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14 May 2012 No Comments

Pregnancy Announcement Layout Ideas

What an exciting moment this is! You just gave birth to a fresh new baby boy or girl!!! of course you want to announce it to the whole world but how…

well I found this website that I found absolutely amazing and unique, it’s easy and quick and you can either print and send or email them and add music to the announcement!

You can also make your own cards of course, traditional cards make for very unique cards, but with a new baby , it’s more difficult to make.

I suggest trying digital, I use Creative memories, Storybook 3.0 – Here is one example that I find absolutely beautiful:

I would love to see some of your ideas on this!!!

Happy Cropping!

by Scrapbooking For Fun in Uncategorized

10 May 2012 No Comments

Mother’s Day Scrapbooking , Breastfeeding Layout

Hello my fellow scrapbookers,

With Mother’s day fast approaching, I thought this layout would be appropriate, this is me and my youngest son, my second joy in life. I’ve been a Breastfeeding Support Mother for almost 2 years now, I’ve breastfed both my sons – and actually still breastfeeding my 27 month old son.

I have to admit, when I had my first son, I thought – 12 months would be my comfort zone, He weaned himself at 19 months of age. My youngest , now well into his 2 years, I’m still loving that “bonding moment” besides, soon he won’t need me to comfort him as much, he won’t want to be cuddled even, so I am going to enjoy this moment as long as I can!

Here is my page , hope you like it.

“Instant Happy Baby: Just add Breastmilk”!

Happy Cropping!

by Scrapbooking For Fun in Digital Scrapbooking, General, Scrapbooking Ideas, Traditional Scrapbooking

10 May 2012 No Comments

Wedding Scrapobooking layout ideas

Hello my fellow scrapbookers, here are a few digital wedding page layouts I made using Storybook Creator 3.0.You can also easily use these ideas in traditional scrapbooking.

Happy Cropping!

by Scrapbooking For Fun in Celebrations, Digital Scrapbooking, Scrapbooking Ideas, Traditional Scrapbooking, Wedding

28 Mar 2012 No Comments

Sorting Your Pictures, The “Hard copies”

I admit, I no longer do traditional style scrapbooking much, but there are of ways to safely organise your pictures!

I['m hard set on Creative Memories items as they have proven to me they are safe, and quite useful.

I'll list a few MUST haves, the ones I truly loved while doing traditional scrapbooking.

The best item I bought - of course being a Consultant at the time and taking part in numerous workshops, was the bag on wheels! sooooo much easier on the back! You put all your items in this bag and everything is neatly put away and ready for transport. I had one with all my tools and a smaller one for all my pictures.

This is what I loved to sort my pictures for workshops! It's a mini picture file there is also a nifty one that's a 12x12 size that works great for those larger pictures or paper:)

Another nice tool to organise your pictures neatly and safely: Power Sort Box.

This may seem like a long process - but my trick was - sitting in front of the tv, watching your favorite show or movie - grab that old unsafe shoe box hidden under your bed and start sorting... you'll see it will go faster than you expected and on top of that - you will have so much fun reminiscing back at those old memories!!!!

Now of course you can use any other organising items for your photos, I am simply guiding you to what I tried and loved! Just remember when choosing you items, make sure they are acid AND lignen free at all times! This will make sure you keep those pictures safe, and the colours will stay as they should.

Happy Sortin!

by Scrapbooking For Fun in Scrapbooking Ideas, Traditional Scrapbooking

28 Mar 2012 No Comments

How Do You Sort All Your Digital Memories?

Well, I never thought it would become an issue for me – I had everything all neatly sorted in their own folders on a separate hard drive… This was awesome – until baby 2 arrived, I just completely lost it.

ok – I went out and bought this software from Creative Memories, called the Memory Manager 3.0. It actually is a pretty neat software, you can easily cross reference your pictures – put them in different folder without duplicating… For example – you can find that picture of your son finger painting in either the : Family folder, dated folder , or just find the picture with the “name” of your son.

I love it – I won’t hide the fact that I use Creative Memories Digital Scrapbooking Software aswell: Creative Memories Storybook Creator 4.0 so this is very compatible and easy to use together!

DON’T FORGET to back up your pictures! You can use the ” memory vault” to back up your pictures – albums and all…

Here’s a Virtual tour I found.