Scrapbooking Like A Pro: The A to Z Guide of Creating Perfect Scrapbook Each & Every Time, Scrapbook Layouts, Scrapbooking Ideas & Tips. Illustrations & Pictures Included

By Vanessa D. Langton

You Are About To Learn The Secrets To Create Beautiful Scrapbooks, No Matter How Much or Little Time You Have Had To Prepare!

It doesn't matter if you've never experienced scrapbooking up close and personal, this guide will tell you everything you need to know, without spending too much brainpower.

"Scrapbooking Like Pro" covers everything there is to know about scrapbooking. In fact, some people have called it the "Scrapbooking Manual." It's like having your very own scrapbook expert that you can reference and ask questions anytime that you need to.

You're going to discover so many things on how to create beautiful scrapbooks with little effort. Not only will you discover new and exciting layouts, but you'll also learn extra bonus tips to actually teach people.

There are also step-by-step instructions with illustrations & pictures to show you how to create your own scrapbook flowers, transparencies and rub-ons, pearlized flourishes, and faux stitching.

Here's Just Some of the Things You'll Uncover With "Scrapbooking Like Pro":

- Discover how to prepare for your scrapbook.
- Learn how to quickly organize all your photos.
- Find out exactly how to crop you photos like the pros.
- Discover how exactly to get started on your scrapbook venture.
- Learn how to create your own scrapbook flowers.
- Learn how to add embellishments to your scrapbook.
- Discover how to get started on your first page.
- Learn how to create your own transparencies and rub-ons.

- Find out all the insider time saving tips .
- Discover new exciting layout ideas.
- Find out how to create your own pearlized flourishes

- Learn how to host scapbook parties easily and effortlessly.
- Learn how to do faux stitching

- Discover the easiest and least expensive way to design a theme for your album.
- Learn how to choose the size and style of your album.
- Discover how to use cardstock properly
- Learn all about all the tools you will need to create your album correctly.
- Plus much MUCH More!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Living Plus Healthy Publishing
• Release date: Jan 25, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301787012

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Scrapbooking Like A Pro

The A to Z Guide of Creating Perfect Scrapbook Each & Every Time; Plus Scrapbook Layouts, Scrapbooking Ideas & Tips. Illustrations & Pictures Included

Vanessa D. Langton

Copyright 2013 by Vanessa D. Langton

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Scrapbooking Like A Pro

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Basics

Collect Your Photos

Select Your Theme

Start with Your Book and Paper

Paper Cutting Tools

Adhesives

Pens

Embellishments

Chapter 2: Organizing and Cropping Your Photos

Organizing Your Photos for Scrapbooking

Cropping Your Photos

Chapter 3: Your First Scrapbook

Scrapbook Cover

Creating the First Page

Adding Embellishments

Chapter 4: Advanced Techniques

Faux Stitching

Transparencies & Rub-ons

Flowers

Pearlized Flourishes

Chapter 5: Scrapbooking Layouts

Chapter 6: Tips & Tricks

Chapter 7: Turning Your Hobby into a Business

Scrapbooking Party

Get down to the Business

Conclusion

Appendix: Scrapbooking Glossary

Introduction

Do you have hundreds of pictures stuffed in a drawer or placed randomly in a photo album? Events you want to remember forever? Have you already forgotten what the photos were all about? Do you have a new baby and have you thought of making a special keepsake about his or her first years? How about doing a special book for your child’s formative years? For many reasons, people are turning to scrapbooking as a fun and unique project—a way to preserve photos of memories that otherwise fade too soon.

Scrapbooking is much more than pasting photos onto pages of a book. It’s the careful creation of a moment through pictures and designs that cause the observer of the book to linger at each page, marvel at the decorations, and read the funny and poignant stories written by you to commemorate the person on the page or the event depicted by the photo.

Historically speaking, scrapbooking has been around since the 1400s and represented a way to combine prose, quotations, recipes and other things to share with others. These books evolved to become Friendship Albums in the 1500s. People would write in the books in similar ways that people write in student yearbooks today. Scrapbooks remained popular, especially for girls, in the 18th and 19th centuries. When photography became popular, photos became the focus point of these books.

The hobby of scrapbooking fell somewhat out of favor until the 1990s when the internet and craft stores began stocking and advertising scrapbooking products. It has become a hobby enjoyed by many.

Scrapbooking can be done by anyone with the right tools and paper. While there are loads of expensive scrapbooking products out there for you to purchase, you can get by with paper, scissors and tape if you have to. Scrapbooking is a project you can gradually build into—adding special scissors, brad setters, and other really cool tools for you to make the best scrapbook pages ever.

Every scrapbook you make begins with an idea—something you want to have as the focus of your scrapbook. The different scrapbooking themes are numerous but some include the following:

• The birth and first few years of your baby’s life

• A wedding, honeymoon and first year of marriage

• A great vacation

• One scrapbook for each school year your child attends

• Your child’s favorite sport or activity

• Documenting your work on a special hobby

• A compendium of a couple’s marriage to be given to them on their anniversary

• Your college years

• A scrapbook gift to give your spouse on Mother’s Day or Father’s Day

• Your spouse’s or child’s accomplishments

• Family gatherings throughout the year

• A special holiday

• Your baby’s firsts documented in pictures

There can be many ways you can use scrapbooking. You don’t have to work on one scrapbook at a time. You’re scrapbooking efforts are only limited by the time you have to spend on the hobby and the number of ideas for scrapbooks you have. While you will