Using your computer and the Internet as
a tool in your scrapbooking opens a whole new world of possibilities
for you. The Internet can be a wonderful resource for you to access
products and supplies you may need, inspiring layout ideas for when
you are blocked as well as enabling you to become part of a large
scrapbooking community. Fonts you can download are available online
to give your journaling new dimension or if you aren't satisfied with
your own handwriting.
Remember, your own handwriting is part
of the history of your album so it doesn't matter if it is perfect
but this is also you are creating an album for yourself so do what
makes you feel comfortable and happy.
Examples of Computer Scrapbooking
Journaling (type out all your journaling on your computer if
you feel you want this degree of uniformity to the text you are
adding to your scrapbook pages).
Create layouts (including clip art), print them out, apply
to a scrapbook page and add photos.
Create layouts to which you add digital photos and print the
entire page to add to your scrapbook.
Use digital borders (borders available for scrapbook pages
you are creating online).
Use background patterns (like patterned papers you would add
to scrapbook pages) to add to layout pages you print out.
Use digital cropping (crop digital photos online to your specifications
to use in scrapbook pages you are creating online).
Expanding possibilities with your text (different ways to position
or arrange it on a layout online).
Downloadable fonts (use a variety of fonts to jazz up your
journaling if you prefer not to use your own handwriting or you
think it would suit a certain layout.) You can print out the journaling
you are going to use on your scrapbook pages or include it in
pages you are creating online.
Clip art available on the net (can be used to accent the theme
pages you are creating or in combination with other techniques
such as chalking or to create die cuts and paper piercing).
Find quotations, poetry, page titles or toppers online to use
on your scrapbooking pages.
Use scrapbooking and journaling software to complete your scrapbooks
if you need help.
There are even scrapbookers for hire if you want someone to
create some pages for you.
Create online scrapbooks that can be viewed by relatives you
don't see often.
Please feel free to use the craft ideas, projects and patterns expressed
in this site however, they may not be republished on or off line without
the expressed written consent of mycraftbook.com.
