The Very Beginning...

Lets go back to the start... how did this digi business get a hold of me... One of the girls at work, who is right into craft said she had this thing called photoshop elements and had I thought of getting it... she said she was going to use it to do stuff and print it off for her regular paper scrap pages...blah blah blah...long story cut short... she said try it... I did...borrowed hers for a while 'til I got the hang of it...Got totally sucked in!!! like TOTALLY... haven't done a paper page for 7 months...got my own copy of photoshop elements 7 (started with 3!) Now my life is completely governed by the laptop and all things digital scrapping... I even take my laptop to night duty with me so I can scrap when it is quiet!

I have 12 albums that I have done of paper scrapping in my house , plus a few that I have given away for gifts, I have never counted the pages. This took me 5 years to accumulate... and now I have 264 digital layouts on my external hard drive that i display on my digital photo frame. I owe it all to Sue really, and of course to Digital Scrapbook Place... that is where I got my first freebie and today I post my very first layouts done with the Free Welcome Kit.... which combined with the easy to follow tutorial allowed me to produce a rather amateurish first layout... I am still learning and the hardest thing is that all important artistic touch... which, sadly i lack, but with inspiration from other scrappers and the occasional burst i am able to produce something that looks reasonably good... so here are my very first layouts... The group photo layout is of my 50th Birthday dinner party with my husband and all my children, and the another layout, when I was really starting to get the hang of it, is of me my son (25) and my 3rd daughter (21), we all celebrated significant birthdays in the one year (2007)...