Forever Together

I chose two special layouts from My Memories tonight to highlight special relationships. The first one is of my Grandma and I on my Wedding Day, back in 2004. I was so blessed to have her as an inspiration in my life and she was so happy to be able to make the trip to be with me that day. 

This other layout is a special page for Topaz and Jazzy. These two always were together, cuddling on the couch, chair, on the stairs. For 10 years these two never left each other's side. This page just captured for me their special relationship, love and respect for each other. 

Created using Mymemories.com software, promo code for $10.00 off is STMMMS36408, with an additional $10.00 gift certificate for digital kits, layouts. That is a $20.00 savings all together.  

Royality Free photos

I stumbled upon iStockphoto.com since I have been designing my new design. iStockphoto.com has several wonderful quality Royality free stock photo's and more. iStockphoto is the original source for the user-generated, royality-free stock photos, illustrations, videos, audio and flash. No matter what you are looking for you can find it there. And to add to a wonderful program it is affordable, free to join.

Backing up your work

I was very lucky recently when my old laptop quit and hard drive was still working. However it could have been a different story completely. I do try to remember to back up my research on an External Hard drive. Honestly, I am like everyone else, forgetful. After hours of browsing, gathering, editing photos, scrapbooking, when I am done the computer is turned off. I had heard of companies such as Carbonite, and thought I should try it. Am working on the free trial right now and very relieved that there is a stable place for my research and photos. I wanted to share with everyone their newest promotion, it is 14 days free trial and then get 2 months free on the annual subscription. I am so satisfied with this program so far that I am adding their link to my page and have signed up to be an affiliate. I just can't support companies I don't believe in. And know the pain of losing all those precious memories.

Playing around with My Memories Software

Tonight I took out some time to play around and create a quick page from scratch of my boys playing in the water while we were on Vacation this summer. These little scrapbooks are quick, easy and perfect for me. Having 3 Preschoolers and a Teenager takes up a lot of my time. With mymemories, it is simple quick and affordable. Since many of the pages and kits are free. STMMMS36408 is the discount code to $10.00 off the software price.

Best Friends Pack

Snapfish and other Labor Day specials

Many of my favorite links are having some really great deals this weekend. A great time to get some of the holiday shopping done in advance.

Here are Snapfish deals for the Month

Free shipping on $25+ purchase Code:SEPFS25 9/1 - 9/30

5 Free Folded Cards Code:TRY5CARDS 9/1 - 9/30

Up to 67% off Code:BOOKS67 9/2-9/13

Penny Prints Offer Code:PENNY094U 9/02-9/13


Expires in 8 days

My Memories Digital Scrapbooking Software code STMMMS36408 still valid for $10.00 of its Software,and an additional 15% off all kits this Labor Day Weekend.

For a limited time - Shop the Labor Day Clearance! Payments on all clearance items spread out over at least 4 months! Shop QVC.com!




You can find more Labor Day Specials through We Use Coupons and Pinching your Pennies.

Digital Scrapbooking layouts

I wanted to share the different pages that can be made with the two programs side by side. I love them both! They both are flexable and affordable-which was important when I was looking for a way to create great scrapbooks with all these cute old photographs. I didn't want to cut up the old photos and couldn't afford to make tons of duplicates to share. Going Digital has opened the possibilities of sharing these with family.

made with My Memories Scrapbook Software, this is one of my fur babies. Squeak, we got him when he was barely 5 weeks old from the Animal Control Center in Alamogordo. He was covered head to toe in fleas and malnourished. We took him in to see if he would get along with our two other cats. And after cleaning him up and adopting him, he has become family. Its been 6 years now and he isn't as small as he once was.

Made with DaisyTrail - Everything you need for Digital Scrapbooking, Crafting, Greeting Cards, Baby Photobooks, DIY Wedding Invitations and more!

This layout is of one of my little sisters and I when we were little. There aren't many pictures that I have found of us girls. We have many years in between us 4, I am the oldest, my youngest sister is 12 years younger than me.

You can mix and match the embellishments to create true works of art.

printing those digital scrapbooks

8x11 Personalized Cover Book (20 pages only) for $15 INCLUDING shipping CODE:2011BOOK 8/18-8/25

My favorite place to print my photos and memory books is through Snapfish. I have been using them for almost 10 years now. They have always been reliable for me and has wonderful photos. I wanted to share this August special, it is a great time to print those lovely summer memories. Get them ready for the upcoming holidays.

How to use My Memories

Welcome to the Family! from Lisa Jurrens on Vimeo.

I have been creating many different layouts and digital scrapbook pages to preserve my families memories. My Memories sent me this video this morning to share with my followers on how to use the software and the digital kits. Many of the digital kits are free designs. And they are still offering the $10.00 off the software code STMMMS36408, which comes with another $10.00 worth of digital kits. Total of $20.00 with those two alone. And now that My Memories has created a new Facebook page you can get another $5.00 worth of digital kits.

My Memories pages

I couldn't wait to share this with everyone. My Memories is offering a $5.00 promo code to to those who like their new facebook page. Many of their kits are free and average is between $3.00 to $5.00 with zero shipping. If you haven't gotten their latest software this code will give you $10.00 off their newest software STMMMS36408. The software comes with an additional $10.00 worth of credit towards software. It is simple to use, and kits are interchangeable with other programs. I can mix digital embellishments from Daisy trail and My Memories to create truly unique layouts.

memories quick page, my Grandma and her mom when she was young.

More digital scrapbooking pages

I was really excited yesterday when my new Craft Artist Professional Digital Software came in. I have waited a couple weeks for this upgrade. I had played with the free version for the past year. I enjoy interchanging fonts, layouts, embellishments from each program to come up with unique layouts.

I installed the program late last night so that I could work with it today. Well little did I know that my WONDERFUL laptop would crash today. I must have overworked something on it because it wont start up. My hard drive is fine but something else is in need of repair.

But I was able to back up all my photos and software on an external hard drive. I am now using my husbands old laptop with my hard drive.

When working with photographs and technology it is very important not to have everything in one area. Back up sources are really important, rather it be on an external hard drive, thumb drives, CD Rom disks, backing up is important. I prefer the archival cd rom disks that can be bought at any office supply store. I am not always great about backing up my data and was really worried that the few photos that I was able to scan while visiting my Aunt last week would have been lost.. Thankfully this data wasn't and I am able to get it all backed up now.

While the computer is backing up my wonderful photos, I brought up the Craft Artist Professional Software and made this page is less than 10 minutes. It was really simple to add these photos and embellishments together. The first one is of my Great Grandparents Raymond F. Durbin and Ula Mae(AKIN) Durbin. I hadn't seen many photos of them together before this last trip. The layouts are from Daisy trail, it is part of the Craft Artist and Serif software company.