Scrapbooking Fun and a GIVEAWAY!

When Kristen was young, actually, before she was even born, I used to scrapbook. It was something I was introduced to by a new friend/neighbor, when I first moved to the States over 12 years ago. I went along with her to a friend's house who was hosting a Creative Memories Party. I was instantly hooked. Then along came Kristen and I had tons and tons of baby photos to play with and create wonderful scrapbooks. I made one of her first year, one of her second year, I made a Christmas family album, a school album, then moved on to creating vacation albums too. I loved it. At one point I even became a Creative Memories consultant and hosted parties myself!

But then, we moved to Texas, and I didn't find any friends that scrapbooked, so I eventually put my supplies away and didn't make any more albums. And that's how it's been for the last 6 years. Until just recently!

Just recently I was contacted by a lovely lady from a company called My Memories. It's an online scrapbooking company. I've heard of digital scrapbooking software actually tried it once I think a few years ago, but couldn't really get the hang of it and just didn't seem interested in it. The lovely lady, Liz, asked if I would like to try their scrapbook software and host a giveaway for it on my blog. Well, I'm here writing about it, so you know what my answer to that was  :-) (keep reading for how to win your own copy of My Memories Suite version 2).

I've been playing with the software all week. I have to say when it comes to new software I'm usually pretty, urmmm, 'not smart', for want of a better word. I have to take things slowly and if I can't figure something out in the first 5 minutes, I usually get pretty angry. Thankfully, that didn't happen with this software. I found it pretty easy to create my first page . . .

As you can see I picked some photos I took last year when Kristen was learning to horse ride. There are lots of premade pages to choose from but also lots of embellishments to add too. This page already had the side paper on it and where to place the photos and text, and a green box for the Title. All I added was the little blue flowers and a paperclip (just to give it my personal touch!) :-) Scrapbooking the 'old way', I could be sitting for hours thinking of how I would arrange my page,s then once I decided I'd have to cut out my paper, and crop my photos . . . . oh my gosh, I had none of that to do here. It was so quick and easy. 

I made another page with the photos from Kristen's first day of school last week. . . . and it doesn't always just have to be an album page, you can create calendars and videos, make a dvd and add music, cards, posters and lots more.

Check out this link to Youtube to see more  http://www.youtube.com/user/MyMemoriesSuite

I'm really rather excited now, after all these years and doing nothing with the photos I've taken (other than store them on my computer in folders), I'm really eager to start creating pages and designing albums, so I can get them printed. They'll make great Christmas gifts too. There's also so many other digital paper packs that I can purchase, I'm having a great time browsing them all at My Memories.com

So, would you like to try the  My Memories Suite Digital Scrapbooking Software? You could win your own copy - a $40 value by entering my giveaway below.

1 entry - visit MyMemories.Com and tell me what your favorite digital paper pack or layout is. 

extra entry - Like My Memories on Facebook

extra entry - Follow My Memories on Twitter

That's 3 chances to win :-) And if you aren't the lucky winner but want to give digital scrapbooking a try, use this special coupon code STMMMS5368 that provides a $10 discount off the purchase of the My Memories Suite Scrapbook software and a $10 coupon for the MyMemories.com store - $20 value!)

I'll announce a winner on Saturday September10th.