Like others I started before there was such a thing as digital kits. I bought so many magazines and searched the internet to teach myself how the heck to do this. This was one of my first layouts created (2004). Yep no kits so had to create everything on your own. I was giddy over creating that 'button'/'flair'.
And like others, I had all my first layouts on other sites that have since shut their doors. I've been a longtime Sweet *Shopper* but it took me ages to start posting here - mostly because of all the time I had invested in the other site and felt so deflated when it shut down. I wasn't ready to start uploading all over again.
I was *super* proud of this layout because it was even featured in a magazine at the time. Today it looks so basic! LOL my kiddos could do better now!
Here's my first layout posted in SSD 2016. It was for an Open House challenge. It was actually the challenges that got me to start posting in the gallery here.
