Hybrid scrapbooking is combining digital scrapbooking and traditional paper scrapbooking techniques to make books and pages that have the best of both worlds. Several ways that you can do this include, printing out your digital pages and adding 3-D traditional embellishments, adding text or other embellishments digitally to your photos before you print them for use in a traditional scrapbook, or adding your own paper touches to a digital photo book. How do you combine digital with traditional? Do you consider yourself a hybrid scrapbooker?
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Hybrid all the way!
- I LOVE that technology has given me the option to play with my photos by altering, adding text & graphics, & creating fun embellies, but IMO digital will never afford the rich, "chunky" appeal that traditional scrapping/mixed media does. I have a closet full of fun, colorful supplies that I would sorely miss if I went completely digital. Thanks for striking a balance in offering something for the digital scrappers, for those who are traditional and for all those who are the in-between!
- —scrappergrl
Hybrid is the best of both worlds
- I love to have the option to do it all. I use Storybook creator 3.0 http://tinyurl.com/2dbp4wp with Tons of embellishments. It is great to be able to format my photos into any shape, size and then add real dimension and texture If I choose. Options are good!
- —Capturedtime
Love hybrid
- I hybrid scrap because most of my photos were made before digital cameras. I use computer for journaling and titles and clip art. We now have digital camers (his&hers) and I am doing more and more digital scraping and have them printed for albums.
- —Guest Tx Judy
hybrid scrapbooking
- Hybrid scrapbooking is awesome!! It should be a new craft idea for everyone!! I also do the mixed media arts also (altered arts) You have no idea what hybrid scrapbooking is till you do it and you will see what I mean.. It is so beautiful idea for everyone!!!!
- —Guest Danette
hybrid scrapbooking
- I just can't imagine why anyone would want to! I'm digital because I don't want to clutter up my house with craft stuff - I don't live in a mansion, I have limited space and limited time. As far as I am concerned there are similarities, but people will either do one or the other. It's like asking a machine knitter to hand knit the ribs or a top chef to buy Uncle Ben's Korma Curry. It ain't going to happen, so concentrate on the digital - it's what we want.
- —ehedydd
Hybrid Scrapbooking
- I guess I began "hybrid" scrapbooking years ago; whenever I couldn't find a sticker or embellishment I wanted, I would find clipart on the computer, print it, and put it on my page. Soon I was designing pages on my computer and leaving a space to put the pictures in. I discovered that a nice thing about digital pages was that I could make copies for friends or family members who wanted them. I can also post them on Facebook or another website. Now I use a combination. If I have the printed pictures and embellishments I want, I use them. If the pictures are digital or I have clipart I want to use in my now-70GB-digital scrapbooking library, I use that. I put all my pages in page protectors in my albums, and people can hardly tell which are which. I cut the top flaps off of CD envelopes you can buy in a office-supply store, and glue the envelope to the back cover of the album to store the CD with the digital pages of the album or other information to go with it.
- —chapswife1995
Yes, I'm a Hybrid Scrapper!
- I have the Scrapbook Factory software in my computer and I often take one of their page designs, maybe change background colors, add journaling, remove any of their embellishments that I don't want and add photos digitally or sometimes attasch my printed photos to the page. At times I add more embellishments and/or photos to the layout. These pages go in my traditional 12x12 scrapbooks (I mount the 8 1/2x11 digital page on a 12x12 paper). I have been doing this for several years.
- —Guest Carolyn Luis
hybrid scrapping
- It's rare these days for me to do anything other that digital. The closest I get to hybrid is occasionally buying mini albums or accordian style albums, printing the pages out in miniature on matte paper and pasting them in the albums.
- —louiseam
