Stenogoddess,
Which do you like the best, old fashioned scrappin, diggi scrappin or Shutterfly? Which is fastest? Which costs the least?
It sounds like your family book was awsome. What a great gift. No one knows any of my family background. It's like my grandparents just sprang up out of the earth somewhere, met, married, had eight kids, the end.
As for which one I like best, I like both for different reasons. I keep two traditional books going throughout the year, a year in the life book and a Christmas book. The Christmas book is obvious. The year in the life is what happened to us as a family this year. So to keep that one at a lift-able level, I just do a couple of pages about each thing. For example, I did four pages of our cruise in the Year in the Life book, but then I digi scrapped the whole trip in its own book. That's what I'll do with our Adventures by Disney trip to London/Paris this spring, which may again have a breakout book from the breakout book with
Disneyland Paris having its own book.
I do both because, one, all of our LSS have closed down just leaving me with Michaels and AC Moore. I can never seem to get what I want or feel inspired when I'm in those stores. So I sort of collect up things as I go and then I'm ready for my Year in the Life LOs. Plus, by doing the larger books that take forever on the computer, it keeps my dinning room from staying constantly messed up. I really like traditional scrapping though because I like cutting and gluing and feeling the paper. It's often harder for me to get started on the computer. Plus, I work all day long on the computer so it's often hard to movtivate to get back on the computer for scrapping. Don't let me make it sound like I don't enjoy digi though because I do. I'm still in the learning curve though and so sometimes get too frustrated.
As for cost I think digi could be cheaper than traditional, if you don't do it like I do! LOL I love shopping collections and love the fact that you can buy them and use them right away. I also don't like to use collections over and over. I use it a few times and then I try to move on so that all my LOs don't start looking the same. Now, if you were a better mixer and matcher than I am and were better at recoloring paper and elements than I am, I bet you could get way more milage than I do out of it and thereby save yourself a lot of money. I think I figures out for me that traditional and digi cost about the same, give or take here and there on particular LOs. I know for a lot of people digi is cheaper.
All of that is clear as mud, right?!
Happy New Year to each of you.
