Digital Scrapbooking Day

Making Post Cards

Here's a fun little project that is as useful as it is fun.  Did you know you can make your own postcards?  Really, you can!  It is so simple and is a great way to combine paper and digital.

You can find a compete Post Card Tutorial with all the details.  The US post office will let you mail at 4x6 card printed on card stock for a mere $ 0.27.  You can also print your cards as 4x6 photos and just mail them if you prefer a more glossy finish. 

I started making these a few years ago to send to my DD at camp.  The size is perfect for jotting a little note and sending one every day so they get mail daily.  When my older DD was at a campus program in Boston, she used them to decorate her door and wall.  Usually I use quotes but this year I've made a few for my younger one at camp which have corny jokes on them or cute animals. 

These are also great for

• invitations
• save the date cards
• reminder cards - I made some to remind people about a fund raising event
• thank you cards
• moving cards
• birth announcements
• ads for a sale or event

Here are a couple of examples from my collection:

Credit: Say What by Amy Teets; flower and words from OScraps grab bag; stamp from Picnic in the Park by Kim Hill; file tie by Kim Hill; buttons. ribbons and tag by Corina Neilsen; bent frames by Khristy Schmidt

Credits: August Shadows by Miriam Lima; I scanned some fortunes and added them

Credit: Burst of Color by Kim Hill; font is Beyond Wonderland

Credit: Teen Spirit by Kim Hill; font is Genius of Crack; the dog is my standard poodle who needs a haircut.

Common Abbreviations and Glossary for Hybrid Scrapbooking

Scrapbook Dimensions magazine has posted a Common Abbreviations and Glossary for Hybrid Scrapbooking in their Ning community forum.  The glossary includes definitions for acronyms and terms such as:

• SBR/NSBR
• BOM
• ATC
• Scraplifting
• Digital Piracy
• Blending pencil
• Assemblag
• Fugitive Dye
• Bit Depth
• "Jaggies"
• Lossy Compression
• TWAIN

Check out the Scrapbook Dimensions Hybrid Scrapbooking Glossary for these definitions and many more.

Digital Scrapbooking: A Global Community

You may wonder how widespread is digital scrapbooking?  The locations of the winners from our Digital Scrapbooking Day drawings illustrate how global the digital scrapbooking community really is.

Prizes from our Digital Scrapbooking Day Partners are shipping coast to coast across the United States -- Hawaii, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Utah, New Jersey, Michigan, Florida and California.  Prizes are also going out internationally to the Philippines, Australia, Guam, and El Salvador.

Margie at Digital Scrapbook Place reported having thousands of visitors on Digital Scrapbooking Day, "mostly from the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, but 92 different countries were represented."

92 different countries.  As you crop your photos, tinker with that filter, and print out your journaling, remember that you are a part of a worldwide movement to tell your stories in a safe and creative way.  You are part of something bigger - a global digital artist community.

DSD Prizes Awarded!

The moment you have been waiting for...the announcment of the DSD prizes from our wonderful DSD partners.  Thank you to Shutterfly,  Avery,  Epson, Tinkering Ink, FxFoto, Memory Grabber, MyBook Adpatable Planner and Tamron Lenses for their enthusiastic support of Digital Scrapbooking Day!

Now...drum roll please...

Grand Prizes -

Avery Grand Prize Basket (their entire line of scrapbooking papers and T-Shirt Transfer paper) was won by Shannon Evans

Shutterfly Grand Prize (one of each size of photo book: 12x12, 8x8, 8.5x11 and 5x7) was won by  Teys

Epson Stylus Photo 1400 wide-format printer (retail price of $349.99) was won by Pam

Tamron Lens - you still have plenty of time to enter - click here for details

Roundup Your Memories: DSD Challenge #1

• Epson scrapbook paper pack --- Laura
• Memory Grabber ebook ---    jenn7
• Avery printable sticker papers  --- Katie the Scrapbook lady

Convert a Photo to Black & White or Sepia: DSD Challenge #2 

• Shutterfly 8x8 photo book  --- Oriana Contreras
• Tinkering Ink Digital Kit CD  ---   Shannon Evans
• FxFoto Creative   ---  jenn7

Use Fonts in a Layout: DSD Challenge #3 

• Epson scrapbook paper pack ---Tanya/Tigger  RD
• Avery printable sticker papers  ---pam

