Digital Scrapbooking

I love Scrapbooking but the materials cost so much and now there is Digital Scrapbooking I have a few favorite picture programs that I think I can't live without .Microsoft Picture It 2000 and yes I know there were versions after this but it is still my favorite I tried the last version out that Microsoft made and it's no wonder they will no longer make this photo software They messed up by changing the format and it made the program a lot more complex the normal users . There is Gimp 2 that is free and you can use the Adobe plugins with this I believe .I also love Paint Shop Pro but version 9 is what I have but there are tutorials for PSP that still use version 4 and that was a while ago . If you search on google or dogpile you can get all kinds of free stuff for psp like tubes brushes plugins patterns ,etc. You can probably still find some stuff for Microsoft Picture It even but if you don't want to make your own supplies for digital scrapbooking there are plenty of freebies available also. Just look up Free Digital Scrapbooking on google or dogpile and you should find a lot of Free Digital Scrapbooking materials to get you started There are tutorials also for helping to learn about Digital Scrapbooking Most printer companies like hewett packard and epson have craft free printables and scrapbooking materials on there websites If you want to make and print there are lots of websites that also have materials to print to use for scrapbooking in a scrapbook If you like Paperdolls www.makingfriends.com is a great website for printable paperdolls I have made a lot of paperdolls for my nieces from this website and also google free paperdolls and you will find other sites also My youngest niece recently found her sister paperdolls I made her when she was little .I had made a paperdoll of my oldest niece and her sister thought it was herself . So this Christmas I am giving her own paperdoll of herself. What I did was download a free paperdoll and crop or erase the face and place my nieces faces behind the doll and print out the clothes that go with her .I hope she enjoys it paperdoll as much as her sister did. If you want to make printable stuff for dollhouses or Barbie at http:// www.printmini.com/printables / I also love computer crafting I have made banners and other computer printable crafts for family and friends adding photos to t-shirts ,calendars ,candy bars I have PrintArtist for banner making and etc. If you can save your pictures with a cd or dvd burner make sure you write what's on them when you burn the disc I have spent a lot of hours looking through discs that I had no idea and if you like some of the digital scrap booking stuff save it on a disc because if they discontinue it and you liked it your going to be disappointed if they remove it from the website .So if you find something you think you might like to use sometime for your scrap booking save it but if you like to post your layouts you might want to make notes where you got your materials to give them credit for their work and if you want to digital scrapbook to sell make sure you don't use someone else stuff make it yourself.