Kay Stanley’s a bright and shining star in the crafts world, with honors piling up by the minute. Her company received the Inc 500 Fastest Growing Company Award, and Kay herself won the Creating Keepsakes Reader’s Choice Award in 2003. Now she shows scrapbookers how to celebrate the important moments and people in their lives by creating inventive and beautiful pages in the renowned K & Company style. The company’s staff of famous and talented designers has gone all out to devise brilliant layouts, and also to come up with unique projects and gifts. Antique documents transform into paper and sticker designs. Embossed ivory papers, pearl vellums, and traditional florals suit a wedding album to perfection. Materials lists, patterns, and templates make it all so easy to create a keepsake scrapbook...and beyond, including garlands, collages, and handmade cards.

Features ideas for page layouts and more. This book explains how to combine unexpected colours and patterns; make words an important design element in the composition; and produce personalised papers with stamps, pencils, and punches. It includes projects such as heritage page and tags embellished with three-dimensional stickers and ribbons.

K & Company is one of the most recognized names in scrapbooking and paper crafts—and Tracy Niehues is one of its top designers. This follow-up to the company’s successful Designer Scrapbook bestseller reaches out to the novice with both traditional and exciting new card and tag ideas for all occasions. On every page there’s something special to offer congratulations, wish happy birthday, celebrate a holiday, give thanks, or just say “I’m thinking of you.” The invitations, favors, cardholders, bi-fold and tri-fold cards, and other designs use unique materials that range from Plexiglas tiles to tin and fabrics. The Girlfriend Card, for example, includes a round copper frame, as well as ribbons and flower trim—all on vintage floral embossed paper. It, and every other pattern, is absolutely beautiful. A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club.

Renowned for her fabulous decorative papers, Anna Griffin lends her design expertise to beautiful card and gift tag projects. Gatefolds, dimensional motifs, scalloped borders, embossed embellishments, die- cut frames, and artfully mixed and matched patterns are among the special touches that set Griffin's cards apart from others.

Presents layouts for documenting life's special moments: birthdays, graduations, weddings, anniversaries, holidays and baby's "firsts." Here, the designs feature the prettiest combinations of paper, decorative details such as stickers and charms, plus smart suggestions for finding vintage images.

"Kick your creating into high gear and learn new scrapbooking tricks from some of the hippest scrapbookers around. In this fabulous book, Creating Keepsakes' magazine's 2007 Scrapbooker of the Year, the amazing Elizabeth Kartchner, and her talented team of designers challenge you with fun, imaginative ways to help you preserve your memories in style."--Page 4 of cover