Digital Scrapbooking - the New Way to Build Scrapbooks

As scrapbooking becomes exceedingly popular now a days, more and more ladies are going beyond the typical photo album's to share their pictures. However the cost can be extremely daunting. Although you can shops sales and use all sorts of bits and pieces of fabrics and items around your house, it wont change the fact that this is an extremely expensive hobby. You can spend several hundred dollars on supplies that you can only use once, and extras that you may decide later on you don't want to do.

However there is an alternative to the traditional scrapbooking. Its Digital Scrapbooking. For as low as 20 dollars you can download a program that will simplify making digital scrapbook pages that look fantastic. The one I use allows me to drag and drop images onto the page, as many as I want and embellish them in ways that only digital allows. You can fade the edges of your images or apply fun little embellishments. Apply digital mats and boarders. Created layered looks. You can even look up quotes and sayings online to add to your scrapbooks. No more searching and searching for something and just not having it fit. You can search for a specific type of quote and look through pages of responses. Witty comebacks are at your fingertips. And best yet, all features are reusable.

Not to mention the Internet is a amazing and fantastic source of images and backgrounds that you can use again and again for your pages. For instance you want a blue background. Simply search google images for blue background and you will get thousands of hits for backgrounds and pictures that are blue. Sites like dafont.com allow you to pick and choose from thousands of different font types and save them to your computer, complete with instructions on how to save them. You can find many different sites dedicated to digital scrapbooking online, many have "freebies" or images that are free to use for your needs. They also have tutorials and ideas for your digital scrapbooking needs. Most will have sets of images, backgrounds and embellishments that are not free for use as well. For a small price you can purchase the set for personal use. However if your like me, you may prefer to just google images to use.

You can make your page size whatever you want. From the size of a traditional piece of printer paper, to the larger 20x20 size. Many at home printers can accommodate both sizes, however if yours doesn't, for a fee you can have them printed in a local printing store or from places online. Some sites such as Picaboo.com are all inclusive. You simply upload your digital images to their program and place them where you want. They will do the rest, including make and bind the book and ship it to you. Resulting in a beautiful embellished photo album for relatively cheap.

Even with the cost of printer ink, digital scrapbooking is still miles cheaper then traditional cut and paste scrapbooking.So if your interested in scrapbooking, before spending hundreds of dollars like i did, for supplies, consider picking up a cheap program or using one such as Picaboo.com and giving a shot at digital scrapbooking. The pages can be beautiful, your images can be showcased exactly as you want them to be, and the sky is the limit. All you need is your creativity. This is a simple way to be crafty that involves little cost and no mess. Even young children can do digital scrapbooking. From fonts to backgrounds everything you need is but a search away. Go be creative.