Step Three: Combine Your Digital Photos with Digital Supplies. Here is where you get to play the artist: add themed backgrounds and overlays, clip, crop, arrange, and fit. Although a picture might say a thousand words, a photo can say much more by adding some text! Including names, dates, and times on photos is a great way to document important details and personalize precious pictures. Or add captions or descriptions to ensure that special moments, funny conversations, or little songs sung by those adorable little people so that they will not be lost forever.
By combining your digital photos with digital papers, embellishments, and other digital supplies, you begin digital scrapbooking and can create beautifully personalized, full-featured photo albums that are delightful little works of art. Albums, by the way, are just the beginning. The same tools and tricks can create wonderful family calendars, greeting cards—you name it.
One more advantage of digital over traditional scrapbooking: it eliminates the mess. With all the toys, clothes, and dirty dishes around the house, the last thing you need is glue, tape, paper clippings, and other supplies also scattered about. (Feng shui agrees with me here!) Going digital lets you be artistic much less expensively, since digital scrapbooking supplies can be re-used indefinitely, unlike traditional scrapbooking supplies.
But … you say you’re not a computer whiz? It sounds too complicated? It’s really not. A new company called Digital Scrapbooks and More (DigitalScrapbooksandMore.com) is making this popular hobby easily accessible online with their “Getting Started” series of digital scrapbooking tutorials. This inexpensive product features instantly downloadable tutorial training perfect for on-the-go moms who want quick, simple-to-understand, quality training that fits today’s busy schedules.
Got photos in your camera or computer? You’ve already taken step one. Now you can take your photos and albums from ordinary to “tech-fabulous,” and have a lot of fun in the process. Get your camera, the Getting Started tutorials, and your latte, and you’re all set to go!
