Your First!

[gracielou]

The thing I love about scrapbooking is that it is always changing. There is always something new and fresh. I look back in my old scrapbooks and it is amazing to see just how far it has all come even in the span of 7years. My style is also changing at diffrent times. One of the things I like to do though is look back at my very first scrapbooks and see just how far I have come.
I thought it would be fun to post one of your very first layouts you did and then post one of your most recent layouts. I love to see how people have evolved in this craft and so I really hope you will participate. You can also tell what you liked or didn't like about that first layout.
I will go fist. I started out paper scrapping and so here is the very first page I ever did

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e163/mandigracie/firstpage.jpg

I think really the only thing I like about this page is the cute pictures of my daughter. I did the title with letter stencils and I can't beleive how hidious it looks and what about the placement of those flower stickers. Not sure what I was thinking on that one.
Here is my most recent digital layout I have done

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e163/mandigracie/pedalbabypedal2.jpg

I still have a long way to go but I see I sure have come a long way to!
I look forward to seeing your pages.

[Angie4b1g]

Here's my first (paper) page ever. I did it at the Scrapbooking 101 class. Check out my layered title. I was so proud. LOL

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/6394/firstloiy8.jpg

Yeah, I've changed a bit. LOL

[Angie4b1g]

Here's my most recent (that I can post) digital (although I do still paper scrap!)

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/2703/laughoftenst7.jpg

[Tracyfish]

I have tons of paper scrapped LOs, but my camera is charging so I can't take any pics right now. So instead I'll post one of my first digi ones.
http://www.rakscraps.com/photopost/data/500/AdChallenge8-06-bugs.jpg
I was so proud of that extraction at the time. It's still a technique that I just can't seem to master.
And here's a more recent one that I really like...
https://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/inspiration/data/575/SSD-Tap-it-out.jpg (https://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/inspiration/showphoto.php?photo=30666&ppuser=1499)

[gracielou]

(Angie4b1g )Oh thank you for playing along. I love all the shapes in your first layout. Your digital layout is stunning. Very beautiful and I love that photo. What a great capture of a moment!

[gracielou]

That is fantastic Tracey. I wouldn't even know where to start with the extraction thing! You should see my first digital layout. I would put a paper on another paper and then I would resize without keeping the proportions in balance so it would just distort the whole paper. Very hidious, trust me. And I had no clue about drop shadows.

[my3hens]

Oh Amanda I dont think that was hideous honey!!! I actually love the colors you chose! I never actually did paper scrapping! I started right with digi. My first layout is actually in a photobucket because I had no concept of credits and well honestly it wasnt umm pretty LOL!! My second was a bit better but not by all that much LOL!
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u198/My3Hens/my%20scrap%20pages/lil.jpg This is my second layout

and heres one of my most recent

http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/data/500/2swwet.jpg

[Stacey42]

Here is one of my very first - Aug 4, 2005
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/data/500/waterderek1.jpg

Here is my most recent - Apr 6, 2008
https://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/inspiration/data/522/cgeorge1.jpg

[MelissaL88]

I'll play along! I'm not sure if this was my very first...but it's one of the first. Can you say hideous striped paper???? Although, I think I did a bang-up job on the mats (yes...I'm a paper scrapper at heart!). This would have been Dec. 2004 or Jan 2005:
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b349/MelissaL88/4_Generations.gif

Here is my most recent LO:
https://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/inspiration/data/520/jungle_boogie08.jpg (https://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/inspiration/showphoto.php?photo=31357&ppuser=128)

[ditzyscrap]

Alright, you asked for it...lol! I'm too lazy to go find my first paper page, which was Creative Memories, so I'm sure you can guess how beautiful it was. ;) They improved slightly, but I never did get the hang of it.

