how to digital scrapbook

Give yourself a gift this Christmas

Give yourself the fun of digital scrapbooking with the Step by Step Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial Course. Who knew learning could be this much fun? Christmas is in sight. You’ve spent the last month running around like a mad thing buying gifts for your nearest and dearest. Now it’s time for you. Give yourself this fabulous [...]

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How to Digital Scrapbook – From Soup 2 Nuts

One of the most satisfying things about running Scraps of Mind and Step by Step Digital Scrapbook is that I get to help people to surprise and amaze themselves at what they can do. Marilyn, from Georgia in the US, is a perfect example of this. Marilyn has been a paper scrapbooker for the past [...]

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Scrapbooking Through the Economic Downturn

With most of us feeling the pinch of the economic downturn, we’re all trying to save money wherever we can. And one of the places we might be looking is how much we spend on our love of scrapbooking. Digital Scrapbooking to the rescue. I think digital scrapbooking is a brilliant way to pursue your [...]

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Not Enough Scrapbooking Space?

It struck me that there must be heaps of scrapbookers out there that are struggling with space issues. And scrapbookers who have small children; making it difficult to leave their scrapbooking stuff lying around whilst they work on their projects.

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How to Give Your Title a Reflection

When I do digital scrapbook layouts these days I rarely use pre-made alphas. I find that there are so many great fonts that I can use with my Photoshop Elements type tool. And more importantly there are so many great techniques I can apply to them that will give an extra edge to my title. [...]

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One Woman’ Scrapbooking Journey

One of the best things to come into my life was Scrapbooking. And even better that that was when Digital Scrapbooking came into my life. I made this video telling the story of my scrapbooking journey for my Step by Step Digital Scrapbook site that teaches beginners how to digital scrapbook, so it has references [...]

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Do you Customize your Drop Shadows?

…or do you just leave them as the default? Did you know that you can change the look of your drop shadows in your graphics editing program? It’s very simple and frankly, I think it makes all the difference to your digital scrapbook layout. Anyone who is part of my Step by Step Digital Scrapbook [...]

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Scrapbooking Today versus Yesterday

Are Today’s Scrapbook Layouts as Meaningful as those of the Past? I read an interesting article on Scrapping by Design last week. June discussed the proposition of whether today’s scrapbook layouts are as meaningful as the scrapbook layouts created by our grandmothers, given all the commercial elements that we use to make them. “Early scrapbookers [...]

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Scrapbooking in Silhouette

Silhouettes can make a great scrapbook layout technique.
Removing your subject from the background of the photo lets you position them with whatever backdrop you want in order to tell your story.

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Five Freebies on Friday – 20 June 2008

And it’s time once again for this week’s Five Freebies on Friday. There are some terrific Scrapbooking Freebie goodies here so enjoy. Just don’t forget to leave some love when you download your freebie. Remember a simple thank you comment makes all the difference to the designer who will have put a lot of time [...]

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