Scrapbook Page Maps: Sketches For Creative Layouts [Spiral-bound]

Becky Fleck (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2008

Scrapbook Page Maps takes the guesswork out of where to begin by giving plenty of design ideas for their scrapbook layouts!

By referring to the sketches in the book, you can select photos, papers and embellishments and then bring the page together quickly and easily. Helpful resource information such as a supply list and photo sizes are included on each card, along with page information cross-referencing the sketch back to the book. Scrapbook Page Maps is the essential book for beginning scrapbookers as well as those short on time.

And you get more than just an inspiring, design-filled idea book! Also included is a deck of laminated cards that includes a thumbnail of many of the sketches in the book along with corresponding finished layouts.

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About the Author

Becky Fleck is a graphic designer and illustrator by trade and has owned a design agency for more than 15 years. She has been published in numerous scrapbook magazines, and she teaches extensively throughout the US and Canada at expos, scrapbook stores and conventions. Becky is also a freelance artist for the following manufacturers: BasicGrey, Melissa Frances and Pink Martini Designs. Her web site, www.pagemaps.com, is a destination site for anyone interested in using sketches for their scrapbooks.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 128 pages
• Publisher: Memory Makers (April 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1599630168
• ISBN-13: 978-1599630168
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 9.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (93 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #147,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This One Is The Best!, March 26, 2008

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Jeffery J. Campbell (Mountain Home, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scrapbook Page Maps: Sketches For Creative Layouts (Spiral-bound)

I have bought a few sketch books including the other "Becky" books and the Close To My Heart series and this one is FAR superior! Save your money on the others and invest in this one that will certainly inspire you. Not only did I get idea's from the sketches for my layouts but I also came away with quite a few idea's for using embellishments I already had in a new and fresh way.

The sketch idea's are shown in double page spreads, single page spreads, 8 1/2 X 11 spreads and even some examples adapting them to cards. The layouts show you how to rotate the sketch, how to subsitute picture sizes and how to even elimanate pictures. They use enlargements as well as standard 4X6 pic's. Just about any inspiration you need you will find within these pages.

The added (and priceless) bonus is the cards at the back of the book. You can pop out cards that have not only the sketch on them but also a completed page idea using the sketch and carry them in the box (also provided)to your crops. To me these cards were WELL worth the price of the book!

Don't hesitate on this book. Chances are your other sketch books will become obsolete.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book - MUST HAVE, April 8, 2008

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S. Lancaster "KnitWit" (Colorado, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scrapbook Page Maps: Sketches For Creative Layouts (Spiral-bound)

If you only could buy one idea book (GASP! What an awful thought!) this would be the one.

The layouts are beautful and well-balanced. As another reviewer mentioned, they are very doable as opposed to many ideas that I would NEVER take the time to do. On the other hand, I suppose if you enjoy extremely elaborate LOs, you could do that too. The embellishments are given a spot on the map, but it is never spelled out what they have to be, so you could get as intricate as you want. There is plenty of creative freedom available. The sketches are also very versatile. I scrap 12x12, and for most of the 8-1/2 x 11 LOs I was immediately able to see how to translate them into the larger size. The book shows variations for each sketch, which gives you many ways to use them. They show rotation, inversion, direct copies and looser "interpretations" of the sketches. My head was all abuzz with ideas after I read this book.

Of course... the cards! They are beautiful and compact, including a full-color copy of the LO, the sketch, a shopping list, and titled by the number of photos in that LO. They come with their own carrying box that will keep them coralled and slip easily into your scrapbooking tote. Finally, they are heavyweight cardstock and they are laminated, so they should be very hardy. I organized my cards according to the number of photos on that LO. When I have pictures to scrap, I can flip immediately to the corresponding sketches, choose a LO and get working!

Also, this has not been mentioned, but this book is bound by a hidden spiral binding. This means that it fits perfectly on your shelf, with the title easily visible. It also means that it lays flat, which is invaluable when you are working with a sketch. I love this style of binding, and it is not easy to find. I would warn you, be gentle when you tear out your index cards. I tried to pull several pages worth out at once, and I bent the spirals open and pulled the book out of the cover! It was no big deal, as I was able to put it right back in and bend the spirals closed, but do be gentle.

Overall, one of the best sketch/LO books I have ever owned. I am quite pleased with my purchase

22 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I think this book is just okay., November 21, 2008

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S. Sevin "Sue" (Moon Township, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scrapbook Page Maps: Sketches For Creative Layouts (Spiral-bound)

First the pros: Becky Fleck does beautiful work, her sketches are detailed and the scrapbook pages pictured are wonderful. She uses a lot of paint in her designs, which I don't. The spiral binding makes it really simple to open it to the page you like and keep it there! There are cards in the back of all the sketches with an example on the back of the card. The idea is that you can carry the cards more easily than the book to a crop or to the craft store to buy supplies. Awesome, right!?

The cons: The biggest con for me is that Becky Fleck mostly does one page designs. Most scrappers I know, myself included, tend to work on two page spreads. So this is a major disappointment for me. And I know the one page sketches can be carried over into a 2 page spread, but I'd rather just see the whole double page spread all sketched out for me. That's why I buy these books! Fleck shows examples of 8 1/2 x 11" layouts with single pages, double pages and pages that have the layout turned to be 11" x 8.5". But I would not have bought it if I'd known it was 80% single page sketches.

But the bright side is that on Amazon.com, the list price is an affordable $14.99 (unlike me, who paid full list price of $24.99 to get it NOW). So it isn't much of a budget breaker. But for me, I wish I'd have spent the money on scrapbooking supplies.