People have kept diaries, family Bibles, all kinds of scrapbooks from the beginning of recorded time, just so they would have a chronological progression of memories that they could look back on and savor again the wonderful times and thoughts those saved tidbits provided. Many folks find great comfort in perusing an old scrapbook and looking at the old photos of loved ones that are now gone, or looking at snaps of the old homestead that is miles away, or just the dried flowers from that first corsage on that very first date.
How times have changed----not in the fact that people don't do scrapbooks anymore----far from the truth; folks are big into scrapbooks now more than ever, but what has changed big time is the way they scrapbook. Digital scrap booking is all the rage today, and it makes what had been a simple pastime of just saving snippets of life in a book, into works of art. And the computer and all its wizardry is the basis for this surge of popularity in scrapbooks these days.
Literally, there are thousands of sites on the Internet involved with digital scrap booking because it is such a huge business now, and so many folks are doing it. Consequently, these many sites are in competition with each other for your business, that many are offering free downloads that you can use any way you like, as long as you don't try to resell them as your own work----that would be against the copyright laws. That in itself is a big savings because what you can download for free on the Internet sometimes is all you need to get started, and it will save you lots of money in the craft stores.
Then we have a new term on the block called digital scrap booking hybridization, which is simply the merging of two art forms: the stock photo snaps and paper materials that you have in your hand to go into the book, and the digital artwork that can be downloaded from one of the computer sites. Your saved materials will go into the scrapbook and then be accented and embellished with the artwork you get from the online site; which usually is really neat choices of page borders, cartoon characters, stars and celestial forms, whimsical flowers and objects, and the coolest choices in lettering and script-----stuff you could never do yourself in a million years.
That thought brings up another point. You don't have to be an artist to do digital scrap booking----in fact the very opposite is true. You can be the proverbial person who cannot draw a straight line, and have little or no color sense; and yet, with the help of the ideas on the computer and all the guides that are included on how to arrange a scrapbook page or how to choose colors; you can produce the most fantastic array of pages you have ever seen. Your friends will be in awe for days.
I have lots of friends who do digital scrap booking, and they floor me with the designs they come up with and how gorgeous the pages look that they put together. Most of them start with pictures of something the kids did or are doing, like a ball game, or a birthday party, or Halloween; and then expand the idea with materials they found on the Internet that they could download and use for free, and I'm telling you----these books look like a pro did them. Amazing.
If you have a computer and know how to turn it on, have a desire to create a scrapbook to retain the memories that your life is creating; then digital scrap booking is for you. Just save up all those bits and pieces you have stored all around the house, get a scrapbook, and turn on the computer, and you are good to go. Digital scrap booking is where it's at, and it's growing by leaps and bounds as more and more regular folks are learning the nuances of computer art and how to apply it to everyday life. - 33381
How times have changed----not in the fact that people don't do scrapbooks anymore----far from the truth; folks are big into scrapbooks now more than ever, but what has changed big time is the way they scrapbook. Digital scrap booking is all the rage today, and it makes what had been a simple pastime of just saving snippets of life in a book, into works of art. And the computer and all its wizardry is the basis for this surge of popularity in scrapbooks these days.
Literally, there are thousands of sites on the Internet involved with digital scrap booking because it is such a huge business now, and so many folks are doing it. Consequently, these many sites are in competition with each other for your business, that many are offering free downloads that you can use any way you like, as long as you don't try to resell them as your own work----that would be against the copyright laws. That in itself is a big savings because what you can download for free on the Internet sometimes is all you need to get started, and it will save you lots of money in the craft stores.
Then we have a new term on the block called digital scrap booking hybridization, which is simply the merging of two art forms: the stock photo snaps and paper materials that you have in your hand to go into the book, and the digital artwork that can be downloaded from one of the computer sites. Your saved materials will go into the scrapbook and then be accented and embellished with the artwork you get from the online site; which usually is really neat choices of page borders, cartoon characters, stars and celestial forms, whimsical flowers and objects, and the coolest choices in lettering and script-----stuff you could never do yourself in a million years.
That thought brings up another point. You don't have to be an artist to do digital scrap booking----in fact the very opposite is true. You can be the proverbial person who cannot draw a straight line, and have little or no color sense; and yet, with the help of the ideas on the computer and all the guides that are included on how to arrange a scrapbook page or how to choose colors; you can produce the most fantastic array of pages you have ever seen. Your friends will be in awe for days.
I have lots of friends who do digital scrap booking, and they floor me with the designs they come up with and how gorgeous the pages look that they put together. Most of them start with pictures of something the kids did or are doing, like a ball game, or a birthday party, or Halloween; and then expand the idea with materials they found on the Internet that they could download and use for free, and I'm telling you----these books look like a pro did them. Amazing.
If you have a computer and know how to turn it on, have a desire to create a scrapbook to retain the memories that your life is creating; then digital scrap booking is for you. Just save up all those bits and pieces you have stored all around the house, get a scrapbook, and turn on the computer, and you are good to go. Digital scrap booking is where it's at, and it's growing by leaps and bounds as more and more regular folks are learning the nuances of computer art and how to apply it to everyday life. - 33381
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