Scrapbook Express

I have realized that I'm about 8 years behind in my scrapbooking. It's not like I have kids I need to get on the page. Why am I printing my pictures and pasting them into a book when all of my photos are digital?

Shutterfly is coming to my rescue. I'm uploading and printing the books by year. This year I've got lots of little 7x9 books so they'll just go into my album. Wonder if I'll have any 2 page spreads at all? It will even be fun to do a page (or two) of photos from Facebook. Kind of a year in review. It's just little mundane bits and pieces of life but those are memories too.

Update:
Just got my first books. Resolution is not good, but then again, my photos weren't great. One book was taken entirely from Facebook photos copied from friends. I'm going to try Snapfish, the company that Pioneer Woman uses. We'll see if there's a difference.

Shutterfly - A Boon to Mankind

I scrapbook. I am way behind with my projects. Recently I decided to try going digital on a project for my nephew's high school graduation. My sister lives 4 hours from me so it's not easy getting together to share pictures on a project. Shutterfly, Inkubook, How Time Flies and Snapfish all allow you to create bound albums. Since just a traditional album averages around $20 and stickers, paper and stuff can add up to around $10 for a two page spread I figured a $50 digital album would actually be saving money. Most of my pictures since 2002 are digital so it's easy to get them uploaded. My sister uploaded her pictures and I was ready to start.

I wound up picking Shutterfly and picked a 12x12 custom album. The layouts vary from one picture that takes up the entire page to a collage of around 8 pictures. When you upload an album they automatically put a 7x9 book together and let you preview. These are pictures from one of those albums. I didn't have to do anything but upload and change the background design. These little books look great. All you have to do is drag a photo from the bottom photo strip and drop it in place to make changes and it's easy to change the layout. If you want to get fancy you can do a scrapbook page with Photoshop and upload that as a full page. I broke down and bought Memory Makers software to help me with that. Haven't tried it out yet.

Maybe I'll buy a regular photo album for this year and stick a bunch of these little $12.00 Shutterfly books in it!