The CCS Virtual Scrapbook! Will unstick on 4/30/2013

[tzuhouse]

Mary those are so cool! Did you do those as a project or is that something you do often? Where do you get the larvae? My kids would LOVE that. The pages look great, too!

Thanks! Trying to keep the layouts kind of simple so the photos are not consumed by the layout.

We have raised butterflies in our living room for about 3-4 years, now. Started with a kit, then planted milkweed and brought the monarchs and raised the larva we found. Next year we began gathering the eggs and added Gulf Fritillaries and Black and Giant Swallowtails to the group. Last year we got our first Polydamas and Pipevines. Just raised 3 queens over the holidays, but the larva came from my MILs house. We have no butterflies flying here, right now. I'm so ready for Spring. Ordered more butterfly castles yesterday, so when they arrive, I'll be ready. We just keep an eye on the yard and when we find eggs or larva we bring them in and raise them. We release them in our yard once they emerge, hoping they'll mate and bring us more babies. It's pretty much an ongoing science experiment as well as a conservation project. We homeschool, the boys help me feed, clean, etc.

If you like those layouts with the butterflies, you might want to check out my layouts at www.photobucket.com. Search for album "tzuhouse" Those in the 12x12 disney sub album and 2007 layouts have already been posted here, but none from the other albums will be posted here, since they were done a while ago. I know there are a couple of butterfly layouts over there, but not sure which album they are in.

I use to take some albums to classes I taught and finally decided it was easier to just take pics of them and put them online. Sometimes students might not get done with their class project, so they could complete it at home by looking at a pic of the project.

I've got more butterfly pics to scrap. Went to the Texas Butterfly Festival in October. Have tons of pics to scrap from that. Looking forward to it.

Mary

 

[Yzerbear19]

Here are the Disney pages I've done so far. There are a few more, but they aren't quite done yet. And you will notice the some of the pictures or parts of them are blurry, thats intentional for privacy reasons. The lighting in the room where I took the pictures isn't the best, so some are a little darker than they are in real life.

Starting off with my favorite!!! Mulan!!! The flowers and letters for this layout were done with my new Cricut!!!

Lilo and Stitch. The picture of the second page of this one turned out blurry, but you can see the second page in the second picture which is the two pages together.

http://members.aol.com/Yzerbear19/Disney/Scrapbook/Lilo2.jpg

World Showcase. The only thing really missing from this one is some journaling/captioning, but I hadn't printed that off the computer yet. Other than that, its done.

Flame Tree BBQ This was the first page I did for my Disney book. I really like the colors in the paper that I used. This picture is dark, but you should be able to get the idea of the page.

 

[tzuhouse]

Those are awesome! Love the color combinations you chose! Love that you have used the autographs on the pages. Did you just scan in the autographs and print on acid free paper? I'm going to have to scraplift the World Showcase one, for sure. Where did the flags come from that you have running across the top?

Mary

 

[Yzerbear19]

Those are awesome! Love the color combinations you chose! Love that you have used the autographs on the pages. Did you just scan in the autographs and print on acid free paper? I'm going to have to scraplift the World Showcase one, for sure. Where did the flags come from that you have running across the top?

Thank you! For the autographs since my scanner is broken I took my autograph book and copied each page at work on the copier. Then cut them all done so I was able to fit four on a page and made a master copy for each so that I could copy them onto cardstock if needed, transperancies, etc for whatever the page needs. I think the ones in those are on Kodak matte photo paper that I copied at work. Some of them I shrunk down on the copier to fit the page.

For the World Showcase layout I had found this paper of world flags at the local scrapbook store. I had originally got it to cut the words out of, but that didn't turn out so great so I saved the remainder and decided to use it as a border. The paper used is World Traveler from Designs by Reminisce: http://www.designsbyreminisce.com/gallery_vacation.htm

Then on the bottom of those I typed up the names of the countries represented at World Showcase on the computer at work then pieced them together to create a string.

 

[Fran98765]

Made this one this morning.

