I’ve recently re-discovered the joys of digital scrapbooking. It was something I very briefly got involved in after Mike and I got married but within a year of being married, we were house hunting and I was pregnant with Ian. Translation: all my free time was sucked away. 😉 I literally only made one layout before I stopped.
Literally.
One.
Layout.
Behold, my first digital scrapbooking page EVER:
Don’t you just want to gag on its sugary, sweet cuteness and the newlywed glow I was clearly suffering from? 😉
I will say, that page was a labor of love. I had nooooo idea how to use Photoshop Elements and nearly ripped all my hair out trying to figure out “layers”. I literally went out and bought “Scrapbooking with Photoshop Elements” and poured over its pages trying to figure out what the hell I was doing. 🙂
Now that I’m doing all this blogging and photographing, the computer stuff comes much easier. I have years of Photoshopping under my belt. And although I am still a newbie and have tons to learn, I am much more proficient.
Since I am blogging so much (I doubled 2008’s total post count!!!), I decided a few months back that I wanted to personalize my blog a bit. Since I was too cheap to pay to have it done, I played around and created my header using free scrapbooking supplies I found online. Working on the header reminded me about how much I enjoyed digital scrapbooking. I created a few more headers and then decided to just jump back in.
Behold the majesty of my second layout EVAH!
I have no doubt that there will be more to come. I have a few ideas up my sleeve for 2010 so hold onto your knickers, girls! (Spice World reference! Zig-a-zig-ah! That’s for you, Rachel! LOL)
This blog post is dedicated to my scrapbook-crazy Aunt Marsha. I bet she’s really proud as she was the one that got me interested in scrapbooking to begin with. 🙂