did you start scrapbooking on your own Or by going to a crop?

[vanyel]

I started reading the creative board because I had started beading. Then I started reading the scrapbook stuff and I was jealous that you all had such a good time Then I needed a gift for my dad's 80th birthday and I didn't want to do the same old gift - you know shirts, etc. So I did a scrapbook for him that turned out "pretty good" and I decided to continue scrapbooking. So to answer your question, I started on my own

 

[boBQuincy]

I know a couple CM consultants and went to a party one had hosted. I really liked the scrapbooking but not all the stuff I had to buy.
In 2000 I bought my first digital camera and started digi-scrapping, and haven't stopped!

 

[dean_and_monica]

I started out by making programs for my wedding in 2004. I went to Archivers and took a free class. After we got back from our honeymoon a friend of my husband's at work told him I should come over and crop with her. I did and I never looked back. At first I'd go over to her house and work because she had all the "toys". Then I bought my own toys. I got to a CM crop once a month but I use all kinds of products. We also have a retreat here in Estes Park, CO that I love to go to. I'm going again in May before our WDW trip and I can't WAIT

 

[bigbabyblues]

I started because my neighbor was a new CM Consultant, and I went to some things at her house. I scrap at home now, when I can find the time and the energy. I have a new CMC now (neighbor moved), but her crops are always on Friday night, and DH works on Friday night. I use things other than CM too, but I only use their albums/pages/protectors and tape runner.

 

[MazdaUK]

But atleast I have something to show for it unlike DH's golfing

 

[toverly]

I started when my son joined Cub Scouts. I purchased the Scout album with papers. It was an easy first album. All the papers coordinated and I could go to local stores to get solid cardstock in several shades. I think the problem with many new scrapbookers is that they get overwhelmed trying to find a starting point or going back too far. Good advice from a friend of mine, start from today. The next big event, be it a vacation, school play or house remodel. That will get you going without the pressure of doing a Wedding, Baby or Heritage album. After that first album, I hooked up with other scrappers and now I'm deep into my Disney album (of course). Now, I love the socializing as much as the scrapping.

 

[4greatboys]

I started on my own. I went to a scrapbooking 101 class and then started going to crops. I dont really like to scrap all alone. Finally I managed to suck in 4 of my other friends so then we just started cropping at someones house.

I started it because I had lots of the large pictures they take of you on the rides and when you enter the park and I wanted to be able to do something neat with them instead of just putting them away somewhere.

 

[Uncleromulus]

I went to a CM crop back in July. And I got hooked! With all the trips to Disney we take, it seems a natural thing to scrap them.

Now I'm buying up every scrapbook magazine I run across and cluttering the house with my scrapbook supplies!

I am going to a 3 day crop sponsored by a CM consultant that is going to be held in Bethany Beach Delaware in March. I'm looking forward to it as my sister and some close friends will be there, and it will be fun to socialize with them as we put our pages together.

Uncleromulus' Wife, Kathy

 

[graygables]

My mom called me back in 1997 and told me about this company she saw at a home show that I might be interested in joining called Creative Memories. I called and got in touch with a consultant, but before I could do anything else, I had an accident and broke both legs. So, I was situated in my wheelchair, on some serious drugs, when my dear CMC brought over my first 8x10 scrapbook, a pack of paper, couple of packs of stickers, the stars/hearts templates, a black pen and an idea book. She delivered it to my house and showed me the basics. I started with the trip to WDW that I took with my older DDs as a single mom, just graduated from college. I look at it now and think, "Wow! I did that with those things???". It's not nearly as elaborate as my recent work, but I love it just the same. I signed up as a CMC with my insurance settlement money (pain and suffering, ya know... ), but I eventually outgrew CM and launched my own line of page kits and scrapbook apparel.

I go to Scrappers Dream Vacations as a vendor and try to get some scrapping done while I'm there. I love wandering around and looking at what everyone is creating...simple or elaborate, it's all beautiful!

