First, THANK YOU for this trip down memory lane!!! I have very much enjoyed looking at my pages from way back then!!!
I started as a paper scrapper in 1998... but it involved having the card table out and usually taking over the kitchen table... so life with 4 kids, that did not happen often enough. Then in 2008ish I started making Shutterfly photo books , and looking thru their gallery... (anyone else remember that old shutterfly share gallery?) Some of those books were my first intro to digital scrapbooking and photoshop. For Mothers day 2009 my hubby got me PSE (don't even remember what version). I tried n tried to make a page but could not figure it out. In October/November we went to Disney, with my new DSLR camera..... so I had tons of new pics to scrap....One November day(veterans day, cause I was off from work ) I sat down and made my first two pages. Lots of trials n errors, and for the life of me I could not figure out templates....... so using all freebies I made our first digital Disney scrapbook. It took me 6 months to make that first page.... but I was hooked. No more mess, just hit save and go back later...
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By the end of the book I still could not figure out templates....lol.... but at least my pages looked a bit better. ....
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Then in 2011 I found Stuff To Scrap and then hopped over to Scraps N Pieces, where I also did a little designing. And finally learned how to use a template and drop shadows.
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As far as galleries I joined, it wasn't too many S2S, SnP, GingerScraps, Scrap Orchard.. there were a few others but I can't remember exactly what they were.