How did you find Designer Digitals?

[Mary Rogers]

I thought it would be fun to see how every one found their way to the place we now call our Digital home...

I found my way initially through Katie, Wendy, Janet, and Steph. I didn't become active on the message boards until March of 2008, when the switch to digital from paper was just a natural progression for me.

so, how the heck did you end up here?

[Joey_M]

Mu aunt Kathie (kathie02) introduced me to DD and digital scrapbooking 2 years ago. Thanks, Kathie!

[nativescrapper]

I found DD through a magazine. I saw a layout in a magazine and it was a digital layout. When i looked through the credit and saw all the different digi sites I just went thru them. I instantly loved DD, but I was just a lurker for awhile though. Never posted or even signed up, just looked at all the cool layouts. I need to go look up when I first signed up here. I have it in one of my old calander books.

[AllynD]

I echo Cheryl-- saw a few layouts in a magazine and when I saw the website I was hooked.

[geekgirl415]

I think it was a digi page with a link to the product i liked... i think this happed a few times actually before I finally "favorited" the store. It's a hyperlink world.

[SarahDanyelle]

Another fun thread!! I found Designer Digitals through Heidi2008 and she doesn't even know me!! I was tooling around last December looking through all the wedding books in the Shutterfly community trying decide what I wanted to do with mine (yes, I've been thinking about the book for that long). I saw hers and thought it was gorgeous! She credited Designer Digitals, so I hopped over to check it out. I've been hooked ever since.

This is the link to the shutterfly book that caught my eye! Gallery Project Details

[Steph]

Well, "back in the day," (LOL!) Katie and Deena and Paula used to post DD pages at another site that I hung out at. And I knew Wendy was on the DT, too, and we've been friends for years. I used to just stare at all of their layouts and think, "I'll never be able to do that but it is soooooo cool!" And then, I started editing photos a lot more for my paper layouts and got comfortable with PSE and thought, "Hmmmmm.....maybe I really could do that." And I came here, looked around and was immediately hooked!!!

[THAT-GIRL]

I found it by googling for "Best scrapbooking software for Mac" trying to find something easy to do the pages, and I already had and knew a little how to work with CS4, so when I was somehow lead to DD's page and found that it works with iPhoto and Photoshop...!!! that was like finding the GOLD MINE... for me !!!

[hendon]

I brought a newly released New Zealand Scrapbook magazine 2 years ago (for inspiration - I've never paper scrapped) and saw an article about 'digital' scrapbooking. I didn't know what it was, I'd never heard about it, but realised it was what I'd always been looking for - it combined my interests in photography, computers and memory keeping.
So I did a search - found DD - culled out all the rest - and I've been here ever since (literally ).

[BrittanyLane]

This is a fun thread! I was trying to remember how I found it and I think I was reading tutorials on Jessica Sprague's website when I first decided to learn digi and she credited some of her layouts here. After I saw one of patriciaz's layouts, I bought a couple of things she used and became hooked!

[justmp]

I knew Katie "way back when" before she was a designer and we hung out at another digi scrapping site. I was a huge fan of her layouts and absolutely followed her here!!

[amcmillian]

I was at shutterfly and I wanted to do an album but was disappointed over the lack of control, so I googled "digital scrapbooking" Found DD and purchased some items and lurked in the gallery as I had no idea what to do, I had never paper or digi scrapped before. I finally signed up to the message boards and joined in on a quarterly sale/chat in May of last year and hear I am. By the way I still haven't done that album...lol. The more I learn the more product I buy, the more I change courses for the album.

[hguenthe]

Kind of a blur but thinking back, I believe it was when I saw someone on another site use Anna's Hipster Plumes on a page and googled to find her & the plumes & ended up here. I was new to scrapping of any kind & liked the products here so stuck around.

[KerryMac]

I came across it via a pro child photographers group on Flickr. It's named in a big list of digital vendors they supply for us.
It was love at first sight.

