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RE: My Story.

vicky — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:59:19 GMT

I am a huge fan as you know. I love you are here thanks! And thank you for the beautiful compliments. You just made my day!

RE: My Story.

amelia7410 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:13:43 GMT

thanks for doing this:) love the story. I am a new freebie giver and grabber!

I'm working in CHina at the moment and most freebies are not easily obtained as 4shared is some how blocked. I can D/L others of non 4shared sites.. which means very very few. So, I make my own most of the time and I do enjoy doing it. I like how you allow us freebie givers to put up our freebies here to share.

My first time designing I had a hard time sharing my work. THats not because i cant let go of my work but more like most scrapbooking sites do not allow others to promote freebies.

SO, I just want to thank you.

Liz

RE: My Story.

vicky — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:48:20 GMT

Jeanie thank you for your help in supporting this site. I appreciate it and I know the other 6000 visitors a day appreciate it too.

Vicky

RE: My Story.

hertzj — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:50:37 GMT

Loved your story, Vicky! I, too remember the days when we had to use manual typewriters and were feeling extra-special if we got on the one or two electrics! I remember first using computers and spending days making simple, pathetic programs in Basic. (Not to mention having to go to libaries to look things up on microfiche!) Hard to believe how far it's come! Yay for the internet!

My hubby, too, has expertise in computers, which is what permits me the freedom to explore Photoshop and other programs safely. If something goes wrong, I just yell for him to fix it for me!;) Though now, since he mainly does digital video production, I actually seem to know more Photoshop than he does! LOL! He first got me interested in Photoshop when I was decorating nursery furniture for our first baby. I wanted to do decoupage, but wanted to change some things in the pictures. My addiction was born.

Can't believe I'm designing now - your site gives me so much joy - so nice to share with others who appreciate it! Thank you SO much!

I'm working on my computer a lot this weekend - I'm stuck in the hospital on IV antibiotics for a silly infection with a resistant organism that won't die with any pills made! Oh well, it's my one chance to sleep without children kicking me half the night!

I've donated to keep DigiScrapDepot going, and plan to keep adding more as time goes on. I want to see you get that server you need! All the best to you-

Jeanie Hertz
Scrapdoctor Designs

RE: My Story.

bambalicious — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:14:28 GMT

You invented digital scrapboking????????? that is so cool. I am very impressed. i am so excited to find your sight because i am just learning now and i want to be great at it. Maybe you could tell me where to start off with it?

Thanks,

HUGS AND KISSES

BAMBI:D

RE: My Story.

Nena — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:41:32 GMT

I will. Thank You

RE: My Story.

vicky — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:21:55 GMT

Awesome to hear NeNa!! Try burning your freebies to a CD to clean off your hard drive.:)

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Nena — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:24:31 GMT

Thank you so much for sharing your story and for this beautiful site!

Your site has made my journey through the digital scrabook freebie hunting so easy! I honestly have to tell you that I visit your site at least once a day.

I have so many freebies on my hard drive that I'm not even going to go there. LoL. I need to organize them though.

I still have a long way before I make my own designs, but once I do I will comming to your site to share them with the world! Again, Thank You!

-NeNa-

RE: My Story.

lili0414 — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:11:57 GMT

Hi, Vicky. Your story is beautifull. Sorry but i not speak english very good, i from latinoamerica, i hope you can understand this words.

Te felicito, esta es una iniciativa (idea) bellisima, yo solo tengo unos dias que conoci el scrap digital, y me encanta, pero sobre todo me encanta haber encontrado esta pagina maravillosa. Espero poder aprender y compartir experiencias.

Felicidades!::)

RE: My Story.

jsager — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:20:10 GMT

Thank you so much for sharing your story!! It was fascinating to read how it all came to be. My husband is a programmer, too. He always comes up with inventive programs to simplify or streamline things. Sometimes I find myself saying things like: "Honey, can you just DO such-and-such first and THEN build the little program to make such-and-such simpler?" Obviously, the details are way over my head, hence the use of 'such-and-such'. ;-)

Anyhow, I told him about the site the day I stumbled across it and he was really impressed with the ingenuity! Please thank your husband for all his hard work! And thanks to YOU for all the time and love you put in to making it such a great place to 'hang-out'!

RE: My Story.

KayJay — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:23:26 GMT

Thank you so much for this easy way of finding all the beautiful freebies. I am here everyday, more than once I can assure you! I have no idea any more of how I found you (I am quite new to digiscrappping, and get lost in the amazing amount of sites, blogs and forums) but I am loving it.
Keep up the good work, and even if you don't hear back from most visitors, I am SURE that they really appreciate you to!

Take care
Kerri

PS: Where can I snag your blinkie to promote on my blog?

RE: My Story.

jsabuco — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:35:25 GMT

Hi Vicky!

Thanks so much for creating the site! I just recently got into digital scrapbooking and it makes things so much easier for me! It's sort of a "one stop shop". Really do appreciate it!

Mahalo,
J-

RE: My Story.

vicky — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:56:24 GMT

Hey Cin, WOW i was blown away when i just found your message about MY STORY. I have so much empathy for your situation I really do. I remember when i first got married and we lived on ten dollars a week. We had cockroaches living in our refrigerator.

I remembered back home that my dad used flypaper and hung it from the ceiling to attract flies and they would stick to it and eventually die. We laid duck tape sticky side up around the kitchen to attract and kill the cockroaches. It wasn't pretty.

That is the same time they stopped selling my favorite margarine brand and i had a postage stamp and wrote to the main office and said how disappointed i was that they stopped selling it, it was my favorite! And you know what, they sent me a free coupon for a box of margarine at the store. It actually helped us that week. That meant we could make macaroni and cheese the whole week.

I became a member at the local missions womans club for young mothers with babies. There were other women i could socialize with and it got me out of our little one room apartment for a couple of hours each tuesday morning. They served a free lunch there from leftover food donated by the local Italian restaurant. There were many weeks i brought home beautiful pasta in huge containers LOL my new husband probably thought I was crazy. But God provided didn't he!! He never lets us down.

Our social worker said we would never make it. times were really bad. We applied for help but because i had a car that i co-owned with my sister (that was dead and couldnt sale) it counted against us! So we got hardly any money.

I truly hope things work out for you this newyear my dear. And thank you so much for the sweet sweet message you left in the forum. I really love it.

Vicky

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cinimin — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:05:57 GMT

I am so happy to have found this site. For the past six months my husband has been on short-term disability. He had a good job that paid well, but since he was dealing with heart trouble, cancer, and peripheral neuropathy because of Diabetes....he was no longer able to work. His disability ended on Dec.6, 2007 and he needed to retire. We have been living on less than a shoestring, and Rice Krispie Cereal became a staple food for us!!!
My only salvation was to get on my computer and go to digiscrapdepot to see what freebies I could find. I am new at digi-scrapping, so I really had no idea of how to use this site, when to leave thank yous, and it took me a long time to even find a free zip program (I didn't even know what it was!) I hope I have not broken too many rules, etc. etc. If I have - my deepest apologies go out to all of the designers. This site kept me from the tears, the headaches, the stress of my everyday life. It frankly kept me sane! What a wonderful group you have here. Always eager to help, with phenomenol artists, giving their talent away to people like me. I plan on buying lots of "stuff" once my husband's SS Disability becomes a reality. I am a member of this site, but there is no way I could design anything at this point, but I am planning on learning so I can give back to all of the artists who were so very happy to design freebies.
The best part of my life is waiting until the house is quiet, and then pulling up this site, and seeing all of the new goodies that are available. I don't know what I would have done without them. I sometimes scrap until 4:00 or 5:00 a.m. just because it's the best time for me to just "let my hair down."
So again, thanks to everyone on this site. I wonder if they even realize what a lifesaver the freebies are. And by the way - I would prefer this note not be put on a public blog anywhere. I just want to thank those who have been so good to me.
Thankfully yours,
Cinimin wildrose4u@charter.net

RE: My Story.

