How to Find the A-Z of Digital Scrapbooking

Kens Promise - A4 Ellie had seen some excellent examples of digital scrapbooking at various websites and wanted to have a go.

What she didn't want was to have to splash out just yet to buy one of the photo software programs in case she didn't like it, so thought she'd cheat and try it out in what she did have and was already familiar with … Microsoft Publisher.

And here is Ellie's first attempt at a digital scrapbook layout.

She chose a pale yellow patterned background 'paper' to match the yellow of the daffodils. This was achieved with one of the fill effects on the color fill button. The rectangle is filled with little black shapes in case you can't see it. (Sorry, we've lost some detail as we shrunk the image to post it here. We'll work on that. Meanwhile just imagine a bright Spring yellow rather than the sludge that appears to be showing!)

Ellie 'matted' the photo on a white and then a black filled rectangle, added a strip of 'ribbon' (a color filled narrow rectangle), and then two 'brads' made with the oval button - hold down the control key to get a circle. The journaling is on one of the basic shapes from the autoshapes button (basic shapes/folded corner.)

As Ellie said, "It's not quite the real thing but it showed me what's possible with even the most basic of programs."

"It's given me courage to try the Photoshop Elements that came with my computer next. Although that looks a bit scary so I'll have to wait until I've time to do the tutorial! "

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So where can you go if you want to learn more about REAL computer scrapbooking?

My favorite [tag]digital scrapbooking[/tag] site is ScrapGirls.com

They have great designs, an excellent gallery, a messageboard with very helpful people, competitions with prizes and lots of fun ideas to keep you scrapping, not to mention a fun and frequent newsletter with freebies in each one! There's a great boutique full of amazing products. There are lots of ideas, tips, and questions and answers. You'll find all the help you need whether it's your first digi-scrapbook or hundredth!

Two big pluses of [tag]computer scrapbooking[/tag]:

No mess to clear up after you, and
Being able to use your 'papers' and 'embellishments' over and over and over and over again!

Oh, and a third one:

you can change the color of your papers or accents! So you'll never be in the position again of not having a good match!

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If you find it easier to learn by WATCHING someone rather than reading about how to do something, then Ro at ScrapGirls has a great video tutorials program that lets you look over her shoulder to see how to use the photo editing tools necessary to make great digital scrapbook pages. Click this link to get off to a fast start: Start digital scrapbooking today - FAST!

If you prefer to READ about how to do something then Ro has a free Ebook & Starter Kit waiting for you at this link … If you read nothing else, read this…

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If you're able to read this you are obviously not afraid of a computer so there's every chance you can succeed at computer scrapbooking with a little time and a little help from your soon-to-be-friends at ScrapGirls.

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