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Over the last few years I gradually moved from making mostly 12x12 pages to 8.5 x 11. album rather than storing up pages for batch printing a few times a year at Persnickety Prints. When Ali Edwards first introduced 6x8 Story Book Albums to her store earlier this year, I immediately I had made a lot of 6x8 projects over the years - a couple of December Daily albums, some photo books and Project Life one year - and the albums can be hard to find.

In this post, I want to share how I organise my digital scrapbooking supplies. BUYING & IMPORTING SCRAPBOOK SUPPLIES On my Mac, when I download a purchased digital scrapbooking kit , it is automatically unzipped and saved in folders in the Downloads folder on my hard drive. To add a kit to Lightroom, I click on Import in Lightroom, choose my Macintosh HD under Files (if I'm importing photos from my phone, it will show up under Devices) the navigate through to my Downloads

drag a photo or digital item straight from Lightroom to the Photoshop Elements dock at the bottom of my The search function in Lightroom is makes my scrapbooking so easy. Once I am in my Lightroom Scrapbook folder, I can search for anything. I love using circles on my layouts so I hit Command F (for Find), do a search on 'Circles' and all the I don't have to spend a lot of time looking through my kits unless I want to and that's great.

Love that Star Wars films are documented in many of my December Daily albums.

To work out spacing for a non-digital element that I want to add to my layout after printing, I usually measure it with my ruler then draw a box on my layout that size and work around it. Being lazy today, I tried sizing the layout on my computer screen to exactly 6x8 by holding up a 6x8

I started scrapbooking in 2008 when my daughter was little. I've always loved writing and have kept journals my whole life. This is my very first page (I remember loving that patterned paper so much even though my letter stickers background in page design, typeface, advertising and professional writing comes in very handy all these years You can find layered templates, guided album kits, digital journal cards and other digital goodness all

To finish off my recent series of posts (start HERE) about scrapbooking & Lightroom, I've made a video

Another travel page (so many travel pages in my future). After making my Foot Photo spread, I thought it would be fun to look at the trip by the numbers.

Triumphantly I held my finished pages up to the the family and said "See, it was worth it!"