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bellbird

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Last night I was reminded of the number 1 reason I haven't paperscrapped in over 13years. All this mess for a birthday card or two?! Uggh! My process just isn't suited to paper.
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As you can probably tell, I get almost everything out, spread over every inch of available surface (my box of adhesives and glitter etc was on the chair next to me) and look at all my stuff, try some things for a few hours, get frustrated and then make something pretty minimal and have to pack it all back up again plus scrub glitter, glue and ink off myself and the furniture. At least with digi, I can delete the hidden layers and close my folders and I'm packed up, and once I put away the EHD's, I don't really need to clean the furniture!


So today I want you to tell me your number 1 reason you're a digiscrapper (or alternatively why you prefer hybrid or paperscrapping)
 
I feel your pain! I am a digiscrapper for exactly this reason. As an added bonus when I started my children were little and you’d have little hands getting into everything as well. Or you would just get everything out and then someone would need you and all the stuff would be out on the dining room table till dinner when you had to just pack it up again! Also I’m slightly perfectionist and my last memory of paper scrapping is trying to stick down photos with equal distance between them and the double sided tape adheres.. but slightly out of line. Also love the immediacy of digi - I didn’t live close to a paper shop and when a girl wants to scrap a girl needs to scrap, not wait three days to get the right paper!
Sorry that ended up being my top 3 reasons!
 
I’m just better at digi!

All jokes aside, my eyesight isn’t good enough for accurate cutting of anything so at least with digi everything is more likely to be straight
 
I can’t even tell you how much I relate. I started out as paper scrapper (like so many others). I have tried 4-5 to go back to paper scrapping after years of Digi and I no longer can do. I last long enough to waste money on all kinds of supplies but then when I try to sit and work a page it’s like the creative part of my brain shuts down and goes into panic mode with all those papers, stickers, punches, paints, stencils, etc...... I have realized that being able to see my page come together on a screen and the ability to move and redo till my little hearts content is the only way I can do this hobby. I’m typing this as I’ve just recently packed up my little raskog full of supplies and shoved in a back closet for the third time this year!
 
Little scraps of paper and stuff everywhere gives me serious anxiety! I was never a paper scrapper for that reason and even today when I do planner stuff or hybrid it drives me crazy until it's all cleaned up.
 
I was a paper scrapper for many years and had a dedicated scrap room for all but the first couple of years. I could just go out at the end of the day or night and shut the door. I never did like the mess it generated, but that was part of it. Since I started digi scrapping, I've gone back to paper/hybrid a couple of times and it frankly makes me crazy. I no longer have a dedicated scrap room, so that makes me not want to hybrid/paper scrap even more.
 
I still enjoy making hybrid type greeting cards but definitely no Paper scrapbooking for me these days.
I really enjoy the NO GLUE marks in Digi and the ability to have your photos whatever size and whatever colours you want them to be.
 
I went to retreats several times a year and always took my laptop along with all the paper supplies. I used the laptop with my CraftRobo cutting machine. I realized that was a whole lot of stuff! I also got frustrated when I found a paper I liked but it was in a paper pack and I didn't have as much as I needed and I hated to buy the paper pack for 1 stinkin' sheet of paper! 1 sheet of digi paper can be used hundreds of times!

I still have some of my paper supplies and have done some paper scrapping in the last year but it is very minimal. Pretty much just the photos, a couple strips (triangles) of paper, journaling and a title from alpha stickers if needed. Just working on old photos as well that I want in albums but don't want to spend time scanning.
 
I have a serious lack of brain-eye-hand coordination. This is also why I was never any good at sports & why I often stumble over words -- my brain goes 2-3x faster than any other part of my body. I can't cut or glue straight & I can't spend 20 minutes embossing or adhering teeny-tiny embellishments or watercoloring. I just can't. Well, I suppose that I COULD if I was willing to invest hours & hours into practicing but YKWIM. I have a very hard time being manually precise.

[This is also why I cook vs. bake.]

Digital scrapping means I can get things straight or "adhered" in a way that best suits my physical capabilities (or lack thereof) and makes my brain & creativity the most happy and the least stressed.
 
I moved from traditional paper scrapped layouts to digi because:

  1. My son was then just a couple of years old and into everything.
  2. No dedicated room to shut the door on. Couldn't handle the mess.
  3. Chronic pain made me appreciate the convenience of digi scrapping, not to mention that I wasn't pulling and pushing and packing up and unpacking, etc.
Olivia and I worked on our planners today and I tell you: it's a pain in the butt. The stickers don't go where I want them to go, and then things tear when you try to move them, and there's no undo button and well, next year I'm designing my own planner pages already beautiful so I can just write on them. LOL
 
Maybe not my number one reason but since I'm currently at a scrapbooking retreat, that's my context for answering. When I paper scrapped and went to a retreat, my car was packed to the gills with all my scrapping stuff because I needed it all. And it all needed to be unpacked and carried in. At the end of the retreat, it had to be all packed up and carried back out to the car and repacked. Now, all I need for scrapping is the bag with my laptop & tech gear along with my second monitor and I'm good to go!
 
Ha ha I am just like you but right on the top of the list is my skill with scissors..... non-existent. I have boxes of paper card making stuff now am hybrid occasionally.
 
LOL - Looks like my desk right now - bc I'm in the middle of 3 pocket letters. I'm fussing and can't seem to finish them and stuff is everywhere. I barely have room for my elbows (as I type) and my cup of coffee on my table.
But I enjoy dabbling in paper/hyrbid again so I deal with the mess. I do have a dedicated room so that makes it easier to walk away and not look at it. :D
 
I like paper crafting, but it does make a huge mess, and I couldn't scrapbook with paper - it's too much, and I like the way i can undo, edit and correct with digi.
 
I love digi scrapbooking for the same reasons many answered -- it's less messy and you can undo anything!!!
I still have a bunch of stuff leftover from my scrapbook days. I need to find a place to donate it!
 
OMG!!!! well, I played a few times with paper scrap supplies, but for me it's a mix of things:
there's no place to buy scrap stuff in my city (only for normal craft things, kwim?), even in São Paulo, 90% of the said material comes from other countries, so the price is CRAZY and I just can't imagine spending that amount of money for, let's say, a pack of buttons. I have a crop-a-dile, my cousin bought it for me in the US, because if I were to buy it here it would be like 10 pieces in the US.
and well, digi is easy, is clean, and I have all of you!
 
I will never go back to paper scrapping layouts. At first I missed the hands on physical aspect of it, the cutting, glueing, touching my supplies, etc. Now I am thankful for the lack of mess and clean up. I do make cards sometimes but have a simpler style and don’t use so many supplies.

Also, the cost factor makes a big difference which is great! Being able to re-use products beats paper scrapping for sure!
 
I still love ALL 3 ways. I am used to a mess- as I work in my studio daily. I am a kinetic type. I had 12 paper scrapped albums that sadly were lost. I plan to make one for each of the kids and grands, so that the family history remains passed down. Just printing it in a book seems so less personal. But that is my opinion, which, you asked for, :giggle:giggle:backing
 
I have never been a hybrid scrapper. Mostly, I could never dream of cutting an actual photo. With digi, I can resize, recolor, duplicate and cut a photo and never really damage the photo. I love to change my mind halfway through a project and digi allows that flexibility. One of my favorite tricks is to switch out the background paper as the final step of a layout.
 
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