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Montage Memories -Creating Altered Scrapbook Pages (Memory Makers)

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If you're a scrapbooker looking for new ideas & inspiration, then baby, have you picked the right book! If you're a collage artist & think you have nothing to learn from a book marketed to scrapbookers, think again!
Erikia & Pamela have put together a treasure trove of fresh & fun techniques to keep both groups happily experimenting, thinking out of the box, & of course, creating their own fabulous pages & more, for scrapbooks, journals & framed art.
From novel approaches to altering photos & making one's own background paper, to using scratchboard & etching glass - it's all here. These girls are as handy at wielding a metal hammer as they are at showing us how cut our own stencils or print a cyanotype!
And by the way, I am just wild about that funky retro '70s clock on page 35 - can't wait to make my own!

This has so many ideas that I'd never thought of. Cutting out words to get a "ransom note" effect, tearing and reassembling photos, sanding photos to age them, transferring photos onto laminate, and many more. I'll have hours of fun trying these out.
It's great to see the cross-pollination between altered books and scrapbooking and card making. Paper crafts are just so much fun and creative artists like these two really inspire me.

I really enjoy going through this book and I think the pics are great. Many of the projects are fun and different that most run of the mill craft books. I would have liked a bit more info on a few things in the book but overall I recommend it to beginners and seasoned crafters.

I had checked this book out of the library before purchasing and found that the author had lots of creative ideas. Good explanations of techniques,etc. Would definitely recommend for any paper crafters:)