 

[jmc_in_disney]

A friend dragged me to a CM party in the summer of 2006 (I swore I would never get into such an obsessive hobby like scrapping! ) Well, I loved it, and bought an album to scrap our 2005 disney trip and the whole kit that comes with the bag right then and there. I also agreed to host a party, which I did the following month, which got my sister and some friends hooked as well. The following year I borrowed a friends Cricut and bought one the following month - I'm now officially the obsessive scrapbooker and saving my pennies to get the Expression!!

That same friend that got me to the party has been trying to get me to go to a crop but I've resisted so far. I don't really like the CM consultant and she's very strict about doing things the CM way, which I don't. I did try one crop this past December, that our LSS was having, but that was a mistake. It was held at a local restaurant and it just wasn't like scrapping at home. First, they told us we could bring our own cricut, but the outlets turned out to be fake - there was no power! So, the only outlet was on the other side of the room, and were being used by the owner's machines (with very long lines for them!). I had planned to work on my christmas cards, which I was stamping and coloring in with watercolor pencils - but the lighting was so dim, I couldn't see what I was doing. I ended up doing not much of anything. While I know that another crop would be different, that kind of soured me on them. I like scrapping at home, whenever I can carve out time and having all my stuff with me. Everyonce in a while I have 2 friends come over and we scrap together, but mostly, this is my "me" time!

 

[pjlla]

I can't remember ever NOT being a scrapper. I actually have my original scrapbook from the early-mid 1970's... just basic plain paper scrapbook with pictures, postcards, and momentos glued and taped in with some handwritten journaling.

Then I did a version of scrapping in those old magnetic photo albums in the 1980's. Cut out shapes from construction paper, added quotes and comments cut from magazines and newspapers, photos, and momentos (movie tickets, etc).

When DD was born in 1995 I started what you would consider "modern" scrapbooking. But the supplies were really limited. LOUD patterned papers, basic color cardstock, decorative scissors, rubber cement. But I still didn't know ANYONE else who scrapped, nor had I heard of CM. I bought almost EVERYTHING I could find, when I could find it, because supplies were so limited!

I put the scrapping aside for a few years after DS was born in 1998, as I didn't seem to find the time. (And everything I had, including albums, fit in a milk crate!! ) But I picked it up again in about 2000 and haven't looked back since!

I attended my first (and only) CM party/crop in about 2003 and while I was impressed with how quickly the pages went together with the CM method, I wasn't sold on it. Other than that I have only attended two other "away from home" crops... one at church as a Ladies Night event in about 2002 and another one just this past November (I went alone and didn't know anyone else, so I got lots done... no gabbing!). My mother actually signed me up for that one and watched the kids for the day . She knew I was struggling to find time to scrap.

ANYHOOOOOO.... the short answer is, I started and continue to scrap on my own. But I find a lot of help and inspiration here on the DIS and in scrapping magazines. HTH...................P

 

[uratoon]

I started scrappin' in 1995 before most people around here knew what it was. I had 1 friend who was doing it also, so we spent a lot of time trying each others ideas, then we started doing CM. In 1999 I became a CMC and really enjoyed it. I stopped in 2002 because I needed a 'regular' job with insurance, etc.

Now I find most of my Ideas while in the craft store walking down the aisle's. Hubby likes to go with me and pick out stuff too!

 

[Camicar]

I've never been to a crop and never will go to one. It's not that I'm anti-social. Not at all. I've enjoyed it when I scrap with others...

In my home.

I reallly need to be with my own stash in my own home. I am a serendiptious scrapper and regularly change my mind half way thru a page. So there is no way I'd be able to plan ahead and put a bag together and go to a crop. It would be a waste of time.

 

[dean_and_monica]

I take everything i own with me I am trying desperately to get my last vacation done before we hit WDW in May. The only way I can force myself to do that is to only take those pics with me to a crop. If not, i'd find myself wandering to other projects.