Anyhow, here's my very first digi page, created in June 2004. Oh, and I wasn't using a program that was easy to work with, I don't remember what it was called but it was AWFUL. Once I tried PSE (for my second page) there was no looking back.

http://www.breecreative.com/portfolio/images/BathTimeFun.jpg

And here's my most recent one, done just the other day:

http://www.breecreative.com/portfolio/images/zoomzoomcrash.jpg

[crecia27]

My first paper page was very similar - lots of cuts with fancy scissors and stickers!
Here is my first digi page
http://scrapbook-bytes.com/gallery/data/500/Copy_of_Generations.jpg


and my most recent

https://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/inspiration/data/548/zoom_zoom2.jpg

[crecia27]

[QUOTE=Tracyfish;107780]I have tons of paper scrapped LOs, but my camera is charging so I can't take any pics right now. So instead I'll post one of my first digi ones.
http://www.rakscraps.com/photopost/data/500/AdChallenge8-06-bugs.jpg
I was so proud of that extraction at the time. It's still a technique that I just can't seem to master.
QUOTE]
I'm super impressed you were doing extraction at first, you did it well!

[ashleyprugh]

i'll play. lol. though, i didn't date any of my old stuff. so i can't remember which was first.

this one was pretty early, after i discovered the REAL way to do digital scrapbooking. the original "pages" were all done with like, drop-in quickpages. and have been LONG since deleted..
i actually have this one framed on my wall. cause i was so proud of it at the time.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll114/ashleybaby616/digi/menoodle.jpg

and this is the one i'm most proud of, done a couple weeks ago:
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll114/ashleybaby616/digi/kaleighasp.jpg

[scrappychic]

Oh man, I don't even know where my 1st scrapbook is! It was a CM album of my DD's first year. Who knows where it ended up......

[gracielou]

Oh Amanda I dont think that was hideous honey!!! I actually love the colors you chose! I never actually did paper scrapping! I started right with digi. My first layout is actually in a photobucket because I had no concept of credits and well honestly it wasnt umm pretty LOL!! My second was a bit better but not by all that much LOL!
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u198/My3Hens/my%20scrap%20pages/lil.jpg This is my second layout

and heres one of my most recent

http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/data/500/2swwet.jpg


I would have thought I was queen of the crop if my second page would have looked that fantastic. Amazing!

[gracielou]

You guys are so awesome. I am so glad that you are playing along. This is so fun seeing how much you each have evolved. You all are very talented in my book!

[twentytinytoes]

Its so embarrasing!! Good thing is I've always Loved Kristen CB! LOL

one of my firsts


http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/data/1181/alwaysbemybaby.jpg

one i just did

https://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/inspiration/data/570/zoomzoomw.jpg

[lizzyfizzy]

WOW! how styles and times have changed! i did very little paper scrapping and don't have a camera nearby to send one off, but here is my first digi page done recently (as i am new to digiscrapping):

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s92/lizzy9801/rock_out_maddie.jpg

and one a little more recent:

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s92/lizzy9801/lukas_bright_star.jpg

[my3hens]

Awww thakn you so much Amanda, you are to sweet!

[ColleenSwerb]

My very first digi page is not in the galleries (I didn't know there were such things) and it will stay that way :p

But this is one of my earliest that's in the galleries:
http://digital-scrapbooking.org/gallery/albums/userpics/normal_Rect_%232_LO.jpg

And this is my latest (finished like a minute ago, lol):
https://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/inspiration/data/520/Save-Us.jpg

[Kat Stokes]

LOL! This is scary!!!

Here's my first PAPER LO:

http://twopeasinabucket.kaboose.com/layout_images/302313.jpg

and here's my most recent DIGI LO:

https://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/inspiration/showphoto.php?photo=31229&ppuser=142

[Amy Carey]

okay i'll play. I don't know where my first paper one is, it was CM style and it's in an album in a closet somewhere. But this is my first digital page (from February 2005!)
http://mizamylou.typepad.com/photos/amys_pics/1464monkeyboy_amc_topost.jpg
and my most recent:

http://mizamylou.typepad.com/photos/amys_pics/bestfriends_forweb.jpg

[gracielou]

These are great ladies. Thanks for sharing!

