Memory Gifts: Preserving Your Treasured Past In Special Ways [Hardcover]

Marie Browning (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 12, 1999

Don't let treasured photographs languish unseen in dusty albums! With a color copier or laser printer, these images can grace any number of decorative items. Open up those scrapbooks and journals to find a wealth of material for découpage, transfers, and designs. All the techniques are explained, with over 40 unique projects that include a Vacation Memory Box, Baby Door Sign, Beaded Photo Purse, and Beveled Glass Ornament. 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 11.

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Scrapbooks may be the most obvious way to corral treasured photographs, but many other items also lend themselves to memory crafting. In Memory Gifts: Preserving Your Treasured Past in Special Ways, Marie Browning offers an assortment of ideas for utilizing photos in home accessories and a few wearables.

Through such methods and media as decoupage, polymer clay, image transfer, pour- on resin, and mounting under glass and mica, Browning adorns boxes, decorative plates, candles, desk accessories, switch plates, coasters, pillows, T-shirts, jewelry, frames, and ornaments. Sometimes she combines photos with relevant trinkets, like seashells--to commemorate a seaside vacation--on a straw wreath, or sports memorabilia in a shadowbox.

Directions, unfortunately, are sometimes inadequate, and some projects are simply described and not fully explained. A better source list would also have helped--the acknowledgments mentions manufacturers but does not give full contact information for hard-to-find specialty items such as mica sheets, dye pens, and calendar blanks. Still, there are some nice ideas here for crafters seeking to move beyond the memory album approach to working with photographs, and most of the projects are fairly simple. --Amy Handy

About the Author

Marie Browning has a Fine Arts Diploma from Camosun College and attended the University of Victoria. She has published several other craft books and regularly contributes articles and designs to publications such as Better Homes & Gardens.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (December 12, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806939338
• ISBN-13: 978-0806939339
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,809,137 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the best in new media, September 26, 2000

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This review is from: Memory Gifts: Preserving Your Treasured Past In Special Ways (Hardcover)

I saw the book in the library. Had to check it out immediately. Before I had finished the index and leafed through, I knew I had to have my own copy. I've been working on projects similar to those in the book and voila! the answers to my questions! Thanks for a great book on wonderful projects, like Photos on baked clay and between glass. Iron-on transfers for all sorts of projects.I'm looking for the supplies now.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great Ideas!, November 12, 2001

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This review is from: Memory Gifts: Preserving Your Treasured Past In Special Ways (Hardcover)

Great ideas although the one project I wanted to do which was the beveled glass ornaments looked simple enough but, no matter what craft store I went to you couldn't find beveled glass. I really was looking forward to making those ornaments for Christmas gifts. I may just stick with the candles.