Pine Lily Retreat is celebrating teachers….of all kinds! School’s out and it’s officially summer! All teachers [that's you!] can choose to stay Thursday night June 2nd or Sunday night June 5th FREE. Call Kaki at 985-768-6069 for further information or visit our website at www.pinelilyretreat.com.

…just for another year anyway. Pine Lily Retreat, Lacombe LA, is having a real American Girl weekend. Book for April 15-17 and get either Thursday or Sunday night FREE! That’s 3 days of undisturbed time, just scrappin’ with the girls. Visit www.PineLilyRetreat.com for details.

Scrapbooking Retreat Lacombe LA  has crops every weekend, 2-3 nights for up to eight ladies, completely furnished 2000 sqft 3 bed/2ba home, hosted or unhosted weekends. What happens with my girlfriends….stays with my girlfriends!

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Are you wondering how to make your own digital scrapbook kits?  You can of course download some from different websites or online locations but usually you can make your own very quickly and easily.  When considering how to make your own digital scrapbook kits, you will need to be honest with yourself about your own computer skills.You might need digital scrapbooking with photoshop. You’ll need to be able to use text boxes and to be able to import and resize clipart and photos and things like these.  Without some basic computer skills you may not be able to create digital scrapbooks, so think about that first.

Also, when thinking of how to make your own digital scrapbook kits must remember that you’ll still need to work at creating these kits.Many scrappers often think that they can just put together a few photos with text boxes and that will make up a scrapbook page layout, but you will often need to resize your page elements, possibly recolor them, move things on the page, and so on, just like you would on a traditional scrapbook page.  When thinking of how to make your own digital scrapbook kits, don’t assume that the work will be done for you or that it is necessarily any easier than creating actual scrapbooks.If you know there will be work involved then you will be less likely to get frustrated or give up on it.

When you are thinking about how to make your own digitial scrapbook kits, begin with a software program you already know like Word or Publisher.Also think about using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.  To learn how to use these programs, check out jessica sprague digital. Consider your printer – is it able to do borderless printing?If not, you can resize your paper or design a border that your printer can accomodate.  You can also just simply make a text box of the appropriate size for your main page or paper.Fill it with a decorative pattern like dots or stripes or consider using a solid color.When thinking about designing your own digital scrapbooking kits, you should remember that using a computer allows you to cover up any part of your design with clipart, other text boxes and so on.  Don’t worry about making it small enough to accommodate other elements.

To learn the skills to make your own digital scrapbooking kits, you just need to add embellishments and text boxes to the first box and then compare it beside an actual scrapbook layout.  Put in a title, your photograph, a border and so on, and you’ll have a beautiful page.  You’ll never run out of military scrapbooking.