1Life Artist
Learn to use scrapbooking as a life art. You'll find hundreds of new ideas to incorporate into your scrapbooking lifestyle. You'll discover Ali's Guiding philosophies behind becoming a life artist.
100 Best Scrapbooking Books of All Time
We've ranked the best scrapbooking books using expert recommendations, sales data, and millions of reader ratings. At Shortform, we know books. Our book guides are the best in the world. Learn why.
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2Clean & Simple Designs for Scrapbooking
3Clean & Simple: Scrapbooking: The Sequel
It's Clean. It's Simple. It's pure Cathy. And it's still totally cool. Cathy Zielske, creative director for Simple Scrapbooks magazine, is back with the sequel to her best-selling book, Clean&Simple Scrapbooking. In her new book, she revisits the core tenets of the hobby: telling good stories, making well-designed pages, letting go of unrealistic expectations, and remembering to have a really good time while you're at it. She reminds us that scrapbooking isn't an obligation, but an opportunity to capture the bits and pieces that make up our lives. From scrapbooking about her intense love of paper towels to her obsession with heavily-tattooed rock stars, Cathy throws open the window on her life and shares how she chooses to record it. You'll laugh, connect, and be inspired to record your own life with pictures, paper, adhesive and above all, authenticity.
4The Big Picture... Scrapbook Your Life and a Whole Lot More
Stacy Julian, founding editor of Simple Scrapbooks Magazine is best known for her liberating and revolutionary approach to scrapbooking. As an industry pioneer with over ten years experience as a teacher, writer and scrapbooker, Stacy is committed to empowering others. The Big Picture, Stacy's fourth book shares ideas, inspiration and solutions for all scrapbookers, regardless of their style or expertise.
5A Designer's Eye for Scrapbooking
6Creative Sketches, Volume 2: Creative Sketches for Scrapbooking
Becky Higgins' sketches have helped scrapbookers throughout the world spark their creativity and complete memorable scrapbook layouts. In her follow-up to Creative Sketches for Scrapbooking, which has sold nearly 60,000 copies, Becky shares innovative ideas that will make this an essential resource for all scrapbookers. Plus, Becky's world-famous sketches have been improved, with photo sizes listed right on the sketches! Cut down your planning time and spend more time creating well designed layouts, faster. Includes: 56 new scrapbook sketches by Becky 225 sketch-to-page ideas Organized by number of photos per sketch for the ultimate easy-to-use scrapbooking guide
7A Designer's Eye 2: Scrapbooking with Patterned Paper
In this book you will learn the secret for choosing and using pattern paper on your layouts. Learn how to find the perfect paper to work with your photos. Learn how to place patterns on your pages for maximum impact. You will learn how to mix and match a variety of patterns. Includes great tips on how to store and organize you pattered paper for easy access.
8The Organized and Inspired Scrapbooker
Discover what truly drives your scrapbooking. Find the motivation to change what's not working for you. Choose a smart solution for organizing and storing your stash. Turn scrapbooking into a sustainable hobby that fits comfortably into your life. Learn real organization solutions that work for you.
9Scrapbook Page Maps: Sketches For Creative Layouts
10As You Grow
A modern take on a baby memory book and journal, As You Grow stands out from the crowd with its elegant, chic, and timeless design. The gender-neutral artwork with guided sections provide space for every family to record moments from pregnancy to age five.
Author and illustrator Korie Herold poured over every page, adding artistic detail and flourishes that work to create a book you can interact with now, and look back on for a lifetime. This chic design promotes longevity, as this book is intended to be shared and displayed for years to come. Breaking from norms, this book is written in a way to be inclusive of every modern family.
Sections include:
Pregnancy to birth
Baby’s first weeks
Baby’s first year
Development to age 5
Firsts, milestones, and precious, sweet, and silly moments to remember
Lined pages for journal entries and letters for your child
Features
-Chic, gender-neutral design
-Elegant, embossed linen cover
-Generous 9.75" x 9.75" trim size offers ample space for photos
-Lay-flat design allows you to easily write in the book
-Pocket section dividers provide space to safely store keepsakes
-Carefully developed designs and prompts allow to you reflect and celebrate
Author and illustrator Korie Herold poured over every page, adding artistic detail and flourishes that work to create a book you can interact with now, and look back on for a lifetime. This chic design promotes longevity, as this book is intended to be shared and displayed for years to come. Breaking from norms, this book is written in a way to be inclusive of every modern family.
Sections include:
Pregnancy to birth
Baby’s first weeks
Baby’s first year
Development to age 5
Firsts, milestones, and precious, sweet, and silly moments to remember
Lined pages for journal entries and letters for your child
Features
-Chic, gender-neutral design
-Elegant, embossed linen cover
-Generous 9.75" x 9.75" trim size offers ample space for photos
-Lay-flat design allows you to easily write in the book
-Pocket section dividers provide space to safely store keepsakes
-Carefully developed designs and prompts allow to you reflect and celebrate
1152 More Scrapbooking Challenges (Creating Keepsakes)
12Bound for Murder (A Scrapbooking Mystery, #3)
New Orleans scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand's pre-wedding party is overshadowed when a friend's intended groom is murdered. Asked by the heartbroken bride to look into the case, Carmela must help her friend pick up the pieces while wrapping up a murder that has more than one lethal loose end.
13Cherish: Scrapbook Layouts Made Beautifully Simple
Memories are the essence of life's experiences, and preserving them is one of the great keys to making life richer and more meaningful. Cherish, the stunning scrapbooking how to volume from industry innovator Jeanette R. Lynton, is dedicated to helping scrapbook enthusiasts preserve their memories in unique and creative ways.
14Extraordinary Things to Cut Out and Collage
If you want to discover the fun of collage then this fabulous book is the perfect kit. Collage artist Maria Rivans has gathered hundreds of beautiful, quirky, and downright daft images, and they're all here for you to cut out and stick.
Flowers, birds, cats, and butterflies can be combined with buildings, eyes, moustaches, and catalog models in dubious pants to create extraordinary original artworks and talking pieces!
Maria provides an introduction to collage styles and tips on technique. An ideal activity for young and old, this book is a perfect gift or self-purchase for anyone seeking arty fun and a great deal of sticky silliness!
Flowers, birds, cats, and butterflies can be combined with buildings, eyes, moustaches, and catalog models in dubious pants to create extraordinary original artworks and talking pieces!
Maria provides an introduction to collage styles and tips on technique. An ideal activity for young and old, this book is a perfect gift or self-purchase for anyone seeking arty fun and a great deal of sticky silliness!
15So. Many. Stickers.: 2,500 Little Stickers for Your Big Life
50 pages x 50 stickers per page = 2,500 bright, beautiful stickers for any occasion!
There's no such thing as too many stickers, and this GIANT collection ticks alllllll the boxes. Add them to your stash, use them in your planner, decorate snail mail, or share with your besties!
There's no such thing as too many stickers, and this GIANT collection ticks alllllll the boxes. Add them to your stash, use them in your planner, decorate snail mail, or share with your besties!
16Photo Decor
17Her Mother's Grave
When two young boys discover human bones buried beneath a tree in a trailer park, Detective Josie Quinn races to join her team at the scene. She used to play in those woods as a child, happier outside and away from her abusive mother, Belinda Rose.
Josie’s past crashes into her present when a rare dental condition confirms the bones belong to a teenage foster-child who was murdered thirty years ago. A girl named Belinda Rose…
Josie hasn’t seen her mother in years but, with an undeniable connection between her mother and the dead girl, does she dare try to track her down?
Just as Josie gets closer to uncovering a secret that will shatter her world forever, another body is uncovered. It’s suddenly clear that someone very close to Josie will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried forever.
As she battles the demons from her past, can Josie stop this killer before another precious life is taken?
Josie’s past crashes into her present when a rare dental condition confirms the bones belong to a teenage foster-child who was murdered thirty years ago. A girl named Belinda Rose…
Josie hasn’t seen her mother in years but, with an undeniable connection between her mother and the dead girl, does she dare try to track her down?
Just as Josie gets closer to uncovering a secret that will shatter her world forever, another body is uncovered. It’s suddenly clear that someone very close to Josie will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried forever.
As she battles the demons from her past, can Josie stop this killer before another precious life is taken?
18Creative Sketches for Scrapbooking
Creative layout designs and ideas from Becky Higgins!
Based on her popular "One Sketch, Many Looks" column, Becky Higgins shares dozens of new sketches and loads of layouts to spark your creativity. The 52 sketches, instantly recognizable as Becky's clean, classic style, give you a new design to sample each week of the year! This must-have book is divided into sections according to how many photos you have to scrap—saving you time! If you have six photos, flip to the six photos layout section and glean inspiration from layouts crafted by Becky and readers. 162 pages
You'll get:
52 sketches in Becky's signature style. Tips on becoming a "sketch" artist from Becky. A recipe for perfect pages every time!
19Creating Keepsakes' Encyclopedia Of Scrapbooking
Beginners and more experienced scrapbookers alike will turn to this hefty newreference time and again for helpful insights and daily inspiration on tools, techniques, layouts, and more. 550+ photos.
