How long

[nesser1981]

Have you been digi scrapping?


I just realized I'm going to hit 9 years this summer. I'm getting ready to print my 40th album! And the best part, I have all all my albums in one little cabinet! LOL! I think I love it even more now than I did back then.

[Gemma]

It'll be coming up 6 years soon I think!

[Valgal]

Oh gosh... 10-11 years or so? I started paper scrapping hard core when my dd was a newborn and switched to digi a couple years later. She's 12 1/2 now.

40 albums???? Wow!

[Libby Pritchett]

I started:

Paper scrapping in 1999
Digi Scrapping in 2006
Designing in 2008

[Saar]

I started digi-scrapping on Jan 1st, 2010.

[nesser1981]

Originally Posted by Valgal

Oh gosh... 10-11 years or so? I started paper scrapping hard core when my dd was a newborn and switched to digi a couple years later. She's 12 1/2 now.

40 albums???? Wow!

Yeah, in the being I think I was printing an album a every month or two. Now I try to stick to 3 albums a year. I print chronologically.

[craftytam]

Wow! 40 albums! That's a huge accomplishment!
I started paper scrapping in 1995. Started (collecting) digi in 2010 and actually digi-scrapping in 2012.
My daughter just got married (January 24th) and I just sent her paper albums with her. There were 10 albums covering 1993-1999 and they weighed a TON! I am so thrilled that from 1999 forward are digi and take up so much less space!

[KristinCB]

Almost 12 years.. of course I have a pitiful amount of layouts for that long though I found digi scrapping in april of 2003 and started designing in 2004.

[Lyd]

I've been digi for almost eight years. I started around April of 2007. Time sure flies!

[KristinCB]

also 40 albums. that is so amazing! I'm SO jealous. I really am making it a priority this year to do AND print more layouts.

[nesser1981]

Originally Posted by Lyd

I've been digi for almost eight years. I started around April of 2007. Time sure flies!

It does. I think I started end of July 2006 early August 2006, I can't remember which for sure.

[nikkiARNGwife]

Nearly 10 years I think. Wow.

[nesser1981]

Originally Posted by KristinCB

also 40 albums. that is so amazing! I'm SO jealous. I really am making it a priority this year to do AND print more layouts.

When I get prints/books back, it makes me fall even more in love with it I think. It's one thing to have them on the computer, but being able to hold them. I love it!

[staciahall]

I have in my brain that I started my first digi class in 2008. I paper scrapped since about 2001. My albums are on two bookshelves and a big Ikea Expedit thing.

I can't believe it's been that long! The only crafty hobby that's lasted more than just a couple of years.

[flergs]

I started in 2007

[Becca Bonneville]

I started in 2008. SSD was my first digi home

[tanyiadeskins]

digi scrapping since 2008... unfortunately I did not start printing til after several crashes and loss of layouts and kits and only for the past couple years now.

[mariewilcox]

I started paper scrapping in 2000 and switched to digi at the very end of 2010, so I've been digi scrapping about 4 years now.

[carrie1977]

I think I started in 2008.

[Kiana]

I started digi-scrapping in 2009, so about 8 years. I have ONE pitiful album printed....so your 40 is really making me feel bad. Lol

I really intend to figure out how to get some albums printed this year. Lol

[eranslow]

I'm pretty sure it was 2009. After we moved to Iowa and I had no IRL friends! LOL

edited to add - I started paper scrapping with 1999 and did that until discovering digi. Now I do both

[pewtertm]

8 years this month

[jacinda]

I started paper scrapping when my dd was born, and went digi shortly after. I have digital layouts from 2004, so I guess I've been digi scrapping for about 10 years.

[YepBrook]

Early 2007, I think? My first digi page is of my son at about 10 months old, so that's about when. I was dabbling in it more than anything at that time... just a page or two using freebies and self-designed stuff that I would add to my 'regular' albums and for gifts, etc. I was still primarily a paper scrapper until about 2010 when I stopped doing paper scrapping and switched to digi 100%.

[hosanhelwa]

About 8 years for me... nowhere near 40 albums, though! That's awesome!

[crystalbella77]

It's been about 7 years for me since I started digiscrapping! SSD was one of my first homes too!! I bought from the store before joining the forums

[Sarah8914]

8 years for me! And I'm wayyyy behind. I seem to scrap less each year, but I keep trying!

[JennNtheBoys]

I've been doing 'scrapbooks' all my life...starting with the old school clipping newspaper articles, and photos and pasting them in a random book.... but in the sense of how Scrapbooking is today....

