Digital Scrapbooking Day

Common Abbreviations and Glossary for Hybrid Scrapbooking

Scrapbook Dimensions magazine has posted Common Abbreviations and Glossary for Hybrid Scrapbooking in their Ning community forum.  The glossary includes definitions for acronyms and terms such as:

• SBR/NSBR
• BOM
• ATC
• Scraplifting
• Digital Piracy
• Blending pencil
• Assemblage
• Fugitive Dye
• Bit Depth
• Jaggies
• Lossy Compression
• TWAIN

Check out the Scrapbook Dimensions Hybrid Scrapbooking Glossary for these definitions and many more.

Digital Scrapbooking: A Global Community

You may wonder how widespread is digital scrapbooking?  The locations of the winners from our Digital Scrapbooking Day drawings illustrate how global the digital scrapbooking community really is.

Prizes from our Digital Scrapbooking Day Partners are shipping coast to coast across the United States -- Hawaii, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Utah, New Jersey, Michigan, Florida and California.  Prizes are also going out internationally to the Philippines, Australia, Guam, and El Salvador.

Margie at Digital Scrapbook Place reported having thousands of visitors on Digital Scrapbooking Day, "mostly from the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, but 92 different countries were represented."

92 different countries.  As you crop your photos, tinker with that filter, and print out your journaling, remember that you are a part of a worldwide movement to tell your stories in a safe and creative way.  You are part of something bigger - a global digital artist community.

Why There's No National in Digital Scrapbooking Day

A couple of people have asked me this - why didn't you name it National Digital Scrapbooking Day?  Hmmm...good question...

To be honest, I'm afraid it wasn't a conscious decision - at least not on my part.  But now that I think of it, it was a great idea.  To give credit where credit is most definitely due, Digital Scrapbooking Day was the brainchild of Angie Pedersen who is co-coordinating the day with me. At any rate, we didn't really discuss calling it anything but DSD - or maybe she had figured all this out way before I did....:-) 

There is, of course, a National Scrapbooking Day (NSD) which has been around for a long time.  Since the advent of digital, NSD has been celebrated in both the paper and digital world.  So not having national in our name does cut down on the confusion. 

Then there is the international angle. Michelle Thompson, a digital scrapper and author of the enormously popular Scrapability blog pointed out that she was happy that we left national out of the name. After all, digital knows no geographic bounds and there are digiscrappers all over the world. Hopefully, the lack of the word national really tells it like it is - this is an international community and we have many (on line) friends all over the world.  How cool is that?  Okay..so maybe this is a little corny ...but I just think it amazing that we can bridge borders with digital scrapbooking. And that, hopefully, DSD is part of that.

--Susan

[cross-posted to Scrappin' Without Scraps]

To be honest, I'm afraid it wasn't a conscious decision - at least not on my part.  But now that I think of it, it was a great idea.  To give credit where credit is most definitely due, Digital Scrapbooking Day was the brainchild of Angie Pedersen who is co-coordinating the day with me. At any rate, we didn't really discuss calling it anything but DSD - or maybe she had figured all this out way before I did....:-) 

There is, of course, a National Scrapbooking Day (NSD) which has been around for a long time.  Since the advent of digital, NSD has been celebrated in both the paper and digital world.  So not having national in our name does cut down on the confusion. 

Then there is the international angle. Michelle Thompson, a digital scrapper and author of the enormously popular Scrapability blog pointed out that she was happy that we left national out of the name. After all, digital knows no geographic bounds and there are digiscrappers all over the world. Hopefully, the lack of the word national really tells it like it is - this is an international community and we have many (on line) friends all over the world.  How cool is that?  Okay..so maybe this is a little corny ...but I just think it amazing that we can bridge borders with digital scrapbooking. And that, hopefully, DSD is part of that.

--Susan