It was something I always thought was fun as a kid but something I've really picked up and gotten into now that I have a little one with so many memories to capture. I don't go to classes or anything, but there are a few favorite stores, and my current mindset is to have a scrapbook for every place that we've lived. So far, so good!
Right now I've got a stack of finished pages in my closet, I need to get an album for. The pages go all the way back to Halloween, so I really need to get my act together and pick one out!
My big problem is finding money to pay for everything I want.
What I ended up doing was getting a photo box and all my stickers, etc stay in there - then when we move it's already all packed. My pages stay in a big bag laying flat on a shelf. Target and Wal-Mart have some really great boxes and bags that you could put everything in and just stick the whole bag in the car to go!
Me! Me! Me! Yes...love to scrapbook... I live in Arizona and have 3 scrapbook stores in my immediate vacinity. Including the "Mother shiP" of Bazzil...Yep...Scrapbooks Etc..is in my HOOd! I also make cards and do some stamping.
Just wanna pass along a great website: Sorry, no outside links, if anybody's interested they can shoot you an email for the site! Great way to scrapbook "economically"!
Run With Scissor! Arizona Army Mom
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I have to admit that I'm betraying my scrapbooking a bit and have been buying some cute photo frames. We just redecorated our bathroom and I thought it would be fun to have some pictures of my husband and I as kids somewhere in the house, so I think I'm going to stick them in a frame I just bought for the bathroom.
My goal, though, has always been to have a scrapbook for every place we live/get stationed, and as my husband's time in Korea is coming to a close, I need to get a move on with finishing up what we've done here so that we can start new this fall!
I scrapbook, but have moved to digital scrapbooking in the past few years.
I was using a program and printing out 8.5x11 pages, but now that I have DSL again, I am considering the CM program that you can upload to them and get a bound book of your pages. Its not cheap but I love having the bound books. I did a few through shutterfly last time I had high speed internet.
I will not go back to paper scrapbooking, at any rate. I love doing it digitally, esp since I have a digital camera - never have to print out photos, just pages (and now will probably move to uploading them and getting a bound book).
Hello! I also love scrapbooking, rubberstamping, card making, shrink it....basically, any kind of craft! I haven't focused on it in awhile, because I work full time and am involved in the music ministry at my church, as well as, my 2 yr old granddaughter.
mmt4.....what's the digital scrapbooking? Never heard of it? I've scrapbooked for YEARS! Did a really cute one of my sons first tball season, a cruise my hubby and me went on with friends one summer, and another big one that is just ongoing....just started one for my best friend that PCS'd a few weeks ago, so I can mail it to her and make her day as soon as they have an address
Digital scrapbooking is done on your computer. No more adhesive, punching, cutting, matting,etc....
If you are fine with 8.5x11 you can print it out at home.
I am pretty sure 12x12 scrapbookers have a way to get theirs printed somewhere if they don't have a printer that supports it (most don't).
If you do it on your own, there are kits you can download for free or purchase. You generally need photoshop or another good photo editing program like Corel to make good use of the kits and also create your own backgrounds and embellishments. I am not that into it, so there is also software that you can set up and drag and drop.
If you are a scrapbooker that is very into detail and take hours to do a page, if you go digital you would probably enjoy going all out and getting a good photo editing software. If you are like me, scrapbooking simply to document it all and have more than just photos in an album, the digital scrapbooking software would probably work fine.
I have a friend who is a consultant for creative memories and I might get their digital scrapbooking software. Right now I use a program by, I think, Art Explosion. CM tends to be expensive but they do have good quality, IMO. Their software (the paid version) allows you a lot of creativity and offers new kits to purchase around the same time they come out with new paper items. Once you are done you upload the pages and they send you a bound book. Not cheap but very nice.
If you google digital scrapbooking, I bet you will find more than you ever wanted to know. There are forums dedicated to it and people just love it. I love never having to worry about running out of adhesive (I swear I always run out of adhesive) or extra leftover stuff (which always felt wasteful) or keeping all of the stuff everywhere - space is at a premium here.
OMG awesome! This is great! I LOVE to scrapbook....used to do it so carefully, slowly, diligently....now I have 3 kids and am lucky if I get 2 or 3 pages done in a night, I can't keep up with all the pictures I take!! I LOVE creative memories too...I have a TON of their products, I'm definitely looking into this! Thanks!!
For me the scrapbooking is what kept my mind occupied when my son deployed. His first book that covers BMT, tech school as well as his first base assignment is finished. It is a work of freakin' art!! It's amazing what a stress reliever scrapbooking can be. The first deployment book is coming together slowly. All of this is not so thrilling for my son right now, but someday he will enjoy it. My goal is being creative without spending a whole gob of money. Just getting those pics and pages together in an organized and interesting manner is all you really NEED to do. All the fancy stickers and doo-dads are nice, but in 10 years all anyone will care about are the pictures and the words. I've been to a couple of weekend getaways where we just scrap, eat and visit. It's great. No meals to fix, kids to tend to and lots of support and fellowship. When you get a page done you can draw for a prize out of the scrapbooking basket. I finished a whole scrapbook in 1 weekend!
My mom is really into card making and rubber stamps (her friend sells "Stampin' Up"), and I go with her sometimes when her friends have stamping parties. I would love to try some scrapbooking, but I never have time. My goal is to do one once we get our wedding prints back (yes, it's been a year, but our photographer has been really slow and out-of-touch).
Digital scrapbooking sounds like a lot of fun, and something I could totally get into. I would LOVE to have photoshop on my computer, but it is an expensive program to buy; over $500. If you get the full creative suite it comes just over $1000, I think. *shudder*. However, if I can put up with the Vista photo editing software (or other free versions), Publisher is only about $99 normally, and I've heard there are ways to get a military discount on Microsoft programs. Publisher would be a great scrapbooking program. I use it at work to make fliers, brochures, presentations, etc.
Can I just say, that I did a WHOLE entire scrapbook (41 pages) for my best friend that just PCS'd to TX for her going away present....in 3 days! And I absolutely LOVE it!!! I'm hooked
I am sooo lacking motivation lately.. between getting everything ready for my wedding.. including making all the invites... lol... and getting ready for the move to Germany it has been crazy
Its sooo much fun, I have to do it when the kids go to bed though lol
