Scraptastic!: 50 Messy, Sparkly, Touch-Feely, Snazzy Ways to Jazz Up Your Scrapbook Pages [Paperback]

Ashley Calder (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 10, 2007

Jazz up your pages!

Get ready to infuse your scrapbook layouts with messy, sparkly, snazzy and exciting new techniques. Go beyond the usual—experiment with art supplies, try unfamiliar tools, go wild and have fun. With Scraptastic! you can take your projects to the next level using innovative ideas for creating playful and artistic pages.

Inside you will find 50 illustrated techniques for jazzing up your layouts. Step-by-step photos, complete supply lists and easy-to-follow instructions show you exactly how to create each surprisingly easy project. Plus, you'll find helpful tips and tricks for creating cards as well as getting the most out of your supplies.

Grab your tools and try:

• watercolor
• golf leafing
• stamping
• embroidery
• hand-cut lettering
• paper piecing
• beading
• collage
• quilting
• and more!

Whether you're an art novice or design veteran, let Scraptastic! be your guide to discovering the messy, sparkly, touchy-feely, snazzy world of scrapbooking.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Ashley Calder's work has been published in Scrapbooks Etc., Canadian Scrapbooker, Creating Keepsakes special issues, Legacy, Paper Art, Memory Makers, Scrapbook Answers and Scrapbook Trends; as well as the Memory Makers Books Pet Pages Unleashed, 501 Great Scrapbook Page Ideas and The Amazing Page. She is an up-and-coming scrapbook designer who made a mark with her appearance in two new Autumn Leaves books: Freestyle and Designing with Type.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Memory Makers (December 10, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1599630117
• ISBN-13: 978-1599630113
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #78,298 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous and Wonderful book!, January 21, 2008

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K. Solheim "solheimk" (Stanford, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scraptastic!: 50 Messy, Sparkly, Touch-Feely, Snazzy Ways to Jazz Up Your Scrapbook Pages (Paperback)

This is my favorite book to date. I have long admired Ashley Calder as I spotted her distinctive style of scrapbooking in the pages of every major scrapbook magazine out there! She was part of the Autumn Leaves design team and ended up in several of their "Designing With" books as well as last year's Designing With Desk Calendar. I am always amazed at how unique her pages are.

This book is definitely for the scrapbooker who wants to do something a little different than her usual page. But I don't believe that traditional scrapbookers will not find this book useful; I think every type of scrapbooker can learn something from the techniques Ashley shares. Ashley's style is definitely freestyle/anything goes and almost always uses multiple photos in each layout. I know how hard it is to find good multiple photo sketches out there... there are some great ideas for how to scrap this way.

Ashley goes over 50 techniques and, while you do not get an in-depth overview of how to do watercolor or gold leaf, you get one example of using each new product with great pictures, tips and product lists.

The subtitle of this book is: 50 Messy, Sparkly, Touchy-Feely, Snazzy Ways to Jazz Up your Scrapbook pages. That's exactly what this is. I highly recommend the book for expanding your idea of scrapbooking.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Something different., February 2, 2008

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Lois Lain (San Francisco Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scraptastic!: 50 Messy, Sparkly, Touch-Feely, Snazzy Ways to Jazz Up Your Scrapbook Pages (Paperback)

I agree that this book is "way out there," but I like that. It isn't your ordinary "fifty ways to use patterned paper on a layout" idea book. Instead, Ashley Calder introduces new materials and techniques, and shows you step-by-step how to incorporate them in your scrapbook.

I would not recommend this if you are a die-hard Creative Memories user who never lets anything with even a hint of acid touch her scrapbook's pages. But if you are willing to look outside the box, give it a go. I like Ashley's quirky style, even if I am a more traditional scrapper.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Loved It!, January 26, 2008

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D. Johnston "dani j." (kansas city, mo usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scraptastic!: 50 Messy, Sparkly, Touch-Feely, Snazzy Ways to Jazz Up Your Scrapbook Pages (Paperback)

I'm not normally a fan of scrapbooking books - in fact, they usually dissapoint me! But this one is really amazing. I came into scrapbooking from studying collage and other altered arts in school. I love how much this book teaches you, and how REAL the author's pages are! Lovely, lovely book, I'm going to recommend it to all of my scrapbooking friends!