Making Scrapbooks


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Guide to products, supplies, and techniques used for creating lasting and memorable scrapbooks and photo albums using templates, découpage, painting, embossing, and other techniques.




Scrapbook Tips & Techniques


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Presents 365 ideas, tips, and techniques for making innovative pages for a scrapbook.




Scrap-books and how to Make Them


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Hello Color


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Get bold and bright with these 25 easy and fun DIY home decor projects that will liven up your life and make your home space vibrant Whether she’s writing for her blog, snapping pictures for Instagram, or just living her life, Rachel Mae Smith is all about the simple joys of handmaking and bringing brightness to everything. And now beginning crafters, aspirational DIYers, and dorm dwellers can, too! Rachel shares her colorful signature style in each simple and fun step-by-step project like Dip-Dyed Napkins, Pom-Pom Votive Candle Holders, and Geometric Patterned Pillows. Helpful sidebars on decorating, like Staging a Beautiful Bookcase and building Bar Carts for Beginners, give you ideas for perking up pre-fab accessories so that any space can look colorful. Plus how-tos on working with specific materials, ideas for entertaining, and—of course—a guide to shooting pictures. And as a special bonus, tear-out posters in the back make it easy for you to decorate your walls in a snap!




Teach Yourself VISUALLY Scrapbooking


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Plain or fancy, formal or fun, chronicling special events or everyday moments, scrapbooks are the perfect, personal way to preserve precious memories and create lasting keepsakes. This visual guide walks you through choosing albums and papers, organizing and cropping photos, and more, and explains step-by-step essential techniques like journaling, designing appealing pages, and using embellishments to add pizzazz. The layout gallery gives you great ideas for travel, family, heritage, and other pages, while a chapter on organizing your stuff helps you keep everything in its place. Concise two-page lessons show you all the steps to a skill and are ideal for quick review Each skill or technique is defined and described Detailed color photos demonstrate each step Step-by-step instructions accompany each photo Helpful tips provide additional guidance




Picture Yourself Creating Digital Scrapbooks


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Explaining how to create professional-looking graphics and printable scrapbook pages, an introduction to the art of digital scrapbooking takes readers step by step through the process of integrating traditional and contemporary graphic design principles to create a variety of scrapbook projects, covering essential tools and software, digital cameras and printers, photo editing techniques, page layouts, and more. Original. (Beginner)




Outstanding Mini Albums


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The Best Things Come in Small Packages Big memories don't require big pages. You can showcase your most important moments in irresistible, adorable mini scrapbooks! Outstanding Mini Albums is filled with inspiration, ideas and instructions for creating mini scrapbooks of all kinds, from cleverly embellished store-bought albums to books made completely from scratch. Fifty fabulous illustrated projects show you how mini albums are perfect for scrapping lots of photos quickly, displaying your memories around the house, and giving as one-of-a-kind gifts. Step by step, you'll learn to: Make pre-made albums all your own with fun themes and original embellishments. Reinvent everyday items like coffee cups and CDs as pages for handmade mini books. Master new techniques, like crafting faux epoxy letters and homemade buttons. Give your creativity a mini makeover! When a scrapbook page seems too small but a whole album seems too big, Outstanding Mini Albums will help you get it just right.




Pop-Up Moon


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A dazzling pop-up book full of amazing facts about our moon, certain to illuminate the entire family! You see it almost every night, but how much do you really know about the moon? In this incredible pop-up book, discover where the moon came from, why it appears to change shape, how it affects our oceans, and what a blood moon is. Shoot into space with the Saturn V rocket and travel back in time to join the first astronauts to set foot on the moon. Four breathtaking pop-ups reveal the inner workings of the solar system, demonstrate how eclipses occur, and more. Intricate illustrations and fact-filled pages bridge the 238,000-mile distance between us and the moon, making this the perfect gift for young stargazers. Budding astronomers and anyone curious about the night sky will find that the moon’s secrets are just “one small step” away!




How to Scrapbook


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Joy Aitman explains all the basic techniques of scrapbooking and shows you how to create beautiful layouts using holiday photographs, a school photograph and a wedding picture. Cropping is one of the basics of scrapbooking and Sarah McKenna shows how to use dozens of techniques such as slicing, silhouetting, montage and mosaics to enhance your pages. Sarah then shows how eyelets can be used to attach vellu, acetate and fabric to your pages, to add embellishments and accents and to provide emphasis and detail. Clear step-by-step demonstrations are accompanied by over a hundred wonderful layouts to inspire you.




Beyond Scrapbooks


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Avid crafters have known that scrapbooks have spawned an enormous number of unique and beautiful supplies, tools, and techniques that can be used to create hundreds of fabulous gifts, home decorations, jewelry and more. Using scrapbook supplies, you can publish your own book; design your own cards, calendars and stationary; decorate frames, lampshades or coasters for your home; design your own jewelry using metal snaps, charms, and beads, and create the look of decoupage on candles, magnets, and trays with fantastic results. Set aside your stencils and use die-cuts to decorate rooms, doors, and mirrors; make your own jewelry, napkin holders, and tiebacks using ribbons and twill, and create holiday decorations and ornaments in minutes. And that is just the beginning. In all, there are 25 how-to projects with step-by-step instruction, followed by variations of other materials that can be substituted. It is the perfect book for scrapbookers, paper artists, memory artists and crafters.