Digital Scrapbooking

Digital scrapbooking allows you to achieve near perfection.

Why?

Because in digital scrapping or computerized scrapbooking, digital scrapbookers use mainly digital elements to help them create page layouts with their computers.

Precisely because with computer technology, you have the magic wand of erasing away your mistakes and redo over and over again. As many times as you like.

And if you're a perfectionist, you can seek perfection where you usually can't with traditional paper scrapbooking.

With paper scrapbooking, bigger mistakes are much harder to cover up. This limitation is taken away in digital scrapbooking.

What other blessings come with digital scrapbooking?

Obviously, quite a couple.

Want to share your scrapbook pages with family and friends? Now you can generously give away copies of your layouts to them! Digital scrapbooking allows you to print out as many copies of your masterpieces as you'll like to.

You have more options of what to do with completed digital layouts. You can choose to print out your digital layouts and slot them into scrapbook albums like in paper scrapbooking.

Or you can save the layouts online, share them through online galleries, or even send them out as email attachments.

You won't be limited by the standards of store-bought embellishments or page accents. You own the freedom to recolor, resize. reuse or reprint digital elements as often as you need to. You can even reduce done up 12"x12" digital layouts into 8"x8" or 6"x6"sizes, and print them out as beautiful gifts to your grandparents!

Clearly you're aware that each time you paper scrapbook, things will be all over the place. Imagine no more having to frantically clear away the dining table to make way for dinner. There's no mess and basically nothing much to clear up. Nearly everything is done on the computer itself.

If you already own a computer and the necessary printing capabilities, digital scrapbooking is generally less costly than paper scrapbooking. And you can print out numerous copies of the same scrapbook layout and the cost is only the cost of reprinting.

And oh, did I mention that there are mouth-watering digital freebies available that can give your wallet and your credit cards a much-needed break? And there's many excellent free digital scrapping tutorials to help you get started too.

Are you tempted by the advantages of digital scrapping now?

I know I am. But I'm just getting my feet wet with traditional paper scrapbooking! For the moment, I'll file this away as something I'll venture onto in the near future. Meantime, let me have fun with paper scrapbooking.

Somehow, all the measuring, cutting, pasting and even the clearing up, yes, even the clearing up soothe me and give me a sense of satisfaction. Not forgetting to mention I love to run my fingers over the textures of my paper layouts. :-)

Update 2007:

I've started digital scrapping in July 2007. Once I started, I couldn't stop! It's so fun downloading digital kits and creating layouts instantly. There's so many, many yummy designs out there and there's no mess to clear up!

And if I didn't like the end result, I just went back to redo or make changes fairly easily. The above layout is among my first creations. It's really fun and rather addictive. Oh, the drawback is that I don't print them out as I don't have a 12 x 12 printer to do so. So the layouts all sit on my computer. But... I can now easily upload it to show my boyfriend or put it up on my blog!

You can read about my experiences with using digital scrapbooking softwares by clicking here. If you're wondering where you can look at digital scrapbook layouts for inspiration, click here.

Update 2008:

I've been digi-scrapping for months now. There's still tons that I don't know and many sites I've not discovered. Too many things to do, and so little time!

I have a few favorite sites that I've been visiting constantly for downloading of freebies and I've already spilled the beans on them in the pages listed as links above.

But no... I'm not ready to spend many hours again to dig thousands of sites for the best digital scrapbook information or the best digital freebies sites... I want more time to digi-scrap myself! ;)

So you bet I'm thrilled when Scrapbook.com released their newest e-Book and it's aptly named "The Secret Guide to Digital Scrapbooking".

Soon after its release, I grabbed a copy of it. This 50-pages e-Book is the resource I go to now whenever I need to look for extra tutorials, more quality digital freebie sites, solid software recommendations on programs that I've not tried or didn't know of, links to Quick Pages which can be such a time-saver, and more.

Of course, I recognized a few of my favorite sites listed there, but there's quite a number more that I didn't already know of. One has to spend tons of hours to come up with such a resource book. It definitely helped that Scrapbook.com has a resourceful digital team who spent hundreds of hours over a few months to come up with this resource book for us.

Now I don't have to waste time searching for the best, quality digital scrapping sites, instead I can have these links in a matter of seconds! Time for me to do more digital scrapbooking!

Click here to get your own copy for immediate download now!

Shopping for Digital Scrapbooking Kits and Elements?

In addition, they have a digital forum and a digital gallery to give you the needed scrapbooking inspiration.

Don't miss out their innovative E-Cuts (Printables) with slashed prices.

What are E-Cuts (Printables)? Yep, they are scrapbooking printables or cardmaking kits you can simply download, print out, cut out and use them in your paper scrapbooking, cards, journals and paper projects.

The most attractive bit? Unlike the usual scrapbooking supplies which last only while the stock lasts, you just need to buy a E-Cuts kit once and you're free to print it as many times as you like. Whether it's text strips, frames or page accents, you'll have an exciting time deciding what you want.

And it's doubly exciting when you know you're saving money using these E-Cuts.

I've tried one of their E-Cuts cardmaking kits before, and I must say that it's a breeze to download, print and cut-out. Within minutes, I had a pretty-looking card ready to be sent out as a gift.

Whether you're looking for a quick solution to creating great-looking scrapbooking cards or page accents to embellish your scrapbooking layouts, or to mesh both paper and digital scrapbooking, don't miss these E-Cuts and their possibilities.

And if want to see how crazy digital kits can be, I mean fanciful and beautiful, click here.

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