Can we have a round of "introduce your scrappin self"?

I started scrapping in 1997, after attending a CM party. I had just gotten married, and thought it was a nice hobby. I do chronological. I'm perpetually about 3 years behind. I'm ok with it. I started the stamping and cards thing a year ago. I like that it breaks up the monotony and gives me a sense of accomplishment In a way I don't get from scrapbooking. I like a VERY simple style (for both cards and pages). It amazes me what some people call simple.
I have 2 kids (girl 9, boy 11) and I'm really glad that I found scrapbooking before I had them. Before, a roll of film (24exposure) would take 3 months to use. Even in the digital world, I don't take very many pictures. I also cut back on the shopping. I always think that I will go digital one day, so cutting back on shopping may get me there one day.

Started scrapping in 1999 when I made a retirement book for a co-worker.....still love it but have added card making to the mix. I love stamping and techniques and can play in my room for hours and happily get nothing done!!!

I started scrapbooking in 1996. My sister-in-law is the one who got me into it. When I began, I had been married 20 years and had 5 children. Our oldest was about to leave home. Scrapping was my therapy that helped me adjust.

I started taking more pictures once I began scrapping, and now I have 9 grandkids, which means even more pictures, so I will never be caught up. I do not scrap chronologically. I scrap whatever I have ideas for at the time.

I used to teach classes at the LSS. I had a layout published in 2002, and never had any interest in submitting again. I was one of the earlier scrappers to get an electronic cutter (in 2005), and over time I have managed to acquire 4 different ones. I was a stamper before I was a scrapper, and my first layout was stamped. I still use stamps in my scrapping, and between my stash, my stamp collection, and my electronic cutters, I could probably scrap indefinitely even if there were no more places to buy scrapping supplies.

I started scrapping in 2002. I primarily do traditional scrapping, but I am thinking of trying out some hybrid scrapbooking, as I like some of the simple digital work of Cathy Zielske.

I am a empty nester to 3 adult children with one grandson (16 months old and the joy of my life !!) I do most of my scrapping at monthly crops with a group of friends that I met through a LSS. I have been converting part of my lower level into a dedicated scrap room, so I have been pursuing You Tube religiously and have made several trips to IKEA.

I lurked at 2 peas, but have decided to be a little more active on the new board.

This is great! I started scrapping the week of 9/11, THE 9/11. It's a long story why. Have loved it ever since and do primarily 8.5x11, mini-albums and cards with monthly Project Life when I get around to it. I have 1/2 of our Den as my studio. I love to talk about scrapbooking more than actually do it (strange, I know!!) so I started a podcast with my bestie where we just sit around and discuss the ins and outs of everything scrappy! (Link in my signature.) Since we started that in February of this year, I've been more inspired to scrap but have actually scrapped less just because my workload for my job has been heavier and lots going on (I'm a personal assistant to two Pastors).

I will be a memory-keeper until the day I die. That's my favorite term for scrapbooking because for me, it really is all about being the keeper of the memories. I know for some people (most?) it's about being creative but I grew up with very few pictures and I have a lot of memory loss so I feel a mandate to record our story through words, pictures and pretty paper.

I love October Afternoon and Simple Stories and could be happy with just their products forever. Right now, I'm obsessed with learning hand lettering and art journaling. I love watching Kristina Werner and Jennifer McGuire card videos and reading blogs and Pinterest and I love this place!

I was a Pea since 2001. Always my real name.

I've been scrapping since spring 2001, was a lurker on the 2peas board for quite a while before I finally joined and began posting to the boards. I mostly do chronological, 12x12, usually two-page, multi-photo layouts, but I've also made some 8x8 books as gifts (both with and without photos) and other random projects. I mainly scrapbook trips/vacations, family photos, and special events, but I don't always do them chronologically. I'm a pretty slow scrapper, but even so I often have several projects going on at once.

I live with DH & DS (14), with 1 DD away at university and 1 DD on her own. I have a dedicated craft room that is also my office/computer room. I've only had the dedicated space for a couple of years, so I'm frequently improving/organizing/rearranging the storage or work spaces. Before that, I scrapped at the dining room table and stored everything in a couple of large cabinets/shelving units, but I really disliked having to get it all out and then put it all away every time. I tend to spread out when I work so there was no easy way to just leave it out. I'm so much happier with a dedicated craft space so I can leave projects out and work whenever I find time.

I am employed full-time (with a semi-long commute, ugh), so there are never enough hours in a day to work on all the projects I want to do! I also do stamping and card-making, beading/jewelry-making, & a little sewing (although not much lately). I was a stamper and card-maker before I was a scrapper.

