Why There's No National in Digital Scrapbooking Day

A couple of people have asked me this - why didn't you name it National Digital Scrapbooking Day?  Hmmm...good question...

To be honest, I'm afraid it wasn't a conscious decision - at least not on my part.  But now that I think of it, it was a great idea.  To give credit where credit is most definitely due, Digital Scrapbooking Day was the brainchild of Angie Pedersen who is co-coordinating the day with me. At any rate, we didn't really discuss calling it anything but DSD - or maybe she had figured all this out way before I did....:-) 

There is, of course, a National Scrapbooking Day (NSD) which has been around for a long time.  Since the advent of digital, NSD has been celebrated in both the paper and digital world.  So not having national in our name does cut down on the confusion. 

Then there is the international angle. Michelle Thompson, a digital scrapper and author of the enormously popular Scrapability blog pointed out that she was happy that we left national out of the name.  After all, digital knows no geographic bounds and there are digiscrappers all over the world. Hopefully, the lack of the word national really tells it like it is - this is an international community and we have many (on line) friends all over the world.  How cool is that?  Okay..so maybe this is a little corny ...but I just think it amazing that we can bridge borders with digital scrapbooking. And that, hopefully, DSD is part of that.

Comments

[Melissa]

AS an Aussie I agree wholeheartedly that digiscrapping is without Nat boundaries.

[Hummie]

It's only a few weeks off and I've not heard much about what the stores are doing. I sure hope it takes off!

The carnival submission deadline is today, so I hope you are getting the submissions okay.

[Angie Pedersen]

See, if you don't present it as a choice in the first place, people think it was their idea not to do it. ::chuckle:: Actually, I did intentionally leave off the National in our early talks, but to be honest, that was to differentiate it from National Scrapbooking Day in May. But now that our friends across the Lake like the idea...well, of course that's what I meant. ;)