Scrapbooking Made Simple

O.K. so I have done my back in .... again.... this is a long term injury that I've had for 21 years now and gotta say I'm mighty over it! Anyway this means I can't get to my crafting table to do some layouts... which would normally kill me... but now that I've got digital scrapbooking again it's not a problem at all. This layout is the first page of an album I'm planning for my darling hubby. Hubby is doing some business coaching at the moment. Which I gotta say I was against. I know he loves sharing what he knows and taking a business from nothing to something... but my experience of this is always that start ups don't appreciate him. In the beginning they're all great... then somewhere along the way they forget what it is that they didn't know and totally dump on him. I've watched him get disheartened over and over again and really wasn't keen, but so far fingers crossed this client understands that she doesn't know how to do any ...

Here's another page I threw together using the my memories software.  I wanted to see how easy it was to use with other kits. I do have some kits I've collected over the years (free ones of course) and wanted to see if it was easy to use this software to create a page. It did take me a while to figure out that I wanted to add shapes, then put a "photo" (actually the jpeg file) into the shape to get the different patterned papers on my background. But once I got the hand of this I was swinging along nicely. I love using digital scrapbooking when I'm making something for several people. For instance my girlfriend threw an awesome party for her 40th Birthday and alot of the girls I went to school with were there. On the night we had lots of awesome photos and rather than make up 7 different mini albums and take hours and hours to do that.... I made one simple digital album which I emailed to all the girls and they took to their photo labs and had printed. I a...