Your Sentiments Exactly
Designing with Digital
Scrapbooking on the Table
Your Sentiments Exactly
Author: Julie Scattaregia
Publisher: Creative Imaginations
“Have you ever looked at a scrapbook page and believed you could ‘feel’ it rather than simply ‘see’ it?” That is exactly what you will learn in Your Sentiments Exactly by Julie Scattaregia and Creative Imaginations.
We all want to create layouts that send a message to every viewer. That message is not only portrayed in words but photos, embellishments, and, very importantly, colors. The colors you choose determine the mood of your layout. Whether the mood is passion, solace, adventure, or innocence, you have to decide. This book guides you through fourteen moods often used in scrapbooks and provides mood imagery, color combinations, complementary accent ideas, design schemes, and sample project topics for each mood.
Each chapter explains the moods through layout and paper crafting ideas complete with instructions and materials (listed at the book’s end). As you read through the book, you can actually feel the moods described and see sample color combinations to use. Here are a few of the moods and colors revealed in the book:
• Powerful: Red and Navy
• Sentimental: Soft Pink and Soft Green
• Earthy: Brown, Rust and Red Clay
• Tranquil: Pale Peach and Pale Blue
• Fresh: Light, Medium and Dark Greens
• Traditional: Forest Green and Dark Red
• Whimsical: Lime Green, Hot Pink and Cobalt Blue
• Innocent: White, Vanilla and Pale Ivory
Your Sentiments Exactly challenges you to let your photos speak to you. Every color combination can evoke a different mood so you can choose what your layout will say to the world. The book demonstrates this by showing four layouts using the same design and photo but with four different color schemes. Once you have chosen your mood, you can then select colors and textures and finally, accents. If you are not sure how to go about coordinating all of these components, the book gives clear suggestions and ideas to get you started. Your Sentiments Exactly will jumpstart your creativity that will take your scrapbook layouts “to new emotional heights”.
Designing with Digital
Author: Rhonna Farrer and Artists of Autumn Leaves
Publisher: Autumn Leaves
The advent of digital scrapbooking has opened a world of possibilities to creating unique and stunning layouts. In Designing with Digital, you will find ways to enhance your scrapbook technology skills and create digital art. Written by several Autumn Leaves artists, this book is full of techniques that can be used for partial or complete digital layouts.
The eight chapters of the book are loaded with full-color layouts each including tips on how to apply the specific techniques used in the layout. The last portion of the book gives a more comprehensive look at each of the techniques with layout how to’s and credits. The chapters are broken down into the following:
1. Basics: Learn basic digital techniques including using drop shadows, photo collage, layers and colors/styles of text.
2. Tool Bar: Discover tips and tricks to using the computer tool bar to create special effects, repair and recolor photos, draw shapes and modify backgrounds.
3. Custom Brushes: Just as in painting, digital brushes allow you to tint photos, create custom papers, stamp patterns and add frames.
4. Light Modes: Digital photography blended with editing software makes for truly spectacular photos. In this chapter, you will learn how to give your layouts an artistic look by blending photos, adding overlays, adjusting balance and contrast and adding special effects.
5. Filters: Another way to add special effects to digital layouts is with filters. Here you will see how to use techniques such as blurs, color gradients, diffusion glows and noise filters.
6. Elements: We all love embellishments and this is even true in the digital world. You can create numerous digital elements to incorporate into your layouts. A few element ideas you will learn how to make here are: brads, flowers, tags, glass, fibers and metal.
7. Overlays: If you want the look of a transparency in your digital layouts, you will want to try the overlay technique. Overlays allow you to create a multi-dimensional look from images, fonts, textures and more.
8. Gallery: You will end your digital journey with a gallery of additional techniques, project ideas and inspiration.
Take the digital age to a new level in your scrapbooking by trying the tips and techniques shown in Designing with Digital. Included with the book is a bonus CD featuring additional projects, kits and step-by-step instructions. Whether you have tried your hand at digital scrapbooking or thought it was just not for you, this book may change your outlook on digital’s endless possibilities.
Scrapbooking On the Table
Author: Suzy West for Canvas Concepts
Publisher: Design Originals
Are you ready to get your scrapbooks out of the album and into the open for all to enjoy? Well, what you need are the ideas provided in Scrapbooking On the Table. This new book from Design Originals shows you step-by-step how to turn a few basic supplies into works of art.
To get started, you will need these supplies:
• Stretched Canvases (assorted sizes)
• Hinges
• Paint
• Paintbrushes
• Cardstock
• Paper
• Ribbon
• Embellishments
• Adhesive
With just these few items, you can transform a blank canvas into a treasure. Here’s how it works:
1. Paint your canvas
2. Mark the canvas to fit hinges or ribbon
3. Attach canvases
4. Embellish
The projects you will learn to make with a small amount of supplies and a few steps will amaze you. Each project is shown in full-color with a material list and instructions. You will see how to attach canvases with ties and hinges, how to create waterfalls, fold-outs, accordion books, shadow boxes, booklets with pages and simple canvas displays.
All of these projects are sure to light up any special event and any room with color and style. If you love scrapbooking in an album, why not let others enjoy your art with Scrapbooking On the Table.
