Clean and Simple Scrapbooking - The Sequel [Paperback]

Cathy Zielske (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 30, 2006

Cathy Zielske's distinctive style and voice captivated thousands of readers when her first best-seller, Clean and Simple Scrapbooking, hit the shelves. Now, Cathy's back with a sequel to share more cool ideas for the simpler side of scrapbooking. Cathy revisits the philosophical principles that guide her creative process. Plus, she shares a host of simple theme albums and her foray into making 12" x 12" layouts. Learn more about ideas for good design and good journaling as well as how to feel comfortable in your own scrapbooking skin.

Product Details

• Paperback: 164 pages
• Publisher: Simple Scrapbooks (April 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933516194
• ISBN-13: 978-1933516196
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #609,143 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Amazing - CZ Rocks!, May 2, 2006

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Lois Lain (San Francisco Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Clean and Simple Scrapbooking - The Sequel (Paperback)

I have a zillion different scrapbooking books and magazines, and I'm always on the lookout for more. I think my search has ended.

Cathy Zielske writes with warmth, humor, and creativity. She offers tons of tips and suggestions, as well as concrete guidelines for scrappers to follow. She enables you to adapt the layouts you see on the pages of your favorite magazines to your own style. This book offers more of what she wrote in the first volume, but it also goes further, getting into greater detail about how Cathy creates her fabulous style.

I may never buy another idea book -- nahh, of course I will! But this one will have a place of honor on my shelf.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply A Must Have, July 31, 2006

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R. Hamblin (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Clean and Simple Scrapbooking - The Sequel (Paperback)

Any scrapbooker, any style, any budget, this is required reading. It can pretty well wipe your bookshelf of any other scrapping reference books - with the obvious exception of Clean and Simple Scrapbooking part one. Cathy Zielske is the master of her art. Her ability to share her techniques with her readers is unsurpassed. The layout ideas are pure Zielske, no surprises there, but the real value of this book lies in the author's instructive ability; her knack for imparting the underlying fundamentals of design. If you only buy one scrapbooking reference your entire life, make this the one.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is THE book that all new scrappers should read, January 17, 2008

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Artsy bookwoman (FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Clean and Simple Scrapbooking - The Sequel (Paperback)

I've been scrapping for a couple of years, but have never been that pleased with my layouts, no matter how much paper and expensive embellishments I threw on there. They still look somehow "not quite right" even though I put a lot of time and effort into them. As a result, I have felt like I was behind on my pages, and got scrap guilt, compounded with not being happy with the end results anyway. I just felt like I didn't really get what made the pages in the scrapping magazines look better than mine. Having come to scrapping from altered art, it is quite a different mindset, and one that I just didn't really feel like I could get.

Then a friend recommended Clean and Simple - The Sequel and I finally "got" what scrapping was all about, and more importantly, how to actually DO it. Cathy makes scrapping seem as simple as it actually should be. Oh how I wish I had read this one when I started. If you only read one scrapbooking book, this is it. Cathy has a real talent for explaining both philosophy and actual "how to" in a way that is relevant and applicable.

I could only give it four stars though, instead of five, much though I would have liked to. I read this book (The Sequel) first, and since I loved it so much, I bought the first Clean and Simple book as well. Unfortunately, a lot of the ideas in The Sequel are also in Clean and Simple (the original), they are just more fully formed. If I had to pick just one, I'd pick the second book over the first one. Its genius is diluted a bit in my mind however, in knowing that it does have a lot of recycled material. It's still a great book though!