New to Digital Scrapbooking?

As you can tell, I'm a lover of digital design! It's been my dream for over a year now to start designing my own digital scrapbooking supplies. And on November 3, 2007, the very first Digital Scrapbooking Day, I opened the doors of my own little shop, Sugarplum Paperie:

Also, be sure to stop by the Sugarplum Paperie blog, where I share little bits and pieces of digi-scrap while I more about the ins and outs of Photoshop. Stop by and download a few goodies!

You've played around with your software and your new digital goodies and you've made a pretty page that you're in love with! Now what? Well, you have several options:

First, I bet you're wondering just how on earth you're going to print out a 12 x 12 digital layout at home? Well, what you are looking for is called a large format printer, like this one from Epson. It can print a document as large as 13 x 19! Now you can print your layouts at the touch of a button. Another popular option--reduce the size of your layouts to 8 x 8 and print them off at home on your own printer! Or, take a copy of your pages to a popular print shop, like Kinkos or Staples, and have them print them for you.

Also, there are many websites dedicated to offering printing services for your digital photos, like ShutterFly, SnapFish, WinkFlash or PhotoWorks, to name a few. Many of these services also offer you the option of making your own photo book as well. Turn your digital scrapbook pages into your next coffee table book with the click of a button!

I highly recommend ShutterFly myself. I made a baby book for my son with my digital goodies and I uploaded it to Shutterfly's website. When my book arrived, I just about cried! It simply looked incredible. They do a wonderful job!

I also highly recommend a new site called Print My Keepsake. Their motto is "It's not a keepsake until you print it" and I agree with them 100%. I ordered a print from this company and not only is their service easy to use and very fast, my print was beautiful and I'm so pleased with the quality! If you're looking for a service to take care of everything for you, this is the one you need.