The Bad Girl's Scrappy Book [Spiral-bound]

Cameron Tuttle (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2003 | Series: Bad Girl's

Who says scrapbooks are for boring Betties? Transform business cards collected in bars, last year's unpaid parking tickets, and favorite party pics into a glorious personal shrine. Or, enlist the help of your baddest friends to build a hysterical, endearing, and incriminating birthday gift for a Bad Girl in your life.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Cameron Tuttle is the author of the best-selling The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road, The Bad Girl's Guide to Getting What You Want, and The Paranoid's Pocket Guide (0-8118-1665-6). She lives la vida Bad Girl in San Francisco.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 80 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (October 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811838927
• ISBN-13: 978-0811838924
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 9.7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,968,769 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific Scrapbook with an Off-Beat Sense of Humor, January 10, 2004

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Evi Dobrila (Stroudsburg, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bad Girl's Scrappy Book (Spiral-bound)

As an avid scrapbooker (you name it and I've probably made a scrapbook about it), I think this is a great book. Unlike some of the other people who reviewed this scrapbook -- who make a very valid point, by the way, to stay away if you're looking for something traditional -- I loved the fact that it is completely different from the other products out there. This is a must-own if you like Cameron Tuttle's "Bad Girls Guides." As with Vicki Iovine in her "Girlfriend's Guides", Tuttle's sense of humor is not for everyone. She espouses getting written up at work, earning speeding tickets, and coming up with aliases as part of the fun of being a woman -- not everyone finds things like that funny.

I particularly loved the lipstick page, where I could put on my favorite shades of lipstick and kiss the page to record the shades for posterity. I was amazed how the "bad fashion" page filled up more quickly than the "Beautiful me" page (1996 was a particularly bad year for me, apparently!). Most of all, I liked the irreverent, disorganized feel to the book. Like life, as you turn each page, you're never quite sure what's going to come next. Anyone can make a boring scrapbook chronicling a year in their lives (I've made plenty of those), but this one forces you to be creative and encourages you to find little ways to make the day more interesting, like collecting business cards from unsuspecting men, then pasting them into the section called "People I want to forget" or "People I don't remember".

Buy this scrapbook and have fun with it. I'm turning 30 this year and I've had a lot of fun selecting pictures from the last decade to include in it. There should be more products like The Bad Girl's Scrappy Book.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tons of FUN! Not for uptight not-so-bad girls..., January 7, 2004

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CuddlyKittyMTU (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bad Girl's Scrappy Book (Spiral-bound)

My older sister and I (both in our 20s) both bought a Scrappy Book upon finding them on-sale at a hip clothing store and we LOVE them! We are both also crazy into scrapbooking (in crafting terms), but we both are thoroughly enjoying these Scrappy Books still! True, they are different from what we crafters know as "Scrapbooking", but different is GOOD, especially considering that the very complicated and crafty art that we now know as "Scrapbooking" was originally spurred from "scrapbooking" in layman's terms, which is a much less complicated but fun way of recording memories, storing momentos, and journaling your experiences.
The Bad Girl's Scrappy Book is a rare treasure that is a blast both to work on completing and also to look back at later. Our personal favorites have been Personal Best and Worst, Worst Haircuts, Big Hair, and the People We Will Never Call sections. This Scrappy Book is the perfect edition to the Bad Girl series and any true-blue Bad Girl will love this Book. If nothing else, it aids a Bad Girl in effectively organizing a book in which to record and remember her Bad Girl memories and encounters and could be viewed as actual evidential proof of living a Bad Girl Lifestyle upon which to reflect and look back and laugh.
For the not-so-uptight Bad Girls that are avid fans of scrapbooking in crafting terms, you can always add in specialty papers, stickers, and the like for a very unique touch if you want to. My sister and I have done this and we have a blast combining the bad girl pages with additional Bad Girl-type specialty papers and stickers to embellish what is already there. This book is also a perfect addition to the Me and My Bad Girls Photo Album for those who have too many Bad Girl pictures for the book! :)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally--an Irreverent Scrap Book!, December 24, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Bad Girl's Scrappy Book (Spiral-bound)

It's five stars when you live a five-star life! If you've ever looked for a scrap book that lets you to celebrate your single (bad) girl days, this is it! I laughed just flipping through the pages and imagining what I'll be pasting in (ridiculous notes on cocktail napkins, embarrassingly low balances on ATM receipts, found objects, souvenirs from late-night mischief, etc.). It's honest *and* hilarious. I never thought I'd want to scrap book before I found this! Great gift too.