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The Scrapbooker's Creativity Kit: Prompts And Ideas To Jump Start Your Layouts

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I was so disappointed when I finally received this in the mail. I have Claudine's 2 previous books on collage discovery workshops and would have rated each a 6 stars, but this really let me down. To be frank, I felt it was heavy on gimmics and packaging and light on content. Sure, the little cards were cute, but she could just as easily have had a couple pages in the back of a normal-sized book that gave you all the prompt words. And, frankly I wasn't impressed with the pages done by the other artists. I guess that's a backhanded compliment to Claudine. What I thought I was going to get when I ordered the book was more advice and examples of HER work. Come on, Claudine, you took the easy way out on this one!

Great book of ideas with prompt cards for color and scheme ideas. Love the kit; love the ideas that flooded by creative side. Great resource!

I wasn't totally sure what to expect from this book, but I found myself very satisfied when it arrived last week.

The book is small (about 6x6) and is full of scrapbook ideas from some fabulously free, messy, wildly creative artists. Note that while Claudine is the author, most of the layouts are NOT by her. This is a totally different direction than her previous books - still completely wonderful. Just different.

I would not recommend this book to a beginning scrapbooker, however anyone who is into this wonderful hobby and is looking for a new source of fun inspiration will surely enjoy the ideas and cards contained in this. The bright colors, funky layouts, and formulas (like play + cyan + purple) are fabulous!

Sitting on my desk where I can reach it, and just waiting for me to be stuck so I can use the cards is where my copy will be. :)

I've had this "kit" for 4 days and I still can't really figure it out. I THOUGHT it was just a reference-type book on scrapbooking ideas, but it's more like a creative game I guess. Comes with 2 decks of cards. One with colors and one with prompt-words. It's up to the individual to come up with ideas depending on what cards you draw and your interpretation on what they mean to you. Not much help really....if I were THAT creative, I'd already have design pages for my scrapbook done. A very odd kit indeed.

Received product in a timely manner. It provided me some quick ideas for scrapbook pages. I may use one or two of them.

I am a big fan of Claudine Hellmuth and her work. I was a little disappointed with how small this book is. Had I looked at this product in person,I probably would not have purchased it. However, the concept of two decks of cards for random selection of colors and concepts is inspiring. I just would have liked to see many many more illustrations of artwork examples. I like that several well known artists contributed to the book

I just received this cute little book and love it! The prompt cards are great and a nice diversion when looking to change it up a bit. I love Claudine's presentation style in previous books and this did not let me down. It's a wonderful addition to my creative library!!

Was very pleased with this item. Was also impressed with seller's price and quickness to ship/receive.

The latest from the collage world's darling Claudine Hellmuth is The Scrapbooker's Creativity Kit: Prompts and Ideas to Jump-start Your Layouts. While it is marketed towards scrapbookers, the kit is useful for any type of journaling or painting really. In fact, many of the examples in the book aren't even scrapbook layouts. There are also several of Claudine's signature paintings as examples throughout the book.

In the kit you receive two decks of double-sided cards. One is a set of color cards and the other is a set of word cards. The trick is to draw two color cards and one word card and let those be the inspiration for your project. It's not necessary to stick to the word precisely as you'll find when you read some of the thought processes of the design team.

Speaking of the design team, Claudine has assembled some wonderful artists inside the 80 page book that's included. They include Genevieve Simmonds, Donna Downey, Christina Lazar-Schuler, Rhonna Farrer, Ashley Calder, and Kal Barteski. Then there are many more artists in the gallery.

I wish the kit hadn't been pigeonholed quite so specifically for scrapbookers because I think that will keep a lot of people from buying it that could really benefit from it. It's a wonderful word prompt exercise that really gets your juices flowing. Whether you use it to do a whole painting or just a quick ATC as a warm up, it's one of those things they teach you in expensive art classes.

I have Claudine's other books and have taken one class with her (just last week at Angela's Happy Stamper in Reston Virginia). This "kit" is uniquely different - it's intended to make me think instead of telling me how to do it like she does. The tools in the kit give me color and theme ideas to jump start me when I'm stumped.

I truly believe that Claudine wants us to make art that is our own and she's sharing what she knows to help us on our path.

Get this kit, open your mind and paints and get to making something new. Enjoy!