I've been a paper scrapbooker for 16+ years (sheesh, that makes me sound old. And YES that's half of my life!) and have oodles of supplies and goodies. I've made some pretty cool pages, scrapbooks, and even little gift books. I just love putting it all together, documenting the story and having the satisfaction of seeing it completed!
I guess I've been doing some "digital scrapbooking" for about 5 years now, that is, if you count Shutterfly photo books as digital scrapbooking. Most of their books I've made have been CUSTOM path, but a couple have been with their SIMPLE PATH. I think this is how I became interested in digital scrapbooking.
Anyway, early this year I started tinkering with Photoshop, and then blog design, and digital scrapbooking all along the way. I LOVE it! I love how quick and cute the pages are! I can keep them super simple or jazz them up a bit, or a lot! I'm mainly using templates that i just "CLIP" my pictures and papers to. It makes it so easy, and that's what I love MOST about it. These templates and a lot of the papers I use are part of Becky Higgin's "Project Life" way of scrapbooking. (I have some of her products in regular paper form used in a few albums too. This is a genius concept! Her products are now available on Amazon.com, and are coming to many stores- Hobby Lobby, Michael's, and even a few little shops. She has a store locator on her website.)
Since I've started this digital scrapbooking, in January, I've done Alivia's whole year of 2012 (in about 4 months time)! That's a huge time-saver, as compared to the paper scrapbooking I've been doing. Maybe I'll get back to the good old-fashioned way of my original scrapbooks, but while I have my busy little kids, I'm using my Project Life paper supplies and albums, and making some digital pages to print and slip into their albums too. IT'S WONDERFUL and it makes me so VERY happy! I'm all about gettin' it done and this way works well for me!
Here's a taste of some of the pages I've done.
