The other day I realized that I have never chosen the Friday 5. That is simply inexcusable. So here I am, trying to redeem myself. I have to admit, it is more difficult than I expected. So many great scrapblogs by so many passionate people to choose from and I have to select only 5! Should I select among the ones that I like the most? Sure, but based on what criteria. Should it be based on artistic value, journaling or storytelling? Should I lean towards the ones the make me smile or the most heartfelt ones. Maybe I should also take into consideration the scrapblogging techniques implemented in the scrapblogs that I choose. Well, I tried to take all these into consideration and came up with this shortlist of my recent favorites.
Hot Wheels - by ShannonParks
In the recent days, this scrapblog has become one of my all-time favorites. It makes me smile because I used to play with Hot Wheels as a kid and now I see my son, Lorenzo (4) enjoying that as well.
Megan’s Yearbook 2008 - by MeganBrooke
Were you part of the yearbook club? I wasn’t and there’re only two pictures of me in my high-school yearbook. So, why not created your own yearbook in Scrapblog. Megan did.
Ballet Portraits - by Octamom
Simply beautiful. Good photography and consistent use of a good font.
In the past few days, we have seen an enormous amount of scrapblogs created. We love to welcome the thousands of new scrapblogggers joining our passionate community each day. In order to keep up with the unprecedented growth in uploads and scrapblogs being published simultaneously, we moved portions of the Scrapblog system to Amazon’s S3 platform. The development team worked tirelessly throughout the weekend to make these upgrades. The basic upgrades are now in place so feel free to publish and upload as much as you want.
In the next couple of weeks, we will continue to make more upgrades to fully leverage from Amazon’s S3 and EC2 services. We will do our best to avoid or minimize downtime due to maintenance and upgrades.
Thank you for your patience during this transition and for all the wonderful emails of support. Scrapbloggers are the best!
Scrapblog is a great way to record your experiences through stories, music, photos and videos. According to dictionary.com, a journal is defined as “a daily record, as of occurrences, experiences, or observations”
Journaling can sometimes seem like an afterthought when you are working on your scrapblog layouts. The photographs on your pages are only telling part of the story. I encourage you to sit down today and pull out your favorite photo, an index card (or piece of paper), a pen and write down all the reasons why you love your photo. Is it the people in the photo that you love? Does it remind you of a time you shared with a friend or an unforgettable vacation? What story comes to mind when you see your photo? Then create your scrapblog based on your notes, send it to your friends and family. I’m sure they want to see your photo stories come to life.
I was looking through my flickr photos for the one photo that I feel like is my “favorite.” I kept going back to this photo that my husband took of my nephew and I, just a few hours after he was born. It’s my favorite because it reminds me of the moment he came into the world. A lot happened in the hours before this photo was taken. When I look at it, the photograph seems so peaceful despite the chaos going on just moments before the snap of the camera. All the nurses, doctors, lights, medical instruments and the buzz of the hospital are replaced by the simple, sleeping sounds of this new little life.
Here are a few more scrapblog examples to get you inspired:
As wedding season approaches, we have two very lovely and elegant themes to complement your wedding photos. These themes were created by our talented in-house design team of Jen Revoltar and Amber Koller.
Japanese Flowers by Amber Koller.
This soft, quietly beautiful theme was created by our lead content designer, Amber Koller. Amber takes great pride in providing you with pretty and subtle ways to show off your photos. Her style is powerfully sophisticated and she uses the most elegant fonts available in the scrapblog builder. This theme includes over 50 stickers and 7 backgrounds. As you can see from the previews, you can soften your photos using the photo editing tool.
Romantic Wedding by Jen Revoltar
Your photos will take center stage when you use this tender wedding theme. The neutral backgrounds with lace accents will help you remember the fairy-tale that was your wedding day.
Today is Earth Day and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate than sitting down at my computer and creating a scrapblog scrapbook. I haven’t killed any trees today, I didn’t print my photos and I didn’t use any paper, I simply made a scrapblog. I love being able to preserve my memories digitally, it helps the environment and it’s fun!
Your Community Girl, Stefy also saved a tree or two today creating this Earth Day Scrapblog. It may surprise you to know that it’s Stefy that answers all the emails that you send to “feedback@scrapblog.com” She is constantly running around after all of us to make sure that your questions get answered. In addition, Stefy is taking classes in graphic design, she has a wonderful eye for color and her scrapblogs are something to be admired. I know you will enjoy her latest creation “earth day”.
