Scrapbooking Made Simple

This layout is one of my more boring offerings. BUT it's true to the real point of scrapbooking. Preserving memories. So I'm including it regardless. The title here was cut out using a cricut machine using a shadow font. The little envelope was from a gift tag and holds the journalling about this photo. This photo shows how DD couldn't put her feet into first position for the first year of her dancing and how she used to have to bend over and place her feet in the right position using her hands. I thought it was so cute! I've used a piece of patterned cardstock for the background and then embellished the photo to add interest. I love the little pair of ballerina shoes I found and stuck in the bottom left hand corner of the photo.

Get Your 500 Scrapbooking Sketches Now... Click here! This layout is very simple and very cheap. I only used one sheet of cardstock, A quater of a packet of $2 rub ons, One chipboard letter from a packet of 26 costing $3.95 and some packaging off a christmas present. I have again blacked out the face of the child that isn't mine as i didn't have time to ask permisssion off her mother so I didn't want to risk it This is darling daughter's best friend. They started ballet together at the beginning of last year and here they are in their matching little outfits. When I was doing this layout I wanted to use the chipboard letter that I had but didn't have a patterned paper I liked. Then I remembered the packaging off the shower gel, moisturiser, bubble bath I got I think it was for Mother's Day? Anyway it was perfect. It was this simple strip of patterened cardstock still sticky on the back! The gift tag also came in handy as my journaling spot.

This is another page pre-done. It's a free kit from 2 Peas by Rhonna Farrer. I love the ease of these sort of pages. As they help me to catch up with alot of the back log. I always like to add something else as it makes it my own, so I added the journal block which was another free element from 2 Peas.

Well here it is my very first attempt at Digital Scrapbooking . I used the Scrapbook Max program for this one. It was VERY easy to use! I don't know how to do torn edges, inked edges and other interesting things like that but I was pretty happy with this as it was my very first attempt. After investigating the costs to print pages though I've come to the conclusion that this is only more economical if you're just keeping them in digital format. For example a 12 x 12 layout was $3.99. And once you factor in the cost of your program, cost of supplies and other incidentals it's getting to be over $5.00 per page......... MMMmmm I'll have to keep looking into this! Maybe it's not so cheap after all.... Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!