Miriam, at AnceStories, posted her first digital scrapbook page recently after reading Jasia’s post about a new Christmas Around the World digital scrapbook kit at her Creative Genealogy blog. Not wanting to be left out of the fun, I’m posting this digital scrapbook page I made after Christmas last year. I designed the paper and elements myself (since I also do “commercial” projects, I don’t want to have to buy licenses to use others’ kits!). Since I do not own Photoshop and use Microsoft Digital Imaging, I had a pretty steep learning curve due to the lack of “instructions” on how to create digital elements on the web.
Below is another digital scrapbook page I made to show off my grandson with the Christmas tree. I didn’t add a whole lot to it as I wanted it to be very simple.
All My Branches Genealogy 
Wendy, I especially like the green page! I posted my scrapbook page over at Facebook, and one of my young, 20-something cousins (non-genealogist, non-digital scrapbooker) told me about http://www.gimp.org, a free downloadable photo-imaging software program with tutorials. Also, Debbie Atchley suggested the following tutorial websites:
http://www.scrapwow.com/free-scrapbook-tutorials-adv.asp
http://www.digitaldesignden.com/
http://ikeagoddess.blogspot.com/
http://scrapbookingtolearn.comdigitalscrapbookinggtutorials.html
http://smiekeltje.blogspot.com/
Your pages are lovely, Wendy!