20Best Of Becky Higgins Sketches For Scrapbooking
21Real.Life.Scrapbooking
Rebecca Cooper is a rgular, everyday scrapbooker--just like you. She stretches her supplies, thrives on design shortcuts, and scrapbooks when her kids are asleep. In Real.Life.Scrapbooking, she shares simple, beautiful pages about her small-town life, plus easy layout solutions that you can use right way including building blocks for easy pages and simple schemes. you'll walk away from Rebecca's book with tons of tips and inspiring ideas to try--but more importantly, you'll learn to appreciate your own extra-ordinary life.
22Scrapbooking Life's Little Moments
23Paper, Scissors, Death (Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-n-Craft Mystery, #1)
Every scrapbook tells a story. Memories of friends, family . . .
and murder?
Mousy housewife Kiki Lowenstein has two great loves: scrapbooking and her young daughter, Anya. But her happy family album is ruined when her husband, George, is found naked and dead in a hotel room. As Kiki tracks down George's murderer, she discovers his sordid secret life.
Cruel taunts by George's former flame compel Kiki to spout an unwise threat. When the woman is murdered, Kiki's scissor-sharp words make her the prime suspect. She could be creating scrapbook keepsakes for the rest of her life-behind bars. Supported by her loyal friends, along with a little help (and a lot of stomach flutters) from the dashing Detective Detweiler, can Kiki cut the true killer out of the picture and design a new life for herself and Anya?
and murder?
Mousy housewife Kiki Lowenstein has two great loves: scrapbooking and her young daughter, Anya. But her happy family album is ruined when her husband, George, is found naked and dead in a hotel room. As Kiki tracks down George's murderer, she discovers his sordid secret life.
Cruel taunts by George's former flame compel Kiki to spout an unwise threat. When the woman is murdered, Kiki's scissor-sharp words make her the prime suspect. She could be creating scrapbook keepsakes for the rest of her life-behind bars. Supported by her loyal friends, along with a little help (and a lot of stomach flutters) from the dashing Detective Detweiler, can Kiki cut the true killer out of the picture and design a new life for herself and Anya?
24Keepsake Crimes (A Scrapbooking Mystery, #1)
New Orleans scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand delights her customers with the sophisticated looks she achieves with their scrapbooks. But among her client's keepsakes she finds a tip of her own-about a murder...
25Sharing Your Story: Recording Life's Moments in Mini Albums
Celebrate the everyday details of your lifeIn this book you'll find ideas on everything from travel and gift items to practical mini-books for record-keeping. You'll also discover: Cool ways to show off memorabilia; Great gift books for kids; Dozens of practical and meaningful mini-book ideas for every occasion; Hundreds of ideas for tracking the special details of your life. Discover the fun, fast and easy way to capture and document the everyday moments of your life.
26Creative Albums
Creative Albums is the First book in Donna Downey's 'Yes, It's a Scrapbooks' series. Creative Albums includes 25 out of the box ways to capture your most meaningful memories. And best of all, you can finish most of the albums in an afternoon or over a weekend. Each project includes: Clear hot-to instructions, step-by-step photos, color photos of album covers and pages, & complete list of supplies and tools needed to finish your projects.
27The Bride-To-Be Book: A Journal of Memories from the Proposal to "i Do"
Filled with envelopes, insightful prompts, and other thoughtful features, the Bride-To-Be Book is a romantic, playful, and sincere keepsake book.
Much will be done before saying "I do." Much will run through your mind before walking down the aisle. This is the place to capture, document, and celebrate it all. The Bride-to-Be Book is designed to preserve all the magic and excitement leading up to and including the big day: the proposal, the stories behind the ring and the dress, the parties, the toasts and speeches, and all the fun of celebrating with family and friends.
Contemporary yet sentimental, this journal will resonate with modern brides hoping to preserve, reinterpret, or create tradition. You'll find spots for writing and jotting, envelopes for tucking things away, and pages for snapshots and scrapbooking. And you'll see that prompts have intentionally been kept short and sweet (like a flower girl!). Because we get it: harried precedes married.
The perfect gift or self-purchase for brides-to-be, this journal is sure to become a deeply-treasured memento.
Much will be done before saying "I do." Much will run through your mind before walking down the aisle. This is the place to capture, document, and celebrate it all. The Bride-to-Be Book is designed to preserve all the magic and excitement leading up to and including the big day: the proposal, the stories behind the ring and the dress, the parties, the toasts and speeches, and all the fun of celebrating with family and friends.
Contemporary yet sentimental, this journal will resonate with modern brides hoping to preserve, reinterpret, or create tradition. You'll find spots for writing and jotting, envelopes for tucking things away, and pages for snapshots and scrapbooking. And you'll see that prompts have intentionally been kept short and sweet (like a flower girl!). Because we get it: harried precedes married.
The perfect gift or self-purchase for brides-to-be, this journal is sure to become a deeply-treasured memento.
28Frill Kill (A Scrapbooking Mystery, #5)
A scrapbooking mystery, with tips and recipes included
29My Creative Companion: The Ultimate Scrapbooking Resource
Inspiration at your fingertips! A much-loved best seller! Do you ever sit down and find yourself at a loss for ideas? Are you tired of using the same approaches over and over again? Let Becky Higgins? My Creative Companion inspire you! This unique, spiral-bound idea gallery system is filled with thumbnail sketches Becky herself uses that illustrate creative layout designs, unique enhancements, distinctive lettering and journaling ideas, and more. My Creative Companion will give you endless ideas for any layout. Simply browse the sketches until you find one that's perfect for the page you're working on, then re-create the concept on your layout. It's sure to become the resource you can?t scrapbook without! 192 pages of great ideas for your scrapbooks 6 tabbed sections for fast and easy searching Scrapbook-page examples in every section Endless variations and versatility
30Ultimate Guide To The Perfect Word
31Le Petit Baby Book (Baby Memory Book, Baby Journal, Baby Milestone Book)
Le Petit Baby Book - Ideal expectant mother gift or new mom giftBaby journal: This sweet-as-can-be baby pregnancy book offers dozens of creative ways to capture the milestones and special baby memories from pregnancy through baby's first year.
Capture and preserve the treasured memories: Packaged in a compact album with a fabric spine and foil-stamped cover, with whimsical color illustrations and thoughtful prompts throughout, this book is the ultimate keepsake gift for new parents.
Le Petit Baby Book includes:
An envelope for ultrasound scans
A spin-wheel to display baby's astrological sign
A gatefold family tree
Space for photos
Mini envelopes to stash written notes
Illustrated pop-ups
A pull-out growth chart to display in baby's room
And much more
If you like As You Grow, you will love Le Petit Baby Book
Capture and preserve the treasured memories: Packaged in a compact album with a fabric spine and foil-stamped cover, with whimsical color illustrations and thoughtful prompts throughout, this book is the ultimate keepsake gift for new parents.
Le Petit Baby Book includes:
An envelope for ultrasound scans
A spin-wheel to display baby's astrological sign
A gatefold family tree
Space for photos
Mini envelopes to stash written notes
Illustrated pop-ups
A pull-out growth chart to display in baby's room
And much more
If you like As You Grow, you will love Le Petit Baby Book
32Our Bucket List: A Creative and Inspirational Journal for Ideas and Adventures for Couples
33So. Many. Planner Stickers.: 2,600 Stickers to Decorate, Organize, and Brighten Your Planner
50 pages x 52 stickers per page = 2,600 bright, beautiful stickers to spruce up your planner!
Too many planner stickers? No such thing. This HUGE collection of fun and functional stickers will take your planner to the next level and make everyday planning a little more awesome. Use them to flag appointments, track goals, or mark vacations, paydays, book club meetings, brunch, and beyond. Stay organized all year long—and spread the sticker love!
Too many planner stickers? No such thing. This HUGE collection of fun and functional stickers will take your planner to the next level and make everyday planning a little more awesome. Use them to flag appointments, track goals, or mark vacations, paydays, book club meetings, brunch, and beyond. Stay organized all year long—and spread the sticker love!
34The Decorated Page: Journals, Scrapbooks Albums Made Simply Beautiful
35Our Bucket List Adventures: A Journal for Couples
Our Bucket List Adventures: A Journal for Couples
Our Bucket List Adventures is the perfect bucket list journal for couples. With this couples journal, you'll be able to:
1. Create 50 unique bucket list goals you want to accomplish together. More specifically, there is an activity section for couples to brainstorm before choosing their bucket list items together.
2. Journal your bucket list adventure memories together.
3. Have a place to put your favorite photo that captures your bucket list goal experience, or scrapbook memorabilia.
Also, there are 5 engaging questions for couples to use as conversation starters after journaling their bucket list experience to reflect on the time shared.
What's more, this bucket list book for couples includes:
-- 115 Bucket list ideas for couples.
-- A Bucket List Finder page to record the bucket list goals you have accomplished as you journal, for easy reference and better organization.
