A Beginner's Reference to Digital Scrapbooking

Digital Scrapbooking Scraps

Scraps, sometimes called crops, are when a group of scrappers get together, often online via chat rooms, to chat and visit while working on scrapbooking layouts. Scrapbook-Bytes is a scrapbooking community that holds scrap challenges. My favorite is the speed scrap challenge, where they post an inspiration and you have a limited amount of time, often 1 hour, to post your layout to the gallery. Scrapbook-Bytes also has other challenges, such as the kit challenge where you scrap using a free kit that they provide, a snail scrap where they give inspiration and you have several hours to post, photography challenges, fonts challenges, and many others.

Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

You can find inspiration for you layouts anywhere you look. I find inspiration for graphics, techniques, and composition all over television, clothing, and billboards. Two specific forms of scrapbooking inspiration come in the form of sketches and scraplifts. See examples on the following page.