Welcome to my scrapbooking site. I will be adding more items in the coming weeks so be sure to check back by.

Have you gotten into scrapbooking yet? It's a lovely way to preserve your most precious memories and histories. Scrapbooking has been around for many years, but it has been the last 20 or so that folks have embraced it in a big way, and now with computers, the possibilites for scrapbooking have been greatly enhanced.

Scrapping is a deeply personal venture. It's a way to preserve memories. When you do a scrapbook, there is no right or wrong way - it's personal, it's history, it's art, it's about YOU.

Scrapbooks can include almost anything - photographs, drawings, memoirs, quotes, poetry, newspaper/magazine articles, recipes, greeting cards, and just about anything else that would have some personal meaning to you. They are decorated with any variety of elements such as buttons, string, ribbon, and so forth. You also add text elements to the scrapbook pages, such as poems, sayings, journaling, titles.

I've created a variety of graphics for you to use. These items can be used either on the web or printed out for use with your paper scrapbooking projects. All of the images were created at 300 dpi. Use the navigation menu to the left to find a large variety of items.

There are several ways folks do scrapping these days:

1. You can just create it with paper and real 3D elements, as a page to be included in a book.
2. You can use computer graphics programs to create items, which can then be printed out and used in the scrapbook. Any graphics program will work, but some popular ones are Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and even Microsoft's Paint program.
3. You can create the entire scrapbook on the computer, just for digital use (e.g., posting it to your webpage, sending my email, etc). The project is entirely digital, not for printing.
4. A combination of these methods.

When creating your scrapbook page in a graphics program, the size of your image will depend on how you intend to use it. If you're going to print it out, you'll probably want to make it something like 8.5 x 11 inches,12 x 12 inches,or 13 x 19 inches. [Note: If you're using these file sizes, the image will take up quite a bit of memory, so you may want to make sure you have any other programs closed]

If you're going to use it on the web, you can make it a size that suits you (500 x 500 is a size I use often).

If you're going to use the image digitally, you can just use 72 dpi. If you're going to print it out, use 300 pixels/inch (some folks say they get good results at 200, so feel free to experiment with that if you wish).

Most home computers will print 8.5 x 11 size paper (although there are printers now available that will print larger sizes). If you're interested in learning more about wide format printers, here are a couple of links that may help: http://www.theprinterdatabase.com/ and http://www.steves-digicams.com/printers.html.

If you don't have a printer, or if you want a larger size not accommodated by your printer, you can save your scrapbook page on CD and take it to some place like Kinkos, and they'll print it out for you

Thank you for stopping by my shop, and I hope you find something you like. If you have special items you'd like to see added, drop me a line and I'll see what I can do.