A Whole New World

I was recently approached to create kits for digital scrapbooking. In case you have no idea what I am talking about it, digital scrapbooking creates beautiful layouts and embellishments with your photos and either you printing them out or sending them the shutterfly.com to have them printed in books. All created digitally on your computer, no mess, no storage issues. I understand the concept completely, I am always pressed for time, I want to do something with my family photos and I don't do well with the "little gluey" type of pieces that seem to accompany scrapbooking.

But I wasn't sure, I mean, I have actually designed scrap packages and somehow got caught up illustrating other things.(Whihc has been very good, don't get me wrong!) I wasn't sure this was the right move for me. So I decided to do some online searching about "digi-scrapping". OMIGOSH, it is a whole new world. I can't believe how much is out there and how great looking it all is. I got adventurous and took and online class today from Rhonna Farrer about using brushes in Photoshop to create your scrap pages. Since I must have skipped the lesson on brushes and have never utilized the aspect of Photoshop, I decided this could be a good lesson for an old dog.
IT WAS SO FUN! I learned all sorts of new tricks!I created this layout with the brushes that Rhonna designed and I learned so much more about Photoshop, she was a terrific teacher especially for a webcast class! I don't have pics in my layout yet-I am a bit behind the curve I can't seem to find all my photos just now. I know that sounds odd but when I switched my computer the got lost somewhere on the hard drive, I know they are here occasionally I run across them and think "Oh! That's where they are..."
See I was thinking if I designed digital scrap kits it would force me to get my act together a bit so my children actually have some childhood photos PRINTED, not hidden on a hard drive somewhere.