I was amazed by how creative some people can be when making a scrapbook. Can you say, "Yummy Treats Scrapbook?" There is this lady from Austrailia that put together a digital scrapbook and collaborated with many scrappers out there who cook and have "secret family recipes" and put together a delicious recipe book all "dolled out" in scrapbook fashion! I was excited to discover this blog site. You can visit Karen’s blog site at www.scrapsofmind.com
You can actually download for free, the finished recipe scrapbook at http://www.scrapsofmind.com/2008/05/28/free-scrapbooking-recipe-book-2/
Karen managed to give such a large scrapbook to all of us for free! The download is fairly big, over 3 MB. So make sure you have enough space in your hard drive for this! Enjoy.
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Along with the advances in technology, comes digital scrapbooking. This is an online version of your "table top" way of doing things. Consider the the savings of not having to buy expensive binders, specialty paper, bulky and often times hard to find embellishments, and so on. You can go to a website like www.smilebox.com and sign up for an account and simply upload your own digital photos into their custom made themed pages and voila! An instant virtual scrapbook that you can email to anyone in the world.
Now, although there are advantages to this because you dealing with just a computer interface to make all your pages, there is a small piece of real sentimental feeling that is missing when you sit down at your kitchen table and, with the help of your kids or relatives, get "down and dirty" on real artifacts to paste into a real binder. Call me sentimental, but you can never replace a real binder and scrapbook that you can hold in your hands versus something that you can email and save to disk!
Some computerized scrapbooks now can add video and audio to parts of the digital pages which is a nice touch. Whichever way you want to go, make sure you keep the same intensity of creativity when making layouts. Keep your themes consistent and most of all, make sure the person or people you are dedicating the scrapbook gets a good vibe and can feel the emotion that went into making the scrapbook! You cannot hide the care and love that went into any scrapbook! Scrapbooks are truly a labor of love!!
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The latest trend to hit the scrapbook world is digital scrapbooking. With the arrival of the photo editing software programs such as: Photoshop Elements, MicroSoft Publisher, JASC Photo/Paint, and Corel Paint Shop, there is the capability to now work with digital photos that you have on your hard drive of your computer. With these programs, you simply insert a photo into a premade scrapbook page template. Although you can get a very slick looking image, by making "virtual" scrapbook pages, I prefer the "real live" look of a binder that you can actually hold in your hands and share sitting with loved ones and flipping the pages together.
In my opinion, the digital scrapbooks are more for computer and photo editing literate people. There is nothing like laying everything out on the dining room table and going over the photos taken out of the family momento box and "dreaming" of how you are going to assemble all the elements of the binder or album!
For more information on beginning with digital scrapbooking, go to:
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/digitalscrapbooking/ss/beginnerintro.htm
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