Making Scrapbooks: Complete Guide to Preserving Your Treasured Memories | 
 enlarge | Author: Vanessa-ann
Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 1975485
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0806999004
Dewey Decimal Number: 771.46
EAN: 9780806999005
ASIN: 0806999004
Publication Date: April 1998
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Amazon.com Review
With the emphasis on embellishment, Making Scrapbooks presents 75 projects for jazzing up your memory albums (covers as well as interiors) with pop-ups, fancy cutouts, textural adornments, and theme-appropriate artwork and memorabilia. Using all the tricks of the trade--templates, decorative-edge scissors, stencils, stamps, stickers, ribbons, lace, and more--Vanessa-Ann stocks her albums with cute and clever ideas for pages of pictures of babies, pets, holidays, school events, weddings, and ancestors. Many of the projects would also work well as greeting cards or framed presentations. At times the photos are a bit overwhelmed by the decorations, but the ideas are fun and plentiful. --Amy Handy
Product Description
Turn precious memories into a beautiful keepsake to treasure forever! The joyous announcement of a baby's birth. A wedding invitation. Rare family photographs. They deserve careful safeguarding in a beautiful personalized memory album. The days of drab, store-bought scrapbooks have gone forever, because if you have a snapshot or souvenir, you have a work of art waiting to happen. A few easy techniques--and your imagination--will do the trick. Just see how a stunning setting, a sprinkle of decorations, or a surprising design can transform everyday objects into something special. This unique volume shows you how to do the job right. * Avoid irreparable damage to your photos, and make sure your scrapbook lasts a long time, by following hints on handling, archiving, and even buying materials. * Create a book that always captures just the right mood for whatever you're documenting--from background paper to a photo frame. * Embellish with découpage, embossing, appliqué, pop-up pictures, and hand-tinting. * Sponging, heat-coloring metal, marbling, plastic-wrap painting and more allow you to express your individuality and create a book like no other. * A variety of designs capture romantic, comic, and holiday moods. * An amazing array of scrapbook ideas, complete with patterns, complement every occasion and every season. * Explore the incredible variety of tools--some little known--that will help you cut, measure, and decorate your album so it will be unique. * Calculate page measurements and crop pictures to create the best possible design. You'll soon have a library of magnificent scrapbooks to enjoy--and what better way to have and to hold those images, moments, wishes, and me
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Good Overview to Get Started Scrapbooking February 15, 2006
When I see more than 50 used copies for sale on Amazon, that tells me that people aren't holding onto this book. As a beginning scrapbooker, I'm finding it useful and inspiring.
It shows the variety of supplies available, discusses archival needs, and photo handling.
The projects take one or two pages each with a full-color sample. It tells the materials, tools, and instructions (step-by-step) to duplicate or make a similar scrapbook page. I think she shows a nice variety of techniques using torn edges, ribbons, fabric, etc. I particularly like the way she displayed the vintage photos and the sepia tones in the backgrounds.
Maybe a few scrapbooks from now, I'll find this book ho-hum, but for now "I think I'll keep it!"
 I expected more from this book November 14, 2000
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I live in Brazil and I am very interested in scrapbooking. To start in this art, I've ordered some books, including this one. It's not as disapointing and childish as another that I also get ("More than Memories", by Julie Stephani), but it's not very good at all. I I am still in the search of a book that teaches people from everywhere out of USA how to make creative scrapbooks. The point is that the books that I've found askes you to work with fabrics and material that you can find only in the USA.
Great for beginners March 30, 2000
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
This book is great if you are new to scrapbooking. It will quickly acquaint you with the techniques needed to make beautiful layouts. After you read through it a few times, however, and practice the designs that interest you the most, this book tends to stay tucked away on the shelf. The techniques and layouts used in this book are simple enough that you can remember it without having to refer to the book. If you only scrapbook a few times a year, this book would be a great buy. However, if you scrapbook often then save yourself the money and just go to the library to find these ideas.
Very good book, a little weak on pictures. January 11, 1999
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book I found very informative, and it had some really great ideas. I would have liked it to have had more pictures to go along with the instructions, rather than just the final result showing, but all in all, it was worth the money to get it.
 An Artistic and Inspiring Book, Stuffed with Unique Ideas! July 30, 1998
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book really inspired me to try different techniques and to use things on my pages that I never would have imagined. It walks you through the steps and products to help you become a expert scrapbooker and the ideas are easily incorporated into anyones book. It definatly a must have!
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