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

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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.

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.

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.