I love learning. After paper scrapbooking for nearly a decade I felt it had grown a bit repetitive. And I just wasn't enjoying it as much as I used to. But I didn't want to give it up because recording my families memories and stories was still incredibly important to me. Not to mention all the new friends I had made while I perused the hobby... I wasn't willing to give them up either. So I guess it was only natural that I began to veer in the direction of digital scrapbooking. Which is exactly what I did just over a year ago. My mom has been doing it for years and years and always encouraged me to go in that direction. I'm not sure what took me so long....but I LOVE IT! It's quicker, cheaper and certainly less messy. Every once it a while I miss the tactile nature of paper scrapbooking but I still have much of my old supply stash so I can quench that desire by making a card or adding to my smash book. But for my daily ins and outs of memory keeping I can finally say that I am all digi. I've learned so much over the last year and I can't help but see it in my work. This is one of my earliest pages and I like it, really I do, but all I see now are things I would do different.
I'm happy to say that my layouts are a bit jazzed up now. I still consider myself a beginner/intermediate when it comes to creating things digitally, but I have to admit that I've come a looooong way. As evident in one of my more recent layouts.
Thanks to challenges like Lain Ehmann's
Layout A Day which she does several times a year I have had lots of practice. Another person who has helped me tremendously is Marisa Lerin of
Pixel Scrapper. Her tutorials are awesome and she has created a community that really fosters learning and growth in a nurturing kind of way. I'm even starting to dabble in designing. Talk about a learning experience. Whew! But that's a post for another day.
