit then print. Still printed both and paper scrapped.
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Oh my gosh I remember Journaling Genie! I had the templates first, then the software. :)
 
I have never paper scrapped although I love the look of paper scrapped pages. When I got my first computer, I made a farm history to give to my Dad and family when our family farm was sold after 100 years of being passed down the generations. I created the book in Microsoft Publisher and enjoyed the process so much I wanted to do more work like that. I acquired an old version of Paint Shop Pro, scrolled the internet for tutorials and discovered the world of digiscrapping. After a few years, I acquired Photoshop and still use that programme (upgraded a few times). My first home was Digital Scrapbook Place where I "lived" and learned exclusively until it closed down some years ago after which I lost my mojo for a couple of years. When I was ready to scrap again, I once again searched the internet looking for another digi home, trying out several before I lucked onto GS. I joined in October 2015 but did not become active until the following year. I became a Sugar Cookie shortly after I started participating here and am still enjoying that role. Gingerscraps is my forever digi home and I dont participate at any other sites (except for posting LOs during the year I was on the site Creative Team). I love that this hobby creates no mess and only takes up the space of a laptop computer, and there is no clean up. I was a cake decorator for many years and vowed never to have another "messy" hobby. Digi scrapping fits that bill perfectly.
 
hmm good question, I have always been a digi gal as my Dad is a traditional signmaker & when computers came out to cut vinyl, I had to learn how to use it there to design up the signs for him back in 91 or 92 that was.

I started making siggies in an msn crafting forum called M & M crochet & used to help with the games & did siggies as prizes, that must have been 2004 or 2005. Was there until they closed msn groups but I learnt how to make tagger size kits specifically for making siggies & was in a few tagging/siggie forums & learnt how to make my designs better. I did sell kits for a while but had to quit due to work. I joined a bigger store that sold full size scrapbook kits in 2007 I think it was & was hooked on making pages. Had lots of breaks in there due to babies or work but continue to scrap as I can
 
msbrad said:
LOVE THIS THREAD!
By about 2007 I was mostly done with part paper and part digi and totally switched.
As I was working on my part digi, part paper Alaska cruise book [bought the album on the ship], I attended a paper crop and was laughed at because "digi would never catch on".
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Such a shame Digi never caught on... hehe
 
hclappy said:
Such a shame Digi never caught on... hehe
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I have a story to tell you about "never catching on"!!!

My Great Grandpa was approached by a man who wanted him to invest 3000 for half interest in the new company he was starting. He told him to give it a year and it would make him fabulously wealthy. He went to his banker and told him about the company and the product it made, and the banker told my GGrandfather that the product in question was a passing fad.

The man who approached him was Henry Ford, and the passing fad was the car.

DOH!
 
OHHHHH SUSAN!!!!! That's quite a story.

My parents were offered to buy into the land in New Jersey...where now the Meadowlands stadium is for the Giants and I think the Jets. Daddy said it was a swamp and a no good piece of land...
Daddy was offered a job at Birds Eye but he turned it down because 'frozen food' was ridiculous. So, he became a teacher.

Back to getting made fun of at the crop...Some of them had to touch my digi page sitting next to the paper page because they couldn't tell the difference.
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Susan! what a story which I hope you have journaled about and recorded in a digi page.

My Dad was once offered cheap land in a small seaside town where we holidayed.... wish he had bought the land as it is a real tourist town now ! The land was on a hillside with a view to the ocean.
 
Pachimac said:
Where did you spend. your digi time online? There were so many places to hang our hats back then! I had chosen DST as my home and posted everything there, but they've changed hands so many times and changed the format that my early pages (which sucked LOL ) are all gone. I lost a hard drive way back and lost the originals. Then I mosied on over to Scrapbook Bytes until they went dead, and then I left the community for a while. I came back in 2015 to GingerScraps and have been here ever since.
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I too was at DST forever....and Scrapbook Bytes...and a few other of the "old school" places....lol
 
Me too. I was on Ronna Penner, Shabby Miss Jenn, Created By Jill , and Mo Jackson's creative teams so I hung out mostly at DST and SBB. I loved TLP and still do, and I also was at DSP, The Digi-Chick, Scrapaneers, The Digital Press, Digital Scrapbook Press, and sometimes Designer Digitals.

Lisa Minor said:
I too was at DST forever....and Scrapbook Bytes...and a few other of the "old school" places....lol
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