The Art of the Scrapbook


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A handbook to become familiar with the basic terms, materials, and techniques used in scrapbooking and bookbinding.




The Simple Art of Scrapbooking


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Creating a customized family heirloom is easier than you think! Now you can create a scrapbook to cherish forever--one as unique as the lives it portrays. This comprehensive source book, produced by the experts at the Scrapbook Guild, will answer all your questions and take you step by step through the process of assembling a homemade work of art. Even if you have no artistic ability, you will learn how to make scrapbooks so full of style, so engaging, they beg to be shared with others, and where turning the pages is as fascinating as walking through a miniature museum. The Scrapbook Guild provides expert tips, professional layouts, and instructions for using original quality materials to produce a treasure that will last for generations...as individual as your own memories. Discover: How to get started Best-for-your-money materials--pens, paper, scissors, album types, and more Remedies for common scrapbook problems Layouts and cropping Border designs, illustrations, textured backgrounds Storage tips Arrangements for items other than photos, such as report cards, sports medals, pressed flowers, business cards, or airline tickets How to hold a scrapbooking bee or get-together A tremendous resource section--with complete ordering information Plus Great Scrapbook Ideas: Wedding * New House * Family Tree * Anniversary * Travel * Pet Layouts and Models for 30 Theme Books!




Clean and Simple Scrapbooking


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A scrapbooking best seller You know that graphic designer style you didn't think you could pull off without going to design school? Now you can scrapbook like a graphic designer. With her signature style, Cathy Zielske shares expert ideas on design, photography, journaling and typography in Clean and Simple Scrapbooking. From the back cover: 'Scrapbooking' and 'cool' belong in the same sentence, proclaims Cathy Zielske, author of Clean & Simple Scrapbooking. Known for her signature style, captivating photography and candid approach to journaling, Cathy has inspired a new breed of scrapbookers who want to preserve their memories simply, and with a classic, hip style. A graphic designer by trade, Cathy began scrapbooking as a way to give more context and meaning to the photographs she cherished. What she didn't realize initially was the powerful way in which scrapbooking allows us to examine and celebrate the very essence of what our lives are truly about. This ho




Art of Layers


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Layer, Stitch, Scrunch, Pull & Flick • 50 fabulous and simple step-by-step techniques that will be valuable for all crafters, from beginner mixed-media artists to advanced papercrafters and scrapbookers. • 75+ imaginative layouts and projects using innovative techniques, that can be applied to any medium, whether papercrafter, fiber artist, or messy artist. • A mixed-media crossover for all crafters or scrapbookers that will teach you how to make paper resemble lace, to flicking acrylic paint off of a toothbrush, or using household items to create your own stencil! Layer with Ronda Palazzari as she teaches you just how easy it is to get that desired layered look in any project. With five chapters, Art of Layers will help you build your skills, from various paper techniques, to working with fabric and adding embellishing, stamping, and experimenting with paints, mists and gesso. Accompanying projects show each technique in action and illustrate how they can be used in combination, to develop endless possibilities for an even grander project. Layer, play and have fun with Art of Layers!




Scrapbooking Made Easy


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No matter if you are new to scrapbooking or have been at it for a while, this 288-page book will help you tell your stories and make this hobby a fun and fulfilling part of your busy life. Don't worry about using every photo, working chronologically, making every project a masterpiece, or spending lots of time and money. There's no right way to scrapbook ? just do what makes the most sense to you and enjoy it. This giant compilation presents more than 550 of the best projects and ideas from Simple ScrapbooksR magazine. LEARN: Our Fast, Friendly Formula for completing albums; blueprints for layouts; cropping photos; planning colors; making digital pages; fonts; handwriting; writing from the heart. USE: Workspaces; storage; patterned papers; accents; stickers; rubber stamping; bindings. DO: Step It Up on layouts with extra accents; make albums for weddings, babies, childhood, Christmas, family personalities, and more. SHARE: How 10 busy women find time to scrapbook. Scrapbooking Made Easy (Leisure Arts #15946)




Scrap Simple


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The possibilities are endless when you scrap simple! Scrapbooking doesn't have to be fussy to be fun! For those with the desire but just a little bit of time, money or space, Scrap Simple is the must-have guide for chronicling all the important milestones and moments efficiently and economically. Perfect for beginners and veterans alike, this book makes it easy to give your pages that clean, simple look you want. • View over 100 fresh, clean and uncluttered pages created with minimal product • Get insider tips on creating cool pages in a flash using just basic tools and supplies • Find tips for choosing the best supplies when shopping and clever ways to make the most of what's already in your stash • Discover a new approach to using cardstock, patterned paper and embellishments • Learn how to create simple two-page layouts, effectively use white space and incorporate text as a design element Scrap Simple makes it easy and fun to whip up fresh and modern scrapbook pages you'll cherish for a lifetime!




Ruby Charm Colors Big Book of Color Charts


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222 page, 8.5 x 11", spiral bound and tabbed Artist Edition book dedicated to charting and swatching colored pencils, pastel pencils, watercolor pencils, ink, and markers. Book includes 49 pre-labeled charts (with color names and numbers) of the most popular brands. Book also includes blank charts for additional brands and media, and a large number of original line art illustrations that can be colored. This book was designed and illustrated for the adult coloring market by Susan Carlson (aka Ruby Charm Colors).




Simple Scrapbooks


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Boxes of family photographs may invite conflicting feelings of joy and guilt--how to assemble all of those pictures in a meaningful way for the entire family to enjoy? Julian's new book will inspire the scrapbook enthusiast regardless of skill level to try something different: a simple scrapbook.




Paper Kuts


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10-minute Scrapbook Pages


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"Take only ten minutes to create stylish scrapbook pages to preserve your treasured memories! Celebrate kids at play, sports, family fun, holidays, and vacations with ideas that will let your artistry shine with stickers, die-cuts, and lettering. Display pictures of a birthday party, spring fever activities, an Easter egg hunt, an island cruise, trick-or-treating, and much more in fun and fabulous ways. Relive all the joy as you put together scrapbooks that you'll pore over time and again."--Page 4 of cover.