Digital Scrapbooking

So some of you know I'm a scrapbooker... I love taking photos and love to put them in my albums. Actually some people think it is an obsession... well it is...

I'm alsoSo some of you know I'm a scrapbooker... I love taking photos and love to put them in my albums. Actually some people think it is an obsession... well it is...

I'm also a computer geek under it all so the idea of mixing scrapbooking with my computer, I'm all over it...

I've been playing with the new Creative Memories Storybook Creator Plus software and creating pages, invitations, cards (I have the Christmas cards made and printed doesn't that count for something...), and generally having fun exploring the digital world... I've tried other programs over the past 2 years and was never really happy with one... so I took the CM program with a grain of salt when I started... Now I love it... It does everything I was doing with the other programs and I have figured out ways to tweak the program to my liking...

Yesterday during our trip to Costco (that could be an entire blog in itself...), I ordered and picked up a set of 8 12 x12 finished Scrapbook pages... I LOVE THEM!!! Even my husband who isn't the biggest fan of said hobby liked them and compared several of them to works of art... WOW!! that was an ego boost...

So I am combining all my passions and accomplishing something at the same time... Heck, I even get to throw in some writing (journalling) and a little bit of poetry (corny at times, but meaningful...)

I want to share this new passion with everyone as it is so fun... It is so much easier and even more flexible than traditional scrapbooking (not that I will be giving up the traditional right away)... I even get to teach a class at our upcoming All Day Crop at the Portland Expo Center the end of January... I'm psyched... a computer geek under it all so the idea of mixing scrapbooking with my computer, I'm all over it...

I've been playing with the new Creative Memories Storybook Creator Plus software and creating pages, invitations, cards (I have the Christmas cards made and printed doesn't that count for something...), and generally having fun exploring the digital world... I've tried other programs over the past 2 years and was never really happy with one... so I took the CM program with a grain of salt when I started... Now I love it... It does everything I was doing with the other programs and I have figured out ways to tweak the program to my liking...

Yesterday during our trip to Costco (that could be an entire blog in itself...), I ordered and picked up a set of 8 12 x12 finished Scrapbook pages... I LOVE THEM!!! Even my husband who isn't the biggest fan of said hobby liked them and compared several of them to works of art... WOW!! that was an ego boost...

So I am combining all my passions and accomplishing something at the same time... Heck, I even get to throw in some writing (journalling) and a little bit of poetry (corny at times, but meaningful...)

I want to share this new passion with everyone as it is so fun... It is so much easier and even more flexible than traditional scrapbooking (not that I will be giving up the traditional right away)... I even get to teach a class at our upcoming All Day Crop at the Portland Expo Center the end of January... I'm psyched...