My New Found Hobby!!

Digital Scrapbooking


Scrapbooking can be a fun creative and social way to preserve your family’s memories. It can also be frustrating, time consuming and expensive!

Want to try scrapbooking without investing too much time and money? There is a new wave in this craft called Digital Scrapbooking. All the same bells and whistles of creating fun pages full of pictures, stickers, papers and embellishments, all done on your PC. Now there are some sights that are great that do charge for downloading the supplies, but there a ton of sites dedicated to instructing and supplying this hobby for free!

I have just recently found this wonderful new technology and had to share it with my fellow Ch’ville Ch’eapvillians! Here is a recent page I created with pictures of my nieces and nephews:

I am very proud of this page. Now I am the type of person who would rather learn by doing then reading and I consider myself fairly computer literate. This is the second page I created, the first really needed to be redone. The great thing about my 1st page, I just clicked and deleted it! No worries about wasting money on paper, or losing valuable pictures! My papers, pictures and embellishments were safely tucked away in another file on my hard drive. Of course, this is where excellent computer organizational skills come in handy.

The above picture (reduced to fit in this article) is actually a 12 X 12 page. I do have a 12x12 photo album that this would fit nicely into. I can send this page electronically to places like http://www.snapfish.com/ or http://www.samsclub.com/, to have it printed for a small fee. Or I could have reduced the paper to fit my home photo printer and made this an 8 ½ x 11 sheet and printed it at home saving a few more pennies. Or, just keep it digital! Save it on Photo CDs, thumb drives, websites for sharing and future printing!

I am already extremely addicted to the entire process. Most of my photos are already on my computer already. I found a ton of sites that offered free supplies which I promptly downloaded. Now, when ever I get some free time while I’m checking my mail, or paying bills, I open up my photo program and start scrapping!

Now special software is necessary. I was lucky to have Adobe Photo shop already installed on my computer and had used it a lot before finding this wonderful Hobby. If you don’t already have some sort of photo software on your computer, I suggest you thoroughly check out the sites below before purchasing anything.


Here are some great sites to get started at:

http://www.freedigitalscrapbooking.com/ - This wonderful site has free downloads as well as a Digital Scrapbooking 101 page that explains all of the steps and software requirements.

http://www.shabbyprincess.com/ - Great free kit downloads. This is where I got my supplies for the above picture.

http://www.scrapbookflair.com/ - More great downloads. Lots of wonderful flower embellishments.


I have spent my fair share of time and money Cropping ‘til Dropping. And I still enjoy hanging out with friends chatting while working on my albums. But I now can do it digitally as well!

Just Google Free Digital Scrapbooking and a long list will pop up. And remember, there are tons of free downloads to keep you busy for months! And more are added all the time. There really is no need to pay money for supplies! $$$SAVE YOUR GREEN$$$ But Still have fun!