Sooze — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:56:29 GMT

Thank goodness for your bright idea and hubby's expertise! I really love this site and it just goes from strength to strength! Thanks for all the hard work you both put into it...without a site such as this my designs would not get half the exposure they do since I've joined!

RE: My Story.

vicky — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:37:32 GMT

i sent you a private message. thank you!

RE: My Story.

simsage — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:48:52 GMT

I love your story! I admire you for it. I really want to learn about digital photos, and scrapbooking, I have made a few pages, and about 5 scrapbooks (my baby grandaughter is 1 year old and that really started it) I will love to get your imput on the various programs out there and if they are necessary. I am retired and on a fixed income so I try to watch my spending, its an expensive hobby. I am now getting into checking out all the sites etc, but there are so many it can be confusing, let me know how I can show you what I have done, I hope that I am not imposing on your valuable time as you have children etc.

All the best

My Story.

vicky — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:12:18 GMT

Welcome.

(sp? - the Bhg.com website spells digiscrapping as digiscraping. Is that not like to scrape something LOL)

You could say Scrapbooking started a long time ago ((((((((((( in my family)))))))))))) by my grandmother. She was famous for journaling under her pictures in the family photo album little funny comments to remember each picture. She then had the fantastic idea (and she got alot of flack too) for taking the expensive photographed pictures of her children, clipping around them and putting wallpaper behind it and then framing it. I will upload it later.

I took 4 years of photography class in school. Our teacher was a very creative man with long hair and a boatload of patience working with teenagers. I was fascinated by the different special effects one could create by using different photographic techniques and timing in the darkroom. I played mostly with black and white photography. I experimented alot with lighting,angles, and composition. Ok, I am even guilty of photographing the local rock band and being the one to make their flyers using a typewriter and a copymachine. Let me say the typewriter was not that modern at the time and didnt have correction tape. I was not that great at typing at that time and it took a couple of hours to make one flyer we could use without mistakes. LOL.

I took the typing class in high school too. We typed on the first computers. Our teacher was a strict woman who did not stand for extra noise in the classroom and wore her hair up in a bun. She taught us how to format floppies and use them to boot the computer. I still don't get it. I loved every second. It's amazing I passed that class with the boys behind me relentlessly tugging on my long hair. Yes, I even typed their notes for their shop class for them and earned a little extra money doing it.

I started digiscrapping in January 2007. I was actually just surfing around. I fell upon my first Digiscrapping website where they offered freebies. I made a friend online and we had fun looking at different freebies and trying to find what we needed online to make scrapbooking layouts. I decided to try and create my own freebies and found I thought it took too much time away from the freetime i have with two small children to help with. I wasnt digitalscrapping anymore, I was looking for a font, or trying to make a paper using texture. I wanted to go back to making my layouts.

This site started because I needed a way to see the freebies I had/and the ones that were out there in one place. I spent too much time hunting after particular designs I liked. I filled my hard drive needlessly with designs I never used but loved. DigiScrapDepot.com was born out of a necessity I felt for us scrapbookers who needed a place to come. A 1- Stop Shop if you will.

I begged my husband to make the site for me. I told him what I "needed" and he tried to make sense of it. Good for him! He has learned alot about scrapbooking then he probably ever thought he wanted LOL. After a month of careful planning, and alot of babysitting the site came to fruition.

Since then we have opened our doors to let the visitors and designers come in and show off their hard work. We try to make the site functional and educational. Allowing visitors to leave comments about the designers work that will inspire them.

Well it was a crazy little idea of mine that my husband did not feel would pay off. Now I can tell him that i have made so many great connections with designers all over the world and that is why I do it. I love to design myself and have somewhere to put them LOL.