Create a Hybrid Card: DSD Challenge #4

• Shutterfly 8x8 photo book  --- junebug
• Tinkering Ink Digital Kit CD ----  Tanya/Tigger  RD
• FxFoto Recipes ---junebug

Create a 10-Photo Collage: DSD Challenge #5

• Epson scrapbook paper pack  ---Oriana Contreras
• Avery printable sticker papers   ----Tanya/Tigger  RD

Organize & Tag Your Photos: DSD Challenge #6

• Shutterfly 8x8 photo book  ---- Caylynn
• MyBook 6x8 Planner/Journal  ---- Shannon Evans
• FxFoto Creative   --- Aggie

Use a Scan of 3D Memorabilia: DSD Challenge #7

• Shutterfly 8x8 photo book   ---  Diane Michael
• Tinkering Ink Digital Kit CD    --  teys   
• FxFoto Creative  ---   Tanya/Tigger RD

Try a New Digital Technique: DSD Challenge #8

• Epson scrapbook paper pack  --- junebug
• Avery printable sticker papers  --- Oriana Contreras

Scraplift Yourself!: DSD Challenge #9

• Shutterfly 8x8 photo book  ---  junebug
• Tinkering Ink Digital Kit CD  --- Diane Michael
• FxFoto Recipes   --- Shannon Evans

Share some Digi Linky Love: DSD Challenge #10 

• Epson scrapbook paper pack  ---   Yelowflower Mo
• Tinkering ink --- Kristianne
• Avery printable sticker papers   -- Aggie

Be inspired by children's clothing: DSD Challenge #11

• Shutterfly 8x8 photo book   ----   Tanya/Tigger RD
• Tinkering Ink Digital Kit CD  ----   Diane Michael
• Avery printable sticker papers ----   junebug

Create a digital recipe card: DSD Challenge #12

• Epson scrapbook paper pack  --- jolene
• FxFoto Recipes   ---Oraina Contreras

Congratulation to all our Winners!  Please contact Angie with your full and online name, mailing address and email so we can send you your prizes!  (If you are international, please include a local phone number, for Customs paperwork.)

DSD Freebies with IkeaGoddess

A Digital Scrapbooking resource all on her own, IkeaGoddess is known for compiling lists of links to Digital Scrapbooking goodies all over the Web.  Today is no exception -- here, a link to IkeaGoddess' post Celebrating DSD. 

Kudos to IkeaGoddess for her continued support of the digi-scrapping community.

Digital Scrapbooking Day Challenge Archive Complete

We have completed the archive post listing today's Challenges - here's a summary linking to all 12 Digital Scrapbooking Challenges.

You have the rest of tonight and all day tomorrow to enter for the great prizes sponsored by our Partners - who doesn't like to win FREE DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING SUPPLIES??

Plus, all entries submitted for the Digital Scrapbooking hourly challenges posted today are also eligible for the random drawings for the Digital Scrapbooking Day GRAND PRIZES.

Thanks to everyone who helped support this launch of Digital Scrapbooking Day, and who supports the digital scrapbooking community every other day of the year.

Enter to Win Digital Scrapbooking Grand Prizes!

Don't forget - all entries submitted for the Digital Scrapbooking hourly challenges posted today are also eligible for the random drawings for the Digital Scrapbooking Day GRAND PRIZES:

• Shutterfly Photo Books Package: one of each size of photo book: 12x12, 8x8, 8.5x11 and 5x7
• Epson 1400 printer
• Tamron lens <-- click the link to enter the drawing at the Tamron site.
• Avery Printable Crafting Prize Pack: one of each type of scrapbooking sticker paper, and a package of printable t-shirt transfer paper

Our thanks to the Digital Scrapbooking Day Partners for their support of DSD and the digital scrapbooking community.

Create a digital recipe card: DSD Challenge #12

This marks the twelfth and final official challenge of our Digital Scrapbooking Day celebration!  All day we've been offering challenges related to digital scrapbooking - to encourage sampling various digital techniques, as well as tasks related to archiving your memories digitally. 

Digital Scrapbooking Day Challenge #12: Create a digital recipe card based on one of the Recipe Round themes.

