The Flip-Pal mobile scanner 2012

Veterans Day / Remembrance Day Sale!

The following promotion codes are valid until
11:59 p.m. Mountain Time, November 14, 2012
when ordered on our shop page.

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Save $15 when you purchase a Flip-Pal mobile scanner!
(Regular price $149.99, Sale price $134.99)

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Save $40 when you purchase a The Flip-Pal mobile scanner with the Creative Suite Craft Edition DVD and the Flip-Pal mobile scanner Deluxe Carry Case with Pocket Bundle!
(Regular price $229.98, Sale price $189.98)

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Save $45 when you purchase a The Flip-Pal mobile scanner with the Digital Creativity Suite 3.0 DVD and Flip-Pal mobile scanner Deluxe Carry Case with Pocket Bundle!
(Regular price $239.98, Sale price $194.98)

Here is an offer you should not pass up.....

Save $20 when you purchase a Flip-Pal mobile scanner plus a Deluxe Flip-Pal mobile scanner Carry Case with Pocket!
(Both items must be in your shopping cart!)

Coupon is good from April 18 – 29

Use Coupon Code:  FPDC412A






I use this scanner for my craft projects,

all of my old pictures and scrapbooks

and even old documents for my genealogy.

It is so easy to use!!! And the best about it

is that it is portable.

I highly recommend this product.

Just go directly to their website

CLICK HERE and don't for get about the

Coupon Code.

Up-cycle a used book to scrapbook or genealogy book

I just love this idea of recycling an old book

and make it into a scrapbook like this

I have been scanning old pictures with my FlipPal scanner of family members and I think what I am going to do next is make it into a genealogy scrapbook. I have all sorts of ideas running through my head right now.  Can you imagine all those great black and white photos!!

Go visit JANET HOPKINS blog to see the instructions on how to "up-cycle" an old book to a scrapbook.

Scapbooks and genealogy

1930-1940

This era was during the Great Depression and during that time both my mom and my dad were born. My dad's mother died during this time giving birth to his brother and his father could not support the family so he went back into the Navy.  My dad and his brother were sent to an orphanage and his sister was sent to live with the grandma.
He had lots of stories about how the care takers were so mean and how they would be locked the basement and fed left over food.  He even ran away a few times which he was sent to a boys school. As you can see there were lots of stories but I never wrote down dates or address while my dad was still alive. Now I have many questions while I am scanning family pictures. (with my Flip-Pal of coarse.)

I intend to make a scrapbook when I am done but in the mean time I found out that the 1940 census will be released free to the public on April 2, 2012.  So I will be doing some genealogy searching too.

Here are the website to visit if you are interested:

1940 Census - To Be Released April 2, 2012

‎1940census.archives.gov

The 1940 Census is an official web site of the U.S. Government, administered by the National Archives and Records Administration in partnership with Archives.com

And the 1930 Census is already released.

http://1930census.archives.gov/   

1930cenus.archives.gov

If you want to know where and how to begin your research, you can go to:

http://www.archives.gov/research/census/1940/ 

Also you can click on the Ancestory.com box in the right column and start your own genealogy.

I have all sorts of ideas of combining the scrapbook and genealogy.

Have fun searching!!

Who Do You Think You Are

"Who Do You Think You Are" was on last night and I really enjoyed the show. Looking back and trying to find your ancestors is so rewarding. I am still scanning pictures, with my Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner, of my family and have found so many great photos, some from dear family member. I thought I would share with you this photo of my mother and her sister, taken in the 1930's. Look at that awesome baby carriage!!! The real picture is this faded. I ran it through Photoshop and here is a b&w version.

I'm not sure which one I like better but it is sure nice to have both!

Did I say I LOVE my Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner !!!

Cool Flip-Pal mobile scanner

Oh, I am so excited!!!!  

If you are a scrapbooker, quilter, or doing Genealogy you are going to love this!!
 
I GOT MY FLIP-PAL SCANNER!!! 

People, I have been looking for something like this for a while now.  

My mom passed away last year, my husbands aunt the year before and we have inherited a lot of old pictures and albums. Now, I can have all of this on the computer.
 
Now, here is what really sold me on it.....there is NO software to install....and it has 600 and 300 dpi resolution setting.
 
One of the best things about Flip-Pal is that you can scan photos while they are still in the album. And was it easy to use!! I was so excited I read the directions for a few seconds and I had it working. 

For albums you pop off the lid, place the scanner face-down and press the big green button. Done! You have your first scan and it shows up in the little display and now your ready for the next picture. If you are scanning single pictures, you place the lid back on, lift the lid and place your picture in the scanner push the green button and your ready for your next picture.

I usually scan while I am watching TV.  (My first night I scanned around 300 photos.)

Yes, it is that easy!

Once your done scanning you put the memory card into this USB stick, put the USB stick into your computer.  Then you can either open it up like a regular USB drive and look at the files, move them into Photoshop, or you can open them up into I-Photo if you have a Mac.

Simple...Simple....Simple!!!   I LOVE MY FLIP-PAL SCANNER!!

If you are interested in purchasing one of these scanners just press here and you will go directly to their website.