Christmas Backgrounds

Minted.com did an amazing job with my family’s Christmas photo cards. I had been searching for a card format that would allow for multiple images to be featured around some seasonal text, similar to a scrapbook layout, and the website delivered. Holiday photo cards have come a long way since double sided tape was used to adhere a standard snapshot to the inside of a traditional greeting card. These days you can create elaborate multi-page cards, which feature two to three images on each page. I can’t wait until someone comes up with a way to convert digital scrapbook layouts … Continue reading

Digital Scrapbooking

In addition to the traditional art of scrapbooking, we now have another option to create beautiful layouts and preserve memories. With the added options of sound and moving images, digital scrapbooking is becoming very popular. A scrapbook, created on the computer using digital images, can be saved, printed, shared on blogs and email, and burned to a DVD. Here is an overview of some websites that allow free digital scrapbooking: Smilebox.com Users can create and personalize scrapbooks for free using Smilebox. Sharing your scrapbook is free as well. In order to print, burn to a DVD or eliminate advertisements, a … Continue reading

Digital Scrapbooking Magazine

We all use computers to at least some extent when it comes to scrapbooking. Maybe it is just to print the title of a page or print out the journaling, but it could involve a lot more that. Digital scrapbooking has become increasingly popular over the last couple of years. I still have not created an entirely digital page, mostly because I am not sure where to start. I have a feeling that once I do start creating a few digital pages, it will be more fun than I was expecting. If you are like me and want to learn … Continue reading