In A Designer's Eye For Scrapbooking, Ali shares her design secrets on how to create attractive, charming and well-balanced pages that tell a story and reflect your unique personality. This inspirational guide to scrapbook page design will teach you how to preserve your memories in a meaningful way.
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.
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
Love the beautiful scrapbook layouts you see in Creating Keepsakes, but not the time it takes to recreate them? Here's the perfect resource. Creating Keepsakes' groundbreaking new book, Scrapbooking 30-Minute Pages, proves you don't have to spend hours to make a memorable?and gorgeous?layout. You'll find: Tips for creating jaw-dropping layouts in 30 minutes or less. Get more layouts done! Expert shortcuts for great techniques. Fresh ideas from talented scrapbookers that will inspire you to get back to preserving your own special memories. Includes a bonus CD with 20 terrific CK fonts for fantastic titles and journaling! Chapters conveniently organized by number of photos per layout.
Discover the world of decorating in the classic English style as revealed by Roger Banks-Pye, one of Colefax & Fowler's most innovative and talented designers. Roger Banks-Pye was one of the most sought-after interior decorators of his time. Design director at the doyen of interior decoration Colefax and Fowler, his work appears traditional at first glance but is in fact spiced with innovation, originality and irreverence. This classic volume shows the decorator at work in a selection of the private homes he transformed with flair and panache, from a London studio apartment decorated on a shoestring to a Scottish hunting lodge where money was no object. This book is a record of the spaces he created and there are accessible, practical and creative ideas to be picked up on each and every page. Inspirational Interiors allows a privileged glimpse into his unique world of style.
Preserve the magic of the winter holidays Celebrate the season by capturing special moments on film?from cherishing the warmth of family traditions to ringing in the excitement of the New Year. Scrapbooking Christmas Memories features hundreds of scrapbook pages, organizational ideas and more. You'll love using fresh page accents ideas or photo tips for the perfect finishing touch on favorite layouts of your loved ones. Glean inspiration from its pages for scrapbooking those priceless photographs from Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa, and the New Year and make the magic of the season last forever.
Dena Fishbein knows how to transform the ordinary into the exceptional. Taking her strong passion for embellishing as a starting point, Dena has developed a distinctive signature style that invariably attracts notice?and praise. With this collection, she joins the scrapbooking revolution and offers original layout ideas, as well as projects for outstanding decorations, cards, tags, frames, and memory boxes that all showcase her unique touch. She has something lovely to celebrate holidays, bridal showers, new babies, a girly-girl birthday, and much more.
Real Women Scrap offers guidance for transformative scrapbooking and creative living. Filled with practical tips, inspiring stories, and insightful strategies, this life-changing guide shows readers how to use key elements in scrapbooking to reconnect with themselves. Drawing parallels between the lessons of the scrapbook page and the lessons of living, author Tasra Dawson connects the wisdom of a beloved pastime with timeless principles for improving busy women's lives.
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!