I’ve been trying to get back into making my scrapbooks, as I have about 2 years of stuff to catch up on. I finished scrapbooking our wedding and honeymoon pictures, but I’ve still got stuff from 2005 waiting to be done. So I’ve gotten some new “scrapbooking toys” that I’m enjoying – letter stickers, chalk, a nice pair of scissors, some letter stamps.. makes the whole process a little more creative and fun with more tools. Anyway, I was reading the forum on scrapbook.com, and I found this thread that mentioned about how HP’s website has a whole section on scrapbooking!
I’m not particularly interested in the whole “digital scrapbooking” phenomenon, where you make the whole scrapbook pages in Photoshop and then print them out… though I think I’d enjoy it, I try to take scrapbooking as some time away from the computer!
But, some of the ideas on the HP activity center might be enough for me to give the “combined digital and regular” scrapbooking idea a try. Especially interesting is this information on how to emboss with your inkjet printer. Another idea I’ve seen is to print out letters backwards on a sheet of paper, and then cut them out with a craft knife, and you’ll have your own custom title for the page.
Another techy-related scrapbooking item I found was this ScraPerfect, which will prime any surface for printing in an inkjet printer. Supposedly with it, you can print on slick vellum, regular transparencies, ribbon, and all sorts of stuff.
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