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BluePineapple
01-05-2007, 07:27 AM
My name is Kelly and I live in Stafford, Virginia which is about 40 miles south of Washinton, DC. I have been a Marine Corps wife for 18 years to Chris and we have 2 boys, Dustin (17) and Ryley (13), and 2 dogs (labs), Frazier and Baron. Currently my husband is serving in Iraq.

I started scrapbooking over 13 years ago, right before Ryley was born and have been an addict ever since. Back in the late 90's I was a a direct sales consultant with a national scrapbook company, but left the biz when my family had to move overseas (Kiev, Ukraine) with my husband's job. While living there I started a scrapbook club for teenagers and another for adults. They were great groups and full of international scrappers!

It is because of this hobby that I decided go back to school to study graphic design, and in the fall of 2004, I enrolled at the Art Institute of Washington. I will graduate this September! It has been a long 2.5 years and unfortunately my studies have kept me from doing any type of scrapping and I miss is it soooooo much. I do, however, keep up with all of the trends and noticed that over the past 3 years, digital scrapping has really taken off! I have Adobe Creative Suite on my Powerbook (I'm a huge Mac addict) and look forward to using these programs for scrapbooking!

I have already been looking at the tutorials and find them more informative than some of my instructors at school!:lol:

I can't wait to get started on my first digital page!

Kelly

Becky Soto
01-05-2007, 08:27 AM
Welcome Kelly!! I live in VA too, down below Richmond. This is a great site! I use Photoshop CS, love it!!! With your new graphic design abilities, I can't WAIT to see your layouts!!

Amber Gray
01-08-2007, 01:40 PM
Kelly welcome!! Glad you are at school studying and I"ll bet you can't wait til September! I look forward to seeing your work! I hope you husband is doing well and safe in Iraq and a big thanks to him for fighting for our country!

Meryl
01-08-2007, 02:18 PM
Welcome to DSP, can't wait to see your pages, sounds like you have a wonderful background :) Glad you found us.

loonyhiker
01-08-2007, 02:21 PM
Welcome Kelly! I have been doing this for the past year and I love every minute of it! I find it exciting and relaxing at the same time. I've met wonderful friends here who have given me support in scrapping and in life! Hope you enjoy it as much as I have!