A couple of months ago at work, I had the opportunity of meeting a wonderful woman named Sharron who just also happens to be a grandmother. We chatted about some of the things that she has done for her grandchildren and I absolutely loved her idea of the book she has created for them.

The book is about her so that her grandchildren can get to know her better. This is a wonderful gift to give those grandchildren who live far away.

She purchased the software Scrapbook Factory (I believe at Office Max for about $40) and used that software to create scrapbook pages.

She gathered motivational thoughts, sayings, scriptures, and pictures of things that she enjoys or that are meaningful to her.

Then, with the Scrapbook Factory, she designed cute scrapbook pages around the sayings, thoughts, and pictures. She printed the pages up at a local Kinkos and also had Kinkos cut the pages to the size she needed. She went to a local scrapbooking store and purchased small photo albums and plastic pages. She put the printed scrapbook pages in the plastic sheet protectors and put the plastic pages in the small photo albums.

She gave each of her children and grandchildren a copy of the book for Christmas. She showed me one of the books that she made and I was very impressed with it.

As I look at the specifications for the Scrapbook Factory software, it sounds like it is a neat program. It has templates galore (6,000), 60,000 graphics, 5,000 photo realistic embellishments (whatever that means . . . ), and over 1,500 fonts. (I’m a font freak so just having this many fonts available would be worth the price of the software package and never mind about the other features!!!)

Since I don’t do scrapbooking, this software program will do it for me by designing the pages. I like that. I’d MUCH rather use technology than spend my time snipping little designs out of paper, gluing them on a page, arranging stickers and creating a page that cost $5 to make and holds less than 4 pictures! (I don’t mean to offend those readers who like to scrapbook. I’ve seen amazing scrapbook pages. That’s just not me . . . .Wait! Since this software is so amazing, maybe this it will convert me to scrapbooking . . . maybe . . .)

Happy  digital scrapbooking!
Digi-Gram

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