First of all you need your materials: a scrap book (i would advice Colorbok perfect scrapbook), a block of back ground paper (different back grounds and stuff), some stickes, glitter, fun pics, pens and pencils. Oh, and glue. mementos that you want to put in the scrap book.

Now that you've got all that, you're saying, what now?!?!?

well, now you use your imagination. what should this scrap book be about? You? your friends? that time you went to disney land and made Jack Sparrow so mad he started sword fighting with your dad? You can make your scrap books about anything and everything. The easiest way to go though (i think) is to decide what you're going to do first.

Let's say you're making a scrap book of your summer (last year). you start collecting old photos and stuff. first, the title page. You could name is something like "Summer 2006" or something even more original. You may want to go in chronological order, so start with the first day of summer when you went on a hike with your best buds. pick out your best pics and write comments on the side, like: oh my goodness, this hike took really, really long! - it was so fun - we talked about chickens on mars, and such.

You may have a bus ticket from that day that you might want to put it in. Maybe you want your friends to comment too.

That's what I love about scrap booking. It leaves tons of room for the imagination!

Hope I've helped!

-T-
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If you are using other software, chek out their customer website to see if they offer any how-tos. Many of the various programs have a lot of similarities so even if you don't have Adobe, you might want to take a gander over there.

Once you feel that you have a decent handle on your software I would go to a limited number of websites. Pick one that you feel give you the best directions on how-tos and have a forum to discuss things. Forums are a great chance to interact and get help when you are stuck! They often will also have archieves so that you can look for answers to questions that you have that may have been asked before. I will list a couple examples below of some websites that I have enjoyed for digital scrapping.
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Digital scrapping
Software website
http://www.adobe.com
General websites and forums:
DigitalScrapbookPages
http://www.digitalscrapbookpages.com/digitals/index.php?main_page=index
Simple Scrapbooking's Digital Scrapbooking website.
http://www.digitalscrapbooking.com/

For learning software:
http://www.lynda.com/

Photo Retouching
http://www.retouchpro.com/

Go to the store and buy a paper kit, an album (I prefer 12×12) some stickers that you think you can use, an adhesive such as sticky squares or an acid free glue stick (don't use elmer's white glue), and at least one black marker that's made for scrapping. Make sure you are buying acid free. Although most items in Michaels, AC Moore, and Joann's are already acid free if you get them out of the scrapbooking section.

I wouldn't go after any big brands at this point, as you may love this, but you may not- and you don't want to go blow $100 on something you don't need. Just the basics will get you started.

My first supplies were a big lot off eBay for about $50.00 that got me going pretty well. I have now spent over $5,000.00 on items that I use, and love. So be sure you can financially take the expense of this hobby.

Get some photo's together and make sure they are extra's and not originals or your only copy, and start to practice, you don't need a specific theme on your first book, just get to know the hobby an practice techniques. My first book looks like a 3rd grader did it. My current books win awards and I get paid to scrap other people's books.

Just go slow. It can take you up to 2 hours to get one good page together. Line up your design before sticking it. Crop (cut) your photos if you'd like. Write a little something on each page.

Just have fun.

As you get better you can start adding brads, buttons, paint, ink stamping, ribbons, sewing etc.

Check out scrapper sites if you don't really know what you want your pages to look like. Try http://www.creatingkeepsakes.com
they have photos of other's work, and lots of great ideas.

Email me if you'd like to see my actual website.
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