I double dog dare you....

[KimberlyMorris]

to show me some of your first Digi layouts

Here are a few of mine

[emmasmommy]

LOL I'll play
the font work on this is amazing *giggle*


mad element skillz


the extraction on this one...well...i have no words.

[YepBrook]

My first 3 pages. the first two are from '07, the third is '08. I kept trying it but couldn't get them to turn out the way I'd envisioned... so back to paper I went. LOL!!!

[KristinCB]

haha this is fun

ok here are mine.. all from 2003:

this was my very first page:


also loving the extraction business.. haha



lol i guess those were supposed to be strings.. to this day though i can't help but laugh when i see those pictures of my lily

[KimberlyMorris]

These are great girls, thanks for playing along!

[Traci Reed]

2004:

[KristinCB]

omgosh traci, k looks SO much like finn in that first one!

[nun69]

2006 my 1st

my 2nd

[kscwgirl]

LOL fine.

[*Celeste*]

February 2009

[maryinaz]

This is the 2nd one I ever did. I have to go find the first one. Love those floating stitches. I'm not sure I've really improved that much - looks kind of like ones I still do! LOL

My plan was to only use digi for my sports layouts so I could get them done quickly as I was doing athlete albums for all my boys. Wyatt's is actually up-to-date, but I'm still working on the other 3. And I haven't done a paper layout since.

[Lyd]

Oh my gosh - scary! Here are some of my earliest pages from 2007:

Check out the awesome paper tear and selective coloring in this baby:




Oh yeah - check out that amazing extraction!


Well - that's more than enough I think. I'm so grateful that time brings improvement.

[LeeAndra]

I remember that first layout of yours, K!

This is not my first layout, but from the first couple weeks of scrapping. I uploaded it to SBB on March 15, 2003.



Here's another 'gem.' Please take note of the incredible shampoo bottle I created in PS. Back in the dark ages, elements were few and far between, so sometimes even people like me had to improvise.

[4noisyboys]

oh my!! this is fun!!!

[breakingbrie]

lol, here are 2 of mine from April 2008 I think it's safe to say my skills have improved a bit!!

[seatrout]

some from me

[majula]

my first layouts - all from 2005/2006

[Gemma]

My first from Feb 2009 --





SSD was the first scrapp shoppe I found so a few of my first pages are with kits from here lol.

[LJSDesigns]

Here is my first from 2007.



I think I've improved at least a little since then.

[Freckles]

I don't have the very first ones anymore, but these were the first I ever posted online. From 2007.

[adrianka]

I love threads like this. It's so interesting to see how we've all grown as scrappers. :-)

My first layout was a CD cover as doing CD covers was all I wanted to do:



Two months later I started doing layouts. At that time I didn't do any shadowing and was clinging to the idea that layouts HAD be about children, so I did loads of stuff for my friends (glad about it, too - about the gifts I mean, the shadowing is a sad story :-).

This was my first real layout then:

[dana]

so funny!

the very first pages i ever did were for a travel scrapbook i did for my nephew - i never uploaded the pictures and they are hidden somewhere on an old EHD. those were probably from mid/late 2006. i do have these beauties from early 2007, though - some of the first LOs i ever put online ...

[Tracyfish]

here's the oldest in my DigiShopTalk gallery (with a Melissa Bennett kit)


here's the second oldest...to prove I was skinny at some point in my life LOL!


these were in 2006

[ayaandjudah]

Here's my first.

[ZaCola3]

My first ones from May 2007 @ DST

My mom still has this framed by her bed...HA!

Look at my little one-who isn't so little anymore!

this one just cause I love it...Zak and his BFF...still going strong!

[ZaCola3]

Oh look at this one...one of my first as well...I miss these little ones!

[Sarah8914]

I think these were really my first 2... in January 2007. However, none of my layouts after these look anything like them. I learned a lot after I did these.

[Nikki Epperson]

oh gracious!

June 2008

[nikkiARNGwife]

This is so funny!

