I am so not a crafty person. Yeah, I like to knit, but that's pretty much where my Martha Stewart ends. In the recent past, I've begun to work on my photography skills as well as the editing that goes along with that, however, I'm still not 'into' the tail end of that as most would expect ... scrap booking. I just don't get. I think it's so cool, I love to look at books other people make, I just don't have enough creativity to wrap my brain around making something even remotely cool enough to call a scrapbook...let alone find the time to cut out paper and glue it to more paper and then glue pictures to it. That was my least favorite part of second grade. Sadly, pre-digital pictures at my house haven't even made it into books...they're still in a big tub, still in the little print packages, filed by date...all still including negatives. I aspire to get them moved to cd someday so I can actually have a hope of doing something with them, but I'm just not ready to second mortgage our house. =)
I have a point. Stick with me.
So, I have all these pictures of Kabe and rarely print them. At Christmas I gave Adam's mom a little photo book because she doesn't even own a camera. My parents (mom especially) takes pictures and loves to scrapbook. I send her pictures occasionally, but Connie doesn't even take pictures...I can't imagine. Last week Adam asked if I would put together some more pictures to send to her. Pictures of Kabe...my specialty!
This got me thinking about a website a friend had told me about where I could digitally put my pictures into pre-fab pages and either use their backgrounds or grab others from their website which then creates a scrapbook that is printed and sent to me (I know...but I didn't really have to be creative!). So I thought I'd try it. I started last night & finished tonight...17 pages mostly of Kabe and it was pretty fun - but sshhhh! Don't tell my crafty friends! I don't have time to really scrapbook!
My little project can be seen at Picaboo.
Enjoy my little bit of craftiness - who knows when it'll occur again. =) And of course, PLEASE, let me know what you think!
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5 comments:
Great job! But how can you go wrong with such a good lookin' subject to work with?! I'm sure she will love it.
Dude, good idea! I'm not the greatest designer either, so I'm in the same boat. Not very handy for making wedding albums (good thing I have templates!)! Anyway, I was going to tell you about a couple other books you can make that are very snazzy looking...
www.blurb.com
Here are some photos of one I did:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollybirchphotography/tags/blurb/
I love, love, love them!!
And I think I may have also used Walgreen's book creator once or twice (it wasn't as user friendly though)
Wow, fantastic idea and you did such a great job! Such a cutie ;)
Alicia
Very cool...spoken from a true scrap book person!! My favorite page was the baseball page!!
This looks great Jen and a good fit for you since you don't enjoy scrapping like I do....although really what is up with that? Everyone should scrap...... :D
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