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Post by disneyer on Jul 20, 2016 1:46:54 GMT
I bought a kit on QVC as my first purchase. My first project was to do my 20 year old prom photos. The photos were in those sticky pages. Now that I look back that book isn't much better, but I loved doing it.
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Post by christydepew on Jul 20, 2016 2:21:24 GMT
I worked on heritage projects from the 60s and 70s. I started in CM with my mom & sister, who dragged me kicking and screaming into scrapbooking. I remember the fun crops, where I'd show up with a shoulder bag with EVERYTHING in it for the crop lol. Now it looks like I'm moving or leaving town when I go to a crop! I made my little triangles for corners, title strips with stickers, and punched a lot and had so much fun! I still look back fondly on my early days of scrapbooking where I could prep for a crop in about 5 minutes and walk out the door with everything on my shoulder. But I do love all the new tools & techniques I've picked up on the way  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2016 2:47:55 GMT
My first product purchase in the modern era from a scrapbook company was a multi-color pack of cotton texture Cardstock with flecks of color in it from Pebbles in my Pocket's magalogue. The only size available at that point was 8.5x11. It was mail order and this was in the days when you had to fill out an order form with a pen, write a check and mail it to them.
I worshipped their magalogs.
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Post by tiffanytwisted on Jul 21, 2016 17:29:47 GMT
When I stumbled upon the 'Memory Book' aisle in Rag Shop ohsomany years ago, I was really interested, but didn't want to start scrapping my photos, only to find the hobby disappearing (remember painting sweatshirts & friendly plastic jewelry?) and me having half my photos scrapped, but nothing to do w/the rest of them. So, I decided to go w/scrapping a finite event. Our yearly pool parties fit the bill: tons of fun photos and I could pull the albums out every year so people could reminisce about last year's bash.
So that was my first project and my first products were all pool related - papers w/water drops on them, stickers of pool stuff, etc. Picked up my first issue of CK that day, too.
Ah, the memories . . .
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Post by checkwheelsdown on Jul 22, 2016 19:32:13 GMT
What great memories ladies! My first project in the "modern scrapping era" (because I "scrapped" my photos with captions from newspapers and magazine pictures as an adolescent!) was after I was introduced to CM from a friend in our squadron spouses group back in 2000. She also pointed me to my first CK magazine. I started doing my own thing by taking my childhood photos out of those horrid sticky albums and putting them into archival albums in exactly the same way I had first "scrapped" them. Then I bought my first CM tools but started scrapping the CK way. I picked photos from random years and away I went!
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Post by streetscrapper on Jul 22, 2016 22:08:53 GMT
My first scrapping project was my wedding album. BIG MISTAKE!!! Except for the album, I had absolutely no supplies... and the supplies available today did not exist 12 years ago. It was horrific. So much so that I just redid the album at the beginning of the year. I know a lot of people consider that to be a "no no", but I hated it so much that I never took it out to look at the pictures! It is so much better now! I actually like having it on display!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2016 2:34:56 GMT
My first scrapping project was my wedding album. BIG MISTAKE!!! Except for the album, I had absolutely no supplies... and the supplies available today did not exist 12 years ago. It was horrific. So much so that I just redid the album at the beginning of the year. I know a lot of people consider that to be a "no no", but I hated it so much that I never took it out to look at the pictures! It is so much better now! I actually like having it on display!! You are not alone. I did mine over, too. |
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Post by anniebeth24 on Jul 23, 2016 14:10:33 GMT
I've always been a paper lover - stationery and Hallmark stores make me very happy. When I first saw scrapbook supplies, I loved the products, but was intimidated by it because I felt I would have to scrap every picture of my kids and I was already behind! The idea was overwhelming.
One day, my neighbor invited me over to her craft room (what a great concept - never heard of one before) to work on a project. I decided I could start small - one set of vacation photos. Made an 8x8 album of that trip with all kinds of photo-image papers and themed products.
Since then, my scrapping has stayed focused on vacation albums for the most part. I haven't ever gotten around to scrapping the early days of my children's lives, but I'm ok with that. It's been a fun ride and I'm glad I took the leap to get started.
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Post by carolynhasacat on Jul 23, 2016 16:17:34 GMT
I've always been a paper lover - stationery and Hallmark stores make me very happy. When I first saw scrapbook supplies, I loved the products, but was intimidated by it because I felt I would have to scrap every picture of my kids and I was already behind! The idea was overwhelming. One day, my neighbor invited me over to her craft room (what a great concept - never heard of one before) to work on a project. I decided I could start small - one set of vacation photos. Made an 8x8 album of that trip with all kinds of photo-image papers and themed products. Since then, my scrapping has stayed focused on vacation albums for the most part. I haven't ever gotten around to scrapping the early days of my children's lives, but I'm ok with that. It's been a fun ride and I'm glad I took the leap to get started. Vacation albums are awesome, though. I have a few from my DH's parents and grandparents (!!), and they include things like the construction of the president's faces in Mount Rushmore! (they went to see it being built in the late '30's). They were big travelers and those albums are the most fun to look at now. |
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Post by carolynhasacat on Jul 23, 2016 16:20:39 GMT
What great memories ladies! My first project in the "modern scrapping era" (because I "scrapped" my photos with captions from newspapers and magazine pictures as an adolescent!) ..... YES! Me, too! I also included newspaper articles and wrote down why I thought they were interesting. Early Pintrest LOL! |
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Post by sarahbee on Jul 23, 2016 16:36:45 GMT
When my grandma passed away in 2004, a family friend purchased a scrapbook kit for me as a way to preserve my memories of her. It was nothing fancy, the kind probably made for kids, but I fell in love with scrapbooking and have been hooked ever since.
