Making Scrapbooks: Complete Guide to Preserving Your Treasured Memories [Paperback]

Vanessa-Ann (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 1998

Turn precious memories into a beautiful keepsake to treasure forever! The joyous announcement of a baby's birth. A wedding invitation. Rare family photographs. They deserve careful safeguarding in a beautiful personalized memory album. The days of drab, store-bought scrapbooks have gone forever, because if you have a snapshot or souvenir, you have a work of art waiting to happen. A few easy techniques--and your imagination--will do the trick. Just see how a stunning setting, a sprinkle of decorations, or a surprising design can transform everyday objects into something special. This unique volume shows you how to do the job right. * Avoid irreparable damage to your photos, and make sure your scrapbook lasts a long time, by following hints on handling, archiving, and even buying materials. * Create a book that always captures just the right mood for whatever you're documenting--from background paper to a photo frame. * Embellish with découpage, embossing, appliqué, pop-up pictures, and hand-tinting. * Sponging, heat-coloring metal, marbling, plastic-wrap painting and more allow you to express your individuality and create a book like no other. * A variety of designs capture romantic, comic, and holiday moods. * An amazing array of scrapbook ideas, complete with patterns, complement every occasion and every season. * Explore the incredible variety of tools--some little known--that will help you cut, measure, and decorate your album so it will be unique. * Calculate page measurements and crop pictures to create the best possible design. You'll soon have a library of magnificent scrapbooks to enjoy--and what better way to have and to hold those images, moments, wishes, and me

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

With the emphasis on embellishment, Making Scrapbooks presents 75 projects for jazzing up your memory albums (covers as well as interiors) with pop-ups, fancy cutouts, textural adornments, and theme-appropriate artwork and memorabilia. Using all the tricks of the trade--templates, decorative-edge scissors, stencils, stamps, stickers, ribbons, lace, and more--Vanessa-Ann stocks her albums with cute and clever ideas for pages of pictures of babies, pets, holidays, school events, weddings, and ancestors. Many of the projects would also work well as greeting cards or framed presentations. At times the photos are a bit overwhelmed by the decorations, but the ideas are fun and plentiful. --Amy Handy

From Library Journal

Books with creative formats and artistic bindings have always been a specialty of small presses, but now the computer printer enables anyone to make distinctive-looking books. These three volumes are full of ideas and techniques for compiling and binding handmade books in many formats, including "memory books" and personalized scrapbooks. Blake (Making and Decorating Your Own Paper, Sterling, 1995) deals mainly with the mechanics of making covers and bindings. Graphic designer Kropper goes beyond this into hand-decorated pages, unusual formats, and traditional methods such as fore-edge painting. The Vanessa-Ann book is for makers of memory books and includes projects combining photographs and keepsakes with cutout mountings and simple bindings. All three books are good additions to public library collections, complementing one another rather than overlapping.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (December 31, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806999012
• ISBN-13: 978-0806999012
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,172,992 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for beginners, March 30, 2000

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This review is from: Making Scrapbooks: Complete Guide to Preserving Your Treasured Memories (Paperback)

This book is great if you are new to scrapbooking. It will quickly acquaint you with the techniques needed to make beautiful layouts. After you read through it a few times, however, and practice the designs that interest you the most, this book tends to stay tucked away on the shelf. The techniques and layouts used in this book are simple enough that you can remember it without having to refer to the book. If you only scrapbook a few times a year, this book would be a great buy. However, if you scrapbook often then save yourself the money and just go to the library to find these ideas.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great source for ideas on laying out old family photo., June 22, 1998

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This review is from: Making Scrapbooks: Complete Guide to Preserving Your Treasured Memories (Hardcover)

I have found this book to be helpful in laying out my photo pages. Many sources have great ideas for current photos, but few offer so many tips for older photos. Most people will be able to find ideas from this book that they can use in their own book.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Artistic and Inspiring Book, Stuffed with Unique Ideas!, July 30, 1998

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This review is from: Making Scrapbooks: Complete Guide to Preserving Your Treasured Memories (Hardcover)

This book really inspired me to try different techniques and to use things on my pages that I never would have imagined. It walks you through the steps and products to help you become a expert scrapbooker and the ideas are easily incorporated into anyones book. It definatly a must have!