Celebrate the Launch of My New Graphic Design Store for Digital Scrapbook Designers & Creatives:
Digital scrapbooking remains one of the most versatile, eco-friendly ways to preserve memories and create art. With instant downloads and transparent PNGs, you can build pages, cards, or wall art without clutter—yet still enjoy the tactile look of real paint and paper.
Whether you design for clients or craft purely for joy, The Graphic Design Studio by DeAnna Josephson delivers unique, artist-made resources that blend traditional artistry with cutting-edge digital tools.
I began as a mixed-media card maker, happiest when surrounded by torn painted papers, vintage textures, and bits of ephemera…still do in fact! In 2006, digital scrapbooking magazines opened a new world for me. The ability to create layered scrapbook pages on a computer—without running out of paper or glue—felt limitless.
I dove into Adobe Photoshop, Daz3d and motion graphics, spending late nights mastering layers, masks, and blending modes. Before long I was creating my own digital scrapbook graphics, opening an Etsy shop in 2010 and eventually designing in-house for E-Scape and Scrap, a beloved hub for digital scrapbook designers.
From Photoshop to Rebelle: A New Level of Mixed Media
Gilded Botanicals – Handmade Paper collection from The Graphic Design Studio. This set features five artisan-style digital papers adorned with delicate pressed botanical silhouettes in shimmering metallic gold, set against the soft texture of torn-edge handmade paper.
As my digital process continues to evolve, I have been creating extensively in Rebelle by Escape Motions, a natural-media painting app known for lifelike watercolor and oil effects. Rebelle lets me paint digital textures that feel handcrafted, from impasto brushwork to subtle watercolor bleeds. This innovation takes my digital mixed-media graphics far beyond what traditional tools allow.
Launching The Graphic Design Studio
All of that experience now lives in my new online shop, The Graphic Design Studio—a marketplace built for digital scrapbook designers, crafters, and mixed-media artists.
Here you’ll find-Mixed Media meets Shabby Chic!
High-resolution (300 dpi) graphics in PNG and JPEG formats
Color-coordinated collections such as vintage florals, textured papers, and impasto backgrounds
Ready-to-use printable scrapbook papers, overlays, and frames
Most pieces are created from vintage public domain finds and my own items scanned or painted directly in Rebelle, then refined in both Canva and Adobe Photoshop for professional results.
Why Digital Scrapbooking Keeps Growing
Sample: Preserving Memories with a mixed media cluster frame graphic with a young child. (child photo is from canva). Shop the Frame Set in The Graphic Design Studio.
Digital scrapbooking remains one of the most versatile, eco-friendly ways to preserve memories and create art. With instant downloads and transparent PNGs, you can build pages, cards, or wall art without clutter—yet still enjoy the tactile look of real paint and paper.
Whether you design for clients or craft purely for joy, The Graphic Design Studio delivers unique, artist-made resource assets that blend traditional artistry with cutting-edge digital tools.
From Surgery to Studio…
This period of stillness has also become a time of visioning. As I rest, I feel a pull toward something new: the transformation of my home studio into a welcoming gallery and creative space this fall. It’s something I’ve quietly prepared for, even as my studio was in disarray. Before the surgery, I managed to clear out a small corner—just enough to plant the seed of what’s next.
As I lie here in bed, three weeks into recovering from a major surgery, I find myself reflecting on the whirlwind that was May 2025—a month of profound contrast, both joyful and life-altering.
May 2025 brought dreams to life. I had my first solo exhibition at Gallery Vertigo and had the incredible opportunity to perform alongside my dear friend, Rose Kirchner, who is an accomplished singer-songwriter. These were not just career milestones, but personal victories that took years of persistence, heartache, and growth to achieve. I stood at the summit of a mountain I had been climbing for so long, and it felt incredible to celebrate those moments with my family, coworkers, and the community that has supported me.
Yet, even as I stood in the light of accomplishment, I knew a shadow was approaching. At the end of the month, I underwent a major surgery I had long feared. The physical recovery remains slow with complications—my body aches, my energy is low—but my spirit remains vividly awake. My mind continues to dream, to imagine, to plan.
This period of stillness has also become a time of visioning. As I rest, I feel a pull toward something new: the transformation of my home studio into a welcoming gallery and creative space this fall. It’s something I’ve quietly prepared for, even as my studio was in disarray. Before the surgery, I managed to clear out a small corner—just enough to plant the seed of what’s next.
My home Studio & Gallery open to the public starting September 2025. Includes sessions, paintings and mixed media hand-dyed art kits and much more!
My goal now is to work more from home—closer to my husband and three children, rooted in the rhythm of our life together. I recently lost one of my two positions with School District 22, and with that loss comes a wave of financial uncertainty. I won’t pretend I’m not scared. I am. But I’m also determined.
So here I am—healing, dreaming, and holding onto hope. I envision a future where I can share my art through intimate home studio sessions, nature-inspired mixed media workshops and online tutorials. Maybe this is how I begin to bridge the gap between fear and faith, between loss and new growth.
This is the beginning of a new chapter. Thank you for being here with me.
— DeAnna