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Post by melanell on Jul 25, 2016 0:52:43 GMT
When I started scrapbooking there weren't any stores around to sell me actual product. We only had one big box hobby store, and that was Joann's, which at the time, was still Joann Fabric and they didn't have scrapbook supplies. We did have a local hobby store, but they never did get a speck of scrapbooking merchandise, although they had a small stamp section that I enjoyed. I was using individual sheets of regular weight 8.5x11 paper that I purchased from a copy center! LOL! Then, one day after Sam's Club first came to our area, I found a "scrapbook kit" with actual scrapbook papers. I was so excited to see actual scrapbooking product that I bought it. It turned out to be horrible quality, but oh well!  Shortly after that AC Moore opened around here and Creating Keepsakes launched and then I was really thrilled!! It was around the time that I was pregnant with my first that I found 2 Peas and that was when I first bought scrap supplies online. I was so tickled to be able to find the companies and lines mentioned in the magazines. (Because at that point the stuff at AC Moore was nothing like what was being advertised or used in CK magazine.) The first "real" line I bought was by Making Memories and it was for a baby album for my oldest. That was 14 years ago. |
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Post by FurryP on Jul 25, 2016 0:53:41 GMT
My first sb project with paper I bought at an actual LSS was a 12x12 page with one small picture that was cut into an oval shape. No journaling,no title. It was before I had internet.
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Post by marmargirl on Jul 25, 2016 22:46:55 GMT
My very first scrapbooking project was my wedding album in 1999. Even though I cringe a little when I see some of the terrible techniques/tools I used (decorative scissors, cutting photos into circles, etc.), I still LOVE looking through that album and remembering how much fun I had making it. I can remember showing it to my husband every time I finished a page, and to his credit, he patiently looked through the album each time I brought it out. It's crazy to think I did that whole album with a small arsenal of supplies while sitting on my living room floor. Now I have a whole room dedicated to paper crafting and enough supplies to carry me through a couple of lifetimes!  |
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Post by craftsbycarolyn on Jul 26, 2016 14:39:49 GMT
Well my daughter was having a baby, duh! It was 2005 and I was so excited to be having a grandchild. I made a whole album. I laugh every time I see that album. I've come a long way baby since that album, but that is what got me started.
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Post by tduby1 on Jul 26, 2016 15:40:15 GMT
We went to Disney in 2006 with SIL and BIL and their kids. When we got back a family member talked SIL into scrapbooking the trip, so we started scrapping together. Another one of her family members sold CM products and we had a party at my house. DH took the demonstrator aside (when? I am not sure, lol, I don't remember her missing) and ordered a Disney book and every single product that could be used in a Disney book plus some for me (and his sister because I shared). Love that man!!
From there we branched out into mainstream scrapping. I still scrap. My SIL not so much. 
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Post by tduby1 on Jul 26, 2016 15:48:48 GMT
This is easy! I wanted to scrapbook but no way could I afford CM, so my husband bought me a scrapbook kit from KMart for Christmas, it could have been maybe 1998. It came with a white post bound album with maybe 5 white pieces of cardstock held directly into the album; no protectors. It also had a shape template, some deco scissors and a pen. I believe there were white photo squares and maybe some red and blue cardstock. I decided because the papers were patriotic I would start on my Air Force photos. It also came with a thin (maybe 3-4 pages) idea book from Memory Makers and it showed a few layouts. So never having 'learned' I set about trying to copy what I thought I had seen in a CM book at a craft fair and the Memory Makers idea sheet. So that is the first scrapbook product I ever owned. All of it but the scissors has been in the trash for like 15 years. I think the scissors are shoved someplace in a box or drawer. Ok, I guess *this* would be my first scrapbooking experience, actually. Except my kit and stencils and stickers came from Joanns. Same type of book, kit, etc. Deco scissors, pics cut small. about 98-99 time period. I hadn't *seen* scrapbooking before, just bought the supplies and put together pages with pictures cut in shapes from the stencils using deco scissors and sticker sneeze. I don't even put those books with my current scrapbooks. I did a Christmas book and one of DS in 1999, the year he was born.
And like a poster upthread, I did it sitting on living room floor while DH watched TV. Hilarious how so many of our experiences mirror each other.
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Post by ilikepink on Jul 27, 2016 19:17:27 GMT
In 1999, I was looking through the local adult school (fun night classes) and a CM rep was offering a "one night" class. Bring 5-6 photos of a particular event. I dragged my BFF with me - and brought pictures from my 40th birthday. OMG, how awful the pages looked! At about the same time, one of the women from my mothers of twins club saw a similar class and took it. We both had the same thought - the pictures from our club could be scrapped by all of us at meetings. That never worked out, but she became a CM rep - she made a lot of money off of me! I've been hooked ever since!
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