Paper Scrapping - 2002
Paper Scrapping while playing with Digital (no real projects just random for fun) - 2006
Digital Scrapping Full time - 2014

[rach3975]

It will be 11 years next month. (I know that because a few years ago I checked my join date for my first digihome.) I was here on opening day and shopped at SSD over the first few years, but it didn't become my digihome until 2007.

I was never really a paper scrapper; after 1 paper layout, I did my 2nd one hybrid. My 3rd was all digital and I've never looked back. I can't go count my albums right now, but I've got 1 per year since 2011 and 1 per child for each age until I switched to a family album. I finish more pages every year than I used to, but now that I have 3 active kids instead of 1 infant there are so many things I want to get scrapped that I feel like less is getting into our albums. Oh well, one of these days!

[adi&co.]

I will hit 7 years in September. I started digi scrapping when Marcus turned 1 and it was just too hard to keep up with paper scrapping because of how into everything he was!

[Keely~B]

I switched from paper in 2003.

[michelepixels]

I was making scrapbooks before it was an industry, beginning around 6th grade/1983.
I discovered digital scrapbooking in 2004.
But I didn't totally give up paper and completely switch to digi until about 2007.

So 7 years!

That sounds awesome how your albums fill a cabinet. I haven't been quite so prolific. All my albums of divi-scrapped pages would not even fill one shelf. Maybe not even half.

[NeverendingJen]

I've been digiscrapping since August 2007. I'll hit 8 years this summer. I have 4 albums so far of layouts, but I don't scrap chronologically so there is still a lot to fill in, and with no kids not quite as many pages to scrap as some of you

[clearskies]

Coming up on 7 years this spring...

[DawnMarch]

9 years. I started in 2006.

[bcgal00]

I paper scrapped for almost 10 years, off and on, (mostly off) and then dabbled in a bit of digi but gave it up and went back to paper scrapping for a few more years. I gave up paper scrapping (except for a few cards here and there) and committed to full on digi a few years ago.

[semantje]

Been scrapping for 4 years now but you guys!! What a numbers, feel like a rookie!
Started off with freebies but after two pages i'v noticed not everything is free that I needed and the binge shopping began

Alway digital tho, never done paper scrapping. I once bought a real empty album with I wanted to put pictures in and add stuff like tickets and little flowers. Sort of scrapping I guess but I did not know about it then. Never started tho.... and then rolled into digital.

[littlekiwi]

scrapping in general for 16 years, digi for 8 years

[Beebo]

Probably around 6 years.

[LeeAndra]

12 years this month!!!

I've been digitally scrapping almost a third of my life. It has seen me through depression, marriage, adultery, abuse, divorce, stepparenthood, two cross-country moves, remarriage, employment, unemployment, and the birth of my two children. I've never taken more than a couple months break (when my kids were first born) from it at a time. It keeps me centered and sane and whole.

It has made me who I am today.

[Nettio]

April will be 9 years. I first discovered digi in January 2006 but didn't scrap my first layout until April. I was too scared!

[emmasmommy]

I started when I was pregnant with Emma so probably right around 10 years. Gosh. That's CRAZY. Even moreso to think that I've known some of you guys that long!!

[olivesparrow]

I digiscrapped for about 4 years, stopped partway through 2012 (as got more into paper scrapping and project life) but am back to digi again just in the past few weeks as I don't have time and space to digiscrap now (plus the kids can't destroy digi supplies!)

[lovely1m]

Digi scrapping will be 9 years here soon, but I paper scrapped for 8 years before that.

[scrap2day]

I had to look it up. 2006.

40 albums. Wow. That's amazing.

[msbamf2you]

Ive been digital scrapping for about a year. I longingly looked at paper scrapping supplies for forever. .. but my coordination is lacking. Ive always felt intimidated by a blank sheet of paper so i figured going digital would be my best option and it is. <3

[jak]

I started January 2009, so 6 years (I paper scrapped for 2 years before that).

I've printed 7 books - so about 1 a year... though I have 5 more ready to print at the moment - I'm just waiting for a good special on photobooks to come along!

[MommaTrish]

Almost 8 years for me as well.

And what on earth happened 9-8 years ago that made such a boom for digital scrapbooking??

[kristijoy]

I started after I had surgery in 2009. So that's 6 years!

[fifilur]

I'm a newbie compared to some of you. I started in 2011. Digi from the start. Before that I was a card maker.