Coburn Kids

I’ve been working on a new project, digital scrapbooking.  I’ve always seen and admired people who scrapbook but was never able to really get into it for a number of reasons.

1. Too expensive.  Stickers that cost $4, ribbons that cost $2, paper that can cost .50-$2.50
2. Requires too much space.  You need somewhere to store all of the materials.
3. Time.  Big one here; you have to print the pictures, cut them, buy the stickers and pages, assemble them, keep the materials organized, write on them, remember the dates, etc.

Props to those people who use this as their creative outlet, who love and adore this and find the time in their day to make this happen.  My sister does scrapbooking and does beautiful work. I’m an online person though, no surprise.  So I thought that there had to be a better solution for me, that was just as good, but never really knew what to look for.

Then my mom, my sister-in-law and I went to the “What a Women Wants” show at the South Towne Expo center (highly recommend it.) I came across these fabulous looking digital scrapbooking pages and asked how much their software was… $25 a pop.  Hmmm, expensive there too.  My sister-in-law told me that you can get them printed at Costco for $2.99 a page.  That wasn’t bad, so I went home thinking “there has to be something cheaper” and BOOM! found it.  Tons of sites that offer free digital scrapbooking images for nothing or next to nothing. These are high quality images, elements/ribbons/pages are done in 300 dpi resolution and are the 12×12 high quality graphics you need to make stellar quality images for printing.  So I tried a couple, uploaded them to Costco and had Daniel pick them up.

I had him print out 5 pages of them, so just over $16. Figured that was a good starting point and couldn’t wait for Daniel to get home so I could see if this was even worth it.  If it would be as high quality as I thought and something that I and my kids could be proud to show.  They turned out wonderful!  So, I’ve been working on the last 7 years of photos and there’s no need to print out the pictures, no cutting, no gluing, minimal cost involved.  The only thing you really need is an editing program like Photoshop (I bet even Paint) would work, some creativity, and a Costco membership thought I’m sure some other stores do them.  It’s just the perfect solution for someone like me.  You can see some of the pages I did below: