The Ultimate Practical Guide to Scrapbooking

Creating fabulous lasting memory journals to cherish

Special moments captured with a photograph provide happy reminders of cherished people, places and occasions. By displaying photographs creatively as the focus of a handcrafted scrapbook album page, you can create lasting momentoes that will be a constant source of pleasure, as well as a visual record for future generations.

This beautifully presented practical book is comprehensive guide to the art of scrapbooking. It shows you how to create inspired album pages that have real personal style. In essence, the elements of a scrapbook album page should tell a story: Who is involved? What is the event? Where and when did it take place?

All the material and equipment that you need to get started are clearly detailed. There are hints and tips on taking good photographs, and plenty of ideas for using the pictures creatively, such as making a kaleidoscope, weaving images together, or transferring them on to fabric. Then there is guidance in choosing or creating colour co-ordinated backgrounds that complement the pictures. You can learn how to use patterns effectively, make collages, work with paint, stamps, stencils, chalk, embossing powders and even fabric and stitch. Embellishing the surface with relevant ephemera, and most importantly, adding words that tell the story provide the finishing touch.

Crammed with fantastic ideas for a myriad of designs, styles of working, album pages, quilts, memory boxes, 3D-displays and album covers, and illustrated with 1000 fabulous photographs, this is the ultimate sourcebook for all scrapbookers.

• Make the most of treasured photographs, with a wealth of creative ideas for memorable scrapbook pages and keepsake albums, shown in 1000 colour photographs.


• Features 150 step-by-step techniques and projects as well as plenty of inspirational ideas to suit different styles of photograph and personal styling preferences.


• Techniques include tea-bag folding, iris folding, paper collage techniques, working with paint, chalk, ink, stamps and stencils, journaling, embossing metal, making tags, envelopes, pop-up pages and more


• Favourite themes include children, special occasions, weddings, heritage, family and friends, sports, pets, travel and celebrating the seasons.


• Includes a special section on getting the best from your digital camera, computer and home printer, to create effective, themes and colour co-ordinated pages with ease.