If you are a scrapbooker, and you are comfortable with a computer and digital camera, the Washington Post has an article that can help lead you in the right direction.

Scrapbooks are a wonderful way to memorialize important moments in our lives, but building them the old-fashioned way can be time-consuming. So, why not go digital? Instead of mucking about with glue, craft punches and colored paper, you can create marvelous montages on your computer. Rhonda Thiessen, a Gaithersburg mother of two, says that while a regular scrapbook can take her a week or longer to build from scratch, she can knock out an electronic version in a day.

E-scrapbooking has other advantages over the traditional approach, too: If you get distracted, just hit save and return to the task when you have time — no scissors or craft paper to put away. Or if you are commemorating events that involve many friends or family, you don’t have to duplicate your efforts by hand — merely print extra copies or post your creations online where others can view them.

“I’m an online convert,” Thiessen says. Here’s how you can become one, too.

Read the rest at the Washington Post.