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Growing Up Me: A Guide to Scrapbooking Childhood Stories

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This book has ideas for use with children in documenting their lives as they view it as well as for the adult who is backing up and documenting their own. I am always amazed at this author's ability to take it to the next step in my own thinking for scrapbooking. This book does not have as many PHENOMENAL layouts as you find in her BOOK OF US, but it is created by children, who generally are not the artistic creators like you find in magazines or other idea books. Instead, she has hosted a place to see where your own children can go with layouts and gives ideas for the scrapbooker trying to recapture their own childhood.

This book is not intended to be a book full of awesome ideas and techniques, but a book that helps CHILDREN make scrapbooks of their lives. I use this book in my ever popular KROPPIN' KIDS classes and the participants (kids) are always inspired by knowing that many of the layouts are done by other children their age. I would reccomend anyone who teaches children, scrapbooking or otherwise, to use the ideas in this book. A great way to empower our kids!

I love this book and Angie's other books as well. She does a great job of providing inspiration to scrap and journal your way through creating a book about your growing up years. I would not say it's a great book to get layout ideas for, but I don't think that's what her purpose is. You can find layout ideas anywhere, but it's difficult to start from the beginning and create a book about your life. Angie helps you do this in an organized way, and some of her journaling prompts have helped me to recall long-forgotten memories from my past. A lot of fun!

I was surprised at some of the ideas in this book being very poorly planned and lacking any sort of expertise. The author takes a very short list of ideas of ways to see your children (who their friends are, what sports they play, what they like in school, what their dreams are) and tries to stretch it into an entire book without originality or creativity. I was terribly disappointed with the lack of effort the author made compared to cheaper options filled with more information, even a basic scrapping magazine (pick any of them) has more technique ideas, layouts, color schemes, product ideas, titles, and suggestions than this whole book. This was a poor attempt for someone trying to make a name for themselves in the scrapbooking world.

I bought this book together with the "book about us" from the same author. It is a book that could be interesting if you have children and want to document thier growing up. I didn't really see the use: the projects are not really ones I would tend to create: the subjects did not appeal to me and the layouts did not inspire me, which is strange as I really loved the "book about us".