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What Is the Best Site to Use for Digital Scrapbooking?

What is the best site to use for digital scrapbooking?

I want to put together some scrapbook pages for my daughters, and I have been very slow to do it. I thought doing it digitally would help, but my first few attempts were very frustrating since the sites I have tried don't give a lot of options or seem to run very slowly or lose saved projects.

I'm looking for a site that offers pretty and varied choices (for example, I am not a rubber duckie and pink lace type of Mom) and is easy to use.

Thanks!!

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I've used snapfish.com and found it fun and easy, much more so than doing it with scissors and glue!

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www.Blurb.com (great for family photo keeping)
www.scrapblog.com (great for individual fun pages a little more creative...)

Truthfully I had ignored my friends love of this site for 6 months... then I saw a book she made and I decided to check it out. It is easy to use, saves on your own computer till ready to print and you can make pages with one to ten+ photos on them. When the book is done you can publish it for yourself and even offer it to others if you want, but it is all on your own computer. The thing I love most is that you can write as many comments as you want on almost any page... to tell the story- and that I can scapbbok it for the whole year and then print it or I can do special little books or if I take alot of pictures (not usually) I can print two books for the year, what ever I want... My friend has made various books, hard back with dust jacket, Hard back and several paperback... They are really cool. She doesn't suggest makeing the book three hundred+ pages (which she did one) because it takes forever to look at...

Anyway totally worth looking into...
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I've used snapfish.com and found it fun and easy, much more so than doing it with scissors and glue!

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I use blurb to create photobooks. It's different than scrapbooking, but I really like it, and blurb.com is BY FAR the cheapest option. I like it because you download the program on your computer and then upload your book when you're done. It makes it a lot quicker. Have fun.

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As a Creative Memories Consultant I admit to being biased but the best software I have seen out there is Creative Memories Storybook Creator Plus($59.95). It is very intuitive and easy to use and produces great quality books that are printed by Creative Memories. You also have the option of creating your own custom size designs that can be printed at home or uploaded to your regular photo printing site and have individual pages/photos printed. Creative Memories also offers tons of support through webinars and a Facebook site (Creative Memories - Go Digital).
In order to digitally scrap you also have to have your photos saved on your computer which brings us to another wonderful Creative Memories product, Memory Manager ($39.95) which is the best photo organization program out there. THe wonderful thing about it is as long as your internal camera clock is set, your photos are automatically placed in chronological order when they are added to the program and then you can save your pictures in individuals folders while still having full access to a timeline scale that enables you to narrow photos from an entire year to a specific month to a specific day. As well, you can journal in the program and attach your journaling to a specific picture so you never forget and that story is right there for you when you are ready to scrap it.

Check out the webinars at www.mycmsite.com/calleygoostree, Help Zone -> and the Digital Life, Got JPG's, and Digital Inspirations hyperlinks to really get an idea of what the programs have to offer. As well under Help Zone -> Digital Content and you will find hyperlinks to .pdf files of all the kits, papers, and embellishments that are available as well as the predesigned pages that are available for free with new downloads available every month.

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scrapblog.com is awesome!

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I use Shutterfly.com to do most of my printing of scrapbooks... here is a link to a few of the books I have done.... http://community.shutterfly.com/gallery/aboutme/myGallery...
Though I have done the actual scrapbooking with my own materials, they offer a lot of options.

I have tried and been happy with smilebox.com and scrapbookflair.com. I still use scrapbookflair as a gallery for my layouts that I have done. If I only want to print pages and not make book, I can use scrapbookflair to help me put it together and then print them at Costco which I have found to be the cheapest with best quality in the area.

And if none of those work for you, I am a digital scrapbooking kit designer, photograhper and create scrapbooks for others (or you see us called Scrap 4 Hire). Please, I am not trying to sell myself to you because there are a lot of free help out there... just want to leave the option open. I am going to leave you with a link to my scrapbooks that I have created for others on shutterfly (so you can see what you can do and what I have done) as well as my gallery at SmugMug and my blog.

http://community.shutterfly.com/gallery/aboutme/myGallery... (Shutterfly)
http://pupplo.smugmug.com/Scrapbooking (SmugMug)
http://scrappingwithangel.blogspot.com (My blog where you can pick up freebies)

I hope that I helped in some way... if you need help with finding free digital scrapbooking products, let me know and I will send you that way.

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I like scrapblog.com as well. It's easy to use, fun stickers, inspiring design layouts. And it's free to use. I haven't tried printing yet but that looks reaonsably easy. I edit a parenting magazine - www.piedmontfamilymagazine.com. Last month we had an article ("Organizing Memories" under the Family Time Section) on organizing, saving, and presenting your best photo memories, with expert advice from a photographer and Creative Memories consultant - maybe that will have some ideas for you. Have fun (and BTW...I'm still working on my 6-year-old's "baby book"...it's never too late!)

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I use scrapbookflair.com

It is a free scrapbook downloadable program. It is not perfect but I have made cute pages. I am not a big scrapper but I enjoy the digital process. No mess...no fuss.

If you find a good site that is free, please share your insight.

Good Luck!!!

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