You Are About To Learn The Secrets To Create Beautiful Scrapbooks, No Matter How Much or Little Time You Have Had To Prepare! It doesn't matter if you've never experienced scrapbooking up close and personal, this guide will tell you everything you need to know, without spending too much brainpower. "Scrapbooking Like Pro" covers everything there is to know about scrapbooking. In fact, some people have called it the "Scrapbooking Manual." It's like having your very own scrapbook expert that you can reference and ask questions anytime that you need to. You're going to discover so many things on how to create beautiful scrapbooks with little effort. Not only will you discover new and exciting layouts, but you'll also learn extra bonus tips to actually teach people. There are also step-by-step instructions with illustrations & pictures to show you how to create your own scrapbook flowers, transparencies and rub-ons, pearlized flourishes, and faux stitching. Here's Just Some of the Things You'll Uncover With "Scrapbooking Like Pro": - Discover how to prepare for your scrapbook. - Learn how to quickly organize all your photos. - Find out exactly how to crop you photos like the pros. - Discover how exactly to get started on your scrapbook venture. - Learn how to create your own scrapbook flowers. - Learn how to add embellishments to your scrapbook. - Discover how to get started on your first page. - Learn how to create your own transparencies and rub-ons. - Find out all the insider time saving tips . - Discover new exciting layout ideas. - Find out how to create your own pearlized flourishes - Learn how to host scapbook parties easily and effortlessly. - Learn how to do faux stitching - Discover the easiest and least expensive way to design a theme for your album. - Learn how to choose the size and style of your album. - Discover how to use cardstock properly - Learn all about all the tools you will need to create your album correctly. - Plus much MUCH More!

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

Are you struggling to get good prints from your images? Are your digital photos hogging your hard drive instead of hanging out in snappy albums and archives? Looking for ways to improve your prints beyond simple snapshots? The popularity and convenience of digital photography has led to more pictures being taken, but fewer being turned into beautiful prints, framed, put in photo albums, and shared with others. The majority of users do nothing with their images for two reasons: the results are disappointing and the process of improving and preparing images for print is daunting. Written by popular photographer, columnist, and digital imaging expert Jon Canfield, this book shows you how to easily enhance and prepare your digital images for printing. Step-by-step instructions and tutorials coupled with full-color images and screenshots explain how to use Photoshop CS2 or Elements for color management and correction; editing images for printing, including properly sizing, sharpening, and converting to monochrome; to fix lighting; and more. You'll also learn how to take your printing to the next level by: using different print technologies, papers, and inks; selecting Raster Image Processors; framing and mounting their prints; self-publishing; and effectively working with print services for the best output possible.

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.

Explains how to assemble photographs and clippings into a homemade scrapbook and offers ideas for borders and themes.

Want to capture your baby at her charming best? Your son's game-winning home run? Make a scrapbook! You've never had so many great materials and creative techniques to choose from. Now this comprehensive guide shows you how to have an exciting time using them. The Joy of Scrapbooking includes: Sure-fire ways to improve your page designs, Answers to more than 40 common questions, Important techniques illustrated with step-by-step photos, Advice on writing compelling and entertaining text, Tips that will improve your photos, Information on the essential tools, including many that you may already have at home, Poems, quotes, and other fun resources that you can use on your pages, Hundreds of beautiful and inspiring scrapbook pages. Book jacket.

Wait--don’t throw out that old hubcap: it will make a great chandelier! That’s the thinking behind Creative Juice, a crafty do-it-yourself guide to recycling ordinary items and turning them into extraordinary art. Every clever idea comes from the wildly imaginative minds of crafting duo, Cathie Filian and Steve Piacenza, hosts of DIY Network’s Creative Juice. The book features projects from bohemian beaded rings and rocker t-shirts to soy candles and spicy tea soaps, and Cathie and Steve have provided plenty of photos and illustrations, along with "insider tips" to teach crafters the tricks of the trade. Create velvet and leather belts and bracelets, candleholders out of pipe parts, bath time puppets for kids. Creative Juice offers everything you need to get the creative juices flowing.