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Both. I started as a card-maker. Scrapbooking is very intimidating to me, but my sis and SIL are both into it and they helped me along. I love that I can stamp my titles rather than use stickers.
Scrapbooker for many years. Trying my best to now incorporate stamped embellishments on my pages. It is hard making the change over to do both. I am now making some cards and other items since coming to SCS.
I do, however, separate my IDEAS for both. I have scrapbooking idea binders and then card binders and "anything but a card" binders so whenever I am doing one of those 3 things I refer to the idea binder. So in that case I do separate my thinking by looking at the ideas for either a card, scrapbook or anything but a card project.
I use the same supplies for both scrapbooking and stamping, however I do stamp less when scrapbooking because that would involve taking more stuff out and usually the photos, paper and punches and all the cutting tools takes up enough space as it is. But will pull out a few stamps to accent a journaling box or do a title if I don't have what I need from using stickers or punches/die cuts.
I do use kind of a different mentality about both though. I always use colors in the scrapbook page to accent the photos, I know some do not always do that -- with cardmaking anything goes, so if I am in a particularly creative mode I can do a card and then do many variations of that same card -- can't say the same for doing a scrapbook page which is only done once.
I found that many of the stampers that I met that started stamping first more often did not scrapbook, whereas the scrapbookers that I met were more apt to stamp as well.
If that makes any sense! Meaning if you scrapbooked first you were more apt to taking to doing stamping as well, but if you stamped first statistically there weren't as many of those people that also took to scrapbooking.
Just from my personal people-I-have-met perspective anyway!
I do both also but would call myself a cardmaker, mostly stamping.
I started cardmaking about 4 years ago and got into scrapbooking a couple of years later, also enjoy altering, and making mini albums when time allows.
Enjoy both and love 12 x 12 papers, find any scraps left over from scrapbooking I can use on my cards, mini albums etc.
I do both! I started as a scrapbooker when my son was a baby. Then, because I needed a fast card one day, I used my materials to make a card. I started using stamps when my friend recommended the alphabet stamps over the alphabet stickers...and slowly got sucked in!
Personally, I think the two go together very well.
I do both as well. I started stamping 5 years ago because my good friend is a SU demo. I didn't start scrapbooking until 2 years later and love that as well. I find that I like the smaller albums better than the 12 x12. I have done both but love the smalller size for single events, like vacations. I use the same supplies on both.
I do both. I started off as a scrapbooker and then I went to an SU workshop in 1998 and was introduced to stamping. I signed up as a demo a few years later (when I had more money, lol)
When I started scrapbooking I was using Creative Memories supplies, but I didn't like the looks of stickers... so when I was introduced to stamping, I thought it was the perfect alternative to the "sticker look" and made much more sense to purchase an alphabet stamp set rather than alpha stickers because I'd always run out of certain letters when I purchased the stickers and I'd have lots of leftovers. Hated that. So I purchased a few basics and alpha sets.
I'll never go back to using Creative Memories stuff ever again... (well except for their scrapbook paper... they have pretty scrapbook paper)
I started stamping a long time ago before scrapbooking got popular. I don't currently scrapbook and don't see myself getting into to anytime soon. I do journal and include stamps, images, embellishments, background papers, cards of businesses I might want to return to if I am travelling etc. as well as my written thoughts. The focus is much less on photos than scrapbooking and more of a diary/journal. Also I prefer collage styles which lend themsleves more to art journaling. I don't have children though and I can see how that helps chronicle their lives growing up and preserves their memories for them.
I do both- scrapping and stamping. I started scrapbooking solely and than got into stamping after my friend introduced me to SU. I love both !!! They compliment each other so well
I only make cards, maybe a few candles thrown in. I never did get into scrapbooking, primarily I think because I started stamping "late in life" after my daughter was an adult so I didn't feel the need to "scrapbook" her life.
I started off with digital scrapbooking, then went to paper scrapbooking (kind of a backwards progression), then started making cards & stamping so I could use up my left over scrapbook supplies. I like each one for different reasons, but digital scrapbooking is my favourite - not as messy or as expensive
I do both as well...I scrap when I feel like spending more time on it and I make cards when I need them and when I just feel like spending a short time creating (or I only have a short time to play). I love to colour which always has me coming back to cardmaking/stamping, but I love working with my photos too.
I do both. I often use my stamps in the scrapbooks. When I buy stamps, I keep an eye out for ones that can be used in either format. By using my stamps in my scrapbooks, I feel that I'm really getting my money's worth out of them!
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But I am more of a scrapbooker who is just getting into card making and stamping. Although years ago my cousin was a stamping demonstrator and we bought lots of stamping stuff. It was nice to find a whole bunch of barely used stamps again!
I think I started to get into it with the acrylic stamps, much more comfortable with them.
I do both.
