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Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Men Who Scrapbook

Currently industry experts say that 99% of scrapbookers are women. Most are women who like to get out and socialize, be with their friends and still be making something which connects them to their families. That leaves 1 percent of scrapbookers across the country as men. Perhaps the men involved in the scrapbooking industry are more behind the scenes as business owners, investors, and designers. I predict that as family history and genealogy are combined with scrapbooking we may see men participating more. Perhaps men won't desire to lay out scrapbook pages, but certainly in the digital scrapbooking arena they will feel more at home. Especially as digital scrapbooking becomes more customizable with more masculine pages to select -- and the ability to make home movies "moving scrapbooks" from digital photos. It will be fun to see where the industry takes us.

8 Comments:

  • At 3:54 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hi, this is an interesting idea! I just hope that if it catches on, the men will get double prints. That could solve two purposes; both parents will be scrapping, and then if anything happens (such as divorce), both will have memories to go with them! I don't want my hubby messin' up my scrapping area though! He does not have the same ideas about neat and tidy that I do.

     
  • At 7:06 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    My husband keeps a scrapbook with all his woodworking projects in it. I used to be a scrapbook consultant and I could never get him to help me with my albums. So I gave him one of my 8 x 10 albums and told him it was for his projects! He takes pictures of each wood project he makes, so he put them all in an album and even used colored paper to make it look good! I was very proud of him.

    Now he has something to show whenever a customer asked him for ideas for gifts!

    Bev

     
  • At 9:44 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I guess I'm one of the 1%! I have created several scrapbooks for friends and family and they can never believe that I created the scrapbook layouts plus my wife is constantly offering my services to fellow colleagues. I enjoy the craft and even sell my scrapbook layouts online! Hopefully, there will be more of us in the near future!

     
  • At 8:38 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    another of the 1% of the guys here... I love scrapbooking. I somewhat new to the craft but learning. I've found I really like the social part of it as I get to know others who scrapbook.

     
  • At 4:05 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    ...and yet another man..
    Swedish though but still a scrapbooker. My stuff involves mostly "painting like" craft which I frame and put on the wall and not something I keep in a book.
    I am a business consultant, personal trainer and thai boxin coach so whatever prejudges you have, leave them...

    From a guys point of view (i.e.:mine) there is a zillion pink babies and cute charms to choose from but no flaming logos or tribal typefaces.
    Am I right or am I right guys?

     
  • At 2:03 PM, Blogger S-N-D said…

    I'm a srcapbooking guy and i wish there was a place guys could get together to scrap. it's a little intimidating to go to crops and know you will be the only guy there i've never been to a class or a crop that there hase been another guy there. i usually sit in the corner and unless the crop is full i'm usually sitting alone. i know i don't have "cooties" as my wife usually tells me. BTW i live in st. louis, mo

     
  • At 7:12 PM, Anonymous Benthai said…

    Hi..this is interesting!!
    I am a part of this 1%..that is not that much !!
    As scrapbooking and digiscrapbooking seem to be a "women's world"..maybe men think there is no "room" for them in that "world" and they prefer staying outside..

     
  • At 6:53 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I too am a "1 percenter!" My wife and I started this together as a way to preserve vacation memories, but we have expanded it beyond that. I enjoy using different techniques and layouts and am a paper freak! Perhaps my most meaningful memory was creating a scrapbook by myself for my mother and giving it to her about 3 weeks before she passed on. It was a blessing to share it with her and also to see it displayed at the funeral home.

     

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