Complete Guide to Scrapbooking [Paperback]

Jill Haglund (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2000

This is the classic and original Complete Guide to Scrapbooking! This book was an overnight success as soon as it was off the press, selling 10,000 almost overnight.

Full of the how-tos for tools, materials and creative ideas and tips for themes, lettering, borders, dry paper embossing, taking better pictures. There is even a secton on the colorwheel to help with choosing papers.

Great resource!

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About the Author

Jill Haglund became an overnight success with "The Complete Guide to Scrapbooking", which sold 10,000 copies overnight.

Once called the scrapbook "guru", she is now into all types of papercrafts. Jill's newest tile include "Vintage Collage for Scrapbooking" available now.

Her work has been on display near New York City under glass shawdowboxes at the Exposures Corporate office. She has done project sheets for Michaels Crafts Stores, Eileen's Creative Living T.V. Show, Target ads, and more.

Jill has been involved with week-long workshops including scrapbooking, cardmaking and rubberstamping classes for trade shows such as The Hobby Industry Association and The Great American Scrapbook Trade Show.

She has done grandopenings at Exposures and Cord Camera and Michaels Craft Stores. Over the years Jill has done classes monthly at Michaels Craft's Store and Barnes and Nobles Booksellers.

She is very excited about her next new opportunity to teach in Tuscany, Italy. This worksop called A Journey in Vintage Collage and will be a class on the finding, making and using of vintage items and ephemera through collage style in journals, small scrapbooks and cards. The classes are set for May and Sept 2005.

Jill's newest books venturing into papercrafts other then scrapbooking- " Creating Vintage Cards" and "Artists Creating with Photos" will be available in January 2005.

She features many artists in these books and the diversersity of artwork make this a must have for all paper crafters.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Tweety Jill Pubns; 5th edition (July 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1891898000
• ISBN-13: 978-1891898006
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,502,101 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great scrapbooking resource book!, July 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Complete Guide to Scrapbooking (Paperback)

This book is divided into two major sections. The first part covers all the stuff you will need to complete a scrapbook and some tips and techniques. The second part (and largest) is a project guide that describes 35 different album themes. Each theme has 1 layout shown. Some themes are: Grade school, boy scout, heritage, anniverary, decade, portrait and christmas albums.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great scrapbooking resource book!, July 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Complete Guide to Scrapbooking (Paperback)

This book is divided into two major sections. The first part covers all the stuff you will need to complete a scrapbook and some tips and techniques. The second part (and largest) is a project guide that describes 35 different album themes. Each theme has 1 layout shown. Some themes are: Grade school, boy scout, heritage, anniverary, decade, portrait and christmas albums.

2.0 out of 5 stars Very disappointed, September 15, 2005

By 

Michael E.Dorsey (Lancaster county,Pa.) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Complete Guide to Scrapbooking (Paperback)

This publication was very disappointing. I expected much more than it had . did not hav near enough detailand explanations were very vague and incomplete.