TEN years ago I was working full-time as a freelance graphic designer. It was a job I’d had for nearly 13 years working with various corporate clients. And I loved scrapbooking! Nearly every evening I pulled out all my rubber stamps, inks and stickers and scrapbooked memories of days of Kelly’s childhood. Scrapbooking was such a favorite thing to do that I had to move all my scrapbook supplies out of my home office so I’d focus on my clients more. That didn’t work. Extremely proficient in photoshop and illustrator, I started creating my pages digitally. We had a website, Tootahs, selling mother’s bracelets and it was going well. So I asked my husband if he could set us up to sell downloads on there. He went one better and made me a new site… and DesignerDigitals was born!
Just two months later I decided to put all my focus on DesignerDigitals making it my full time job!
Within 18 months it became my husband’s full time job too! A dream come true!
The scrapbook industry has been through a lot of ups and downs over these tens years and DesignerDigitals has survived it all!
Back in the day of Scrapbooks Etc., Simple Scrapbooks and Creating Keepsakes Magazines you could flip through the pages and always see credits to DesignerDigitals. It was awesome! We thrived!
And I’ve been lucky as a designer in the industry too! Just three months after launching DesignerDigitals, I started designing for Autumn Leaves. Dozens of clear stamps and a few Foofala Collections and lots of other projects under my belt before their parent company, Creativity, closed their doors. And since then I’ve also designed scrapbook products for Bo Bunny, Pink Paislee, My Minds Eye, TrimCraft and Our Memories for Life.
It’s been an amazing TEN years! And here’s to the next TEN!
To celebrate at DesignerDigitals, we’ve got a NEW 99¢ item every day with 1000 items 40% off!
Be sure to check back every day for a new item and a new batch of markdowns!
Oh, one last, important celebration note…
want to WIN $10 each week for TEN weeks?
Be sure to check out all the details!
Be inspired to scrapbook and I’ll see you at the best scrapbooking site around, DesignerDigitals!
Congrats, Katie!!! I’ve been with you since 2007 and am still a happy camper. Happy Anniversary.~Ann
Thanks so much Ann! We *love* happy Campers! 🙂
I joined in 2008 and DD is my favorite place to buy products from. The quality of your products, variety, sales and generous free items make this site tops in my book. Congratulations on 10 years and best wishes for many, many more. Karen
Thanks so much Karen! Looking forward to many more!
A big congrats to you and Randy on a successful 10 years! I joined in 2008, and spent well over a year just ogling the galleries before getting up enough nerve to make my first post. 🙂 I’m so glad I finally jumped in, and made this my home.
Thanks Brenda! We’re lucky to have you in our home! 🙂
Congratulations Katie and Randy!! I hope many years will follow. I have several of your stamps from Autumn Leaves. When I bought them I didn’t know digital scrapbooking yet. So cool when I discovered it and then recognized your name on the stamps. Have fun with the celebrations and up to the next ten years!
Monique
Thanks Monique! Those Autumn Leaves stamps seem like a blast from the past but in digital they seem like just yesterday! So glad you’ve found us!
Well done Katie and Randy – those were the days of marvelling and tagging while flipping through the Scrapbooks Etc., Simple Scrapbooks and Creating Keepsakes Magazines. I get so lost in the “www” what with all the links to different sites – I have spent half a day browsing instead of doing like I used to. Thanks for the journey from yesterday and on to tomorrow. 🙂
Thanks Leanne! On to tomorrow is right! Looking forward to the next ten!
Katie, you are one, simply amazing and talented woman. Congratulations on this milestone and here’s to way more than 10 to come! I look forward to each and every new item you create. Your products dominate my digital stash and I tell everyone who I meet in the digital world about your site and products. Keep ’em coming!
Thanks so much Carol Ann!! So nice to hear! 🙂