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August Digital Scrapbook News and FREE Downloads

Posted on August 17th, 2010 by admin.
Categories: Free Downloads, Site Information.

So far we’ve Added 9 new background sets to the 8.5×11, 12×12 and the Landscape areas.

• 3 new button sets

• 4 photo sticker sets

Download FREE at: www.PrincessCrafts.com

And Wes just added 3 new FREE Stationery downloads with a Sports/Fishing Theme and Travel/Vacation Theme to our FREE Stationery site.

Enjoy the Scrapbook Page Set Downloads and as always, if you can’t find what you need, just let us know.  We are always happy to help all we can.

Happy Scrappin’

Kathy & Wes

www.MyPrincessCrafts.com

www.Free-Stationery.com

The Most Incredible FREE Digital Scrapbook Gift… EVER!

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Scrapbook Tips: #1 Themes

Posted on July 25th, 2010 by wwaddell.
Categories: Scrapbook Articles, Scrapbook Tips, Training.

Scrapbook Tips:                  

1.       Page Theme

The theme of your scrapbook can be simple or complex. Your theme could be a special event such as a birthday, a baby shower, a summer wedding, Christmas, or Halloween. Themes can also be personalized to the scrap book recipient’s special interests. Special interest themes include your favorite colors, his favorite sports photos, your kids favorite television programs or  music video artist, your last camping trip in the great outdoors, or even some of your cultural influences.

Ask yourself 3 simple questions before you begin your next computer scrapbook project:

 - What is the overall purpose for your scrapbook?

 - Who is the scrapbook for?

-  Who or what  is the scrapbook about?

The answers to these three simple questions are all factors in selecting an appropriate scrapbook theme.

For instance, the scrapbook you are giving your nephew as he graduates from law school is probably completely different than the grandparent book you send your mother-inlaw. Your nephew will probably appreciate a scrapbook with photographs from school, poems, journals, and more masculine styled embellishments. Perhaps, the theme of the scrapbook could be court rooms and law libraries. You could create embellishments that looked like gavels and white wigs around various pictures of your nephew during his college years.

Your mother-in-law, on the other hand, will love a multitude of baby pictures fancifully embellished with toy blocks, ribbon, and baby fingerprints. The theme of this book will probably be your husbands childhood. Photographs could include baby and grandma with the baby as well as photos of his childhood days. A nice journal about your husband’s most cherished childhood memories could also add a nice touch.

The key here is to have a consistent theme for you scrapbook in mind before you start.  When your scrapbook tells a specific story from start to finish, it becomes a treasured memory of it’s own.

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Digital vs Hand Scrapbooking Costs

Posted on July 20th, 2010 by wwaddell.
Categories: Scrapbook Articles, Scrapbook Tips, Site Information, Training.

One of our new friends here at PrincessCrafts had a question about printing digital scrapbook pages.  Since this is a question we get now and again, I thought that I would post our answer here too.

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Hi Lois,

Kathy passed this on to me as I do most of the tech support for her.

If you want hard copies of your scrapbook pages, then yes you will need to get them printed.  You don’t need to print them yourself though.  Many photo printers, including Wal Mart now offer 12×12 print services since digital scrapbooking is such a big thing now and is becoming the #1 way to scrapbook.  They can be a bit pricey on the surface, but when you consider that the average hand scrapped page now costs more than $4.00 and go more than 5 times that depending on what you put on it… it all becomes relative.  If you don’t have a large format printer and even if you do, we recommend you check out www.Realbooks-Scrapbooks.com.  Bill and Colleen are very good at turning your digital scrapbook pages, even the 12×12 size into the most beautiful real hardbound books you will ever see.  And the cost is amazingly low.  We have them do all our books for us.  The quality beats anyone else out there hands down.  You even get to design your own custom cover… something you can’t do at all with the old hand scrapped books.

Sorry if it sounds a bit commercial, but they really are terrific and do such amazing work.

On the other hand, many of our clients don’t make hard copies at all any longer.  They create the pages and put them on DVD or Video CDs.  Others incorporate them into slide presentations using PowerPoint or Open Office (which costs nothing).  Still others add sound and transition effects using movie software and turn them into actual video DVDs and CDs.  We have an example of our granddaughters doing the Twas the Night Before Christmas a couple of years ago on our www.PrincessCrafts.com site.  This one is still a big hit with the family and gets played every Christmas.

