SALE on Photo Books and Gifts!

Check out my Photobooks{etc} Blog for information on a great holiday gift giving sale!

There's plenty of time to make a very personal gift that's sure to be a hit!

Feels So Good to Be So Bad...

I have been working on a book at Heritage Makers. As I slapped a piece of digital scotch tape over a photo, I realized how fun it is to be so naughty! I remember watching a segment of THE VIEW last October where Rosie O'Donnell was "scrapping" with these women who were saying it was okay to use masking tape and paint all over your photos. It was downright frightening. But, with digital scrapping, you can tape, staple and paint with abandon. It breaks all the rules that we have spent the last 15 years setting on the traditional side of the industry.

Recently, an expert on preservation spoke about scrapbooks at an event in Utah. She said she doesn't care for the new methods of scrapbooking and feels like the books won't last. She advocates holding your scrapbooks with white cotton gloves. That's taking things a bit too far, IMO. Can you see me asking everyone to put on little gloves before they can touch my albums?

I'm not even that hung up about acid-free. My mom made me books when I was small using all sorts of acidic products and nearly 40 years later, they as still hanging in there. I have no problem slapping a concert program or a picture from a magazine on my page. I might not stick it over my photo, but I will certainly put it on my page. I figure that past my grandkids, no one will care about my books. They'll rip out the photos they want and toss the rest.

But you can really be naughty with digi scrapping! It's fun to slap a digital staple in the middle of a photo to attach a piece of digital ribbon. I don't even think twice about it as I might with traditional scrapping.

Feels so good to be so bad...

Heritage Makers Software finally released!

Finally - Heritage Makers went live with their Studio 2.0 software! I gotta get in there and get my Christmas books finished! The release was a bit later than planned, but they wanted to make sure it was working well.

And, now, you can get a free Basic account (it was previously $9.95 to set it up). It doesn't get you the Studio 2.0 content with the drag and drop software and the $2000+ of Scrap Girls stuff, but it will give you access to their Classic software - a very simple storybook-type layout where you plop your photos onto page templates and write your story. You can upgrade to the Studio Premier Subscription ($19.95/month) later. Click HERE to set up your free Basic account.

Congratulations to Heritage Makers on this very cool software upgrade!