Do you find that you lack motivation to scrapbook? I face that a lot!!
To motivate myself, I either start looking at my digital scrapbook projects or go on a scrapbook website. I find that if I look at projects I tend to want to work on my own.
I have many projects I have started and are incomplete. The problem is I can't find what I am looking for. I know I have a particular element or paper, but I can't remember where it is. I spend so much time looking for something, it's time to quit. I wish I had a better solution to my digital scrapbook kits. I have a general folder named Scrapbooking. Inside I have individual folders named by where I got them i.e. Scrapgirls.com, digitalscrapbookplace.com.... Because you have to give credit, the only way I can do it is by putting them in folders this way. I need to come up with a way to organize them by theme.
Maybe I will make a theme folder i.e. Christmas and put subfolders labeled where they came from i.e. scrapgirls etc. Sounds like a project but a worthwhile one.
So being organized is one less thing to mess with your motivation.
I'll let you know how it turns out.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Digital scrapbooking
I started digital scrapbooking a little over 2 years ago. My sister-in-
law told me about a website for digital scrapbooking. Until then I had
never heard of it before. Here was this website where you could create
an account for free and then download a program for free!!!! How great
was this.
And so began a different direction in scrapbooking. I loved it right away. I just jumped right in and started putting out page after page. When I look back at my first pages I have to chuckle because I've come a long way since then.
I looked at other members pages and some were just phenominal. Then I realized that most members had an additional software program like Photoshop Elements or something similar. I just had to do my best because I didn't have one. I would send my daughter (she lives in NYC) images and she would make png files and send them back to me.
I did find a free software program similar to Photoshop and I did make some png files myself. But sometimes you need to rotate images and the free software program on the website didn't do that. But the program is really great. And last year my daughter gave me Photoshop Elements for my birthday. But there was just a minor problem. I didn't know how to use it.
Of course it didn't come with an instruction manual. So I was fortunate enough to finally get a copy at the public library. I though I would do that instead of purchasing one. And that (along with my daughters help) I have learned enough to do much better work.
I have found so many websites that have freebies. I have quite a collection now.
And then there are sites with tutorials for Photoshop Elements. Even if it's not the version you may have you can figure out how to do with yours. I learn something new around every corner. And just when you think you've figured it all out, they come up with some new technique.
And so began a different direction in scrapbooking. I loved it right away. I just jumped right in and started putting out page after page. When I look back at my first pages I have to chuckle because I've come a long way since then.
I looked at other members pages and some were just phenominal. Then I realized that most members had an additional software program like Photoshop Elements or something similar. I just had to do my best because I didn't have one. I would send my daughter (she lives in NYC) images and she would make png files and send them back to me.
I did find a free software program similar to Photoshop and I did make some png files myself. But sometimes you need to rotate images and the free software program on the website didn't do that. But the program is really great. And last year my daughter gave me Photoshop Elements for my birthday. But there was just a minor problem. I didn't know how to use it.
Of course it didn't come with an instruction manual. So I was fortunate enough to finally get a copy at the public library. I though I would do that instead of purchasing one. And that (along with my daughters help) I have learned enough to do much better work.
I have found so many websites that have freebies. I have quite a collection now.
And then there are sites with tutorials for Photoshop Elements. Even if it's not the version you may have you can figure out how to do with yours. I learn something new around every corner. And just when you think you've figured it all out, they come up with some new technique.
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