The designs I've come across for digital scrapbooking are simply amazing: lush, gorgeous, ornate, well-aged, and textured. That is why more of this style should be carried into Second Life: often, "straight" digital textures look too repetitive, forgettable, and like a bad acid trip back to mid-90s webpage design. But when you take something that looks akin to Thai handmade paper (verily, which I've seen) and place photos of your loving memories inside, it more than takes on a life of its own.

At times, I thought the sales blurbs were for actual paper, but no… these are indeed digital!

How can you not love textures like this?

I found more loveliness @ the Studio Girls site.

Even with my color-bias consider (it is green-and-pink, after all!), I still reckon these are pretty damn sharp. Inspired, I'd like to see something like this turned into a Second Life texture pack. I've created a few free texture packs in my time, which you're welcome to modify as you please. The majority of textures I see in Second Life are algorithmically computer-generated or photosourced (from sources not of the uploader's own creation); there continues to be a dearth of hand-drawn, organic, freeflowing wonders.

Creatively, I think we can do a lot to improve this situation. Who's in this vein?

Old wallpaper should not look copy-and-pastable!