Giving Digital Scrapbooking a Try!

Years ago back when scrapbooking was all about Creative Memories, dye cuts, fancy scissors, punches and stickers I was an avid scrapbooker. I kept up pretty good and actually really enjoyed it. Well, life happened, scrapbooking supplies were put away into storage and I haven't scrapbooked ever since. Needless to say, after years of missing out on the latest scrapbooking trends, my old ways are, well, "old school," and I now have to catch up with the new. So, after looking at lots of different scrapbooks and being educated by my sister, Andrea, I think I'm ready to take it up again. I have been introduced to some new words in my scrapbooking lingo such as Photoshop Elements, embelishment, elements, overlays, brushes, etc... way different from the good ole days! I've decided that rather than doing the traditional manual cutting, sewing, gluing, and taping blah, blah, blah-- you know all the stuff that takes way too much time, I would allow my computer to do the dirty work. I am taking on DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING!! I have learned there are several ways to perform this challenge so for my first project, just to get my feet wet, I went to a website called Smilebox where all I had to do was add pictures--so easy! While I don't plan on this being my method of scrapbooking I thought I'd try different techniques to find what works best for me. Eventually, I hope to move up to expert status and someday become as good as my sister, Andrea Sponenburgh. You really must check out her blog to see the adoreable scrapbooking pages she has done both traditionally and digitally http://andreaspon.com. What an inspiration!

Below I have put together a scrapbook of Ava's birth. I chose this so that when the new baby is born I will put together some scrapbook pages and be able to share a comparisons of their births. I can't wait to see what this little princess is going to look like! Anyway, enjoy for now and I'll be sure to add updates as I learn more and more about the digital scrapbooking world. Andrea, I'll be in touch!!

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