Chicken Soup for the Scrapbooker’s Soul:
Stories to Remember
“A house without books
is like a room without windows.”
-Heinrich Mann
These are some of my favorite Scrapbooking books
“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
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wedding Idea book from Memory Makers
Please come back soon as I will be adding more books.
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