spinoff on ?'s for SSD designers..

[lauren grier]

I was just showing these to Mikkel... lol

These are my first two kits-- and why it's SO important that I'm inspired by hotties now :hehe:

These were made in 2005... before I learned that we didn't need 50 different colour plastic photo prongs.. and you know, how to make a proper preview :D :D
Everyone has to start somewhere right? LOL
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/lalablinkies/37cffd1c.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/lalablinkies/15c5ca5c.jpg

[Brandy]

love them lol! i still have some of the first kits (i don't think those two though) you had i think lol.

[twentytinytoes]

Those are pretty cute for first kits! A lot better than some i've seen! My you've improved :D

[lauren grier]

:D :D they're hot kits eh?

[my3hens]

Wow honey for your first kit thats really better then you think LOL, and hey I like variety lmao, whats wrong with 50 eh lmao!

[dmogs]

LOL I hear ya on the 50 plasticy element Lauren! haha my early kits had like 10 brads LOL! OK I don't have my first kit previews they have LOOONG gone the way of the recycle bin! haha! BUT here are a few layouts using my first kits:

http://www.designbydani.com/images/blog/Summertime.jpg

http://twopeasinabucket.kaboose.com/layout_images/615216.jpg

http://twopeasinabucket.kaboose.com/layout_images/623167.jpg

Wow... look how far we have come! LOL! :)

[Shawna Clingerman]

heee! i have layouts using dani's first kits too!
http://mylittlescraps.com/album/slides/Owen's%20cookie.jpg
http://mylittlescraps.com/album/slides/Gareth's%20Ocean%20(small).jpg
http://mylittlescraps.com/album/slides/Reece%20Stands%20Up%20(small).jpg

I believe i still have those puppies too! I love me my dani kits!


ok.... because lauren made me, my first product ever were stamps (that i misspelled as "stapms" on my preview) - dani put it in her store for me for a month and it was SO exciting! This was before my tablet days, and I drew with sharpie and extracted!

after that i did loads of free "stapms" on my blog, and some papers next...

but here is my first paper pack for sale:
http://www.mylittlescraps.com/photos/ShawnaClingerma_Parcheesi_PaperPack_PreviewB.jpg

my first full kit was Techno Grunge (http://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/shoppe/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=614), and I KNOW it needs to be retired, but I have attachment issues (i'm still crying over the kits ssd designers have retired in the past :) )

[Traci Reed]

OMG I soooooo don't have my first kit, but it was all shades of hot pink and terrible!! Lemme see how far back I can go...brb

[Traci Reed]

OK THAT tag was the first thing I ever made as a scrapper, before I was designing...

http://www.scrapbook-bytes.com/gallery/data/500/thumbs/10528STATE_FAIR.JPG

These were some QPs from some of my first kits :)

http://www.scrapbook-bytes.com/gallery/data/500/thumbs/Traci_Reed_Keera_Kit_Quick_Page_3.jpg

http://scrapbook-bytes.com/gallery/data/500/traci_reed_daddys_little_girl_kit_quickpage_1_prev iew.jpg

[twentytinytoes]

Loving this thread girls!!!

[joelsgirl]

This IS a fun thread! Shawna, I love that paper pack; the patterns and colors are great. I downloaded some "Stapms" from your blog back before your grand debute as a designer; i still like them, too.

I'm interested to know where you girls first sold your goodies; it's been so long I can't remember where anyone was except the original 4.

[Amber1279]

Lauren - I am pretty sure I have layouts with both kits LOL. I have Traci's earlier ScrapMommy kits on a disc and Shawna ... I downloaded those "stapms" from your blog

[tuneskids]

I can show you some kits of Kristin's from early 2006. lol She never scraps with her own designs, but I have them!!!

[Paula Duncan]

This looks like fun!! Here is my first official kit!! Brace yourselves....it's scary!!!

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b110/jore25/Sweet%20Shoppe/pduncan-terracottacollection-previe.jpg

[lindse]

This thread is so fab, keep them coming! Shawna, I have techno grunge and love it - dont´retire it!!

[newfiemountiewife]

I love this thread!

