You need much more than words to carve or build elegant objects from wood. Man has always held a fascination for the world’s greatest natural resource – wood. Primitive human beings used wood to create fire, and wood was certainly one of the first materials used by them in the construction of furniture. The design and style of exclusive wood furniture glorify their cultural heritage. The contemporary man still shapes beautiful objects from wood that are aesthetically adored for their elaborate craftsmanship.

Woodcraft Supply Corporation, founded in Boston in 1928, fulfills this requirement. It is the nation’s oldest and largest supplier of quality woodworking tools and woodcraft supplies. Even though it’s been over seventy-five years since Woodcraft first began selling high-quality tools and woodcraft supplies out of a one-room shop in Boston’s North End, it is now ever more committed to providing woodworkers with superior products and expert advice. For this reason, you will find Woodcraft stores in more than seventy major metropolitan areas across the United States. These stores feature a wide variety of tools, and offer extensive schedules of classes and demonstrations.

In 1995, when the Internet itself was at a nascent stage, Woodcraft first offered its catalog online. The Woodcraft catalog is a benchmark among woodcrafters as the most complete offering of first-rate products for woodworking available anywhere. Woodcraft annually distributes over three million catalogs featuring more than 8,000 items. These catalogs virtually feature every carving tool known to woodworkers, such as carving tools from Switzerland, workbenches from Germany, turning tools from England, and sharpening stones from Japan. With the recent addition of Endless Toolbox(r), Woodcraft’s special order program, online shoppers have thousands more “hard to find” woodcraft supplies to choose from. Finding this and other sources on the internet allow us to find even that hard to find project.

Digital scrapbooking an easy way to expand and enhance your creativity in new and exciting ways. Some traditional scrapbookers are hesitant to “go digital” because it seems so different from what they’re used to. While scrapbooking digitally might take a little extra time to learn, is well worth the minimal effort. Plus, it’s not as if you have to become an expert digital scrapbooker overnight. Start small by making a simple, small digital photo album, then work your way up to a full-fledged storybook.

1. Saves you time. In the long run, once you learn it, digital scrapbooking will be a great timesaver. You can turn out wonderful looking keepsakes in no time – keepsakes that you’ll be proud to share. And when you do share them, you can email links to your photo creations. The beauty of digital scrapbooking is that all the resources you need are at your fingertips – literally. And if you want to scan in a special design, poem, writing style or any other embellishment, you can. Then, what you’ve scanned will available to use again and again.

2. Saves you money. Of course, you love paper, scissors and glue scrapbooking. But all three cost money – especially the paper embellishments and albums. And of course, you are just brimming over with creativity, which can also get expensive when you try to bring all your ideas to life. With digital scrapbooking, all you need is your computer, your photos, some artwork to scan, backgrounds and layouts to work with … and voila, you can have a lovely keepsake for a fraction of the cost! And when you consider the money you’ll save on gas driving to and from the crafts stores – well, that alone may make it worth your while to learn how to scrapbook digitally.

3. You can scrapbook more. Combine Nos. 1 and 2 above and you get to scrapbook more than you ever thought possible! Rather than spending hours on just one paper and scissors scrapbook that has to accommodate a whole vacation’s worth of photos, you can create individual scrapbooks for each person who went on the vacation with you!

Rather than spend time driving from store to store looking for materials, you can simply upload your photos, scan in your embellishments and quickly create a thing of beauty you and others will cherish for a lifetime. Of course, digital scrapbooking will never replace traditional scrapbooking. No one would want that to happen. The beautiful scrapbooks you create with your own two hands are special, unique and hold an enormous amount of value. But digital scrapbooking does have its place in the scrapbooking world. And as you learn new techniques and tricks digitally, that’s sure to spark your creativity with your traditional scrapbooking.