Crafts: Digital Scrapbooking Galore
Did you know that there are a lot of Filipinos who are featured in the various creative teams of the more popular websites here? I am soooo proud! There are also a lot of members who do digital scrapbooking layouts in the various communities online and their works are just fantastic! You can see I’ve had a lot of time to browse online of late, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to bookmark them, but I will feature them here when I get the chance to go and visit their sites again. (Yup, downtime at home has been spent scouring the web for more freebies and more ideas).
I have been spending a lot of time at RAKscraps.com where I’ve enlisted for membership enabling me to have access to their newsletter which has a TON of downloadable freebies! Not to mention all the featured designers and members whose works are also highlighted. Archived editions of the newsletter are also available down to January of this year, and with each edition packed with more than just one freebie, you are all set to harvest at least a dozen! Membership has its rewards besides that because then you get to access their FREE Mega Kit which is uploaded middle of the month and then made available to members piecemeal. I missed the first four installments but caught the 5th and 6th download links of what looks like a superb megakit indeed. It’s the type of kit which would enable you to do a whole album (and more) once you get everything together.
So I’ve started doing 8×8 scrapbook layouts of Manila to give to my niece, Audrey, and to my Dad, and I’m starting our summer scrapbooks, too. Ambitious, I know. As far as Mom’s scrapbook is concerned, I’ve made a decision to relayout the first part because I am just not happy with what I see now that I know a whole lot more about scrapbooking.
I’m going to attempt to do digital scrapbook layouts of our summer outings, but print them into two pieces to be pieced together later. I still intend to embellish it with actual paper embellishments because I don’t think I can really stick to just digital scrapbooking per se.
It seems to me everyone has target layouts to complete by the end of the year at RAKScraps (and RAK, by the way, stands for Random Acts of Kindness) so mine is 50 for now.. til the end of the year. And that’s Mom’s scrapbook alone which I have been working for the first part of the year anyway.
I’m going to attempt to pull together a “BEFORE” album of the layouts in Mom’s scrapbook, then I will do a full album again once I’m done and good to go with it. Watch out for that!
Hi Pinay New Yorker! This is another thing we have in common. I also love scrapbooking.
Unfortunately, scrapbooking there in the US is more advanced than here in the Philippines. When I was starting out, I could only find few materials in National Book Store. All I could do was improvise. So, after making my first scrapbook (which by the way were pictures of my days at the Ateneo Law School), I lost interest in scrapbooking. I’m hoping to revive it again. However, it can be a very expensive hobby especially since most of the materials in scrapbooking here are still imported.