-- 50 Bucket List Journaling pages to write your bucket list experiences.
Lastly, this bucket list journal makes a great engagement, relationship anniversary, bridal shower, Christmas, birthdays, holidays, or wedding gift for your friends and family.
Now:
Get your copy of this unique bucket list journal for couples today.
Our Bucket List Adventures is the perfect bucket list journal for couples. With this couples journal, you'll be able to:
1. Create 50 unique bucket list goals you want to accomplish together. More specifically, there is an activity section for couples to brainstorm before choosing their bucket list items together.
2. Journal your bucket list adventure memories together.
3. Have a place to put your favorite photo that captures your bucket list goal experience, or scrapbook memorabilia.
Also, there are 5 engaging questions for couples to use as conversation starters after journaling their bucket list experience to reflect on the time shared.
What's more, this bucket list book for couples includes:
-- 115 Bucket list ideas for couples.
-- A Bucket List Finder page to record the bucket list goals you have accomplished as you journal, for easy reference and better organization.
-- 50 Bucket List Journaling pages to write your bucket list experiences.
Lastly, this bucket list journal makes a great engagement, relationship anniversary, bridal shower, Christmas, birthdays, holidays, or wedding gift for your friends and family.
Now:
Get your copy of this unique bucket list journal for couples today.
36Photo, Snap, Shot (Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-n-Craft Mystery, #4)
Old money and tradition are the hallmarks of the St. Louis prep school that Kiki's daughter Anya attends. But the elite academy is stamped with scandal when Anya finds the dead body of teacher Sissy Gilchris—and Anya might have seen the killer. Pegged as a dangerous flirt and a lousy teacher, the woman would've made everyone's "least popular" scrapbook page. Was Sissy murdered for her mixed-race romance with the basketball coach? To protect her daughter, Kiki sifts through the school community's many shocking secrets to pin down the killer.
37Wreck This Journal: Now in Color
"Not gonna lie, this is probably the coolest journal you'll ever see. . . . Wreck This Journal is here to inspire you." --Buzzfeed
A spectacular coloring and painting edition of the incredible journal that started it all, in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the 10-million-copy international bestseller
Perhaps you're a seasoned Wreck-er, having made your way through one or more copies of Wreck This Journal. Or maybe you're new to the phenomenon (little do you know, this experience might just change your life). Whatever the case, you've found the perfect book to destroy...
Welcome to an all new-edition of Wreck This Journal, now in spectacular full color! Inside, you'll find prompts for painting, shredding, transforming, and unleashing your creativity. With a mix of new, altered, and favorite prompts, Wreck This Journal: Now in Color invites you to wreck with color: mixing colors to make mud, letting chance dictate your color choice, weaving with brightly colored strips of paper, and more.
What colors will you use to you wreck your journal?
"A conceptual artist and author luring kids into questioning the world and appreciating every smell, texture and mystery in it." --TIME Magazine
"Keri Smith may well be the self-help guru this DIY generation deserves." --The Believer
A spectacular coloring and painting edition of the incredible journal that started it all, in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the 10-million-copy international bestseller
Perhaps you're a seasoned Wreck-er, having made your way through one or more copies of Wreck This Journal. Or maybe you're new to the phenomenon (little do you know, this experience might just change your life). Whatever the case, you've found the perfect book to destroy...
Welcome to an all new-edition of Wreck This Journal, now in spectacular full color! Inside, you'll find prompts for painting, shredding, transforming, and unleashing your creativity. With a mix of new, altered, and favorite prompts, Wreck This Journal: Now in Color invites you to wreck with color: mixing colors to make mud, letting chance dictate your color choice, weaving with brightly colored strips of paper, and more.
What colors will you use to you wreck your journal?
"A conceptual artist and author luring kids into questioning the world and appreciating every smell, texture and mystery in it." --TIME Magazine
"Keri Smith may well be the self-help guru this DIY generation deserves." --The Believer
38Love Your Handwriting (Creating Keepsakes)
Whether you are designing a heartfelt greeting card or a beautiful scrapbook page, your own handwriting adds a touch of your personality to everything you create. In Love Your Handwriting, Heidi Swapp teaches you how to write in a clean and easy-to-read style that reflects your unique personality. This three-part set includes: A book. Love Your Handwriting is packed with Heidi's tips for improving you handwriting.; A guided workbook. Now you are ready to practice. Heidi's proven techniques are presented as fun and easy assignments in a workbook where you can develop your handwriting style, one step at a time.; A handwriting tool kit. This set includes everything you need to start putting Heidi's lessons into action: a fine-tipped pen, a mechanical pencil, a zero-center ruler and a good quality eraser.
39Complete Guide to Bible Journaling: Creative Techniques to Express Your Faith
Bible journaling is the powerful and popular new way to engage with scripture through art. Complete Guide to Bible Journaling is your go-to guide to the latest lettering, drawing, painting, and crafting techniques for bringing God's Word to life. Learn all about the different types of tools that today's Bible journalers use to connect their faith with creativity. Discover wonderful ways to express your spirit by tracing, drawing, and patterning. Get tips on using stencils, colored pencils, watercolors, acrylic paints, rubber stamps, washi tape, and much more. Meet some of the world's leading Bible journaling artists who share the stories of their personal faith journeys. A colorful gallery offers inspiring examples of journaling both inside and outside the Bible. A bonus section--worth more than $50 retail--provides hundreds of exciting stickers, index tabs, vellum overlays, and illustrations to trace and color.
40Photo Finished (A Scrapbooking Mystery, #2)
New Orleans scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand is hosting a late-night "Crop Till You Drop" session-when a neighboring antique-shop owner winds up murdered in the alley. Now, the scrapbooking expert must rearrange the jumble of clues and pick out the killer.
41The Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society
Perfect for fans of Debbie Macomber, Kristin Hannah, Beth Hoffman, and Kate Jacobs, this luminous novel from the author of Friendship Bread follows a group of fascinating women who form deep friendships through their love of scrapbooking—as memories are preserved, dreams are shared, and surprising truths are revealed.
Welcome to Avalon, Illinois, Pop. 4,243
At Madeline’s Tea Salon, the cozy hub of the Avalon community, local residents scrapbook their memories and make new ones. But across town, other Avalonians are struggling to free themselves of the past: Isabel Kidd is fixing up her ramshackle house while sorting through the complications of her late husband’s affair. Ava Catalina is mourning the love of her life and helping her young son grow up without his father. Local plumber Yvonne Tate is smart, beautiful, and new to Avalon, but finds that despite a decade of living life on her own terms, the past has a way of catching up—no matter where she goes. And Frances Latham, mother to a boisterous brood of boys, eagerly anticipates the arrival of a little girl from China—unprepared for the emotional roller coaster of foreign adoption.
Enter Bettie Shelton, the irascible founder of the Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society. Under Bettie’s guidance, even the most reluctant of Avalon’s residents come to terms with their past and make bold decisions about their future. But when the group receives unexpected news about their steadfast leader, they must pull together to create something truly memorable.
By turns humorous, wise, and deeply moving, The Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society is a luminous reminder that the things we hold most dear will last a lifetime.
Welcome to Avalon, Illinois, Pop. 4,243
At Madeline’s Tea Salon, the cozy hub of the Avalon community, local residents scrapbook their memories and make new ones. But across town, other Avalonians are struggling to free themselves of the past: Isabel Kidd is fixing up her ramshackle house while sorting through the complications of her late husband’s affair. Ava Catalina is mourning the love of her life and helping her young son grow up without his father. Local plumber Yvonne Tate is smart, beautiful, and new to Avalon, but finds that despite a decade of living life on her own terms, the past has a way of catching up—no matter where she goes. And Frances Latham, mother to a boisterous brood of boys, eagerly anticipates the arrival of a little girl from China—unprepared for the emotional roller coaster of foreign adoption.
Enter Bettie Shelton, the irascible founder of the Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society. Under Bettie’s guidance, even the most reluctant of Avalon’s residents come to terms with their past and make bold decisions about their future. But when the group receives unexpected news about their steadfast leader, they must pull together to create something truly memorable.
By turns humorous, wise, and deeply moving, The Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society is a luminous reminder that the things we hold most dear will last a lifetime.
42Scrapbooking Made Easy
43Essentials Faith Stencil Set (350 Designs)
Here are more than 350 faith-based stencil designs for personalizing your planner, journal, or scrapbook!
Set is packed with symbols, banners, letters, numbers, and more.
Perfect for Bible journaling, bullet journaling, art projects, and memory books!Selections include words such as ''Faith,'' ''Hope,'' ''Love,'' a butterfly, sheep, dove, praying hands, weather symbols, shapes, arrows, and bursts.
Sticker set fits in the back pockets of Peter Pauper Press calendars and larger journals.
Package measures 5-1/4'' wide x 8-5/8'' high.
Set is packed with symbols, banners, letters, numbers, and more.
Perfect for Bible journaling, bullet journaling, art projects, and memory books!Selections include words such as ''Faith,'' ''Hope,'' ''Love,'' a butterfly, sheep, dove, praying hands, weather symbols, shapes, arrows, and bursts.
