Pinterest has long been a love for me – coming a close second to scrapboooking 🙂 I discovered it about 3 years ago when I was preparing for my son’d first Birthday…and I never looked back.

For those who aren’t familiar with Pinterest – Its a free photo sharing website, officially described as a catalogue of ideas. You can create a profile and then maintain ‘boards’ which are like folders. In each board/folder, you can ‘pin’ ideas/photos posted by other users and even upload your own.

As you can imagine, its a visual treat. For us scrapbookers, who are visually motivated – it serves as the perfect go to platform.

I have looked to Pinterest for answers to just about everything. I started with my son’s first Birthday and had a rocking party – thanks to Pinterest! When we moved houses, I was looking for decor ideas and many of my walls look good now – thanks to Pinterest. Very recently, I was asked to concentrate on my son’s motor skills development. I opened Pinterest on a whim and was not disappointed! I was pointed to so many activities that I can not complete them all …. at least in this life time! Pinterest to the rescue again! 🙂

So why am I talking about it here? On The Digital Press blog? Because I believe, there’s no better source of inspiration for scrapbooking, than The Digital Press Pinterest Board. Its been my first stop for ideas for months and I haven’t looked further.

The Digital Press Board contains beautiful scrap inspration for sure. But what keeps me there are the other boards over and above the inspiration board – which, by the way, is TDP’s most popular board. You can find it here – https://www.pinterest.com/thedigitalpress/scrap-digital-inspiration/

I love the designer boards – getting to know them, their scrap pages. They seem more real then 🙂 My second favorite is ‘For The Love of Color‘ board. Its just down right pretty! I can spend quite a lot of time with this board! Finally, my third favorite is ‘Words to Live By‘ Board.. Sometimes witty, sometimes quirky – this board has uplifted me many a times and the words have found their way into my page title or journaling.

With regards to Pinterest – the only thing I will caution you against is…. the time!  You can spend hours there and not even realize it! Pin at your own peril! 🙂 I will leave you with some of the most pinned pages from the popular Scrap: Digital Inspiration board.

First up is this layout by CT Shivani which was pinned/favorited the most times. The circles and the lovely pictures of her sweet girl give the page the perfect aha effect.

Next is this gorgeous pocket layout by CT Erin. I am a huge fan of Erin’s pictures and pages. So no surprise that we find it here 🙂

Equally popular is this layout by the very talented CT Kacy. I love her take on clean and simple – with a lot of drama 🙂 Her color choice makes me look at this page again and again.

 

There are numerous such amazing pages on TDP Boards. In order to get your mojo flowing, I am hosting a Pinterest Scraplift Challenge over at the Drawing Board:Challenges Forum. Do stop by and share your thoughts and creations there.

 

About the author: Pallavi Sureka is a wife and newly designated stay at home mom to 3 years old Rajveer. She currently lives in Mexico City and her family moves around a lot. She has previously lived in Calcutta, Pune, San Francisco, Chicago and London. She reflects all these places in her pages as she captures her everyday stories.