OK, let's be honest. When you're a mom, have a job, volunteer at kids' school, volunteer at church, your scrapbooking gets put on the back burner. I LOVE scrapping. It is a great creative outlet for me. But I don't often take the time to do it. My current method is to scrap albums for each of the boys and scrap a family album with more of the highlights. Last summer I finished up the boys albums up to the point that we moved to England. We've lived in England for 2.5 years now. Yikes! In our family album, I'm in the Summer of 2005. Double yikes!
So, here's what I'm contemplating...digital scrapping. I don't want to change over completely because I really do enjoy the paper, stickers, design aspects, etc. But I'm wondering if perhaps I should scrap the next boys' albums digitally. Perhaps our 4 years in England that way? And then continue with the regular scrapping for our family album so that I can include certain souvenirs from castles, days out, invites we've had here, etc. Besides, I already have a lot of printed pics all organized for that...just have to get them in the album!
Now my next step is finding a program to do this if it's what I decide to do. So, I'm wondering if anyone out there has any recommendations for me. I did a 10 year anniversary album on Snapfish. I did love it. Pretty simple, can add text, get it printed in a nice album, etc.
Any other suggestions?
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We have a mac, so have done some in iphoto. i have heard this site does cool stuff;
http://www.blurb.com/create/book/photobook
Heather, I've completely switched to digital. I do our albums on Shutterfly.com and have been very pleased. It may not be fancy, but at least its done!
Here are some sites you can look at to see if they meet your needs. www.digitalscrapbook.com and www.freedigitalscrapbooking.com at least I think those are the addresses. This should be a great way to keep things moving for you. But then time is time, on paper or on-line. :)
Love and hugs to all
Dad & Alice
I'm sure you've read all my fb statuses about this. :) My only suggestion is wait for a sale on whatever site you use. Snapfish has a 20% photo books coupon right now until next week. Shutterfly the same. I think those deals usually come around twice a year. The winkflash one was great, but I'm still not impressed with their quality. CM software is the way to go if you want to do digital and still be creative. THey have templates but you can adjust and create all your own stuff completely if you'd like.
I'm not going to make the Shutterfly coupon ... have been having issues with our laptop, but I'm still going to do it and wait until a sale comes around before I order.
Another online site to check out is mypublisher.com (I think). A friend recommended it and I saw her book. It was excellent, still not as awesome as CM digi, but really good.
I found this article a few weeks ago and thought it was helpful. Haven't used any myself, but of the ones I've seen, the shutterfly photos were better quality when printed than the snapfish... but more expensive.
http://www.slate.com/id/2143039/
There was a woman in the store today browsing our scrap booking section. I was telling her about your idea of digital scrap booking. She indicated that a friend of hers has used a site where she sent photos and captions, they then selected a background and art work and put together her scrap book. She said it looked really nice, but did not remember the name of the place.
Just thought I'd pass that along.
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Love digital. Just love it. I'm so far behind on everything, I've decided to stop thinking about it! Ha! I've done a couple of books on Shutterfly. They're templates are pretty easy.
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