Paula, I think I have that kit!

[MelissaL88]

I have that Parcheesi paper pack and some of your original "stapms" Shawna :D But PLEASE don't retire Techno Grunge! I have it and LOVE it! :wub: I still pull the alpha from it from time to time.

[digi-gee]

I think these are awesome first kits and paper packs. Wouldn't it be fun to bring them back in totally new kits??
Shawna, I love the parchessi colors and patterns!

[Libby Pritchett]

These are GREAT! It's awesome to see how you guys all started!

Shawna, Techno Grunge was one of the first kits I bought from SSD, and it's still one of my all-time faves! Please don't even THINK of retiring it! LOL!

[melrio]

I know I have a few from Tra's days at SM! I remember too well the crazy chats they had too. Dang, things have changed alot in digi-land since then. Thanks for sharing y'all!

[gracielou]

This is amazing seeing how far you all have come. Thanks for sharing your earlier work.

[cindys732003]

Love this thread....it is so interesting going through old freebies that I used to download when I first started.....I came across these 2 by Dani Mogstad and Lauren Grier (before I had any idea who they were!)......Hope it's okay I posted these!!! :)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v636/cindys732003/timeless.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v636/cindys732003/LGrier-IntensityBWaddonpreview.jpg

[Micheline Martin]

My first actual kit, before this I only made alpha's and element packs
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc254/SweetShoppe_Products/Preview-5.jpg

[ColleenSwerb]

This is way fun!! Mikkel and I played the "our first layouts" game yesterday afternoon! Lol!

We've all come so far! Hahaha!

[mrs_jb]

This thread is SO fun! I love seeing how far everyone has come! I've been a digi-scrap lurker for a long time and I think I can remember a few of these, LOL!

[Sarah8914]

How fun!

I love that the kit Cindy posted by Dani is called "Timeless"

These are all better than anything I could do, but I love how things just get better all the time!

[Shawna]

I don't have those 2 particular kits but I do have a bunch of Lauren's early kits from her ES days! I also have a bunch of Amanda Rockwell's from back then too! And I think I have all of Shawna's "Stapms" sets and I have that Timeless kit by Dani too! I have lots of little treasures on my EHD lol!

[Penny Springmann]

Here is my VERY first attempt at a paper pack:
http://www.pennysmiscellany.com/scrapimages/orangecrush_springp_pp3.jpg

and this was one of my first blog gifts:

http://www.pennysmiscellany.com/scrapimages/thisland_pprev3.jpg

and the elements...I still love this brush set!
http://www.pennysmiscellany.com/scrapimages/thisland_epre3.jpg

[ShawnaMama]

Oh Lauren, I remember those kits!!!! I have LOs using those!
http://www.elementalscraps.com/photopost/data/502/Me_Dad.jpg
And this was one of your early kits too.
http://www.elementalscraps.com/photopost/data/502/Colton_and_mommy_laurenpage_.jpg

What a fun thread!!!

[BeccaBoo]

This is a great thread! I am so loving seeing everyone's beginnings!

[ColleenSwerb]

Penny I LOVE that patriotic kit!

[meems]

oh this is fun!

I totally think that Parcheesi should be re-released. love the patterns and colors in it.

Shadows have come really far too, eh?

[Shawna]

I had to go WAY back to find these, but they were some of the very first layouts I did and they used Lauren's Hibiscus kit! Obviously I loved it so much I did 3 layouts with it!

http://www.elementalscraps.com/photopost/data/502/Family-Pictures.jpg

http://www.elementalscraps.com/photopost/data/502/Sisters-Are.jpg

http://www.elementalscraps.com/photopost/data/502/Pretty-as-a-Picture.jpg

[SaraAmarie]

These are my verrry first kits- from back in early 2005 when I started at The Daily Scrap with Traci! :) I'm almost embarrased to even post them! lol

Daisy Sorbet-
http://www.191design.com/post/DaisySorbet.jpg

Laundry Day-
http://www.191design.com/post/LaundryDay.jpg

[KristinCB]

I don't think i have my first kits. I started selling at sbbytes in oct 2004.. sonja doesn't even have these ones. LOL

[MikkelPaige]

This is way fun!! Mikkel and I played the "our first layouts" game yesterday afternoon! Lol!

