I still combine digital layout with paper when I do my own albums. I do all my printing 8x8 and create with paper in 12x12 albums. I have enough paper and embellishments for a store. But I also do 8x8 albums for friends as gifts. Sometime I will do 8x5x8x5 albums and use up some of my paper. That also makes a great gift. I do calendars and cards as gifts. The beauty of it all, you can do whatever you want.

I have not done to much of the both mixed but I do use both mediums. I would say that I still use traditional more than digital. But digital was heaven sent for my calendars that I give out as gifts. No more worrying that all the stuff is going to fall off sometime during the year. I do have a hand full of pages where i printed paper from one of the digital kits to use on a traditional page. Love digital for supper fun titles. Right now I am working on my wedding album and contemplating doing a little digital tweaking to the photos before i put them on the pages. One of the ladies at my work keeps bugging me about using my digital stuff to make some supper fun layovers for my pages.... but I always forget to buy the blank overlays when i go to the store.

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1/2 way WAHOO!!!!

Come on 40!!!

I want to see it when you are done

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Come on 40!!!

Fun! I'm glad there are some other hybrids out there.

I love digital. I like how it speeds up the design process, etc. But with 10 years of being a paper gal I find that now, with digital pretty well under my belt, I'm missing the hands- on fun. I've been teaching people to hybrid for over 3 years now but I don't think I realized how much it would make me re-examine my perspective.

I think what I like the most about Hybrid would be the matching. It is so much easier to match embellishments to your digital stuff. I like using quick pages to do my background design, adding pictures and journaling even and then printing it out and hybriding with the 'fun' ascpects of traditional. (ribbons, rub-ons {my super fav. traditional embellishment right now!}, stickers, beads, glitter, etc.)

I think the thing I don't like about it though is that sometimes, after printing things out I realize that my digital stuff doesn't look realistic enough to match the traditional... so i have to tweak it afterward.

I think my favorite new find is the Page-In-Progress box by Cropperware,LLC. It uses magnents to tack down your stuff inside a box, that has a lid, so it is portable. I can use that to take it to JoAnns, the local Scrapbook store, Michaels, etc to find & match my embellishments or papers to the digital stuff. It's saved me a lot of headaches.

Can't wait to find out who else is hybrid and what you all like and dislike!

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Kristie.....from what I am reading it sounds like "hybrid" is a mixture of traditional paper and digital scrapbooking. Is that correct? If so, I have done that from the first time I scrapped back in 2000!

Please educate me!

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This is also a problem I feel I have with digital. I would love my digital print-outs to look realistic but do not feel I have quite achieved this process as of yet. For this reason, I have been thinking of doing a paper scrapping page as a guide for me. BTW, I have never paper scrapped. Always thought it would be too messy and require too much space so I was very excited when I discovered digital.

My point, I believe I might have to give hybrid a try. Not much but, perhaps just an embellishment or two to give it a more realistic feel.

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Hybrid can be a lot of fun. And it solves a lot of problems for some scrapers. For us traditional scrappers on a budget it lets us play with embellishments we just cant bring ourselves to buy. And I think on the digital end it lets you add a bit of bling that is sometimes lacking from a digital page.

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1/2 way WAHOO!!!!

Come on 40!!!

I like to make mini books, printing and putting them together with extra ribbons and such, making cards and making cubes and other pressies for the grandmothers

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