My Memories Scrapbook - review

Over the years I have enjoyed organizing my photos and memorabilia into scrapbooks. It's an ongoing project that I've had to set aside as other activities have priority at this season of my life. I still have two or three boxes of photos and supplies that I plan to get back to some year, but for now digital scrapbooking is much more practical for me. It is a lot faster than the traditional cut-and-paste and it's so convenient to be able to just print out completed pages.

Recently I was offered the opportunity to review and give away scrapbook software from My Memories. Naturally I was interested. I have downloaded My Memories Suite and played around with it some. It's a little different than what I'm used to, but it seems pretty intuitive and offers lots of options for customization. I like that about it.

I was asked to post my review within 2 weeks. Unfortunately, this is a very busy time of year for me, so I haven't had as much time to spend learning a new program as I would have liked within the past 2 weeks. I did sit down with it and load some pictures to try to complete one page. There were so many options (which is a good thing!) that it took longer than the time slot I had available, so I don't have a completed page to show you. I think it will go a lot quicker once I am more familiar with the program. But that will have to wait a few weeks.

Since I don't have much personal experience with it to tell you about yet, I'll post this "first look" video that My Memories provided:


Welcome to the Family! from Lisa Jurrens on Vimeo.

As part of this review I am also able to offer a give-away of My Memories Suite software (a $39.97 value) to one of my blog readers. To enter visit My Memories, then come back and tell me what your favorite scrapbooking kit is of those posted on the front page. (I like the "Outside My Window - Summer" kit myself.) For extra entries, follow the My Memories Blog, Facebook, and/or Twitter. Be sure to mention each one you did in a separate comment. And as always, mention you follow my blog for yet another entry. This give-away will end September 6, 2011.

Not only that, I am also able to offer a special discount to my readers as well. For $10 off the purchase of the My Memories Suite scrapbook software and a $10 coupon for the My Memories.com store, use coupon code: STMMMS261.