Let your creativity go wild with these great scrapbooking techniques. Learn all the basics: choosing and using equipment, mounting photographs, adding paper frames, matting, die-cutting, incorporating decorative and natural papers, and working with templates and rub-ons. Each technique builds on the one before in a natural progression, from coloring black-and white pages with pens to project pages that introduce ideas and products. A gallery of professionally made scrapbook interiors is included to provide guidance and encouragement.

Get bold and bright with these 25 easy and fun DIY home decor projects that will liven up your life and make your home space vibrant Whether she’s writing for her blog, snapping pictures for Instagram, or just living her life, Rachel Mae Smith is all about the simple joys of handmaking and bringing brightness to everything. And now beginning crafters, aspirational DIYers, and dorm dwellers can, too! Rachel shares her colorful signature style in each simple and fun step-by-step project like Dip-Dyed Napkins, Pom-Pom Votive Candle Holders, and Geometric Patterned Pillows. Helpful sidebars on decorating, like Staging a Beautiful Bookcase and building Bar Carts for Beginners, give you ideas for perking up pre-fab accessories so that any space can look colorful. Plus how-tos on working with specific materials, ideas for entertaining, and—of course—a guide to shooting pictures. And as a special bonus, tear-out posters in the back make it easy for you to decorate your walls in a snap!

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.

A joyful celebration of a mixed-race family and the love that binds them together. As the seasons turn, Maisie rides her bull in and out of Dada's tall tales. Her Mama wears linen and plays the viola. Her Dada wears kente cloth and plays the marimba.They come from different places, but they hug her in the same way. And most of all, they love her just the same. WINNER of the Family Category, Northern Lights Book Awards 2019. “Opens a window into what it can look and feel like to grow up in a biracial, multinational family that’s rich in story”—Kirkus Reviews, STARRED “When my four year old granddaughter spotted it, she exclaimed ‘That’s me and my mummy and daddy’!”—The Letterpress Project “We found a kindred spirit in Maisie. She will make a generation of mixed kids feel more visible”—The Tiger Tales

Provides ideas and techniques on creating scrapbooks for any occasion, and helps readers find the appropriate accessories and materials.

page design ideas, layout tips, and advice on how to select paper, crop pictures, and use colour; Scrapbook basics educate and engage beginners; Creative new techniques grab the attention of more experienced scrapbookers; Includes Leeza's own acid-free, lignin-free background pages.

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.