Today I was searching for a new scrapbook album when I came across this cute Baby Tooth Album.
I thought this would make a great keepsake gift.
It is a mini scrapbook that has a container with a place to put each baby tooth and pages for your photographs.
Sometimes it is hard to find a unique gift when a baby is born and instead of giving the usual My First Year baby book I thought this would make a great special gift.
Cheers
Groobers
Create It, DigiScrap It, It's All Good Fun - Catchyalader ~G
1. To do something creative with the vast amount of Digital Photographs you have slowing down your computers hard drive. While picking out the photographs you are going to use, why not delete some of the terrible photos which you have no intention of doing anything with and free up a bit of valuable space (note to self listen to your own advice and get deleting.)
2. A chance to try out one of those Digital Scrapbooking Freebie Kits you keep downloading from your favorite digital scrapbook place but never seem to get around to using (how many free Kits can one person use in a life time?)
3. A way to immortalize your photographs for future generations to share
in an organized and creative way (not that I want to "pop my clogs" just yet though, but it would be a nice legacy to leave behind.)
4. To create a special gift for a friend, family member, or teacher just to say
thank you for something they have done for you. Create the page around a special occasion for example a scrapbook page around a Christening, Wedding or Graduation, or perhaps you could do a page for your child's teacher as a thank you for all their hard work. The ideas for scrapbooking page layouts are endless (perhaps this is a topic for another blog post...)
5. The Best Reason I Have Saved for Last and it's a Simple ONE:
Create It, Digiscrap It, It's All Good Fun ~ Catchyalader G
Digital Scrapbook Page - Teenage Years
Today I thought I would talk a little about my process when starting a scrapbook page. I like to start out by creating scrapbook page layouts, by this I mean a sort of template into which I can slot my photographs.
I have many ideas for scrapbook layouts, for example you could use the templates to create baby scrapbook pages with each square representing a month in the first year of your babies life. The template could have twelve sections and within each one you could add a photograph for the 1st month of your babies life, the 2nd month and so on until you have created a scrapbook page in a sort of calender format.
How about creating wedding scrapbook layouts around your big day, each part of the template could show a different part of your special day or a graduation day template. Once you have your template created you can use it many times over when you want to group your photographs together into a collage.
Photographs do not have to be around one subject you could choose a theme and group photos around that theme, today I wanted to do a Just for Fun page so I included photographs that I had altered using my photo editing software, because that is what I like to do for fun. I have included this link fot the Just for Fun Digital Scrapbook Page that I have created using this Digital Scrapbook Template if you want to take a look.
Templates are a great way to show off your photographs you don't even need to buy any scrapbooking supplies all you need is your scrapbooking software and some photographs.
When creating templates you can make them any size you like and use any shapes for your photos that you want, in this example I used a 8 x 10 size to make printing it out simple and rectangles for the shapes but you could do 12 x 12 layouts or 8 x8 and add photos into any shape that you choose.
Cheers
Groobers
Create It, DigiScrap It, It's All Good Fun - Cathyalader ~ G
I was thinking last night about my Sister-In-Law and her beautiful new baby and our up and coming trip to England in the next few weeks.
It got me thinking who has time when they have a new baby and perhaps another toddler in tow to sit down and do any traditional scrapbooking or digital scrapbooking layouts for that matter.
When I think back to when my girls where little any spare time I had was taken up with snatched naps or trying to get little white milk stains out of our clothing.
It is a precious time and as a new mother you may not have the time to sit down and scrapbook but you do want to share your beautiful new baby with your family and friends or perhaps on your blog if you have one.
So I decided I would download an easy quick solution to this problem and give it a try.
I have had great fun trying out Smilebox this morning and it really is easy and lets you have a scrapbook with photos, videos and music created in minutes.
I will try and post some of My Smilebox Creations over the next few days, but for now I will have to get on as that large basket of ironing in the corner which resembles something close to the Leaning Tower of Pisa is calling out my name.
If you are interested in trying out Smilebox for yourself just click on the Free Click Here button on the picture above.
Ok Ok I'm Coming.....Until next time I'm off to do the fun stuff...Curse you Ironing....
Cheers
Groobers
Create It, DigiScrap It, It's All Good Fun ~Catchyalader G