Sticker set fits in the back pockets of Peter Pauper Press calendars and larger journals.
Package measures 5-1/4'' wide x 8-5/8'' high.
44Getting to Good: A Guided Journal
45Killer, Paper, Cut (Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-n-Craft Mystery, #9)
A Halloween charity crop planned by Kiki Lowenstein is chopped short when her employee is attacked by a knife-wielding assailant. There's blood on someone's hands-but whose? A very pregnant Kiki connects the dots and quickly discovers that she has been clueless far too long. Closely held secrets point to a web of deception, one that has Kiki tied in knots. But the spunky scrapbooker refuses to lie down and die. Bumping her snooping skills up a notch, Kiki whittles down her suspect list. Meanwhile, on the home front, she's stabbed in the back by someone she trusted. Will our intrepid crafter survive the unkindest cut of all?
46Simple Scrapbooks
Simple Scrapbooks contains easy ideas for 25 fast theme scrapbooks that celebrate the most meaningful aspects of life. Scrapbook expert Stacy Julian believes that if you focus on the memories you really want to preserve, within just a few hours, you can have a lasting keepsake to be enjoyed for years. Her book helps you decide what to put in your "Simple Scrapbook," gives fresh ideas for organizing the photos and text, and shows lots of great page layout ideas and variations. 25 ideas for theme albums plus many variations Projects can be completed in hours, not months Suggested themes help you discover and celebrate what's most important in your life Projects for everyone, from teens to moms to empty nesters! Resource list
47Decorative Journals
Decorative Journals inspires you to share everyday stories in ways never imagined. From a journal of random advice to reflections of a new mother this book shares 24 ideas for creating one-of-a-kind journals as well as inspiration for topics. Projects include clear how-to instructions step-by-step photos and a complete list of supplies needed.
48Scrapbook Tips & Techniques (Leisure Arts #15931)
Suitable for scrapbook enthusiasts, this book features hundreds of favorite layouts, tips, tricks and techniques for creative scrapbooking.
49The Book Of Me: A Guide To Scrapbooking About Yourself
Many crafters use scrapbooking to preserve the lives of their children, loved ones and friends. This unique title encourages them to put the spotlight on themselves Angie Pedersen shows them how to recognize and record their own life's work -- from childhood and adolescence to adulthood.This interactive, step-by-step guide helps scrapbookers identify their roles and write about the importance of each. A variety of concepts for every role and time period are illustrated with sample scrapbook pages.
50Scrapbookers Almanac
Provides examples of calendar-inspired pages & projects. Includes meaningful ways to use your existing & future photos. Has creative ideas for preserving precious details of your life. Includes tips for finding inspiration in each day!
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51Wreck This Journal Everywhere
The nifty-sized follow-up to the international bestseller Wreck This Journal—perfect for die-hard wreckers wherever they are in the world!
Featuring dozens of new activities as well as some of the most popular prompts from the original, Wreck This Journal Everywhere will have you travelling the city streets and country byways, filling the pages with man-made and natural objects, recording what you see, drawing, doodling -- and destroying pages as you go. Perfect for sliding in your pocket or stuffing in your bag, Wreck This Journal Everywhere is the ideal creative companion!
Featuring dozens of new activities as well as some of the most popular prompts from the original, Wreck This Journal Everywhere will have you travelling the city streets and country byways, filling the pages with man-made and natural objects, recording what you see, drawing, doodling -- and destroying pages as you go. Perfect for sliding in your pocket or stuffing in your bag, Wreck This Journal Everywhere is the ideal creative companion!
52601 Great Scrapbook Ideas
Get Inspired!
As a scrapbooker, you can never have enough inspiration, especially when it comes to great layout ideas. So whether you're stumped for a page design for your photos or just want to relax with some great scrapbook eye candy, you've picked up the right book.
Inside 601 Great Scrapbook Ideas you'll find hundreds of layouts to get your creative juices flowing. And because the layouts were created by over 200 scrapbook artists, there truly is something for every taste. Plus, you'll find scrapbooking tips and ideas for you to use on your own pages.
Hundreds of never-before-seen layouts
Pages on all your favorite subjects, including relationships, everyday life, special events, holidays, kids, pets and more
Great scrapbooking tips for your own layouts
With 601 Great Scrapbook Ideas great scrapbook inspiration is only a page away!
As a scrapbooker, you can never have enough inspiration, especially when it comes to great layout ideas. So whether you're stumped for a page design for your photos or just want to relax with some great scrapbook eye candy, you've picked up the right book.
Inside 601 Great Scrapbook Ideas you'll find hundreds of layouts to get your creative juices flowing. And because the layouts were created by over 200 scrapbook artists, there truly is something for every taste. Plus, you'll find scrapbooking tips and ideas for you to use on your own pages.
Hundreds of never-before-seen layouts
Pages on all your favorite subjects, including relationships, everyday life, special events, holidays, kids, pets and more
Great scrapbooking tips for your own layouts
With 601 Great Scrapbook Ideas great scrapbook inspiration is only a page away!
53Motif for Murder (A Scrapbooking Mystery, #4)
In the terrible wake of Hurricane Katrina, scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand has her hands full getting Memory Mine back in business- and her relationship with her ex-husband, Shamus, back on its feet. But the reconciliation is shattered when Shamus is kidnapped from their home. And when Carmela hurries to tell Shamus's Uncle Henry, she finds him sitting in his library-with a bullet through his forehead.
As a memorial to Uncle Henry, Carmela puts together a sentimental scrapbook of memories and keepsakes. What she doesn't realize is that her book holds a clue that could identify the fiend behind the kidnapping and killing. And when the murderer finds out that she may be on to him, he's going to try to close the book on Carmela once and for all.
As a memorial to Uncle Henry, Carmela puts together a sentimental scrapbook of memories and keepsakes. What she doesn't realize is that her book holds a clue that could identify the fiend behind the kidnapping and killing. And when the murderer finds out that she may be on to him, he's going to try to close the book on Carmela once and for all.
5452 Scrapbooking Challenges
This book will help you find your own individual scrapbooking style. Includes 52 Scrapbooking challenges that help you think outside of your creative box and expand your individual style.
55Love You From Right Here: A Keepsake Book for Children in Foster Care
This story takes you through an abbreviated look at the emotions a young foster child experiences throughout her transition in a new foster home. It highlights the highs and lows, but most importantly, it emphasizes the stability and comfort that the child so desperately needs. It also serves as a keepsake book providing a section for journaling about the child’s time in the foster home. This gives foster families an opportunity to give the child a piece of their history when they leave.
56Scrapbooking Secrets: 300 All New Scrapbook Page Ideas
Fabulous idea books that are theme specific and loaded with ideas and tips for making great projects. Produced under the most recognized name in the industry - Creating Keepsakes!
57Harry Potter: A Sticker Collection
Covering all eight films Harry Potter: The Sticker Collection is the exhaustive must have-sticker omnibus for true Harry Potter fans.
More than 400 unique stickers from the Harry Potter™ film series! Harry Potter: A Sticker Collection is the first sticker book to include reusable stickers of characters, creatures, and magical items from all eight movies in the Harry Potte film series! Also included are photographs from Years 1 through 7 at Hogwarts and artwork depicting important wizarding locations such as Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, and the Ministry of Magic. This sticker collection can be used to relive your favorite Harry Potter moments and to decorate your locker, room, or notebook with Harry Potter movie magic. Included are stickers of: Harry, Ron, and Hermione VoldemortTM and the Death Eaters Magical Transportation Order of the PhoenixTM Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes Magical Beasts, Creatures, and Beings Triwizard TournamentTM QuidditchTM . . . and much, much more!
More than 400 unique stickers from the Harry Potter™ film series! Harry Potter: A Sticker Collection is the first sticker book to include reusable stickers of characters, creatures, and magical items from all eight movies in the Harry Potte film series! Also included are photographs from Years 1 through 7 at Hogwarts and artwork depicting important wizarding locations such as Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, and the Ministry of Magic. This sticker collection can be used to relive your favorite Harry Potter moments and to decorate your locker, room, or notebook with Harry Potter movie magic. Included are stickers of: Harry, Ron, and Hermione VoldemortTM and the Death Eaters Magical Transportation Order of the PhoenixTM Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes Magical Beasts, Creatures, and Beings Triwizard TournamentTM QuidditchTM . . . and much, much more!
58Ocean
EyeLike Stickers are the freshest, most vibrant sticker books on the market with 400 high-quality photographic stickers in each book.
59Page Patterns Vol III: 3
60Tragic Magic (A Scrapbooking Mystery, #7)
The next Scrapbooking mystery takes readers back to New Orleans, where there are spookies, foodies-and crafty killers.
Carmela, owner of Memory Mine scrapbook shop, and her best friend, owner of Juju Voodoo, have a big project. Melody Mayfeldt is converting an old mansion in the Faubourg-Marigny district into an unforgettable haunted house for those who flock to New Orleans for a creepy fix. She needs Carmela's crafty touch to make the Medusa Manor come to life in time for the upcoming horror convention.
