Last year I made a New Years Resolution to digitally scrap at least one digital scrapbooking page each month. It was easy to accomplish my goal because at Digital Scrapbooks and More they gave out a FREE Quick Page each month! (If you haven’t sign up for their FREEBIES – do it now – they give away lots of good digital scrapbooking freebies all year long!) Anyway, since I got lots of Quick Pages, all I had to do was download the FREE Quick Page and add my photos, then at the end of the year I turned them into calendars, albums, cards and more! Yes, it was that easy!!!
My goal or resolution started a few years back because prior to making this commitment I ran into this problem: being to busy in December to make all my scrapbooking pages and scrap gifts. Not being ready at the end of the year also made me miss out on great discounts at my favorite online printing companies! I ended up having to spend lots more money because I needed more time to scrap my pages, and missed the discount! Sadly sometimes I even missed the Holiday I was trying to scrap for because I couldn’t get ready at the last moment!!!
As a digital scrapbookers, I like to make interesting scrapbooking gifts as holiday presents for all of my friends and family (like personalized calendars, puzzles, mouse pads, coffee mugs, aprons, greeting cards, framed scrap pages, or photo/digital scrapbooking albums). It’s around that time that I receive emailed-coupons from many online printing companies offering huge discounts on the exact items I had been hoping to create and buy for others!
However, most of the time I end up missing these incredible online printing discounts for two unfortunate reasons:
First, these personalized gifts require a finished digital scrapbooking page in order to personalize the calendar,
mug, or gift that is being so heavily discounted; and many times I just don’t have any new digital scrapbooking pages ready!
These special holiday discounts usually expire quickly maybe even that very same day, or just a few days later; which sometimes is not nearly enough time to pull all the pictures together and digitally scrap!
The second reason is that when the deals show-up in my email inbox, it is usually the busiest time of year (with the holidays, family, friends, dinner parties, work parties, cooking this, eating that, and always being on-the-go!), and I am not always on my computer checking my email with everything I have 
going on! Sometimes I feel so rushed to participate in a spectacular online printing deal, and it’s so frustrating to be overwhelmed at such an already busy (and sometimes stressful) time of year!
The bottom line is that if I had some pre-made digital scrapbooking pages that were already ready-to-go, then when those wonderful sales showed up in my inbox, I could take full-advantage of them without feeling rushed, or without skipping the opportunity all-together! In prior years I missed the sales and discounts, but this year because I had get my goal of scrapping at least one scrap page a month I was able to take advantage of all the great deals! Plus I wasn’t exhausted because I had planned ahead!!
So, that said, I am going to keep this same goal this year too! So my New Year’s Resolution for this up-and-coming year: I WILL SCRAP ONE DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING PAGE PER MONTH (and more than one page if I have time… but I can at least scrap one page!)
It doesn’t take much time to scrap one page. I usually take new digital photos every month, so it’s not like I don’t have new pictures that need to be scrapped! Not to mention, at the end of the month, last month’s digital scrapbooking supplies are often discounted; so I could buy them at a discounted rate and then scrap them each month.
Another good reason to do one each month is so that I don’t have to wait until the busiest time of the year (the end of the year) to scrap all of my digital photos from a busy and eventful year! Scrapping one page per 
month will give me time to relax and enjoy the holidays, instead of procrastinating and waiting until the last month to scrap all of that year’s activities.
And last, but not least, by scrapping one page per month I can always take advantage of the fabulous discounts on gifts made from my scrapbooking pages at the end of the year, now that I will be prepared with plenty of great digitally scrapped projects!
The great thing about digital scrapbooking is that I can take one digital scrapped page and make lots of fun gifts! Wow, that saves time! Maybe you have noticed all the items I have made in this article that have come from the same digital scrapbooking page?! If not then take a second look! Scroll through this blog and see all of the items made from one digital scrapbooking page!
Accomplish your Goal by Using Quick Pages!
Why not take a few, helpful short-cuts along the way?! For example, I can get 
special monthly-themed Quick Pages, and just slip my photos into them in order to save a lot of time!
Quick Pages are so easy to use, and help complete a project so quickly, that it will be a cinch to keep my New Year’s Resolution! Using Quick Pages, I can make beautiful pages quickly each month, and be prepared when discounts arrive on calendars or other special, personalized gifts!
