A digital heritage scrapbook is easy to share-just burn CDs, email copies to your kin or add them to your family website. And no worries about finding acid-free paper and embellishments. Using electronic copies of photos and memorabilia helps avoid damage to precious family memories. There’s no need to cut and paste-just scan embellishments or download them from copyright-free websites. Those more skilled in computing than crafting can create a knockout album without special scissors or stickers. Robertson’s current project is a heritage album for her in-laws-she has 5×7-inch photos made of her pages and places them in albums for gift-giving. “I liked the computer layouts so much that I have never gone back to paper scrapping,” she says. One day, she decided to try laying out her pages on her computer. Jenna Robertson of Henderson, Nev., is one who switched: She’d been a traditional scrapper for years. When you see the beautiful results of digital scrapbooking endeavors it’s easy to understand why so many designers are going digital. They’re embracing the trend of digital scrapbooking-designing memory albums digitally rather than on paper.ĭigital scrapbooking presents family historians with a whole new realm of possibilities for preserving and displaying their heritage. But now some scrapbookers are trading their papers and punches for scanners and software. Then you turn those memories into a scrapbook using paper, pens, adhesives, stamps and photo corners. What do you need to create a scrapbook of your family’s history? You start with photos, memorabilia and research, of course. Family Tree Templates and Relationship Charts.
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