Carol's random babble

Apologies, people! I forgot to start this on Sunday. Okay, if you have read my blog at all, you may have seen a few entries about My Memories digital scrapbooking software. If not, you can check here , here , here , here , here and here . The good news today is that you can get it yourself FOR FREE. Just go to My Memories , create an account and click on the software link. You want to get MyMemories Suite, which is the main program. Click on Add to Cart . You should see Enter Coupon/Promo Code . Use this code: FreeTreatEE148 . Copy it from here and paste it, as it has to be exact. THIS CODE IS GOOD THROUGH OCT. 26, 2013. You can click on Proceed to Checkout or go back to the main page and click on Free Kits in the Shop listing. There's a variety of free items, including fonts, quick pages, papers and mini kits. There are hundreds to choose from, which will give you quite a selection to add to what's already in the program. The next screen after Proceed to Chec...

There is one last chance to win My Memories digital scrapbooking software before the year ends. I use this software and love it. If you have been to my blog's Facebook page , the cover was created with MyMemories. It's very versatile. I do Facebook covers and similar stuff in MyMemories. My photos are not organized and a lot of them aren't scanned yet, so I haven't done any albums, but I have done single pages, especially with heritage photos. The current profile picture for Carol's Random Babble on Facebook. Time to change it, since it's after Christmas A new version I'll put up on Facebook later, since I also need to make a new cover. There are loads of free kits and quick pages, free font graphics and even a calendar template available. You don't have to buy a bunch of kits right off the bat. I do suggest that you follow MyMemories on Facebook, though, because they have giveaways and they tell you when a designer is having a sale. I p...

To show a bit of what My Memories Suite can do, I thought I would offer a video from the My Memories YouTube channel. The video is about 2 minutes long and it's obviously a commercial/infomercial, but if you watch it you will see that there is more to My Memories than traditional scrapbooking. I like the idea of creating something once and sharing it many times. If you want to make each version a little different, you can do that, too. In this post I showed how one layout can be switched around with different elements or backgrounds to look different. You can make slightly different versions of the same scrapbook if you want each book you are sharing to be different (for example if you don't want all the grandparents to get the same exact thing). This also helps you decide how a page is best laid out. And since I have a tendency to add too many embellishments, I can look at the finished product and then take away some - which is difficult to do with actual stickers. ...

So I'm doing a giveaway of My Memories Suite v3 digital scrapbooking software , and I'd like to show a few things you can do with the software. So I will try to do a different layout every day during the giveaway, which started today and ends at 12:01 a.m. EST on December 8, 2011. These two layouts are to show how you can change up a few things to make them better (I hope they are better). I have a tendency to put too much stuff in my scrapbook pages. But one nice feature is that if you do "save as"  you can build on your original page, modify it or delete things without ruining what you have already accomplished. I used Holiday Snows pack snow overlay (left side and bottom - all one piece), with some extra individual snowflakes. The word art comes from Holiday Simplicity pack. I purposefully arranged the snowflakes to cover some of the background stuff, although I could have cropped the photo or used a mat instead. For this version, I downsized the snowfl...