So I woke up this morning and in that quiet few minutes where I was totally awake but kept laying there as if I were still sound asleep my mind turned to the new digital scrapbook kit I downloaded yesterday. Specifically I started thinking about organizing all my digi scrapping stuff.

And it occurred to me that this is going to be both easier and harder because it is HighTech.

First of all, I don’t need to buy any fancy organizing containers. Easier.
I can’t physically move stuff to put things together and see what I have. Harder.
I can put things in multiple places. Harder now, easier later.

Then I realized this is the best part of organizing things digitally. I can leave all my digital scrapbooking kits together in a folder so I can create quick, easy coordinated layouts. I can ALSO pull all the papers out and store them in a Paper folder. Also keep a copy of the embellishments in an Embellishments folder. Clearly, it will take much longer to do this up front, but later when I’m looking for things I will undoubtedly find what I’m looking for so much easier.

Of course all this fun digi organizing will have to wait until the festive holiday parties are done, the food all eaten and the wrapping paper thrown out. Oh well, it will wait.

[This post also posted on my new blog for HighTechMoms - HighTechMomsClub.com.]

In all the years I have been a scrapbooker I have pretty much gone along for the ride in terms of the supplies and tools. I’ve never once predicted a trend or even foreseen some of the cool things that have come our way.

Who knew that Sizzix would make die cutting so accessible to the masses? What about the Cricut? A personal scrapbooking computer that cuts anything in any size. I never saw that coming.

But today when I saw ProBlogger’s challenge to offer up a review or a prediction about what 2007 will bring in my niche I knew EXACTLY what to predict.

Here goes:

I believe that 2007 will bring news of a 12 x 12 Digital Photo Frame perfect for displaying digital scrapbookers’ creations. With one of those nifty 4GB SD cards and a digital scrapbooking frame like this a digital scrapbooker could display oodles and oodles of pages without taking up all that shelf space for scrapbook albums.

Anybody know of such a thing yet?
Does that sound as cool to anybody else as it does to me?

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