Starting Points: Creating Meaningful Scrapbook Layouts From Whatever Inspires You [Paperback]

Linda Harrison (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 3, 2008

Find Your Inspiration

Getting started can be the hardest part of scrapbooking–but it doesn't have to be. Starting Points shows you that inspiration for creating a scrapbook page can come from anywhere: an old photo, a conversation, beautiful architecture or even a clever ad in a magazine.

In Starting Points, author Linda Harrison teaches you how to open your eyes to all the starting points around you, then illustrates how they can lead to an attractive and meaningful page. You'll be inspired to take favorite photos, memorable notes, trendy new product and more and use them to fuel fresh new layouts bursting with personality and style.

Starting Points helps inspire your scrapbooking with:

• 120 unique layouts
  
  
• Images of the original starting points that inspired every layout, including cute quotes from kids, receipts, vacation snapshots, patterned paper, party supplies, paint swatches, brochures and more
  
  
• Tips for brainstorming unique ideas–and for creating your best layouts yet

  
  
  
  
  Let Starting Points inspire you to breathe new life into your scrapbooks–from start to finish!

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Linda Harrison is a 2007 Creating Keepsakes Hall of Fame winner and her work appears regularly in Creating Keepsakes magazine along with other publications. Since 2005, Linda has had over 150 layouts published and she continues to inspire other scrapbookers with her style and keen eye for color. She has been a member of a prominent industry design team and has represented manufacturers at various trade shows.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Memory Makers (September 3, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1599630265
• ISBN-13: 978-1599630267
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,289,453 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book really points the way, January 6, 2009

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pst (central Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Starting Points: Creating Meaningful Scrapbook Layouts From Whatever Inspires You (Paperback)

Linda Harrison's book, Starting Points, was beyond fabulous. I bought the book because I've been thinking about taking up the hobby of scrapbooking and this book really got my creative juices flowing. The layouts are beautiful, but the journaling ideas are the real selling point for me. The author has created an exciting course in scrapbooking that will inspire a beginner to take up the hobby while at the same time offers fresh looks to motivate a more experienced scrapper. I would recommend this book to anyone who has a creative streak - or anyone who would like to develop her creativity.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Starting Points, January 27, 2009

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Cynthia Gay (Morgantown WV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Starting Points: Creating Meaningful Scrapbook Layouts From Whatever Inspires You (Paperback)

Linda Harrison is talented and gives ideas for creating layouts from Real Life, "Everyday" scrapbooking. I marked 8 layouts I'd like to try.

3.0 out of 5 stars Weak premise, but lots of nice layouts., February 5, 2011

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Jerry Saperstein (Evanston, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Starting Points: Creating Meaningful Scrapbook Layouts From Whatever Inspires You (Paperback)

Linda Harrison tries to wrap this book around the theme of starting points, the things that led her (and ostensibly you) to taking specific creative decisions in building scrapbook pages. As she says of her book, "I hope it teaches you to recognize why you want to create a page and then how to make that page meaningful and attractive based on a particular starting point". The premise is simply not a strong one and fails literally out of the box.

What this is collection of scrapbook pages, most of them quite nice. There are four sections, one devoted to using photos to start your layouts, than words, products and "other inspirations".

Each layout is shown in a good sized illustration, accompanied by an often insipid bit of advice: "It is such a teat when we capture our loved ones as we usually see them. We don't always see people perfectly posed with smiles, so why only have photos that represent that?" There are blocks headed "Technique Tip" scattered throughout with sage advice such as "To make up for fewer photos, add fun, bright and festive-colored embellishments that make a layout feel like one big party".

There is nothing about constructing the pages shown, other than a list of supplies.

In all, the works of eight other scrapbookers are shown in addition to that of the author. There are slightly over 100 layouts. They are the reason to buy the book, not the theme of "starting points".

Jerry