In 2008 we took a family vacation to Florida. When we got home I started a scrapbook. The traditional 12x12 album with paper and stickers and pictures that I had printed. As happens to many of us, I got derailed and didn't finish the album. Fast forward to today I have discovered digital scrapbooking. So how do I finish this Florida album? I have all of the pictures digital (I even backed them up on CD at the time). I had about 20 pages done. That's no small amount to redo or small expense in a new book. Twelve x twelve pages are too large to scan on most home scanners. I decided the solution was to create new pages and have them printed out. But where to get 12x12 prints?
I bet you know what I did next! That's right. I visited my friend Google and came up with a few places. Then, I found this great blog about how to have your digital pages printed, Scrapping with Liz, Printing Digital Scrapbook Pages. She suggested Persnickety Prints for individual pages. I tried them out and LOVED (how do I put a little heart in for the O?) the quality of the prints. Plus they were only $1.99 per page. In her blog, Liz mentioned printing with a white border around your pages. I tried that too, but I don't think it mattered if I was adding it to an existing album.
So in just a few days I went from a partially done album to a complete printed album and something strange happened. I loved looking at the pages online too. Then I started wondering how I would get my already done pictures onto the computer. Well, that was easy too. Once again my friend Google lead me to a blog that said, "Take a picture of your pages." Palm of hand to face! Doh!
This was a little trickier than I expected , but I set up a "photo studio" with lighting and angled everything just right so there would be no glare. For the most part it turned out pretty great. And now I have an amazing vacation album both digital and printed. Here is a slide show I made of a few of the pages.
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