Earlier this year, Susan White started a series of challenges called Recipe Rounds - providing the inspiration of a food theme, and encouraging her blog visitors (and members of the DigiShopTalk forums) to scrap some memories.  Essentially it's a digital-cyber recipe swap. Participants each digiscrap a 4x6 card and then upload in to a file sharing site.  Then share the link to the site on your blog so everyone can go around to everyone's blog and download the cards. Print them up and you have a whole new collection of great recipes to try! 

Susan is digi-scrapping her recipe cards using FxFoto Recipes Project CD - the easy-to-use software and digital recipe kits make designing your pages a snap.  The CD even includes pre-made templates and sketch templates from popular designers, making recipe books quick and easy for gift-giving.

Challenge Submission Details

• Even though the challenges will be posted hourly, they don't need to be completed in an hour, nor do they need to be completed on 11/3/07 (though you're welcome to try!)
• Deadline for comment-entries for all challenges is 9pm Eastern 11/4/07. 
• We'll do a random drawing for prize winners then - so no worries about your entry being "good enough" to win!
• Upload your layout to the online gallery or blog of your choice, AND leave a comment here on original challenge post to enter the prize drawing.
• -OR- Upload your project to Flickr.com and tag it "Digital Scrapbooking Day" and/or "DSD".  Then ALSO leave a comment here on original challenge post to enter the prize drawing.
• Participants can enter ONCE for each drawing.

For this Challenge, we'll being drawing random names to win:

• Epson scrapbook paper pack
• Tinkering Ink Digital Kit CD
• FxFoto Recipes

See a listing of all the hourly challenges here.

Be inspired by children's clothing: DSD Challenge #11

Welcome to the eleventh official challenge of our Digital Scrapbooking Day celebration!  For Digital Scrapbooking Day, we're offering challenges related to digital scrapbooking - which will encourage sampling various digital techniques, as well as tasks related to archiving your memories digitally. We will be posting challenges hourly, from 8am to 8pm Eastern.

Digital Scrapbooking Day Challenge #11: Use a piece of children’s clothing as inspiration for a digital project. 

The inspiration you draw from the piece can be varied -- the color scheme, a pattern, or a memory of your children, or from your own childhood.  If using the color scheme, use the color dropper tool to create a color palette (then share the palette!).  If you don’t have children’s clothing nearby, search the web for examples (try GapKids and Hanna Andersson).

Challenge Submission Details

• Even though the challenges will be posted hourly, they don't need to be completed in an hour, nor do they need to be completed on 11/3/07 (though you're welcome to try!) 
• Deadline for comment-entries for all challenges is 9pm Eastern 11/4/07. 
• We'll do a random drawing for prize winners then - so no worries about your entry being "good enough" to win!
• Upload your layout to the online gallery or blog of your choice, AND leave a comment here on original challenge post to enter the prize drawing.
• -OR- Upload your project to Flickr.com and tag it "Digital Scrapbooking Day" and/or "DSD".  Then ALSO leave a comment here on original challenge post to enter the prize drawing.
• Participants can enter ONCE for each drawing.

For this Challenge, we will be drawing random participants to win one of the following prizes:

• Shutterfly 8x8 photo book
• Tinkering Ink Digital Kit CD
• Avery printable sticker papers

See a listing of all the hourly challenges here.

Share Some Digi Linky Love: DSD Challenge #10

Welcome to the tenth official challenge of our Digital Scrapbooking Day celebration!  For Digital Scrapbooking Day, we're offering challenges related to digital scrapbooking - which will encourage sampling various digital techniques, as well as tasks related to archiving your memories digitally. We will be posting challenges hourly, from 8am to 8pm Eastern.

Digital Scrapbooking Day Challenge #10: Find three interesting links related to digital scrapbooking and post them in the comments.

Challenge Submission Details

• Even though the challenges will be posted hourly, they don't need to be completed in an hour, nor do they need to be completed on 11/3/07 (though you're welcome to try!) 
• Deadline for comment-entries for all challenges is 9pm Eastern 11/4/07.
• Leave a comment with links here on original challenge post to enter the prize drawing.
• Participants can enter ONCE for each drawing.
• We'll choose a random winner from all participants.

For this Challenge, we will be drawing random participants to win one of the following prizes:

• Epson scrapbook paper pack
• Avery printable sticker papers
• Tinkering Ink Digital Kit CD

See a listing of all the hourly challenges here.