 

[tzuhouse]

Like the layout. Is that digital scrapping? We haven't ridden Kali, yet. It was too cold when we were there, but definitely adding it to the trip for September.

Mary

 

[Fran98765]

Thanks and yes it's digital.

 

[Caitsmama]

Fran -- nice layout!!!

Here's 2 lo's i just did today - Both are all digital. I am going to try to take advantage of www.scrapbookpictures.com 's sale on 12x12 lo printing this month -- i have a 12x12 printer, but for 2.00 each, it's worth having them do it for me.. then when i am done with my 2006 disney album, i am going to probably switch to landscape size..

The above paper was bought by me today from scrapoutsidethebox.com , the kit name is Live out Loud.. i love the bright colors!!

The above paper and tag (the white one) was downloaded free from two peas in a bucket.

 

[Caitsmama]

Here's another for tonight..

Papers were part of a free kit at 2peas.

 

[KimAshton]

Wow these are beautiful. You are inspiring me to digital.

 

[Caitsmama]

Ok, here's my last one for the night.. again, as like the others.. all digital!! (do you see a pattern here?? I am SOOOO lovin' the digital!)
Kit is called "refresh".

I also wanted to try to do a "see thru" black and white copy of the photo.. can you see it to the left?? This was my first attempt at doing this, and i really like the effect..

 

[Yzerbear19]

I also wanted to try to do a "see thru" black and white copy of the photo.. can you see it to the left?? This was my first attempt at doing this, and i really like the effect..

Nice. Though if I could offer a suggestion. You might want to put a shadow on the words "Downtown Disney" because its difficult to read. Or change the color. Also the pink dot on your daughter's eye looks a little strange. Coll page though!

 

[pppiglet]

Wow...those digital ones are awesome! I'm barely getting the hang of regular scrapping. I love the look of digital, but I know I'd never have the time to learn how to do it.

 

[Fran98765]

Couple more from me.

 

[scrappinmom]

WOW I never knew digital scrapping looked so cool! I wouldn't even know where to start. Do the pages just look like a picture when you print them out? Do you not have all the "supplies" like print scrappers? I mean you don't need a whole entire room to store your stuff right?

the pages are really awesome!

Fran - I clicked & looked at your other pages too....

we're planning on going to Niagra this spring - I loved looking at your pages!

 

[Caitsmama]

WOW I never knew digital scrapping looked so cool! I wouldn't even know where to start. Do the pages just look like a picture when you print them out? Do you not have all the "supplies" like print scrappers? I mean you don't need a whole entire room to store your stuff right?

the pages are really awesome!
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Well, i just discovered Digital -- so i already have a full room of traditional scrap supplies..LOL The designers are so talented, that the pages look really nice when printed, just like you want to reach out and touch them.
Honestly, i think the main reasons i am loving digital - are:
1: No clean up!! LOL
2: you can pretty much do it when ever you want -- no effort , which makes it very relaxing - no draggin out supplies and hunting thru drawers for the right embellishments-- they are all on your computer!
3: It's quiet. I can do it at 11pm, without waking up anyone with an embossing gun, eyelet setter.. etc.. you get the pic!
4: (And my fav reason) - IT IS SOOOOOO MUCH CHEAPER!
You can buy kits for about $3-$15, with papers, matching embellishments, fibers, fonts..etc.. that all coordinate, and the best part is - you can reuse it all over and over again! No waste!
And, if you are anything like me, when i have a great "traditional" ebellishment, i seem like i am always waiting for the "right" page to use it on so i don't "waste" it -b/c they are so expensive! Well -- imagine being able to use your fav embellishment on as many pages as you want! It's wonderful.

Oh and my other fav reason --- you can shop INSTANTLY.. lol.. I love instant gratification - you shop, and download right away -- no driving to the store for the perfect papers, or waiting for a shipment via mail!

