My Memories Software Suite Giveaway!

Hey scrap chickies! I have something that I think is really exciting to share with you! The other day I opened my email to find an invitation from My Memories to try their digital scrapbooking software in exchange for a review of the product...AND...a copy of the software suite to give away.

I've been digital scrapbooking since early 2008, and I've used many different kinds of software to create pages,so I was interested to see how My Memories scrapbooking software worked. I went to the sight and the first thing that impressed me right off the bat, was the selection of products available to create albums and pages, not to mention the impressive list of designers: K Studio, Meredith Cardall, Mye De Leon, Vera Lim, Lindsay Jane and so many other designers that I admire! Prices range from .99 to about 5.99, they also have lots of really nice items for free.

The checkout, download and installation process were very easy and fast. I opened up the software thinking I would just breeze through it, but I had no idea how to use it! Luckily I found some awesome video tutorials on their blog, that were fun and informative and I was ready to create my first page. When you first open the program, there are some nice pre-made templates to help you set up a page, or options to create your own layer by layer.

To be completely honest, I do not care for the items (papers and embellishments) that come with the software. They have a very digital look, and I prefer a more realistic look. So I decided to hit up my own stash. I quickly and easily created my first page:

(kit credit: What a Wonderful World, from my shop at ScrapMatters)

It was pretty easy to use, and is pretty comparable to a lot of programs I have used. You can resize, crop, shadow and rotate items though I did have some trouble figuring out how to work with my layers. My other, very small critique is about shadowing. Let me start by saying that I am a bit of a shadow-a-holic, they are my favorite part of creating a layout. There are some nice shadow functions like being able to control the opacity and depth and even the color of your shadow, there was even a warp tool. But personally, I am not a 120 degree scrapper, and I know a lot of non-120 degree scrappers, so it would be nice to control that, or even shadow in a separate layer...but overall, it's good. In the end I was pretty happy with the end result.

I decided to go ahead and give it another try and make a birthday card for my son Jacob who turned 7 this weekend:

(Kit credit:It's My Party by Traci Reed at Sweet Shoppe Designs)

Other coolio things you can do are make photo books, add music and audio, make videos and there are some cool sharing functions available with the software as well.

So now that I am done blabbering, on to the fun part right? So here is how you can win your copy of My Memories Software totally FREE!!!

First I want you to go to http://www.mymemories.com/ and find a kit, or element pack you like and come back here and leave me a comment saying which one you LOVE. Want extra entries? Follow the My Memories Blog, Twitter and Facebook FanPage and My Facebook FanPage. And leave me a comment (a separate one after you have done each) letting me know that you have fanned/followed them and your name will get thrown into the hat each time!

You have until Midnight PST on July 24th to enter! A random drawing will be done on July 25th with the winner announced right here on my blog! Ummmm....so what are you waiting for????