{"id":562,"date":"2011-11-16T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/flip-pal-simple-gifts-blog-hop-digital-scrapbook\/"},"modified":"2015-07-17T15:29:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T20:29:15","slug":"flip-pal-simple-gifts-blog-hop-digital-scrapbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/flip-pal-simple-gifts-blog-hop-digital-scrapbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Flip-Pal\u2122 Simple Gifts Blog Hop \u2013 Digital Scrapbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"P1020990\" Like many of us, I have several photo albums where the photos are helplessly stuck to the pages.\u00a0 Removing them can damage the photos and trying to scan a giant (not to mention heavy and awkward) album on a flatbed scanner is difficult and time-consuming.<\/p>\n

Thus the beauty of the Flip-Pal\u2122 Mobile Scanner<\/a>.\u00a0 All you have to do is lay it over a photo, scan, and move onto the next.\u00a0 I did an entire photo album in about an hour, while sitting in my recliner watching TV (30 pages, double-sided, 6 photos per leaf\u2026that\u2019s 360 photos!!!).\u00a0 Sure beat trying to maneuver the album on a flatbed scanner, which I tried to do several years ago and gave up.<\/p>\n

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Yuck! Look at that nasty glue!! These photos will never come out in one piece\u2026believe me, I\u2019ve tried all the tricks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was also able to scan my parents wedding album, where the photos are fixed between the the mattes that make the page.\u00a0 It took about 15 minutes to do the entire album.\u00a0 And I have other albums and scrapbooks that I will be working on in the near future.<\/p>\n

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One of the things I\u2019ve been wanting to do is create a digital scrapbook for my mom.\u00a0 I made a photo album\/scrapbook for her 50th birthday several years ago.\u00a0 At the time I was young and naive (not doing genealogy, nor understanding the concept of preserving family artifacts) and of course used original photos, a non-archival photo album, tape, stickers\u2026you get the idea.\u00a0 It was very unorganized, some people weren\u2019t identified, and I even put in a group photo from my dad\u2019s 7th grade class thinking it was mom\u2019s.\u00a0 So now that I know much more about her side of the family, I thought it would be nice to create a new and improved scrapbook, of the digital kind, and incorporate some of the family history this time around.<\/p>\n

While this will be a time-consuming project, I wanted to experiment on a smaller scale first.\u00a0 I created a quick digital scrapbook with a wedding theme.\u00a0 The idea of a small digital scrapbook would certainly make a quick and simple gift for someone.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a synopsis of what I did:<\/p>\n