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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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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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$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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Digital Scrapbook News for May

Posted on May 19th, 2010 by wwaddell.
Categories: Scrapbook Articles, Site Information.

PrincessCrafts Digital Scrapbook News for May

Have we been busy or what?  As always, the free goodies are listed at the bottom, but you have got to check out all the great stuff we have been doing in our Scrapbook Members area too.

What’s going away soon:

I will be replacing the Father’s Day categories on both the 8.5×11 and 12×12 areas by the 31st of May.

We have already replaced the Mother’s Day category for Soft Expressions and Printable Pastels with brand new sets.

We also deleted all the Silhouettes and Memory Pockets from both the 8.5×11 and 12×12 areas. The new sets will go into the categories they belong with.

We will be removing the no-art templates from both the 8.5×11 and the 12×12 areas at the end of May also.  I will also be replacing the numbers category with individual number elements. 

What’s New:

Added 3 new Teddy Bear clipart in the Animal category.

Added 3 new sets of floral recipe cards to the journaling category for Mother’s Day and also added a new mom’s day alphabet in the Members Elements area.

Just added to Scrap of a Lifetime, our Landscape format area:

Baby 58 thru 63 along with Mom 37 thru 42 which match the newly added Baby 58 thru 63 and Mom 37 thru 39 we just put into our 8.5×11 and 12×12 areas.

We also just Added a new winter category to the Landscape)format area.

The FREE Goodies:

Replaced the free mini-scrapbook page on www.PrincessCrafts.com with a New Spring page.

I’ve also added some printable stickers, clipart and free scrapbook pages to our new www.FreeTravelScrapbook.info Travel BLOG, so be sure and book mark it and check back often.  We are adding free goodies with each article we publish there.

Never forget the new stationery and/or scrapbook background added to www.Free-Stationery.com either.

What’s still to come this month:

Kathy has been working really hard and has completed 30 New Wedding (2-page sets) in 12x, 8.5x as well as in landscape format.

The new Wedding area will also have a Bonus:  12 journaling sets in all 3 formats (2 page sets with photo areas and journaling areas on them) plus another Bonus of:  6 wedding element tags in Silver and the same 6 in gold.

Our Platinum Members get instant FREE access as always and we’ll also be offering that one as a stand-alone membership as well.  Look for it to come online by the end of the month.

If you want a sneak preview, check out www.WeddingScraps.com  Just understand that it’s still under construction, so not everything is working yet.  Watch us grow and help out by giving us feedback on what you see.

As always, this is your biggest and BEST digital scrapbook membership on the Internet and your opinions and feedback count big time in keeping it that way.

Happy Scrappin’

Wes and Kathy

www.MyPrincessCrafts.com

www.PrincessCrafts.com

www.WeddingScraps.com

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FREE Digital Scrapbook Software

Posted on April 16th, 2010 by wwaddell.
Categories: Scrapbook Articles, Scrapbook Tips, Site Information.

Hi Computer Digital Scrapbook friend,

We just got an offer from the folks at Daisy Trail Software to let our readers have a FREE copy of their Digital Scrapbook and Greeting Card software (the lite version) absolutely at no cost. 

I have all the details and the link to get it for you, but I need to get the rest of our site updates for this week out of the way first.  It will only take a minute as I’ll get you just the abrieviated notes and you can check out the complete details on the sites and in your Members Areas.

Just the Facts:

• Added a new spring alphabet to both the 8.5×11 & 12×12 areas
 
• Replaced the Easter category for Soft Expressions (ComputerScrapbookLayouts.com) and Printable Pastels.
• I will be removing the silhouettes category and the memory pockets category from the members area (Part of the Site Remodel).
• I will be removing the scrap templates category from the members area the end of May.
• I will be replacing the numbers category with individual number elements.

 

• Added a Winter category to the Scrapbook of a Lifetime (Landscape) format   

How’s that for a weeks worth of updates for our members?

OK, now on with the FREE Digi-Scrapbook software download info…

Do you want to make your own cards, invitations and other craft projects for free?

• There are currently 20 FREE high quality content packs (digikits) for you to download to use with Digital Scrapbook Artist Compact.
• You’ll be able to upload your designs to share quickly and easily.
• Invite friends and family to view your work.
• Create and join public and private forums to share ideas with other scrapbookers.
• Use powerful zoom technology to see intricate layout details.
• Watch fantastic video tutorials to learn all the tools and techniques for Digital Scrapbook Artist.
• Enter competitions and win great prizes.

Digital Scrapbook Artist Compact is NOT a trial and it’s completely free, so download now and you’ll be able to create beautiful keepsakes and photo albums, scrapbooks, cards and invitations without spending a dollar on materials!

Click here to go to DaisyTrail now!

Then, once you get your computer digital scrapbook software up and running, let us know how it works for you and what you think.  Tell others about what it does a great job with and where it could use some improvement.

Don’t forget to let us know how well it works with all the Free PrincessCrafts scrapbook page sets and the 5000 plus sets in our members area.

www.MyPrincessCrafts.com

www.BabyScraps.com

www.Free-Stationery.com

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