Life’s Lessons

The first time I saw a digital scrapbook layout by a blogger friend, I was drooling and I wanted to scrap at that instant. But then I don’t know where to start so I asked that friend how to start digital scrapbooking. She was helpful enough and told me there are tutorials in youtube for beginners. Since I have CS3, and I wanted to scrap badly, I turned to youtube and look for a tutorial for beginners. Luckily, I found one video tutorial that is so easy to understand.

As I am getting the hang of it, I am learning new things each time that I scrap. For beginners like me, here are 5 Digital Scrapbooking tips to make a layout:

1) Learn the basic in youtube. If you are not yet familiar with how layers work in Photoshop, look for a tutorial in youtube about working with layers. Since it is the basic of digital scrapbooking, everything will be easier once you get the hang of it.

2) Check for freebies. Before I learned digital scrapbooking, I was already downloading freebies from different sites. There are lots of designers, stores, or even personal sites offering free digital scrapbooking materials from kits, quickpages, templates, to frames, and other materials.

3) Scrap with the right motivation. I was always intimidated with seasoned digiscrappers’ pages/layouts. If I compare my digital scrapbook layouts with their work, mine is definitely inferior with theirs. But as some friends told me, I need to put in mind that I am scrapping for me, my family and friends…and not for others. Hence, whatever my page/layout would look like, as long as I am keeping the memories through scraps, then I am good to go. Digital scrapbooking is keeping/recording memories, not a contest.

4) Exert effort in journaling. This is my weakness. I am not into journaling so most of my layouts lack journaling. But then I am trying to incorporate journaling into my pages now. I realized there are instances when photos are not enough to tell a story, so journaling is definitely the best thing to do to complete the memory-keeping process.

5.) Use templates. Beginners and even the seasoned digiscrappers use templates to make their work a lot easier. I tell you, it really is! When I started working on my photobook, I worked from scratch for the first few pages. Until a friend suggested to use templates. It did work! You can use the same template a lot of times, just change the paper and add other elements.

I hope those 5 tips and tricks could help budding scrappers in one way or another. Happy digiscrapping!

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P. S.

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