Digital Scrapbooking Magazine ... page 73

Have you heard??? There's a new digital scrapbooking magazine in town! Simple Scrapbooks Magazine has just released their premiere issue of Digital Scrapbooking. If you are a digital scrapbooker, you need this magazine! It is full of super-cool layouts by all of the best scrappers in the industry.

I'm sure I am breaking all sorts of copyright laws by showing you this page but I am so excited that I just had to share my joy. They have featured me on page 73! But that is not the most exciting part. The layout they chose is my all-time favorite layout ... "What are the odds of me?" Click here to see it up close in my gallery at Scrap Artist. The following is the write-up in the magazine (copyright © 2007 Digital Scrapbooking Magazine).

Robyn’s first scrapbooking experience was after her oldest son was born in 1997, when her sister-in-law gave her a Creative Memories baby album. Although she was scrapbooking in paper, she often printed her journaling out from the computer and never really felt proficient or happy with the results of her paper and scissors type of scrapbooking.

On August 15, 2004, while searching online for heritage album ideas, her "obsession" began. She found scrapbook-bytes.com, read about digital scrapbooking and was incredulous. She just couldn’t believe there was an activity that incorporated all of her favorite hobbies: photo restoration, scrapbooking, genealogy and web design. She had already been dabbling in Photoshop because of her interest in web design, so digital scrapbooking truly seemed like a perfect fit.

It remains a perfect fit for Robyn. She feels that when she creates digitally, she is truly an artist - a word she says she would never use to describe herself otherwise. She loves being able to do things that can’t be done with paper scrapping like blending or matching her papers to her photos. Her favorite online shops are scrapartist.com and scrapbookgraphics.com. Robyn also makes many of her own papers and elements.

The layout shown here was created for a photo montage challenge at scrapartist.com. Robyn used a technique called "primitive extraction" that looks as if real scissors were used. She says this particular layout took her forever, but that it may just be her favorite. The people on the page are many generations of direct ancestors. Robyn is the baby in the title. She has stared at these photos so much over the years that she can point to every person on the page and tell you who they are.

Robyn still has fun dragging out all of the "real" supplies every couple of months when she scraps with some of her paper scrapping friends. She’s also involved with monthly artist trading card (ATC) swaps at digitalartquirks.com. In spite of her occasional paper ventures, she says, "My heart belongs to digital."

**Special thanks to my friend Michelle for making me submit!