Preserve Memories by Scrapbooking

Posted by Dexie

Scrapbooking has become such a household name among Moms(non-Moms too) all over the world. I didn't really venture into it until I had my second baby. I just couldn't afford it before. Scrapbooking could get really expensive. The materials that are very abundant and accessible to anyone who wants to start are not price-friendly to a one-income family, well mine anyway. But I've found ways to help me out which I will share with you in a moment. In a very much digitalized world these days, it's so easy to just set aside the many pictures we take of our children, families and friends in a memory stick or transfer them into a CD and forget all about them. If we get them developed, they'd probably be stored in a shoe box for years. Scrapbooking has made it possible to preserve all our wonderful moments in life in a very fun and relaxing way. I've got the affordable part covered :) .

I go to 3 different places to get my digital pictures developed. Snapfish, Photoworks and Wal-Mart. I've been using Photoworks more though because it's actually cheaper than Wal-Mart. Not to mention they resize the pictures and make it fit without cropping any detail of the picture like Wal-Mart does. I also love the glossy quality of the prints compare to the glossy prints from Wal-Mart.

The 3 places aforementioned are done online. I usually upload my pictures and order everything else at their site. Wal-Mart and Snapfish has an option for 1-hour pick up at their stores. Snapfish uses Wal-Greens. With Photoworks, the pictures are sent in the mail.

When it comes finally putting everything together, I was lucky to get my frist kit from a friend. I was able to start right way with the Baby Book for my daughter. As this hobby of mine progressed, I found scrapbook materials at $ stores, where everything is prized for $1. I have also found .97 cents stickers from Wal-Mart. If you check EBAY, they have a lot of affordable ones as well. If you have friends who dabbles in scrapbooking, don't be shy to ask them for their leftover scraps. I hope they're as generous as my friends are :). I've started a family album as well. I bought the album from Wal-Mart for only $8. So if you are starting out, Wal-Mart is a good place to get you starter-kit materials.

One habit I've discovered that helps me out a lot is cutting out stuff from magazines. Letterings, phrases, pictures, quotes. Magazines, and old cards are great resources for scrapbooking. So I suggest you peruse the pages of you magazines before throwing them out. Old cards that you recieved for Christmas, birthdays and just everyday ones are an amazing option as well. I usually do my "cutting time" at nights while I watch my favorite TV shows. I do my pages on the weekends, at nights.

You can see the bigger versions of the pages posted above and more pages at my flickr.

Please share with us your own scrapbook pages.

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Summer said:

Thanks for being part of the Carnival of SAHMs! Don't forget to stop by and see what other great posts we have this time.

Posted at 01:00 PM, on June 11 2007

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dexie said:

thanks for including me Summer. Will do :)

Posted at 02:41 PM, on June 11 2007

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