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Cynthia Hart's Scrapbook Workshop Reviews
From Amazon.com Synopsis About the Author Back Cover Copy INSTRUCTION & INSPIRATION Whether you're an experienced scrapbooker looking for fresh ideas or a first-timer with a shoebox full of photographs to organize and preserve, here is a practical, chockful guide to making truly memorable memory albums. Created by Cynthia Hart, a renowned designer and lifelong chronicler of home and family, Cynthia Hart's Scrapbook Workshop covers everything from tools, techniques, tips, and tricks to archival guidelines and directions for dozens of specific memory book pages and projects. The Techniques A completely illustrated section on all the basic and advanced scrapbook
techniques The Scrapbook Designs Over 30 imaginative scrapbooks presented in full-color, including Heart of Hearts, Beautiful Baby, Fifty Loving Years (shown above), The Baseball Book, A Garden for Mother, Back to School, Christmas Reflections, California Dreamin', and Our Best (Barking) Friend. The Art & Patterns A range of full-color clip-art to use for scrapbook projects, plus black-and-white clip-art, page designs, album designs, decorative corner photo mounts, book plates, and gift-giving labels. Table of Contents Preface Introduction Using Archival Materials The Craft of Scrapbooking Scrapbook Making Techniques Scrapbook Designs Memory Bouquets A Garden for Mother Great Milestones The Wedding Book Fifty Loving Years Just For Joy The Soccer Book Special Days Christmas Reflections Travel Treasures California Dreamin' Animal Friends Horse Show Clip-Art ------ THE CRAFT OF SCRAPBOOKING Creating a scrapbook is one of the most powerful ways to celebrate our lives and the lives of loved ones. And the occasions for making a memory album are endless: the joyous birth of a new baby, a romantic, elegant wedding, a long-awaited move to a new house, a fun-filled family vacation, a child's carefree summer at camp, a tribute to a dedicated school group, a pet that's really like a member of the family, and most enduring of all, the preservation of the memory of those you love in a family album that is built over many years. Any event or person close to your heart, any occasion that you especially cherish - all provide perfect reasons to start planning a beautiful, archival album that will ensure that your memories will be preserved for all the years to come. Before you even begin to approach the construction of a scrapbook, remember this: Enjoy yourself. You don't have to be an accomplished craftsperson to reproduce any of the projects in this book. Don't worry about making your album "perfect." And don't feel that you have to do everything at once. Begin by just getting the photo-filled shopping bags out of the closet one afternoon. That's all. The next day, you can take all the photographs out of one bag and begin to sort them into categories. You can sort pictures by even ("Judy's Wedding," "Our Trip to the Coast." "The Smith Family Reunion") or by subject ("Our New Home" "The Three Jones Sisters," "Angela Learns to Cook," "Mom," "The Elm Street Church Choir"). If you're a photography buff, you might want to organize your pictures into broad categories, such as portraits, landscapes, or animals. As for the "right time," well, there is no right time. There's only your time. You can designate one day a year for uninterrupted scrapbook making. Or maybe one day isn't enough and you want scrapbook making to become an ongoing part of your life. Perhaps you'll want to set aside every Sunday to do some scrapbooking. Or, who knows? You might be so bitten by the scrapbooking needs and desires, and you will create a schedule that fits your lifestyle. Whatever your level of interest or enthusiasm, you should congratulate yourself for having gotten the ball rolling. Excerpted from Scrapbook Workshop. Copyright ©1998 by Cynthia Hart. Reprinted with permission by Workman Publishing
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