Posts Tagged ‘digital scrapbook downloads’
Free Scrapbook Backgrounds, Stationery and Elements…
Friday, May 13th, 2011Hi Scrapbook Friend,
Yes, we do have more FREE digital scrapbook backgrounds, stationery and scrapping elements for you. First, here’s what’s new on the members site:
I just finished replacing the entire Spring scrapbook page category (12×12 and Landscape are totally done, 8.5×11 is uploaded, but I won’t have the links on the members page until Saturday morning.) and put 12 new Mothers Day scrapbook sets on your members area in all 3 sizes over at: www.MyPrincessCrafts.com.
June 1, will be replacing the Dad or Fathers Day category.
June 15, will finish the Kids school category with some graduation and school template papers.
July 1, I will begin replacing the patriotic category in prep for all your 4th of July and other country independance day celebrations.
Now, on to the FREE Scrapbook and Stationery Goodies.
Head to the Nature category on www.Free-Stationery.com for 4 brand new Sunset stationery or scrapbook background pages. They come in both 8.5×11 and A4 sizes and each one is in MS Word template format, PDF format and as a .jpg image so you can use them with just about any program you wish.
Your new Digital Scrapbook page sets and your digital element freebies are over at: www.FreeScrapbookTraining.com.
You can also get digital scrapbook templates in 8.5×11, 12×12 and in the new 11×8.5 landscape format over at: www.DigitalsScrapbooking.com when you check out our site there.
Now you know what’s coming, what’s new and where all the Free scrapbook and stationery goodies are. Time to choose your link and go get em’!
Happy Scrappin’
Kathy
www.1-Computer-Scrapbook.com and www.Cookbook4Kids.com
Review of FREE Pho.to App for Droid and Your Computer
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011Review of FREE Pho.to App for Droid and Your Computer
Before I get started, here’s a couple of notes that Kathy wanted me to pass on.
First, there are 12 Brand New Mother’s Day Digi Scrapbook sets in the Members Area. Just log into your Members Home page at: MyPrincessCrafts.com to get all three sizes.
We have several FREE Mother’s Day Stationery Downloads (and free training) for you at: http://www.free-stationery.com/
Mother’s day is only a few days away, don’t miss the chance to tell your mom how much she really means to you… put it in writting so she can treasure it always!
Now, on with our review.
Recently I’ve been playing with the new Pho.to app on my Droid 2 Global phone and I’ve been having so much fun with it that I just had to share.
I got my new DROID for my Birthday in January and loved the new 5 Megapixel camera, but needed a way to edit and crop the photos on the road without a computer.
Long story short… after several apps I didn’t like, I found 
Pho.to. It not only works live with the camera, but will edit any photo I have on the phone and let me save and share the results. I fell in love with the app the minute I used it.
Here’s one of the first images I made with Pho.to of one of the photos I took last Halloween of Kathy (right) and her sister Kris. The frame is one of the hundreds that come with the app. New ones are being added all the time too.
It’s so easy to use. Just open the app, choose a frame or effect and then choose the photo from the camera or stored on your phone. Some frames even allow multiple images such as the photo book image here of my grandson, Nick helping feed the horses.
Once you have picked the frame and photo or photos, you have the opportunity to crop the images. If the photo has multiple people in it and the affect just needs the face of one person, you can crop the image to choose which person to apply the affect to.
For example, the Jackie Chan frame image of Kathy’s sister Kris, on the left, came from a group shot of her and all her siblings. What do you think?
All in all, it’s a great app and it’s so easy to use. All the processing is done over the wireless web and that keeps the app small and keeps the abilities large. You can even turn off the Pho.to mark and add text to many of the frame effects such as I did for Kris’s image. My favorite effects are the Celebrity collages such as this next one…
That’s my niece Jessica in this one.
I use this all the time for my grandkids now. My grandson thinks it’s cool to be Iron Man:
Since I loved this app so much, I wanted to see if they had a version for my computer. WoW! They do and it’s web based so it works with all computer operating systems, windows, mac, linux, what ever.
Just go to www.Pho.to and you can use it with no signups needed.
The web based version isn’t as easy to use as the one for the DROID, but it still is easy enough to figure out and you won’t need a manual to learn it. Just play and have fun.
The biggest advantage to using the online version is that it also does animated Avatars and photos such as the one here of me. I just added the effect to an image Kathy took at Lake Perrigin State Park last year. Looks pretty cool here on the web, doesn’t it?
Let’s sum is all up.
Likes:
The Droid version app is easy to use, let’s you save the results as well as share them via email, Twitter, FaceBook or what ever other social site you are in to.
The Web based version also lets you animate many of the frames and effects.
The DROID version also connects to your phone’s camera so you can take images for frame effects in real time.
Hundreds of Frames and Effects to choose from in both versions.
Needed improvements:
I’d like to be able to upload my own .png frames to use with the app. That would make all our PrincessCrafts digital scrapbook pages available to use.
Would love if the DROID version also allowed me to create the animated effects and had the Avatar function. My .jpg versions that it creates can be used as avatars, it would just be nice to have them sized to start with so I knew exactly what the final avatar would look like.
That’s it, I have nothing bad to say and only just two items on my future capabilities list.
I’m having a ball playing with the app and I know you will too.
Wes Waddell
www.DigitalsScrapbooking.com (free samples news)
New Easter Scrapbook Page Sets
Friday, April 15th, 2011Not the middle of the month yet, I know, but I have already completely replaced the Easter Scrapbook Page Themes in all 3 sizes. The New Digital Easter Scrapbook page sets come in 8.5×11, 12×12 and our 11×8.5 Landscape format.
