Arts And Crafts Training BLog

If you’re a crafty sort of person, today I want to point you toward one of the best deals in crafting there is, which you’ll find at a website called DigitalScrapbook.com.

For a good while, scrapbooking has been a classic example of a hobby for crafty people: you work with pages, papers, little “bits and bobs” of things and items tied to memory. Maybe you’d use a button, or a movie ticket, or a piece of lace that you took from an old dress that belonged to your grandmother, you pull out your glue and tape and some beautiful pieces of paper, and you work it all together and create an art piece.

But recently, with computers and the internet and a general push by many people to downsize, get smaller, etc., scrapbooking has started to become digital, and we now have digital scrapbooking being a craft and hobby that’s on the rise. You even have a fair number of designers who are exclusively, professionally designing for scrapbookers (though by and large the market is still not big enough to really support many full time designers).

I’ve been spending a fair bit of time researching the space, hanging out on various sites. And I want to bring to everyone’s attention a particular site, DigitalScrapbook.com, and specifically their subscription, which has stood out among the options available as an incredible deal for crafters.

DigitalScrapbook.com is a community site and subscription service. The subscription service makes it a little bit of an oddball in this niche, as the norm for digital scrapbooking is stores where you purchase individual kits or bundles.

DigitalScrapbook.com, however, has gone in the direction of subscriptions, where you subscribe, and then you get an incredible amount of individual graphics, kits, and bundles to download in return.

For any subscriber, individual graphic downloads are totally unlimited (individual graphic downloads even being available are already not the norm for the digital scrapbooking community). Kit downloads start out at 5 per day, and once you become a patron (after either being subscribed for 6 full months, or having a yearly subscription), you get completely unlimited downloads.

Given that their subscriptions start at around the price of a pizza for personal use, this strikes me as a jaw-dropping good deal (it’s no wonder you’ll see them refer to themselves as the netflix of digital scrapbooking in a variety of places).

They have thousands upon thousands of graphics, so if you calculate out the price / graphic (or even price / kit), it’s borderline ridiculous. I’m actually surprised they’re not bigger than they are (there are a few things going against them – a smaller design team than most stores, and an oldish-looking site). But if you can get over a few of the less-than-perfect things connected to the site, there’s no denying it’s one of the best (if not the best) bangs for your buck for not only digital scrapbooking, but any kind of artist that uses digital graphics.

So that’s about it for today – but I wanted to make you aware of this undervalued resource on the internet for your crafting and art-related needs!