Sam F. is Shutterfly’s Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, and an avid photo book maker. In this article, Sam tells us about himself, and shares his secrets on how he came up with the perfect idea for his Father in Law’s birthday book.

A 2004 Creative Keepsakes Hall of Fame member, Rhonna Farrer is a Garden Girl who designs digital kits for www.twopeasinabucket.com and enjoyed being a member of the 2007 BHG Scrapbooks Etc. Creative Team. She continues to create various products for Autumn Leaves and has been published in the Designing With line of books, Home Companion, Creating Keepsakes, Scrapbooks Etc. & others. Check out her site www.rhonnadesigns.com where she shares ideas, links, inspiration, challenges & enjoys connecting with artists from all over the world.

In this article, Rhonna talks about her newest Gallery photo book, “Vacation Memories”, and shares tips on how to create your own. If you’re new to digital scrapbooking, take a look at our introductory digital scrapbook article to get you started.

Check out these simple instructions on how to
rate a gallery photo book. It’s fast and easy!

Welcome sports fans to a world record event—well, maybe just a personal best. In just 45 minutes, I made a “Play Hard” photo book, celebrating my daughter’s softball team. That’s from first photo selected to hitting the “save” button. Add in another seven minutes to post the book to Shutterfly Gallery and you have an “under one hour” record.

Shutterfly and CK Media have recently released two new scrapbook styled photo books that can support your summer storytelling.

Kerri Bradford designed “Play Hard”, a book to tell the story of a sports season of one player or for the entire team. It can also be used to tell the story of multiple seasons at once as the page headlines and color palette are versatile enough to support a season played on the grass or in the gym or even in the pool. There are a bunch of examples in Gallery that illustrate the book’s versatility.

Linda Sattgast is Adobe’s Scrapbooking Expert and the owner of www.scrappersguide.com. She has a CD that teaches digital scrapbooking, and she has a free weekly eNewsletter with tips, tutorials, and scrapbooking news.

In this article, Linda tells us how she combined photos of her two children with 500 of their hilarious kids’ comments, to create a special book that will be treasured by their entire family. It’s called “Brother & Sister“.