As the year draws to a close, we wanted to look back at the wonderful scrapblogs that have been created over the year. We have featured many of the most creative and story-telling ones in our regular feature, “The Friday Five“, that highlights innovative uses of Scrapblog. Of the many tens of thousands of scrapblogs that have been published publicly, about 150 have been featured in The Friday Five. These scrapblogs often represent the highest form of art, emotion, storytelling and craft.
Of these, some stood out for their beauty, the new techniques that were used, the power of the story, the simplicity, the scrapbooking style and many more reasons. These scrapblogs influenced us in one way or another. They made us marvel at the skill, they made us look and take note and many made the community learn, laugh, share stories and connect.
More importantly, some of the scrapblogs featured below belong to users whose overall body of work is impressive and formidable and who have been active community members. Alas, we have not featured all active community members, who know who they are and who will be featured in our blog’s “Profiles” category over the coming months.
A few of the scrapblogs belong to Brazilians, who have been a definite and welcome presence at Scrapblog. We saw a strong interest and growth in users from Brazil, who love to create photo-montages (”montagens”) and collages for use in their own social networks. We are preparing a Portuguese version of the Scrapblog site to cater to the many thousands of Brazilians here.
We arbitrarily chose 12 outstanding scrapblogs that stood out this year, which are featured below in no particular order:
“Hunt Christmas Card”, by huntsnlove:
“DW and the Snowball”, by Lala’s Blog:
“A Bit of Norway, Senja Trollet”, by Ninamor:
“Carol”, by brine:
“Blaze’s Halloween Adventures”, by little_m:
“20070923 TriPigtail Poolness”, by Lis311:
“Better Together”, by Danielinhaa:
“Our Wedding”, by Chanteal:
“A Ilha”, by paulistapink:
“Ft Walton Beach 2006″, by ang7880:
“Jamie’s PAW-Sandbox”, by JamiesPAW:
“Post-Halloween”, by sthilari:
Which ones did you like the most? Perhaps we overlooked some outstanding ones, for which we apologize.
Oh, and just in time, we would like to extend our best wishes for a Happy New Year!
For many this was the last workday before the holidays and for the past few weeks scrapbloggers around the world have created scores of greetings cards. From the US to Europe to Asia to South America, seasonal wishes have circled the world as they’ve been sent to friends and family in many languages. Here’s a selection of some that caught our fancy:
“Sigrid”, by Matmia
“Liz’s Every Moments”, by lizlee:
“Brooklynn’s Christmas”, by GavinsHotMama:
“Joyeuses fetes!!!”, by lilicoquine:
“IST Holiday Pictures”, by leila_khist_01:
“Natal”, by Bebete:
“Holiday Card”, by marenafaith:
We’d like to wish you a very merry holiday season. We look forward to your holiday stories!
We’ve been highlighting some of the scrapblogs you’ve created that have stood out for their story, for the care with which they’ve been created and for their creativity. With time, we’ve seen many new uses for scrapblog. We’ve seen invitations to parties, birth announcements, cookbook recipes, scrapbooking, travel diaries, artistic portfolios, book reviews, history lessons, weddings, birthdays, poetry, genealogy, school projects, charitable causes, pets, photography … and the list keeps growing. We’re trying to make scrapblog as versatile as possible to allow free reign to your creativity and to meet your storytelling requirements.
Most of these scrapblogs are featured in our weekly series we call The Friday Five, (generally published over the weekend). Here are this week’s scrapblogs that caught our eye:
“Charlie Chaplin“, by Sally993. This scrapblog features video clips from some of Chaplin’s best movies:
“Ladybugs and Spiders”, by islanders features beautiful pictures:
“David and Jessi”, by DKeefe, a beautiful couple in a beautiful scrapblog:
“My Boy”, by Gems … see also Joshua’s babysite:
“Christmas Card 2007″, by mykialsmom; Christmas wishes in a traditional scrapbooking style:
We love to see your new uses of Scrapblog! If you have any questions or suggestions, please get in touch. Have a great weekend!
Through the 25th of December, ABC Family will be giving away four 2008 Dodge Grand Caravans! ABC Family will also be giving away a $200 gift card to Circuit City every day of the sweepstakes. The sweepstakes began on December 1st and will run through the 31st of December. To enter the sweepstakes, just create your ABC Family’s Santa’s Scrapblog!* You may use the five themes provided and bring in photos from all of the photo sites we offer through scrapblog: Photobucket, Flickr, Webshots, Picasa, SmugMug and Facebook. You may also share your 25 Days of Christmas scrapblog on your social networks, via email, and on the 25 Days of Christmas Sweepstakes site.
If you sign up at ABC Family’s Santa’s Scrapblog with the same email as you use on Scrapblog.com (and same password), your accounts will be linked and you will be able to share on Scrapblog as well.
So what are you waiting for? Create your Santa’s Scrapblog now … and good luck!
“Christmas“, by meetkatiebrown:
*Per legal requirements, you are not required to create a scrapblog to enter the sweepstakes, but it’s more fun if you do!
We’re pleased to be working with SmugMug! If you’re a SmugMug member, you may now access your photographs by logging in to SmugMug through the Builder. Once you’re done editing your scrapblog, you may publish and post the scrapblog back to SmugMug!
Incidentally, they held their five-year anniversary party last Friday in their offices in Mountain View, CA. Here are some pictures of the event:
By adding SmugMug, we want to make it as easy as possible for you to use your own media with Scrapblog. To date, we’ve been proud to work with Flickr, Photobucket, Webshots, Facebook, Picasa and YouTube so you may access your photos and videos on the web.