But Melody takes her house haunting too seriously-especially when her flaming body comes crashing through a tower window to 'welcome' them to the job. Sure there's been an increased trend in murder lately, but someone specifically wanted Carmela's client very dead. Carmela's in some deep gumbo again and needs to crop out a killer from the throngs of people flocking to New Orleans. Then maybe it won't be so hard living in the Big Easy.
Carmela, owner of Memory Mine scrapbook shop, and her best friend, owner of Juju Voodoo, have a big project. Melody Mayfeldt is converting an old mansion in the Faubourg-Marigny district into an unforgettable haunted house for those who flock to New Orleans for a creepy fix. She needs Carmela's crafty touch to make the Medusa Manor come to life in time for the upcoming horror convention.
But Melody takes her house haunting too seriously-especially when her flaming body comes crashing through a tower window to 'welcome' them to the job. Sure there's been an increased trend in murder lately, but someone specifically wanted Carmela's client very dead. Carmela's in some deep gumbo again and needs to crop out a killer from the throngs of people flocking to New Orleans. Then maybe it won't be so hard living in the Big Easy.
61Disney
62Scrapbook Play (Simple Scrapbooks)
Packed with 217 playful ideas, including: page starters, product tricks, fun quizzes, journaling prompts, design inspiration, easy schemes. This special issue will keep a big, goofy smile on your face while you're creating those precious and meaningful layouts. Plus, see hilarious (or at least slightly amusing) layouts from all of your favorite Simple designers: Stacy Julian, Cathy Zielske, Donna Downey, Wendy Smedley, Rebecca Cooper, Elizabeth Dillow, Tia Bennett and dozens more. Come on! It's time to kick off your shoes, say good-bye to creative pressure, and start having more fun with your scrapbooking.
63Crafting Your Own Heritage Album
Learn to create an elegant album of family history that weaves genealogy, family lore and tradition with cherished photos, documents and memorabilia.
64How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum
From the author of Wreck This Journal, an interactive guide for exploring and documenting the art and science of everyday life.
Artists and scientists analyze the world around them in surprisingly similar ways, by observing, collecting, documenting, analyzing, and comparing. In this captivating guided journal, readers are encouraged to explore their world as both artists and scientists.
The mission Smith proposes? To document and observe the world around you. As if you've never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to.
With a series of interactive prompts and a beautifully hand-illustrated two-color package, readers will enjoy exploring and discovering the world through this gorgeous book.
Artists and scientists analyze the world around them in surprisingly similar ways, by observing, collecting, documenting, analyzing, and comparing. In this captivating guided journal, readers are encouraged to explore their world as both artists and scientists.
The mission Smith proposes? To document and observe the world around you. As if you've never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to.
With a series of interactive prompts and a beautifully hand-illustrated two-color package, readers will enjoy exploring and discovering the world through this gorgeous book.
65501 Great Scrapbook Page Ideas: A Gallery of Themes and Inspiration from A-Z
When it comes to page ideas, scrapbookers can't seem to get enough. Now, from Memory Makers comes our biggest book of page ideas yet. In this dynamic guide, scrapbookers will be delighted to find:
-More than 500 top-notch scrapbook pages, providing inspiration and ideas in action
-A range of fresh examples that will appeal to beginners and advanced scrapbookers alike
-Themes that span the alphabet from A (animals) to B (birthdays) C (Couples in love) D (dirt) and on through Z (zoo)
Jam-packed with fresh, never before published scrapbook pages, this sourcebook is a must-have for every avid scrapbook artist.
-More than 500 top-notch scrapbook pages, providing inspiration and ideas in action
-A range of fresh examples that will appeal to beginners and advanced scrapbookers alike
-Themes that span the alphabet from A (animals) to B (birthdays) C (Couples in love) D (dirt) and on through Z (zoo)
Jam-packed with fresh, never before published scrapbook pages, this sourcebook is a must-have for every avid scrapbook artist.
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66When We Became Four: A Memory Book for the Whole Family
Two children mean twice the laughter, twice the mess, and twice as much fun! Record Baby #2's milestones along with wonderfully funny and fantastic family moments with this warm and whimsical journal by the author of the best-selling memory book When We Became Three. It's a thoughtful and entertaining way to promote goodwill between the siblings while creating a keepsake journal that will have the whole family laughing and reflecting for years to come.
67Chicken Soup for the Scrapbooker's Soul
68Make, Take, Murder: Book #5 in the Kiki Lowenstein Mystery Series
An enhanced and newly revised edition of Make, Take, Murder: Book #4 of 13 books in the Kiki Lowenstein Mystery Series featuring scrapbooker, amateur sleuth, and animal lover, Kiki Lowenstein. If you love clean, cozy mystery series that feature realistic, well-developed characters, Kiki and her pals will quickly become your new best friends. This fast-paced read includes an intriguing mystery, a plot with relevant social issues, and the struggles of a single mom who's determined to make her way in the world while parenting her young daughter. Plot: Dumpster diving for her lost paycheck is definitely the low point of Kiki Lowenstein's day, that is, until she finds a severed leg thrown in with the trash. Who'd toss a body part in the garbage outside the scrapbook crafts store where Kiki works? Accompanying the grisly "gift" is a creepy computerized voice message, a warning to the store's "rich and snotty" female shoppers. Kiki soon discovers that the leg belonged to Cindy Gambrowski, a customer with a tyrannical and violent husband. Combing through Cindy's scrapbook projects for hidden clues, Kiki tries to find the killer. Was it a crime of marital malice, or did someone else beat Cindy's husband to the punch? Bonus Gifts: Link to a file with recipes and holiday-themed projects that go along with this book, plus a preview of Ready, Scrap, Shoot A paperback version of this book is available in the CreateSpace store. Praise: "The characters are so well developed that each installment leaves the reader yearning for the next." Kirkus Reviews "This author's craft mysteries are topically relevant and chock-full of side stories." Library Journal "There are chuckle-out-loud moments as well as wonderful scrapbooking tips and recipes scattered throughout the book." RT Book Reviews
69Skulls & Anatomy: Copyright Free Vintage Illustrations for Artists & Designers
Looking to level-up your art and impress your clients and peers?
Skulls & Anatomy, Copyright Free Vintage Illustrations for Artists & Designers is a collection of 180 high quality, digitised, anatomical drawings for use in personal or commercial creative projects. This is an essential resource to take your art and design to the next level and give you a competitive advantage over your peers.
Vault Editions' team of professional designers and illustrators have spent a lifetime hunting and restoring vintage woodcuts and engravings from around the world to create amazing artwork with. Now, we are opening the vault of our archives to the public.
Within this collection, you will find rare, high-quality images carefully curated by our team of professional artists and designers who have used this imagery to create projects from gig-posters to identity design. We have carefully restored the artwork and provided a download link within the publication where you will locate high-resolution files in JPEG format as well as TIFF files with backgrounds removed to speed up your workflow.
By collaging multiple images together, you can create impressive and dynamic designs in minutes that will impress both your clients and peers, no matter what your skill level is.
We hope we can provide a useful resource for you and your creative practice. If you have any feedback about our collection, we would love to hear from you. You can contact us via info@vaulteditions.com
Skulls & Anatomy, Copyright Free Vintage Illustrations for Artists & Designers is a collection of 180 high quality, digitised, anatomical drawings for use in personal or commercial creative projects. This is an essential resource to take your art and design to the next level and give you a competitive advantage over your peers.
Vault Editions' team of professional designers and illustrators have spent a lifetime hunting and restoring vintage woodcuts and engravings from around the world to create amazing artwork with. Now, we are opening the vault of our archives to the public.
Within this collection, you will find rare, high-quality images carefully curated by our team of professional artists and designers who have used this imagery to create projects from gig-posters to identity design. We have carefully restored the artwork and provided a download link within the publication where you will locate high-resolution files in JPEG format as well as TIFF files with backgrounds removed to speed up your workflow.
By collaging multiple images together, you can create impressive and dynamic designs in minutes that will impress both your clients and peers, no matter what your skill level is.
We hope we can provide a useful resource for you and your creative practice. If you have any feedback about our collection, we would love to hear from you. You can contact us via info@vaulteditions.com
70The Amazing Page: 650 Scrapbook Page Ideas, Tips and Techniques (Memory Makers)
Truly amazing scrapbook pages and sketches!
The Amazing Page offers readers top-notch scrapbook pages - under a wide umbrella of popular, tried-and-true themes - including family, homes, falling in love, babies, toddlers, kids, teens, husbands, travel, sports and much more. This book offers a wealth of page ideas for any scrapbooker, beginner to advanced, plus a CD-Rom with 75 of the best page layout sketches based on the pages in the book. This book offers:
A fabulous selection of never-before-seen scrapbook pages covering a wide variety of themes and styles that will spark reader's imaginations Helpful tips and tricks from contributors plus sidebars and tip boxes to offer additional information on design, concept, photography, color and technique CD-Rom of 75 printable page layout sketches to take all the guesswork out of designing great pages fast A colossal gallery of never-before-published, contemporary artwork from our reading audience, The Amazing Page is sure to inspire any scrapbooker seeking to capture precious memories and everyday moments in their scrapbooks.
