I recently had the pleasure to guest speak with the Ministry of Mother’s (MOMs) at my church. The MOMs group is a fantastic membership group which provides monthly meetings with wonderful topics and guest speakers, as well as fun socials during the school year. I was approached to discuss Scrapbooking to the group and jumped at the opportunity to share my hobby and passion!
One of the best parts of the scrapbooking community is the people in the community! Everyone is super helpful, friendly, supportive and passionate about getting our photos and stories down on paper. I asked several of the communities I belong to this question: “What do you wish you knew as a beginner scrapbooker that you know now?” I received an amazing plethora of responses! Probably Definitely enough to merit it’s very own blog post, so for now I’ll summarize to say that overwhelmingly, people wish they would have journaled (written down the story) more. Kept better details and notes of the memories. Bought less and created more.
I was really nervous as I prepared my presentation. Maybe excited more so than nervous, but two cups of coffee was waaaaaay more than enough for me that morning! As we discussed the benefits of story-telling and honoring our memories and photos, lots of questions came up from the group, and I thought I would take those bits and pieces to share with you, too.
So, there’s going to be lots of links. Some to scrappers who have greatly influenced me, some to affiliate links (gotta keep funding this passion!), some to sites I love and visit all.the.time, some to links provided by friends in the industry when I asked what links they’d share with beginner scrapbookers. All are resources that make our scrappy world go round and I think you’ll enjoy them!
What are the bare essentials to get started? {Scrapbooking Starter Kit}
- Paper Trimmer
- Adhesive
- Cardstock
- Patterned Paper
- Journaling Pen
- Album
- Page Protectors
- Your photos printed!
What do you do with your digital photos? {Photo Management}
- Digital Scrapbooking HQ – Backing Up Your Files
- Photos Organized (free phone consultations!)
What about digital scrapbooking? {Digital Scrapbooking Resources}
- Digital Scrapbooking HQ
- Karen Fitting at Photos Kept Alive
- Kristie Sloan – Digital Scrapbooking with Studio J
- pixels2Pages
- Paper Pile Kitten (gorgeous inspiration!)
- Digital Design Essentials (super cute designs!)
- Traci Reed Designs (LOVE her, and her designs!)
Where do you get all your stuff? {Local Scrapbook Stores (San Diego, California)}
- Cool Scrapbook Stuff (Poway)
- The Making Place (Escondido)
- Paper Tales (Point Loma)
- Michael’s
- JoAnn’s
Where do you get all your stuff you can’t find in town? {Online Scrapbooking Stores}
Where do you learn? {Online Scrapbooking Classes and Communities}
- “Best Scrap Tips” quick YouTube videos from Scrappypedia
- True Scrap
- True Stamp
- Layout-A-Day
- Big Picture Classes
- CreativeLive
- Scraptime
- Get it Scrapped
Where do you go to improve your photography? {Online Photography Classes and Communities}
- Capture Your 365 (free community with daily photo prompts)
- Practice (Katrina Kennedy)
- Exposure (Katrina Kennedy)
- The Phone Photography Project 2
- Photo Connections (Maggie Holmes)
What inspires you? {Scrappy Friends around the Web}
- Lain Ehmann at Layout a Day (free scrapinars)
- Alice Boll at Scrapbook Wonderland (with a great “Start Here” post with tips to getting started in scrapbooking!)
- Jen Gallacher at InSiteFull Living (check out her awesome YouTube videos!)
- Tammy Tutterow (tutorials)
- Paperclipping (membership tutorials)
- Paperclipping Roundtable (free weekly podcast)
So there you have it, lots of links to get you started (or help you keep truckin’ along) in this amazing scrappy world of ours! Anything else you’d like to see on this list? Let me know and I’ll see what I can do 😉
As always, thanks for stopping by. Have a joyful, creative, blessing filled day! And if you haven’t signed-up for the Clicky Chick Creates email list yet, whatcha waiting for? You’ll get “7 Must-Have Kid Birthday Photos” printable photo tips as my thank you 🙂 Password is sent to you when you sign up for the email list!
Live creatively!
xoxo,
/c
12 responses to “Scrapbooking Resources”
Connie this was so helpfully!!! Thank you for all of those links. I want to start scrapbooking again, this post helps a lot!! I’m going to start with the photography links!! You are the best!!
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Yay! Awesome you’ll start scrapbooking again! Be sure to share your layouts 😉
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Thanks Connie! I will share my process with you.
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I think I’ll scrap book once I’m able to travel again. It’ll be an awesome place to preserve and jog my memory
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That will be fantastic, Lana! When you travel, take a journal with you to jot notes of sites, locations and most importantly – your feelings! We’re lucky to have the internet to look up all the history stuff, but it’s our personal story that is up to us to write down to share with future generations! Thanks for stopping by and commenting, and I hope to hear about your future adventures in travel and scrapbooking!
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Connie thanks for the additional pointers. It really is imperative for me to have a way to make sure I retain some memory. You’re welcome, I hope you won’t be too disappointed in my delayed project. It’ll be awhile before I can travel again.
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Thanks for the info, Connie. Some of these sites I’m familiar with, but others are new and I need to check them out. Another really good site I’d recommend for inspiration, instruction, and a free how-to-get-started class is getitscrapped.com
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Oh my gosh Marcia, you’re totally right! I’ll add it on 🙂 Thank you!
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Oh, wow! Thanks for all the information!
I have all kinds of stuff for scrapbooking, but I simply lack the time… 😦
Have a wonderful day 🙂
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You’re welcome 🙂 As much as I enjoy taking my time to create, I realize that the more you do it, the quicker you get – you become more comfortable with your style and make decisions faster! There’s a month long challenge (Layout a Day) in Feb & May (Oct too for ScrapHappy members) where we create a layout daily and that really helps in the timing department too! Occasionally I’ll even challenge myself to only spend 30 mins or 1 hr and when time is up, I’m done! Thanks for commenting!
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sounds a very friendly, interesting and warm place to go to and you would make lots of new friends there and have a laugh no doubt.
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Thanks!
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