Another "must" for digital scrapbookers

ARGH!! I had a nice little list of my top-of-the-top digi-scrap sites and favorite designers for my blog page & I hit the wrong key and ka-blooie!

So, here is another of the "must-haves" -- get yourself on over to this Yahoo! group: Promos4Digiscrappers (or P4D for short). It's all ads, and only commercial members (site owners, designers) may post, but it is sort of an umbrella group for most of the sites out there. Designers post when they have new products, crop hosts post when events are coming up, sites post when they have new freebies -- and you can pretty much stay on top of what's going on in the digital scrapbook community.

Watch out, Friday seems to be the busy day, with most of the new products hitting the stores, you can get a LOT of email. So, I'd recommend that you either choose the "Digest Only" option (but it's text-format only, so you miss out the graphics included in the messages) or have an email address that is JUST for your digital scrapbooking, use it for Yahoo! groups, newsletter lists, forum, gallery & store IDs.

More later -- like the "most bestest" sites....

Adrift on the 'storm surge' of digital scrapbooking websites

Ok, for the last year I have been consumed by yet another new obsession -- digital scrapbooking! I've been scrapbooking the 'old-fashioned way' for a few years -- and I still love it, but it is so much easier to do the digital variety with a one-year-old in the house -- not nearly as many things for her to get into...

And I've settled down a bit from a few months back (I need SOME sleep, after all...) Since digital scrapbooking is so much freaking FUN, there are tons of sites popping up and tons of designers. You could easily spend all day running around & just "collecting" -- which I did at first and still find myself doing occasionally. Then you have a hard drive full of elements & still no pages scrapped.

Simplify, simplify, simplify....

So I'm concentrating my efforts on just one 'full-service' site and I pop in on a few of my favorite designer's sites from time to time. (I'll list 'em in my next entry, promise!)

But I absolutely MUST list one site as the VERY FIRST stop for all digital scrappers -- or paper scrappers who are thinking of dipping a toe into the digital pool, so to speak -- here it is:
Digiscrappin' with Jen -- practical advice for the digital scrapper.

Instead of waiting for me to post my meager little bits of hard-earned wisdom, go & take a look at hers -- they are much more coherent!!