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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