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Purely for creative purposes as it's my only creative outlet now. I used to paint but I seem to have lost the ability to do that since my husband passed away.....the passion and the urge to paint just disappeared. Just don't want to pick up a brush and try....funny how some things change us.
I tried and loved paper scrapping but I no longer have the space to do that as I'm in a 1 bedroom unit now. I gave away a small fortune in paper scrapping supplies.
 
For the creativity of it, for my family and also because I want to remember the funny and touching small moments that would otherwise be forgotten. I print off my favourites and have them in an album. From time to time we sit down as a family and look through them. I paper scrap too, but still prefer the complete freedom digi scrapping brings :)
 
For my creative outlet, memory keeping and relaxing time.... I love to scrap in my me-time and because I don't draw/paint anymore this is such a great way to be creative and keep all those special moment and pictures alive forever.
 
Therapy! Medication of sorts! Creative outlet! Memory keeping!


So many reasons, I have always loved to take photos and since having Ty (he is almost 8) I started taking way more photos! Then when I stumbles across digital scrapbooking I found a fun and creative way of documenting our memories, without just sticking a photo in an album, or leaving it on a hard drive.


I also suffer from chronic pain and fatigue, and scrapbooking is like a medicine, therapy or sorts for me. Now I have a laptop, its even better! The times I'm bed or sofa ridden I can still be productive in a sense, does that make sense? Plus I get to be creative and can go down the documenting route of scrapbooking with my feelings. Hence why I have a mix of styles in my gallery.
 
Creative OUtlet that's way less messy that dragging out the paints, glitter and glue everyday. SLowing acquiring skills to scrap memories here and there. If only I would remember to take more pictures ;)
 
Of course , it's both. It started out as a way to keep memories (paper) but it was slow x3. Now with digi, it is neat and quick. I love the professional look of the printed albums, too.
 
I scrap for memory keeping and to de-stress - i AJ as a purely creative outlet. Either way I enjoy including my kids on the process from time to time. Their ideas are often inspiring!
 
essentially for memories keeping. Nearly all my layout is about a story even i don't add a journaling each time.
I start to scrap for therapy the last year and that help me a lot when i loose a baby.
 
It started as a creative outlet for me and a way to preserve my first child's life. Then my first husband, her father, passed away when she was about 1 1/2 and I realized then and there the importance of what I was doing. I had preserved so many memories, the only ones she will ever have of her life and time with her dad. Now it is a mixture of things for me. I know how fleeting and fragile life can be and it's important to me to preserve those time and memories that mean so much to me. It's also a way to let my creative side get out and with 5 kids my days feel crazy and scrapping is something that helps calm me and feel like I am doing something for myself. Being on a creative team for my hobby has taken it even a step further in that it gives me a sense of worth and accomplishment. While I know that my job as a SAHM is very important and worthwhile, it is sometimes hard to feel like it. It's hard for me to put it into words. Maybe someone understands what I am saying:thinking2
 
Memory keeping, to do something with the thousands of pictures I take, and because I love anything crafty!
 
for the memories - my girls LOVE looking through the albums. But also for the creative outlet.
 
initally to make pages of my furbaby cooper - now it is a creative outlet, for fun


tried paperr scraping but due to severe arthritis couldn't. that is why journlaing is minimal
 
gracielou said:
It started as a creative outlet for me and a way to preserve my first child's life. Then my first husband, her father, passed away when she was about 1 1/2 and I realized then and there the importance of what I was doing. I had preserved so many memories, the only ones she will ever have of her life and time with her dad. Now it is a mixture of things for me. I know how fleeting and fragile life can be and it's important to me to preserve those time and memories that mean so much to me. It's also a way to let my creative side get out and with 5 kids my days feel crazy and scrapping is something that helps calm me and feel like I am doing something for myself. Being on a creative team for my hobby has taken it even a step further in that it gives me a sense of worth and accomplishment. While I know that my job as a SAHM is very important and worthwhile, it is sometimes hard to feel like it. It's hard for me to put it into words. Maybe someone understands what I am saying:thinking2
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Oh Amanda, I had no idea. What an amazing gift you have to give to your daughter. I do understand about being a SAHM. Thanks for sharing your heart.
 
I need time to come read everyone properly,love getting to know you guys better!!!

I started because I wanted to make some books of Sarita's life, when her dad got ill and we split up, at some point he sropped being part of her life, but I wanted her to have something to remember him like the amazing man/husband/father he was until she was 5, so I started, a bit blind, really had no idea what I was doing, in an online free program called Scrapblog which doesn't exist anymore....

I printed 8 books for 7 years of her life, all by taking photos of the photos and downloading into the computer (she was born 96, we didnt have a digital camera until 2005) and then went in search for places to carry one scrapping as I was hooked...!

So initially, is memory keeping- but as I started getting into more CTs, and started to love art journal or photoless pages the scrapping became the best pain relief therapy...(I have chronic conditions, pain 24/7)-
Is just a combination of all but main purpose is to keep putting feelings and memories into paper/digital... and with it comes al these amazing people I met and love!!!!
 
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