We've all come so far! Hahaha!

Haha - I muster up confidence by seeing how far I've come! LOL. La's kits have certainly improved but we all have to start somewhere! I LOVE her stuff now and I think that's widely known!! (Not that I wouldn't have loved La back then...I just didn't know her!)

[lauren grier]

This IS a fun thread! Shawna, I love that paper pack; the patterns and colors are great. I downloaded some "Stapms" from your blog back before your grand debute as a designer; i still like them, too.

I'm interested to know where you girls first sold your goodies; it's been so long I can't remember where anyone was except the original 4.

I sold @ Digital freebies & ES

[DogwoodMama]

So, I'm not a designer... because I made one kit, and it was so hard! What designers do is not easy at all! It burned me out, really! I made this back in May 2005... I distressed the metal, scanned it in. I drew everything myself initially with pastels, or used free brushes to create my own textures. I drew the flower myself. I also scanned the ribbons and bows in myself, and extracted them.

I do sometimes wonder, "What if I had stuck with it..." especially after seeing some of the early kits of designers who are now awesome!

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb280/DogwoodMama/pastelbrights.jpg

Oh, and here is a LO I did using some of the stuff from my kit... back when I started scrapping again last year, before I had built my stash up- the top paper, metal overlay, flower and brads are from my kit, the rest is Michelle Underwood's. :)

http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/data/1421/too_cute2.jpg

[tuneskids]

I don't think i have my first kits. I started selling at sbbytes in oct 2004.. sonja doesn't even have these ones. LOL

nope, I don't have those ones, but I have two from before I even met you! heheee

[Traci Reed]

I first started selling at Do It Digi, then I quickly started The Daily Scrap and ducked out as soon as I could when I realized what a crook my partner was. After that, I started ScrapMommies and kept that open from July 2005 to July 06 when it kept getting hacked and I couldn't take it anymore. After that I sold at ACOT and NDISB for a month or 2, SBG for 8 months and now I'm here and I'll never leave! LOL

[KristinCB]

now I'm here and I'll never leave! LOL


SO DITTO to that!!! SSD is the best ever and robin is the best boss lady i have ever had!! LOL!

[Amber1279]

I know that these were from La's kits ... but I don't remember the names now LOL

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b346/ScrapsForYou/Scrapbook_Pages/Sweet-Smaller.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b346/ScrapsForYou/Scrapbook_Pages/purejoy-small.jpg
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/data/766/LetitSnow-sm.jpg
http://scrapbook-bytes.com/gallery/data/500/Angel-small.jpg
http://scrapbook-bytes.com/gallery/data/500/OnlyYou-small.jpg

[lauren grier]

the first one is sweet aria (I think lol) #2 and last one are it's all about you, #3 is let it snow (hahaha), and the brown/red is absolutely :D I use to love that absolutely kit.. now it scares me :D :D :D

hehe I'm loving seeing the old layouts LOL.. I have a slideshow from my first CT forever ago, Lisa (who is still with me :wub: ) angela powers (2 sisters), jen strange, susan godfrey.. I think that was it :D

[lauren grier]

http://www.slide.com/r/3n6y_hn34D-8PEItUA1YHAVva0FdKyBq <-- I think that should work .. So funny to see how much styles have changed :D

[Penny Springmann]

Penny I LOVE that patriotic kit!

Thanks! It actually is one of my favorites still...It keeps coming back each year, reworked a bit! :)

I started at Digital Scrap Gal was there two weeks and then joined PDW. I left once I thought Holly was about to move on, joined SBE, joined TDS, left SBE, left TDS right before the surprise shut down, and now I am home to STAY! :thumbup:

[crecia27]

Great thread! Its like a walk down memory lane!!

[tuneskids]

here's the first two I ever did with Kristin's designs, two years ago ...

