Save Time and Money With Digital Scrapbooking
Hi. My name is Jenn, and I’m a scrapaholic. Yes, I have a room full of funky scissors, expensive paper, ribbons, leetle flowers and WAAAAY too many stickers. And I NEVER use them. But I scrap every day! Yes, I’ve gone digital.
I imagine over the years I’ve spend hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars on all that stuff gathering dust in my craft room - but I avoided using it because it was too much work to get it all out; I didn’t want to just have to clean it all up again in order to eat dinner, the kids would get into it and make ‘art’ with $1 sheets of paper… too many excuses. I was working at a scrapbook store, when I realized I hadn’t done any personal scrapping for TWO YEARS!!
Then I went digital! I have always used Photoshop as a retoucher, and had moved into laying out my kids’ school yearbooks - when I had that D’OH! moment… laying out a yearbook is… yes… SCRAPBOOKING!! I started looking around online, and realized lots of other people had already figured out how to scrap digitally, and were doing a WAY better job than I was!
I started learning and scrapping, and was able to tell my story again! (CLICK HERE to see a slideshow of some of my favorites.)
Digiscrapping fits into my new thrifty lifestyle because:
- Once I purchase a page kit (papers and elements), I can use it over and over!
- I can make my own backgrounds (papers) and titles and elements - it’s fun!
- I can stop and start whenever I want - no cleanup! Just hit ‘Save’!
- I can wait for sales or free coupons to print things (just got a free 20 page book from Shutterfly!)
- I don’t HAVE to print - lately I’ve been making slide shows from my layouts and sending them to the grandparents on DVD. Easy for them to view - everyone can see at once, no crowding around the book!
- I actually DO it now!
You can’t put a price on preserving your memories.
One day I was telling my son that we were going to host a couple of high school kids from a choir that was visiting our church. I asked him if he remembered when we did that the year before.
“No, I don’t remember.”
“Sure you do, remember they slept in your room and you bunked with your sister?”
“Nope.”
“Of course you do, remember we took them to Baskin-Robbins for ice cream?”
“Did you take pictures? Can I see them?”
“No honey, I don’t think we took any photos.”
“MOM, if you took PICTURES, I’d REMEMBER!!!”
Out of the mouths of babes.
So, if you’re not crafty, can’t stand the idea of little stickers and glue sticks - try digiscrapping. If you paper-scrap but can’t seem to find the time or space - digiscrap! If you’ve got a story (and we all do) - tell it!
Jennifer White is the owner of ScrappersWorkshop.com, a learning site for digiscrappers. She also designs scrapbooking supplies, catch her blog at http://www.scrapkittydesign.com/blog. If you’re new to digiscrapping, (or even if you’re not!) free samples and tutorials are available at http://www.scrapkittydesign.com/ScrapKittyDesignNewbiePage.html
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