Simply Graphic: Clean & Crisp Design for Scrapbook Pages (Memory Makers) [Paperback]

Memory Makers (Author)

Book Description

Series: Memory Makers | Publication Date: March 17, 2006

"Simply Graphic" features ideas for creating today's trendy and dynamic look influenced by the world of graphic design. The graphic design-inspired look is clean, crisp, cutting-edge and innovative and can be replicated easily in traditional paper or computer scrapbooking. This unique book delves into the user friendly ideology behind page concept, type, imagery and how all three come together to create striking layouts that break all boundaries. You don't have to be a graphic designer for your scrapbook pages to have the graphic-design look! "Simply Graphic" gives you all the know-how you'll need to create clean and crisp graphic look for both traditional paper and computer generated scrapbook page designs.

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About the Author

Memory Makers Books are an extension of the widely popular Memory Makers magazine and offer the highest level of instruction and inspiration for scrapbookers- the fastest growing segment of the craft industry.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Memory Makers (March 17, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1892127784
• ISBN-13: 978-1892127785
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,786,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A good purchase, August 1, 2007

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A. York "Scrapbook Diva" (Vancouver, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Simply Graphic: Clean & Crisp Design for Scrapbook Pages (Memory Makers) (Paperback)

You could do worse with your money buying this book but I wouldn't say that it's the best on the market. The book is very reminiscent of Cathy Zielske's books - Clean & Simple, without some of the extra tips that Cathy adds to her books.

I like clean lines and non-fussy scrapbook pages, if you aren't "linear", then you probably won't enjoy this book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars simply graphic/simply helpful, April 14, 2008

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K.H.L. "kathylambert99" (RI, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Simply Graphic: Clean & Crisp Design for Scrapbook Pages (Memory Makers) (Paperback)

I really enjoyed this book. If you take the time to read most of it and not just glance at it as an idea book, you may just learn something. I found alot of inspiring ideas and helpful hints for what I have recently learned to be (one of) my prefered method of scrapbooking (check out "Find Your Groove" to learn more about what your scrapbooking style is). I like the look of clean pages with graphic elements and clean crisp lines and that's exactly what you'll find in this book. However, there are a few negatives about this book: 1. 99.9% of the journaling is typed, not handwritten, which leads me to believe that the graphic style is not acceptive of handwritten, thus personal jounaling which I find to be a necessary part of scrapbooking. But I suppose you can still be drawn to the graphic style of scrapbooking and still incorporate your own handwritten jounaling. 2. Most of the sample scrapbook pages in this book have only 1 picture on it which drives me crazy. As a scrapbooker who is trying to catch up on 7 years of photos, I fully believe in getting the most out of one page as possible. But again, it's not impossible to incorporate more photos on a scrapbook page while still trying to impose the graphic style. You just need to find a balance between simple, graphic pages with some handwritten journaling and more photos per page. I believe it IS possible to have both.
All in all, I still heaped the benefits from this book. I still haven't quite decided if it is worth a purchase or just another trip to the library for this one. My advice is to check it out of the library first and see for yourself if you can't learn something from this book.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not great for scrapbooking, January 3, 2007

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G. Emmert - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Simply Graphic: Clean & Crisp Design for Scrapbook Pages (Memory Makers) (Paperback)

The title sounded good, however, as a scrapbooker this seemed more like images for commercials or magazines. I was looking for new design elements to simplify pages and yet have a great look.(Clean and crisp) However, the pages lacked warmth and not anything like traditional scrapbooking I was looking for. Perhaps too modern and bold.