Article Of The Month
April 2008 - Online Scrapbooking
On your travels around the Internet, you may have come across our sister site, Paper Wishes Online, and wondered how online scrapbooking became such a phenomenon-- or how to do it yourself!
Online scrapbooking is a fantastic tool for people with a lot of photos and not much time. It gives people who are too busy for traditional scrapbooking (but who want great pages) an alternative to the giant stacks of photos tucked away in a box in the closet….or stored on a computer hard drive.
Best of all, you don’t need special software or technical skills to make pages online. You can drag and drop your photos in and crop them to fit the layout, personalize the page with your own journaling, and print at home or professionally. You can even order the real embellishments to add to the layout so it's 3-D instead of a flat print-out! It's not just for scrapbook layouts, either; you can also make your own holiday photo cards and photo announcements for new babies and pets.
If you're going on a vacation, online scrapbooking is the perfect way to upload your photos and save them to layouts as you go. You can also journal while the memories are still fresh in your mind, and even share them online with friends and relatives before you even get home!
You can set yourself a weekly or monthly date to do online scrapbooking, which can keep you from ending up with a giant "to-do" stack of photos. Wouldn't it be nice to be forever caught up instead of having a huge backlog?
Scrapbooking online is a great way to complete a gift album. I know one woman who had two weeks to make an album for her grandmother's 100th birthday! Online scrapbooking was her solution. As an added bonus, if any family members want a copy of the album, all she has to do is order another one instead of having to sit down with the scissors all over again!
So that might answer your question about why online scrapbooking is great. It's time to move onto the how! Here are the steps, quick-and-easy:
- Make an account at Paper Wishes Online. It's easy and free!
- Select a layout you like.
- Upload your images. You can crop and resize them within the program, so they're very flexible in terms of fitting the layouts.
- Type your journaling in the allotted space. Share your thoughts on the photos or the memories you couldn't capture on film.
- Print! You can print your pages at home for free or have them professionally printed and shipped right to your door. You can also share them online with friends and family.
That's all there is to it, so what are you waiting for? Online scrapbooking is the perfect way to get your photos out to your friends and family in a flash with no mess and no fuss. Try it out today and get through that stack of photos you've been putting off!