Comments on: Digital vs Traditional Scrapbooking

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:52:48 +0000

yes, Sharon, you are absolutely right!!! I crochet a lot and knit a little and the knit vs. crochet thing gets interesting. Then there’s the quilters: machine vs hand. Horses (another hobby) English vs Western. And on and on it goes. These are hardly earth shattering decisions. I mean like, who cares??? Aren’t these things people are supposed to be doing to RELAX???

By: karooch

karooch — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:39:22 +0000

Yes, in some ways we’ve come a long way as a society. And in other ways we seem to have taken steps backwards.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:34:13 +0000

Believe me it’s not just scrapbooking. It’s working mom vs stay at home mom. Republican vs Democrat. Any anything else you can think of.
I am 50. It seems we had much more freedom when I was younger, yet people seem to think we have progressed as a society???? I have no idea what happened to allowing people to enjoy different pursuits, people having different points of view and people making different choices. I guess it comes down to lack of respect. I also wonder what kind of priveleged lives these people live that they concern themselves with this sort of thing.I wish that was all I had to worry about !
It is true that if we were all the same it would be a pretty boring world yet some people seem to want to go in this direction and for those who don’t fall in line they are berated.
People need to get a life and quit juding others choices. In fact I am so sick of it that as soon as I start reading any of this junk on the net about any subject I stop immediately. It makes me sad and yes, sometimes angry. Grow , get a life and realize that what you choose is not right for everyone and end the end…..this IS the small stuff.

By: karooch

karooch — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:43:21 +0000

Hear hear Antoinette. It’s all great scrapbooking.

By: Antoinette

Antoinette — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:56:17 +0000

Paper scrapbooking and me just don’t go well together. I get glue everywhere, except on the spot where I want it, can’t cut pics in the right shapes and I hate the mess of papers, embellishments etc lying around (because I don’t have space to store it). So the only choice for me was DS. Although I’ve noticed the “looking down”, I’ve never experienced it myself. My paper scrapbooking friends admire my DS layouts and v.v.
Life is too short to be living in two camps – let’s all work together!

By: karooch

karooch — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:14:33 +0000

I absolutely agree Olga, Kristen and Marjorie. How you choose to go about your scrapbooking is totally a matter of personal preference and suggesting that one way is ‘better’ than another is ridiculous.

By: Marjorie

Marjorie — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:53:48 +0000

I have to say at times the sb industry and it’s participants really know how to create
some fun comotion, even when comotion isn’t needed.
I can see that digital vs. traditional is a matter of preference.
And honestly it’s not really for anyone to say one is better than the other.
Then again they may feel that way for themselves and that’s cool.
What’s easy for some and difficult for others won’t always be the same.
The same goes with what works and doesn’t work for you.

I enjoying scrapbooking for the art that it is.
And if a LO looks great, it doesn’t matter to me if it’s a Digi or Trad.
It’s a personal preference.. no debate needed. =)

By: Quirky Kristen

Quirky Kristen — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:32:19 +0000

Girl I so know what ya mean! I for one have tried the paper way and I just SUCK at it compared to digital, Not so much a mess thing as I have a ton of crafts that are messy! For now I’ll stick to Digi land but only because I don’t have the cash flow to deal with my inevitable screw up and goners when I do the hybrid or full paper :) I have such awe for those of you that tackle those!! Takes all kinds my friend to make the world go round and I guess Scrapping isn’t any different

By: Olga

Olga — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:01:11 +0000

I have never been a traditional scrapbooker I have just scrap digitally, and my opinion is that a traditional scrapbooking project is lovely and very tactile and so on. It looks wonderful for instance as an invitation to a party or birthday celebration or wedding. But there is the issue of keeping all those memories, and so long as keeping it is involved and also money, traditional cannot compete with digital. You can preserve photo albums more easily is they are digital, you can preserve more easily anything. Just back up.

And so long as you don’t mind the tactile issue, digital is simply better as you can do much more stuff. Of course traditional is more emotional as there are more senses involved in appreciating the card, invitation or page. But all that is just so immediate that can easily be overcame if what you are interested is preserving a memory or feeling. Time issue tilts in my opinion the balance towards digital.

Best wishes. :O)

By: karooch

karooch — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:29:45 +0000

Well hopefully the more balanced view will prevail Jess. gs get more involved with digital that may help to promote a ‘one scrapbooking’ mentality.