Scrapbook Storytelling, Step by Step [Paperback]

Johanna Campbell Slan (Author), Joanna Slan (Author), Joanna Campbell-Slan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2003

A guide to scrapbooking and journaling collects tips and techniques for preserving memories, photographs, and family stories.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Craft and office supply stores are filled with materials for memory scrapbooks. This book provides a much-needed guide for collecting and organizing the family information that is to form the text basis for the creatively decorated pages that are gathered together to form a family scrapbook. Slan gives pointers for interviewing family members, writing stories, selecting photographs, and putting it all together. Each chapter is well illustrated with sample pages. Certain to be popular in public libraries.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

She's not just an author, she's the woman next door. Joanna Slan is a small town girl who grew up loving to cut and paste and write stories. Today, more than six million people have read her work in the Chicken Soup for the Soul and Chocolate for a Woman's Soul book series. Now living in the big city of St. Louis, Joanna is a wife and mother who creates memorable moments every day.

Product Details

• Paperback: 109 pages
• Publisher: Memory Makers Books; 1 edition (January 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963022288
• ISBN-13: 978-0963022288
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,380,174 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not your ordinary Scrapbooking book!, May 29, 2002

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Soozie4Him (Chicago suburbs) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scrapbook Storytelling, Step by Step (Paperback)

This book is not just a book of great layouts, though it certainly has those! And it's not just tips on journaling either. Joanna Campbell Slan does an outstanding job of teaching you how to tell the stories behind your pictures.

The layouts are wonderful, and not as impossible-looking as so many layouts are in other books! But what's important is that she shows how scrapbooking can be used for SO many situations. It's not just a hobby for moms with young children.

I really enjoyed reading this book, and looking at her layouts. She shares a lot of her own scrapbook pages and by the end of the book, we get to know her son Michael and we feel better equipped to scrapbook the stories of OUR lives.

There was a poignant section about scrapbooking the not-so-good memories. Joanna uses her photos and journaling to create a memorial page for her nephew Josh who was killed just before his 5th birthday.

Probably the most helpful part of the book is all the journaling/storytelling tips! The author even includes questionnaires to fill out as you interview your family members. I enjoyed the fact that the layouts are graded by how easy/difficult they are. You can look that up in the index and also see what materials are necessary.

By the end of the book, I really feel that I had gotten to know Joanna quite well - and isn't that the goal of our scrapbooks, to share ourselves with future generations?

Also, Joanna has a website ... where you can download templates, access helpful hints, and link to other scrapbooking websites.

Happy Scrappin'!

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly inspriational and full of advanced techniques, October 20, 1999

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Pam Landolt (O'Fallon, Missouri) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scrapbook Storytelling, Step by Step (Paperback)

This book gets to the heart of scrapbooking. It not only has lovely visuals, but is full of stories that Ms. Slan tells so eloquently and guides you step by step to be able to do the same. I was so inspried by this book that I found myself effortlessly sitting down and doing page after page with my own family's memories - the ones other than your typical birthday, vacation, holiday, etc. Isn't this what we want our family to remember after all is said and done? A "must have" for any scrapbooker!

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I almost forgot!, November 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Scrapbook Storytelling, Step by Step (Paperback)

This is a wonderful guide for those of us that have trouble organizing our thoughts or that get stumped while trying to journal. I have found it to be a lifesaver when my creativity seems to be on vacation. I can take this book and after a little browsing come up with a new and fresh way to make my scrapbooking come alive. Ms. Slan has really shared alot of her life and times in this book and this causes you to feel like you could invite her over to share at one of your crops. For a beginning scrapbooker this is invaluable and for someone that has experience it's a must. My only negative is that I wish the pictures of her pages were larger so I could see more of the detail. Over all it's a fabulous book! Thank you Ms. Slan.