71For the Love of Paper: 320 Tear-off Pages for Creating, Crafting, and Sharing
Love paper? Create something beautiful with this interactive book, complete with detachable patterned papers for any creative endeavor, along with projects and fun surprises throughout.
It’s amazing what you can do with a humble sheet of paper. Whether blank or printed, creased or pristine, it can spark your imagination, help you share a story, and result in something beautiful. Celebrate this versatile medium with For the Love of Paper, a collection of tear-out pages that will delight and motivate anyone who loves to create. It includes fun patterns from artists around the world, colorful posters, stickers, envelope templates, letter-writing sheets, a paper garland project, and all you need to make some inspired art.
This book comes with the following extras:
20 postcards
8 notecards
6 sheets of stickers (including 1 sheet of phone stickers)
4 sheets of gift wrap
2 sheets of gift tags
1 notebook
1 easel-backed desk poster
5 perforated bookmarks
6 detachable posters measuring 7½ x 10 inches (19 x 25 cm)
1 poster measuring 18 x 24 inches (46 x 61 cm)
It’s amazing what you can do with a humble sheet of paper. Whether blank or printed, creased or pristine, it can spark your imagination, help you share a story, and result in something beautiful. Celebrate this versatile medium with For the Love of Paper, a collection of tear-out pages that will delight and motivate anyone who loves to create. It includes fun patterns from artists around the world, colorful posters, stickers, envelope templates, letter-writing sheets, a paper garland project, and all you need to make some inspired art.
This book comes with the following extras:
20 postcards
8 notecards
6 sheets of stickers (including 1 sheet of phone stickers)
4 sheets of gift wrap
2 sheets of gift tags
1 notebook
1 easel-backed desk poster
5 perforated bookmarks
6 detachable posters measuring 7½ x 10 inches (19 x 25 cm)
1 poster measuring 18 x 24 inches (46 x 61 cm)
72Crepe Factor (A Scrapbooking Mystery #14)
There's a murderer among the merchandise at the Winter Market in the French Quarter in the latest Scrapbooking Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs, now in paperback.
The holidays are a busy time for scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand--but not so hectic that she doesn't have time to enjoy browsing the booths at the Winter Market with her best friend, Ava. The last thing the ladies expect to see is a lurching man stabbed by a serving fork, dying in front of them.
The victim is loathed restaurant critic Martin Lash, who posted his scathing reviews on the Glutton for Punishment website. And the prime suspect is New Orleans restaurateur Quigg Brevard--who was seen giving the critic a tongue-lashing minutes before someone stuck a fork in him. An old flame of Carmela's, Quigg asks for her help, which does not please her current beau, Detective Edgar Babcock, to say the least.
Before her relationship is the next victim, Carmela needs to find a murderer who had no reservations about punishing the culinary curmudgeon...
The holidays are a busy time for scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand--but not so hectic that she doesn't have time to enjoy browsing the booths at the Winter Market with her best friend, Ava. The last thing the ladies expect to see is a lurching man stabbed by a serving fork, dying in front of them.
The victim is loathed restaurant critic Martin Lash, who posted his scathing reviews on the Glutton for Punishment website. And the prime suspect is New Orleans restaurateur Quigg Brevard--who was seen giving the critic a tongue-lashing minutes before someone stuck a fork in him. An old flame of Carmela's, Quigg asks for her help, which does not please her current beau, Detective Edgar Babcock, to say the least.
Before her relationship is the next victim, Carmela needs to find a murderer who had no reservations about punishing the culinary curmudgeon...
73Little Angels Stickers
Add old-fashioned angelic charm to any item with these 35 full-color sticker images of dainty winged seraphs.
74Page Patterns: Just Plain Simplicity: 1
75Fiber and Brimstone (A Scrapbooking Mystery, #8)
It's Halloween in New Orleans-and the festivities are going to be killer.
With the help of her best friend Ava, Carmela Bertrand is building a giant monster puppet for the Halloween Monsters & Mayhem parade. Things get terrifying earlier than expected when they overhear an argument between Jekyl Hardy and Brett Fowler- and just minutes later they find Fowler's dead body.
Carmela has known Jekyl for years and can't believe he'd ever resort to murder, despite the fact that Fowler owed him money. But when another victim is discovered-who also had an unfriendly relationship with Jekyl-Carmela is convinced someone is framing her friend and now must find a way to unmask the real killer.
76Photo Organizing Made Easy: Going from Overwhelmed to Overjoyed
"No organizing project is more daunting than photographs, and no one is better equipped to walk you through the process than Cathi Nelson!" -Julie Morgenstern, New York Times Best-selling Author Our photos. They are the keepers of our most precious memories and the tellers of our most cherished stories. But in the digital age, and when free time is nonexistent, organizing your photos - the thousands stored in shoeboxes under your bed, in fading photo albums, and on your phone - is a daunting task! In Photo Organizing Made Easy: Going from Overwhelmed to Overjoyed, professional photo organizers share their eight, doable steps to help you organize, maintain, and most importantly, enjoy your photos. You'll learn how to tackle the challenges of time and technology, have access to trusted resources when you need a helping hand, and benefit from expert advice. We are a people of stories. Taking the time to organize your photos is a priceless investment and a gift your loved ones will treasure for generations to come.
77Family History Scrapbooking
Learn how to get started with your family history scrapbooking. Learn what photographs and documents you'll need to get started. Learn to sort your family history materials into manageable categories. Helps prepare and organize your photos. Learn to present and scrapbook your family history in a timeless way.
78We Dare You: Scrapbook Challenges about Real Life
Feel like a challenge - a scrapbooking challenge? Then open the pages of this book and get inspired to create some of the most personal, funny and random layouts you've ever made.
Since 2005, the authors have posted scrapbook challenges - scrapbook Dares - on their website... challenges designed to really get you to think about your life, your art, yourself. In this book, the authors showcase some of the best challenges from their site along with over 25 new challenges to get your creative juices flowing. And the layouts inspired by the Dares, created by the authors and their amazing contributing artists, are the perfect jumpstart to get you thinking about your scrapbooking in a whole new way.
Since 2005, the authors have posted scrapbook challenges - scrapbook Dares - on their website... challenges designed to really get you to think about your life, your art, yourself. In this book, the authors showcase some of the best challenges from their site along with over 25 new challenges to get your creative juices flowing. And the layouts inspired by the Dares, created by the authors and their amazing contributing artists, are the perfect jumpstart to get you thinking about your scrapbooking in a whole new way.
79Grandmother Remembers 30th Anniversary Edition
Grandmother Remembers is the original, bestselling keepsake book for grandmothers to record important memories, family traditions, favorite recipes, and special stories to pass along to their grandchildren. With more than 1.6 million copies sold, the book continues to appeal to new generations of grandmothers. This special 30th anniversary edition includes specially designed wrapping paper and a notecard with envelope for convenient gift giving.
80Death Swatch (A Scrapbooking Mystery, #6)
Murder comes to Mardi Gras! The seventh in the popular series - including scrapbooking tips. Jekyl Hardy is hosting a Mardi Gras party in his French Quarter apartment, amid Zydeco rhythms and popping champagne corks. On a wild night like this, anything can happen. The guests, including scrapbook-store owner Carmela Bertrand, never imagine it will be murder. But as the evening progresses, Jekyl's neighbor, float designer Archie Baudier, is found on the balcony choked to death with a barbed wire garrote. Buried up to her neck in strange clues, Carmela is sure of only one thing: whoever killed Archie is now following her - straight into the madness of Mardi Gras.
81Scrapbooking
82Snippets: Mostly True Tales from the Lighter Side of Scrapbooking
A giggle? A chortle? Maybe even a little LOL?Find yourself doing all three and more with this hilarious book from Simple Scrapbooks magazine's Lain Ehmann. In 25 delightful essays, Lain explores the nuttier side of scrapbooking, covering everything from getting started and making time for the hobby to stalking scrapbook celebrities and yearning for a magazine-worthy scrap room. Whether you're an avid scrapbooker or someone who just dabbles in memory preservation, you're sure to relate to these wonderfully witty interpretations. So pick up one for you and a few for your friends, and find out how funny scrapbooking can really be!
83Art Journal Courage: Fearless Mixed Media Techniques for Journaling Bravely
Gather Your Art Journal Supplies:
- Journal
- Pens
- Paint
- Courage!
Discover the techniques and courage you need to journal bravely! With Dina's help, you'll begin by working through any fears you have of using your own handwriting. You'll get journaling prompts and techniques to help you develop a handwriting style you'll love and words you'll want to write! Then, you'll move onto drawing: you'll learn not only how to train your hand, but also how to appreciate your own unique drawing ability. As you continue through the eight chapters, you will learn additional mixed-media techniques to help you overcome your fears of new materials, using photos of yourself, creating layers, working without a plan and much more.
