I joined last night, made a page today

[RuthArt]

Hi folks, I live in San Diego, CA. I never in my life dreamed I would do Scrapbooking!!! But..........I do love PSP and since I've been getting a little bored making tags, and needed to do something with all the digital pictures we take, this seemed appropriate.

I love making my own artwork from scratch, mainly just to see if I can!!!

I am retired as an account clerk from High School District and love playing on the computer in PSP8.

We have a lovely German Shepherd named Wiena and take pictures of her constantly, so you may see a lot of her in my pages.

Thank you for such a wonderful site, this is truly exciting for me!!

My First Page (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=99020&cat=500&ppuser=56373)

(I'm not real sure how the linking thing works, but thought I would try it, hope you can go to my page).

hugs, Ruth

[loonyhiker]

Welcome! I loved your layout. I am high school teacher from South Carolina but we visited San Diego about 3 years ago and loved it! It was so beautiful. I joined this site in January and am addicted to it! You will love it!

[Carla]

Welcome to DSP! Your first page is great and the dog is beautiful! I can't wait to see some more of your layout!

[sempson]

WOW! What a GRREAT first layout! It is TERRIFIC! :D You are going to really LOVE it here at DSP! You are going to find tons and tons of inspiration for your art work. This is the best place to be on the entire web. I can't wait to see more of your layouts! Hope to see you in the chat room too! :D

[elizabethlmccoy]

wow such a fun and pretty layout thanks so much for sharing keep it up!!!

[BethyNixon]

Welcome Ruth!
I too, never imagined I would be a scrapbooker and now I'm totally obsessed!! Check out the New to Digital link at the top of the page (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/university/Scrapping101/basics.shtml). And, then, try some of the tutorials (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/university/tutorials/tutorials.shtml).

There are some great classes (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/university/classes.shtml) here as well that will give you SO many ideas on designing! I learned more from the classes here than I did working with my program for 5 years!

Now, I'm off to check at your first layout! Can't wait to see more from you!

[Lauren]

Welcome to DSP - I look forward to seeing more of your layouts

[Ann Maree]

Dont forget - hit the print button!!!! You look like your off and running with your feet firmly on the ground - well done!!

[RuthArt]

my goodness, you're all so sweet, thank you so much for your warm welcome and comments.

I have been so busy the last couple of days just researching, looking around and getting totally absorbed in all there is to read and look at on this site, that I haven't been scrapping, although I have been doing some tuts and making 'embellishments'. (in PSP, I'm so into making tubes and giving them away, I wonder if that's something I can do here, or is it just the official 'designers' who can give things away???)

I'm not as quick at designing layouts, so it may be a few more days for me to get something else together.

thanks again, this is a wonderful group.

hugs,Ruth