Digital Scrapbooking Supplies

Thanks to online digital scrapbooking kits, almost any scrapper can create dynamic one-of-a-kind designs to preserve an endearing memory. Over the last decade, scrapbooking has become one of America's favorite past times, evolving from simply cutting out and gluing photos, letters, lace, buttons and tinsel to a two-dimensional surface; to digitally designing electronic images which can be downloaded, printed and shared on personal websites. Digital scrapbooking supplies, such as design elements, overlays, stamps and brushes, papers, and stickers open up a world of possibilities for creative and crafty scrappers. While electronic kits make creating and preserving precious memories easy, we sometimes struggle with life's challenges alone, not realizing that we can easily turn to God for the answer. "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and by burden is light" (Matthew 11:28-30).

Working with digital scrapbooking is similar to desktop publishing. Instead of traditional scrapping using backgrounds of construction paper, gluing elements in place, and mounting the finished product in a photo album; scrappers create pages on a computer screen and either print the finished product on a color printer, or email the end result to family and friends. Unlike traditional papers, lettering, and paints, digital scrapbooking supplies can be re-used again and again. Electronic images can be manipulated, recolored, re-sized, cropped, and shaded using graphic software programs. Photographs can be enhanced, enlarged, reduced, screened, softened, sharpened, distorted, aged, or dropped out by importing original color images into a photo enhancing program. Layout styles and arrangements are limitless and cyberspace colors cross the entire spectrum for unusual effects. Scrappers can choose fonts from funky and whimsical to sophisticated and serious to evoke certain graphic qualities to enhance each layout.

Today's scrapbooking kits contain paper packs developed and coordinated by popular designers. Themed papers, ribbons, stickers, frames, and alphabets are beautifully designed and coordinated to give scrappers a head start on building unique electronic pages. Themes include juvenile images, such as jungle gyms, playful pirates, or nautical sea creatures. Youthful pages to display images geared toward little girls or boys provide an array of papers in pink gingham, boyish blue stripes, or unisex solids. Paper packs for serious scrappers also include wood grain patterns, fall leaves, florals, grosgrain ribbon, stonewashed denim, or elegant shimmering silks. Romantic memories can be preserved with a combination of floral overlays, soft silks, and French-inspired calligraphy transposed over a delicate wedding portrait. Scrapper moms can use the newest digital scrapbooking kits to create electronic albums of baby's first year. Download a soft solid blue or pink paper pattern; import the infant's first hospital photo and candid snapshots taken over a few months; and add electronic lettering in a cute font, such as "Kids." Single e-pages or entire digital albums can be created and posted on a family website to share with grandparents, aunts and uncles, or coworkers as baby grows and develops from year to year.

The beauty of using digital scrapbooking supplies instead of traditional papers, trims, and lettering is primarily the savings in dollars and in time! Scrappers can spend a considerable amount of cash buying papers, lettering, glitter, glue, and developing hard copy photos. Not to mention the time it takes to sit down and assemble two-dimensional layouts. But even the greatest design can be easily ruined by spills, direct sunlight, or smudges. Inks, paints, and glues are not permanent and can dry out, fade, or crack over time. A typical scrapbook can run as much as $50 and up in supplies, photo processing, and materials. Once a book has been completed, the only way it can be shared is by passing it from one individual to another; and the cost of mailing an album can add up. In comparison, digital scrapbooking kits are relatively inexpensive electronic images which are imported into graphics software programs most individuals already own. Online paper packs average $3 to $5 each, while inexpensive templates, fonts, stamps and brushes, alphabets, and elements are also affordably priced. Once scrappers purchase electronic supplies online, they can be used again and again absolutely free. Ready made cards, templates, and frames take the guesswork out of designing layouts. Designer papers and elements add a professional look to each e-album. Completed designs can be emailed all over the world at no cost; and electronic albums can be digitally assembled in a fraction of the time it takes to complete just one two-dimensional page!

Online scrapbooking websites offer tutorials, templates, gift certificates, CD burning services, community blogs and forums, chat rooms, design galleries, and online catalogs to stimulate creativity and provide all the support scrappers need. Scrappers can burn electronic pages to a CD via online services and give family members and friends a permanent copy of wedding scrapbooks, baby books, graduation memories, retirement mementos, or vacation highlights. Scrapbooking kits can be used to compile portfolios for artists and photographers to land that next gig, or for vocalists, musicians, and other performing artists. Simply add sound or enclose a music CD with a digital scrapbook of still or animated images. Advertising professionals can build unique electronic albums using digital scrapbooking supplies to promote client products and services. And job seekers can easily email albums to prospective employers for an unusual but impressive resume and visual chronology of outstanding career accomplishments. Whatever the occupation, the occasion, or the opportunity, digital scrapbooking kits can make it memorable.

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