[Kayleigh]

Such a cool thread to read about how everyone found DD!

I realized that the pages I loved in magazines were digital, so I ventured into digital & eventually found DD when I was downloading every freebie available. I loved the community & the designers products so I stuck around. So glad I did b/c this is the best place around! (((Group hug everyone!!)))

[luv2cre8]

I started scrapbooking over at another (inferior) digi site. I noticed a few gorgeous layouts that Bonnie (bjwtville) had posted. I commented how she always used the most beautiful papers. She pm'd back and told me that she got them at DD. It's been home ever since!

[dorah]

I can't remember exactly how I found DD. I think I did a search because I wasn't really satisfied with what I was finding elsewhere. I was irritated with magazines because when I tried to find the products used in paper stores they were never available in my area. And then I found this site and a few others but this one seemed to be the best all round and so here I am.

[quilter422]

Originally Posted by nativescrapper

I found DD through a magazine. I saw a layout in a magazine and it was a digital layout. When i looked through the credit and saw all the different digi sites I just went thru them. I instantly loved DD, but I was just a lurker for awhile though.

same for me!

[esther_a]

I think I just googled "digital scrapbooking freebies" and found the best ones on the web were here! But then, of course, I found so many other goodies and so much inspiration I decided to hang around!

[earlofoxford]

Cool thread, Mary!

When I retired last summer, one of my goals was to investigate digital scrapping after paper scrapping for over 10 years. Once I began fooling around with PSE6, I googled digital scrapbooking. I started checking out the digital sites that came up and quickly realized DD was absolutely the best. I lurked for a few months and then started posting in September. Now it's my second home!

[Amy L]

I took Jessica Sprague's classes and Katie was always so nice to provide products for them, and Anke was my friend there and so I started checking things out here more. Just love it too!

[laura grimes]

I found DD though Creating Keepsakes, I used to mark all the digital pages and go to all the different sites and the rest is history!

[Denise Gormish]

I first was intrigued by digital scrapping when I saw Steph's work at another site. Then, I would pick up digital magazines (loved the graphic styles there) for inspiration for my paper layouts. I noticed DesignerDigitals over and over again so when I was ready to start digital scrapping I started right here. That was about 14 months ago.

After a while I checked out other sites but I love the designers here, Kate is awesome and the community rocks!

[anke]

I took a beginner's digi class that was taught by Paula G. Of course the supplies in her class were from DD, so I started posted my wonderful creations here And the rest is history...

[Steph]

Originally Posted by Denise Gormish

I first was intrigued by digital scrapping when I saw Steph's work at another site. Then, I would pick up digital magazines (loved the graphic styles there) for inspiration for my paper layouts. I noticed DesignerDigitals over and over again so when I was ready to start digital scrapping I started right here. That was about 14 months ago.

After a while I checked out other sites but I love the designers here, Kate is awesome and the community rocks!

And I'm sooooo glad you came here, Denise!!! You are an outstanding digi scrapper and a wonderful party of the community!

[JesseEdwards]

actually Google!

[MIDA78466]

I'm with Anke--took the same digi class from Paula and Katie supplied the supplies for the class. Hooked!

[Aino]

When I started scrapbooking in 2004, there was another site that was big and I posted there some (I remember several of the *big names* from there ...) - then when the DD site opened up, I was a lurker here FOREVER before I took the plunge and became an active member in Feberaury 2008, I think it was.
Never looked back, as they say.

[sweetpeony]

Looking for cool supplies. I lurked for a while, too. The "style" here is awesome - very sophisticated. Going through the galleries was like coming home. And after a while, I realized that the magazine pages I dog-eared were loaded with women from the DD community and DD supplies.

So, here I am, playing with better golfers and loving it!

[Blossom]

I "followed" Anna Aspnes here as an avid fan of her digi stuff - although I have never been at posting here until this spring I have been lurking around for ages..