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mrs2a50

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Why do you scrap? Memory keeping? Creative outlet?

For me, it's my one thing I do that's creative, so it's purely a creative outlet for me. I used to print my pages, but I haven't done that in a really long time, because I don't look at the books much, and I'm certainly not going to pass them along to anyone.

So spill on your reasons for scrapping!
 
It's a way to use my creativity. I have no patience for glue, scissors, real paper and paint so this is perfect for me. I don't print either. I scrap purely for me.
 
Both. I enjoy the process, and I enjoy the result. I love seeing my girls' faces as they thumb through. I love helping them make their own pages and asking to take pictures or for me to take pictures. I like when I remember part of something and can find a LO and "oh yeah!" the rest of the story, thanks to pics and journaling. But of course, I could write stuff next to a picture without the effort I put into scrapping. I do it the way I do it because I love doing it. I love creating and improving and learning and sharing, and I love TLP and the friends I've made through my hobby. :)
 
It started with stamping and making cards... then moved to paper scrapbooking, then to digital. Never looked back. I started with the intent of saving all my memories. It's slowly changed to a mix of creative outlet, and memory keeping. I prefer albums, and matching double pages. BUT... I like creating pages just for creativity, but haven't printed these type of pages. I don't know if my OCD would be happy with the actual album. I think I'll try it when I get a free shutterfly book at some point. I can print all my singles together... sort of in date order of the subject.

I also think it was a way to connect with other people, make some friends, and have fun.
 
I make pages because I want to tell the story, for me and for my kids to remember. I make them pretty because it's my creative outlet.
 
my first 4 kids came to me at age 4, not one photo of them as babies, birthdays or anything. I went a bit overboard, and digital cameras came at the same time. I started scrapping using the only program I knew, Photoshop! lol
Digital scrapbooking is the first medium, the creativeness that I saw in my mind and heart can be poured out to look like I wanted it to be!
 
It started because I had one of the first digital cameras way back in 1997 or 1998 and I wanted a fun way to print some of my pictures and display them. Now that I have kids I scrap to remember each phase of their lives. I have a terrible memory, but this way I can look back and remember that my youngest refused to eat anything green from birth and that my oldest has always been very artistic and musical even at two years old. :)

It also feeds my "need" to make stuff. :)
 
I started scrapbooking when my DD and 5 yr. old GD moved 500 miles away. They had been living with us and I missed them terribly. I also wanted my GD to remember us and all the things we had done together. This worked and they loved the results. Now I scrap to spend time with all 7 of our kids and 17 grandkids. It is a way to share their lives (if they send me photos) and interact with them.

I love computers and I love the creative process so it works for me too. I've added AJ which is really just for me.

I really wish I had discovered this when my kids were young so I could look back and remember.
 
I scrap because I want to "write" our story and to create albums. I love love love to look at albums.
Sometimes I scrap just for fun, because I love to play with photoshop :) I began to play with it in 2004 when we purchased our first digital camera that come with an early version of photoshop elements... I fell immediately in love!!!
 
I scrap because I want the stories behind the pictures told. I want my kiddos to know what was going on at that point in their lives, to know how I felt, how they felt...the remember the little stories that too often go forgotten. I wish that I had been doing it all my life, so I could remember so many more little moments that had happened in my life. I truly feel like it is one of the most important things I can do for my kids and family.
 
Creative Outlet. I get a chance to use my creativity in a non messy way. I used to be a studio potter, and always thought I would go back to that medium. With my arthritis, throwing around pounds of clay is a too taxing so I've looked for other outlets. I'm a very messy painter and not too into glue and stuff. I definitely have a paper fetish but I never want to use it up on things.. I just seem to keep it for something the future.. digital scrapping is great - you never run out of materials or new things to do with them. I find it calming, nourishing, and fun. If it keep memories too, all the better but that's not my prime motivator.
 
Creative therapy!!! Plus the bonus of documenting our lives and taking lots of pictures! It's a win-win-win hobby!! :)
 
I scrap for the stories behind the pictures and the life stories, etc. even without pictures. I also do a bit of art journaling when I just need to vent or express happiness, etc. I am an on again, off again scrapper. The MOC helps me get in the mood for scrapping again.
 
Both. They are a way for me to keep a record and look back. Looking at old layouts always makes me happy. I don't have children to pass them on to, but it still is a great way for me to remember. It's also a creative outlet.
 
All of the above - i particularly want to relive our once in a lifetime moments and travels while i'm scrapping and have a pretty album to show for it - one day...
 
I scrap both for the creative release and memory keeping. I started when my son was born, so it definitely started more as a memory keeping endeavor, but I've also branched out into other directions - scrapping prayers and designing my own papers and obviously those are done for the creative aspect.

I'm a self-taught graphic designer, but digital scrapbooking really made me fall in love with Photoshop and the more I scrapped, the more interested I've gotten in improving my photography. I keep discovering new ways to approach it and even though I've got through ebss and flows with how much I scrap, I really see this as being something I do at the minimum for the next seventeen or so years. :)
 
I'm definitely a memory keeper first. I like to tell our family's stories and I do print most of my pages. But, I have come to appreciate scrapping as a creative outlet as well. I have found myself increasingly making pages just for the fun of it and those are mainly for me.
 
I love that so many use scrapping as a creative outlet! I enjoy so many creative activities - origami, kirigami, crochet, quilting, quilling, etc. I have too many creative outlets! LOL. But I was blessed recently when my 26 year old excitedly took her scrapbooks to her own home, and when my 16 year old SON told me that he was very glad I took pictures, but very, very glad I scrapbooked them, because he really likes to look through them and remember.
 
Two reasons really....it really is the only creative outlet that I have....I can't paint or sew or crochet or knit or any of those things.

Also, my husband and I don't really have memories from our childhood to look back on. No photos or anything. I'm sure my Mom has some if I went and scoured thru her things but my husband literally has like four photos from his childhood. I don't want that for my kids. I want them to look back at all the great times they had, all the milestones they hit and all the love that surrounds us. I hope to do this for as long as I can. Hopefully, I'll still be around to be able to scrap about their children.
 
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