Everyone who knows me, knows I am a paper scrapper tried and true...I wanted to learn more about digital scrapbooking, and finally had the opportunity when I was able to review a great digital scrapbook software with kits you could download.
The first set of layouts I chose to do was something easy...I love how you can select the photos you want to use, and then add the embellishments to it. With the software I use, I really love how it is easy to use...and easy to learn as well! Maybe things came a bit easier for me because of the schooling I have had so far...but it seems that I didn't find it hard at all to pick out what I wanted and then add it to the picture I was using.
In this first example, I started with the 2 pictures...of Dionna and Colton...a wonderful gal I met while living here in Colorado. The pictures were of Coltons birthday, though I wanted to showcase who they were in this particular layout...Coltons birthday in another! With this layout, I was able to select the background paper first, and then the photo matts to match. I selected a simple flower embellishment to finish it up. The journaling shape simply was a way to put down who they are to me! Dionna and Colton were more like my "adopted" family!
In this example...I love how the swirls are, yet I could not do this normally. I know you can purchase overlays, but I like to do things myself. If I can't do it with my own hands, then it turns me off. One thing I really like is the look of swirls...though I can't do them myself. This layout made it easy to use the swirls with the photos and the matt's I chose to use. The butterflies and journaling shape added a bit of interest to the layout. I love how the swirls look with the photos...and how the entire layout looked when it was done.
The software I used is Serif Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 with the free kits they have available. Not that I don't like the kits you can purchase...I love them... I wanted to show people how easy it is to use the kits, not how expensive you have to get while scrapbooking! I am all about doing things cheap...but looking like you spent a ton! You can always check out the review I have done...look back on the archives for that!
When you finish up enough pages, make a book! You can check out places like Shutterfly that will let you take the digital layouts you make and put them into a book for a charge. However, the price is small compared to the people who receive the album as a gift! One year for Christmas, a friend created an entire book...and those people in the pictures got a copy of the book as a gift. What a wonderful idea to showcase the entire years events!
I am working on a recipe album for my cousins...full of my grandma's recipe's all in her handwriting! It is long, tedious work...having to copy what was sent to me, in order to scan the recipes for each page. Yet at the end of it all (and yes, I am planning on sharing with you what I done...) I will have a wonderful album that I can pass on to my kids, and send a copy to my cousins for them to pass to their children as well. Digital scrapbooking is fun, I have found a ton of great places that have wonderful products online!
The challenge for the week is to do something you normally don't do, go outside the box and do something different! Where I normally do paper scrapbooking, it was actually fun to digital scrapbook...and have planned a few projects for that purpose! If you always digital scrapbook...make a mini album, or a 12 month year long album showcasing a photo or two, and journaling about what happened that month! Find a project or two that is something different than you normally do and have fun!
The first set of layouts I chose to do was something easy...I love how you can select the photos you want to use, and then add the embellishments to it. With the software I use, I really love how it is easy to use...and easy to learn as well! Maybe things came a bit easier for me because of the schooling I have had so far...but it seems that I didn't find it hard at all to pick out what I wanted and then add it to the picture I was using.
In this first example, I started with the 2 pictures...of Dionna and Colton...a wonderful gal I met while living here in Colorado. The pictures were of Coltons birthday, though I wanted to showcase who they were in this particular layout...Coltons birthday in another! With this layout, I was able to select the background paper first, and then the photo matts to match. I selected a simple flower embellishment to finish it up. The journaling shape simply was a way to put down who they are to me! Dionna and Colton were more like my "adopted" family! 
The software I used is Serif Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 with the free kits they have available. Not that I don't like the kits you can purchase...I love them... I wanted to show people how easy it is to use the kits, not how expensive you have to get while scrapbooking! I am all about doing things cheap...but looking like you spent a ton! You can always check out the review I have done...look back on the archives for that!
When you finish up enough pages, make a book! You can check out places like Shutterfly that will let you take the digital layouts you make and put them into a book for a charge. However, the price is small compared to the people who receive the album as a gift! One year for Christmas, a friend created an entire book...and those people in the pictures got a copy of the book as a gift. What a wonderful idea to showcase the entire years events!
I am working on a recipe album for my cousins...full of my grandma's recipe's all in her handwriting! It is long, tedious work...having to copy what was sent to me, in order to scan the recipes for each page. Yet at the end of it all (and yes, I am planning on sharing with you what I done...) I will have a wonderful album that I can pass on to my kids, and send a copy to my cousins for them to pass to their children as well. Digital scrapbooking is fun, I have found a ton of great places that have wonderful products online!
The challenge for the week is to do something you normally don't do, go outside the box and do something different! Where I normally do paper scrapbooking, it was actually fun to digital scrapbook...and have planned a few projects for that purpose! If you always digital scrapbook...make a mini album, or a 12 month year long album showcasing a photo or two, and journaling about what happened that month! Find a project or two that is something different than you normally do and have fun!
Lynda Jeffs
Memories in Tyme
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Thanks for the comment!!! I always like it when people take the time to look at what I create! Have a great day!!
Lynda