Monday, October 17, 2011

My Memories Review and Giveaway!!!


I was recently given the opportunity to review My Memories Digital Scrapbooking Software. Now before I begin, I feel that I should tell you a few things, I think you should know about me. First, I am NOT a scrapbooker! Moreover, I am a photo taker, that has hundreds of photos, on my camera, on my phone and on my computer ( files and on places like facebook) and I even have crates, yes crates filled with photos that have not been cataloged, categorized, or put into albums... I believe about 25 years worth...

As you can see, in the world of scrapbooking, I am a novice! So the following review, is from a beginners point of view!

With all of that said, when I heard about My Memories, a digital scrapbooking program, I was excited.I thought that maybe, just maybe, this program would help me to organize the memories that I cherished enough to take a photo of!  My Memories is a digital scrapbooking program that gives you the tools to save your photos in fun ways. In addition to typical looking scrap book pages, you also have the ability to save them in a slide show or movie and set them to music and a myriad of other options.

There are some very basic templates that come with the program, however, in addition to these, they have a free kits section available on their website, that will give you quite the catalog of embellishments, templates and background papers to choose from. All for free! Plus they have many affordable kits available for you to purchase as well.

So now, here is the question, is My Memories easy enough for a novice like me to get the hang of? The answer yes! There was a learning curve, but I would say that is more about me trying to be creative, versus the program being difficult to use. While there were many times, where I sat looking at the screen thinking... okay, I don't know where to begin, thankfully, many of the templates available through My Memories, have built in creativity.

However, when I just started working with the program, first I would pick the template that I wanted to use, and then as that opened up, I started thinking about what photos, and what I wanted to convey with that album.  And by doing that I would then select the photos to get ready to be placed into the scrapbook.

When I am ready to place the photo, I simply drag it into place and it will auto fit into the template frame. Also, if you don't like how it is centered, you can 'nudge' it into the position you like.  You even have the option of changing the order of how items are 'stacked' on the page.  Which one is in the very back and how the others are layered in front.  By using s few of these very simple options, each of these pages that you see here, were built!

What you see throughout this post are some of the pages that I created while using My Memories.

 

Here is a screen shot of the control panel within My Memories.




On the left of the screen shot, are additional template options available through My Memories, and on the right, you find your controls for adding, background papers, embellishments, word art, music and much more!  On the bottom, you will see each of the pages you have created in the album that you are working on.


The page I was working on in the screen shot, used a blank template, I added a background paper, the flowers and the wording.. this was one of my first attempts at being creative, from scratch.


The biggest plus of all, is the affordablity of the My Memories! You can download your My Memories Suite for $39.97!



But that's not all!!!!


I have some even better news! First, the fine people from My Memories have provided one copy My Memories to giveaway to one of my readers !!! I am so excited for you guys! I know that you are going to love this program! Second, if you are not the reader that wins a free copy, never fear! I have an awesome coupon code for you!

Visit their website and type in this code STMMMS66766 You will receive   a $10 discount off the urchase of the My Memories Suite Scrapbook software and a $10 coupon for the MyMemories.com store - $20 value!  This is amazing! And makes My Memories very affordable for EVERY family!

 


If you would like to enter to win your own My Memories Suite, here's how:

Leave a comment, tell me how you plan on using your product!  - 1 entry

Follow this blog - 1 entry - (leave comment)

Follow this blog's Facebook Page - 1 entry (leave comment)

Contest closes on October 25th! Winner will be announced and contacted within 48 hours of contest closing.

 

*****THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED****

**Note, I was given a free copy of My Memories in exchange for my honest opinion. All opinions that are expressed within do not constitute a guarantee or promise of services. Additional copy of My Memories has been provided at no charge for a giveaway.


No purchase necessary to enter, must be 18 years old to enter. Void where prohibited.

17 comments:

  1. Oh Jennifer- pick me!! :) This looks awesome and I could definitely use it for our 4-h memories- spent last week at the fair and ended up with tons if great photos- also would love to put together something with my daughter's horse she trained herself and just showed in the fair last wknd and won 2nd in showmanship!

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  2. I need to get caught up with 7 years of photos. Maybe this is a start!

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  3. I would like a chance to use this product. I have 5 children - so lots of pictures taken, none printed. This would enable me to create photo memories that perhaps we could have for them to look at (like we all used to have in our photo books:)

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  4. I have been wondering about the buzz has been about this program. It looks easy to use. i wonder if you can make headers and stretch stuff to be blog wallpaper...

    i think I would use it to make printables for the kids and such. Maybe for photos too.

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  5. I followed the blog ( how did I not do that before today???)

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  6. followed your FB page too.... another thing I have no clue how i missed before today... oh well, three entries for me! yay!

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  7. I would love to win this, I have used digital scrapbook software for various things and love it but this one seems so much more user friendly! They are so great for card making and making neat gifts not just scrap pages.

    300sms @ gmail dot com

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  8. I would love to use this product to digital scrapbook my daughter's homeschooling adventures.

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  9. I already follow you on Facebook. :)

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  10. If I were to win, I would use this for organizing photos of my 5 kids. And for getting something together for a future Eagle Court of Honor for my older son. He's almost a Star scout, so if I received it now and began learning, maybe I could get it all organized by then! :)

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