Taking crafters beyond the borders of their scrapbook pages, Creating Keepsakes: The Ultimate Guide to Photo Keepsakes is the perfect motivator for anyone overwhelmed with the idea of digging into years worth of photos. Thanks to the editors of this incredibly popular scrapbooking magazine, treasured memoriesin the form of photos and other memorabiliacan take on new life in amazingly imaginative ways.

Presents 365 ideas, tips, and techniques for making innovative pages for a scrapbook.

Every page in this colorful collection will spark your imagination and spur you to experiment with ever more creative arrangements of photos, borders, frames, and captioning. Ideas for every special occasion appear: a new birth, recital, family trip, holidays, and more. “Get your photos ready, these ideas will keep you busy making album pages for a long time...tips and techniques galore...”—Quick & Easy Crafts.

Scrapbook Page Maps takes the guesswork out of where to begin by giving plenty of design ideas for their scrapbook layouts! By referring to the sketches in the book, you can select photos, papers and embellishments and then bring the page together quickly and easily. Helpful resource information such as a supply list and photo sizes are included on each card, along with page information cross-referencing the sketch back to the book. Scrapbook Page Maps is the essential book for beginning scrapbookers as well as those short on time. And you get more than just an inspiring, design-filled idea book! Also included is a deck of laminated cards that includes a thumbnail of many of the sketches in the book along with corresponding finished layouts.

Joy Aitman explains all the basic techniques of scrapbooking and shows you how to create beautiful layouts using holiday photographs, a school photograph and a wedding picture. Cropping is one of the basics of scrapbooking and Sarah McKenna shows how to use dozens of techniques such as slicing, silhouetting, montage and mosaics to enhance your pages. Sarah then shows how eyelets can be used to attach vellu, acetate and fabric to your pages, to add embellishments and accents and to provide emphasis and detail. Clear step-by-step demonstrations are accompanied by over a hundred wonderful layouts to inspire you.

Fresh and Fun Techniques for Layering What is your definition of Collage Art? Whatever your answer, there is no "one way" that Collage Art is made. Collage is, by definition, the assembling of materials onto a surface; any time you have layered a photo over paper and onto a scrapbook page, you have done Collage Art and are therefore, a Collage Artist! In this book, Kelly Angard takes a personal approach to teaching over 50 techniques that will bring artistic style to your scrapbook art. Through illustrated step-by-step instructions and simple diagrams, she demystifies the techniques that make Collage Art look complicated while encouraging you to create a look that is all your own. Colorant techniques include: Altered ink designs Metallic photo effects Stamped paint imprints Brayered dye washes Texture techniques include: Embossed stencil designs Encrusted embellishments Gel imprints Architextural images Image techniques include: Embossed photos Image transfers Rub-on transfers Painted transparencies Collage techniques include: Multiphoto mosaics Abstract portrait collages Dimensional decoupages Transparency montages

The runaway best seller! Creative layout designs and ideas from Becky Higgins Based on her popular ?One Sketch, Many Looks? column, Becky Higgins shares dozens of new sketches and loads of layouts to spark your creativity. The 52 sketches, instantly recognizable as Becky's clean, classic style, give you a new design to sample each week of the year! This must-have book is divided into sections according to how many photos you have to scrap?saving you time! If you have six photos from your DD's birthday party, flip to the six photos layout section and glean inspiration from layouts crafted by Becky and readers. You'll get: 52 sketches in Becky's signature style. Tips on becoming a sketch artist from Becky. A recipe for perfect pages every time!