As you can see, you can create your scrapbooks for as little as the cost of a blank DVD or you can have a full size 12×12 hardbound book with custom cover done (in multiple copies if you want) for just over a buck a page through Realbooks Scrapbooks.  You can also shrink the 12×12 pages down to 8×8 and print them yourself.  Our Cannon printer, that can use ink refills you do yourself prints 8.5×11 pages for less than 25 cents a page.  It’s also a large format printer that prints up to 13 inches wide and we get prints for as little as 80 cents a page including the paper cost when we buy in bulk. 

Hope this helps you out.  If you still have any questions, please let me know and I’ll do my very best to get you the info you need.

Happy Scrappin’

Wes

PrincessCrafts.com

(877) 751-6368

28115 N. Spotted Rd.

Deer Park, WA 99006

www.MyPrincessCrafts.com – Digital Scrapbook Memberships

www.Free-Stationery.com

www.FreeScrapbookTraining.com

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July Digital Scrapbook News – New Free Downloads

Posted on July 19th, 2010 by admin.
Categories: Free Downloads, Site Information.

Hello Scrapbook Friend,

Trying to keep this as short as possible for you, but I don’t want you to miss anything… Especially the new Free Digital Scrapbook Downloads.

So far this month I’ve added new sets to our 8.5×11, 12×12 and Landscape format areas.  Here’s what’s there for our members:

• 3 new children themes
• 3 new girls scrapbook themes
• 3 new heritage or family reunion themes
• 3 new summer or vacation scrapbook themes

I also just finished adding 9 (yes, nine new 2 page scrapbook sets) to the Religious theme category in each size.  By the way, that’s a whole new category for our Landscape (11×8.5 size) area.

FREE Downloads:

I’ve just finished adding all new page toppers throughout the entire www.1-Computer-Scrapbook.com (12×12 site) and our www.PrincessCrafts.com (8.5×11 site) in the public areas.

What that means is that as you browse through our 1000′s of digital scrapbook page theme page thumbnails, you’ll find digital page topper elements within most all the pages.  The toppers you see are not shown full size to keep the pages loading fast, but if you “Right Click” on them and Save them to your computer, you’ll find they are all high quality full top of the page size.

Of course our paid members get to download them all at once in their members area.  Membership (as inexpensive as it is) really does have it’s PERKs.

I’m also working on more new FREE Digital Stationery / Scrapbook Background downloads for www.Free-Stationery.com.  Look for those soon and to be announced on their BLOG at: www.Free-Stationery.info as well as on Twitter. 

Follow us on Twitter at: www.Twitter.com/Scrapbooks

Until next time,

Kathy

The Greatest FREE Digital Scrapbook Gift… EVER!

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$1 Gets You Full Access For A Full Week

Posted on June 21st, 2010 by wwaddell.
Categories: Scrapbook Articles, Site Information.

Let’s start with the direct link as I know many of you are all ready to go:

$1 for 1 Week of Full Platinum Scrapbook Membership Access

We have had a record number of requests lately for a trial membership.  You asked, we listened.  We are testing it out to see how valuable it really is going to be to our members. 

What you get for $1.00

• No Limits on the number of scrapbook downloads
• Access to over 5000 digital scrapbook templates
• Access to hundreds of clipart images
• Access to hundreds of digital elements and embellishments
• Access to all 3 formats: 12×12, 8.5×11 and 11×8.5 landscape
• Access to all 10 of our members areas including the new Wedding area.
• Access to our best selling Children’s Cookbook templates.
• Access to our Computer Scrapbooking 101 Course
• Access to our Digital Scrapbooking Guide eBook
• Full access to our Baby Scraps and Twas the Night Scrapbooks

In short, you get access to the Largest Digital Scrapbooking Membership site on the Internet for a full week with no limits to what you can download and use to create the most beautiful scrapbooks you have ever created.

$1 for 1 Week of Full Platinum Scrapbook Membership Access

EVEN MORE!

You get our same 30 Days to try it out 100% money back guarantee!  If, within 30 days you don’t like it for any reason, we’ll return your money, no questions asked.

You’ll not find that guarantee on the other digital scrapbook sites out there.

It’s easy, it’s simple and you have nothing to lose by giving a try.

