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I am interested in digital scrapbooking, but could someone tell me where I could find the CM program? Thanks!!
BTW-Kori-your book is amazing and your kids are super cute!!
you can get on the creative memories website, type in your location, up will pop names of consulants in your area. Contact one of them and they'll hook you up with a copy.
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I'm still confused. Is there one program for making digital scrapbook pages or do you have to buy each page? I'm so confused. I want to do this but I have no idea where to even start. Kori I love your book so far. How and where did you find your pages? How did you get started?
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Teresa, I'm by no means an expert and I know there are many different ways to go about it, but here's how I understand it with the Creative Memories software. You make your pages on your computer, as many as you want you can just use the basic software and have many options or you can purchase more backgrounds and "stickers" etc... Then once the pages are made on your computer, you can print them on your printer if you have the capablity or send them via interent to Creative Memories ($8 a page), Costco (much cheaper at $3 a page) or elsewhere, they print the entire page and you insert it into your scrapbook. I hope that helps.
Something else about digital scrapping...a lot of BOYS are starting to do it IF they are told that it is "graphic design". I think scrapbooking is great for kids, it gets them involved in the process and gives them something creative to do. It's also fun to get THEIR perspective (12yo did a page with peanut butter playdough creations from the Coral Reef and CRT with the caption: "we will miss you " ) They can work on it on the laptop in the car with no mess!
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I'm still confused. Is there one program for making digital scrapbook pages or do you have to buy each page? I'm so confused. I want to do this but I have no idea where to even start. Kori I love your book so far. How and where did you find your pages? How did you get started?
Thank you. My MIL bought me a scrapbook program called Memory Mixer for Christmas last year and that is what I am using. The program has different "papers" and various embellishments to add to the pages, plus I have downloaded TONS of freebies from the internet that I use. (Honestly, it's almost gotten to be an addiction with me! With money tight these days, it's how I curb my shopping urges...I look for digi-scrapping freebies online! LOL!) Before I got started, I bought a couple of kits from a person on ebay, which I think are mostly scans of real papers and Disney elements. I have found a few Disney freebie kits online of items that the artist made for themselves (mostly the Mickey silhouette in various forms, collections of papers that seem Disney-ish, etc.)
So, basically, I look at the pictures I want to use for my layout, then look through the file with the different background papers to find something that seems to coordinate. The program has some suggestion layouts for the pictures or you can make up your own. You can also modify the program's layouts -- so if it has three slots for photos and you need more, you can add another one, or take one away if you need fewer, etc. Then I just play with the various embellishments until the page looks right to me. The program will also add effects to the photo -- make it sepia or black and white, make it look like a sketch or impressionist painting, etc. I haven't played with that much, except to make things black and white or sepia.
Or, if you prefer, the program also has ready-made pages (they call them Quick Mix pages) and you can just plug your pictures into those.
I also use the free photo editing software GIMP to edit my photos...I used to have Photoshop, but my old computer died and we've lost the original Photoshop discs when we moved, so it's an okay substitute. I use that when I want to cut the background out from the picture or something along those lines.
I also subscribe to several e-newsletters to get ideas for my layouts. My favorite is one by ScrapGirls.
Hope this helps. Let me know if I can answer any more questions! And thanks again for all the compliments!!
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Kori and Lisa ~ that helped ALOT. It sounds very interesting and something I may be putting on my Christmas/birthday list.
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I am starting to learn digital scrapbooking. I am using Photoshop Elements. I became interested after putting a couple books together on Shutterfly. The books turned out really well, but I wanted more flexibility. So far I LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! digital scrapbooking. It's so much easier to show off my hard work to people. It's so easy to e-mail pages, and I can have as many copies of a page/scrapbook printed as I want. While there are tons of freebies on the internet, there are also tons of kits that can be purchased that aren't horribly expensive. And you can use the papers, elements, etc. over and over again. It is addicting!!
