I want to talk more about Digiscrapping

I do both traditional and digi.

Does anyone use GIMP to digiscrap? Never heard of GIMP. I use PSE (9 right now but will probably upgrade to 13 when it comes out).

How do you organize your digital accessories? I have ACDsee right now. I'm not crazy about it. Even though I backed up, I lost my tags when a computer crashed. I do like tagging items. For file organization: I started way back with Store, then type of item (Kits, Papers, Fasteners, Brushes, Journaling spots) but have recently gone to Store/Designer/Kit. I'm thinking of getting Lightroom or My Digital Scraproom for organizing and tagging. I prefer to scrap digitally like I would traditionally, which means many times I'll mix items. I generally know what I want: a circle, a journaling label, a wood veneer, a doily, a staple.... So tagging helps speed things along for me.

Did you have to explore things yourself or are there some good videos you recommend? I took a few classes. one with Rhonna Farrer and I think all of the Jessica Sprague ones. If I were going to take a class today, I would check out Tiffany Tillman. I love her layouts!

I just found P&Co and the Lily Pad a few months ago through the Digi Show podcast, which is now canceled. I recommend the digi files podcast as well. As you can go check out new designers (I just started listening to the most recent of those today while chopping vegetables). P&Co and the Lily Pad are now my favorite digi shops.

Me too!  Thank you for sharing!

Those digi scrappers who know me well, know what I'm about to say.... so I'll say it in as many words as I can!
I started digi scrapping in 2006, I was asked to teach a group of women in my church how to do digital scrapbooking for a class some months in the future. I didn't even know what digital scrapbooking was. So, rather than go on-line and see what it was all about, I simply used my graphic design and Photoshop skills to create my own pages. It never occurred to me that there might be this whole world of kits and downloads and stuff. I already had a 'style' so to speak, from family history pages I had created, and all of the cards, posters and other publicity I had done through the years. So, to make a long story somewhat shorter, by the time I joined 2Ps about a year later, I had already developed my own style of creating everything in my layouts. I didn't see any compelling reason to change, so I kept doing it. And I do it today. The only commercial thing I use in my layouts are fonts. Everything else is simply colors, photos, textures, and technique to create my layouts. For years I tried to encourage others to give it a try- to create a layout from scratch using nothing but photos & memorabilia. But it never really caught on. Now I don't really care any more, but for a long time I didn't understand why people wanted to spend so much money and time organizing and tagging and storing all this stuff. I do get it now!

I still love scrapping my way just as much as ever. It means the only thing I have to organize are my fonts. I do have some texture files, and I have vast iPhoto libraries of photos that I often use for backgrounds and frames and the like. When I post online, I only add my fonts to the credits. and that's really just as a reminder to me so I don't have to go back to the original PSD file to see the name of a font.

Anyway, it's just another option out there. If you're interested, you can see my former 2Ps gallery here.

In Ps cc,there is also a place to find recent files used.It is under File-open recent and gives you a list of the products that you have used and or images. I try to delete mine after I have finished a layout,so that it is fresh for the next layout.

Wow, this is a huge, beautiful kit for a freebie! So impressed! Having just found out about your store, I will go sign up now.

This is one of the things I just LOVE about digital scrapbooking - the fact that we get to interact with the designers and shop owners in a different way than in the traditional scrapbooking world (in my view at least).