Guide to products, supplies, and techniques used for creating lasting and memorable scrapbooks and photo albums using templates, découpage, painting, embossing, and other techniques.

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

Explaining how to create professional-looking graphics and printable scrapbook pages, an introduction to the art of digital scrapbooking takes readers step by step through the process of integrating traditional and contemporary graphic design principles to create a variety of scrapbook projects, covering essential tools and software, digital cameras and printers, photo editing techniques, page layouts, and more. Original. (Beginner)

The Best Things Come in Small Packages Big memories don't require big pages. You can showcase your most important moments in irresistible, adorable mini scrapbooks! Outstanding Mini Albums is filled with inspiration, ideas and instructions for creating mini scrapbooks of all kinds, from cleverly embellished store-bought albums to books made completely from scratch. Fifty fabulous illustrated projects show you how mini albums are perfect for scrapping lots of photos quickly, displaying your memories around the house, and giving as one-of-a-kind gifts. Step by step, you'll learn to: Make pre-made albums all your own with fun themes and original embellishments. Reinvent everyday items like coffee cups and CDs as pages for handmade mini books. Master new techniques, like crafting faux epoxy letters and homemade buttons. Give your creativity a mini makeover! When a scrapbook page seems too small but a whole album seems too big, Outstanding Mini Albums will help you get it just right.

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.

Explains how to collect, design, assemble, and decorate scrapbooks and photograph albums.

This book explores the history of scrapbook-making, its origins, uses, changing forms and purposes as well as the human agents behind the books themselves. Scrapbooks bring pleasure in both the making and consuming - and are one of the most enduring yet simultaneously changing cultural forms of the last two centuries. Despite the popularity of scrapbooks, no one has placed them within historical traditions until now. This volume considers the makers, their artefacts, And The viewers within the context of American culture. The volume's contributors do not show the reader how to make scrapbooks or improve techniques but instead explore the curious history of what others have done in the past and why these splendid examples of material and visual culture have such a significant place in many households.