Teach Yourself VISUALLY Scrapbooking [Paperback]

Rebecca Ludens (Author), Jennifer Schmidt (Author)

Book Description

Series: Teach Yourself Visually | Publication Date: March 20, 2006

Plain or fancy, formal or fun, chronicling special events or everyday moments, scrapbooks are the perfect, personal way to preserve precious memories and create lasting keepsakes. This visual guide walks you through choosing albums and papers, organizing and cropping photos, and more, and explains step-by-step essential techniques like journaling, designing appealing pages, and using embellishments to add pizzazz. The layout gallery gives you great ideas for travel, family, heritage, and other pages, while a chapter on organizing your stuff helps you keep everything in its place.

Concise two-page lessons show you all the steps to a skill and are ideal for quick review

• Each skill or technique is defined and described
• Detailed color photos demonstrate each step
• Step-by-step instructions accompany each photo
• Helpful tips provide additional guidance

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Rebecca Ludens is the Scrapbooking guide for About.com, where she writes weekly feature articles, product reviews, and how-tos. She has made numerous appearances on the TV show DIY Scrapbooking.

Jennifer Schmidt has had pages featured in scrapbooking magazines and displayed on DIY Scrapbooking. Both have designed for leading scrapbooking manufacturers and are sought-after speakers at conventions around the United States.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Visual; 1 edition (March 20, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764599453
• ISBN-13: 978-0764599453
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #667,828 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Teach Yourself Visually Scrapbooking (Teach Yourself Visually), March 30, 2006

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Lumpy Diva "RoniJJ" (NE Indiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Scrapbooking (Paperback)

This is a super book for both beginner and seasoned scrapbookers. Shows you many different techniques, various ways to use embellishments and is packed with helpful hints for everyone!

I highly recommend this book!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Beginner's Treasure, January 19, 2008

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S. MCDAVID "The Mad Scrapper" (Ashland, Ky) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Scrapbooking (Paperback)

If you are just starting the whole scrapbook phenominon this book is awesome. If you are on into your new love hobby of scrapping you may want to pass on this book. It starts from the very basic of things. If you are just looking for layouts this book has some pretty good ones.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An invaluable aide and informational resource, July 2, 2006

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Scrapbooking (Paperback)

A scrapbook is an album of diverse photos, family documents, special papers or clippings, and other kinds of mementos with special meaning for the scrapbook maker. Knowledgeably co-authored by scrapbooking experts Rebecca Ludens and Jennifer Schmidt, Teach Yourself Visually Scrapbooking is an innovative, informative, and thoroughly "user friendly", how-to guide to the decorative art and pastime of making a customized scrapbook. Presenting a thoroughly entertaining and instructive compendium of usable information, Teach Yourself Visually Scrapbooking informs the aspiring scrapbooker how to go about a desired scrapbooking project with each technique or skill authoritatively detailed through step-by-step instructions, along with in-depth tips throughout, and profusely illustrated with insightful pictures, diagrams, colored photos, and so much more. An ideal introduction to scrapbooking for the novice and with much of value for even the more experienced scrapbook enthusiast, Teach Yourself Visually Scrapbooking is very strongly recommended an invaluable aide and informational resource.