Scrapbooking Your Family History: The Ultimate Workbook (Leisure Arts #4295) (Creating Keepsakes) [Perfect Paperback]

Creating Keepsakes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 29, 2007 | Series: Creating Keepsakes

Produced for Leisure Arts by the editors of Creating Keepsakes scrapbook magazine, this guided workbook will help you get started, get organized, and preserve your favorite family memories in a way that's fun, easy, and meaningful. It features 72 ready-to-use checklists, forms, page planners, and worksheets; these are also available as free downloads over the Internet, for easy duplication.
The book shows dozens of beautiful scrapbook pages that you can easily create with a minimum of supplies. The checklists and forms will help you get organized and take advantage of wonderful resources. The page planners suggest simple layouts. And the worksheets are packed with interview questions you can ask about people, places, and events.

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About the Author

Leisure Arts is a leading publisher and distributor of “how-to” and lifestyle publications with emphasis on creative crafts, needlework, decorating, and entertaining.  Leisure Arts is located in Little Rock, AR.

Product Details

• Perfect Paperback: 196 pages
• Publisher: Leisure Arts; 1 edition (August 29, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1601405286
• ISBN-13: 978-1601405289
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 7.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #483,306 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two hobbies in one book, September 28, 2007

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Barbara Rhoades "Jackie of all Trades" (O'Fallon, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scrapbooking Your Family History: The Ultimate Workbook (Leisure Arts #4295) (Creating Keepsakes) (Perfect Paperback)

Two hobbies in one!!!----Scrapbooking and Genealogy. Within the almost 200 pages of this book, you will find everything you need to create a wonderful keepsake of your family history.

You can begin by downloading all the checklists, forms page planners and worksheets you need for FREE! Yep, FREE! The URL is on page 11. Then move on two the first chapter --- Getting Started. This describes the different types of history projects you could do such as school memories or family stories.

Other information in this chapter includes project organization, finding time, photo layout planners, supplies you will need, places to find the information including Internet sites, a sample letter to send when you are requesting information and a research log to keep track of where you have look and who you have asked.

Interspersed in this chapter are color layouts of various scrapbook pages to kick start your own creative ideas.

The rest of the book is laid out in chapters that include family, babies, childhood/teen years, adult years and family traditions. Each page within each chapter has a scrapbook layout on one side and a worksheet or photo layout page on the other. When you read the information on the pages, you will see how the information that was gathered was laid out/used to create a history keepsake. There are ideas for color and embellishments such as 3-D flowers, buttons or lace.

The final pages provide a six page supply list of items used to create a particular page and an Index divided by albums, checklist forms, page planners and worksheets.

If you love genealogy or scrapbooking or BOTH, SCRAPBOOKING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY will be on of your best tools.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Family History Scrapbooking guide, May 24, 2009

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A. Wellauer "Singersower" (TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scrapbooking Your Family History: The Ultimate Workbook (Leisure Arts #4295) (Creating Keepsakes) (Perfect Paperback)

This book has so many fabulous, helpful tips for organizing and presenting family history--both with photos AND written word.

It really helps the user to get a grasp on an overwhelming project.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Scrapbooking Your Family History: The Ultimate Workbook, July 31, 2008

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D. Wilmot - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scrapbooking Your Family History: The Ultimate Workbook (Leisure Arts #4295) (Creating Keepsakes) (Perfect Paperback)

Workbook has great lay-outs, great forms that can be downloaded and intersting, informative information. This book can help you get organized so one can use their time scrapbooking more effectively.