craft stores! :)

[hummingbird]

I went down to our scrapbook store near my home. It's a very big one and very well stocked. All I wanted was a scrapbook to put on my coffee table. When I got there they had expanded. Mind you they were big before the expansion. They had a whole room full of scrapbooks and I found three that were perfect, so I bought them all. Then I couldn't help be dumbfounded by all the embellishments that are out there now. They are so beautiful. I wanted to buy some, but I didn't have any reason to have any. Then as I was trying to walk out, (this was the first time) I saw a display by bazzille papers. There were such cute little mini albums that were 7 X 5 and came with an envelope. And there were so many colors to choose from. So I had to go back to the counter and buy that. Then I went back to the embellishments and bought those cute little things to go in my new little mini album to send to my mom. Then I had to buy some embellishments to buy to decorate my new albums that I bought.

Well to make a long story short. It cost me an arm and leg to get out of the store. And now I am the proud owner of paper scrapbooking materials all over again!:eek:

Scrap Happy!:D

Kathy

[shazzt]

LOL - that is good advice!! Hope you enjoyed your "retail therapy".

[boobearsmama1]

well it sounds like you had a great time shopping. some times we just need to treat ourselves.

[elizabethlmccoy]

hehehe yep sounds familiar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

[Timmysmum]

lol sounds too too familiar.... show us the album results when you finish them

[Starling]

<GIGGLE> <gasp> <giggle> <giggle>

I've got the same problem with book stores!

[Amanda]

Too funny! We don't discourage paper scrapping supplies. I love the hybrid pages I had done for CHA :)

[Emma]

actually sounds like you had fun, retail therapy is right. I'll tell you at CHA my LSS owner's eyes lit up when he saw our hybrid pages and that after I helped my friend make some hybrid pages I was considering getting into that once I get a good way to print my pages. Made him see digital scrappers can visit his store as well, that he has something to offer us (printing services, albums, graphics CDs, and hybrid additions papers and elements). I say be creative and go for it!

I used to think I'd go back and paper scrap my paper photos, but now I realize I'll likely just treat all my pages the same, putting whatever paper or digital I want on anything.

At CHA I heard the funniest new term for hybrid scrappers: tra-digi!

[bpalmer]

lol I love the tra-digi! :D I love the gadgets and stuff they keep coming out with! I'm also a paper a holic! :D

[Janet]

OOO...I am a sucker for that stuff as well. The only thing that stops me is that I can't bring myself to buy stuff I know full well I won't use. BUT...guys, SHOW YOUR HYBRIDS! I wanna see!!!!!!!!!!! I actually had a dream the other night about creating hybrids.

When I woke, I was thinking that for traditional scrappers, digital is their challenge, but for someone like me, traditional paper scrapping is overwelmingly scary.

[kat_75]

I do paper AND digital! But I dont combine them. Closest I come to a computer with my paper lo's is printing some text or printing a picture.

[ShaiShai]

I love combing my digi and paper! It expands that whole supply list twice! <G> I thought, when I started digi, I would never buy anymore scrapping supplies. BOY! I am so wrong! So, very very weong! LoL

Shai

[Biffylady]

My mom has the same problem with quilt/fabric stores! I've been banned from al craft-related stores by DH. If I insist on going to a craft store, I have to leave the checkbook and credit cards at home.:rolleyes: Does DH know me, or does he know me?:D

[BonnyJean]

LOL I know exactly how you all feel! lol having to leave cc and checks at home! too funny! I scrap both ways and have way too much stuff both ways! lol

[gracelikerain]

I would love to see some "hybrid" pages--anyone have any? I would love to try to use some of my paper products but I'm not very good at "thinking outside the box", so I'm not sure how to start...:)

[jestep]

ong time, maybe forever. i love papercrafting....but, this digi is exciting and actually fast. and i do multiple albums...like i am doing 8 right now, all you do in digi is print 8 time...paper, well now it takes me a week to do a page. but, i love it, so i do it, and it depends on your goals. i want to own every tool and do everything at least one time in papercrafts...and i want to get some scrappin done for my four grown children...i think digi will be my answer. hybrid will be a luxury and strictly paper will become rare as hens teeth.

[hummingbird]

Glynis, Do you mean pages that have the look of the new stuff out in the scrapbook stores for paper scrappers. I did this elements page with exactly those thoughts in mind. Here's my page of that.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=81355

Take a look and see if that's what you are thinking about. I love fabrics too and I keep thinking of hitting up a fabric store and scanning some to use. What a new idea!

