Online Scrapbooking Websites
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OK, you’ve just bought your very first digital design pack from digitalpaper.shop. You’ve spent hours coming up with creative ideas and fun themes and now you don’t know where to begin?
Every beginner to online scrapbooking has probably spent hours reading through blogs and looking enviously at other peoples fine creations. There are many places to get started and there are even some free online tutorials, courses and software that can help you in getting to understand your new hobby a little better.
Top Websites to Use
Scrap Girls – A little sexist in its title but quite fitting because it’s mostly women that put their thoughts, memories and dreams into a scrapbook. They have a whole section of their online site dedicated to helping you advance your digital skills. Be sure to sign up for their free daily newsletter full of digital scrapbook tutorials, inspiring layouts, and a free download in every issue. No matter how long you have been involved with digital scrapbooking, you will always find new ideas to try and products to fall in love with at Scrap Girls.
Cliptomize – Cliptomize is a website that provides you with the basis for your scrapbook. All you have to do is sign up for a free account and you are ready to start. Digital scrapbooking allows you to experiment with designs, images and layouts without the fear of making mistakes and ruining a page. If you make a mistake just hit the ‘undo’ button and give it another try. Your digital scrapbook supplies will never run out and it is absolutely free.
You can upload your own photos, add text and choose between hundreds of free clipart, images and backgrounds to customize your scrapbook. You can even add videos from YouTube and Vimeo. Keep your scrapbook private or share it online with friends and family.
SmileBox – SmileBox is probably one of the most used scrapbooking sites online. Personalize a unique scrapbook design by adding photos, then embellishing and journaling to your heart's delight. Celebrate and commemorate the first day of school, baby's first year, or a family vacation with adorable decorative touches and thoughtful notes. Smilebox scrapbooks are an incredibly easy yet enriching and fulfilling way to preserve and share all the moments you want to hold onto.
ShabbyPrincess.com - The Shabby Princess is more for the digital scrap-booker; you'll find some great tutorials (even tutorials using Photoshop Elements!), FREE downloads, a gallery where you can showcase your work (as long as you use 75% of her products in your work), and the Shabby Shoppe where you can purchase her digital kits. There's also the Shabby Princess blog where you can find some inspiration from. Even if you don't enjoy traditional scrapbooking, you can still design items like recipe cards in scrapbook style and give them as a gift to the cook in your like or just make them for yourself!
TwoPeasInABucket.com - Two Peas in a Bucket is like your one stop shop in the scrapbooking world. There's everything for the paper scrappers and the digital scrappers from numerous brands as well. There's a huge community on Two Peas in a Bucket where you can upload your work, photographs, and compete in weekly competitions.
Along with these options there is so many all over the web to choose from so don’t be afraid about trying them all because after all that’s what makes digital scrapbooking so special. You simply can’t waste anything and if you don’t like the outcome you can start all over again. There is such a variety of things to do and there is even a large community base on the web where you can learn fresh techniques from the more advanced and talk to beginners like yourself!