Today is Digital Scrapbooking Day!

It's hard to believe it's actually here - today is the first-ever Digital Scrapbooking Day.  First. Ever.  It's been a bit overwhelming - amazing, humbling to see how it's been adopted and supported. 

Perhaps I should start closer to the beginning...

Back in February, I was listening to a interview with Joan Stewart, The Publicity Hound.  She was talking about how niche holidays can help generate a lot of publicity for a brand or company.  My marketing brain went nuts, and I couldn't wait to email my client/friend, Susan, at Triscape, makers of FxFoto.

"I did some quick research and we can do this -- you need to start and host Digital Scrapbooking Day.  No one has "proclaimed" this day yet, so we can just pick a day and call it.  It will be a day to create awareness of and celebrate the capabilities of digitally-enhanced scrapbooking -- from editing your photos to printing out your journaling to finding inspiration online to creating fully digital layouts."

She responded back not two hours later, and we began to work.  Deciding when to hold the event, what it would celebrate, who should be involved, who to contact, how to make it "official", etc.  So many details.  And now it's here.

And now it seems to be everywhere!!  OMG - have you seen the Event Listing??  Over 30 participating sites, and counting!  And 7 Partners have sponsors prizes - companies like Epson, Shutterfly, and Tamron.  With amazing Grand Prizes, some worth over $400 EACH.

The prizes will be awarded by random drawing for each of the digital scrapbooking challenges - the challenges will be posted hourly, but you have until 9pm Eastern 11/4/07 to enter (so don't worry about completing a challenge in an hour to win!)

There are a number of things I wish I could have gotten done - I wanted to do podcast interviews with digi-designers, maybe a roundtable discussion, post some videos on YouTube...but...I'm still very pleased with the content we got up.  I haven't done laundry in probably two weeks, but...eh.  What's laundry in the face of making digital history???

My husband asked me tonight what I was doing tomorrow.  I sort of snorted at him, and said I'd probably be glued to my laptop, keeping an eye on everything.  He looked kind of confused, and said, "Aren't you going to be scrapbooking?"  I gave him "the eyebrow", and he gave me "the eyebrow" back.

He said, "You know, you go and make up this day, and if you don't scrap at least one digital layout...that's pretty f'ed up."

I think he might actually be right.  I will make it a goal to scrap at least one layout.  Lord knows I have the digital photo stash to supply inspiration!

How about you?  Are you going to be digi-scrapping?

Comments

[susan]

Angie you are truely amazing and I can't believe we did this! So cool to see so mnay sites involved! Thanks for making this possible!!

[Tanya/TiggerRD]

I just want to say thank you - this has been an awesome day. I do hope you get a chance to scrap at least one layout - even if it's with a quickpage and a photo of you today on this momentous occasion!

[Nancy]

Hey Angie, great job. You are truly a pioneer in this wonderful community. Where do you get your inspiration? That's where I have a problem. Where do you get your fonts? I go to fontmarketplace, they seem to have everything I need and they also have a scrapbooking kit which I use every time. I Just thought I would stop by and tell you what a great job you are doing.

http://www.fontmarketplace.com/font/ascender-scrapbook-kit.aspx

Hope that helps,

~Nancy

[Angie Pedersen]

Thanks for the link, Nancy - that is a great general purpose set of fonts for scrapbooking! Back in the day, I maintained a font archive of about 1000 fonts at onescrappysite.com, but recently took the archive offline. It was the first font site sorted into scrapbooking categories, launched back in 1998, but it was just too much work (and bandwidth) to maintain.

I get my fonts from all over - http://www.dafont.com is a great resource. I also like:
http://www.fontgarden.com/
http://www.haroldsfonts.com/
http://moorstation.org/typoasis/typoasis1.htm
http://www.scrapbookingfonts.com/
http://www.kevinandamanda.com/scrapbook/fonts/freescrapbookfonts/

May the Fonts be with you!