You can see them all in your Scrapbook Members Area or just check out the thumbnail samples at: www.PrincessCrafts.com
While that was going on, my hubby Wes went online and uploaded 3 new Easter Stationery papers that you can download for FREE at: http://www.Free-Stationery.com Just head over to the Holiday/Easter section there.
If that weren’t enough, he also added some new Digital Scrapbook photo frame elements (also totally FREE) over at:
http://www.FreeScrapbookTraining.com in the FREEBIES area.
The month is young, so stay tuned for lots more to come yet.
Kathy
Free Scrapbook Downloads and Membership News
Sunday, February 20th, 2011Here’s what’s new on the PrincessCrafts.com Websites and Members Areas this week.
I just added 3 new valentines day and 9 new family memorial page sets to all three of our members areas. (8.5×11, 12×12 and our Scrapbook of a Lifetime 11×8.5 landscape)
Also I am working hard to update all the papers on the sites to our new higher resolution 200 dpi format. I will begin replacing the animal category at the end of February. So, if there are any particular ones that you want, get them now before I replace the entire category. The new sets, while some what like the old sets, are different and will contain some new graphics.
I will do my best to keep letting you know which categories I will be replacing and when as the site updates continue.
I will also be eliminating the following categories and merging them into other categories on the members areas:
- Borders
- Mini-Pages
- Fantasy
For all our FREE Downloads users; I’ve also just added the following (no signups needed)
- 3 new Valentines Day Stationeries
- 2 New St. Patricks Day Stationery downloads
- More updates A4 sizes in New Categories
On www.FreeScrapbookTraining.com
- 3 new Valentines Day Photo Greeting Card Templates
- 6 New Photo Frame Scrapbook Elements
Have a great Week and be sure and tell all you friends and family about our sites… we can use all the help we can get.
Happy Scrappin’
Kathy
www.MyPrincessCrafts.com Scrapbook Memberships Save $100′s
Taking Better Photographs for Your Scrapbooks
Sunday, January 2nd, 2011Hi Scrapbook Friend,
We have a great short article with some wonderful tips on taking photos for your scrapbook, but first…
No Cost Goodies Update:
Kathy just added a new winter theme mini scrapbook photo page to www.PrincessCrafts.com. No hassle’s or signups, just go there and download from the main page.
Wes also just added Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanza scrapbook pages to www.FreeScrapbookTraining.com in the new Scrapbook Page Download area there in the Freebies section.
For our Members:
Kathy just added Christmas 68 thru 70, Hanukkah 16 thru 18 and Kwanza 11 thru 13 to our 8.5×11, 12×12 and 11×8.5 Landscape areas on www.MyPrincessCrafts.com. You took all those great holiday photos, now it’s time to get them put into your new holiday scrapbook pages and preserve the memories for generations to come.
Now, on to the main article:
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Title: Taking Photographs for Your Scrapbook
Author: Audrey Okaneko
Article:
Once you begin scrapbooking, you begin to see photography in a whole new light. When I created my first album I realized that my photos always had way too much space that was not part of the picture, meaning too much sky, or too much grass.
Now, one of the joys of scrapbooking is that you can cut away all of the excess sky, or all of the excess trees, however after you begin your first scrapbook you begin to take pictures a little bit differently. As you look through the camera lens, you begin to see the scrapbook you’ll be making.
You’ll also to begin thinking about a “story” or a theme. I know for me, I take more pictures now, however where I used to take 5 shots of the same thing, I now take 5 shots of a whole story.
I also tend to take my camera to more places now, knowing I want to preserve the memory. It’s fun when folks ask me if I’ll share my photos, since no one else thought to bring a camera to a particular event.
If you are using a digital camera, you can view your picture immediately and determine if this is the picture you want. You then have the opportunity to either retake the picture or if you like the picture but see a lot of “waste” you know you’ll be able to cut it out prior to putting the photo into an album.
After you upload the photos from your camera, you can then print them out on photo paper, which can be purchased at any office supply store.
So, the next time you take out your camera, ask yourself what pictures you envision in your new scrapbook.
About the author:
Audrey Okaneko has been scrapbooking for several years now. You can reach her at http://www.scrapping-made-simple.com
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That’s it for this week, but keep watching as Kathy has 3 New Years Digital Scrapbooking Page Sets coming for the middle of the month along with Valentines Day and St. Patrick’s Day sets coming very soon.
Happy Scrappin’
Kathy and Wes
www.MyPrincessCrafts.com (main Members hub)
www.Cookbook4Kids.com (Where you never have to worry about the mess)
Using FREE Stationery for Invitations in Lake Tahoe
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010Hi, Wes and Kathy
So far, I’ve created two invitations using your free stationery…and I’m doing a holiday photo collage for my own personal use. Attached are the invitations… I also cut the major icon and placed it onto the envelope that these invitation were mailed in, to coordinate the look. I think they both came out GREAT!! Thanks again for your fabulous website…
Best,
Millie
Millie Szerman
Administrative Director
995 Tahoe Boulevard
Incline Village, Nevada 89451
Website: www.LakeTahoeSchool.org
From: Millie Szerman
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 10:56 AM
To: PrincessCrafts Scrapbooking 101
Subject: Your website…it’s FABULOUS!!!
| Just discovered your www.Free-Stationery.com website, via Google! I wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your designs FOR FREE, since I’m now working for a non-profit school and we always need flyers (which we print on recycled paper), and your designs are terrific!
THANK YOU!! Millie Szerman Administrative Director LAKE TAHOE SCHOOL Incline Village, Nevada 89451 |
