Weddings

Brides are always beautiful and they are a great treat to make scrapbooks for. Before Christmas, I finally got my very procrastinating little sister to fork over her wedding photos. She didn't have to ask why. I made a beautiful scrapbook as a Christmas gift for her and her husband. My sister and I have about eighteen years between our ages; she is more like a daughter to me than a sister at times. Weddings are always a big event. For wedding scrapbooks, a clean design is usually recommended. Papers are often white, ivory, black, and lots of vellum is recommended. But if you go digital, Smilebox has several designs to choose from. All you have to do is find your photos you want to use and plop them onto the page. You can email your finished scrapbooks to friends and relatives, add music to them, blog them, and print them off from your computer. Smilebox takes a lot of the work out of digital scrapbooking for me. I highly recommend anyone who has not tried it to give it a shot. Other programs for scrapbooking are PhotoShop and PhotoShop Elements which are two more that I recommend, although there is a learning curve associated with these. You can also use Microsoft PowerPoint to make scrapbook pages. Microsoft has lots of clipart to use as embellishments. So if you are fortunate to get the opportunity to make a scrapbook as a wedding gift, Christmas gift, or just for yourself, remember to keep the layout clean, simple, and elegant. Less is more in terms of embellishments. Also, if using black and white, changing the photo to black and white is recommended as well. Good luck!