Digital Scrapaholics Unite!

Hello, my name is Kate and I am a digital scrapaholic!!


I was working on our 4th of July page last night when Ryan laughed and said, "Kate, put down the needle!". I haven't been an addict very long. It only started about 2 weeks ago but man has it taken over my life since then!!


I did a free tutorial online to learn the basics. I had seen other digital scrapbook pages and loved it but had no clue where to start. I was amazed at how simple it was!! Granted, I don't know the detailed stuff yet but so far so good!


There are a few things I love about digital scrapbooking; I don't have my scrapbook stuff cluttering up the house where the kids can get into it and I eventually end up losing half of it. Now, it is all neatly and discreetly contained on the computer (and I don't even have to move it to dust!!). I also love that I can be just as creative digitally as I can be with traditional scrapbooking and I am not spending tons of time and money printing out the pictures to use. Probably the best thing about it though (especially in Ryan's eyes) is that so far I have been able to do it all for FREE! There are sooo many free digital kits and downloads on the web that you really don't have to pay for a thing!!!


So, this is my first layout:



You can see that I didn't really know what I was doing and pretty much just stuck things on the page.

Here is my second attempt:

Okay, so this is a little better but I still did just the basics and hadn't yet learned about shadowing to make it look more 3 dimensional.

You'll just have to wait until tomorrow to see my progress!!!