Put your worries aside and create fearlessly!
You'll find:
- Eight common journaling fears dispelled
- Twenty techniques to give you art journal courage
- Dozens of colorful art journal pages to inspire your own art
- Journal
- Pens
- Paint
- Courage!
Discover the techniques and courage you need to journal bravely! With Dina's help, you'll begin by working through any fears you have of using your own handwriting. You'll get journaling prompts and techniques to help you develop a handwriting style you'll love and words you'll want to write! Then, you'll move onto drawing: you'll learn not only how to train your hand, but also how to appreciate your own unique drawing ability. As you continue through the eight chapters, you will learn additional mixed-media techniques to help you overcome your fears of new materials, using photos of yourself, creating layers, working without a plan and much more.
Put your worries aside and create fearlessly!
You'll find:
- Eight common journaling fears dispelled
- Twenty techniques to give you art journal courage
- Dozens of colorful art journal pages to inspire your own art
84The Art of Bible Journaling: More Than 60 Step-by-Step Techniques for Expressing Your Faith Creatively
Deepen your connection to God, and enrich your creative soul, with this inspiring guide to Bible journaling.
Christians searching for new ways to strengthen their connection to God have embraced Bible journaling, which allows them to pause and reflect on scripture while adding their own creative touch to each meaningful verse. For those wishing to embark on this spiritual journey, The Art of Bible Journaling first covers the basics, from choosing a Bible to embellishments and art techniques, and then provides more than 60 specific step-by-step projects to bring the pages to life. You’ll learn how to faith journal outside the Bible, journal on the go, and customize your Bible, and get such bonus items as traceable art to copy and paste, colorful stickers, and versatile templates that make it easy to get started.
Christians searching for new ways to strengthen their connection to God have embraced Bible journaling, which allows them to pause and reflect on scripture while adding their own creative touch to each meaningful verse. For those wishing to embark on this spiritual journey, The Art of Bible Journaling first covers the basics, from choosing a Bible to embellishments and art techniques, and then provides more than 60 specific step-by-step projects to bring the pages to life. You’ll learn how to faith journal outside the Bible, journal on the go, and customize your Bible, and get such bonus items as traceable art to copy and paste, colorful stickers, and versatile templates that make it easy to get started.
85Essential Weekly Planner Stickers - She Believed She Could (Set of 160 Stickers)
86When We Became Three
Chronicle the blissful chaos of pregnancy and parenting with this one-of-a-kind family journal. Together with your partner, record your journey through parenthood and your childs transformation from baby bump to first birthday and beyond. A quirky, col
87Scrapbook Page Maps 2
More PageMaps to Kick-Start Your Creativity!
Even the most imaginative people get stumped sometimes. Author and artist Becky Fleck's easy-to-use sketches will help get you over the hurdle with 92 brand new sketches for traditional and digital layouts, greeting cards, mini albums and home d�cor items. In addition, you'll find new artwork for over 140 incredible layouts and projects in a variety of sizes that will inspire your own artistic creations.
- Discover new layout sketches and artwork from the author of Scrapbook PageMaps, including a full chapter devoted to greeting cards.
- Learn to use sketches to focus and coordinate your ideas whenever you're feeling overwhelmed by materials, photos and journaling.
- Take your favorite sketches along with you! Included are 64 travel-size sketch cards for easy planning wherever you get inspired.
- Learn new techniques and methods with easy to follow step-by-step instructions.
- Find "Eye Spy" tips from the author that point out the unique, unusual and unexpected elements you can use to make any page even more special.
If you're feeling stumped with how to use that special photo, or if you just can't decide how to use those beautiful supplies, Scrapbook PageMaps 2 will help you tell your story!
Even the most imaginative people get stumped sometimes. Author and artist Becky Fleck's easy-to-use sketches will help get you over the hurdle with 92 brand new sketches for traditional and digital layouts, greeting cards, mini albums and home d�cor items. In addition, you'll find new artwork for over 140 incredible layouts and projects in a variety of sizes that will inspire your own artistic creations.
- Discover new layout sketches and artwork from the author of Scrapbook PageMaps, including a full chapter devoted to greeting cards.
- Learn to use sketches to focus and coordinate your ideas whenever you're feeling overwhelmed by materials, photos and journaling.
- Take your favorite sketches along with you! Included are 64 travel-size sketch cards for easy planning wherever you get inspired.
- Learn new techniques and methods with easy to follow step-by-step instructions.
- Find "Eye Spy" tips from the author that point out the unique, unusual and unexpected elements you can use to make any page even more special.
If you're feeling stumped with how to use that special photo, or if you just can't decide how to use those beautiful supplies, Scrapbook PageMaps 2 will help you tell your story!
88Digital Designs for Scrapbooking
A step-by-step guide to making a complete album with your computer. You won't believe how easy it is! Includes a how-to book showcasing digital albums by Renee Pearson, Cathy Zielske, Donna Downey and Molly Newman?all created using the four digital kits found on the accompanying CD. Plus, you'll get over 400 digital elements, a trial version of Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 and more.
89Journal Spilling: Mixed-Media Techniques for Free Expression
Go ahead--make a mess!There are no lines to stay inside of here. You're free to quiet your inner critic and spill color (as well as your thoughts) all over the page. Author Diana Trout offers a double-dose of encouragement for you to try out new techniques, to ask yourself new questions and to see how safe of a place your private journal can truly be.
Whether you've been carrying around an art journal for years, or have been waiting for just the right push, in the pages of "Journal Spilling" you will learn new ways with mixed media as well as new insights about yourself. Step-by-step instruction will make the process easy and you'll explore such techniques as: Using salt, alcohol and wax paper as resists for watercolorSpilling" color over your page with the help of watercolor crayonsCreating unique lines and shapes with a fun ink-blowing techniqueMaking secret pockets and flaps for storing wishes and private reflectionsCarving and stamping with hand-carved stamps, making your pages even more personalGetting out of a writing rut with prompts and inspiring exercises and much more Find out just how fulfilling using creative expression in your personal journal can be and let "Journal Spilling" be the friend to offer you support for each page you create."
Whether you've been carrying around an art journal for years, or have been waiting for just the right push, in the pages of "Journal Spilling" you will learn new ways with mixed media as well as new insights about yourself. Step-by-step instruction will make the process easy and you'll explore such techniques as: Using salt, alcohol and wax paper as resists for watercolorSpilling" color over your page with the help of watercolor crayonsCreating unique lines and shapes with a fun ink-blowing techniqueMaking secret pockets and flaps for storing wishes and private reflectionsCarving and stamping with hand-carved stamps, making your pages even more personalGetting out of a writing rut with prompts and inspiring exercises and much more Find out just how fulfilling using creative expression in your personal journal can be and let "Journal Spilling" be the friend to offer you support for each page you create."
90Eyelike Stickers: Wild Animals
Introducing a vibrant addition to the bestselling series: EyeLike Stickers: Wild Animals. Packed with 400 durable and reusable full-color stickers, each of these books will appeal to kids and crafters alike. The stickers are designed to be stuck on and peeled off over and over again without tearing or losing adhesive. Their high-quality images boast amazingly lifelike detail and dazzling color. Stick ’em on cubbies, cards, notebooks, lockers, and scrapbooks; create entire sticker panoramas on the books’ inside front covers, which double as glossy illustrated backgrounds.
A nimble deer. An adorable sloth. A magnificent lion. Beautiful and fascinating creatures from around the world come to life in Wild Animals.
A nimble deer. An adorable sloth. A magnificent lion. Beautiful and fascinating creatures from around the world come to life in Wild Animals.
91The Scrapbook Designer's Workbook: Unlocking the Secrets to Great Page Design
Everything you need to know for amazing scrapbook design!
Wondering if your title and journaling typography match? Perplexed when selecting the best color palette to complement your photographs? The answers to these design questions and so many more are handily collected here in Scrapbook Designer's Workbook. Noted scrapbook designer and columnist Kari Hansen teaches you the basics of design as they relate to scrapbooking. From color wheels to curvilinear lines, you'll find a wealth of information you'll reference again and again as your design knowledge grows and your style matures.
Inside you'll find:
Easy-to-reference lists of design tips and tricks
In-depth information on scrapbook design basics, elements, principles and color concepts
Color palettes, layout sketches and other bonus materials to make page design easier
An illustrated glossary of design terms
Wondering if your title and journaling typography match? Perplexed when selecting the best color palette to complement your photographs? The answers to these design questions and so many more are handily collected here in Scrapbook Designer's Workbook. Noted scrapbook designer and columnist Kari Hansen teaches you the basics of design as they relate to scrapbooking. From color wheels to curvilinear lines, you'll find a wealth of information you'll reference again and again as your design knowledge grows and your style matures.
