Making Memories Decorate Life: Scrapbook
Coming Home: Volume II
Mini-Ephemera Clip Art & CD
Travel Labels Clip Art with CD
Making Memories Decorate Life: Scrapbook
By Making Memories
Published by Making Memories
Making Memories has introduced the first book in a series of three Decorate Life volumes also to include Home Décor and Celebrations. This first book is packed with 140 pages of fresh ideas to spark your scrapbook creativity. The layouts feature award-winning designers and helpful tips of basic elements to help you create harmonious and unique layouts. You will find the layouts and tips to be beneficial for every crafter - from novice to expert. Here are a few tips you will learn:
Create backgrounds with:
• Sewing – Use thread that matches the background or leave out the thread for a subtle effect.
• Creative Collages – Leave a small space between each strip so other papers can be seen underneath.
Make interesting borders by:
• Finishing Buttons – Tie or sew thread, fiber or ribbons through button holes for borders.
• Using Photos – Use a variety of smaller photos to support the main shot.
Design mattes for photos with:
• Instant Vintage – Using paint and foam stamps, make a matte directly on photos.
• Fabric Frames – Combine fabrics for photo mattes.
Create distinct titles and wordage with:
• Suspended Letters – Make dangle letters using eyelets or jump rings.
• Handwriting – Combine handwriting with rub-ons, computer text or stamping.
Craft remarkable embellishments using:
• Ribbon Print – Stitch smaller ribbon onto textured backgrounds and other ribbons for depth.
• Metal Makeover – Use acrylic paint in layers for custom color on metal.
Produce striking journaling with:
• Communicating Strips – Print on linen or other textures for a special look.
• Telling Tags – Break journaling blocks into multiple sections for viewers to easily follow.
Decorate Life concludes with complete instructions and supply lists for each of the layouts. This book will inspire you to try new techniques and give your layouts a fresh start. It will definitely have you waiting for the next volume.
Coming Home: Volume II
By Chatterbox
Published by Chatterbox, LLC.
If you haven’t been touched by the emotional journey of Melody Ross’, Founder and CEO of Chatterbox, “Why I Scrapbook” [link to department] revelations, reading “Coming Home Volume 2” may just change your scrapbook life. Ross challenges her readers to find the right reasons to scrapbook and to prioritize our lives now for the benefit of our future.
“Coming Home” begins by inviting you into the lives of Ross and the Chatterbox Design Team. The layouts and projects are presented in the following chapters:
• Life Moments
• Generations
• Everyday Meaning
• Personal Journey
• Love
• Personality
• Family & Friends
Each chapter offers a supply list and tip for creating the layouts but more importantly, the designers answer the question, “Why should I?” For example, the designers describe the feeling they get when they take time to think about a son, daughter, or friend. In the chapter titled “Personal Journey”, designers share some of their most intimate thoughts and feelings through words and pictures. In “Family & Friends”, you will find ideas for layouts as well as mini albums, tags, and care packages to make for loved ones. After reading these answers and seeing the ideas, you will begin to realize that the only one who can truly answer the question why is you.
Throughout the book, you will be inspired to make every album special while using timesaving techniques. The book offers a fresh collection of layouts that will motivate you to possibly create your most meaningful work yet.
Mini-Ephemera Clip Art & CD
By Beth Cote
Published by Design Originals
“Mini-Ephemera” is one of the latest additions to the Ephemera collection by Beth Cote. This book contains over 400 small color images perfect for collage, altered art, cards, and scrapbooks. The images can be cut directly from the book, scanned, or printed from the included CD (Windows and Macintosh compatible).
The ephemera images can also be inked, glazed, embossed, or transferred. If you are working on a decoupage project, these small images will work wonderful and since they can be printed from the computer, you can print them on any type of paper or fabric.
Cote has designed images to fit bottle caps, slide mounts, and dominoes, among other things. You know this is a great time saver if you have ever tried to size images to fit small projects. The book gets you started with six sample project ideas for using the images such as soldered necklaces, wood box, and a bracelet. Each of the projects includes a material list and instructions. The nostalgic images take you back to times past and are a beautiful way to include a piece of history in your crafts.
Travel Labels Clip Art with CD
By Trishia Jacobs
Published by Design Originals
Trishia Jacobs introduces “Travel Labels” from her personal ephemera collection. An avid traveler who has visited numerous countries around the world, Jacobs brings back the art of luggage labels that were so very popular in the 1920s and 1930s in this book of clip art.
With over 100 large and small images to choose from, this book will give your scrapbook and papercrafting projects a vintage touch. It also includes a CD of the images for you to play with and print. These travel labels can be used with decoupage, embossing products, inks, and glazes.
Four sample projects are provided with a supply list and instructions. Projects include a ‘Bon Voyage’ card, wood trunk box, frame and scrapbook page. Jacobs’ art will take you back to the golden age of travel and remind you of the beauty of nostalgia. Reminisce with Jacobs and add a classic touch to your next work of art.
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