I’ve always been interested in scrapbooking but have lacked the time, space to set everything up and money to buy the thousands of little do-dads that go with it. Yes I just said do-dads. So instead of ‘real’ scrapbooking I found a bunch of sites online where you can grab all the patterns, textures, buttons, ribbons and downloads to do digital scrapbooking. Many people offer these for free with the condition that they’re for personal use and you’re not going to make a profit off of them. I really like the digital version as I’m at home in the photoshop environment and can UNDO anything that doesn’t look right. I can’t imagine cutting up all this really cute paper and realizing my layout was just totally horrible at the end. The only downside is that you’re missing out on the tactile experience of scrapbooking. Feeling the shiny jewels, manually stamping something and becoming a part of the little piece of art.
For Christmas this past year I put together a scrapbook for my mom and Paul, of their Lake Ontario cottage. It wasn’t too much of a surprise since I had to enlist Paul’s help in getting all the images…but they really seemed to enjoy it. Andy has a really nice Epson printer so we printed out the 12×12 pages and put them in a scrapbooking album. Best of both worlds I guess, made on the computer but still presentable in a ‘real world’ format. I posted a few of the pages below:
