I've always had a way with arts and crafts, and in my teens this was directed at scrapbooking. I loved it, but as a poor college student the cost was prohibitive. The paper alone cost more than I could afford, let alone stamps, ink, embellishments, ribbons, buttons, bows, cutting implements, pens, markers, etc. In despair, I temporarily abandoned scrapbooking.
Then, I entered a design program in college. I got a hold of my first copy of adobe creative suite and started playing with Photoshop and illustrator. Then, in 2008 after having my daughter and being home a lot I had so much more time on my hands and started to get back into scrapbooking. I went to the store to buy some supplies and left empty handed. I was so disheartened that I went home and just started editing some photos. I don't exactly remember how it happened from there, but I found a copy of some terrible 'scrapbooking' software. I am using the term lightly... It was no more scrapbooking than a pile of ingredients is a pie. I remember putting photos into the program and having no way to edit them! The only thing I could do was arrange the order of elements and rotate them. What a joke.
Then it hit me - All I need are the elements. I have Photoshop! So I spent the rest of the day online downloading digital papers and embellishments. That was the day I started digiscrapping.
~Digital Nicole
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