Hi Ladies,
We are an adoptive foster family and my husband and I teach a trauma parenting class for adoptive and foster parents. It's kind of my passion besides Jesus, my family, and scrapbooking 
. We have found that helping our kids process through experiences and knowing what to expect with some type of Memory Scrapbook is super helpful. I've also been creating activities that create connection and some content about strengthening bonds through play. I have a website, but about 6 months ago I got Photoshop, and well with DigitalScrapbook.com's commons I've been enjoying, really enjoying creating scrapbooking items. I would like to be able to sell some scrapbooking kits that coordinate with the activities and play based therapy information I provide on the website, but WOW.., digital scrapbooking kits are huge. I made the one below from the June Blog train ideas to go along with stuff I wrote about kids and playing in nature, etc. The problem is I'm not sure how to host the deliverable, it's seriously like 3G. I had to flatten the preview half way through because my computer couldn't handle it. I notice a lot of people on DigitalScrapbook.com have their own scrapbooking goods website. Could any of you point me to a way to have the kits delivered, I use wordpress and they have easy digital downloads, anyone use it? Or use a third company like spotify? It just seems like cost is linked to size and the files are huge?
Any advice? Are people's kits usually this big I compressed it into 1 file, which is silly I should do maybe 4? But all compressed it was 496MB. I keep feeling like I'm going about it all wrong.
I'm lazy so a lot of my free stuff is zipped up into one file - they can get pretty large. Papers tend to take up quite a fair bit of space, particularly if they consist of bright colours or smaller patterns.
I host most of my stuff on my website, but I have also used Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive to share links. I've seen some people use mediafire. All of these are free to a certain point.
For selling, I tend to split them into smaller folders (papers, elements, journal cards, alphas, word art, etc) and zip them up separately. It makes it a little more manageable and easier to download for people with slower and / limited internet speeds. Easier to upload too.
That kit looks amazing, by the way!
Trish, thank you so much.
Hi Kelly, lovely kit there! Glad you've been enjoying creating! Hosting and serving large digital files affordably can be tricky. I'm not sure about integrations with WordPress and whatnot, but in terms of just storing and serving files, at DigitalScrapbook.com we mostly use Amazon S3. A cheaper alternative which we also use is Backblaze B2. It's not free, but can be affordable if you are only paying for transfers when someone buys a kit. (You can host 100GB of data on B2 for about $6 per year--but you only pay for the storage and transfer that you actually use.)
You can upload and manage files on either service using a number of different programs. One we recommend is Cloudberry Explorer (which has a free version).
I use wordpress and yes, you can sell online. I use WOOCommerce on the website and I do divide my kits up.
Dear Jordan, Thank you so very much for this awesome information. My husband and I have been searching and didn't come across any of those options. Thank you so much for your time and knowledge! You just made my day!
Thank you so much Kris - I saw them and easy digital downloads.
Thanks @lazlo, I'm getting the woocommerce settings down. Great website, very informative!