Me too. Most of my friends don't scrap at all though they used to try to get me to do it for them. After a book or two, I realized that it was too much for me to try to do it for them, especially free. LOL. But they like looking at my books.

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I showed my best friend once, and she was very pleased. She's done paper scrapping also and although young, she's not the most tech savvy.

I like Paint Shop Pro the most, so I opened it up and showed her my folder of supplies in the browse window; "these are the papers, here are the kits, etc" and I showed her the basic stuff, Opened a new image of the right size for the page, pasted on a paper, showed her how to crop and resize the picture and put it on as a new layer, etc. Actually the concept of layers was easier to explain with scrapbooking than with regular graphics. Probably because regular paper scrapbooks already have layers.

She was really won over when I showed her how to use the differently shaped selection modes to cut out pictures with rounded corners, circles, etc. She saw that it was so much easier than using the corner rounder on paper pictures(and much cheaper).

After a brief demo I let her try it herself, and she was successful. I put some freebies on a CD for her to get her started and pointed out where she could find more. I know she kept doing it(at least for a little while) because she was on swim team in high school and I made a "pool water" paper for her to use.

Also, may I point out that I never paper scrapped. I'm a web designer, so when I found out about digital scrapbooking and the whole scene, I knew that was for me.

side note. LDesjardin, Is that DiSc button in your sig for a digiscrap podcast? I'm going to check it out, I heart podcasting.

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My SIL went out and purchased DIP after seeing the pages I was creating. She signed up on a couple of sites (SBB included), downloaded some freebies and then made one page for a friend of hers. That was almost 2 years ago and nothing since. I think she wanted them to be perfect out the gate and didn't want to spend the time learning it step by step. I have another friend at work that says she'd like to try it but she's so busy I don't think that will happen anytime soon. I do keep giving her some of my magazines when I'm done though.

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Thanks for sharing your experiences. Glad I'm not the only one!

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I teach larger classes as well as 2 private classes. The larger classes usually only one in 12 will keep up with it despite all initial enthusiasm. the private classes - I started with 6 in one and there are 3 left afterabout 18 months - they are paper scrappers but though they love the class (twice a month) they dont touch it in between time so the goal of every class is to make something as well as learn something but i sont think any will actually convert. Two i have sucessfully converted from paper to digital but they put the time in - werent afraid to play and do stuff in between time. So not a great sucess rate lol. I think interest isnt quite enough - they have to get something out of it that cant really be taught
Keep trying though!!

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I have a friend who sales creative memories and she acted all confused when I spoke of digital scrapbooking. She even said I just can not figure how you print all that out? I laughed and laughed...but for me I do not have the $ to put into paper or the time. I can not imagine how much worse my house would look if I tried to do paper.

I have the opposite end of the stick, my gf has asked me to organize the class, she said she'd bring in the students for me, and we are in need of a few bob, but I just can't figure out how do you teach that?! I love scrapping, I can even write a tut, if you twist my hand, but I just think I can do it, but not teach it!

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