Are you interested in Digital Scrapbooking and want to know more?
Have you been wondering if you could pick up this hobby?
But don’t know how start? What are the first steps? Why would you do Digital Scrapbooking over Traditional scrapbooking?
What tools do I need to get started?
Is it easy or hard to learn?
If you have been asking yourself these types of questions about learning digital scrapbooking then read this article by Jennifer Barlow
What is Digital Scrapbooking? And Why I Do it!!
(Originally published 6/3/2008)
I know… That’s exactly what I asked my mom, Cheri, when she first told me about it and how cool digital scrapbooking was.
I liked traditional scrapbooking. It made sense to me. I have to admit, as silly as it seems, I was a bit on the defensive when she first started ranting & raving about “going digital.”
It seemed like it was wrong to become a digital scrapbooker; to abandon the traditional scrapbooking-way. I rejected the idea, and told her I didn’t want to do it.
Instead of arguing with me, my mom slyly started emailing me some of the digital scrapbook pages she had created. She and I loved to exchange 
recipes, and now instead of just giving me the recipe, she emailed a few recipes over in colorful, patterned digital paper with photos of her creating and cooking the food (wearing the adorable apron I had given her for birthday), as well as photos of the finished, baked food looking as pretty as it would in the magazines.
I had to admit… it was kind of cool; it was like a 3-D version of a regular, old-fashion recipe. I started printing these new-age recipes that she forwarded to me and keeping them in a 3-ring binder. It was a lot of fun to go back and look through the recipes, and based on my mood (and what looked yummy in the photos) choose one of her recipes and cook it that day. I recognized some of the recipes had been ones that had been handed down from my grandmother and others had been favorites at holidays, but I had just never written down. There were all kinds of history in this special binder! After filling the binder full of recipes, I realized I had a personalized cookbook in my hands. It was also then that I realized that digital scrapbooking didn’t seem so bad after all…
Once I decided to give digital scrapbooking a chance, and I learned:
- I can share my scrapbooking pages with others easily! With traditional scrapbooking, you only have one copy. It’s nearly impossible to share all of your hard work with others unless you give them your album or physically show them your page. It’s more fun to have unlimited amounts of copies that
you can print or email so that everyone else can enjoy all of your special memories with you.
- I spend A LOT less money because each digital kit, paper, frame, or embellishment is reusable!! Traditional scrapbook supplies are not reusable, and because of that, they can become expensive.
- I also spend less money because I can easily look through my computer files and see what scrapbook supplies I have. Many times with traditional stickers and embellishments, I’d buy so many and forget that I had even bought them! They would get lost in my huge, messy scrapbooking supply box and became a waste of money.
- My study room does not look like a war-zone every time I decide to scrapbook! With digital scrapbooking, I can always be neat, tidy, and organized because all of my supplies are on my computer. It always bugged me with traditional scrapbooking that after scrapping a single page, I’d have clip-its of paper, photos, & stickers all over the place.
Not to mention, with digital scrapbooking you can create:
- Scrapbook Albums
- Personalized Photo Albums
- Greeting Cards
- Personalized Recipe Pages & Cookbooks
- Unique Calendars
- Gifts, such as personalized aprons, shirts, mugs, etc.
- Creative flyers, letters, or postcards
- Special invitations or announcements for holidays, birthdays, or other special events
The sky is truly the limit! There’s a lot you can do with digital scrapbooking, all you need to do is get creative!
Anyway, the point is, like so many other advancements through technology, I think that digital scrapbooking was created to ease so many of the stresses that come with traditional scrapbooking. Now that I know how to digitally scrapbook, I will never go back to old-fashion scrapping. …Make it easy on yourself too, and “go digital!”
Also, you want to start this fun and exciting then it is easy – in fact the secret is – just get good training! Oh and you will need a graphic program like Photoshop or Photoshop Elements too – see this article for more info on that!
Best Wishes in your digital scrapbooking,
Jennifer
See the info below to get the training you need to start digital scrapbooking today!
Digital Scrapbooks and More is here to give you the training you will need to learn this exciting new hobby!
We offer complete training in Photoshop Elements and Digital Scrapbooking! See our Getting Started in Digital Scrapbooking Training for those using Elements 8
Our Basic Tutorials are digital scrapbooking tutorials are designed specifically for beginners or for individuals that have never digitally scrapbooked. “Our Getting Started” tutorials are around 12 minutes long and are downloadable training videos with step-by-step instructions on a particular lesson of digital scrapbooking, this guide has images of the steps with detailed helps. Each tutorial in the Getting Started Series also comes with a free “Digital Scrapbooking Cheat Sheet,” which is a downloadable and printable page with a brief re-cap of the video’s lesson for quick reference! Buy Now! Get the CD version or each individual downloadable lessons to start your new hobby today!
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Then, when you are ready to advance in Digital Scrapbooking or Photo Editing, we will be here with Intermediate and Advanced Training to take you even further in your skills!
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Scrapbooking Supplies used in this Blog:
See the Fun At the Sea Digital Scrapbooking Kit since it has so many elements already featured on each page like a shimmering sea, seagulls, and boats in the digital paper just add your digital photos and some journaling!
It was simple and fast and using the Fun At the Sea Digital Scrapbooking Kit to make a digital scrapbooking page, or album!
Check it out today at Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Scrap Shop!
The Sweet Valentine Digital Scrapbooking Quick Page Kit 2 (8.5×11″) is packed with Valentine’s Day and Love inspired Quick Pages and also includes a FREE Bonus: Love inspired WordArt! This kit is the perfect solution for creating beautiful digital scrapbooking pages for journals, albums and recipe books! Also, these pages are 8.5×11″ size perfect for home printing or turning into a PDF Album and email to family and friends!
Need a Paper Kit for Recipe Books that can be printed out in a home printer?
Then see the The Velvet Pink Digital Scrapbook Papers Kit 1 (11×8.5″ or 8.5×11″) which is perfect for digitally scrapping your relationship and special Valentine’s Day memories! This kit is also great for scrapping recipe books, engagements, weddings, relationships, love-themed, or any pink-themed digital scrapbooking project! These papers can be rotated to work in a vertical or horizontal layout which makes these papers useful for many digital scrapbooking projects! This kit comes with a bonus embellishment kit too!
Enjoy these Textured Velvet looking Pink-inspired Digital Scrapbooking Papers in 12×12″ Traditional Digital Scrapbooking Paper Format. The Velvet Pink Digital Scrapbook Papers Kit 2 is great for scrapping engagements, weddings, relationships, love-themed, or any pink-themed digital scrapbooking project! This kit comes with a bonus embellishment kit too!
Show a little love and use the pretty pink and red papers to create a beautiful digital scrap traditional 12×12 sized pages for someone special. Use these romantic papers and the FREE love-inspired embellishments to scrap a loving Valentine’s Day card for someone you love! Also, scrap large sized digital scrapbooking pages, and make Heart Day cards, valentines, aprons, posters, and more with this kit!
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