I started because of a friend who did CM and invited me to a crop, where I got a few supplies and got started. From there it just snowballed! If I had to pick just one company, it would be Basic Grey, but Authentique would be a close second. The scrappers I've "met" through 2peas have definitely influenced my style, which has changed for the better over the years. I've grown more confident with trying new techniques and new products...and someday I might even post to a gallery. (Yeah, now that we don't have one readily available...oh well! ) I never posted to the gallery at 2peas, but I admired plenty of other scrappers work there...and I'm really glad to have found this board! I was on vacation when 2peas closed. Even though I knew about it ahead of time, I had no time to keep up with what was going on and it was well into August before I was able to find this place and get going.

I'll play along! I started scrapping back in 1997, a year after I opened a rubber stamp store, as a means to bring some new and different things into the store. I kept scrapping because I discovered that I really enjoyed doing something crafty just for me. As a lifelong crafter of many stripes, most of the things I made ended up being given away. Scrapping was something that I didn't have to feel guilty about keeping for myself when it was done! Over the next 4.5 years, the store gradually morphed from a stamp store to mostly a scrapbook store although I always carried a lot of stamps and related supplies too. I closed the storefront in 2001. I had positioned myself to work in the industry in freelance design but my former store customers wanted kits, so I kept my site up and offered a few kits online. Word spread and pretty soon I was only selling kits which worked out great with everything else that was going on in my life at the time. I juggled things pretty well for quite a while until we had DD. Then the next year my MIL's cancer was terminal, my mom had advancing Alzheimer's and both of them passed away. I have sort of been on hiatus from work lately to focus on my own family for a bit, but want to get back into the swing of things once we're all more settled into our new routine.

I joined 2Peas fairly early on but was mostly a lurker on and off because I simply didn't have much time to spend online. I didn't really start posting there until Archiver's announced that they were closing. There was something about that turn of events that made me realize just how many of my real life scrapping friends no longer scrap, and that made me kind of sad. I'm so happy we have this board to share discussions about this awesome hobby!

I still love scrapping, love thinking about scrapping and shopping for scrappy stuff whether it's stuff for kits for work or for my own personal family stories. I adore finding independently owned scrap/stamp stores and do what I can to support them. I probably have over 450 layouts made with no photos or journaling on them and thousands of photos to potentially scrap, but no real time to put the two together. When I'm working on my own photos, I'm a painfully slow scrapper. I hate editing photos but feel like most of my photos could be better with a little tweaking. I will likely never be caught up, but I really love the pages that I have gotten done and I truly enjoy the process of making them.

I have money coming that is earmarked for building out my studio the way I want it, but it has been so slow in coming it's making me go nuts. It is totally frustrating knowing it's sitting out there just out of reach and I can't do anything but spin my wheels waiting. Most of my scrapping stuff is still in moving boxes and we've lived here for over two years. I know that once my studio is done I will be completely reenergized both for work and personal scrapping and crafting in general. Right now it's a complete creative drain to go down there and look at a mess that I can't do much of anything about.

My favorite companies are Doodlebug, Simple Stories and Bella Blvd. I was an early adopter of the electronic cutter and quickly mastered the software. I still have my original Pazzles Pro from around 2002, and I still use it for everything from titles to paper piecings to overlays and more. I'm SO looking forward to the day when I can have my handful of friends who still scrap come over for a whole day or the occasional girl's weekend here to work on stuff together.  

I've been scrapping since Easter 2002 when my best friend gave me a scrapbooking Easter basket and got me hooked. I had made some 'scrapbooks' back in the 80s in magnetic albums (since re-done) though.

I was a lurker at 2Peas - there over a decade and barely 500 posts. I was also at the About Scrapbook forums and Lifetime Moments before they closed.

I'm a simple scrapper - 8.5 x11, multiple photos, more 2 page than 1 page layouts and clean lines/limited embellishments. Becky Higgins Sketches was what inspired me back in the day and my scrapping still owes a lot to that.

Love this thread!

I'm Lisa, and I've been scrapping since around 1999. I got started around the time both my boys were in school, mainly to keep a record of their activities for them to someday look back on. They're now 20 and 23, and I can't honestly say they've been all that captivated by scrapping. LOL

I never attended a CM class, though that's how most of my friends got started in the hobby. So I never felt the need to scrap strictly in chronological order. From the start, I wanted to make it as easy on myself as possible to mix things up, rearrange, and just generally keep it simple. I discovered Stacy Julian early on, and her philosophies always resonated with me, so I've put a lot of her ideas into practice with my own pages and albums.

I started teaching scrapbook classes in 2008, and that's totally where my passion is still today. I absolutely love talking about and sharing scrapbooking with anyone who will listen. That's why I started a blog. I'm obsessed with finding ways to use up my existing stash, which fills my dedicated office/scrap room to overflowing. I even do a weekly series on my blog called Scraps & Stash Saturday.