$1 for 1 Week of Full Platinum Scrapbook Membership Access

Happy Scrappin’

Kathy and Wes

www.WeddingScraps.com

www.PrincessCrafts.com

www.BabyScraps.com

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5 Easy Scrapbook Tips and News

Posted on June 11th, 2010 by wwaddell.
Categories: Scrapbook Articles, Scrapbook Tips, Site Information, Training.

I have just a little news for you today on what’s going on with your members areas and what’s coming soon. 

Then, I have a few little scrapbook tips that people sent me off Twitter this week.

First, here’s what’s happened so far this month:

I will be removing the floral category the end of June so be sure and get any of the old scrapbook template pages you want now.

If you are not a Platinum Member yet, I have a surprize for you…

Unadvertised Special – Try a Platinum Membership with full unlimited access for just a $1 buck.  I can’t leave it up long, but for now you can get 7 days, one full week of unlimited access to all our members areas for just one dollar. 

Even better, you get our intro price of just 6 dollars a month if you choose to keep your membership after the 7 day trial period.

Many have told us that they just aren’t sure if they’ll use it… now you risk next to nothing to try it out.

Just go to: $1 Scrapbook Membership Trial Offer

You’ll get almost instant access to 5000+ digital scrapbook page templates plus clipart, headers or page toppers, added elements and so much more.

Back on topic:

I will also be removing the Headers, Mini-Pages and Occupations categories the middle of June to make room for all the newly updated scrapbook page sets.

I have already replaced the Numbers category with a brand new number element clipart area.

I have also added the new Free page toppers throughout the PrincessCrafts.com site for our NON-Members and paced them all on a single page for our members in the 8.5x member’s area.

Yesterday I got around to adding new Father’s Day papers to both the 8.5x and 12x areas as well as in the new Landscape categories.

MORE FREEBIES:

I just replaced all the chilren’s bookmarks on our kids free stuff page on PrincessCrafts.com and I’m making some new stationery for 1-Computer-Stationery.com and I’ll have them loaded this weekend.

What’s coming soon:

We have been hinting at a new Wedding Scrapbook site now for a couple of months.  Well, Wes has been uploading the new scrapbook template pages this week and is almost done.  Once they are uploaded, we’ll be opening the area for our Platinum Members first.  Then, we’ll open them to the public when the new website is finished. 

Here’s what you’ll be getting next week if you are one of our Platinum Members:

30 Wedding (2-page sets) in 12x, 8.5x and landscape format. That’s 60 pages in each size.

Bonus:  12 journaling sets in all 3 formats (2 page sets with photo areas and journaling areas on them) Total of 72 scrapbook page templates for journaling.

Bonus:  6 sets of wedding element tags in Silver and the same 6 scrapbook tags in gold.  That’s 6 sets of 6 in silver and 6 sets of 6 in gold for a total of 72 wedding scrapbook tags.

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Link to $1 trial offer – CLICK HERE!

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5 Easy Scrapbook Tips

1.  Most flowers & plants are not scrapbook safe – even dried. They contain acids, and harmful gases.  If you are going to place them in your scrapbook with photos, be sure and seal them in an air tight bag or even better, coat them with a scrapbook safe clear spray coating.

2.  Use the dictionary as a journal prompt – writers block or hung up on what to say to open a new journaling note… open up the dictionary, close your eyes and choose a random word on the page.  Now, read the defenition (if you don’t know what it is) and start writing memories!

3.  What to do when scrapping with low-res or small photos (like the ones from your camera phone).  Easiest solution is to just print them small and use them that way. They’ll look much clearer and you can compensate with lots more photos on the page! The alternate solutions is to print them out small, then scan them at a very high resolution like 800 or 1200 ppi.  Then print the new scan as a larger size print.

4.  When making a mini scrapbook album by hand in a hurry, use the same structure on each page to speed up the hand scrap process. This will save you lots of time as you can cut out elements for each page in advance and all at once.  Of course, the better solution is to create the mini-scrapbook album digitally using digital scrapbook templates. This way, you can very the design of each page, but create the whole album in a fraction of the time it would take to do it with the old fashioned hand scrap process.

5.  My final scrapbook tip for today is to “just have fun.”  Sometimes you need to stop planning every little detail and just create intuitively as you go.  It may amaze you to put a stop watch to your planning process sometime and see just how much time it takes up for your scrapbooking.

Happy Scrappin’

Kathy & Wes

www.MyprincessCrafts.com

$1 Platinum Digital Scrapbook Membership Trial Offer

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