If you are a digital scrapbooker you have gotta love the Shabby Princess. What cute, cute digi kits she has over there. I just love them. And you just have to get on her mailing list so you can get notified when she sends out a link to a free digital scrapbooking kit, like this one:
That’s right. Free. No strings attached and it is beee-u-ti-ful! Well, gotta go so I can get mine downloaded. Hurry over, she won’t leave it up forever.
Remember, get on her mail list while you’re there.
I find it frustrating to read scrapbooking magazines. The majority of the layouts are too fancy, feature just one photo and look like they took hours to create. I was beginning to think it was just me, but then I came across this post by Kim Guymon of ScrapBizness where she launches a Campaign for Real Scrapping.
Amongst other things she suggests we:
Focus on the photos
Crop conservatively - Grandma’s house in the background may be precious someday
Keep the page simple - don’t overwhelm the photos with embellishments
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.
One of my goals for ScrappinCabinet is to do more product reviews of all things related to scrapbooking. I mean, we all buy a ton of stuff to feed our hobby…right? (We may not ‘fess up to our significant others exactly how much, but we certainly do.) My plan is to share what I love and what I don’t so you can at least head into some of these purchases with your eyes open.
Today I found a website called ReviewMe, that just might help me do more scrapbooking reviews. This site is designed for companies and bloggers to come together to get the word out about their stuff. It works like this – bloggers agree to be approached to do reviews and companies will pay them a small stipend for doing so.
Before you start worrying that I will review something and say glowing things about it just to get this fee – forget about it. First of all, I would not do that to a fellow scrapper. You may know that my mom reads ScrappinCabinet and frequently buys stuff I recommend. (Case in point - she has her own discount code at ScrapYourTrip, which she discovered here.)
Bottom line - you can rest assured that I would only recommend something on ScrappinCabinet that I would suggest to my mom. Besides that, ReviewMe does not allow advertisers to require a positive review and each review must mention that it is a sponsorship, advertisement or paid review. I do agree that full disclosure is best. So, on that note, I am happy to say this is a sponsored review of ReviewMe, which so far, I love.
Check this out - Scrapbooks Etc. has an online scrapbooking TV show called Scrapbook LifeStyle TM. The episodes are short and sweet and pack some great tips, techniques and info into 5-10 minute shows which are easy to watch when you have a spare few minutes.
Well worth a trip and a peek at the videos!
I’m hooked.
Check out this totally fun little digital photo album you can create quickly and easily on your own printer. My mom thought it was so cute she sent me an email about it.
Since I have just been organizing and backing up my digital photos this past weekend I have been thinking about the monumental project of printing out what I want and then doing the big albums with them.
Maybe I should give this a try just to get my feet wet and feel like I made some progress.
Oh, I just thought of something. This would make an excellent teacher gift. Since you get three albums for $24.95 at the Scrap Your Trip store it would be possible to fit these into the budget pretty easily.
Let me know if you’ve done one of these. I’d love to hear how they turn out. When I do mine I’ll update you too.
You probably already know that Lisa Bearnson is doing her anniversary show on QVC on May 30th. But did you know that if you watch the show and decide you just “have” to have the latest and greatest she is offering that you can put 3% of that purchase towards college savings?
Here’s how:
Sign up for Upromise.
When you order from QVC, log in first to Upromise and then click through to QVC to order.
You will automatically put 3% of your order to your kids’ 529.
Just had to share this from my email in box this morning…
Joanne’s is having a big summer sale! Lots of discounts with some scrapbooking items at 50% off. Albums are 30% off and they have a great selection. Plus they have free shipping on orders of $25 or more. I have spotted a couple things I think I just may not be able to live without =:)
This Heart and Soul album, for instance, could just be what I’ve been searching for to make into my Friends album. It has that depth of color that reminds me of my friends. And this Hot Pink scrapbook album looks perfect for my daughter. It seems that pink is the new purple and all things hot pink are to be desired. I have to say that I agree, hot pink is pretty cool.
Gotta run. I’m off to virtual shop at Joanne’s. And since I’m saving so much on gas because I’m shopping online, that means I get to buy more, right?
I don’t know about you, but I find that my journaling in my scrapbook albums is a bit sporadic. Sometimes I can write long nice paragraphs and find it a great reflection of the moment. Other times I find myself writing “who is in the picture” type captions.
So, I’m considering signing up for a journaling class.
Learn how to save more of your family and personal stories in less time with this four week course on scrapbook journaling. This online course will help you identify your personal style so it can work for you rather than against you; harness both sides of your brain; master a variety of techniques for collecting information; organize your writing so you know exactly what you want to write and how you want to say it; and practice new styles of journaling.
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