I started out scrapping, and got taken to an SU Club. Loved it , started buying stamps, then SU demo invited me to card class, where we made 5 cards of 5 different designs and I have been hooked ever since. So big thanks to my local SU demo!!
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I love both. I started scrap booking but I have always LOVED stamps. I have a wonderful friend that teaches card workshops and now I am so hooked on stamping my own cards.
I use the exact same supplies, the only thing I buy lots of now, is Papertrey Ink's card stock.
I am 90% scrapbooker. I love scrapbooking it its more of my thing I know just what to do and self taught myself since 1997, well that is with all the decorative things at that time. I do stamping but I have a hard time just to create something, I have been using SU since 2004 but just recently signed up. I use to dabble years ago and childhood but that was just playing around with store stamps.
I do both - I started out scrapbooking. My sister started selling su and got me into cards, which I thought were boring, at first (and they were the way I was doing them). Now I scrapbook once in a while and do mostly cards, but I am still doing both.
I dunno if I do both... I'm primarily a card-maker. When I "scrapbook", what I actually do is, I place as many photos as I can fit on a page, and then fill in the blank areas with stamped images. That hardly, barely qualifies as "scrapbooking" I think. Maybe scrapbook-lite.
I started making cards because I love paper and stationery supplies (clips, markers, sticky notes) and I wanted to give people something special along with their gifts, or just hand-made thank you notes. A good friend introduced me to Stampin' Up and I joined her hostess club. Well, it burgeoned from there. I started scrapbooking because it's a different way to play with paper and there is so much room to add stuff! I've got to hold myself back from adding too much. I guess card-making is my instant gratification and scrapbooking is for long term enjoyment.
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I do both but my scrapbooking is done very simply, because I want the focus on my family heritage not the decorations. My card making however is where I use all the fun stuff. I love my simple scrapbooks. Scrapbooking to me is a preservation of my familys history, where papercrafting is my craft or hobby. JMO!
I also do both - scrapping came first. (actually, I spend more time here than I do either scrapping or stamping.) My scrapbooks are fairly simple - I also don't want to lose the focus on the photos. I have no children so I'm scrapping for me. I'm not terribly worried that I don't have a child to pass my books on to. I scrap and stamp because I enjoy it. I do make an occasional gift and it's fun.
I do both too! As long as I'm being crafty, I don't mind if its a card, a tin or a scrapbook layout. I'm making my daughters baby book instead of buying one and I make cards at workshops. Oh and use all my supplies for both too!
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I also do both. Card making was first then scrapbooks. I've been a decorative painter for years, took a few SU classes and now do it all. Right now I'm going to teach a painting group to paint on paper that has been decopaged to a wood or masonite surface then embellish it with rubber stamps, stickers, buttons and etc.
I do both but I must admit I got pulled into scrapbooking kicking and screaming as I was worried about what I was getting myself into (that is, the amount of sorting I'd have to do). In the end I reasoned with myself that I'd be getting double value out of my papercraft tools so I started.
As for a magazine catering to both cardmaking & scrapbooking, I don't know - I think there are still a lot of stampers out there that have no desire to scrapbook and would be put off by a magazine that caters to both. Personally I prefer to read a separate cardmaking magazine to my scrapbooking magazine, not to have both together.
i do both every wednesday a group of us meet at lunch time over our creative memory friend she has a whole craft room set up we scrapbook from 12 til we order supper out once a month we have a stamping up party and every 3 months we have a close to my heart party we go on weekend retreats 2 or 3 times a year
Sounds like good fun!!!! Love a good stampin or scrappin party!!
My vote is for both. Scrapbooking was first and stamping was second. Paper and glue and everything associated makes me happy happy happy!
So far I do cards and I always thought I'd get into scrapbooking too. But I'm just not that interested.
I would maybe do a scrapbook for a special theme or event if I had things besides just photos to put in it... y'know... scraps! Ticket stubs and parts of programs, etc. I wouldn't want to make a 'glorified photo album' and someone else mentioned that sometimes the embellishments seem to overwhelm the photos and I've seen that too.
I think the two processes are quite different indeed. They each have their own artistic considerations and serve entirely different purposes. When I imagine doing a scrapbook, my train of thought is going down a completely different track!! I also think that's a good thing.
Of course, the best part is that you can use the same materials for both. Papercrafting supplies are definitely multitasking!! Yes, ladies.... that is rationalization for our purchases !! My husband has even begun to admit that some of my handy-dandy tools were pretty nice to have around -- he's used my paper piercing tool, my scissors, my adhesive and tacky tape, etc., for totally non-papercrafting needs!! Chalk one up for stamping!!
I do both too! I started off as a scrapbooker but then discovered stamping and I love to incorporate stamps into my pages now! Plus, sometimes it is just more satisfying to sit down and make a card and be done instead of having to do an entire layout!
