"Scrapbooking isn't just re-living memories. It's re-loving them." ~Janna W.
This month, I'm starting with thanks! This is my Thanksgiving 2025 page. I usually just use one digital art collection on a page/event, but I mixed two collections here, and I love how it turned out. It's fun to look back on that day by having this record of it!
And here's what that page I created digitally looks like printed. I am so blown away every.time. I get a book back from
Forever Print.
Next, I'm sharing a layout that I have really been loving in my last 3 or 4 family yearbooks.
Sometimes I have photos that fit nicely into a theme, like this Thanksgiving one above. But sometimes there are months in which I've just taken a handful of random pictures. I'm not really a "put one photo on a page" type of gal, so sometimes there are multiple unrelated photos that I want to put on a page.
And that was the case in January. So, I used a winter-ish template--something pre-designed for me that I could adjust as needed.
I love how it turned out! I've credited below the digital art designer who created the page, but the one thing I added myself was the word January. I used a fun technique you can do in Artisan called Shape Titles (which I
demo here) to choose a
fun font from my computer and include both an outline and a fill color that I could color match to the page. This technique allows me to stretch the text box however I want.
There was an event in between this page and the one I'll share last. Again, February photos were random, so I used the same idea as my January page, only a different pre-designed template, and this time on two pages instead of one.
Here's the template I chose. I like using pre-designed templates because the designers (credited below) use layouts and color combinations I wouldn't think of.
I love these editable templates! This allows for 10 photos, and although I do happen to have 10 photos I want to put on these pages, they aren't in the orientations this layout provides. Plus, with 5 different events to write about, I need a lot more text space.
(Photos are not actually worth a thousand words. We need the words!) So, I just moved things around and adjusted! How fun is this?!
One thing I love about digital scrapbooking in general is that you can not only crop a photo but you can resize it, too, zooming in on it if you like! It's the BEST.
CREDITS
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Why digital?
First, there's no "right way" to scrapbook, except for two things: 1- quality so your book will last for many, many years to come, and 2- something you will love and therefore do.
I personally choose digital because it's faster and easier, taking up less space in my house than the papers and scissors and stickers (and table space) I needed when I was a paper scrapbooker. I like that instead of having to crop (cut) a photo to make it fit, I can easily resize, zoom in, etc.
I also love the ability to print multiple copies with just the click of a button, and for safety reasons I like that my scrapbooks exist both digitally and in print. (I have scanned my old paper scrapbooks for the same reason.)
And you print it, too?
Yes!! Aside from what I mentioned above: Print has increased accessibility! I print my digitally-created scrapbooks because print is an easily-accessible form of seeing and also sharing (and gifting!) photos and memories. Print doesn't need a full battery in an expensive gadget. Plus, photo experts still recommend print as an important way to store photos and memories, in addition to digital forms.
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