Product Description

An ideal beginner's book packed with fresh, original ideas. Joy Aitman presents a fresh and original guide to scrapbooking with great ideas for cropping and mounting photographs, simple lettering, decorating pages and embellishing. She packs a whole lot of information into the book, showing quick, effective ways to create artistic layouts using simple, imaginative skills. Ideas range from adding borders, frames and motifs to decorative techniques with craft stickers and eyelets. Templates are included along with many tips on the materials to use and how to develop ideas. This book is an invaluable addition to any scrapbookers library. With its innovative approach and easy-to-follow instructions, it offers inspiration, information and is a rich source of ideas.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #74966 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 48 pages

About the Author
Joy Aitman developed a passion for scrapbooking several years ago, when she attended a class showing how to create beautiful albums. Fascinated by the techniques, she started to develop her own skills and she has never looked back. From being a teacher of art-based textiles she has moved on now and is part owner of a thriving scrapbooking company - Cotswold Keepsakes. She runs regular workshops, teaching her skills to many enthusiastic scrapbookers.

Customer Reviews

Perfect for the beginner
A smashing little book suitable for the absolute beginner. It only has 48 pages but covers everything you need to know to make a start on scrapbooking including tools & materials, cropping, matting, colours & layouts, journalling & eyelets & embellishments. I bought it as a gift for a friend completely new to scrapbooking and am very pleased with it. I particularly like the fact that it's not obsessed with the distressed look which some designers seem to be at the moment. If you're familiar with scrapbooking it would not be a lot of use to you but, as I said, perfect for the beginner.

Great book
I just LOVE this book! Good layout ideas and properly explained for the beginner. I find myself referring to this book again and again and again. Especially when I think my LO's are getting 'busy' looking, it makes me rethink my LO to get a page that is much cleaner and keep focus on pic that the Lay Out was intended for in the first place. Highly recommended from me,( a beginner!)

Just what a beginner was looking for
As a complete beginner, overwhelmed by all the books on scrapbooking out there, I'm glad I chose this one.

Particularly helpful to me was the list of items you need to get started, and the information on how to trim and display your photos.