This A-to-Z encyclopaedia contains every technique, every major designer, every scrapbook possibility - and it's all described in glossary style, complete with photos and tips that no scrap booker can do without. Exciting page layouts with how-to instructions, offer inspiration, while dozens of projects come from the most creative minds in the field, including Andrea Grossman (Mrs. Grossman's Paper Company); Rhonda Anderson (Creative Memories); Bridgette Server (Making Memories); and, Dee Gruenig. Eye-opening studio set shots present decorations and accessories, while charts and graphs supply necessary information.

Scrapbooking is a wonderfully creative, rewarding, and hugely popular craft. This comprehensive book covers all the techniques for both the beginner and the experienced scrapbooker: such as stamping, coloring, embossing, mosaics, and punch art. Also included are step-by-step instructions on making stunning background pages, cropping and mounting photographs, and embellishing pages with everything from fabric and ribbon to eyelets and foil. Hundreds of themed page and layout ideas will inspire the reader to display their memorabilia in new and original ways, and bring their treasured memories to life.

Susan Pickering Rothamel, author of the best-selling Encyclopedia of Scrapbook Tools and Techniques (Sterling/Chapelle, 2005), now turns her A-to-Z eye to another popular papercraft: greeting cards. With its detailed definitions of terms, tools, materials, and techniques; illustrated how-to instructions; and hundreds of handmade cards from leading artists, this will become the must-have visual reference for anyone interested in the craft. Photographs of delightful greeting cards appear on every spread, along with step-by-step pictures of key skills. Sidebars on leading card makers discuss the techniques for which they’re celebrated, from Dee Gruenig’s rubber-stamp designs to Alli Bartkowski’s quilling.

Encyclopedia of Scrapbooking, -300+ ideas for creating pages. All skill levels, from beginner to advanced. Comprehensive tool guide with color photos, glossary, helpful articles.

Step-by-step instructions and photos for 57 creative projects: photo boxes, mini albums, magnets, memory books, necklaces, trays, mobiles, boxes, and moreGreat ideas for recycling old jars, bottles, books, picture frames, and kitchen supplies--you can transform anything into a decorative projectCreate personalized, homemade gifts and keepsakesPreserve memories in clever and unique photo display ideasTake scrapbooking out of the album and onto the walls and shelves of your home. This scrapbooking book with a twist is full of ideas for using traditional scrapbooking materials and techniques with found objects--baking trays, felt, coffee cups, picture frames, old books, and more--to create gorgeous gifts and decorative items for the home. With 57 projects in styles ranging from vintage to modern, playful to sophisticated, there is something in this book for every crafter.

This title offers 360 easy-to-follow projects and techniques with 2300 lavish photographs. This is the complete step-by-step guide to making your own greetings cards, gift wrap, gift tags, invitations, memory albums and scrapbook pages to treasure. You can make greetings cards for Mother's Day, Divali, Chinese New Year, weddings, anniversaries, Easter, Christmas, special birthdays, and just to keep in touch; create personalized scrapbook pages for themes on the changing seasons, children, family and friends, heritage, pets and sports. It presents a range of styles that will appeal to different tastes, from traditional and nostalgic to retro and cutting-edge, and with ideas suitable for adults and children of all ages. Every project and technique is shown in 2300 beautiful step-by-step photographs to ensure success. The complementary crafts of creative greetings cards and decorative scrapbooking offer the opportunity to create personalized designs that celebrate life's special events. This superb practical book contains 360 ideas, craft techniques and designs shown in 2300 evocative photographs. You can make a greetings card to celebrate New Year, a cute rabbit for a first birthday, and a gilded card for a wedding anniversary. You can create scrapbooking pages to remember a party, use sepia-tinted photographs for a display of a family wedding, and use mementoes for a lasting impression of a special holiday. With ideas to suit all tastes, this is the ultimate source book for crafters.

EVERYTHING You Need to Know From the Editors of Memory Makers Memory Makers magazine and Memory Makers Books editors put their best collaborative efforts together in this all-inclusive resource of valuable and trusted information, presented in the user-friendly manner that scrapbookers rely on time and time again. In the Ultimate Guide to Scrapbooking, you'll find everything you need to know about scrapbooking - from the first page to the very last. This book is chock-full of concise scrapbooking solutions and know-how specially selected for their importance to you, the scrapbooker. You'll find: Essential scrapbooking tools, supplies and organization Masterful photography tips and techniques Tried and trusted page-design concepts Savvy creative techniques Unique journaling ideas Expert computer-scrapbooking advice Proficient workspace-efficiency insights Clever cropping on-the-go know-how Helpful illustrated glossary of scrapbooking terms and techniques