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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:

Check out what’s happening at CreateForLess this month. May 2 was National Scrapbooking Day, but they are celebrating all month long with these great promotions…

It’s a celebration of scrapbooking this month at CreateForLess. Our Scrapbooking Sale is featuring some of our most popular scrapbooking supplies at great low prices. Sale items change weekly – this week we’re featuring scrapbooking albums, then adhesives, punches and Bazzill Cardstock. This is the perfect promotion to add to your scrapbooking section, especially if you’re already promoting National Scrapbooking Day.

Shop, Crop and Save at the CreateForLess Scrapbooking Sale.

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The title of this book, SCRAPBOOKING OFF THE PAGEàAND ON THE WALL: Off the Page And on the Wall (Scrapbooking) says it all. The projects included within its pages take scrapbooking to a new level, turning your memories into artwork to be displayed on the walls rather than in a book. The project ideas include a variety of themes; Family, travel, vacations, babies, sisters, gardening, children’s special moments, graduation, friends, weddings, heritage, cowgirl, love, sports and pet themes and decorations for holidays and around the house. The unique aspects about the scrapbooking projects in this book are the materials on which the photos are displayed. Among them are canvases, shadow boxes, frames of various shapes and sizes, shutters, an aluminium sheet, particleboard, mat board, a clipboard, ceramic tiles, a wood cabinet door, an artificial evergreen wreath and a small wood screen you assemble yourself.

Most experience scrapbookers know what Digital Scrapbooking is, but there are still pockets of us who did not know.  We knew what digital meant, and we knew about scrapbooking, but combining the two just never occured to some of us.

As you know digital scrapbooking is using your computer and a software program to save your memories for yourself and generations to come.  You download your photos either from your digital camera or from a scanner.  I downloaded a free version of Fusion Foto to see if it were something I would like to do, and if I could come up with anything that resembled a scrapbook page.  I have to say I have never done scrapbooking of any sort, I have watched it done and have been fascinated.  I never thought I could do as I am challenged artistically in most things.  I am happy to say, I didn’t do bad.  I wish I could show you, but the free version of Fusion Foto, saves with watermarks all over the pictures.  But I am still having fun learning, and will purchase the complete program soon.  Then you will be able to see my masterpieces!

“A Day Without Scrapbooking Is A Day Without Sunshine- Anonymous”

As we all can see, the practice of Scrapbooking is quite a rage today. It has spread like wild fire all over. We see everyone around us indulging in this vibrant art. Scrapbooking can be called an art which employs the visual medium to preserve thoughts, ideas, feelings and memorabilia. The main focus of Scrapbooking is to create an impact through the visual medium. It uses several art and craft forms to do so. When a person surfs through his scrapbook after several years, it serves as an interesting read for him.

The art of Scrapbooking has had its origin long back. In ancient Greece, people preserved their thoughts, feelings, ideas, emotions and daily routine in notebooks called ‘hyponemata’. Commonplace notebooks which are a recent concept are also quite popular in preservation of thoughts and feelings. They are a concept allied to that of the scrapbook. The most famous people who maintained scrapbooks were Mark Twain and Thomas Jefferson.

I have never understood the need to scrapbook. I have friends that make page after page of photos, but never saw the allure of cutting and pasting pictures on top of one another.  At least that is how I saw it.

Although I do like doing things with my hands and letting the creative juices flow, the traditional method of scrapbooking never appealed to me.  Digital Scrapbooking, however, does appeal to me.

About three years ago, I started going through photo albums looking at the pictures of my children as they grew and they were in a hodgepodge of order.  Some were marked others were not, as I never seemed to have the time to put any order to the albums.  There were pictures in shoeboxes that just sat.  Pictures of the rest of my family when they were young, including pictures of my parents when they were children.  Pictures of grandparents I barely remember.  Some were fading, some were bent, and some even got stuck together because of dampness.