Website with GREAT tips and tricks!

Through the "Creative Memories GO DIGITAL" group on Facebook, I found a fabulous blog with lots of tips and tricks on it. My Life in Digital Scrapbooking is by another CM consultant who is one of the best digital bloggers I've seen who uses Storybook as their software. She has templates, she has tutorials, she has videos....I highly recommend it!

Let me, once again, sing the praises of Memory Manager!

As I've posted before, I love Memory Manager--it has been a total lifesaver for me to keep my digital pictures organized (and, if I ever get my scanner up and running again, it will be a lifesaver keeping my scans organized).

Now, "fixing up" pictures is one of those skills that we all want to have, but it seems to technical for most of us. Memory Manager, however, makes it easy.

Don't get your hopes up, Memory Manager is NOT a miracle worker and will not replace an unflattering picture of yourself with one of Angelina Jolie. However, it can save some pictures that, on first glance, just don't look great.

Here is an example. This picture is of the flowers at my baby shower:

Now, this doesn't look very nice. It kind of looks like everyone was smoking up a storm in the room and the flowers have jaundice. However, just about 15 seconds later (using the assistant in Memory Manager and clicking my mouse about 3 times), the picture looks like this:

Quite an improvement, eh?

A lot of the pictures I have only need minimal touch ups, or none at all. However, Memory Manager CAN make a huge difference with some pictures.

I've been DIGITALLY ENDORSED!

Yes, I am now a DIGITALLY ENDORSED Creative Memories consultant! What this means is that I've completed a training on the digital Creative Memories features so that I can better help customers with their digital needs. Woo-hoo! I decided to go through with this since I am mostly doing digital work myself. I also believe that Digital Scrapbooking is a wonderful option for people who may be a little intimadated by the "arts and crafts" aspect of traditional scrapbooking, who are more techie in nature, or who--like me--need something that doesn't involve a lot of "stuff" to take out and keep out of little hands!

I've also started a Digital Scrapbooking mailing list for digital scrapbookers using the Creative Memories products. It's called CMDigiScrapping and you can join just by using the box in the sidebar. I'll double post somethings here and on the list, but the list will also have more discussion, more project examples, etc. Please join if you are at all interested!