I haven't bought any kits or CDs yet, but I'm just biding my time. I'm waiting for that nice $100 check from SS to come in the mail, but I'm still debating on what I'm going to get with it. Hubby already told me that I should put it back into the "business", so, was I going to argue?? He actually didn't try to con it out of me for something for him, LOL :P

Lately I've been making my CD, so I haven't had a chance to catch up with everything else out there, but I'm definately leaning toward a Ronna and a Tanya purchase possibly in the near future. I agree with the other designers in saying that it's fun to use others too, even when you can make your own. Gives a new feel to your work!!

I haven't purchased a digi kit, yet. I'm new to computer scraping and just trying to get a better feel for it first. I'm so totally overwhelmed by the fantastic work I see here. When I finally put together something I like with the gorgeous free stuff here, I'll start looking for things to buy. Of course I'm enough of a nut to want to learn how to make all this great stuff myself too! Thanks to all of the talent here and your willingness to share.

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Please Jolyn's Gallery. I'd love to hear your comments.

To answer my own question - or further elaborate on my answer anyway - I'll say I'm a big fan of the kits and cd's. I've been a paper scrapper for several years and I never felt compelled to create my own printed paper when scrapping traditionally so I don't feel obligated to do that now! I have been creating a bunch of my own backgrounds and some simple metal elements using the tools that DH has on hand (who *knew* we had eye candy? LOL) but I still really love getting the fleshed out page kits from any number of designers. I share Shabby Princess's enthusiasm for Scrapbook-Elements as well as Gina's cd! It was my first digital scrapping purchase and I've used it a ton! Since then I've added the Baby Daze cd, Clara Wallace's Matter of Scrap CD and Julie Mead's From Girly to Grungy CD and they each bring seomthing new and cool I can have fun scrapping with and they've each been so worth the cost to me. The downloadable page kits are awesome too - I love that I can choose one to buy and be scrapping with it an hour later!

I guess I'm just a digital kit junkie.

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Emmy
SAHM to 4 little monkeys!

Happy to be creating for: Gina Cabrera, Heather Roselli, Bree Clarkson, Darcy Baldwin, Julie Billingsley, Shawna Clingerman, and Amanda Heiman.

I use tons of page kits! Just having what the DTMs and HDTMs have made is quite the collection let alone anyone else out there.

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I just bought Miss Tanya's kit after seeing this thread. Incredible!!!
I have been eyeing Gina Cabera's kit, too and that will be the next one I buy.
I really want to make my own stuff (newbie to digital, here) but the kits are too beautiful to pass up!
Kim

Hello, my name is mcm and I'm a scrapbook-elements junkie.

Yeah, it's bad. I'm sure my husband thinks I've lost my mind (I have never done anything artsy or craftsy before, and I am SO hooked on digital scrapping...which I had never heard until I accidentally bumped into it a few months ago while searching for Humpty Dumpty images for my family weblog).

But it's good, because I have some wonderful kits!

Every Monday morning (or sometimes late Sunday night ) I check the scrapbook-elements site to see if there's anything new by Michelle Underwood or Ronna Penner.

Since I spend too much on kits, I've decided I won't buy many CDs. I love love love Gina's Spring/Summer CD and would buy her next one sight unseen. And I've been eagerly awaiting Miss Tanya's CD ever since I saw a couple of layouts with her CD elements. And one of her kits has a Humpty Dumpty! which is how I bumped into digi-scrapping to begin with. So that's one CD I will be purchasing very soon.

I buy lots of elements. Mostly from scrapbook-elements and then CD's. I have bought almost everything that Gina has at her site. I have preordered Tanya's CD at www.playonelements.com (wonderful stuff, trust me!). I also have Jeri's Digital Scrap Sets CD, Anna's Baby Daze CD, both of the earlier SBB CD's and Clara's Let's Get Digital CD. So... I guess you could say that I'm an element buying addict! LOL

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~Helen~

Go ahead, Call 9-1-1. It's my day off!

i haven't bought any. the ones that i have were either free, or came on a cd collection through the design team that i'm on, lol.

that doesn't mean that i haven't seen anything that i want- i know that ronnie mccray at elemental and michelle underwood at scrapbook-elements are both awesome designers, i drool over their stuff constantly- i just know that once i started, i'd never stop, and well- i can't really justitfy buying kits and stuff to my husband because he knows that i make my own.

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