[MikkelPaige]

My first paper layout would crack me up...but it's somewhere in the house on Long Island, where I grew up. I'll move them to FL eventually.

Here's one of my first digital layouts:
http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/data/1678/Kristen_Jamie_copy.jpg

And one of my most recent/faves:
http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/data/500/RelationshipLove.jpg

[dabittymama]

This was fun to look back on :). Here is my first digi page. http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m221/dabittymama/Beach-shack.jpg

I didn't know how to use the marque tool, so I just took ALL of the ribbons over. About 6 months into digiscrapping I discovered templates and I almost always use them now.

Here is my most recent

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m221/dabittymama/me.jpg

[Becca Bonneville]

I never paper scrapped. I first attempted digi scrapping when I found out a scrap site was having a contest and the grand prize was a DSLR. Which was around Thanksgiving of 2007 I believe. I so had to try for it but I had never made a page! LOL! Funny enough I did win an honorable mention and a GC. LOL!! Anyhoo, here it is:

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x315/TruckerAngel/MyScrapPageLayoutResized.jpg



And here is my most recent:

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x315/TruckerAngel/ThankYouSALO.jpg

[Angie4b1g]

I didn't know how to use the marque tool, so I just took ALL of the ribbons over. About 6 months into digiscrapping I discovered templates and I almost always use them now.


lol about the ribbons

[mormishmom]

I find my first LOs pretty hilarious! Here is the very first one that I scrapped in mrsmbm's kitchen as she taught me what to do:

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p12/mormishgirl/first.jpg

And here is my most recent:

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p12/mormishgirl/Jumbo.jpg

[Melissa Bennett]

Hee hee, what a fun thread. I don't have access to my first paper page right now, but lets just say oval and my deckle scissors were my fav!!! :D Here is my first digi page done almost 2 years ago

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j37/walmelb/920684-1.jpg

and here is my most recent page

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j37/walmelb/DST_spring_and_a_tire_swing.jpg

[ajf9597]

Here's my first digi LO from April 2006:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a122/ajf9597/3.jpg
And one of my latest:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a122/ajf9597/0420083copy.jpg

[rach3975]

It's so much fun to see how far everyone has come. I only did 2 paper LOs before going digi, so here's my very first digi LO, done in March 2004. I made everything myself, and I was so proud!

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e320/craftystitches/Digiscrapping%20LOs/1stDigiPage_RGB.jpg

Here's one from this week:

https://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/inspiration/data/576/MehJeh_rach3975.jpg

[tuneskids]

here's my first digi LO, I am not a paper scrapper, nor have I ever been.

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

and here is one of my most recent / faves ...

https://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/inspiration/data/570/kcb_backyardblooms.jpg

[mrs_jb]

This is such a fun thread! I love seeing how much everyone has changed!

I'm a newbie to digi-scrapping, so I don't have any to share. I got my real start in message board signatures and I could show you some of those that are really hideous! LOL!

[Amber1279]

my first ... April 7 2004. I was SO proud of how I did the title, and I made the pink mats ... can't you tell LOL
http://scrapbook-bytes.com/gallery/data/500/5411DaddyPreview.jpg

Here is my most recent layout:
http://scrapbook-bytes.com/gallery/data/12210/1stGame-web.jpg

[ZaCola3]

Its hard for me to remember my very first...and I think to tell you the truth they are deleted...but I found these three which are among the very beginning.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/Mzgrvr/WellDuh.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/Mzgrvr/LandenOutside.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/Mzgrvr/RightBeforeWeLeft.jpg

I'm not embarrassed by them, I know I was just starting out...LOL

One of my most recent and favorites!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/Mzgrvr/tr_fc_landen.jpg

[gracielou]

Oh Shannon, those first layouts are great! I wish mine would have looked like that just starting out. Thanks for sharing.