MOC-9-Day-2-Why-I-Scrap
KAPOH, Jan 2, 2021
- Description:
- JOURNALING: SCRAPPING
I first got in to scrapbooking when I discovered baseball and fell in love with a team from my home state – Cincinnati Reds. Back then, about the only tools we had were a scrapbook and what was called “construction paper”, a brightly colored, slightly rough, paper made mostly from wood pulp. It was designed basically for classroom use in drawing and crafts. It was fun to take newspaper stories about a favorite player or special game and add accent strips of color with paper shapes. And, of course, it was all held down with the local product – Elmer’s White Glue, in the ubiquitous little squeeze bottle with the orange twist cap. Simple easy ways to preserve memories and dabble in artistic creativity.
In the 80’s and 90’s, scrapbooking really took off and I got on board. I had a big wheel-about suitcase style tote for my MANY supplies: cardstock (basically the old construction paper – refined), tons of patterned papers, glue sticks and dots, tape runners, decorative pens and scissors, washi tape, fancy borders, flowers, die cuts, chipboard, sequins, “gems”, foils, buttons, ribbons, and bows. Memory pages were now mostly photos taken with a film camera.
And then, DIGITAL hit. I had already converted to digital photography by the time my sister and I attended a scrapbooking convention in Jacksonville FL. So much fun. So much new stuff (to buy, of course). But it was a presentation on digital scrapbooking that would change everything. My sister attended that meeting while I was at another one and, when we met up afterwards, she could hardly contain her excitement. She had been given a copy of Adobe Photoshop Elements. And, once we discovered how wonderfully easy it was to use, my big tote got shoved to the rear of the closet and all I needed was my computer and my Canon. The reason still remains, however “Saving Memories” and making “Art.”
CREDITS: SKETCH: Clipart Library; FONTS: Chunky Comix; Arial; KIT: "I Scrapbook" by Little Butterfly Wings; WORD COUNT: 312
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- Member Galleries
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- KAPOH
- Date:
- Jan 2, 2021
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