My FIRST ever digital scrapbook page!

Some time ago I mention desiring to learn how to "digital" scrapbook. Having Photoshop CS3 on my new computer has provided me the wonderful opportunity to learn how to use the program and how to digital scrapbook. I don't believe I'll ever be digital only; as I love playing with my stash of paper arts supplies; but I can certainly see how using certain elements of digital kits will assist to enhance my scrapbooking pages, albums, and paper arts projects in general. This new-to-me activity is known as "hybrid scrapbooking" in the scrapbooking world.

After many failed attempts, frustration, and near tears experiences attempting to create a simple, old scrapbook page, I began searching for some tutorials for using both Photoshop CS3 and digital scrapbook pages. This lead to yet another frustration as there are so many versions of Photoshop and a variety of software programs available for digital scrapbooking, that I finally determined that I needed to be more specific in my search. I soon discovered Designer Digitals and downloaded their "Getting Started in Digital Scrapbooking" ebook tutorial and printed it off. Not really certain, where or how to begin, I decided to also look for one free digital kit to download and play with while I attempted to learn. The kit I choose is the Harvest Spice Collection © 2007 Shabby Princess Designs of www.ShabbyPrincess.com and this is my first digital layout:



I know I've a lot more to learn, but for today, I'm extremely excited to have accomplished my first digital anything! Thank you so much " and for the tutorial and the kit to use. I cannot wait to be able to experiment and learn more! Now to figure out how to add the journaling.....