These days I mostly scrap vacations and family get-togethers. I'm patiently awaiting the arrival of grandchildren, but until that day comes, I have plenty to keep me busy.

So that's me...who's next?

This is fun!!

I started scrapbooking in 2002, when one of my friends mentioned an evening scrapbooking class at the high school in her town. The timing was almost perfect...I missed the first class because I was on my honeymoon but I was so excited to have a new creative outlet and was about to be in possession of a couple hundred wedding pictures! It was love at first cut! The class leaned towards CM but the teacher also tried all the new things becoming available at the time. I was never too active on 2Peas...I think in the 11 years I was a member, I had maybe 1000 posts. But I was very chatty on Lifetime Moments, unfortunately they closed about 6 or 7 years ago.

I don't have a particular style but I do love color and mixing patterns! There are very few companies I don't care for but if I had to pick some faves...Echo Park, Simple Stories and Pebbles would be among the tops. I scrap 12x12 with some smaller gift albums and an occasional card thrown in. I am a sucker for an online crop, challenges and online classes. Although, I had to put the kibosh on classes until I caught up on all of them. It was out of hand and impossible for a while so there's quite a bit to work through.

The dining room is now my scraproom. It's not pretty but it's functional. I have been dedicated to working through my stash right now so I have been on a spending freeze pretty much all year. I have only purchased adhesive and white cardstock. I can not wait to shop again!! Ha!!

My layouts are split between regular local activities and vacations and are loaded with "selfies" of DH & I and my niece & nephew.

That's about it

I started scrapping in 2002 when I had a two year old and a newborn. I came across a Creating Keepsakes magazine at the grocery store one day, bought it, and felt like I found something I would love. My only experience with scrapbooking before that was when a friend showed me her scrapbook which turned out to be a scrapbook full of scrapped cards from a baby shower - no pictures. I remember she handed it to me walked away and I wondered if she really wanted me to look at all of her cards and rubber ducky stickers. I was not interested. But CK opened up a whole new world. I had always loved taking pictures and looking through old pictures. As a kid I'd look through my mom's old pictures and ask questions about the people and places and she didn't always have the answers. I felt like scrapbooking was what was missing. I could combine my love of taking pictures with the memories and details!

I remember I had enough supplies to fill up one plastic bin. I'd put my little ones to bed and pull out my supplies for an hour or so. I remember showing people my first few pages. I can laugh about their reaction now, but at the time I was disappointed by their lack of interest and confusion about why I wasn't just putting the pictures in albums. Why decorate pictures?

I'm one of those scrappers that likes to be caught up. I took a years long break from scrapping so I'm not caught up right now. I'd like to be but I don't want to make scrapping feel like a chore so I'm just moving along at a comfortable pace. I don't have a scrap room anymore which makes it hard to get a lot of scrapping done, but I'm moving right along and still loving scrapping.

Hi,
I'm Christine and a supply addict.
I started scrapbooking in 1999 after seeing Lisa Bearnson on QVC. I love the hobby and I enjoy cardmaking too.
I joined 2 peas in 2003 and loved everything about.
I have never been to a crop and I learn by reading or by visuals. I do not scrap chronologically but I do put my pages in chronological order after completion.
I have turned my friends on to scrapbooking and I feel so good about it.
The best feeling is that both my kids love the books I have made. (Son 11, daughter 15) The other day my daughter took out her scrapbook and showed her friend. My daughter said "mom, I love my books."
For me it's about giving something to my kids that will last forever. The pages are unique, and personal and a labor of love.

I don't remember when I started scrapbooking, but like many I always kept my memorabilia in a scrapbook. I probably started around 1998/99. There was no place to get supplies really and I couldn't afford CM. Later I found an LSS and started teaching there, then working and teaching there for about 7 years.

I submitted layouts that were published, usually in idea books, and I won some contests at conventions and online.

My specialty area is heritage scrapping, especially preserving old photos. I have taught some classes at one of our local libraries on old photo preservation, not just with scrapbooking.

I have 2 adult sons; one at home going to college and one away at college. My husband is a teacher. I am a social worker and I work full time. I go to crops about twice a month. I am a fast scrapper and have completed thousands of pages and too many albums to count; at least 100. I am a chronological scrapper but I don't scrap in order, I just keep them in albums in order. Sometimes I can be obsessive about layouts being in exact chronological order!

I'm Rebecca, i live in western wa. i was mamakven on two peas and everywhere for that matter! i started scrapping after a CM party in 1997ish but lapsed for a while then started back up in about 2005. I have 7 kiddos and a tiny house and a whole lot of albums,