Everything Scrapbooking Book: Creative Ideas for Preserving Memories That Last a Lifetime (Everything Series) (Paperback)

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Product Description

Collect, treasure, and share your memories!

Whether you’re creatively challenged or artistically adept, scrapbooking can be a unique and personalized way to preserve your memories through all stages of life. Scrapbooks can become everlasting mementoes, wonderful treasures to hand down from generation-to-generation, or special gifts for a close friend or relative.

From cutting to clipping and pasting to arranging, The Everything® Scrapbooking Book walks you through the many steps of scrapbooking, including pulling together photos, newspaper clippings, movie tickets, and all sorts of other memorabilia and arranging it all into one personalized and attractive package.

The Everything® Scrapbooking Book provides you with step-by-step instruction on:

-Photography

-Layouts

-Lettering

-Artistic creations

-Scrapbooks for all occasions

Packed with dozens of photographs, The Everything® Scrapbooking Book is a must-have for scrapbookers of all levels.

About the Author

Jennifer Barr is a freelance writer and author. She has also been involved with various groups and organizations devoted to crafts and scrapbooking. Ms. Barr lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Adams Media Corporation; illustrated edition edition (October 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580627293
• ISBN-13: 978-1580627290
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #667,634 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Save Your Money -- Borrow It, April 14, 2003

By	Robyn Chittister "rredhead" (Antioch, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A book about scrapbooking must have pictures; at least, that's how I feel. One can learn about supplies, paper quality, etc. from a knowledgeable shop-person. Layouts on the other hand requite creativity, and sometimes you need to see a few to get an idea. Further, there aren't enough pictures of the techniques that the author tries to explain. In scrapbooking, a picture is worth 1000 words. I would recommend going to your library and looking through whatever they might have before choosing one or two scrapbooking books to buy.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for new scrapbookers, October 15, 2002

By A Customer

This book provided the help I needed to get started with scrapbooking. Ms. Barr takes you step by step through the process and offers ideas that are simple, but look great! Even the most unartistic person can create scrapbook pages they can't wait to share. I've recommended this book to several friends, and we refer to it often when we get together to work on our books. I don't even need to order doubles of my pictures anymore. If I mess up, Ms. Barr offers ideas on how to get around it and make my pages still look amazing. Very helpful!

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good, but could be better, February 17, 2003

By A Customer

This book is useful for the beginning scrapper - up to a point. The author starts with the basics (i.e., what is scrapbooking, what kind of albums are available, what qualities to look for in paper and adhesives, etc.) and then describes more advanced tools, techniques, and approaches. Many times these are helpful - other times they are just confusing or strange. The author's suggestions for how to organize materials, for instance, are often limited to approaches that reflect her own idiosyncracies and probably would not work for most people (who - other than this author - organizes colors by alphabetical order, or puts all Christmas pictures together without looking at chronological order, or puts all school pictures together without regard for whether the pictures are of different students?). Her suggestions, however, do provide a useful starting point and may inspire further thoughts. In addition, she offers interesting suggestions for ways to save money when getting started in this hobby. Look elsewhere if you are interested in inspiration for page layouts - that is not this book's focus.