While a full-sized scrapbook can take months to put together, the charming gift scrapbooks in this guide can be created in a few days, allowing scrapbooks to easily share their craft with those they care about most. Pam Klassen, a long-time editor for Memory Makers, teaches readers how to construct small-format scrapbooks, perfect for gifts, through concepting the gift book while maintaining quality and creativity. Offering readers dozens of dynamic ideas for themed albums, including books for new babies, weddings, teachers, and anniversaries, this guide provides scrapbookers of all skill levels with valuable techniques and inspiring ideas.

Making Gift Scrapbooks in a Snap: 20 Perfect Presents for Family and Friends

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Klassen, Pam

Crafts & Hobbies

Satellite Pr

The appeal of patterned paper is universal. Each pattern inspires our passion and evokes a feeling. We automatically reach out to a pattern that touches us. A Passion for Patterned Paper showcases the unique beauty and universal appeal of creating scrapbook pages with patterned paper. If you are intimidated by the use of too many patterns, you'll find easy solutions for incorporating patterned paper into your scrapbooks.
Each chapter of this book includes a theme category to help utilize your papers in different ways - as embellishments, accents and backgrounds - with ways to use monochromatic, double-sided and coordinating papers. You will also learn how to alter papers and create your own patterns using traditional products - like chalk and die cuts - as well as paint, Pattern Builder, walnut ink and aging mediums to help you make the most of your patterned-paper creations.
The cutting-edge ideas throughout this book will motivate and teach you how to use your patterned paper to its fullest potential while enhancing your creativity. If you love patterned paper, you will surely be inspired by the many examples presented in this book. Try some of these great ideas today!

A Passion for Patterned Paper

Ginn, Brandi

Memory Makers

More Than 50 Clever Techniques for Scrapbooking
Like many scrapbookers, you've likely been lured by the look, touch and feel of specialty papers but are unsure of how to incorporate them into your creations. If beautiful papers are your passion, this is the idea source for you! Packed with all the texture, dimension, pattern and color you could possibly ask for, A Passion for Specialty Paper takes everything you love about this scrapbooking staple and wraps it into one must-have resource. With 10 different kinds of specialty papers showcased, there are plenty of creative options inside sure to satisfy even the most serious paper fixation.
What's inside:
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<li>Comprehensive chapters dedicated to specialty papers, including: fabric, glossy, leather, mesh, metallic, natural, textured, transparent, wood and art papers</li>
<li>Bonus idea variations and dimensional craft projects</li>
<li>Creative ways to enhance specialty papers through pleating, peeling, painting, altering, folding and weaving</li>
<li>Helpful pointers for working with and adhering specialty papers</li>
<li>Easy-to-follow illustrated step-by-step techniques</li>
<li>Innovative designs spanning simple to advance styles</li>
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Whether you've been hesitant in the past to use specialty papers or are a tried and true veteran, you'll be inspired to discover just what specialty papers can do for your scrapbook design. Try the ideas today!

A Passion for Specialty Paper

Arts & Photography

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