Inside you'll find:
Easy-to-reference lists of design tips and tricks
In-depth information on scrapbook design basics, elements, principles and color concepts
Color palettes, layout sketches and other bonus materials to make page design easier
An illustrated glossary of design terms
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92Designing with Stamping
93Quilled Mandalas: 30 Paper Projects for Creativity and Relaxation
Two hot trends—paper quilling and mandala-themed crafting—come together in 30 new projects from the co-owner of the popular company, Quilled Creations. Alli Bartkowski explains the basic tools and techniques of quilling, from curling and crimping the paper to forming scrolls, strips, and rolls. Detailed step-by-step photos show all the shapes needed for the projects, which come in an assortment of 4”, 6”, and 8” designs with projects for the beginner, intermediate, and advanced quiller. Feel the calm and serenity created by the repetitive motions as you quill a Crimson Flower, Sunset, Snowflake, Peacock, and other vivid, beautiful mandalas.
94Secret Stash! Mixed Media Backgrounds: 98 Painted Pages to Use in Your Own Creations!
"Tear the pages to pieces, and use them in your own creations.
Or turn this book into your own art journal: write, doodle & paint in it!
It's really up to you!"
ATTENTION PLEASE!
This isn't a regular book!!! Oh nooo... This is your PRIVATE and SECRET collection of 98 deliciously colorful mixed media pages, handpainted by Mimi Bondi - Ready to add sunshine to your journal pages, tags, stationery, paintings and more!
What can you do with this magical book?
- Cut parts of a page by hand, with scissors or a craft punch and use the pieces in collages, to decorate your art tags and greeting cards, to make your happy mail even happier or...
- Tear a whole page out & use it as an art journal background
- Turn this book into YOUR art journal: add gesso or paint directly onto the pages, draw or paint boxes to write your thoughts and inspiring quotes, add doodles, glue photos and images for added interest, use stencils and stamps to embellish the pages further...
... It's really up to you!
LET'S CREATE MORE ART TOGETHER!
Mimi Bondi
Art from the sunny side of life!
mimibondi.com
Or turn this book into your own art journal: write, doodle & paint in it!
It's really up to you!"
ATTENTION PLEASE!
This isn't a regular book!!! Oh nooo... This is your PRIVATE and SECRET collection of 98 deliciously colorful mixed media pages, handpainted by Mimi Bondi - Ready to add sunshine to your journal pages, tags, stationery, paintings and more!
What can you do with this magical book?
- Cut parts of a page by hand, with scissors or a craft punch and use the pieces in collages, to decorate your art tags and greeting cards, to make your happy mail even happier or...
- Tear a whole page out & use it as an art journal background
- Turn this book into YOUR art journal: add gesso or paint directly onto the pages, draw or paint boxes to write your thoughts and inspiring quotes, add doodles, glue photos and images for added interest, use stencils and stamps to embellish the pages further...
... It's really up to you!
LET'S CREATE MORE ART TOGETHER!
Mimi Bondi
Art from the sunny side of life!
mimibondi.com
95The New Rules of Scrapbooking: Crafting With Your Photos Can Be Simple
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96Tantalizing Textures: Ideas and Techniques for Scrapbookers
Add touchable textures to your layouts!
The irresistible touch of plushy fibers and textiles. The rough, jagged feel of burlap and sandpaper. The smooth sleekness of glass and acrylics. The textures we include on our scrapbooks add both a tactile and visual richness that can take our artistry to a whole new level. In Tantalizing Textures, well-known author and artist Trudy Sigurdson teaches you her best-kept secrets for creating perfectly harmonious scrapbook pages by pulling textural themes from photographs and infusing them into artistic and imaginative paper crafting. Learn to add a sense of place, personality and beauty using these versatile materials:
Textiles
Metals
Natural Elements
Art Mediums
Paper
Clear Elements
Be inspired by Trudy's amazing collection of scrapbook art and learn over 25 innovative techniques illustrated in detailed step-by-step instructions. The tantalizing world of texture awaits!
The irresistible touch of plushy fibers and textiles. The rough, jagged feel of burlap and sandpaper. The smooth sleekness of glass and acrylics. The textures we include on our scrapbooks add both a tactile and visual richness that can take our artistry to a whole new level. In Tantalizing Textures, well-known author and artist Trudy Sigurdson teaches you her best-kept secrets for creating perfectly harmonious scrapbook pages by pulling textural themes from photographs and infusing them into artistic and imaginative paper crafting. Learn to add a sense of place, personality and beauty using these versatile materials:
Textiles
Metals
Natural Elements
Art Mediums
Paper
Clear Elements
Be inspired by Trudy's amazing collection of scrapbook art and learn over 25 innovative techniques illustrated in detailed step-by-step instructions. The tantalizing world of texture awaits!
97Postcards from the Dead (A Scrapbooking Mystery, #10)
New Orleans is in the throes of another fantastic Mardi Gras celebration when the party gets crashed by a murderer…
Kimber Breeze of KBEZ-TV is broadcasting live from a hotel balcony in the French Quarter, interviewing locals and capturing the spectacle in the streets. But as Carmela Bertrand, owner of Memory Mine scrapbooking shop, waits to be interviewed next, someone sneaks onto the balcony and strangles Kimber with a cord, leaving her body dangling above the parade.
Soon after the murder, Carmela begins receiving strange postcards at her shop—signed by the late reporter. Now she and her friend Ava must risk their own necks to find out who’s posing as a ghost and expose a killer…
Scrapbooking Tips and Recipes Included!
Kimber Breeze of KBEZ-TV is broadcasting live from a hotel balcony in the French Quarter, interviewing locals and capturing the spectacle in the streets. But as Carmela Bertrand, owner of Memory Mine scrapbooking shop, waits to be interviewed next, someone sneaks onto the balcony and strangles Kimber with a cord, leaving her body dangling above the parade.
Soon after the murder, Carmela begins receiving strange postcards at her shop—signed by the late reporter. Now she and her friend Ava must risk their own necks to find out who’s posing as a ghost and expose a killer…
Scrapbooking Tips and Recipes Included!
98Gossamer Ghost (A Scrapbooking Mystery, #12)
Carmela Bertrand knows that Halloween in New Orleans means a week of rabble-rousing, costumed craziness—and she can’t wait to get the party started. But when a local antiques dealer turns up dead, Carmela suddenly finds herself in a real-life danse macabre…
An evening’s work deciding on the class schedule for her scrapbooking shop has put Carmela in the mood to kick up her heels. But after some strange noises draw her into Oddities, the neighboring antiques shop, Carmela’s night is abruptly put on hold when a bloody body falls out of a curio cabinet—and into her arms.
While shop owner Marcus Joubert was known for being an eccentric with a penchant for eclectic merchandise, Carmela never thought he was the kind of man who could inspire the passion required to kill. But when Marcus’s assistant—and fiancée—Mavis reveals that a priceless death mask was also stolen, it becomes clear that murder wasn’t the culprit’s sole intention.
Carmela can’t resist the urge to investigate the growing mystery, but as the list of suspects increases, she realizes it’ll take every trick in the book to unmask the killer thief before there’s another night of murderous mischief…
An evening’s work deciding on the class schedule for her scrapbooking shop has put Carmela in the mood to kick up her heels. But after some strange noises draw her into Oddities, the neighboring antiques shop, Carmela’s night is abruptly put on hold when a bloody body falls out of a curio cabinet—and into her arms.
While shop owner Marcus Joubert was known for being an eccentric with a penchant for eclectic merchandise, Carmela never thought he was the kind of man who could inspire the passion required to kill. But when Marcus’s assistant—and fiancée—Mavis reveals that a priceless death mask was also stolen, it becomes clear that murder wasn’t the culprit’s sole intention.
Carmela can’t resist the urge to investigate the growing mystery, but as the list of suspects increases, she realizes it’ll take every trick in the book to unmask the killer thief before there’s another night of murderous mischief…
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99Creative Journaling: A Guide to Over 100 Techniques and Ideas for Amazing Dot Grid, Junk, Mixed Media, and Travel Pages
Spark your creativity and keep yourself organized with the beautiful pages and easy-to-follow instructions of Creative Journaling. With 52 projects, from simple tricks, like making your own washi tape, to more ambitious projects, like crafting a custom planner, you’ll soon have the best-looking to-do list around.
Author Renee Day will take you on an artistic adventure as you take on each new task and become an expert on amazing DIY ideas! You'll learn to work with watercolors, acrylic paint, brush pens, and much more as you personalize your stuff, making things uniquely you.
Going beyond basic tools, this stunning book offers tips, tricks, and creative ways to transform your notebook into a treasured life companion, including:
• Ornamental lettering
• Personalized habit trackers
• Colorful calendars
• Decorative headers
• Customized productivity lists
• Inspiring artwork
• Creative future logs
• Unique planning pages
Author Renee Day will take you on an artistic adventure as you take on each new task and become an expert on amazing DIY ideas! You'll learn to work with watercolors, acrylic paint, brush pens, and much more as you personalize your stuff, making things uniquely you.
Going beyond basic tools, this stunning book offers tips, tricks, and creative ways to transform your notebook into a treasured life companion, including:
• Ornamental lettering
• Personalized habit trackers
• Colorful calendars
• Decorative headers
• Customized productivity lists
• Inspiring artwork
• Creative future logs
• Unique planning pages
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