Books

“A house without books
is like a room without windows.”
-Heinrich Mann

Bookmark from Snicker Doodle Dreams

These are some of my favorite Scrapbooking books

Chicken Soup for the Scrapbooker’s Soul:
Stories to Remember
“If you love someone, put their name in a circle, not a heart, because a heart can be broken, but a circle goes on forever.”
– Author:Brian Littrell
I recently read “Chicken Soup for the Scrapbooker’s Soul: Stories to Remember . . . by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Allison Connors and Debbie Haas

If you have read any of the “Chicken Soup” series of books, you will love this book.
I found it inspiring, you laugh one moment and cry the next. It is beautifully illustrated, it will motivate you and explain why we scrapbook.
Allison Connor’s blog is Allisonswonderland.
Here are some of Allison’s layouts.

Have you read the book and if so, what did you think ?

Creative Correspondence

Creativity Tips for Scrapbookers

Cutting Edge Photo Cropping for scrapbooks

Cynthia Hart’s Scrapbook Workshop

Digital Restoration from Start to Finish

Designer Scrapbooks with K & Company

More images from the book here.
Please scroll down.

Family Scrapbooks: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Customer Review
Look inside the book here

Glorious Rubber Stamping

Legacy: Memories/Memorabilia/Journals Make Every Memory a Family Legacy

Out of Bounds: Scrapbooking Without Boundaries

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso

Out of Bounds: Scrapbooking Without Boundaries by Jodi Amidei (Author), Torrey Scott (Author)

There is a very good review at The Scrapbook Hub and at A matter of memories.

“This book is all about letting go of the “rules” of scrapbooking and creating outside of the box.”

Quick & Easy Sketches for Scrapbookers (Memory Makers)

There is a good review of the book at Dreamscape

Using Sketches as a Launching Point For Your Layouts

Painted Scrapbook Pages: Create One-of-a-Kind Pages with Simple Painting Techniques

I found the book “Painted Scrapbook Pages” by Mylinda van Zee very inspiring.She also has a motivating Blog and website.

“My “Scrapbook with Passion Tip of the Day”… Go “Do SOME scrapbooking today.”
-Mylinda van Zee

I found some interesting ideas to make background papers and clever hints.

The book is easy to read and well illustrated. The materials used are mostly inexpensive.

I tried the design concept ” magic of three”, painted some card-stock and it worked well.

“Making Family Journals“
by Linda Blinn

Look inside the book

Look inside the book

Illustrations and information for the book.
Paige Hill’s Blog

“Scrapbooking Your Faith: “ Layouts That Celebrate Your Spiritual Beliefs (Paperback) by Courtney Walsh (Author)

Courtney has a blog My seasons; where you can see some of her layouts.

Memory Makers has a review of the book.

At Real Read you can see pages from the book.

The book includes a few of Jodi Amidei‘s layouts which I love.

Scrapbooking Your Favorite Family Memories
by Michele Gerbrandt

Review: I recently read the book Starting Points by Linda Harrison.
There is a very good Review of the book on “A Matter of Memories” by Jill.

Starting Points by Linda Harrison
I can recommend this book to any scrapbooker.

“Getting started can be the hardest part of scrapbooking–but it doesn’t have to be. Starting Points shows you that inspiration for creating a scrapbook page can come from anywhere: an old photo, a conversation, beautiful architecture or even a clever ad in a magazine.” – Amazon

There is another review at Scrapscene: “New Scrapbooking Book: Starting Points by Linda Harrison”

Read more about her on her blog Linda Harrison

What is your starting point?

I bought the book, “Supply Savvy Scrapbooking” by Erin Lincoln.

It is full of inspiring layouts, good ideas and inspiration.
I love how she distresses her edges.

Erin Lincoln’s blog.

There is a good demonstration on Erin’s Blog; “5 Ways to Ink Your Edges”.

Erin Lincoln is a regular contributor to “Creating Keepsakes”

“Preserve a memory by illustrating it” – Stacy Julian

Simple scrapbooks magazine’s “The Big Picture” by Stacy Julian

The book has envelopes with little scribbled notes and removable tags to use for planning.

One of the messages from the book is, not to be overwhelmed by all the photos you have, but to choose a memory and illustrate it.

There is also a good chapter on creativity.

Stacy has two Blogs The big picture Scrapbooking and Altogether too happy (Stacy’s big picture)

She discusses “About Type’ by Cathy Zielske, Cathy also has a blog, “Bits and pieces” with helpful information on typesetting.

Travel Scrapbooks: Creating Albums of Your Trips and Adventures:

I have just recently read the book “Travel Scrapbooks”: Creating Albums of Your Trips and Adventures by the Editors of Memory Makers Books.

There is a good revue at Memory Makers
This is so neat. More Info/Buy this book.

View pages from inside this book.

Understanding Creativity

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.” – Pablo PicassoI recently read a very good book which I can recommend;
” Understanding Creativity” by Jane Piirto. Ph.D.

“It’s personality that affects the most. Not test scores. Personality.” – Jane Piirto. Ph.D.

“Understanding Creativity in Domains ” Keynote Speech at Australian Association for the Gifted, Melbourne, Australia, August 14, 2004 by Jane Piirto, Ph.D. Ashland

“University, Ashland, OH USA 44805

Wedding Idea book from Memory Makers

Please come back soon as I will be adding more books.