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marcibun

Dixie Diva
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Since we're all getting to know each other, I thought it would be fun to find out how we all got started in scrapping. I'm a relative "newbie", since I only started in Feb 2005 and even then I just kind of dabbled for a year or so. We moved to the US from Canada in 2000, and now that my kids were getting older my DH wanted me to find a fun hobby to keep my busy since I don't have many local friends. I saw Lisa Bearnson on QVC and thought that the products looked kind of fun so I ordered a couple of things. One day I made a trip to Micheals and bought a small kit in a box by Westcraft. We live in a small town in the midwest, where believe it or not, scrapping is NOT that popular. The only 2 LSS we had in our town both closed down after less then a year in business. I've never been invited to a CM or SU party. I'm self taught by TV, videos and of course, magazines. My oldest DD is now in 2nd grade and I haven't yet found a Mom in any of her classes that is a scrapper. How crazy is THAT?

In the last 8 months I've become addicted - I have a full blown scrap room, stocked full with supplies and I can't stop buying even though I have enough to last me for a long, longgggggg time. I even got to attend CHA this year, which was like a child getting to go to Santa's Workshop. LOL.

So how about you? What was it about scrapping that caught your attention?

Posted 2 years ago #
Anonymous

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I understand where you are coming from Marci. We don't have any lss stores, only a Hobby Lobby. I don't know of anyone that scrapbooks, or even knows what I am talking about! I also am self taught, by magazines mostly. I started scrapbooking about seven years ago with the idea to make a simple baby book for my daughter. I had no idea what that would turn into! Once I started, I just couldn't stop! The first few years I just scrapbooked here and there, until I found the web and what scrapbooking had to offer with fun sites and design teams. I can't imagine scrapbooking not being a part of my daily life!
I also got to go to summer CHA this year & had a blast! I actually worked at the one heart...one mind booth (who I design for) and got to meet so many people!

Posted 2 years ago #
sunnydayscrapper

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I've been scrapping for over 12 years now. When I was a senior in high school I needed a project for a church award program thing I was doing and had to have something that would take me 20 hours. I had all these pictures I'd taken from Disneyland trips, babysitting, etc. So I thought I would organize them all into albums (magnetic) and throw in cute titles from paper and markers and stuff. Well after I got them organized there was a night when we could display our projects, so, I displayed my albums I worked so hard on and heard all night long "Oh you did that wrong" and "that's not acid-free". Not one word of praise! No one really said what was the "right way" and so I just shrugged it off because I was proud. A few months later my mom's friend came to visit and brought her scrapbooks aka "the right way" and I was instantly addicted!!! At this time there was no lss anywhere. They weren't needed really. My mom's friend told us about a little house several hundred miles away that is now the famous Pebbles In My Pocket (Same company as Pebbles Inc.) in Utah. (There a chain now and I have one less than 20 miles from me now). Anyways, we traveled there during my 18th birthday and we stopped there, I got my first supplies and viola! Here I am. Those of you who have been scrapping less than 5 years are lucky, there's so much more available now then when I started. All my choices were cardstock, stickers, and waiting in line for hours for die cut machine use. So many things were not "acid-free" everyone was terrified of using anything else!

Posted 2 years ago #
Monica

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I was interested when I was preggers with my daughter 10 years ago. I had my kit and I was ready to go. I just didn't know how to start. Fast forward to August 2005, a little store opened up near me and I took a beginners class. My son was 6 weeks old at the time. With my love for photography, scrapbooking totally "fit" me and I was hopelessly addicted. I just found that kit about a year ago and Whoa have things changed since then. LOL!! Magazines and the internet have been great learning resources for me (and others as well). I now design for an online store and my LSS.

Posted 2 years ago #
DreamBig

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Joined: Sep '07
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I always tried to keep a journal as a kid, but then I started a real scrapbook my Senior Year in high school - that was the beginning... I got really into when a group of friends got me hooked about 3 years ago - I mean actually scrapping with some direction. It's been so fun ever since!

Posted 2 years ago #
ElisaK

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Joined: Sep '07
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Well I don't like to admit this, but I got hooked when a friend of mine dragged me to a CM party... gulp there I said it. hehe

Posted 2 years ago #
marcibun

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Joined: Sep '07
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that's nothing to be embarrassed about Elisa - if it weren't for CM, scrapbooking wouldn't be as popular as it is so they have to get credit for that. There's a place for Cm in the scrapping world. Its not my style, but if someone had invited me to a CM party in their hey day I would have gone and been hooked like everyone else.

Posted 2 years ago #
kehlers

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Joined: Jun '07
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Well, years ago, I was invited to a CM party and made one page. I loved it, but I said to myself, "Self, you do NOT need another expensive hobby! Just slap your photos in albums!" I always feel guilty if I don't buy something at those type of things, even though they swear you don't have to, so I got a little tape strip thingee. So, for a long time, I used my tape strip thingee to paste my photos in albums - some cropping, but mainly I am just happy to get a basic description and date on the picture so I can remember what the heck it is years later! A little while later I got a paper cutter. Then I got a circle cutter. I bought a refill for my tape strip thingee.... and thus I puttered along, not really scrapbooking, per se, though I do make my husband a V-day card every February.

Once digital cameras became all the rage, I went that route - first putting my pictures in digital templates, and even making cool slide shows with Photoshop Elements. One thing led to another, and I picked up a Better Homes & Gardens magazine on digital scrapbooking and now I'm getting into that.

Posted 2 years ago #
TrishD

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Joined: Sep '07
Posts: 75

In 2004, a co-worker kept asking me to come to a crop with her. I must have turned her down 3 times saying "I'm not going to do that!" Ha! Finally, I agreed and WOW! I am more hooked than she is.

Posted 2 years ago #
JillinOH

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Joined: Sep '07
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1997-my babysitter had an album out and showed it to me. I loved it! She took me along to a CM crop and I was hooked with that first palm tree die cut! Oh, how times have changed. I scrapped CM for a while then fumbled around on my own. I found a few internet sites with tons of inspiration, subscribed to CK and was hooked.

Posted 2 years ago #
Sherry

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Joined: Oct '07
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Friends did this to me! <said with a big grin> I had a DOTS now CTMH friend and a CM friend. I started rubber stamping first in the mid 90s. Then with all the exposure from said friends to scrapbooking, I had to give it a try. MY CTMH friend moved away, but my CM friend started Saturday workshops; I was hooked. The workshops turned out to be more like crops, and that group of women have been cropping together 1-2 Saturdays a month for 8 years.

I really like the CM albums. And you may see a rise in CM popularity -- their new catalog has some beautiful paper.

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