fabulous pages ladies. Yes, @bellbird I remember RAKScraps, it was my first digi-scrapbooking home, and I ended up on the team there doing layouts for the newsletter, and running challenges. I started digi-scrapping with my desktop publishing softwear "Pageplus". This is one of my first pages.
My first page was done with software called Photo Explosion Deluxe, June 2006. I upgraded to CS2 in August or September 2006. It is in a weird file format that I can't open anymore. I scanned the original copy I had printed & pulled it into Photoshop. 100% of the "elements" came from the software. Apparently I really liked shadows and photo masks and butterflies.
Ok this is embarrassing! I have been scrapping since Dec 2006 but I wasn't brave enough to post my pages online anywhere until later 2007 so you people are the only ones (apart from my poor long suffering family ) to see the very first page I ever made ...... tada (I feel faint looking at it haha) but this is the first page I ever posted at TLP which is a smidgen less embarrassing! creative evolution is a beautiful thing
I found one that must be one of the first I did ... (I know I did one with my family jumping into the pool ... but it was so ugly I remember deleting it! ) no shadows, but this was right after I took that free mini class from JS where she showed us how to use flourish brushes, textures/masks with photos, etc. You can tell I was influenced by that class. And as I was also looking through my first layouts ... I noticed all my oldest PDS layout files were saved as tiny web ready PSDs. I had no idea what I was doing back then. Gotta love the giant journaling!