The Scrapbooker's Guide to Business


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SEEMS LIKE EVERYONE WANTS TO START A SCRAPBOOK BUSINESS??but not everyone knows how to go about doing it. Do you need a license? What's it really like to run a retail store? Will your spouse make a good partner? How do you patent a product? Can you profit from teaching classes, coordinating events, or making scrapbooks for others? This lighthearted guide has ideas, information, encouragement, and resources for nine different part-time and full-time business opportunities.Whether you want to invest a few hours and a few dollars, or make a significant investment and full-time commitment, The Scrapbooker's Guide To Business shows you how to: ?set goals and plan for success?choose the right business for you?convert your fears into confidence?calculate start-up costs?assess the competition?find customers?manage inventory?get started with a business plan ?get a business license and reseller's permit?set prices for your custom work?and much, much more




The Organized & Inspired Scrapbooker


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"Expert advice, projects, quizzes, inspiring scrapbook spaces."




Scrapbooking For Dummies


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Scrapbooking is sweeping the nation! This hot hobby is a fantastic way to preserve your memories and family history—and have a lot of fun doing it. Now, here’s an easy-to-follow guide that will have you creating great scrapbook projects in no time. Scrapbooking For Dummies is perfect for you if you’re a new scrapbooker who wants to create your own personal scrapbook (or who would like to make a special scrapbook for a friend or loved one) or if you’re already an avid scrapbooker who’s looking for helpful tips and new ideas. This friendly guide takes the guesswork out of creating well-designed albums. You’ll discover how to: Organize your photographs and memorabilia Assemble the right tools and materials Research your personal history and tell your story Design attractive, foolproof page layouts Network with other scrapbookers This plain-English guide features clear, close-up photographs and sketches that illustrate just what you want to know about scrapbooking tools and techniques. You’ll learn about the different styles of scrapbooking, how to create unity in your albums, and how to take better pictures (including advice on digital photography). You receive hands-on guidance every step of the way as you: Choose a theme or occasion Crop and mount photographs Accessorize with stickers, stamps, and more Enhance your albums through journaling Avoid costly, time-consuming mistakes Take proper care of photographs and negatives Extend the life of your old photos Complete with ten great scrapbooking projects and a list of online resources, Scrapbooking For Dummies gives you the tools you need to create beautiful albums to share with family and friends—and pass on to future generations!




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.




The Scrapbook in American Life


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This book explores the history of scrapbook-making, its origins, uses, changing forms and purposes as well as the human agents behind the books themselves. Scrapbooks bring pleasure in both the making and consuming - and are one of the most enduring yet simultaneously changing cultural forms of the last two centuries. Despite the popularity of scrapbooks, no one has placed them within historical traditions until now. This volume considers the makers, their artefacts, And The viewers within the context of American culture. The volume's contributors do not show the reader how to make scrapbooks or improve techniques but instead explore the curious history of what others have done in the past and why these splendid examples of material and visual culture have such a significant place in many households.




The Scrapbooking Journey


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Take up your scrapbooking in a whole new state of mind—and spirit. When I scrapbook, I feel empowered and connected and hopeful. I feel grateful and content and stimulated. In the process of scrapbooking, I feel the closest to my essential self, and to God. —from the Introduction In this imaginative, creative resource, award-winning scrapbook designer Cory Richardson-Lauve leads you on a celebration of the divine connection you can experience through scrapbooking. Weaving her own insights, techniques and artwork with the reflections and layouts of other professional scrapbookers and the wisdom of spiritual thinkers, Richardson-Lauve reveals how this innovative and dynamic craft can become a practice used to deepen and shape your life. Each chapter includes an original scrapbooking project with dozens of variations—for both cut-and-paste and digital artists, beginning scrapbookers and published designers alike—that helps you explore a theme essential to both your designs and your spirituality.




Contraband Guides


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In his best-selling travel memoir, The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain punningly refers to the black man who introduces him to Venetian Renaissance painting as a “contraband guide,” a term coined to describe fugitive slaves who assisted Union armies during the Civil War. By means of this and similar case studies, Paul H. D. Kaplan documents the ways in which American cultural encounters with Europe and its venerable artistic traditions influenced nineteenth-century concepts of race in the United States. Americans of the Civil War era were struck by the presence of people of color in European art and society, and American artists and authors, both black and white, adapted and transformed European visual material to respond to the particular struggles over the identity of African Americans. Taking up the work of both well- and lesser-known artists and writers—such as the travel writings of Mark Twain and William Dean Howells, the paintings of German American Emanuel Leutze, the epistolary exchange between John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton, newspaper essays written by Frederick Douglass and William J. Wilson, and the sculpture of freed slave Eugène Warburg—Kaplan lays bare how racial attitudes expressed in mid-nineteenth-century American art were deeply inflected by European traditions. By highlighting the contributions people of black African descent made to the fine arts in the United States during this period, along with the ways in which they were represented, Contraband Guides provides a fresh perspective on the theme of race in Civil War–era American art. It will appeal to art historians, to specialists in African American studies and American studies, and to general readers interested in American art and African American history.




Maritime Information: a guide to libraries and sources of information in the United Kingdom, 2004 Fourth Edition


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The Maritime Information Guide provides a list of UK libraries, record offices, archives, museums, institutions, associations and other bodies that have, or can make available, information on maritime matters. Titles are listed in alphabetical order by the name by which users are most likely to look up. This is the fourth volume, produced in 2004, following the previous editions in 1973, 1983, and 1993.




Scrapbooking Like A Pro


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You Are About To Learn The Secrets To Create Beautiful Scrapbooks, No Matter How Much or Little Time You Have Had To Prepare! It doesn't matter if you've never experienced scrapbooking up close and personal, this guide will tell you everything you need to know, without spending too much brainpower. "Scrapbooking Like Pro" covers everything there is to know about scrapbooking. In fact, some people have called it the "Scrapbooking Manual." It's like having your very own scrapbook expert that you can reference and ask questions anytime that you need to. You're going to discover so many things on how to create beautiful scrapbooks with little effort. Not only will you discover new and exciting layouts, but you'll also learn extra bonus tips to actually teach people. There are also step-by-step instructions with illustrations & pictures to show you how to create your own scrapbook flowers, transparencies and rub-ons, pearlized flourishes, and faux stitching. Here's Just Some of the Things You'll Uncover With "Scrapbooking Like Pro": - Discover how to prepare for your scrapbook. - Learn how to quickly organize all your photos. - Find out exactly how to crop you photos like the pros. - Discover how exactly to get started on your scrapbook venture. - Learn how to create your own scrapbook flowers. - Learn how to add embellishments to your scrapbook. - Discover how to get started on your first page. - Learn how to create your own transparencies and rub-ons. - Find out all the insider time saving tips . - Discover new exciting layout ideas. - Find out how to create your own pearlized flourishes - Learn how to host scapbook parties easily and effortlessly. - Learn how to do faux stitching - Discover the easiest and least expensive way to design a theme for your album. - Learn how to choose the size and style of your album. - Discover how to use cardstock properly - Learn all about all the tools you will need to create your album correctly. - Plus much MUCH More!




How to be rich Tricks


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In these books, you can learn the various types of Business Idea. Millions of people around the world have improved their lives based on the work and want to be rich. "How to be rich Tricks" offers practical advice and techniques, in his exuberant and conversational style, for how to improve your business and personal Investment either employment or business. In this book, you can learn how types of platform business which is suitable for you, as a small entrepreneur to how to grow.