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f259/tuneskids/Kristin%20LOs/2006/color_pop1.jpg

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f259/tuneskids/Kristin%20LOs/2006/jenna_old_bike.jpg

here's what I had of Kristin's before I met her! I haven't actually used either of them, but I keep them for blackmail purposes. lmao

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f259/tuneskids/scrapbooking/folder.jpg

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f259/tuneskids/scrapbooking/princesspeapreview_kristincb.jpg

[Angie4b1g]

I'm really glad I didn't know any of you 3 years ago. ;)

[lisarose]

LOL!!! Lauren, that Absolutely kit was one of my faves of yours for so long. I still love the layout I made with it... surprisingly, since its about 2 years old now!!! :)

http://www.elementalscraps.com/photopost/data/500/jessieBW.jpg

And this is the first layout I made as a CT member using Grayson... OMG it feels like forever ago!!! :D I was so nervous to try and impress you that this simple layout took me a whole day to do! :p

http://www.elementalscraps.com/photopost/data/500/onslowkeg.jpg

Im sure i've got quite a few previews stashed on my EHD at home!!!

[FeeJardine]

Well before I chicken out...heres some of my early stuff. The layout was my first ever digi layout and the first time I designed anything. I remember being really proud of myself...now I look at it and think how crap it looks lol! Can you tell I was a paper scrapper...with my digital vellum paper and my dodgy looking metal elements...niiiiiiccccce!
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/3333/upandawayonecopymy5.jpg

And this was my first kit. I can't believe how little I put in it...:unsure:

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/5815/nannaflossiescupboardvx5.jpg

Anyhoo that kit got me a gig at an Aussie Paper scrap store called Scrapboxx for a few months and then I moved to TDC and then here. And like the other girls...this is where I'm staying :D It doesn't get any better than here!

Man I'm just looking my layout and kit again...they are sooooooo funny...I can't believe I ever thought they looked good...thank goodness I've moved on :D

Fee

[Sue Setiadji]

Some museum pieces I thought Id share (OK no teasing about the fact that they are still all in my possession!). These are all from 2005 - no guarantees that they are first kits but they are early enough for the purposes of nostalgia.
I do have some of Susan's early ones but they didnt come with peviews:

from Manda:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/susieq2u/th_alacey-persimmon-freebie-sept05.jpg (http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/susieq2u/alacey-persimmon-freebie-sept05.jpg)

from Robin:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/susieq2u/th_KatiePreviewLgRCarlton_Sep05.jpg (http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/susieq2u/KatiePreviewLgRCarlton_Sep05.jpg)

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/susieq2u/th_SNS_AndyPreview_RobinCarlton_Sep05.jpg (http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/susieq2u/SNS_AndyPreview_RobinCarlton_Sep05.jpg)

From Traci:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/susieq2u/th_TraciereedOct05pumpkinpatchpreview.jpg (http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/susieq2u/TraciereedOct05pumpkinpatchpreview.jpg)

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/susieq2u/th_traci_reed_winery_kit_add_on_previe.jpg (http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/susieq2u/traci_reed_winery_kit_add_on_previe.jpg)

from Lauren:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/susieq2u/th_lg_freespirit-Feb2006.jpg (http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/susieq2u/lg_freespirit-Feb2006.jpg)

from Dani:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/susieq2u/th_dani_mogstad_LazyDayz_preview_Jul05.jpg (http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/susieq2u/dani_mogstad_LazyDayz_preview_Jul05.jpg)

from Christy:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/susieq2u/th_clyle_calmbreeze_minikit_preview_Ju.jpg (http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/susieq2u/clyle_calmbreeze_minikit_preview_Ju.jpg)

from Heather:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/susieq2u/th_hroselli-softsherbert-preview-Oct05.jpg (http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/susieq2u/hroselli-softsherbert-preview-Oct05.jpg)

from Kristin:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/susieq2u/th_kristincb_samplerpack-April2005.jpg (http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/susieq2u/kristincb_samplerpack-April2005.jpg)

From Me using one of Christy's early kits:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/susieq2u/th_Seaworld-Sep2005-WR.jpg (http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d83/susieq2u/Seaworld-Sep2005-WR.jpg)

[meems]

oh I had the ones from Manda and Heather. i don't know what happened to them . . at some point i had computer woes . ..