 

[tzuhouse]

That digital scrapping is very cool. I can certainly see the benefits of it, but what would I do with all my cardstock! I think I'd miss working with all the stuff. What I would like is to find someone that can scan in my Disney pages, convert them to 8x8 and print them for me so I could put them in the boys albums. I still haven't done albums for them for our first trip. Have one done, but need to add the pictures. Haven't even started the other one.

Mary

 

[Fran98765]

In addition to all of the above wonderful reasons, you can do things to your photos that you can never do on paper, like fade it a bit and use it as your background.

If you have an embellishment that you love but it's the wrong color for your layout, you can recolor it, no extra cost to buy the eyelet or ribbon in dozens of colors.

For me, one of the drawbacks of paper scrapping (besides the mess and trouble of getting stuff out) was the sheer amount of photos I wanted to put on a page, but they never fit and I didn't want to make 2 2-page layouts for the same thing. I hardly ever matted photos, so my layouts didn't look as good as they could, because I was busy stuffing so many photos on a page and you really can only put 3-4 on a paper page. And that doesn't leave much room for titles, journals and embellishments. I love digital because I can shrink and crop photos to just take the amount of room I wish to use. I can make a layout with a lot of photos this way, which can help me share my story.

In paper LOs I always did 2 page layouts and frequently ran out of room. In digital, I find myself doing mostly 1 page layouts and I can fit more on that one page then on 2 paper pages. I've also realized that I don't have to use "every" photo, so that helps too.

I never bought all the nifty tools for paper scrapping, I doubt I could ever justify to my DH spending a few hundred dollars on a cutting machine. I have thousands of digital kits and elements and most of them were free. I had trouble making calendar grids in Nov/Dec and I was making calendar gifts for Christmas, so I bought a grid set for 3.99 and then for my birthday I spent about $22 on digital kits, other then that my thousands of files have been free. There are so many beautiful kits for free out there. I don't plan to spend money too often, but I plan to occasionally buy a kit from the sites I download freebies, as a thank you for their free stuff. Other then the $26 I spent (no tax or shipping on these products too!) I had purchased a newer version of PSPX which I got at a extremely good price of about $30 after sales and rebates.

Especially with Disney pages, the embellishments are so cute and I loved buying the 3D stickers from Jolee's and they are not cheap. I would have easily spent that much on probably half of the amount of pages I have made digitally so far. I have a big stash of unopened Jolee's items that I just found that I am thinking of taking back to the store. I have scanned in several Disney stickers and plan to scan in papers (they are 12x12 so stitching them together scares me!), and I can use them on my digital pages as well. Unlike the Jolee's, I plan to give the nice Disney stickers to my son as rewards for whatever I might reward him with, he loves playing with stickers.

As far as souvenir type things like autographs and plane tickets and receipts and other little things you get at the parks, they scan in well too! My son took a toddler tumbling class last year and at the end of each session they give out ribbons, I scanned them in and used them on my digital page and the looked great. (below)

I can't rave about digital enough! I absolutely love it. My digital pages are much nicer then my paper ones were, partly due to laziness and wanting to get done quick and also due to lack of tools. After my Jan 06 WDW trip, I started to scrap it, got uninspired and stopped after completing about 5 pages of the trip, which was very disappointing, since it was my son's 3rd birthday trip. Later in the year, late summer I think a friend told me about digital scrapping. I poohpooh'ed it saying I had so much paper stuff and blah blah. But after a month or two, I finally tried it. Did some Google searches for sites and tried it myself. It was the ease and convenience that really sold me! I don't think I'll ever go back. I am seriously considering selling all my stuff on ebay, except for plain cardstock which I can use to print on or for cards, etc. With a baby on the way, we really need to get rid of a lot of our stuff, and that would certainly help the cause!

 

[jenr812]

How do you keep the papers and such accessible and remember what they look like? Especially if you have tons of kits like the previous poster? It isn't like you can just finger through your papers til you see one you like! Thanks

 

[First-timer]

im alittle confused about the digital scrappin..... do you print the pages out and put them into a book.... you probably need an expensive printer to make it look clear??? do they go into a regular 12x12 book????