Gals, I love reading all your posts about Digital Scrapbooking. I am a CM Consultant in NY and I am so in love with our StoryBook Creator 2.0 Software - it is the best out there!! We even have a Disney Content Download available for those Disney Vacation Albums. I would love to see other people's ideas with the software with Disney ideas as my last trip is done in traditional CM albums and we are going in Jan. 09 and will be going digital and always love to see others creative ideas on how to design pages.
I am just starting to look in to digital software. I am thinking of getting some CM software but want something easy to understand and makes it easy to add on to with the freebies and ebay stuff! Can you explain which one you would recommend!
I am interested in digital scrapbooking, but could someone tell me where I could find the CM program? Thanks!!
BTW-Kori-your book is amazing and your kids are super cute!!
You can either purchase the CM program directly from a CM consultant, or you can order it directly online and download it from the website. You still have to have a consultant ID number on your order so someone gets credit for it. I have had several of my customers order it this way and therefore they can start working with it right away.
I'm not sure how to pick up another quote - so to answer the question about is it books or pages. It can be either. Some people print individual pages and insert the into albums, or you can print an entire bound book.
I have printed the 12 X 12 pages at Costco. (or directly with CM, but with the shipping this was more expensive). I'm sure there are other places to do so.
I do some of each. Most of the time I like working with actual paper, but there is unlimited possibilities with the digital that I love.
This is my new Hobby!
I went with the Polaroid My Memories Suite. I love the flexibility since I want to design my own pages (Minnie page, Pluto Page, etc) I also want to imitate the layouts Disney uses in their photopass so by having this option I can design all I want!
also once done with my scrapbook, I wanted to add music and Play it in the TV as a Slide show, make gifts for others etc. so to me that was important.
10 reasons why My Memories Suite would be the perfect scrapbook solution for you. 1. Easy. No training and no experience necessary. 2. Fast. Pre-designed templates that let you “FastFill” an album in seconds. 3. Options. Print a page, publish a book, burn an interactive CD or DVD, send to a personal multimedia device, create a greeting card. 4. Multimedia. Add video, music, narration, weblinks and hyperlinks. 5. Variety of Content. Choose from professionally designed templates or create your own with hundreds of backgrounds and embellishments. 6. Time-saver. Build one “master album” with photos and all multimedia, then decide what output to choose. 7. Cross-platform. Mac or PC. 8. Cost Effective. Less expensive than traditional scrapbooking. 9. Multiple Copies. Print or burn multiple copies to share. 10. No Mess! Compare to the sticky mess of traditional scrapbooking—all you do is “save” and turn off your computer
This is my new Hobby!
I went with the Polaroid My Memories Suite. I love the flexibility since I want to design my own pages (Minnie page, Pluto Page, etc) I also want to imitate the layouts Disney uses in their photopass so by having this option I can design all I want!
also once done with my scrapbook, I wanted to add music and Play it in the TV as a Slide show, make gifts for others etc. so to me that was important.
10 reasons why My Memories Suite would be the perfect scrapbook solution for you. 1. Easy. No training and no experience necessary. 2. Fast. Pre-designed templates that let you “FastFill” an album in seconds. 3. Options. Print a page, publish a book, burn an interactive CD or DVD, send to a personal multimedia device, create a greeting card. 4. Multimedia. Add video, music, narration, weblinks and hyperlinks. 5. Variety of Content. Choose from professionally designed templates or create your own with hundreds of backgrounds and embellishments. 6. Time-saver. Build one “master album” with photos and all multimedia, then decide what output to choose. 7. Cross-platform. Mac or PC. 8. Cost Effective. Less expensive than traditional scrapbooking. 9. Multiple Copies. Print or burn multiple copies to share. 10. No Mess! Compare to the sticky mess of traditional scrapbooking—all you do is “save” and turn off your computer
Ok, that sounds pretty cool. I'm going to look into that this week.
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