It’s easy to place photo prints in a simple sleeve album or even easier to just leave them on your computer in a digital slide show. But there is something different about scrapbooks. They are a tangible way to honor your photos and organize your special memories in a beautiful way.
With a scrapbook you can pick out the best photos, the ones you will want to look at again and again. Then you choose all the elements that will complement the photo, making it stand out and perhaps enhancing the meaning or message. Most importantly, scrapbooking allows you to pair your personal stories with the images that represent them.
Why go digital? Scrapbooking brings your memories alive and provides an outlet for creativity. You may have even tried the traditional paper-based hobby. Unfortunately, it can require substantial storage space and a bank account to match.
While there are many tips and tricks for frugal scrapping, going digital is a simple solution. Supplies are all re-usable (eco-friendly alert!) and mess is non-existent.
To top it all off, the digital route can offer so much more design flexibility than your scissors and glue. It even eliminates all those imperfect handwriting worries. While digital scrapbooking is for anyone, perfectionists will find it particularly appealing!
Ready to know more? Digital scrapbooking can be as simple as the creation of a photobook via services like Shutterfly or from within your photo program. Photobooks organize your stories into complete packages, helping you to feel “caught up”.
Digital can also offer as much artistic freedom as paper. The digital version of the paper scrapbooks you know takes all of the essentials – papers, journaling, embellishments (ribbons, flowers, eyelets, brads, staples) – and brings them to your computer.
Each item you would place on a page comes as an individual computer file (usually a .jpg or a .png). Then, you use design software to combine selected elements with favorite photos.
Digital scrapbooking has become so popular there are dozens of shops selling supplies and many new web tools, such as ScrapHD, that make “digiscrap” super easy.
The process of scrapbooking, from selecting a photo to finishing a page, can be a therapeutic emotional journey, allowing you to put the past to rest. With digital scrapbooking, you bring the best of time-saving technology together with cherishing your life’s best moments.
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There is also a third type of scrapbooking – hybrid. This usually involves doing most of your journaling on the computer and then combining that with traditional papers and elements.
It’s really more of a spectrum though, from all paper to all digital.. there is everything in between!
one of the reasons i haven’t journaled on any of my scrapbook pages is because of that darn perfectionist thing!! i’d never thought about digital scrapbooking as a way to take care of that. i always thought it was kind of a cold way to scrapbook, but i’m starting to think it’s a good solution for my style. thanks for the great tip!
I really love digital scrapbooks! We do one for every vacation we go on. People love to look through them – as do we!
That joy is definitely one of the feelings I keep in mind when I scrap — that someone is going to love looking through this album.
I so relate to the perfectionist part! When I did scrapbook , it was like torture if I messed up on the final project by writing something wrong. I had to think of creative cover ups and some-times started over!