Each summer mom’s look for activities to keep children busy and not bored. So this summer, why not teach your children about digital scrapbooking?
Children are very computer-savvy, even very young children, and so why not direct them into Digital Scrapbooking? A skill that will create lasting family memories and will also encourage them to get involved in an activity that can evolve into a hobby of their own!
Tips to Help Your Child Start Digital Scrapbooking:
Here are is an article to give you information on children and digital scrapbooking and will give you tips on how to start your child in this exciting new hobby.
Article: Helping Kids Start Digital Scrapbooking ~ Part 1
Article: Helping Kids Start Digital Scrapbooking ~ Part 2
Article: Digitally Scrapping Your Children’s Sports Activities
Digital scrapbooking with children is great because it makes it easy to email creations to grandparents, other family members, and friends.
One way to get your child’s project to everyone, is to turn your child’s digital scrapbooking pages into a digital album (PDF format) and email it everyone!
It is very simple to turn one digital scrap page into a PDF or whole digital Album using Photoshop Elements – if you would like to know how to do this then take this video training and learn how – How to Make a PDF Scrapbooking Album using Photoshop Elements
It is easy to teach our children about Digital Scrapbooking but first we must learn how to do it! At Digital Scrapbooks and More you can get training at our Scrap Shop to learn how to do Digital Scrapbooking on your computer, on your schedule! In fact, you can watch the training videos together with your older children, talk while you scrap, and maybe even pop some popcorn too!
Even get your older children or Teens involved in digital scrapbooking:
Getting your teen started in a life-long hobby is a great gift a parent can give to their child.
Having a way to express feelings and experiences helps teens feel happy and more confident in their abilities.
If you have a teen, you too might want to consider introducing them to Photo Editing and Digital Scrapbooking! You might even want to try it out yourself for the same reasons!
If you have a teenager you might want to check out these blogs and get more ideas!
Article: Give the Gift of Creativity to Your Teenager this Holiday Season!
Article: 5 Tips for Creating Personalized Teen Binder Covers and Friendship Books
Article: Capturing Photo Shy Teens – Get Photo Editing Training!
Article: Picture-Perfect Pretty with Nothing But Pocket Change
Article: Help Teens Find a Passion: Try Digital Scrapbooking and Photo Editing
Even Keep in touch with College Age Children using Digital Scrapbooking:
College-age or married children love getting cooking ideas – send them digitally scrapped recipes – and even digital recipe books you have made as a way of staying touch whereever they live.
Article: Keeping Starving Students Fed: 6 Tips for Digitally Scrapping Your Recipes!
Article: Cooking and Scrapping with Grown Children
Keep your family cooking together even when you live in different towns!
It is very fun to find creative ways to stay close even when you live far away! Try cooking together and then turning those adventures into digital scrapbooking pages, or recipe books!
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Get the Digital Scrapbooking Kit used in this blog article:
The Freedom Digital Scrapbooking Kit is a full-featured kit to celebrate the moment! Filled with red, white, and blue papers, you can scrap all of your fun! Whether you use it for anything that needs bright blue, red and white colors or use it for scrapping a fireworks show, or for your backyard cookout, scrap all the wonderful festivities. This kit comes with a Bonus Overlay Kit, 12×12″ digital papers, and digital embellishments!
Besides using the Freedom Digital Scrapbooking Kit for the 4th of July, it is also a great kit to use for scrapping Memorial Day, war heroes, patriotic themes, or even for just for red, white,
and blue-colored projects!
The digital scrapbooking kit I used for this last recipe was from the Gardening 3 Digital Scrapbooking Kit which is a great for digitally scrapping another one of your favorite hobbies – gardening or even cooking as it has a digital recipe card!
This kit comes with 8.5×11″ digital papers which really works well in home printers as it is formatted to use on regular US Paper.
Digital Scrapbook Tutorials get you the information you need to start digital scrapbooking right away!
Why not learn about all about digital scrapbooking?
Take the whole Getting Started Series Lesson 1-6 for Elements and Lesson 1-5 for Photoshop!
The Getting Started Series in Digital Scrapbooking using Photoshop Elements 8 is the ultimate training! CD-set includes: tutorial videos, training guides for ALL Lessons (1-6) and lots of freebies too!
Photoshop Digital Scrapbook Training:
The Getting Started Series in Digital Scrapbooking using Photoshop CS3 (or 
CS4) is the ultimate training! CD-set includes: tutorial videos, training guides for ALL Lessons (1-5) and lots of freebies too! You can also by each of the lessons individually and download them today! Check the Photoshop Downloadable Digital Scrapbook Training too!
See our Scrap Shop for other Photo Editing training and advanced Digital Scrapbooking Tutorials!
Training that would help you Make Digital PDF Scrap Albums
How to Make a PDF Scrapbooking Album using Photoshop Elements 8 is a great Intermediate 2-part tutorial set that will teach you all about the basics of making a digital scrapbooking album that you can email, print or view on a computer. This lesson will show you how to make just one PDF scrap page, or take multiple digital scrapbooking pages and combine them into album that is in the PDF format using Photoshop Elements 8!
Once you have a digital album you can email your whole digital scrapbooking album to friends and family! Learn how to turn just one page or multiple pages into the PDF format that most everyone can read with Adobe’s FREE Acrobat Reader for PDF formatted documents. Also, learn how to make a PDF that can work like a slideshow and showcase your digital scrapbooking pages.
If you want to learn more about Digital Scrapbooking or Photo Editing please check out our Scrap Shop for great video tutorials and wonderful digital scrapbooking supplies!
See the Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Scrap Shop for great digital Scrapbooking Supplies at – www.shop.digitalscrapbooksandmore.com
