The Joy Of Scrapbooking

Want to capture your baby at her charming best? Your son's game-winning home run? Make a scrapbook! You've never had so many great materials and creative techniques to choose from. Now this comprehensive guide shows you how to have an exciting time using them. The Joy of Scrapbooking includes: Sure-fire ways to improve your page designs, Answers to more than 40 common questions, Important techniques illustrated with step-by-step photos, Advice on writing compelling and entertaining text, Tips that will improve your photos, Information on the essential tools, including many that you may already have at home, Poems, quotes, and other fun resources that you can use on your pages, Hundreds of beautiful and inspiring scrapbook pages. Book jacket.

Joy of Scrapbooking, -All-new content expands and updates the 1998 classic. Perfect for beginners and inspiring for experienced croppers.

Joy Aitman explains all the basic techniques of scrapbooking and shows you how to create beautiful layouts using holiday photographs, a school photograph and a wedding picture. Cropping is one of the basics of scrapbooking and Sarah McKenna shows how to use dozens of techniques such as slicing, silhouetting, montage and mosaics to enhance your pages. Sarah then shows how eyelets can be used to attach vellu, acetate and fabric to your pages, to add embellishments and accents and to provide emphasis and detail. Clear step-by-step demonstrations are accompanied by over a hundred wonderful layouts to inspire you.

This inspirational book for scrapbookers features 21 beautiful layouts. Close-up photographs pull out particular areas from each page and detailed captions explain how the various effects are created. Learn how to create a heritage feel to scrapbook pages by tearing, inking or chalking papers to give them an aged look, or use a file folder for a wartime page, to make your journaling look like an official document. Create hidden journaling and print titles or photographs on fabric, make a concertina mini-book, lace flowers together for a feminine feel or use nuts and bolts as masculine embellishments. Beginners and experienced scrapbookers will be inpired by this beautiful and informative book.

Presents 365 ideas, tips, and techniques for making innovative pages for a scrapbook.

Festive fun with charms, ribbons, vellum, acetates, eyelets and much more. Joy Aitman fires the imagination with a sparkling assortment of seasonal ideas. From cropping and framing photographs to stamping and embossing pages, it is all here, with projects showing how to create beautiful pages and great mini books. Easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step photographs accompany all the projects. Joy introduces the exciting scrapbooking craft, covering the basics such as cropping, matting, layout and journaling. Easy to follow step-by-step photographs show how to create gorgeous scrapbook pages using photographs of typical Christmas scenes such as decorating the tree, stirring the pudding, the Nativity play and visiting Santa's grotto. Learn how to use beautiful embellishments such as rub-on transfers, eyelet charms, slide mounts and faux film strips to add that finishing touch to layouts. Joy's innovative ideas and beautiful layouts will inspire you to remember Christmas in all kinds of new ways - such as sharing favourite recipes in a mini-book or inviting friends to keep their memories in a journal jar.

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.