Tags Reinvented [Paperback]

Erikia Ghumm (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 29, 2004

Tags Reinvented provides scrapbookers with what they're clamouring for: more ways to create great tags and more creative uses for them. In this packed guide, readers will find: Over 100 fresh tag ideas with step-by-step illustrations for easy instruction; Tag variations using specialty papers such as vellum, as well as polymer and paper clays, organics, metals, and other materials; Complete scrapbook pages featuring tags to inspire readers and spark further creativity; Source lists, making supplies easy to find and projects easy to finish; Perfect for scrapbookers of all levels, this guide speaks to one of the most popular scrapbooking topics today.

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About the Author

Erikia Ghumm is a former editor at Memory Makers, and has long been recognized as an innovator and top-notch scrapbook artist. During her tenure at Memory Makers, Erikia was responsible for developing many of the trends that define modern scrapbooking, including the use of embellishments, unique lettering fonts, and punch art. The co-author of Montage Memories: Creating Altered Scrapbook Pages.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Memory Makers (December 29, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1892127474
• ISBN-13: 978-1892127471
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,078,151 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tags you say? Who EVER knew they could be this cool?!?, January 5, 2005

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S. Fishburn (Fort Collins, Colorado, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tags Reinvented (Paperback)

Erikia has done it again! Another book with ideas & how-tos which will get those creative wheels turning for scrapbookers & altered artists alike. This volume contains arted up tags to any taste, from simple + elegant to fun + funky, from shabbily chic to totally country.
Some of my fave pages include the ones showcasing glass, mica & polymer tags.
Wait til you see what can be done with modern ephemera & photo negative tags!
Each category - and there are 39 in total - includes the basic idea with variations, a step-by-step how-to photo sidebar, a full page spread & additional samples showing some of those oh-so-clever variations on the theme.
In short, this volume will make an excellent addition to any scrapbooker, paper or mixed media artist's library.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ecclectic, Busy, Altered Image Type Tags, February 22, 2006

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Sonya "readaholic" (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Tags Reinvented (Paperback)

This book reminded me of some of the Altered images books I have been reading recently. Many of these tags are just full of dimensional add-ons that often seemed "too much." When publishing newletters, one of the things you first learn is not to have 10 different fonts with various styles. It is simplier and more pleasing to the eye to narrow it down to a couple or so. Even though this is a different medium, I felt like this is something that would have been useful in this book. It just seemed like most of the tags and pages had too much "different" stuff going on and my eye could not seem to settle on what was supposed to be the focus of the page/tag.

Don't get me wrong, there were some very nice tags and pages in this book. Like another reviewer, I also liked that it seemed more focused on adult themes. Another thing I liked about this book are the photos of the steps used to create some of these projects, but there almost had to be with soooo much stuff going on. There were a few pet pages, but if you don't have pets, you can easily incorporate them into "people" pages.

Even though I did get some ideas from this book, many were way too "busy" for my taste. I give this book a 3.5 stars. If you like ecclectic, busy, artsy-type tags and pages, this would be a good book. I do think that many of the pages that are too busy might be able to be toned down.

If you like altered images, you will probably love this book. If you are looking for tags with a calmer feel, I would recommend "It's All About Cards and Tags by Nancy Hill.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Erikia comes through again, March 2, 2006

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Adelina Cavanagh "saxa82" (NYS) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tags Reinvented (Paperback)

Erikia Ghumm is a scrapbooking goddess! Maybe not to everyone, but if you lean a little more toward artistic scrapping, you'll like her books and her look. She really stretches the imagination and uses all sorts of nifty things to create and embellish tags. Some things you may never have heard of before (like cyanotypes) unless you earned an MFA. (Beats me, I was a pysch major and ended up with a MS in science.) But her tags are very hip (not all the tags are hers- she has some other artists working with/for her in this volume). Maybe the tags are TOO hip. The only reason I'm giving this a 4 and not a 5 is that the style is narrow (read "altered" "collage" "shabby chic"). This may (or may not) be a style that extinguishes itself as rapidly as so many other scrapbooking styles do. Time will tell, as this is a new book. Let's see how the book looks in ten years, or in the mercurial world of scrapbooking, two months... just joking..