Category: Scrapbooking

What is a Scrapbooking Yard Sale?

It started a few years ago as a way to help my customers clear out their old scrapbooking and craft supplies and get discounted new items that they would actually use.  2015-07-03 15.21.36

This will be my 3rd time offering a Scrapbooking Yard Sale and it has turned into quite a fun event.  I look forward to using new tools and techniques this year to share about the items we have available.  I have set up a closed Facebook Group where I can share with my customers and the friends they invite specific items that are for sale.  I still like to offer in person shopping opportunities but I look forward to using the FB Group as an additional way to share this event with more people.  I give the link to the FB Group on the Events Tab of this website along with other events I am offering.

Do you have a project that some new stickers or paper would help.  Are you interested in more scrapbooking or photo solution tips and tools?  Be sure to check out the Photo Solutions page on this webpage.  I would love to have you join us as we work together to celebrate our photos through albums and special photo projects.

 

So excited to be back up and going with my Digital Scrapbooking

 

 

It has been a process to get back up and going with my digital scrapbooking.  I have needed a new computer for several years and finally purchased my new computer a few weeks ago and am loving getting back into the things I love.  We are gathered this weekend for our weekend mini crop in Smithfield, NC and I am excited to be able to get pages done in my next photo album quickly with Artisan.  If you loved Storybook Creator Plus, then Panstoria Digital Contentcheck out Panstoria’s Artisan by clicking the banner on this page or use this link: Artisan.   If you need help getting started again or are brand new to digital scrapbooking, I am happy to set up a time to walk you through getting started.  I always appreciate your loyalty so be sure to use one of these links to be sure your order is connected to my account.

 

Where are your Photos?

Where are your Photos?….A questions I often ask people I have met over the last 11+ years.

Where ARE Your photos today?  Are they tucked away in a closet, maybe in a box, maybe never printed, maybe still on the camera or your phone.  If you wanted to locate that perfect photo of you and someone you love, could you find it easily.  Do you have the stories of the most special photos captured.  Have you ever held a precious printed photo in your hand and new it would be a treasure for many years and generations to come?

I have developed a passion and love for printed photos, those that are great angles and those that captured someone’s candid expression.  I love to have a photo to pull out and share with family when they are visiting that we can all reminisce together about a time years ago, or pull out a photo of a family member or friend who I don’t see often or who is no longer with us and remember the times when we were together.  I definitely don’t think that every moment needs a camera out and picture to capture that it happened but boy are there some special moments when you do intentionally capture the people and experiences along our journey in life.

Where are your favorite photos right now?  Would you like for them to be at your finger tips either digitally or in an album?  I would love to help you take the next step in getting your photos organized and getting the very best of them at your finger tips so you can celebrate them in the best way possible.  Let me know if I can help you with your Photo Prints or Digital Images.

Getting back into Digital Scrapbooking

Part of the motivation of starting this website and blog was to have a place to share about my scrapbooking business and the opportunities I offer to my customers.  A little background in case you are new or didn’t know I had a scrapbooking business.

I started as an independent consultant in 2004 with Creative Memories and loved sharing traditional scrapbooking products and tools with my friends and family.  I was one of those that said “I am not creative” but oh how I loved photos and getting them in my albums plus as a consultant I had the privilege of sharing what I had learned through my own projects with others and helping them create albums of their own.  I learned quickly “creativity” was something different for each one of us and our style was what made our albums special.

I was excited to add digital scrapbooking to my list of skills and opportunities around 2007.  Having a central place like Memory Manager to store and organize all of my digital images on my computer and be able to tag in different categories so they were easy to find when I needed them was a huge blessing.  With the growing number of digital photos we have with digital photography, it can easily become overwhelming to figure out a system to store and organize your digital photos.  In addition to the photo organization, I also loved tapping into my creative side with Storybook Creator Plus and creating beautiful digital photo pages that I would later add to my photo album.  It was so easy and quick to get my photos onto the page and add the journalling and upload to print.

Over the last few years we sadly saw the Old CM close down and with that came the end of the support for the CM version of the programs we had grown to love.  The good news is that the original developer of the CM programs Panstoria is still alive and well and we can continue with all the things we loved about the CM digital products both the software and the Print Shop.  I am happy to share that I now am using Panstoria Historian and Artisan software and loving it.  I would love to help you get back up and going with your digital projects when you are ready.  You can come to any of my upcoming crops or workshops and ask questions or watch for upcoming Digital Photo Organization and Album Making opportunities.

You can learn more about each of these great programs by following these 2 links:
Panstoria Historian 4 photo management and editing software
Panstoria Artisan digital scrapbooking software

Panstoria Digital Content

Rest & Recharging

What does a week of vacation really do for you?  For me, I have found that it takes almost 1/2 the time to clear my head of all of the routine things that are constantly running through my mind but once I finally get lost in a book or in a new experience, or in laughing over silly things with my family, I realize how much I need a time to rest, clear my mind and recharge.  I have just wrapped up one of these perfect weeks away with my family and am so thankful for each of them and the time we have had together resting and experiencing less structured days.   Read more