Scrapbooking
Traditional vs Digital Scrapbooking
By Laurie Hancock
With advancing technology, you may wonder if traditional scrapbooking is losing its place in the world. What are the pros and cons of each? After spending the last 20 years scrapbooking using traditional methods, and the last few years experimenting with digital scrapbooking software, here is what I found.
IT IS MOSTLY YOUR OWN PREFERENCE!
In traditional scrapbooking, there is something to be said for the hands-on artwork and the 3 dimensional quality you get. It is far more personal as a gift or heirloom with the amount of time and effort involved.
Another benefit to traditional scrapbooking is the social interaction many get doing this hobby. There are many “scrapbooking clubs” or “crops” where hobbyists can gather and gain ideas from each other and swap various papers, stickers, stamps, etc....
Digital scrapbooking has its pros too. One of the biggest, I think, is the cost factor. It is much more expensive to invest in papers, die cuts, stickers, glues, markers, etc.... used in traditional scrapbooking than in digital. You also have no mess to clean up, sort through and store because all your work is done on the computer. You can also print several copies of your digital albums to share, where as traditionally, you create one album at a time.
You can also “play around” more with your photos and enhance them, put graphics and/or text on them, or add effects to them using digital scrapbooking software.
With either traditional or digital, you can be as creative or versatile as you like. The sky is the limit with either method. What you need to consider is how much you enjoy doing the actual “hands-on” cutting, pasting, creating;
how much time and money you want to invest; and whether you prefer to gather socially or
sit at home with your own computer doing your own thing. You can even do BOTH! Take the things you like from each method and combine them into your own unique scrapbooking style! The most important key with either is to ENJOY what you are doing!
With advancing technology, you may wonder if traditional scrapbooking is losing its place in the world. What are the pros and cons of each? After spending the last 20 years scrapbooking using traditional methods, and the last few years experimenting with digital scrapbooking software, here is what I found.Digital scrapbooking has its pros too. One of the biggest, I think, is the cost factor. It is much more expensive to invest in papers, die cuts, stickers, glues, markers, etc.... used in traditional scrapbooking than in digital. You also have no mess to clean up, sort through and store because all your work is done on the computer. You can also print several copies of your digital albums to share, where as traditionally, you create one album at a time.