As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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These are wonderful! Do you print your pages, and if so, do you print at home?
I've never tried digital scrapping, but seeing your pages has inspired me to give it a try!
No, I don't print anything here. I'm currently comparing photobook publishers and then I'll get my books professionally made. They'll hopefully look like coffee table books when I'm done. But none of these pictures will get printed. I'm happy to have inspired you to try - it's really fun and the possibilities are endless.
Thanks for all those compliments everybody. And absolutely scraplift away! That's the highest compliment anybody can get.
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Wow, you can really do some fun things with digital scrapping! Do you find it faster than the "old fashioned" way? I've never done digital before.
Yes, I find it faster and tidier and cheaper. And I can be so much more creative with digital. I can customize elements by cropping, erasing, shadowing, reducing/enlarging and changing colours. I can take a picture, blow it up, change the transparency, put an overlay on top and voila! I have a beautiful custom background paper (like the one I did with the little girl). Or I can gradually reduce it little by little 3 or 4 times and have the photo repeated on the page for more dramatic effect. I can use a "mask" and make it look like the picture is coming 'through' the paper like I did with the memory box one. I can make a page look embossed (I'll post an example of that to show because it's cool!) I can make it look 3-D by using shadows and there's a technique I haven't used yet, but I plan to, where the picture overflows out of the frame. And if you want to use souvenirs like tickets or confetti, it's called a hybrid page. You print your digital work then add the souvenirs like a "regular" scrapbook page.
Faster - cropping is click and drag. No templates or rulers. And you can start as soon as you upload your photos instead of waiting to have them printed if you don't print them at home. There's no pre-layouts to make before you glue or rivet everything, you just start. And if I don't like how the page looks when I am done, I can just take apart the bits I don't like and change it until it's perfect. An example of that is that after I finished some pages of the scrapbook I can't post here, I discovered I really didn't like the colour scheme I had started using. It was blue and it looked ok, but just didn't quite "do it". So I changed it to brown and that was what it took to make it perfect.
Tidier - no corners and bits to clean up, no tools, no bags or containers of brads and stickers, no clearing off the dining room table after a scrapping session so we can eat dinner
Cheaper - you don't have to get the photos printed, no cricuts or cartridges, free kits are abundantly available online and if you have to buy a kit, it's usually under $5 for the whole thing (and you can re-use it afterwards).
The only big expense will be printing the books (if you want to print them, you could burn them on a CD/DVD and call it done). You could buy a $1000 Photoshop program, but Photoshop Elements is about $100 and the program I use, Digital Scrapbook Artist 2, was $40.
I don't know if you can tell , but I'm totally sold on digiscrapping. The only thing is --- save, save, save!! I lost a bunch of pages in a crash and that was really
I think the Oregon page is my favorite too, although I love the one that looks like lots of postage stamps. I like how each one of your pages is unique - and beautiful!!
I LOVE them, great job and thanks for posting.
that is one thing I noticed in this board we get a lot of "so many pages completed" but we see NO END RESULT. It was such a delight to see your creation, beautiful, I love the Travel page, DeVine page and the Disney entrance Page! great Job. I am in Mousecrappers.com too, I am addicted to that website!
Yes, I find it faster and tidier and cheaper. And I can be so much more creative with digital. I can customize elements by cropping, erasing, shadowing, reducing/enlarging and changing colours. I can take a picture, blow it up, change the transparency, put an overlay on top and voila! I have a beautiful custom background paper (like the one I did with the little girl). Or I can gradually reduce it little by little 3 or 4 times and have the photo repeated on the page for more dramatic effect. I can use a "mask" and make it look like the picture is coming 'through' the paper like I did with the memory box one. I can make a page look embossed (I'll post an example of that to show because it's cool!) I can make it look 3-D by using shadows and there's a technique I haven't used yet, but I plan to, where the picture overflows out of the frame. And if you want to use souvenirs like tickets or confetti, it's called a hybrid page. You print your digital work then add the souvenirs like a "regular" scrapbook page.
Faster - cropping is click and drag. No templates or rulers. And you can start as soon as you upload your photos instead of waiting to have them printed if you don't print them at home. There's no pre-layouts to make before you glue or rivet everything, you just start. And if I don't like how the page looks when I am done, I can just take apart the bits I don't like and change it until it's perfect. An example of that is that after I finished some pages of the scrapbook I can't post here, I discovered I really didn't like the colour scheme I had started using. It was blue and it looked ok, but just didn't quite "do it". So I changed it to brown and that was what it took to make it perfect.
Tidier - no corners and bits to clean up, no tools, no bags or containers of brads and stickers, no clearing off the dining room table after a scrapping session so we can eat dinner
Cheaper - you don't have to get the photos printed, no cricuts or cartridges, free kits are abundantly available online and if you have to buy a kit, it's usually under $5 for the whole thing (and you can re-use it afterwards).
The only big expense will be printing the books (if you want to print them, you could burn them on a CD/DVD and call it done). You could buy a $1000 Photoshop program, but Photoshop Elements is about $100 and the program I use, Digital Scrapbook Artist 2, was $40.
I don't know if you can tell , but I'm totally sold on digiscrapping. The only thing is --- save, save, save!! I lost a bunch of pages in a crash and that was really
this is exatly how I feel with DigiScrapping I LOVE IT! thanks for putting into worlds.
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Also the picture from the car window. we love to take them too.
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, but I'm totally sold on digiscrapping. 
The only thing is --- save, save, save!! I lost a bunch of pages in a crash and that was really 
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Michelle - with my step sisters!
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