Kathy

[MSSgillian]

I've done a few pages where I done some fancy things with the photo: mats and text overlays, etc, but have printed that and put it onto real patterend paper and added ribbon and "real" vellum with journalling.

It is still very expensive to have pages printed here in Australia, and wide printers are rare/expensive. At one of our electrical superstore chain type places they now offer a digital album, you buy the software for $10, use their templates and then have the album professionally printed ($80 for the "album", just a hardcover book + $1 per page). I don't like the idea of working only in templates though, and subsequent albums probably look the same, and the albums aren't expandable as they are the string bound proper book type thing. They did look sensational though...

[MomLid]

That's the only thing I miss about digital scrapbooking - I can't go shopping in a store & come home with something new. Besides, I still have sooo much stuff. I just tell myself that I'll use it for cards. Right, that'll work as long as I send cards to everyone I have ever known every day for the next 5 years.:rolleyes:

[hummingbird]

I was really surprised by all the new stuff in the scrapbook stores. I came home thinking of trying to copy some of the things I saw digitally. I did buy several 8X8 albums that are easy for me to print. And I can still add something to the cover of the album. That's why I tried those file dividers in my elements that I made for SADS. I posted the link previously. I like the look of metal on masculine pages. Having no daughters and two very manly men what can I say.

Kathy

[scrappistaci]

Well we have the some of the same type of services here in the US. The way I have worked around using their LO's is they have an option to print a page without captions. Just one picture on the page with a full bleed. That is perfect for me - I just scrap in the size that it will be printed in - does that make sense? I'm not very good at explaining things sometimes!

[scrappistaci]

OK two things - I am going into my kids school to make cards for the upcoming spring holidays. That should use a bunch of supplies! You could always try something like that. And to help with the shopping thing, getting my LO's printed on real photo paper is my treat. I just got a shipment back from Costco, I am so excited!

[gracelikerain]

Glynis, Do you mean pages that have the look of the new stuff out in the scrapbook stores for paper scrappers. I did this elements page with exactly those thoughts in mind. Here's my page of that.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=81355

Take a look and see if that's what you are thinking about. I love fabrics too and I keep thinking of hitting up a fabric store and scanning some to use. What a new idea!

Kathy


Those are really great, Kathy! What I was thinking about was making a digital page and then adding real paper clips, ribbon, eyelets---whatever I used to use in my paper scrapping and cardmaking. I just wondered if anyone else had ever done that--and done it successfully! :)

[hummingbird]

I did a card like that. I just couldn't help myself from buying some of the cute things at the scrapbook store. Then I took a few of the scrapbook pages that I had made and put them together. I think it's a great idea. Why not stretch yourself as far as you can go, creatively.

Kathy

[TifLyn]

I've never really paper scrapped much. Too expensive and addictive to buy all the supplies. An earlier post mentioned scanning material for the digital LO's. Great idea. The texture comes thru well. Also, I get tons of cute clipart from - wrapping paper! There's always the latest styles around. Then once it's scanned you can use it over and over. I guess a lot of you could do that with your papers too. I haven't digiscrapped much yet - just getting into it. But I've been making greeting cards and bday invites for years using the computer. Then my latest was adding clipart around the photo as a photo frame, printing and placing in a real frame on the wall. Now I've got LO's that I will have printed and framed! Ugg, it never ends! And as far as not getting that experience of retail therapy as a digiscrapper? Well, I had my experience when I went shopping online here. Told myself 1st, just one kit - maybe 2. I ended up with 6 items... And that was me behaving. And not allowing myself to look any farther... Hehehe, hahaha.
Tif :)

[hummingbird]

Hey Tif, Welcome to DSP. As a fellow Arizonian welcome. Once you have been around here and take some of the lessons, you can design your own clipart, and even do a lot more things. I have PSE3 and I make labels for my flower seeds that I save and also sell. I use my program to help with doing shadowboxes, business cards, and signs too. There's an unlimited amount of things you can do once you have the complete knowledge of you editing program. I'm now using it when I design webpages. Talk about eveything being personalized. You'll love it here.

Kathy aka Hummingbird

[bethliz]

Hey Tif that is a fantastic layout!! I have some old paper scrapbooks that are really quite bad..compared to what I do on the computer...I was wondering if anyone has the same thing...they are terrible really...but I love them because they show how much I have learned along the way!! They take pride of place on the coffee table and often chuckle and look at them when I am feeling a bit stuck on what to do on the computer!! They fix me right up and give me motivation to stick with the digi thing!!

[1IcePrincess]

Yes, another "guilty as charged!" LOL