These aren't my very first...I don't even know what happened to those..I have them printed but they've not been on my hard drive in years. These are from the first month or so that I started uploading to galleries in 2005...my little bald guy I even have the date wrong on the first one..b/c Avery was over a year old in Sept. 2006 lol

[Lindsay]

My very first dated May 29, 2004. In the write up, I actually say I preferred paper more, but I didn't use any kit, just the marquee tool and paint bucket, and a very stretched picture...yikes.



My first one using a kit.

[gracelikerain]

I can't find my very first one, but here's one from 2005. Look how you can't even read the journaling, and it's so out of proportion with the page. Yikes!

[misfitinmn]

This wasn't my first ever, but it's the first I have uploaded (and I'm pretty sure my first ever layout is long gone) - except in the book for my MIL where it is printed and preserved for all of time...ack!!





My old layouts were RANDOM. I can totally see how I became dependent on templates - I can't put together a cohesive layout to save my life!

[nikkiARNGwife]

It's so funny to see all these old kits that I recognize! I guess the digi world was so much smaller back then we all had the same kits lol

[tanyiadeskins]

wow, you guys were a lot better than me! lol

THIS is why I should never ever extract lol Sept 07



this is why I should never ever design again lol Sept 07

[emmasmommy]

Originally Posted by nikkiARNGwife

It's so funny to see all these old kits that I recognize! I guess the digi world was so much smaller back then we all had the same kits lol

i was thinking that too, nikki!
these threads just make me smile.

[KimberlyMorris]

These are great!!!

[aly321]

Very first layout posted at SSD- 2008

Umm why did I upload it so small?!? hahaha

[Milmomma]

I can't believe I'm posting these, so embarassing-
First one ever- Feb 2008 (I didn't like it and didn't try digi again for a while)

May 2008-

May 2008-


I obviously did not understand drop shadows at all.

[KimberlyMorris]

Ohhhh here is another awesome one from me lol

[SmallMoments]

From Jan 07 when I made the transition from paper to digi and said, "I will never go completely digital!" Ha ha!

[Sherri Tierney]

Originally Posted by Lindsay

My first one using a kit.

My first layout used this kit. I have fond memories of it. Celebrate by Gina Cabrera

Originally Posted by nikkiARNGwife

It's so funny to see all these old kits that I recognize! I guess the digi world was so much smaller back then we all had the same kits lol

So true. There were less stores, less designers, less kits and less complications. I miss the 'good ole days' but I sure don't miss the lack of options or the totally digital elements.

I think I posted mine before in an old thread... here they are again though... December 2004

My first page obviously had NO dropshadows. My second had a tiny shadow. My third page though, YIKES. I tried to brush on the shadows myself after reading about that in some tutorial. Looked funky.

[newfiemountiewife]

Mine are from 2007, when I started. Man, these suck. I have always wanted to go back and redo them! I apparently had no idea about shadows!

[SmallMoments]

All you guys and you're "Look at my horrible extraction!" Well, I'm posting this to make you all feel better. LOL

[Jenn Barrette]

I made this page with my very first "kit" LMBO



look at the "awesome" b&w conversion on this photo...

[Gemma]

I LOVE seeing everyone's old pages lol!!

[pewtertm]

Not sure what my very first was...some of the old galleries are long gone, as is my original hard drive.

These are some of my earliest, from 2007.

Note the ginormous stitching and the lack of shadows...I thought this was great at the time. LOL


And this gem, which I was very proud of at the time:


And I'll admit...I still love this one...just wish I had known how to make shadows...the only ones on this page are the shadows from the template that I used. Still love the kit though...maybe I should re-do it the right way

[mummytothree]

I don't have anything online from Oct 2005 to Dec 2005.

Jan 2006


Feb 2006


June 2006 (when I thought I could design!! )

[hollyxann]

Alright I'll play.
Feb. 2009

[TracerM]

I will play. These make me cringe a bit...before I learned about shadows. The first two were with Traci Reed kits from back in the day, I believe. I don't have credits on these because I don't know that I ever posted them.

[cardinalskate]

Originally Posted by SmallMoments

All you guys and you're "Look at my horrible extraction!" Well, I'm posting this to make you all feel better. LOL

OMG Kristin! I just busted out laughing!! The design is a great idea, with framing the art, but that extraction is HILARIOUS!! Much better than I could do when I first started, I'm sure.