If YOU haven’t tried using Quick Pages, then you are really missing out. Quick Pages are named Quick Pages for a reason. Why? Because they are QUICK! Someone has basically done all the work of creating a beautiful layout of papers, frames, ribbons, and embellishments! All you have to do is add photos! Easy, right? It’s simple enough, there can be absolutely no excuse for not keeping my resolution this year of completing one digital scrapbooking page per month.
This is one New Year’s Resolution I CAN KEEP, and I will make every new year!
Have a Happy New Year,
Cheri
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Ps. Don’t forget we give out one Quick Page each month – all you have to do is be a Newsletter member – Sign up today!
Quick Pages are so easy and make digital scrapbooking so fast that it makes scrapbooking precious photos easy to do- no matter how busy life is!
Look at all of these other wonderful Quick Pages in the Scrap Shop.
If you would like to learn more about Quick Pages then see the Video below:
(This Video Shows more Information about Quick Pages! How to use them in Photoshop and Elements. Also shows a Digital Scrapbooking Quick Page on the Amazon Kindle eReader) Note some eReaders may not be able to see this video please go to our blog at http://blog.digitalscrapbooksandmore.com/ to see the video.
So go ahead and get some Quick Pages, scrap those photos tonight and then tomorrow you can email all your family and friends great scrapbooking pages that look like you have been spending months to make – you are impressive! Sshh, don’t tell anyone your little secret!
Get More Quick Page Training:
While Quick Pages are fast and easy, there are some tricks to really getting the most out of Quick Pages you might want to take the Getting Started Series in Digital Scrapbook training as it covers Quick Pages in Lesson 4 in Photoshop Elements, and (Lesson 3) in Photoshop!
Plus these training sets include bonus Quick Pages to get you started!
As a busy, on-the-go person, Quick Pages are a great way to scrap the important things in life, and do it quickly, without having to sacrifice the look or quality of the scrap page!
So get some training and some Quick Pages today!
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Are you interested in purchasing Other Quick Pages for super-fast digital scrapping? – Click Here
Not sure what Quick Pages are, or how to use them? If so, check out our helpful, step-by-step tutorial training specifically on using Quick Pages in the Getting Started Series for either Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.
See the 12 Month Year-Around Quick Page Kit: Make adorable 12 month Calendar or Album projects FAST with this Quick Page Kit! Just add holiday photos and you’re basically done with your scrapping! (11×8.5″ paper size)
The Calendar Months Quick Page Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 includes pre-designed Quick Pages for each month of the year, so you can create pretty digital scrapbooking projects FAST! This kit is great to make calendars, albums or any scrap project that need a variety of months and holidays! Spend your holiday having fun, making memories, and snapping special photos, and spend only seconds on digitally scrapping the fun! All you have to do is add your photos, and you’re basically finished! The paper size for this kit is 11×8.5″ – which is perfect for many calendar projects, mouse 
pads or scrapbooking albums that are printed by online printing companies or even on your home printer!
With the Goals and Resolutions Quick Page Kit make your New Year’s goals and resolutions known by using these great Quick Pages.
Creating a digital scrapbooking page for each one of your goals using the Goals and Resolutions Quick Page Kit can help remind you about what you want for yourself for the new year and for the 
future; and why you were so inspired to accomplish this goal in the first place!
See some ways to make and use Quick Pages illustrated with New Year’s Quick Page Kits – Click Here
Buy other wonderful Holiday Quick Pages or even Quick Pages for Baby scrapbooking, and other Quick Pages themed pages in our Scrap Shop.
See More Quick Page Kits below:
The Snowflake Quick Page Kit 1 includes pre-designed winter scrapbooking pages so you can create pretty 
digital scrapbooking projects FAST! Spend this winter having fun, making memories, and snapping special snow-filled photos, and spend only seconds on digitally scrapping the excitement!
All you have to do is add your photos, and you’re basically finished! The paper size for this kit is 11×8.5″ – which is perfect for your digital scrapbooking albums, calendars and scrap pages you want to print on home printers!
The Apple Quick Page Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 is a digital scrapbooking kit that features 4 apple-inspired 
digital scrapbooking Quick Pages. Quick Pages are the easy way to do digital scrapbooking, just slip a photo underneath and you are done! Yes, it is that easy! The paper size for this kit is 12×12″ – which is perfect for your large digi scrapbooking albums! This Quick Page Kit is a great kit that is perfect for Digital Scrapbooking Pages dedicated to Apple picking adventures, apple pie baking, Fall adventures, and even Back to School themed scrap projects! Included in this Kit is 4 FREE Bonus WordArt!
