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I have been very busy with my scrapbooking as you can see.   I have a lot more pictures but unfortunately I cannot post them all here..sorry Cindi.

Getting busy now making some scrapbook recipe cards for family and friends, incorporating some polymer clay ornaments to give as gifts.  Making Christmas cards is another holiday plan, so I will be busy.

I hope you have enjoyed my few endeavors with my pages.

Recently my husband and I were treated to a trip to Germany by our daughter and her husband.  She is living over there now for at least the next two years.  It was our first trip to Europe and very exciting for us.  I have longed dreamed of going abroad but never seemed to have either the time nor the money so when she said for us to come and she would pay for it, we jumped at the chance.  Literally!  Who in their right mind wouldn’t?

We were able to visit the Rhine Valley area of Germany, Prague, and Innsbrook Austria.  Of course I took pictures, lots and lots of pictures.  I want to remember this special time with my girl forever, so I started to scrapbook some of the pictures to remind my husband and myself of the great time we had.

Here are a few of the simple pages I have done today…7 in all.  I might add more embellishments once I get them printed to give a more 3-Dimensional look or I might not.

I am not a traditional scrapbooker.  I really enjoy Digital Scrapbooking and I get the same papers, embellishments, backgrounds and layouts as traditional scrapbooking.  The only difference is that I do not have large collections of papers, embellishments and so forth sitting around my craft room waiting to be used.  In other words no clutter, and the way I do things there would be clutter.

About 6 months ago I started using My Memories Suite on a trial basis.  They had a 60 day return policy and I figured if I could not get it to work in that amount of time I would ask for my money back.  Well here it is going on 7 months and I still love it.  So what is My Memories Suite?

My Memories Suite 2.0 is a fun and creative way to keep and share memories, whether you have a Mac or PC. The scrapbooking software’s design tools will help you to build entire albums effortlessly using one of the many installed templates, or designing your very own pages from scratch. Version 2.0 includes 20+ new templates, over 1,500 new papers and over 1,300 new embellishments. There is even a new color swatch library with matching sets of papers and embellishments. And if you’re searching for even more templates, visit My Memories Suite online Design Shop, which offers a growing library of digital scrapbooking templates, papers, and kits to inspire your creativity!

I started scrapbooking late..my kids were already grown.  So now I have a lot of time on my hands.  So last year I decided to see what all the fuss was about.  I had most of the pictures through the years uploaded to my computer files (another bid to drive away boredom), but they were just sitting there and since I am the only one who sees the computer images what was the point?

So a friend who is in to paper scrapbooking got me started.  I enjoyed it, but you need organizational skills, and lots of different papers, embellishments and whatnots.  I don’t have a lot of room so papers were everywhere and I soon found I took more time to clean up my mess than I did actually making pages.  So I stopped, it was no longer fun.  I am of the firm belief that if something you are suppose to be doing for pleasure is no longer fun, then don’t do it.

But I still had all these albums, and stuff!  Some of it I gave to my friend, but I still had a lot left over.  Then I read an article online about Digital Scrapbooking and how easy it was.  The pictures were already on the computer, I had a publishing program that I had used to edit a lot of the pictures already, so why not give it a try.

Digital isn’t something I’ve really gotten into yet…Digital scrapbooking design can be a enjoyable method of using graphics software to showcase photos along with other remembrances for the objective of protecting the moment in time.

Digital scrapbooking tools are essential to get in the modern era of scrapbooking that has long been a popular activity of many people throughout the generations. Tools in the previous years have been obvious: scissors, possibly some scotch tape along with a book into which pieces of interest might be placed. Parents maintained photo journals of their children and family members. Some athletes kept a similar journals of their exploits about the arena and adolescent women loved to scrapbook their most favorite idols of stage and screen. But all of the previous scrapping booking guidelines have been thrown out the window with the introduction of digital technologies.

Digital scrapbooking is very uncomplicated. Go ahead and take photos that you would like using a digital camera and download them to the laptop or computer. If an individual has a traditional SLR 35mm camera, the film will get developed and then your photos could be scanned and downloaded. As soon as they are downloaded, the photos may be changed in several ways by making use of digital software. That which was once a simple photo could become something which appears like something out of a favorite publication, particularly once the individual learns how to operate the a variety of digital scrapbooking tools that are offered. These freshly reassembled photos may then be produced and put into attractive bound books specifically created for this function or may be delivered via the internet to family and friends .

Digital scrapbooking design moves creative imagination past the restrictions of paper crafting. Use the strength of Photo Shop to crop, re-size, and include side effects to photos. Then investigate online sources to locate everything from total page designs to enhancements for standard pages, such as backgrounds, three dimensional components, fonts, and downloadable scrapbooking design.

Develop your FREE Family Tree and learn things you didn’t know about your family members. Create a free family tree to follow your unique ancestry and genealogy, complete the holes, and find out more about your own ancestors and family history to help you produce a more comprehensive and in depth history scrapbooking design.

Scrapbooking is not only an enjoyable (and addictive) pastime — it can be a method to protect treasured memories. But there is no need to select Scrapbook Themes just simply because they’re popular or can be bought in a pre-packaged package. It’s more significant to select the memories which you feel are worth the additional work of protecting within a scrapbook which will last a life-time then figure out from that just what the scrapbook style ought to be.

I love digital scrapbooking and I’m always on the look out for great new digital scrapbooking goodies. I’ve found a great one that I thought I would share with you:

“Scrapbook MAX 2.0 is finally here – and everyone is  loving it! After years of research, development and requests, your “digital scrapbooking software wish-list” is now a reality. Scrapbook MAX 2.0 is the fastest, easiest and most creative scrapbooking software program available”

They are offering introductory pricing, a free 30 day trial and an exclusive “Life is Beautiful” expansion pack at no extra charge. It’s packed with goodies and you can’t get it anywhere else.

Here are some of the great new features of the software:

* Easy-to-use, with unlimited creativity. It’s perfect for both the novice and avid scrapbooker alike.
* Point and click, drag and drop visual interface. It works the way you do, like using paper and scissors.
* New super-fast graphics engine gives you more speed and power than any other scrapbooking program.
* Move, resize and rotate your photos, embellishment and text in real-time and with total control and precision. You won’t believe it until you see it for yourself.
* Bend, curve, distort, deform, pull and stretch your text into eye-catching patterns.
* Total control over drop shadows, with settings for angle, color, depth and blur.
* Zoom in on your photos for editing and cropping precision; go back to the original size instantaneously.
* Fill your text fonts with patterns, textures and color washes.
* Color picker/eyedropper lets you easily choose colors by simply clicking anything on your screen.
* Sophisticated cropping tools, featuring non-destructive cropping for maximum flexibility and creativity.
* Overlap and “squish” your text characters.
* Flow your text along Bezier curves.
* Outline your text characters, with control of color, thickness and transparency of the outline.
* Full control of opacity and transparency of your text.
* The most accurate (sub-pixel precision) graphics engine in any scrapbooking software. Translation? You get archival level quality in an easy-to-use package (i.e. you don’t need Photoshop to get professional results!)
* And more.. too many to list in a quick email message!