PowerPoint and Scrapbooking

Why not use PowerPoint for digital scrapbooking projects?

It could be because some folks prefer the tactile experience of touching their stencils and paper cut outs. I can relate: although I keep an online journal, I also keep a pen and paper notebook.

It's also a sensory and creative experience to use different media. The act of feeling the paper products, using your hands to cut shapes is quite different than manipulating digital images with a mouse and keyboard.

I particularly admire the more abstract, cloth scrapbooks that end up being quilts or bedspreads. Is today's scrapbooking party yesterday's quilting bee? I don't know.

I do know that there are plenty of free scrap book resources online, where you can download templates, stencils, and kits for your real world scrap book buzz...and you can use these digital elements for your digital PowerPoint scrapbooking, as well.

Check out seven fine sites for your scrapbooking fix:

• 2 Peas in a Bucket - about 9 free kits to download, as well as a selection of modestly priced kits. The free kits have very beautiful, coordinated themes with matching elements
• All About ScrapBooking - advice and articles about scrapbooking, as well as a circle cutter template available for free download
• Sample Layouts - get ideas for your next scrap book by looking at sample layouts in a variety of categories.
• Scrapbook Templates - Just tons of scrapbook elements, all available for free download.
• The Little Pillow - Lots of pdf frame downloads for your personal scrapbooks. Cute, too! Pandas and polka dots, baby ducks, back-to-school, teen frames, and more!
• Create-A-Face is a free windows application that lets you build and print unique paper doll faces.
• Hewlett Packard's Madagascar Scrapbook Kit - if you liked the movie "Madagascar", HP lets you download some free Madagascar Scrapbook themes.

Get scrappy!

¶ 10/03/2005 01:49:00 PM