My Memories Scrapbook Software Giveaway

I have an exciting giveaway for you this week!  My Memories will give away a free digital scrapbooking software package to one lucky reader.

The My Memories Suite is a digital scrapbook software that can be used to create scrapbook layouts, photo books, cards, videos and more.  

I downloaded the software a couple of weeks ago to try out.  I was surprised how user friendly it was from the start.  There were a few quirks to figure out but once I did, I found so many options  for backgrounds, colors, photo frames, shapes and elements, and more.  It took my fonts from my computer so I had plenty to choose from.

They have many templates you can choose from for layouts and photo books or you can create your own from scratch.  I decided to start with an Easter card to mail out.  I started from scratch and here's what I came up with.

I made this card fairly quickly and, like I said, I figured out the menu and interface pretty easily.  I printed them on white card stock, cropped them and mailed them off in yellow envelopes.

My Memories has plenty of free digital scrapbooking kits for you to choose from.  But, they also have many other kits you can purchase for a reasonable price.  I purchased this Spring Is My Thing kit by Connie Prince.  I'm going to use it to create Thank You cards for my daughter's upcoming rainbow birthday party.  I love all of the colorful elements and papers.

Overall, I'm impressed with the software.  You can purchase it for a very reasonable price compared to other software that costs hundreds of dollars.  It is compatible with a Mac or a PC.  While I don't dabble as much in digital scrapbooking as some, I'm excited to use it going forward for creating invitations, cards, photo books and even a few collages that I want to transfer to canvas.  My Memories also has an online gallery with over 1700 projects posted where you can go for ideas and inspiration.  

In addition to the giveaway, My Memories is offering a special discount for my readers as well.  Use the code below on MyMemories.com to get a $10 discount off the purchase of the My Memories Suite Scrapbook Software and a $10 coupon for the MyMemories.com store.  That's a $20 Value!

Code: STMMMS59730

To enter the giveaway, visit MyMemories.com and tell me which digital scrapbook kit is your favorite in a comment below.  

For extra entries you can do the following (and leave a comment for each that you do):

• Check out the My Memories Blog here.
• Like My Memories on Facebook here.
• Follow My Memories on Twitter here.

I'll choose a winner on Wednesday, April 11th so get your comments in by Tuesday night.

While I did receive a free download of the software to try out and review, all of the opinions here are my own.  

40th Birthday Bucket List Scrapbook

For my brother's 40th Birthday my sister and I came up with a unique gift idea. 

She asked family and friends to submit their ideas for a bucket list for our brother of 40 things to do after he turns 40.  Some of them were silly and some were things he could easily accomplish.  I'll share a few of them with you:

• Go visit your sister {me} in her new home town.
• Video yourself telling stories for your grandchildren.  {He is a great storyteller.}
• Take your children to Disney World.
• Pay for the person behind you in a drive through.
• Sing karaoke in public.
• Learn to play the piano.
• Swim with sharks.
• Write an account of the birth of each of your children, including your feelings and the reactions of their siblings.
• Unplug for an entire week: no skype, no cell, no internet, no tv.
• Go deep sea fishing {I think he's already done that???}
• Ride a mechanical bull.
• Sign up for an eating contest.
• Throw a coin in the Trevi Fountain.

I formatted each idea on an 8 x 8 page and she printed them and put them into a blank scrapbook for him.  He can take pictures and record along the way as he completes each item.

 She included photo corners and an acid free pen.  So, all he has to do now is work on the list and take pictures along the way!

What is on your bucket list?  

Scrapbook

My sister turned 40 the week I had my baby girl. So, while I wanted to do something special for her, I was a little preoccupied. I made her this little scrapbook with pictures of she and my children and now I'm glad I waited because it has pictures of my baby girl in it. I used an SEI "scrapbook in a bag" and I love them because the pieces all coordinate and it goes together fairly quickly. Here are a few pages from the book.

Father's Day

I made a little accordion card thing for Bryan for Father's Day. I just used 4 pieces of chip board, a few rub ons and some black tape. The hardest part was trying to pick just eight pictures.

Baby Book

I signed up to make a scrapbook for the youth auction at church on Friday night and I put it off for several weeks. So, I threw this together (literally, on Thursday night) this week and they auctioned it off. I took some inspiration from Andrea's cute books. I bought the blank board book and paper about two years ago and never did anything with them. The paper was in a 8 x 8 kit from Deja Views and I found some rubons to match at Hobby Lobby.

Coupon Book

One of the leaders I worked with in Young Women's at church was released so I put together this little coupon booklet for her. Each of the young women in our class signed up for an act of service to give her and signed their coupon. I bound them up and we dropped them by her house as a thank you gift.

I made a scrapbook for my brother's 30th birthday. I bought an 8 x 8
SEI Preservation album, scuffed up the cover and added 3-D numbers and some chipboard. I then added in 30 pages with a reason on each of why I love being his little sister. I filled it with recent photos as well as many of us growing up together. I used an 8 X 8 Creating Keepsakes Paper Pad so the paper coordinated and it went together quickly. Here are a few of the pages.

Three Little Cowboys

Our friends had triplets last year and I figured she wouldn't have much time to scrapbook so I made her an 8 x 8 album with slots measured to insert pictures. I should have scanned in the pages but I took pictures and some of them turned out fuzzy but you get the general idea. I hate to say so myself but the album turned out really cute! I got lots of ideas for the layouts on other websites so this is one of my "imitative" projects. In scrapbooking we call that "scraplifting" and it's perfectly acceptable. I don't know what happened to Justin's page...I must have not taken a picture of that one.
Here's a picture of the album I used and I customized the front with their name (Jackson is the example name it comes with).