Scrapbooking Family Memories

150 original page ideas celebrating family life! The faces of family members most often grace the pages of scrapbooks. From everyday moments at the dinner table to special occasions celebrating the birth of a child, our family is our heartbeat. There's no better way to honor our loved ones than to engrave these precious memories in timeless scrapbook pages. Inside Scrapbooking Family Memories, you'll find hundreds of great ideas, tips and stories for scrapbooking every aspect of the family experience - from immediate family to extended family, family pets, family homes and a variety of family activities. Inside, you'll discover: Eye-catching designs for family-themed pages Ideas and sources for quotes, phrases and sayings Narratives and anecdotes from featured artists Outstanding pages on moms, dads, siblings, grandparents and other members of the clan Distinctive pages on family homes New-fangled pages on beloved pets Ideas for mini gift albums No matter what facet of family life you are looking to capture, you'll find it inside the pages of Scrapbooking Family Memories. Let this book be inspiration for creating scrapbook pages that serve as a pictorial memoir of your family's everyday experiences, unique heritage and time-honored traditions.

Doesnt everyone have that one scary closet stuffed with years worth of family photos and memorabilia? And dont we all have the best intentions of doing something with all of it some day?

Genealogist Laura Best follows up her well-received "Genealogy for the First Time"(R) with a colorful volume dedicated to techniques for preserving precious ancestral memories through scrapbooking. Use those vintage photos, uncovered documents, and newly-found family stories to create scrapbooked family trees and pedigree charts, eight generation treatments, depictions of holidays and family reunions through the years, and histories of family homesteads. Inscribe notes on ancestors' occupations and hobbies, anecdotes, celebrations, and sad moments: every memory worth passing on to children, grandchildren, and generations to come. The page designs all draw on color schemes and images common to various time periods, and there are also techniques for displaying the scrapbooked material in shadow boxes and frames.

This complete guide to creating a scrapbook helps you collect and preserve your favorite family memories. Lasting Memories features hundreds of pages from dozens of memory albums to show you how to plan each scrapbook page. You will learn how to combine photographs with personal memorabilia to create lasting memories of family experiences. Chapters on color, layout, and captioning help you plan and build pages that tell the whole story. Includes: Hundreds of colorful pages from old and new scrapbooks Ten quick-reference "Idea Boards" offer dozens of ways to decorate pages using diecuts, stencils, stickers, paper punches, rubber stamps, and more

This My School Memories Journal Family Keepsake includes: 4 8.5x11" pages per Grade, Preschool - 12th Grade (including TK) My 1st Day Pages for each Grade level through the years My Favorites Pages for each Grade level Scrapbooking pages for Pictures, Drawings or Thoughts for each Grade level Autograph pages for friends' signatures and an area to document your child's signature at each age My Favorite Memories Pages for each Grade level An area to document the Field Trip for each Grade level An area to attach Class pictures at each Grade level Over 60 pages of quality 8.5x11.5" white paper to fill with your memories! Makes a great keepsake to look back on once your child is grown up and has graduated high school. Makes a great Baby Shower, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Birthday or Christmas gift.

Whether you've got your sights set on a new travel destination or are looking to scrapbook your past adventures, scrapbooking your vacation is a trip for the imagination. This resource will ensure that when it comes to designing travel layouts, the "getting there" of the page-creating process really is half the fun.

Shows the basics of scrapbooking and explore creative cropping techniques to document your baby's first years and preserve your child's school achievements. You'll learn the proper photo-safe techniques to safely preserve cherished memories without the fear of ruining treasured photographs.