My Memories Giveaway

I have a giveaway for you today! Nice way to kick off the weekend, eh? The nice folks at My Memories asked me to review and give away a copy of their software. Sure! I've seen it on a few other bloggers' sites and was curious to try it.

Using this software, you can create digital scrapbooks, photobooks, cards, calendars and gifts without having to buy expensive and complicated software programs. Thumbs up! My Memories Suite is also rated #1 by Amazon and TopTen Reviews.

I used to do scrapbooking by hand until I discovered photo books with Shutterfly. Since then my scrapbooking materials have largely made their way into the kids craft space. LOL! The online photo books programs have their limits though.

I was curious what a scrapbooking software program could do and whether it could do more of the stuff I like to do with my blog, like buttons, headers, etc. The first thing I tried was my Scrap Bin Mission button above. It was easy and straightforward to create and insert the picture. Thumbs up! I couldn't figure out how to change the size small enough for my blog though so I finally exported it and cut it to size in Gimp. I can't fault the software for this though, as I'm still a newbie at it.

Next up, I thought I'd try some scrapbook page layouts. I don't share many photos of my kids online for privacy reasons, so I put in some pictures of my quilts for this review. There are a lot of great page designs that could be used for photos with the kids though.

I had fun making these pages...great layout designs, eh? There are plenty of really nice free ones included in the software, but you can also buy supplemental designs. A funky Frank Lloyd Wright-ish/Mondrian-ish design, available in four palettes...

An Accounts-style page -- couldn't you just imagine photos of quilts made with Architextures on this page?

You can add text and embellishments, change colours, add photos to the layouts -- and I'm sure I barely scratched the surface. 

Before I started my blog, I used to keep a journal of my quilts with information about the size, materials, techniques, etc. I could definitely see using this software for this too -- and it would be much prettier than my printer paper! 

If you'd like to win a copy of this software, you have up to three chances:

1) Leave a comment on this post. If you are a no-reply blogger, please leave your email address!

2) Visit www.MyMemories.com, choose your favorite digital paper pack or layout, and then leave a comment here letting me know which one it is.

3) Followers get a third chance -- just leave me another comment. 

You have until Thursday, February 7th at 8 p.m. EST to enter. I'll pick a winner via Ms. Random Number Generator Thursday night and announce the winner next Friday. Good luck! 

If you’d like to learn more about My Memories, you can also visit their blog, Facebook and Twitter feeds.