Cynthia Hart's Scrapbook Workshop [Paperback]

Cynthia Hart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 10, 1998

It's about grandmothers saving memories for grandchildren. Mothers creating books for sons and daughters. Entire families getting together to cut and paste in imaginative and beautiful ways. From a life-long chronicler whose A Victoriana Scrapbook and other Victoriana gift books have over 604,000 copies in print, here is a complete, step-by-step guide to scrapbooking, the new American passion.

Fully illustrated in full-color and black and white, CYNTHIA HART'S SCRAPBOOK WORKSHOP covers it all. Acid-free papers and other archival materials. Inventive ways to incorporate writing and drawing. Planning and laying out a memory book. Setting up a workspace. All the techniques and tricks of the trade: enlarging, cutting, gluing, ironing, cropping photographs, creating stencils, using decorative-edge scissors. Rounding out the book are 30 great inspirational projects, including baby books, school books, flower books, travel albums, and memory bouquets. Guided by Cynthia Hart's dazzling design sense and expertise, any enthusiast can create beautiful, heirloom-quality albums. Selection of Doubleday Direct. Over 97,000 copies in print.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Noted Victorianist Cynthia Hart turns her talented hand to this wildly popular craft with great success, declaring, "Creating a scrapbook is one of the most powerful ways to celebrate our lives and the lives of loved ones." Hart packs into these pretty pages just about everything you need to know: all the basics, plus full-color glimpses of more than two dozen imaginative scrapbook designs on a wide variety of themes (family milestones, celebrating the past, kid subjects, holidays, and much more). There's also a nice section of clip art, patterns, and templates that can be photocopied for use in your own scrapbooks. This volume is about much more than having fun with your photos; this is a guide to making a book of memories, an artful presentation of memorabilia on whatever subject you choose. --Amy Handy

From the Back Cover

INSTRUCTION & INSPIRATION

Whether you're an experienced scrapbooker looking for fresh ideas or a first-timer with a shoebox full of photographs to organize and preserve, here is a practical, chockful guide to making truly memorable memory albums. Created by Cynthia Hart, a renowned designer and lifelong chronicler of home and family, Cynthia Hart's Scrapbook Workshop covers everything from tools, techniques, tips, and tricks to archival guidelines and directions for dozens of specific memory book pages and projects.

The Techniques

A completely illustrated section on all the basic and advanced scrapbook techniques

- How to create your own books, layouts, and special pages

- Plus the art and craft of collage-making

The Scrapbook Designs

Over 30 imaginative scrapbooks presented in full-color, including Heart of Hearts, Beautiful Baby, Fifty Loving Years (shown above), The Baseball Book, A Garden for Mother, Back to School, Christmas Reflections, California Dreamin', and Our Best (Barking) Friend.

The Art & Patterns

A range of full-color clip-art to use for scrapbook projects, plus black-and-white clip-art, page designs, album designs, decorative corner photo mounts, book plates, and gift-giving labels.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company (January 10, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761112227
• ISBN-13: 978-0761112228
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 9.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #466,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring. Makes your fingers tingle with the urge to create, July 20, 1999

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Tsila Sofer Elguez "Tsila Sofer Elguez" (Haifa, Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cynthia Hart's Scrapbook Workshop (Paperback)

I have always liked scrapbooking, but this book has given my hobbie a whole new perspective. This is the first book I bought on this subject and it made me burst with creativity... I was thrilled to discover all the ideas Cynthia Hart proposes along her orderly advice and guidelines. The book is rich with pictures and examples, and going through it for the first time - without concentrating in the written material - is enough to start with. I was overwhelmed with the richness of the material. In your second reading you can go through the written guidelines.

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent guide for beginner, Beautiful presentation, February 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Cynthia Hart's Scrapbook Workshop (Paperback)

I just began my scrapbook project. Cynthia Hart's book literally helped me prepare the project with advice on the tools required, the resource guide, etc. The pictures and the step-by-step instructions are beautifully presented. She gave a lot of ideas without limiting our own creativity.

Scrapbook projects aren't as intimidating anymore.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive, user-friendly, and extremely inspiring!, April 29, 2004

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Belinda (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cynthia Hart's Scrapbook Workshop (Paperback)

CYNTHIA HART'S SCRAPBOOK WORKSHOP: A Complete Guide to Preserving Memories in Archival, Heirloom-Quality Books (Workman Trade Paperback, $19.95, 1998)

I thought it would be nice to create a scrapbook for my son's first year at school, and so I started scouring the bookshelves for interesting scrapbooking titles. It was VERY hard to find ones that aren't hokey and super-cutsey. CYNTHIA HART'S SCRAPBOOKING WORKSHOP was one of the few books that somewhat appealed to me. You may be familiar with Cynthia Hart's Victorian art calendars. Her designs in this book are quite elaborate and definitely reflect her Victorian tastes, but the book isn't entirely Victorian-styled. There are plenty of contemporary ideas, which I actually didn't care for as much as her vintage-style page layouts.

The book is comprehensive and an excellent source for the novice "scrapbooker." She covers the basics of how to use archival materials, how to restore damaged photos and prevent photos from future deterioration, and she also offers helpful information about tracing your family tree. Then she gets into the heart of how to create a scrapbook: the basic tools needed, planning your pages, incorporating three-dimensional objects, color and design schemes, and detailed instructions for making your own album covers.

The rest of the book is devoted to lush, full-color scrapbook designs. Each design is accompanied by detailed instructions. She covers a wide variety of occasions, including baby, wedding, bar mitzvah, sweet sixteen, 50th wedding anniversary, sports, kids' artwork albums, holidays, travel, and pets. My favorites were the designs in which she worked with old photographs. The "Childhood in Collage" and the "Special Grandmother" layouts are gorgeous.

This book is extremely well thought out. It offers detailed, easy-to-follow instructions for creating a memory album. And it features a wide range of scrapbooking ideas that will inspire readers to do something creative with their shoeboxes full of old photographs.

Highly recommended.